You can overwhelm each small piece of the soul fragnt individually after cutting them up instead of struggling with the whole soul fragnt. That will increase the chance of success of the brainwashing and avoid mory backlash which causes reverse brainwashing.
Even if reverse brainwashing doesn't occur, there can be so other complications during the process. The soul might beco aware during the brainwashing and resist. That is unlikely if you made sure to cut it up into a small enough piece.
Legion-5 was ticulous with his cuts so these pieces didn't wake up. If they did, then he would crush their resistance with the soul blade. Chop them up and brainwash their smaller pieces individually all over again.
The brainwashing went without a hitch too. It was then that Legion-7 extended a part of himself to the soul fragnts. This is the first ti he is making actual contact with the fragnts. He isn't using his soul force like the previous tis. His soul and the soul fragnts made contact and there was no rejection so they adhered to him.
"Ah." He exclaid in pleasure. "This is good."
His soul which is also his current body felt elevated. It is a pleasurable feeling due to the special thod of feeding. Unlike the last ti when he absorbed soul fragnts wantonly, the mory he gained now didn't try to brainwash him. Instead, they were absorbed smoothly. It helped that he didn't absorb the soul fragnts at all. So his consciousness was still pure.
The corruption of the consciousness is not a phenonon in the spiritual dinsion that is unique to him. Eating the souls of others always leads to it. This causes madness, schizophrenia, and a crisis of identity.
This is due to the assimilation of mories and soul imprints of a different soul. So it is much worse than brainwashing. At least with brainwashing, you would think you were soone else but you would still have the survival instincts of the person you think you are.
Madness on the other hand ans insanity, forgetfulness, suicidal tendencies, and loss of survival instincts. The mories and soul imprint contained within the soul fragnts will try to infect the soul that assimilated them like it did when he assimilated the soul fragnt of the great mother.
He had to use Origin essence to overco that infection. But he doesn't need to now since he has the soul grafting technique that the great mother created. Other soul prowlers without Origin essence or a specialized technique for eating will run mad. Only special individuals like him and the great mother will not beco dood by trying to survive.
He avoided madness and his soul also grew stronger with the addition of the soul fragnts. The soul fragnts are not of the sa quality as his so the increase in strength is very small and almost negligible. But it is a start. He will only get stronger, unlike the other soul prowlers who have to fight off the digestion of the nether water.
Je thought to himself in caution, "The great mother is talented. I just have to make sure that I don't make the sa mistakes that she made and I shouldn't have any problem."
The soul grafting thod is not without issues. If soone gets access to the soul fragnts he grafted, then they will gain his mories within them just as he was able to gain information from the soul fragnt he found in his egg.
He can decide what mories he put in them but he won't be able to use the fragnts for important things if he doesn't put important mories in them. But no matter what, as long as he doesn't directly fuse with them, the soul fragnts will remain potential leaks of information about him. Nothing can change that weakness.
He chuckled to himself as he said, "I don't plan to make a race of phoenixes so I won't put important mories in them. I can live with that handicap as long as I don't go mad."
He is referring to the great mother. She made the grafting thod to bypass madness but she went further to create a race. It created the opportunity for him to learn the law of the soul without a billion years of effort. In other words, her greedy move gave him the opportunity to steal her years of hard work.
The great mother is far from stupid. The problem of information leak from her soul fragnt is a problem that should be nearly impossible for her to encounter. It should have been impossible for another soul prowler to manage to overpower her soul fragnt, absorb its mories and remain sane.
Even soul grafting wouldn't have work on her soul fragnts since they are all connected to each other and have access to billions of mories. Any attempt at brainwashing her soul fragnts would have led to mory backlash and a reverse brainwashing.
So she was as secure as she could be. But then he ca along with Origin essence. It should have been impossible but it should also have been impossible for soone to reincarnate.
Reality has shown that if sothing is possible at all, then it can happen no matter how small the chance is. If it is possible for his information to leak, then it can happen. So he will learn from the great mother and make sure that he doesn't release any important mories into the soul fragnts.
Apart from this weakness, the soul grafting thod has made him optimistic about his situation.
Legion-7 went on to hunt more soul fragnts. He chose unaware soul fragnts for now to try out his fighting skills on. This ensured that he was always successful and he grew stronger a little more.
He couldn't help but say, "Maybe my situation is not bad at all. The other clones haven't been born yet while I am already growing. Even if they are born and they grow, the strength of their bodies will only try to catch up to the strength of their souls. As for , I don't have a body to hold back. At this rate, I will outclass all of them in the strength of the soul."
----
A/N: Do you think he planted a death flag by saying that?
Reviews
All reviews (0)