I wait while High Priest Henry regains his composure to explain to me what they did to this false Hero’s Soul to make him so enraged.
“Did you manage to talk to this Soul?” (I)
“No one could tell me his name, that’s why everyone is calling him a fake Hero.” (I)
“I managed to exchange a few words, but what infuriates me is the state of that Soul, that Soul was deformed, forcibly strengthened and something was done to the Soul, they implanted something that shouldn’t be there!” (Henrique)
“They didn’t just interfere with a soul, what they did went so far as to contaminate the essence within the Soul!” (Henrique)
“All I could feel was a will to live, a will to be free and a lot of pain.” (Henrique)
“…” (I)
“(What did the Church of Light do to this Soul?)” (I)
———-
I had to wait a while for Henrique to calm down enough to calm down, the statue of the Goddess had surrounded him glowing and he got down on his knees to pray, I had to wait 30 minutes for him to get up.
After he calmed down more he came to explain to me better what he had seen.
He told me that one of the methods for a Soul to become stronger are few, one of these methods is evolution, and the other method is to endure great suffering, apart from these methods there are also more forbidden ways as the Heretic Gods do.
That Soul was tortured continuously and constantly to get strong enough, the Soul became deformed because a fragment of another person’s Soul was placed inside that Soul and sealed inside.
Henrique explained to me that the Aura that comes out of the Soul does not belong to her, her Aura is constantly suppressed by a more powerful Aura, and the essence that stays inside the Soul is being corroded by that fragment of someone else’s Soul.
After hearing this I got angry too, but my anger doesn’t even compare to High Priest Henry’s, he doesn’t just consider the act itself unforgivable, he considers it an invasion of his Goddess authority, a slap on his beliefs.
After listening to him I was able to support a theory and asked him, just as I feared, I was right.
This Soul fragment should belong to the true Hero of the Church of Light, they implanted this fragment in this Soul to be able to deceive others, but according to Henry the Soul of a Hero is special, so they had to strengthen the Soul to resist even if temporarily.
I imagine that finding someone qualified for this kind of experiment must have been almost impossible from what High Priest Henrique told me, most likely after finding this rarity they also transformed their body to look like the Hero, maybe they even strengthened the body artificially.
“So what do you think I should do? Destroy the crystal and free the Soul?” (I)
“If you do, you will return to the God Baldr.” (Henrique)
“If I do it in the Dungeon, which God?” (I)
“Since you have the Blessing of several Gods, you can go to any one of them, most likely the Goddess Selene.” (Henrique)
“Since you have my Goddess’s Blessing Now, you can go to her, but we shouldn’t do that.” (Henrique)
“Because?” (I)
“The Soul Fragment is from someone still alive, it will prevent the soul from leaving, the best thing to do would be to revive the Soul, maybe after receiving the blessings of my Goddess I can get rid of this fragment.” (Henrique)
“…” (I)
“But before that, we need to finish the preparations, right?” (Henrique)
“Yea.” (I)
“(Nix, is everything he said true?)” (I)
“(Unfortunately, yes.)” (Nix) ．𝚌ｏｍ
“…” (I)
I needed to make sure High Priest Henry was telling the truth, Nix always accompanies me, even more than Layla, I just wanted to make sure he was thinking about what was best for this Soul.
After that, I take the Phantom Orbs that Hela has accumulated and place the pile in front of the Demon Goddess Kalistos statue.
“All you need to do is start the synthesis process, my Goddess will step in to temporarily increase the synthesis threshold while protecting you from the consequences of Synthesis after a certain point.” (Henrique)
“It’s all right.” (I)
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
I activate my synthesis skill all 7 times I’m able to do it now at the same time, bullshit the moment the notification noises start popping in my head.
Ding!
<[ Demon Goddess Kalistos interference detected ]>
Soon a gray energy starts to come out of the Goddess statue and spread around the Phantom Orbs, at that moment this gray energy becomes a whirlpool and various collision sounds can be heard from the dark gray whirlpool.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
At that moment there were many notification sounds in my head at the same time, I could feel chilling energies mixing in that whirlpool.
I had to wait a long time for the whirlpool to start picking, when it disappeared there was only a gray crystal sphere with a dark silhouette inside, it seemed to have thousands of points of light circling that dark silhouette.
I tried to get closer to get a better look at what that item was, I needed to touch it to use my ability to identify it, but I knew instinctively that it would be dangerous to get any closer.
“Looks like it was a success.” (I)
“I feel the power of my Goddess in this item, so I think it was more than just a hit.” (Henrique)
“But the spectral energy is much stronger than I expected, it would be dangerous even for me to get any closer.” (Henrique)
“Is it safe to use my Awakening-type abilities while I throw Soul in there?” (I)
“Yes, the power of my Goddess shouldn’t hurt this Soul, if you are in good settings could solve the problem now, my Goddess will help.” (Henrique)
“If she’ll be of better help to me.” (I)
I take the crystal where the Soul of the False Hero is, I’m thinking about during the process to collect this fragment of Soul from the inside, I will also try to help with my Astral Body just like I did with Layla in the past, I hope it works.