GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

This soul fire made him become aware of some things about the soul that he was ignorant of. The first thing that he noticed was the outline of the soul imprint. He knew he had it but it has never been so clear and malleable to him.

His soul imprint is like an intangible net through his soul. It remained intact even though most of his soul was burned by the soul fire. He felt it as his soul regenerated that he could change his soul imprint and that of others.

He said in understanding, "This is the soul imprint or psychic engram. It is the engraving of consciousness. It is the foundation of the soul. It is the matrix of the mind."

Then he said in awe, "So the soul is not made of just spiritual matter. There is also an unseen information state that the soul carries. This is marvelous."

His understanding of the soul increased to a level that only the great mother has achieved according to his knowledge. The soul of everyone is made from a spiritual matter that is the same for every being with a soul. This is special because living things come in different forms and are made of different things but their soul is made of the same thing.

Some creatures are physical and others are elemental. The physical living beings are either carbon-based, silicone-based, or based on other properties of matter. The elemental beings also have different forms such as fire-based, or water-based. But every being with a soul has the same spiritual matter as the base for their soul.

The only difference in souls is the psychic engram or the soul imprint. It is like an engraving on the spiritual matter that makes up the soul. Even creatures without souls have a psychic engram engraved on physical matter.

This psychic engram evolves over the course of the life of a living thing due to its memories and experiences. It can be likened to genes in physical beings. It is the spiritual genes that determine the identity of someone. It is the container of memories and It will remain as long as the soul remains.

Rarely is it damaged as it will remain whole even if the soul is injured. But it will disappear completely when the soul shatters. What's most fascinating about it is that just like the physical genes of mortals, and bloodlines of powerful creatures, part of it is also transmitted from parents to offsprings.

Normal people share a little of their psychic engram with their offspring. This inheritance gets lost over time. But immortals are able to keep the inheritance eternal because their soul imprints are immortal. It will remain after their death.

This feature is one of the reasons why Origin gods are truly immortal. Even if their soul shatters, their psychic engram remains. It is then reattached when the existence of the Origin god is restored.

Of course, it is the void universe that restores their existence but it is still something impressive to have an immortal engram. But even immortals don't have a soul fire like Legion-7. Their soul imprint is scattered over their soul and they have no control over it.

"This must be how she made the flames of rebirth. It is a soul flame so it couldn't be copied by those who tried to."

This evolution also made him understand how the great mother was able to create the flames of rebirth, the soul parasites, and soul viruses. It is all because of her evolution and the abilities it granted her.

The great mother was able to tear away a part of her soul and temporarily wipe out its memories and soul imprints. This made it so that it couldn't be rejected at all. Then it will grant her backdoor access to the infected host.

It was how she created many clones of herself and how she stole soul force from him. This is all due to the control that she has over psychic engrams.

Legion-7 has also become capable of doing so. And the entity he wants to infect is the massive spiritual entity overlooking the plane and looking at him with anger.

"I originally wanted to grab and assimilate the child of the plane. But I don't need to search for him like a needle in a haystack anymore. I can just use every living being in the plane as the point of infiltration. Even if I can't get the child of the plane, I will surely be able to get the Will of the plane."

He decided to change his target of attack. He won't look for the child of the plane to use against the Will of the plane anymore. But first, he decided to try and see everything that his soul flame is capable of.

"Let's try Soul Force. Can it fuse with soul flame?"

The answer to that question is yes. The soul flame at the center of his soul didn't reject soul force. It accepted it gladly and they fused. The fusion caused the entire flame to crystalize and stop burning.

The consumption of Origin energy stopped and the pressure on his soul disappeared but Legion-7 wasn't excited. He is nervous and uncertain. After all, he doesn't have any knowledge of what he just did.

He said with slight trepidation, "This had better be good."

Then he said to encourage himself, "It should be good. After all, the great mother wanted my soul force so bad. She was also able to change her flames of rebirth from the soul force she stole from me. So this should be good."

He is afraid that he might have killed the flame so he tried to withdraw the soul force from it but it didn't help. The soul fire had crystalized and refused to burn. But he noticed something that made him elated. The soul force that he withdrew had materialized into a spiritual substance and was burning around his soul.

He asked in disbelief, "So I can bring the flame into the world now?"