182 – Soul Binding
“…As expected. There’s no way.”
Excluding the glass window, I tried to open the door, which was the only passageway that separated the inside and outside of the room, but I finally gave up and broke my heart after three hours.
From the outside, it was just an ordinary-looking door. It didn’t have a particularly complicated lock, and it wasn’t made of that hard material.
However, the tiny doorway never opened. Whether I put my weight on it and slam it into my shoulder blades, or kick it through my leg bones.
It wasn’t a chatterbox, it was a room that Olivia had created for the purpose of living in eternity by kidnapping me. Of course, there is no room for me to do anything.
Thinking so, I looked at the door decoration attached to my eye level with a bitter smile on my lips. The face of a woman with her eyes wide open and only her hair remaining hanging was attached to it.
Her shoulder-length blond hair and her expression, distorted with pain, clearly showed what kind of suffering this hair had suffered before it was decorated here.
It was Helena.
My first companion during my stay at the Magic Tower, and Olivia’s first victim.
And the poor woman who never died because Olivia constantly relived her tortured days for having to play music while she had sex with me.
He held back his mouth, which was about to be twisted, and stretched out his hand to close his eyes. The closed eyelids opened again in less than a second. It was useless.
Thousands of eyes clinging to the ceiling and walls were staring at me without taking their eyes off of me.
The pupils closely monitored my movements. It looked at the bed when I was lying in it, and it followed its movements when I got out of bed and walked around the room.
It was quite a chilling situation to be watched in real time by thousands of sparsely bloody eyes. Even for me, who has been through all kinds of bad things to see.
“And maybe, if it’s Olivia, she’ll be watching all of me while fighting the three of us.”
Those eyes fixed on me even now were the proof. Those were plucked from Olivia, but they were connected to Olivia. It wasn’t impossible to share sight as much as you wanted.
The room was entirely made up of Olivia, so sharing of the senses must have been a very natural thing, just as a person can handle their fingers and toes without much thought.
Of course you noticed that I spent hours at the door trying to get out of here. The reason he left it alone was probably because he was overflowing with confidence in his work.
As soon as she regained all her strength, it was Olivia who played with Serena, Charlotte, and Christine as if torturing them. How could someone like me do anything about the space he created?
And honestly, even now I couldn’t guarantee that the three would beat Olivia.
If the three of them worked together, it might be worth defeating Olivia, but well. This was something I was certain of.
Serena, Charlotte, and Christine, even if they were driven to the brink of death, they would have died if they had died, and they weren’t the type to join forces with other women.
He must be thinking about how to use his new powers to kill the other two and take me to himself.
In such a situation, it was only natural that it would be unreasonable for the three of them to face Olivia alone, even if they had stepped into a state beyond their limits.
Because Olivia is literally the same as the world itself.
“……Is there any other way?”
I paced around it, vaguely positioned near the closet, a little out of the center of the room. At least this area was the farthest away from Olivia.
didn’t you say All things are made of Olivia.
I didn’t want to touch that carpet made of hundreds of Olivia’s tongues, or the bed made of Olivia’s bones and the pillow full of intestines.
In annoyance, he hit the closet. Of course, the weak side was my hand. With a thumping sound, the fingers that came into contact with the closet were shattered and broken in a strange direction.
There was no need to save my body anyway, so I didn’t feel the need to control my strength when I showed behaviors close to self-injury.
Even in the midst of this, my super-regeneration ability, no, something that is hard to call a super-regeneration ability anymore, numbly restored my broken finger to its original state. The shattered hand found its place.
As I watched it, I felt a sense of desolation. For the past hundreds of years, I’ve been living knowing that I have super regenerative abilities, but in reality, it wasn’t, and even the cause was Olivia.
“……What the heck did you do?”
My doubts were still shrouded in mystery. It was natural. After that shocking confession, Olivia never said anything related to my abilities again.
To be precise, it was obvious that it was a ploy to make me open my mouth with this curiosity as an excuse, so I gave up first on my side.
Olivia accepted it with a twist, saying that even such an action was possible because I understood her heart, and that she understood her heart because I loved her.
Thanks to this, I could only use the absurd method of making hypotheses in my head alone, pointing out problems alone, and discarding them alone.
It was my desperate effort not to break my heart.
Every time I remembered what kind of existence Olivia was, measured Olivia’s ability, and tasted the fragments of that power, the will to resist gradually disappeared.
In order not to do that, I had to cling to my thoughts even more.
‘It wasn’t a super regenerative ability, so it’s highly likely that something else worked for me to be unable to use mana. And even if the super-regeneration ability worked, that wouldn’t be a reason why mana couldn’t be used.’
Of all the speculations, the one that racked my brain the most was why I couldn’t use mana.
Until now, I only thought that the super regeneration ability was acting on the mana circuit and blocking the use of mana.
However, since the root cause itself was found to be wrong, the old idea had to be stripped of its roots and a new reason had to be put together.
‘… … From the heart, it raises mana.’
I closed my eyes and tried to increase my mana as Charlotte had taught me tediously.
If you had reached the level of a wizard like Charlotte, it would have been meaningless, but putting your hand on your heart and drawing mana was a basic process before learning magic.
However, no matter how much I tried to raise mana from my heart, my body wouldn’t even budge. It wasn’t that he couldn’t pull out what was there, it was closer to not having the mana itself to pull out at all.
