292 Something Odd Just Happened!
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When I touched a certain part of Ninhursag’s necklace, I felt a strange, magical connection. Something suddenly connected to me, something soul-like that fused into my own soul and transferred from that rock. Ninhursag didn’t seem to notice it and only I did it… W-What the heck was that?
I was quite nervous. I really didn’t know what that was at all! I quickly and desperately looked into my Soul Scape as I grew paler, it felt weird, as if some sort of foreign creature just crawled inside my soul. Ugh, I had felt this before with Ignatius and Beelzebub, but it wasn’t so bad as of now… this thing that got inside was shrouded with a lot of malice.
“Sylphy? A-Are you alright dear?” Asked Ninhursag worried because I had grown stiff and pale out of nowhere.
“Y-Yeah! I-It is nothing, sorry… Haha, I think I am a bit sleepy, auntie.” I giggled, pretending to be alright, as we walked inside the tent and sat down over the grassy floor. Meanwhile, inside of my Soul Scape, different things were happening. My spirits quickly noticed the strange arrival of a foreign entity. I traveled inside by creating an Astral Avatar and appeared with them to assess the situation.
“What’s going on?” I wondered.
“T-There’s something dark and blue in there.” Said Ignatius. “It has a lot of malice…”
“I just became a Spirit and you brought another one?!” Asked Beelzebub. “Wow, this guy is oozing out with negativity too!”
“Fooo! Foooo! FOO!” Naturia seemed pumped up for a fight.
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“I can detect something powerful… I am still analyzing it but it seems to be a similar case to Ignatius and Beelzebub, Sylphy. It is the soul of a powerful entity… capable of emerging here, faintly so. It is bound by a large quantity of resentment.” Said Alice. She was using her system capabilities to analyze the components of this new foreign entity.
I tried to see it through my abilities as well, finding out the mild humanoid body of a blue-skinned… person? A man? He was so shrouded in shadows that it was getting harder to discern what the heck he was. But I was sure he was a guy. He also had a pair of big black horns.
“Pain… It hurts!”
He began to cry desperately, as the darkness emanating from his body continued to spread out across the Soul Scape. It seemed rather malicious. I don’t know if it can actually hurt my soul, but it would be better to calm him down for now.
“Alright, let’s stop him!” I said. “Ignatius, Beelzebub, Naturia, stop him with everything you’ve got!” I ordered my spirits, as the three flew forward immediately after my commands.
“Alright, let’s see if you can handle this fire!” Roared Ignatius, his aura shaped into an enormous draconic head, unleashing a storm of flames engulfing the figure of our foe.
BOOOM!!!
“Guuhhh… Guuaaaahhh!!!” the entity roared in pain, as it suddenly unleashed a storm of darkness against Ignatius.
FLAAASH!
“Not before my sight!” Beelzebub moved forward, as even as a little caterpillar, he was able to absorb the darkness and concentrate it in a single sphere atop his head, stopping the foe’s attack completely.
“FOOO!”
And Naturia quickly went to capture him, as she created several wooden branches and roots and manipulated their shapes, surrounding the foreign entity with a cage of wood. With the help of Beelzebub, we drained all the darkness and malice surrounding him, until something smaller emerged from within.
It was the body of a blue skinned man with horns, a demon… Well, more like his soul. This guy was the Blue Demon we fought in the Amazon Forest, the very one that forced us all to move out to begin with… His soul… I know I had gotten his EXP when he was killed by Ninhursag, but I never thought that Ninhursag kept his demon core, which was most likely what she had in her necklace.
Does this means that she ate him to transform into a blue demon? So she can even transform into people if she eats them? Well… demons are more close to monsters than humanity, but still. I guess… well, it is part of her ritual. Perhaps she did it thinking he would live on her. She seemed quite depressed after the whole fight. She ended pitying the demon a lot more than we thought. However, she already got over it some time ago.
To think that the catalyzer for a part of his soul to emerge inside of my Soul Scape would be touching his demon core which Ninhursag held with her… I also felt slightly stronger now, as if I gained a large amount of magic power. It seems that each time one of these souls from strong beings emerge in my soul scape, I gain a nice amount of raw magic power, and my affinity with their main elements is strengthened.
But what element did he even had? His soul was mostly shrouded in the darkness of his resentment and hatred, but now that we managed to get that off him, he was very weakened, he was missing his legs and his left arm, and half his face too, he was in a very weakened state soul-wise. It would be better to make him into a spirit right away through a contract.
But he’s not really responding. I doubt I can force a contract into him either, so I am left with him just sitting there for the moment. I don’t know if he even has an element. The darkness wasn’t related to his soul element and his only power was manipulating Green Skins for all I know. I don’t know how he could help me out… but for now I don’t really care if he’ll be useful or not. He seems tired so he should really just take a rest for the moment.
“He’s just… sleeping?” Wondered Alice. She looked at the body of the demon. He seemed stable despite his appearance.
“Yeah, let’s leave him like that for now. He needs a rest.” I said.
“I see… I guess that’s how it is…” Sighed Alice.
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