The Raven's POV-Chapter 41: I yapped a lot here, please bear with it, next - should clear things up

Chapter 41: I yapped a lot here, please bear with it, next Chapter should clear things up

They stayed like that for a long time, then they talked about various things, both tactically avoiding mentioning the previous topic though. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Back in the lab.

Elder Norman started.

"I don’t know how it got here, or why it is here but If the subject is the original body, then it is very intelligent, it took over the body, made the victim brain dead and left the brain as it is, and hid its soul behind the victim’s soul"

"If we use mind spell, it won’t work on it because-"

Elder Cecil’s completed the sentence

"Because they target the brain, more specifically the consciousness and subconsciousness, we target the head because well... biology, that’s where the brain is"

"and the spell can’t work if there is no consciousness in the targeted area!"

"secondly it can fool those with soul sight, by hiding itself behind the soul of the victim, he will avoid being seen, hence found out"

"Smart, but that’s the problem, the human body can break down essence into mana, aura and spirit into its own, it just lacks the means to store it, the chambers is designed to modify the human body a little bit, to allow them to sense aura, mana and spirit, and hold it"

"But there is a flaw in the design though, it sends small waves that can cause soul damage, normally it is no issue, so we left it as is"

"But!"

"When the small wave reached the victim’s soul, there was no mind to guide, normally, ideally the mind would calm down the agitated soul, but the victim had no mind to speak of, the soul acted on instinct and started a counter attack."

"The counter attack was indiscriminate so it hit the creature’s soul too, which led to the current situation where both souls are trying to tear each other apart."

"If left as is, we will have a brain dead creature on our hand, as the soul will destroy each other, leaving only the body, which is indestructible, impossible to completely rid of, it will revert to its base form and rampage."

"I plan to prevent that. The original should be able to instinctively absorb the variant, and heal just enough to win, by my calculations, then I planned to negotiate. That is all."

Elder Norman finished his speech and went to look at the chamber where a rotting corpse was slowly crawling towards the chamber.

The corpse had flies hovering around it, but the most noticeable thing was the flower that was growing on its back.

The flower was facing the chamber, unfolding its colorful petals.

And Rowayne’s body showed a reaction, his hands twitched, then slowly started rising until they were pointing at the flower

In the mind realm

Rowayne and Figure resumed talking, he glossed over his most parts by saying

"I tried to fight him head on in the mind realm but I couldn’t win, so I ran, I pretended to submit and at the critical junction, I sever my soul, mutilated myself and ran away"

"I ran, I ran and I ran, I was caught more times then I am willing to admit, each time I cut off more and more of my soul to run off, losing my strength my each escape"

"But as I went farther and farther from the gate, King’s influence lessened, and his control over other vessels– the pieces of soul I discarded, was not as precise as it should be."

" I managed to escape the continent , by that time I was so weak that I could barely remain conscious, I would fall asleep in one moment, only to wake up in another place, finding several months had come to pass."

"This continued until I arrived at empire’s capital, where I met the girl; Roanne, an interesting girl, her soul was riddled with wounds"

"It was different from mine, which were the result of self mutilation. Her’s were result of time, only someone who lived for a long long time despite being a mortal can have those kind of wounds"

"I did not question it, as the vessel was perfect, so I spent years planning, then I took over the body at what humans called the awakening ceremony."

"The process was rougher than expected but I succeeded, only to realise my mind and soul degraded beyond repair."

"So came the next plan, I needed a proxy, I planned to create a new soul, a new being to inherit my powers, my ideals and my cause. A being I would guide"

"But that’s not what written in the diary"

Rowayne asked, even if he was bothered by the word ’proxy’ he did not show it.

"The first few pages of the Diary are the trigger, to forcefully enter the mind realm. Rest may seem random musings or fool’s rambling, but they are encrypted codes to treasures and locations I deemed useful to possess."

"But I did not enter the mind realm back then."

"But you did."

The figure snapped its fingers and all of a sudden, Rowayne was sitting in a chair, and across the long table was the figure, now slowly turning into liquid darkness.

It snapped its fingers again and they were back in the black sea.

"I see"

"..."

"But I don’t know how to decrypt the code you made. Was that intentional?"

Hearing that, the figure abruptly changed the topic

"There’s a saying in our home world, If you stare at [][][][], [][][][] stares back"

"I did not dislike mirrors, one day after taking over the girl’s body, I started avoiding them, I even went out of my way to rationalise it, if not logically, then philosophically."

"my actions were inconsistent back then, I would say one thing, do another. I didn’t notice though, self mutilation of the soul could be... quite painful."

"I made so many plans, I did not realise the most important thing, why did the king not attack me?"

"Maybe he got what he wanted? Found an alternative?"