Chapter 356: The Truth About Soul Replacement
On the continent of Ares, the soul and the body have the only corresponding relationship, and it is precisely because of the existence of this kind of rule that can almost be regarded as a basic law, so in the continent of Ares, the soul exchange can be equated with nonsense in the cognition of most people.
However, in fact, in the history of the continent of Arres, there was once a person who turned the "nonsense" of soul swapping into reality...... A terrifying nightmare.
"Shaq Landos, a heroic magician who experienced the war between gods and demons in the ancient mythological era, an eight-star demon god, this is the name of the person who broke the only corresponding law of soul and body. β
In the royal city, in a secret room that was heavily protected by the elite guards of the royal family, Hero used the magic amplification potion of the royal family's secret to draw a magic circle on the ground while speaking in a gentle voice. And her audience was a group of people gathered near the door of the secret room at this moment.
At this moment, outside the royal city, due to the withdrawal of the Naris rebels and the suspension of the fighting near the station, there is basically no fighting in Arrant City. And all kinds of rumors slowly began to subside under the efforts of the royal court. However, because in the arena, the fake Sekaria declared war on behalf of the Loris Kingdom to the Solan Cult in front of the civilians of the entire arena, so if you want to completely eliminate the rumors of hostility between the two countries, you still have to come forward and give a reasonable explanation to the people.
Because of this, in the secret room in this royal city, Helo is making a series of necessary preparations for the return of Sekaria's soul to his body, and except for the object of this operation - Eddes (Sekaria inside) and Sekaria (another unknown soul inside) who are sleeping at the moment - and Herlo, the performer of the operation, the rest of the people who remain in the room are all those who know about Sekaria's soul replacement this time.
Cerus and Charlie, the first informants of Sekaria's soul replacement, Nanoha and Grey Wind in the form of a dragon wolf, who were specially allowed to stay here as a group of relatives and friends of Hero and Cheruth, Charles I, King of Lorris, Prince Garnes, and Saint Jenny, these three are the representatives of the two major forces of Loris and Solan who were involved in time this time, and they obviously have the absolute right to know about the soul swap event that can be regarded as the key to the incident.
In addition to these people, the other one who remained here was the old Duke of Mana, after all, although the soul of the old duke's only son Eders no longer knew where it had been replaced, at least his body was still there, and it could almost be regarded as the old duke who had lost this son and his own family was also in a mess in this incident, and he was obviously determined to understand all this, and then ask for an explanation for his son and family.
In the face of these people, who had enough reason to know the truth of everything, Helo, although he felt a little troubled, patiently recounted what he knew calmly.
"Presumably, everyone should also know that at the beginning of the Douqi Era after the end of the mythological era thousands of years ago, there were many seven-star sages and hero-level Douqi warriors who could be described as rare on the current continent, and above them, there were eight-star demon gods and legendary-level Douqi warriors who seemed to have not appeared on the continent since the Demon Guiding Era.
"These super powerhouses, who can be called eighth-order powerhouses in terms of rank, are undoubtedly going further on the path of law power exploration than the seventh-order powerhouses who have already crossed the law barrier. Once the strength reaches the eighth order, the individual's understanding and control of the power of the law will be more profound and skillful, not only simulating the law, but they can even distort one or several origin laws that are the foundation of the world within a certain range, so that things that should be common sense in the world have results that do not conform to the common sense of the world. β
None of the people present were stupid people, and at this point in Harrow's words, everyone vaguely understood what the virtuous wolf wanted to tell them.
"Helo...... Miss, do you mean to say that the super strong man named Shaq, who has the power of the law that can distort the only corresponding principle of the soul and body, can he achieve soul replacement?"
As the highest-ranking person among the people present, Charles I did not put on a king's show, but asked Herro in a very polite and virtuous manner.
"Well, that's pretty much how it can be understood," said Herlo, flicking her tail, but judging from what she said next, Charles I didn't guess too much of the truth, and the wolf was more of a face-saving man," The demon god Shaq, who was active at the end of the War of the Ancient Gods and Demons, is known for having the law of the doppelganger, he can create multiple physical clones that are equal in all respects, but he always controls the actions and battles of these clones with a single soul, and as long as one of the clones has not died, he can still continue to live...... From the point of view that a single soul can control multiple flesh, body, and body, he is indeed distorting the principle of the only correspondence between the soul and body.
"Relying on the law of doppelganger, the demon god Shak made great contributions to the gods and demons at the end of the war between gods and demons, and after the end of the gods, the demons were expelled, the gods fell, and the continent entered the period of autonomy of living beings.
However, what no one expected was that although the demon god Shaq behaved very normally at the end of the war, in fact, one of his physical parts had received some strange mutations under the influence of the demonic aura during the war between gods and demons. And for some reason, Shaq, who was infected by this tiny demonic aura, did not become demonic or his soul became evil like ordinary demonic aura infected, but his doppelganger law unconsciously produced some subtle changes.
Originally, Shaq's doppelganger, although it relied on one soul to control multiple flesh and body, but the premise was that this one soul existed in one body and body, and controlled other soulless doppelgangers like controlling multiple puppets, but decades after the end of the war, Shaq, who had never made a move again because of a short period of peace, was bored one day to use the doppelganger law, but unexpectedly found that the power of his own law had unconsciously mutated in the past few decades.
