Chapter 520: Soul Glue (2/2)
”Can these souls be taken out of the Natural plane?” he asked and Tanya shook her head.
”Too fragile. Will shatter if they leave, this place is full of life and it is what holds them together.
Zero thought for a long time before he had an idea. If he used Sylvia's soul containment array, he might just be able to transport these souls to the mindscape where he can run his tests successfully and adjust the flow of time accordingly so that he could maximise the one week he had.
”Give me a moment,” Zero told Tanya. ”I need to get something, I'll be right back!”
Tanya didn't have time to respond and Zero had already left to do what he needed to do. Seeing Zero so busy made the Dryad Queen wonder what he was up to. Gaia did inform her about the possibility of a new world tree and a new spriggan but as the Queen of Dryads, she had never heard of such a thing. Everything that Zero was doing and suggesting was new to her and in the few thousand years of existing, Tanya felt that life was starting to be interesting again ever since that awful war that killed many Gods.
Not even ten minutes in, Zero was back and this time, he had some interesting looking tools. ”I'm back!” he grinned.
Tanya watched him trap the souls in canister looking lanterns with many magic circles and arrays. Then, she watched him weave new spells and chant in an unheard-of language. Slowly but surely, the souls were put to sleep and vibrated lightly in their new prison. Zero repeated this process to the other souls and Tanya watched with interest. The souls didn't look like they were struggling any longer and she was curious what Zero did.
”What kind of magic was that?”
Zero grinned. ”Not magic. Just soul nourishment to make them stable while I bring them back to apply some soul glue. If this works, I know exactly what has to be done. Oh, I hope they don't mind becoming plants if I succeed. I might be able to fuse souls to seeds but I don't know if I can remove them later. The glue should stick really well after all.”
Tanya laughed. ”I don't think they have an opinion. If you really do succeed, please give them to me. We welcome plants here in the Natural plane. I will treat them well.”
Zero thanked Tanya and her sprite sisters before storing the imprisoned souls into his inventory and returning back to his body and escaping into Zeus' lamp so that he can adjust the time flow and run his experiments in the mindscape. As an ambitious person, Zero intended to complete testing all in a day so that they didn't have to delay saving Baku's soul.