Azhure: I got slumped with offline college early on which put a wrench in my writing early on. I may have to slow down much more so sorry about that.
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With Voice's excited cheer at the oven, Aqua turned to Alicia and said, "Well, I suppose we should end this off with one final topic; the host's lifespan."
"Oh, I suppose Maneg Souls do want hosts that live very long," Alicia remarked.
"Not exactly. I mean, for one, Maneg Souls picked humans half of the time for the reasons I stated before. Any human that lives absurdly long would be classified as a different species altogether," Aqua refuted, surprising Alicia. "But I digress, the thing is, souls are very powerful things and cannot be directly altered or affected so easily, and this includes a Maneg Soul merging. The reason that it is so is because of the souls' life force, what we Court Wizards would know as loyal maneg."
"Oh!" Alicia gasped in the revelation. "So that means...!"
"You know the 'Maneg Shell Theory' from Owen, correct? Where maneg consists of an outer shell that makes it invisible and incorporeal, and an inner core housing the element that is unleashed when the outer shell is cast aside using Orders," Aqua asked to which Alicia nodded. "Well, I do hear Amelia is coming up with a new theory that might debunk the current one," she trailed off. "But that is not important. Anyway, that analogy can be applied to souls, with a few key differences.
"A soul is a container which is filled with life force, making it 'alive.' However, it can be said that the container is always leaking out that life force and once it is out of it, the soul is 'dead.' We still do not know if souls of different races hold different amounts of life force, but we do know that the containers themselves have varying degrees of leakage. So, the time for the soul to run out of life force determines the soul's lifespan. However, the soul is also dependent on its vessel, the physical body, which does not necessarily have the same lifespan as the soul.
"Usually, the body dies first, whether it is from natural causes or otherwise, before the soul runs out of life force, and this will cause the soul to lose all of its life force at once, thus the soul becoming 'dead.' So it can be said that the lifespan of the soul is the maximum lifespan a person could have, any attempts to prolong the of the body, prolong one's life expectancy, will cap off to that maximum."
"Hey! You're a body-less soul! How does that work!?"
"...We will ignore my lineage, for now, we do not have much time to explain that," Aqua miffed at Voice's remark of how the Court called her kind. "That includes how some souls may not lose life force after an unexpected end to the body, it is related to Incarnates simply put.
"Now, as you know, it is the life force that the Maneg Soul is trying to merge with, compressing and converting it into loyal maneg, freeing up space to be occupied with disloyal maneg. Different races may have different amounts of life force Maneg Souls have to compress and convert, but the containers do make it harder for the Maneg Souls to do so.
"It is akin to attempting to dye water with food coloring only the water container only has a small cap that you cannot pour the dye all at once while also having to compress that water, no need to think how that is possible, at the same time. And remember, stray Maneg Souls have extremely short lifespans that are only slightly increased during merging until they made the bond, it may die and fail the merge if they waste too much time.
"Although there has yet to be a case of Maneg Souls failing to merge, not that we heard of, it is best we do not find that out."
"Hey! My Alicia's got a hundred percent me! What about that!?"
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Wizards of the Otherworldly Court: Alicia Part 1
Fantasy"Why are my hands getting warmer?" As far as Alicia was concerned, she was the daughter of a rich businessman attending high school. Then, she feels off and at the same time, she's not. One week later, her best friend brought her to another world(s)...
