130 A New Soul Emerges Within My Soul Scape!
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I had grabbed the sword back then and immediately felt a power leak into my soul that moment. It seemed that the “requirements” were complete.
What requirements? Well, to “trap” a strong soul inside my own Soul Scape.
Like what happened with Ignatius.
I had experimented before. It seemed that only exceptionally strong beings’ souls could be “trapped” this way.
Weaker monsters... cannot. I had tried it before, hunting a small demon rat, taking out their mana crystal, and holding it tight while infusing mana into it.
Nothing happened...
But equipment made of very strong beings’ magic crystals that I’ve seen die and therefore I have gained their “Experience Points”, which was actually just me draining a large chunk of their souls? It was possible to get them.
So, these were the “requirements” that had made me conclude that it worked like that... kind of.
.....
The requirements were:
Kill or be present with a “party member” that killed something.
That “something” must be exceptionally strong, something at the level of adult dragons such as Ignatius, or a Demon General, like Hell or Beelzebub.
After that, that “something’s” soul would be absorbed into my soul thanks to Alice.
After that, I had to find some sort of finely crafted magic equipment that carried this monster’s magic crystal.
It didn’t have to be the entire piece, but a decently big one.
After that, it was done. The two pieces of the puzzle would unify, while the soul would emerge inside my own Soul Scape.
Even if I unequip the item, it would still be there, so the item itself would have a part of its power “drained”.
Nevertheless, the piece of equipment was still strong even when it was “drained” of the piece of soul inside, so there was no problem.
And well, here it was... the one I kind of wanted.
I always wondered... if I was able to tame Ignatius, why not try something bigger this time around?
A giant and grotesque fly emerged atop the skies of my soul’s landscape.
It looked down on us with its gigantic, red-colored eyes with multiple lenses on them.
Its exoskeleton looked tough, not at all like the thin one flies had.
It was even metallic in appearance and luster.
“Guhh?! Where the hell am I?!” he cried with a mildly annoying voice.
“A bug?” everyone asked at the same time.
“Yeah, he’s Beelzebub, a Demon General!” I said in response.
“Oh, I see... So that’s why- WHAT?!” exclaimed Ignatius.
“Foo?! Fooeh!” exclaimed Naturia.
“I agree with Naturia. Sylphy, did you really have to bring this thing here?!” Alice could not help but ask.
“B-Beelzebub-sama?! He’s a bad guy! He’s a psycho...” murmured Furoh.
He seemed to have meet him before.
“Oi! Underling! Who are you calling a psycho?!”
Beelzebub flew down and greeted us rather boldly.
He was currently bigger than all of us combined, looking like a giant fly that was at least three meters tall...
“N-Nobody, sir!” replied Furoh.
“Hmmm... what is this place? Who are you- huh? A human girl- no, an elf?” murmured Beelzebub, looking at my astral projection.
“You’re trapped inside my soul for all eternity,” I told him.
“What?” Beelzebub was a bit shocked I spoke so boldly without trembling in fear before his presence.
“Y-You’re not trembling in fear before my presence?” he asked.
I guess I read his mind...
“Of course not! I’m fearless!” I replied.
“T-This can’t be... am I dreaming? Ungh... I had... I was killed by those damn heroes at the end! Even when I had so much power on my side... to think that I was such a fragile being at the end, how frustratingly infuriating!” he lamented with a sigh.
“Yeah, it’s quite sad...” I told him.
“You’re just messing with me! And what’s with this band of weirdos? Ugh, you know what? I’m just going to kill all of you and find a way out,” he said, using the scythe-like arm claws he had, trying to slice us out with them.
However, it went pretty badly because it obviously didn’t work like he wanted. He tried to harm us, but it didn’t work. It was obviously not going to do anything because we were all astral beings.
“Huh?! Why can’t I kill you?!” he cried.
“You’re inside my soul. No matter how much you harm us, we’ll go back to how we were a second after that... We’re all astral projections... your power is sealed unless you become my familiar and I manifest your power outside of my body,” I told him.
“Eeeeeh?!”
Beelzebub was hit by the harsh reality. His world view was being shattered into pieces with each passing second as he suddenly dropped over the floor and looked at us once more, as if we had suddenly betrayed him or something. Damn, can’t he calm down a little bit? Its not like we did something so terrible! Relax for once...
“T-This... this... ungh...! Aggghhh! No way am I going to obey a mere human! A nasty human like you?! I would never bow down my head! I would rather... die! Kill me!” he cried.
As I expected, powerful beings were very prideful, and won’t let themselves bow down to me.
I remember it took several years for Ignatius to bend the knee for me and join my crew after he gave up. Well, he also kind of grew fond of me after we battled inside this place for so long.
But I fear that Beelzebub was not that type of battle junkie that would recognize a person after battling with them for a while. At most, he’s a psycho that’s into making people suffer.
He even discarded his own comrades on his battle, even Ignatius valued his kin and would never betray nor sacrifice them like Beelzebub did...
So, despite being enemies from my parents, the two were obviously different from one another in many ways.
“Beelzebub-sama, Sylphy is not a bad person...! You should join her,” said Furoh timidly.
“Shut the fuck up, worm!” roared Beelzebub in response.
“Who are you calling a worm?!” I asked, pointing a blade I formed with my astral projection at him.
No one messes with my little Furoh and gets away with it.
Maybe I should just torture his soul until he gives up...
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