Lord x

chapter 4

I'm  going to take this human into my world  and see how they feel about this little game of mine becoming reality.

I already had experience with grabbing souls, for that is how I would resurrect my victims.  All I had to do is reach beyond the screen that separated us, grab their soul, and pull it back with such force that the soul gets transported into my plane of existence.

I had no doubts in myself. I thought myself a god, so why couldn't I pull off a stunt as ambitious as this?

The next time this human came to their computer, I took them completely by surprise. I thrust my hand  through the screen, grabbing their soul with all the strength I had, and pulled them back into my world as quickly as I had come through. However, something went wrong. The human's soul fizzled out and died in  my hands within moments.

No, no. That's not right. My curiosity from my youth   came back to me, filling my thoughts. Experiments muse be held, work must be done.

I had to figure out why this phenomenon happened and how I can preserve a human soul within the digital world.  I worked diligently, studying the nature of souls as I knew them and Experimenting with them.

One thing was for certain:  souls need vessels just like I do- but human souls from beyond the screen worked differently than  the ones in digital space. The vessel they carry cannot be taken into the digital world, so they must acquire a new one. Bonding a soul from beyond the screen works differently as well.

It requires  a framework in order to complete the process. You may know this framework as a save file.

After  perfecting my technique on lesser beings, I finally began my experiments on my 3 victims.  My first choice was Knuckles. I knew his vessel to be strong and robust. So it had a  good power tolerance for souls.

When I set him in the save file and used the bonding rituals, however, Knuckles was contorted and twisted beyond repair. His lifeless corpse fell to the ground, and when I tried to fix him up again- it was to no avail. Too bad. I thought again about my theories.