"Shaq's soul was actually split into a small piece along with his physical body, and the physical body that possessed this small piece of soul could no longer be taken back by him, and even had a semi-independent individual personality. Shaq, who discovered this, was very frightened at first, but then he realized that although the physical body created in this way had an autonomous personality, as long as he gave the order of the subject, the other party would still obey unconditionally, and the soul was divided, although he was very alarmed at first, but later he gradually realized that it did not affect him too much, because the part of the soul that was divided was too small.
"As a magician who has reached the level of a demon god in the study of magic, Shaq gradually became interested in his own state that his soul can be divided after finding that it was not too harmful to him, and the demon god who lived a rather boring life after the war began to get involved in the study of the soul field with the help of his special law power, relying on the study of the characteristics of those soul fragments that he constantly separated, Shaq obtained a lot of first-hand information about the soul that was not even found in the mythological era, and became an important representative of the soul school in the mainland at that timeγ However, just at the most critical moment in Shaq's research, things suddenly took a turn for no one...... Shaq is crazy.
"To be precise, it's Shaq's subject that is crazy...... The split soul made his mental state more and more unstable, which he had written earlier in his research notes, but thought that this instability was completely under his control, but he did not expect that one day suddenly his soul would collapse without warning, and the whole person would fall into a state of madness.
"The devastation caused by a mad demon god is terrifying, and after paying the price of an entire city, the life of a junior demon god, and the serious injuries of three demon gods, Shaq's main body is killed, but this is the beginning of something much worse. From the moment Shaq went crazy, his body, body, and body, which had soul fragments and independent personalities, completely lost control from the subject, and none of them even stayed to help the subject fight, but all chose to flee. After Shaq's death, the whole continent began to want his flesh and body, and these Shaq were desperate and accidentally discovered an amazing secret.
"These remnant souls, perhaps because they are the products of the mutation of Shaq's main soul infected by the demonic aura during the war, they are not bound by any soul laws, and can leave their original physical bodies and invade other people's bodies in some special way. At the same time, because the soul capacity of a physical body is limited, it is impossible to have two autonomous consciousnesses, and the invading Shaq remnant soul is not subject to the soul law, so the core part of the possessed person's soul with independent consciousness will be squeezed out of his body because of the absoluteness of the law, and then sucked into the original body of the remnant soul that is already an "empty container...... In a sense, this is also a so-called soul replacement. β
Speaking of which, Hero finally finished the portrayal of the incomparably cumbersome magic array on the ground, and after exhaling lightly, he stood up and looked at the audience who had already listened to the story and were a little stunned.
"At that time, the only correspondence between the soul and the body was already well known, and Shaq's research before he went crazy had never discovered this, so no one thought that just a few remnant souls could have such a god-defying ability. On the way to escape, the remnant souls have replaced themselves with some innocent people to deceive the pursuers, and the main consciousness souls of those innocent people have been replaced into Shaq's doppelganger, and the chasing soldiers who have been driven over have destroyed their bodies uselessly and then their souls have dissipated, and there is no proof of death since then. β
The old Duke of Mana, who was in the audience, shuddered violently, and then the whole person seemed to be dozens of years old in an instant. On the other side, Garnes looked at the old Duke of Mana sympathetically, and moved his lips, but still did not say anything.
Now it seems that the crazy middle-aged man who called himself Garnes that Sekaria met more than a month ago was undoubtedly replaced by the soul of Eders in the body of the middle-aged man by the remnant soul of Shaq in Sekaria's body in front of him. At that time, everyone, including those who had investigated the matter at the time, only regarded the middle-aged man as an ordinary madman, and afterwards almost let the middle-aged man be taken away by the people of the Mana family, who had been controlled by the impostor Eders, and then disappeared from the world...... According to Herlo, I am afraid that the real Edus's soul has been lost more than a month ago, in other words, even if Hero really has the means to restore Sekaria's body and soul to one, she will not be able to "live" Edus's soul in the same way......
In this way, thousands of years ago, everyone thought that Shaq and his remnants had all disappeared from this world, but they did not expect that those remnants had survived by using soul replacement. Originally, a soul can only fit into one body, although the soul has no lifespan limit, but because the body will always usher in death, the soul will also lose its only container at the moment of physical death and dissipate into the world. However, Shaq's remnant souls relied on this way of violating the law of the soul to constantly replace themselves into other people's bodies to ensure survival, and they had been secretly hiding on the continent for hundreds of years in this way.
Over the course of time, the Shaq remnants have slowly transformed into a very special group of individuals who are independent but wonderfully connected to each other, and their ambitions have slowly grown over the centuries. Until the middle of the Douqi Era, almost all the super-strong people who had participated in the War of the Ancient Gods and Demons and the subsequent Shaq Encirclement and Suppression War had passed away, and there were only a few super-strong people in the new generation who could reach the eighth-order strength, and the Shak remnants finally felt that their opportunity had come.
"After more than ten years of preparation, the remnants of Shaq's souls controlled the people who were occupied by them at that time, established an astonishing secret society, and provoked wars in various places on the continent of Ares for the purpose of hegemony, fishing in troubled waters to manipulate many national forces, and finally triggered an earth-shattering riot that lasted for nearly a hundred years on the main road......
Hearing this, except for Cheruth, a novice in the history of the other world, and Gray Wind, who is a Warcraft and does not know much about the history of the continent written by humans, the rest of the people are all with their mouths wide open.
β...... Soul Society......" (To be continued.) )