The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

126 How to counter a cheat-like ability that forces cardiopulmonary arrest

Many life-forms that died and lost their bodies had a dull sense of time.

They didn't have hearts that beat in rhythm, nor did they have lungs that breathed. They didn't have the physical need to eat or sleep. Spirits wandering the outside world could look at the sky to gain a broad sense of the flow of time, but spirits that remained indoors sometimes couldn't even tell if years were passing.

That was why Rodcorte had installed a 'clock' in his own Divine Realm, for the reincarnated individuals to use.

The Bravers and Murakami Junpei's group that had left the Bravers, who had died in Origin, had the time limit of a month to decide what they would do after being reincarnated in Origin. The clock was to make sure they kept to the time limit.

Recently, Rodcorte was a little freer from dealing with the problems in the circle of transmigration system that arose from souls being broken.

"I've regained the instincts I had when the Demon King Guduranis was running rampant in Lambda over a hundred thousand years ago."

Now, Rodcorte was only made a little busier than usual in order to deal with the problems caused by a broken soul or two.

He had been forced to devote all of his efforts into this when Raymond Paris, Rick Paris and a dozen other members of the Reborn Sauron Duchy Army who had been involved in the Scylla serial killing incident had their souls broken at once, however.

"Instead of thinking of using the souls in Vida's circle of transmigration system for my own system, should I start working on a version update to my system so that it can effectively deal with souls being broken?" Rodcorte wondered.

But considering that he was planning to solve the problem by erasing Vandalieu, the only one capable of breaking souls, he felt hesitant to begin such a task.

It was unlikely that another being capable of destroying souls like the Demon King Guduranis would begin an invasion from another world, anyway.

And if Vandalieu did something reckless like destroying tens, or even hundreds of thousands of souls within a short period of time, no version update Rodcorte could implement into his system would be able to cope with it. The only thing he would be able to do in such a situation was to detach the part of the system that managed reincarnation in Lambda and several other worlds to prevent the entire system from collapsing.

This was something that even the Demon King Guduranis hadn't done (likely because it was unclear as to what would happen in Lambda after the destruction of Rodcorte's system), but there was no guarantee that Vandalieu wouldn't do it.

"So then, isn't it better to make it so that you could detach only the Lambda portion of the system?" Aran suggested, having listened to Rodcorte's monologue.

"That would be difficult," Rodcorte replied. "My circle of reincarnation system has never been completely divided by world to begin with. Normally, souls are reincarnated within a single world, but the system has been designed so that a world can borrow souls from other worlds in order to deal with unexpected circumstances."

It was a setup so that if World A experienced an explosive growth in population and lacked souls, it could borrow souls that were awaiting reincarnation in Worlds B and C.

And due to this setup, worlds A, B and C could not be individually detached from the system.

I see, Aran thought as he gave a sigh. "So, in this case, those multiple worlds are Earth, Origin and Lambda?"

Rodcorte had reincarnated Aran and the others from Earth, which was close to Lambda in the system, into Origin, which was also close to Lambda. Now, he was trying to reincarnate them in Lambda, which was close to Origin.