Death... and me

Chapter 2792: The Living Soul Devil

Going back several years, the Living Soul Devil had reached a dead end. The experts of the Realm of Gods had narrowed his escape routes little by little, and they finally managed to trap him in a Demon Beast Forest. The Living Soul Devil could only continue to escape, but the enemies were getting close. It was able to feel their souls coming from all sides, even though their Divine Senses still weren't close enough to detect him.

At a certain point, the Living Soul Devil realized that any attempt to flee would only lead him into another trap. He decided to make a stand, to fight back. His strength had grown to a point where he could challenge even the most powerful Peak Divinity Realm experts. If he could catch them off guard and absorb their souls, he might just gain enough power to escape.

Yet, just as the Divine Senses of the various experts were about to reach his location, the sky above him opened, and a tunnel appeared. The Living Soul Devil could feel the Spatial Laws, although it was too young to comprehend what it was seeing. Driven by its instinct to survive, it threw itself into the tunnel, being dragged away in an instant. The tunnel then disappeared without a trace. That was the day the Living Soul Devil escaped the Realm of Gods.

Despite their best efforts, the experts were left empty-handed. Days of searching yielded no sign of the Living Soul Devil. The investigation concluded that he had indeed fled the Realm of Gods, but his destination remained a mystery. All that was certain was that he had received assistance. With no other leads, the search was reluctantly abandoned.

Who saved the Living Soul Devil? It turns out it was none other than Soul Gem. At that time, not even the twins had any idea that Soul Gem had prepared such a plan with Rugo. He had been following the news about the Living Soul Devil for a while and saw when the plan to trap him took place. With Rugo's help, they managed to create a passage to leave the Realm of Gods for the Living Soul Devil.

There was a reason Soul Gem did that. Soul Gem knew that the Soul Devil might prove itself very useful in case the Universe one day fell into danger. It's just that he wasn't expecting to use it against another Universe's invasion. Instead, his idea was to use it against the Vruves when the time came. He knew Tuana still hadn't given up taking the Chaos Origin Source away.

Above all, Soul Gem knew this monster. It was an extremely rare life form... if you could call it that... that few powers out there had any information about. The Universes who knew about it kept this information a huge secret, not allowing anyone to know that a Living Soul Devil could be created. That's because Living Soul Devils really had the capability of wiping out an entire Universe. They are truly a calamity in and out of themselves. The only ones who could survive in a Universe with a Living Soul Devil would be Dead Souls, like normal Soul Devils. Or... any other race that didn't give the fluctuations of a Living Being's soul. The Death Spirits were a very good example.

Using his true form as a Death Spirit, Rugo was able to trap the Soul Devil inside that Black Pearl, and there it stayed up to this day when it was finally released. After coming out, it didn't notice Rugo's existence even though it was Rugo who imprisoned it. All it could see was the huge sea of living souls, all of them powerful, which blinded the Living Soul Devil's reason. It couldn't help but absorb, absorb, and absorb even more Living Souls.

But one thing left everyone puzzled. The method to create a Living Soul Devil wasn't something that could have appeared in a backwater Universe like this one. And yet, the Devils knew about its method and even succeeded in creating a Living Soul Devil during the war in the Realm of Gods.

After the Devils allied with the Realm of Gods and the Angels, Soul Gem revealed that it was he who captured the Soul Devil. He even told everyone what a Living Soul Devil really was and what kind of calamity it could cause.

When Soul Gem asked the Devils how they acquired the method to create a Living Soul Devil, Black Locust narrowed his eyes. "Usually, we would never talk about it. However, since Soul Gem already knows about the Living Soul Devils, there isn't much of a point in hiding it. You all know about the Underworld Relic, right?"

Everyone nodded and waited for Black Locust to continue talking. "Well then, the Underworld Relic is something that no one knows where it came from. Kafan can probably confirm it since his race originally lived in the Underworld before the Universe was split. He also knows about this... and it was also him who first found it."

Kafan nodded. "Since you don't mind me speaking, then I will continue. First of all, it wasn't exactly me who found the Underworld Relic, just to make it clear. But it was me who noticed its power first. I found it in a market down in the underworld when I was passing by a city. The vendor himself didn't know what it was and couldn't find a use for it, so he was selling it. When I asked where he found the Relic, I went to the same location and explored it. There were some ancient ruins in that place, and I ultimately bumped into a Jade Slip."

"That Jade Slip was quite weird. That one was completely red instead of the normal Green Color in normal Jade Slips. As soon as I tried to examine its contents, it crumbled into dust, but the information was sent into my mind," Kafan recounted the story. "However, there was truly pretty much no information in it. All it had was a description of how to create a Living Soul Devil and an explanation regarding the Underworld Relic, about how the Relic was capable of using powerful sources of energy to increase the overall power of all Devil Races near it."