In The Academy As Sukuna

Ch 34 - Ruins (Part 2) - The Soul's Embrace

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"When the soul departs, it leaves behind whispers of its essence, a haunting reminder of the life it once knew."

(POV: Ryomen Sukuna)

I am currently reading the book titled 'The Prison', which is quite useful actually.

It has a few chapters, the first one, which I skipped, basically told the life story of every skeleton present here. Yeah, hard pass.

The second one teaches about a mysterious power, the Soul.

"The Soul, huh?" I mutter, intrigued. "Let's see what you've got for me."

Soul exists in every living being, no matter how miniscule it is. It also plays a huge part in our lives. It governs life and death.

When the soul disappears, the body dies, but when the body dies, the soul doesn't disappear, but instead, roams around looking for a suitable vessel, an 'empty' body.

The Soul also loses energy and becomes 'smaller' as time goes on. This process takes place faster if the soul is not contained in a body.

The size of the Soul can be increased by taking energy in from the environment, or the more intriguing one, devouring other souls.

My lips curled up into a twisted smile. "Devouring souls, huh?" I mused, my interest piqued.

All of the natural deaths happen due to the complete drain of energy from one's Soul, which means that the Soul completely disappears.

While, during any unnatural deaths, for example, accidents, the Soul either roams around, or stays in the dead body.

It is difficult for normal souls to take over another body, even though it is possible.

Stronger souls can do it easily, which I have to be wary of in the future.

An instance where a 'normal' soul can take over another body, is when the body is alive, but the soul is dead.

This is an extremely rare event, which probably has happened only a few times in human history.

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You might ask why the Soul is explored in this book, well that is because 'The Prison' is made out of souls.

It does not get affected by physical attacks because it is reinforced by souls of hundreds, maybe thousands of individuals.

Though this fact might make is more challenging to escape, it does mean that training the Soul will be much easier in this room, as there must be an abundance of Soul Energy in it if it is literally formed out of it.

The book says that there are only two ways to escape this prison, first, have a strong enough soul to overwhelm all the souls present in the walls, so that you can use a soul attack to cut through it.

Or second, which is more possible, is hope for the 'Prison' to choose you.

What that means is that only 2 people have managed to escape this Prison, and both escaped because suddenly, the souls reinforcing the walls near them diverged and 'ran away', leaving the walls susceptible to physical attacks, which allowed the persons to escape.