Rowan continued pushing through the force beams and he cocked his head to the side, closed his right eye, and said, "Bang!"
Even before the battle had started, Rowan was already weaving threads of Ascendant Aura all over the body of the Ascendant, and although the Divine Ascendant at the moment had covered himself in armor, he had not done so previously when Rowan made his first finger gun.
At that time the Ascendant had not found Rowan as much of a threat and this gave Rowan the opportunity to plant a seed of Ascendant Aura on the body of the Ascendant, throughout the battle, Rowan had been focused on pushing that seed deeper into the body of the Ascendant who in his distracted state had not noticed the seed of his destruction pushing towards his heart.
With Rowan's next gesture, the trap was completed and unleashed.