Not only has his strength been stagnant, he has tried to break the barrier of the spiritual dinsion but he failed. It seems he is still too weak to break out despite reaching his limit. If he can't evolve like the great mother, then he won't be able to leave.
His other option for evolution is the fragnted Origin god that is sleeping at the center of the black hole. But it is still too dangerous to attempt to eat such an entity. He has grown stronger but the zone of no return has only grown larger. It hasn't shrunk at all. This is due to the increase in the gravitational force as ti passes. That ans he is still in danger of dying if he approaches the Origin god.
"I can't approach the fragnted Origin god yet. The only path for is to try and absorb souls. But I don't want to contaminate myself." He said as he looked at the black hole with longing. "If only I could create a technique for the perfect devouring of souls."
He has not been completely stagnant all these years. He made so progress in his techniques. He created a new movent technique and perception technique. He can now notice other entities around himself without being noticed in return.
His use of soul force has beco too fleeting to be sensed by others but it also makes it impossible for him to acquire details and information about the entities other than their positions.
So he has not wasted his ti but the technique he wanted above all else is the ability to devour souls. He wants to be able to devour souls like the fragnted Origin god. He wants to mimic the dead Origin god since he can't eat it.
The major problem with this wish is that devouring souls is not a good thing. It is possible to assimilate another soul completely but it cos with the side effect of madness. The mories of others are already enough to contaminate a soul. The soul imprints they have is like a curse to any other soul.
Other souls have soul imprints which is the unique mark of their consciousness. Imbibing these marks will contaminate his own soul imprint and surely make him mad.
He is just a soul fragnt and not a true Origin god like the black hole. He doesn't have a concept that to make his soul imprint immortal and indistructible. He can devour souls without having side effects if he decides to use Origin essence but he is not willing to be wasteful.
He believes that it is a waste to use Origin essence which can grant him immortality to devour souls. His stance on that might change after a thousand years of lack of progress in devouring souls.
Desperation might make the use of Origin essence not a waste. In the anti, he tried to learn how to devour souls from the black hole. His divine sense can only observe the fragnted Origin god from afar. It always gets devoured if he tries to make contact with it.
His lack of progress in devouring souls frustrated him but he is not without ideas.
"Let pursue immortality then. When I have immortality I will be able to devour souls without any problem. There has to be sothing that is indestructible in this place that I can fuse with to achieve immortality."
He decided to search for sothing powerful in the spiritual dinsion that might help him to evolve if used together with the Origin essence. It is a good idea since immortality would solve his problem. He would be able to transform himself into a living black hole in the spiritual dinsion. Every soul fragnt and soul prowler that cos close to him would be devoured.
It is a good plan but it is not one that can be achieved easily. Origin gods achieve immortality by fusing with their concepts. Concepts or seeds of power are indestructible. If he could assimilate law fragnts and cosmic energy with them, he would be able to at least evolve his soul if not achieve immortality.
But there are no laws here and no way to get Authority or cosmic energy. So he turned his search towards sothing that he could use as a substitute. There is no trace of such a thing in the small amount of mories of the great mother he has and the mories of other soul prowlers so he doesn't know where to start looking for it.
He racked his mories of the spiritual dinsion both from his personal experience and the mories that he gained from grafted souls. But he couldn't find anything remotely immortal or eternal apart from the fragnted Origin gods. Even those will leave the spiritual dinsion after a while.
"There is nothing in this place apart from nether water. There is only nether waters as far as I can see." He complained.
Then he got an idea. "Nether water." He exclaid. "It is everywhere. Is it strong enough to raise my existence?"
"There is only one way to find out." He said.
There is Nether water everywhere. He has mostly ignored it because it doesn't affect him. It is a strong energy that is capable of digesting souls so he wants to see if he can gain any sort of power from it. He believes he should be able to comprehend sothing about it.
He opened a gap in his cocoon of grafted souls and allowed Nether water to reach his soul. Then he removed the protection of soul force so that he could make contact with it.
It was a decision he regretted imdiately. "Noooooooo!" He scread in panic.
He felt death at that point. The docile nether water beca unusually active. It latched onto his soul and didn't let go. It tried to drill further into the depth of his soul from the surface. It was as if his soul had been set on fire.
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