What a transcendence

“…… What a transcendence. ”

Ivus muttered under his breath.

There is a resurrection technique in this world, and there are many of them.

In the past, the High Heavens were able to create cauldrons that resurrected mortals, and the Shadow of Avalon was essentially a large-scale resurrection ritual. Moreover, the transformation of mortal souls into apostles capable of descending in the material realm by the Celestial Division and the Pillar God can be regarded as a kind of resurrection.

In addition to this kind of power involving the level of the Celestial Division and the Pillar God...... According to Aihuas's understanding, the "Worm Po" master of the Dusk Path has mastered the non-destructive resurrection technique, and the Dao characteristic "Silent Dead" can also give people a second life, and dedication to the path can also exchange lives for lives.

Even Eivus's "sister", who does not exist in his memory, is recorded in the Temple of Silver and Tin in Avalon for inventing an unstable resurrection concoction.

However, any resurrection comes at a price.

The birth, aging, sickness and death of all things are the laws of the world, and they are the basis for the world to achieve a perpetual cycle.

Born with a soul, the soul gradually develops and grows in the process of growth; And when he dies, the fruit falls to the ground and the soul returns to the world again...... Then the seed sprouts and gives birth to a new one.

In this process, the total amount of souls will increase. And the total population of everything is also increasing, which is a positive cycle that can make up for each other. From this point of view, the world is like a bank that is constantly providing loans. And the slow growth of the soul in the material realm is the interest it receives.

But if in the process, a large number of people are no longer involved in the cycle...... For example, if you become an apostle, or become an undead, or be resurrected, you will eventually make the world unable to make ends meet.

- If one day everyone has eternal life and the world's soul reserves are completely depleted, then children will not be born. Newborns who are forcibly born also no longer have souls.

This is not unfounded.

Rather, it is a "soullessness" that does exist.

In the ancient kingdom of Sabbath, because of the large number of rituals involving the soul that worked simultaneously in various places, it was sometimes possible for a pregnant woman who was pregnant in the wrong place or who gave birth to a child to give birth to a child without a soul.

They're like they're born in a vegetative state, but it's not the same. Their brains are normal, they just can't activate ...... It's like the computer's hardware is fine, but the operating system is not installed.

This phenomenon has also been studied by scholars who have rested in peace.

Others have tried to activate the soulless baby's brain by various means, but have never been able to awaken its human intellect - the upper limit is to turn humans into animals.

You can't remember your name without a soul...... In other words, it is impossible to separate oneself from the world. Therefore, it is impossible to give birth to an independent personality...... Even though they can even be allowed to act and speak on their own through strict domestication, they still have no personality. The closest to completion so far is the use of a simulated soul drive, with the body of a soulless person being used as a golem drive.

And Jacob's research can solve this problem fundamentally.

In this village, frozen by the power of dusk, there were no newborns in the first place. It is essentially a naturally existing "soulless environment" that can no longer give birth to newborns.

In his twenties, Jacob developed the technology to create "swamp people".

Replicating souls by some means - theoretically, this is actually a one-time resurrection technique that requires special geographical conditions to achieve, but it is not too outrageous.

However, Jacob somehow got stuck with a bug. Or maybe there's a bug in the ritual he designed.

- He allowed the "original soul", which in principle should have been destroyed at the birth of the new soul, to be preserved for unknown reasons.

In this way, he turned the art of "resurrecting souls" into "replicating souls".

That is, a person is divided into two by him.

Jacob should have known that this technique was taboo and would cause great controversy.

So instead of freeing the "originals" of his soul, he stored them. I put it in a place that only I know......

If nothing else, it should be inside the fairy cave.

Ivas speculated that it was a coincidence.

Because if Jacob did it on purpose, then there was no reason for him to hide his soul in the fairy cave...... Instead, they should be preserved by some means or subjected to secondary experimentation. These souls are undoubtedly extremely valuable "unique products", precious special cases of what has gone wrong.

It's as if he had made a mistake in an experiment and quietly dialed the reading to the right place - he had hidden the original souls that had not been destroyed by the ritual in the fairy realm so that no one would know that they had not been properly destroyed.

From this point of view, then those mud turtles may even be brought over by Jacob to raise-

After all, mud turtles are not pure undead, but wild creatures.

They don't come naturally, they must have migrated from somewhere. Realizing his mistake, Jacob stopped the Swamp Rituals and brought in a batch of mud turtles to plug the hole.

The purpose is to prevent people from opening the fairy cave, so that they can enter the fairy realm and see the original souls of the "swamp people" who should not be here in principle!

Thinking of this, Aihuas's eyes suddenly widened.

"Speaking of which, Hayna's father ......"

Ai Huasi suddenly remembered that the magnetic hammer was the Eagle Cape Village that had come to Cape Village almost ten or twenty years ago.

What happened then?

That's when Haina had been born for some reason, breaking the common sense of Cape Eagle.

At that time, Haina's biological father suddenly ran away from his pregnant wife for some reason and left the village of Eagle Point. And then never came back.

By that time, Jacob had returned to Cape Eagle for the second time and had not yet died of typhoid fever.

If the swamp ritual had stopped running by then, why did Hayna's mother go to the swamp?

If she doesn't go to the swamp that is a forbidden area, how can she possibly find the magnetic hammer?

But if you consider this to be Jacob's experiment...... Take these nameless natives as Jacob's assistants, and everything can be explained!

In chronological order, clues quickly pieced together in Ivus's mind—

At first, Jacob should have strayed into the village of Eagle Point when he was in his twenties.

By coincidence, he found the village, which was filled with the power of dusk, hidden in the cracks by the power of the elves, and the fairy cave, which was full of pure earth elemental power. And then through his genius developed an incomplete resurrection ritual......

But his research failed.

The resurrection ritual did not work properly because the original soul was not destroyed by the ritual. Jacob then stopped or suspended the ritual and left Cape Eagle's Headland.

More than forty years later, Jacob, who already had two sons and was about to retire from the stage of history, returned to Eagle Cape Village.

He wasn't going to leave again this time.

And he is more skilled...... Through some means, Eagle Cape Village, a village sealed by the power of dusk, can give birth to newborns.

Therefore, he became the "benefactor" of Eagle Cape Village in the mouth of the elders.

Haina is one of the samples he cultivated.

Not only is she consistent with ordinary people, but she also has the adaptability of the path beyond dusk; Aside from her lack of sensitivity to time, she doesn't even see the remnants of Cape Eagle's Village. She was even able to leave Cape Village without any problems - while the natives could leave, the "swamp people" couldn't.

Then Haina's father suddenly fled the village of Cape Eagle for some reason.

Immediately afterward, the Swamp Man ceremony began again.

He certainly wasn't there at that time to resurrect the technique. He would have been able to complete a better resurrection technique long ago.

At this time, he started the Swamp Man Ritual only for its original by-product, the copied artificial soul.

And then there's ...... His death.

Ivas suddenly felt a creep.

Jacob, who invented resurrection technology and even artificial souls in his twenties, was his grandfather......

Is he really dead?

Also, why did he catch up with the "wind chill" with himself?

Is that really wind chill?

And also......

"I ...... Who is it? ”

Ivus muttered under his breath.

(End of chapter)