Kyros was chained by the four pillars and prevented him from moving. And there was a continuous wave of red electric attacks that continuously hurt Kyros's soul. There was no harm done on his physical body, but Kyros's soul was hurt.
Calaminus had left Kyros's body since the attack would harm him as well.
Soul Shackle was a powerful curse that cages the soul of a being by adding constraints to it. When placed on normal mortals with weaker souls, their physical bodies die as the soul is unable to function at all.
Those who manage to train in the soul can function better as they are able to move their bodies but with great difficulty with such a seal.
Kyros learned in the few years traveling through ti that his soul was sealed and that it could not grow stronger. Soul Shackle was inhibiting Kyros from ever absorbing any soul strengthening powers.
Calaminus stated that it was a miracle that Kyros even managed to enhance his soul to the point that it caught up with his level. In Calaminus's own analysis, Kyros should not have reached his real level of 53. It stated in his status that his level had reached max cap. But the truth was he was always at max cap since level 30.
Most mortals had level caps of under 40. The inferior ones that would never qualify as knights would have an estimated max level of 20. But raising this level cap could be done through various ans. There was through creating potions, pills, and herbs, rituals that allowed mortals to rge with monsters and other races, inheritances, bestowals, power transference, and through intense training.
But the goal of most of this was to strengthen the soul. Kyros knew this well. But now, the seal was weakened!
"How do I get out of here?!"
"I could tell you, but I want to see how smart you are. But the trick in getting out is understanding why the soul weakened!"
"How did the seal weaken?" Kyros asked with a pained expression.
"Rember our little lesson about the soul?"
"It's a bit blur... The mories are all jumbled up, and I can't concentrate on this pain!"
"Alright. Let remind you. The body is the water, and the soul is the vessel. While it sounds like the opposite is true, our soul is the one that can wield energy! Be it Force Energy, Magic Energy, or God Energy, the soul is capable of wielding it. Are you starting to rember now?"
"Yeah. You were shackled with the sa seal as to have a very weak soul so that they can make you mortal. The larger my soul is, the better it is, the higher my max level can be. In short, my physical body, my Magic Pool, and my Force Pool can only reach the next level if I increase my soul."
"Correct! So you do rember! Now, think. You have De-Smart and De-Wise. You should figure out how you got stronger."
"I thought my max level was 34. I went through hellish training and consud various elixirs to strengthen my soul. I was always poor at it, but that was really because of the Soul shackle. But through training, I managed to increase my max level to 47 through various ans. And finally, the Celestial Code, allowed to reach up to level 70. And I was able to forcibly increase it still through all those life and death experiences and reached 99. But that was what I thought my levels were because I followed the standard that mortals have. If I follow the Status Level by Potential that you use, my real max was 20. I managed to raise it 30-sothing and got the rest when I acquired the Celestial Code."
"Good. You managed to deduce it at a very accurate level."
"But sothing doesn't feel right. My soul was shackled with a powerful curse. Could it be that when I acquired the Celestial Code, it was the remnant soul that Greater God Daradiel left on that continuously got stronger?"
"Very perceptive! It looks like your intelligence is finally showing!"
"The Soul Shackle Seal should have prevented from leveling up. Those various ans of forcibly increasing my level had nothing to do with strengthening my soul, but it was like I was connecting more pieces of stuff to make my soul larger. And finally, Greater God Daradiel's soul beca the final piece in making stronger."
"Getting warr." Calaminus laughed.
"Then that ans... that the reason why the Soul Shackle Seal is weakening is that my current soul has grown stronger!"
"Ding Ding Ding! Correct!"
"What's ding ding ding?" Kyros asked.
"Oh, sorry. It's because I'm a Ti God! I rule over ti and even the alterations of ti. Because of this, I am sohow connected to the other versions of myself that exist in the multiverse. Imagine that this entire universe that we live in has separate versions that make up a totally different world. I exist in those worlds where cultivation is way different than how this universe is defined! I exist in universes that are vastly different than this. I even exist in multiverses where it is impossible to cultivate! In one universe, I'm a sli monster. In another, I'm also a ti god. In other universes, I'm a famous gar who trolled countless enemies, so literally to their death. In yet another one, I'm a writer of so sketchy sci-fi, cultivation fusion story with reincarnation."
"I have no idea what that ans."
"It ans I can break the fourth wall."
"What does that an?"
"I have no clue. But it's because of this that I managed to create the whole level system used here. One of my incarnations is what they of that universe would call a weeb and a nerd. I defined this system that allowed you to view the level, which by the way, has been passed on, and even Mortals use it. And so, that is why you get these odd terms that don't make any sense."
"Like De-Spacito?"
"Yep. It's because in one of my multiverse incarnation that words an slowly."
"So those weird things you were teaching ?"
"Yep. So of them I learned in those alternate worlds."
"Ah. That makes sense. So Ding Ding Ding ans I'm right?"
"Yes. Don't ask. I don't usually know what these things an. You'll get used to it. The Ancients liked it. Although, I think that the Greater Gods betrayed because they hated this whole thing."
"Anyway... Going back to my theory... My soul increased... but why?"
"Why indeed?"
"Can you just tell ? My body is hurting everywhere, and my mories are a ss! I can't think straight!"
"Exactly. That's why your soul increased!"
"Because I am in pain?"
"No. Because the current pain you are feeling is sothing, you can easily resist! Do you know, the current pain that you feel is directed to your soul! This could have been why you never woke up for nearly three decades! You were constantly knocked unconscious from the imnse torturous pain of this contraption! Rember your stats? What was your bone age, and compare it to your soul age!"
"My bone age was 37, and my soul was 63... Then..."
"That's right. In this torturous state, your soul would have been knocked out and remain in an unaging state. Your soul grew older, but your mortal body didn't grow. Oh, and don't worry. Your physical body now is technically ten years old. And that will be your physical age."
"So I am not knocked out now... because I spent nearly two years of being conscious while ti was reversing. Wait. You didn't suffer from ti-reversal! Is it because of your soul?"
"Yes! Although the soul Shackled , I was already an Ancient God then. It's like having a small box and trying to fit an entire person in! The best they could do was find a slightly smaller box than my soul and force into it. Of course, limiting my soul was only step one of the plans. The real reason was so that they could turn my physical body into a mortal!"
"So your soul was strong enough that ti reversing didn't bother you... But how co now... Your soul is very... small."
"Ti reversing magic isn't just any form of magic, you know. It eats up my soul. If I weren't mortal and still at my peak, my magic could turn back over a thousand years. Right now, my soul is very weak, and since it is a sealed god's soul, it will take a lot of effort to replenish it. But since I'm betting on you, freak, I'm sure it will work out. Now I've given you a hint. Figure it out! Why did your soul seal weaken?"
"I get it!" Kyros grunted.
"My soul was strengthened during the ti-reversal. The Soul Shackle wasn't functioning to its maximum efficiency there, and my soul had already grown stronger. By the ti I traveled back in ti, my soul was already several tis larger and stronger than what it was."
"Righto! If I were to use my earlier analogy, you used to have a box that so little because your soul was little, but now! Poof! Your soul suddenly grew bigger and bigger than the Soul Seal couldn't properly contain you!"
"Then how can I get out of this torturous device? How did I get out the last ti?" Kyros looked around.
"Well, I think the real answer was that those mortals that I can sense outside might have found a way in here or broke sothing that caused this device to lose power. But that should happen nearly ten years from now."
"What?! Ten years!"
Reviews
All reviews (0)