Chapter 222: Creating A Soul Membrane (1/2)

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[Day 130]

It has been four days since I began the soul treatment with Benladann. These days I've made her consume souls of monsters every day, by the hundreds.

Eating souls was something she wasn't capable of doing naturally, I had thought about making Soul Puree and then add it into her soul manually before, but now that she got the ability to eat souls thanks to her mother's gift, things were faster than I had expected.

After four days of eating almost a thousand souls, her Soul Mass and Soul Density had reached a good enough amount to cover the entire area of her soul after I compacted it a bit using my Soul Hands, to squeeze her soul a bit.

Using this Soul Mass, I used my newly acquired Death Magic Spell ”Soul Membrane” which could be used when connecting my soul with another and it let me create a soul membrane using the target's Soul Mass. It was a very specific spell.

And then, like putting a very fluffy mass of fur inside a tight balloon, I began to extend the membrane around her soul and tried my best to fit it inside, but it still needed some more Soul Mass.

I could sweat it was enough! And the System had also calculated it was enough…

Perhaps her soul had just grown a bit larger now out of the energies she got by eating souls?

Damn it.

Alright, I'll just do my plan B.

I extended my own soul and cut a large chunk of it after taking out any consciousness within it and added it into the Soul Membrane. The pain was quite horrible, it was as if you were having your entire body shredded into pieces while being alive…

Anyways, as I was used to pain, this was nothing compared to my love for her.

Using my piece of soul, her membrane finally was able to enclose the darkness within her soul, and it was done!

I pulled my consciousness back as I fell over the ground, I was exhausted, my soul had reduced its mass massively due to what I did, but I had a lot of souls ready to eat at my side, so I began to consume them for a few hours while Benladann slept.

”Oof… It was close.” I sighed.

<You could have waited some more; you didn't have to sacrifice part of your soul like this.>

”Don't worry about that. And if I had resettled everything, we would have to wait even more days for her to get enough Soul Mass, and there are too many variables, such as her soul sometimes expanding progressively without any explanation! Now that it is enclosed within the membrane, she has to use her Soul Refine and fuse it together. With a compact soul, her power won't risk leaking out nor busting, or dissipating into nothingness if she gathers too much. Like having a layer of very tough skin over her soul.”

<Sigh… I had managed to block your stats from dropping due to the large loss of primordial essence, but this will only keep you for a few hours, eat as many souls as possible to regain mass before you lose stats permanently.>

”Alright, thank you for your care.”