Chapter 219: Lets Do It Together (1/2)

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Souls… their complexity is mesmerizing, and the worst part is that in this world, at least in the mortal world, their investigation is nonexistent, people don't even research souls at all, mostly because they cannot see them begin with.

Perhaps Immortals can see them, but we, clearly cannot.

So what can we even do in this situation then?

Well, I've been researching the soul this entire day, many souls exploded into pieces when I did so, and I stitched them together to keep looking.

Stitching souls together seems to create bigger souls,  but the more broken and repaired they are, the stranger and more twisted a soul becomes, resembling an immense labyrinth of endless and unnecessary complexity, someone with a broken soul which had been reformed has a soul like this.

When I checked my own soul, I found that my soul was becoming bigger and stranger too, the more souls I ate, the more of these labyrinths were formed, and the larger my soul grew, the more it would resemble not a soul but a mass of many things… But I don't feel particularly bad over it, but maybe it wouldn't be the same for others.

Nonetheless, the more I refine my soul and then rank up its cultivation, the soul receives a cleansing of impurities to strengthen itself.

Perhaps this is what Benladann requires… or not.

I checked over my soul many times and inspected the stitched soul as well, using the System's help, I had dived deeper into the investigation.

The day passed without me realizing it.

Perhaps Benladann's problems lie within her soul composition and the way it is structured? Maybe her own Primordial Essence is way too much compared to what her soul is made to take?

<Answer: There might be such a possibility. By analyzing previously achieved data about her soul, it seems that the composition of it is abnormal compared to normal souls.>

What do you mean?

<Her soul wasn't made like all other souls, including the host's soul, was made. Her soul was created by a different method.>

A different method?

But how are my soul mate, or that of others?

<Usually, souls emerge in different ways, however, more investigation and information need to be gathered to reaffirm this theory. Nonetheless, the System believes that souls are naturally formed in places with large densities of primordial energy, they form naturally as if it were a natural phenomenon. There is also the other possibility of souls being born from other beings strong enough to create them. And the last theory is that all souls originate from a single entity whose soul is being divided endlessly.>

All of them sound crazy, you know? But I guess they're plausible within our theory of a world dominated by essence and powerful beings.

After all, there is an outer universe aside from Yggdrasil, that I came from another world already confirms this.

What might lay within the outside universe? I can only imagine beings that defy the very logic I am basing all of my theories and investigations on…

Knock, knock.

The door suddenly opens as Benladann gets inside, snapping me out of my own world.

”Ah… Benladann-chan, how was the nap?”

”I-It was good… But… there's something we need to talk about…”

”Hm?”

…

What Benladann told me just now was… way too aligned with my own theories, but it still ended blowing me off.

I can't believe it… She really had such a dream.