‘Is it the same this time?’
I released a lot of power from my body. It has already been an action that has been tried dozens of times, and an action that has failed dozens of times. It didn’t work out at all, so I changed my mind and tried to open the door and get out. Of course, that too was a failure.
It was strange. If I couldn’t use mana because it was fixed in time, or if I couldn’t use mana because the mana circuit would be restored as soon as it was damaged, then my body had to be like that too.
He grabbed the index finger of his right hand with his left hand and bent it backwards. With a thud, the index fingernail touched the back of the hand. One second, two seconds, time passed, and after almost 10 seconds, the finger returned to normal.
It would have been normal if I hadn’t even dreamed of something that could delay my recovery like this. But I was still able to delay my recovery.
‘It’s not regenerating after damage, it’s more like not being able to pull it out.’
There was no one who didn’t have mana in their body at all, and before I was fixed in time, I was able to handle mana at the level of ordinary people.
Since I became like this after I was locked in time by Olivia, it was natural to assume that something extra was done in the process.
There is something. There must be something, but I don’t know what it is.
“In the end, there’s only one thing that needs to be resolved.”
There was only one way left. Until now, I turned my eyes to the truth, the truth that I had tried to ask awkwardly and move on.
I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, but the truth that I thought I’d never be able to solve.
“Why on earth were you able to use soul bonds?”
Yes, soul binding was also one of the techniques that used mana, strictly speaking. Right away, the subjects who developed the soul bond were wizards, and the subjects who banned it were also wizards.
The reason why you can use soul bonds when you can’t use mana. It seemed that if I could find the cause, I would be able to catch a clue.
It was really strange. The question that started to arise once stood up biting its tail. The doubts that had been roughly covered up, thinking that it must have been so before, grew out of control and pushed their heads.
He brought his right hand to his heart. It is an organ where most people store mana, and a place where the soul is presumed to be. and the source of human life.
But to me it was also an organ incapable of performing any function other than thumping regularly. No matter what happens to my heart, I won’t die.
He placed his hand over his left chest. The sound of his heart beating at regular intervals passed through his palms. I’m doing my part, but even though it’s not necessary.
‘The location of the soul, even wizards couldn’t find out after all.’
Even the sorcerers who developed the magic of binding souls could not give a precise definition of the concept of a human soul.
Even now, the soul was a very vague concept. It is certain that it exists, but how it exists and where it exists is still close to obscurity.
Charlotte was no exception. Even Charlotte, who had personally experienced the forbidden magic of soul binding, was unable to properly define it.
Only one, putting your hands on each other’s heart and performing the ritual is almost the only way to succeed in soul bonding, so I can only guess that the heart is related to the soul.
‘It doesn’t matter anyway. I can’t even die, what can I do to be afraid of something like this?’
calmed down My thoughts were already full of doubts about my abilities and the magic of soul binding. If so, there was a possibility that something would be different now.
what you know and what you don’t know. The difference was too great to be judged by human standards. For some reason, my confidence rose.
After thinking about it for several weeks, I compiled the conclusions in the palm of my hand. My heart was pounding and my heart beating wildly. I’m not sure if this is tension or excitement.
One thing is for sure, my heart is beating much harder than usual.
I didn’t care about the fact that the eyes of the eyes decorating the walls and ceiling were focused on me. There was no chance that Olivia would come back here after seeing a day like this.
Not that there are few or virtually none, but none. this was certain Because Olivia believes in herself as much as she loves me.
It was a spell cast by Olivia herself, not by anyone else. It must be considered impossible for me to destroy it.
“No, you’re wrong, Olivia.”
It might have been like that in the past.
Even if she realized this a little earlier thanks to her luck, the chances of getting something out of the soul bond were virtually zero.
No matter how hard you try and try again, in the end, after repeated failures, you must have broken your heart thinking that it was impossible. Just like the time I spent in the Magic Tower.
But now it was different.
There was Serena, there was Charlotte, and there was Christine. There were three people whose souls had grown enough that even Olivia could notice, even for a moment.
Coincidentally, Olivia had said with her own mouth that the three of them hadn’t reached the point where they could raise the level of their souls yet. That was enough. No, it was even better.
I will guide the three souls to a higher level.
As with Charlotte, as with Christine, as with Serena. pulled the soul out of my heart The soul that was about to be led out hesitated as if something had blocked it.
I ignored it and poured all my energy into my heart. My body couldn’t stand the recoil and vomited blood. I used my energy and put off the recovery, and continued the movement.
My eyes were blurry. Blood poured from his nose, and soon red blood dripped from every orifice in his face, including his ears and eyes.
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Judging from the fact that the body can delay recovery, less than 10 seconds have passed yet. It felt like time passed slowly.
I felt like my throat was clogged up for a moment, so I coughed and coughed. Something that was blocking my throat popped out of my mouth. The taste of blood lingered in his mouth.
‘little bit more.’
He stumbled and forced his knees to bend. The blood flowing out of his mouth seemed to show no signs of returning to normal yet.
‘a little bit… … more.’
Has it still not been 10 seconds? It seems like more than 10 minutes have passed, but my body is still like this?
‘a little bit… … .’
My thoughts stopped there. I couldn’t even get my soul out yet, but the knee that I had been forced to stand on was weak. The body, which had reached its limit, fell forward. I heard tinnitus in my ears.
A blue light emanated from his body.