Alm and Bruno were anything but naive; not knowing the situation, they had left a rope ready to return. They had split a third of their divine souls and sent only that part through the array.
Then they simply detonated that portion of their divine souls without hesitation. Those four had powerful souls, but it was impossible to survive such an explosion. However, as they already knew, they would be reconstructed when time was reversed.
’Are they idiots?’ Alm grumbled.
Even though they would return in time, the memories wouldn’t come back the same way as for everyone else. They would probably investigate the explosion, and it would be obvious that an enemy caused it. But the information about the encounter with Alm and Bruno would be erased.
’That will give us time to act in the shadows until they discover us,’ Bruno commented, while both looked at the two waiting for them.
They stared seriously at them. Alm and Bruno now looked like they were made of porcelain, completely cracked as if they were about to shatter forever. With only 30% of their divine souls left, they couldn’t afford to use them recklessly. And, in a place where there was no Qi, only soul power, they were in trouble.
However, Alm and Bruno glanced lightly at the two; they weren’t alone. They weren’t the only ones with divine souls, and their allies were trustworthy and competent.
Bruno recounted everything they had heard. The two’s eyes widened when they learned about the Calamity’s origins.
Now Coltia discovered something very important; her understood her law and why it always seemed terrifying, even though its uses were limited as if it were incomplete... it was a flaw, an attempt to be something grand that ended up as just a subtle reflection of something greater.
Then both clenched their fists with furious eyes. Those four really went too far, using everyone without authorization and giving no choice. Then they even enslaved the dead eternally, in unending torture.
"Now that you understand, the goal is clear. We must first free everyone. They can’t use them many times; when we destroy them, they’ll be forced to return them to their bodies," Bruno said seriously. "The problem is those who have already died and are in the array."
The two agreed, and Kaiyka had an idea. "You said you destroyed them, but they would return soon."
Alm and Bruno nodded as she quickly moved to the side of the twenty still sealed. "From what you explained earlier, the array connects everyone to a network with a King at the center. If the kings are dead, even if temporarily, the network should be weakened."
Kaiyka said and closed her eyes, focusing on those twenty. A few seconds later, she opened her eyes with a gleam of excitement. She waved, and colored runes appeared; they were the runes of the array.
"Now that they’re absent, I stole some central runes with my soul. There aren’t many, and they won’t notice the difference unless they look for it," she said excitedly.
Alm and Bruno widened their eyes in surprise and quickly received the runes, sealing them. With a simple glance, they felt a sword aura on them. Kaiyka cut them from the array using the Dao of the Sword God. Soon after, they were sure they could use the array itself to manipulate them; it wasn’t different enough to be anything else.
"With this, I’ll be able to manipulate their array and free them. Perfect, good job," Bruno said, extremely satisfied.
Just with the Kings of the array temporarily absent weakening the network, it would have been impossible. But with the Dao of the Sword God, which had the power to cut through everything, it gave them a chance, and Kaiyka was very useful.
"Great, just free everyone and cut off the heads of the kings," Coltia said with a smile.
But Alm shook his head. "Time here moves the same as in the outside world. If we do it this way, it’ll take us years to finish. We need to be back in our bodies by the time the group that went to the forest returns."
"We’ll destroy all the living, sending them back. As for those in the array, we’ll free them and recruit them. These four started a war; that’s great, we’ll use that to our advantage," Bruno added, looking at the twenty fallen ones.
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The issue was how to convince everyone of this. Bruno pondered but realized Alm already had a plan.
Alm turned to the sphere with the Law of Origin up high. ’The Law of Origin gives consciousness to souls. There’s a secret place in souls where deep memories are stored. Immortal cultivators can manipulate that, so wouldn’t it be connected to this law?’
Bruno listened and nodded. ’We have divine souls, just lacking the cultivation. If it’s really manipulation of this law that makes the memories surface, we can try.’
Both took a deep breath and decided to take the risk. Whenever they used the tattoos, they had to burn a bit of their divine soul because there was no Qi. The little they had was at stake.
They moved up, standing beside the sphere that looked like an eye. The tattoos lit up, Wuji was used, and the entire sphere shattered. Then they completely focused and entered the Taiji state.
Since their return, only a few minutes had passed. Alm and Bruno easily moved that strange law, mastering it. They had used it through the array twice before and knew a bit about it.
They descended to the ground and stood before the twenty. They were just souls that had died and were being used eternally in that place. They were awake but couldn’t move after being sealed. All of them looked at the two, who gestured, and something invisible invaded them.
Alm and Bruno tested things out. First, they infused the Law of Origin into the souls, and as expected, it merged with the soul like water flowing into a river, disappearing.
Then, they marked the law and put it back into them, sensing their movements. Several other tests were done until, after giving up almost 90% of what was in that sphere, they made a sharp move with the law inside those souls.
Quickly, Alm and Bruno felt as if they had opened the doors to a massive library. They saw many sections, organized systematically. The first section gave them the impression that it was what they were looking for.
’This is his current life,’ Bruno murmured confidently. ’Open.’
After this movement, the soul’s eyes shone as if watching a movie of their life very, very quickly. A huge amount of information unfolded, from the moment they were in their mother’s womb to the present, every tiny detail became completely vivid and clear.
And, obviously, all the thousands and thousands of years they had fought and died, countless times...
"Success," Alm and Bruno said, sighing heavily from exhaustion.