EFB Chapter 191: Prince of Soul
Chapter 191: Prince of Soul
[Shadow Guardian Formation is reacting with Transcension, Primal Spiritualization, and (????)]
[Shadow Guardian Formation has mutated]
[Shadow Guardian Formation has become Shadow Force]
[You have naturally awakened Shadow Aura]
- Shadow Force: Your shadow may consume the shadow of others. You could summon the shadows you consumed alongside your original shadow. Your controlled shadows could transform into anything you imagine. The more shadows you consume, the more (????) is effective.
- Shadow Aura: You may turn into a shadow. You have the power of a shadow. You can affect the feeling and mind of others.
’Shadow Force... What is even this power?’
[CARTER HAYES EQUIPPED]
Carter returned to himself after quite a while.
[Carter Hayes gained Shadow Force and Shadow Aura]
[Carter Hayes has naturally awakened Descension]
[HOST gained Descension (Rank: Unknown; Star: 10)]
Shrine Maiden’s Transcension was warm, encompassing, absolute power of manipulating the reality.
Carter’s Descension was the opposite. It was demanding, hungry, and aggressive. It wasn’t even in the same category of enlightenment.
Primal Spiritualization looked deep inside and made peace with your animalistic. Transcension looked above and wished to become something more than you originally were.
Descension didn’t want to change. It didn’t want to look for enlightenment. Descension said I am enough and I am above all.
Carter had a dark sinister aura around him. It formed into tentacles and began to thwart at the surrounding objects.
"Hmmm." With one single change in tone, the dark aura calmed down and retreated, forming a faint black aura similar to Adrenaline’s red aura.
His shadow stood up and faced Carter. With his mind, the Shadow transformed without restriction. It could become anything and anyone. It wasn’t just a shape change either but the shadow literally became that person or that thing.
The shadow was Tenmaru in Shingo Kingdom. Then it changed to Samuel Dragovic in Hexilia. Then it changed to Charles, the man that was in the same building at the moment.
Carter looked down at its feet. The shadow was a shadow so it had no shadow. Carter could fool many people with this but they would eventually figure out the difference.
’I wonder...’
The dark aura wrapped around Carter and he changed into a hawk and flew out of the window.
In this sick city, there was a lot of dying people and scumbags around. Carter noticed a good-for-nothing thief had just climbed out of the window of a rather luxurious house.
’You should be good.’
Carter appeared behind him and knocked the thief out. He dragged the thief to a secluded alley and began his experiment.
Carter’s Shadow moved but Carter himself stayed still. In the pavement, the shadow of the thief woke up like a sentient being. It was afraid and it tried to fight off Carter’s Shadow.
But his shadow enlarged and became an unspeakable horror. It consumed the thief’s shadow.
And Carter felt it. He had finally understood his power.
A shadow wasn’t just a shadow. It was their soul.
’How? But more importantly, why? Why does the shadow is the soul? Or does the power of my abilities make the shadow into the soul?’
The thief was still the thief, physically. But his soul was no more.
To experiment further, Carter transformed into a random plain looking NPC and slapped the thief awake.
"Hey, you alright?" Carter said.
The thief woke up. He murmured incomprehensible words before standing up.
The man wasn’t a zombie. But he was exactly like a mindless zombie now.
Carter’s shadow spat out the thief’s shadow.
The thief’s shadow belonged to Carter permanently and he could do whatever he liked with it. Even giving back the shadow to the thief.
The shadow reconnected to his feet. The thief regained his mind. But he was forever changed.
After all, his soul was no longer his.
In front of him, he saw an unspeakable, unimaginable, indescribable being. His thighs trembled in fear and he pissed himself right there.
The thief bowed down and didn’t dare to look at Carter again.
Carter didn’t do anything. He still had the appearance of a random NPC. And yet...
’Let me see if it’s the same without my Shadow Aura.’
Carter retreated the aura completely and hid it away.
"Are you alright, stranger?" Carter said.
"Huh?" The thief looked up in confusion. The eldritch being he saw was no more. In front of him was only a plain ordinary looking gentleman.
"I must have drunk too much."
The thief tried to convince himself but he was still petrified. He turned his back and ran away as quickly as he could.
The thief shadow suddenly climbed up and took over his body.
The thief returned and knelt at Carter.
"My master..." He said.
’Holy Sheesh! This isn’t just possession. This is total domination!’
Carter finally understood the extent of his new powers. This Descension Skill was evil. It was the power of a villain. An end game boss that would wipe the entire hero party.
He smirked.
’I did lie that Frankenstein sold his soul to the Prince of Soul. I don’t have any skin to fulfill that role yet. But I have it now.’
Carter left the shadow with the thief and released the control. The thief had helped him so he decided to repay in kind. His soul stayed with him.
The dark aura wrapped around Carter and changed him once more.
Dracula was a pale man with dark hair and an exquisite style of clothing. He was a gentleman through and through. He was the Prince of Blood.
The Prince of Soul needed to be different. He’s calm. He talked slow. His gaze pierced into you like he knew everything about you. He was detached from everything and he was a bore god that found the struggle of human amusing in his long years of existence.
Everything was beneath him.
The dark aura retreated and showed the new look that Carter had chosen for himself.
A modern well-tailored suit with only a dark blazer outside and no shirt inside, showing the opening to his chest. His hair was dark and glowed like the night, different from the matte black of Dracula. His eyes had no white, only a deep color of black. And on his head were two sinister goat horn.
And from that day, Satan was born.