10 Chapter 9 – Answers, Memories…

"As for why you do not have knowledge of this place, this has to do with who you are…"

"You are a newborn soul, without a body, your memories are sealed. However, the essential knowledge necessary for your survival and growth is inputted into your soul. This knowledge is tailored to your world. Hence, you do not understand things here because it is not your world."

"You will gain access to your memories and further knowledge in the future. But I recommend that at that point, you accept the memories at a gradual pace, so it does not shape your personality. I will explain this further later..."

"Also, it would be unwise to intake a lot of memories and knowledge that is not formed based on your own experience. As it will overload your soul. Limited information can be stored in your soul form, as you grow along with your soul, you can accept more memories." He had repeated this statement twice in two distinct ways, clearly highlighting the importance of not overloading the soul and the memories' effect on his personality. He was thankful for this essential information. As he did not want any external factors shaping his character and decision making.

The Voice was quiet for a while to let the dark soul digest the information.

After giving the dark soul enough time for the information to sink in, he continued.

"As for why you are here? That is because I summoned you here, I wanted to evaluate you and gave you a gift."

"I know you will have many more questions, but before that, you need to complete something."

"The place you will go to is one that is connected to your sealed memories."

He continued, "This has been delayed long enough, close your eyes and imagine that dark vortex again in your mind."

Not sure why, but the dark soul followed the instructions. He did not sense any malice from the Voice, and that was more than enough for him to listen to the magnetic Voice.

Closing his eyes, he slowly started to imagine the dark vortex, and his consciousness slowly drifted in a dreamy sort of state.

There he saw a world covered by fog and he saw strange symbols at the door, giving him a sense of melancholy. He mutters in an inaudible voice, "orphanage" recognizing one of the symbols at the door. Here, he remembered nothing of how he got here, only a sense of curiosity.

He had suddenly felt sadness and a sense of melancholy from the door. His emotion gave birth to curiosity and attracted him to the door, there was a calling to connect and remember.

Lifelessly, he started to move closer towards that door.

Then a sudden The Voice woke him up.

It was the Majestic-Voice that he conversed with and sensed a connection to. He said in a gentle tone, "break a small piece of your soul and anchor it here." Followed by an explanation of how to make a soul connection.

The connection was a simple two-step process.

The first step is cutting a small strand of one's own soul. This step would be painful, but it is a quick pain and not a long-lasting one. Then one would need to gain enough control of the soul strand to move it around based on one's own desire.

For a one-sided connection, the second step is to anchor the soul into the desired location.

If it is successful, the place would not reject the soul strand and let it successfully anchor and mend. Failing to anchor would symbolize failure.

If it is a two-sided connection, the two soul strand form a loop around one another.

Upon a succeeding, the loops would form a knot, and slowly the two strands would mend and become one.

The dark soul listened to the Voice and did as he was told. He broke apart a small strand of his soul and anchored it at the orphanage door. The sharp pain that came with breaking his soul made him lucid enough to remember how he got here.

Remembering that enticing feeling that mindlessly led him to the orphanage door made him experience fear. He had a feeling if he continued uninterrupted on that path perhaps he would be lost only to never come out of it. Inwardly, he was thankful to the Voice, preventing him from a potential disaster.

His soul slowly extended, and the tip of it turned sharp and dug deep into the orphanage door. A mental connection was formed between the dark soul and an enormous place.

This place was like a giant tree with lots of branches. Each branch was a cluster of specific knowledge and its complementary memories.

All of these knowledge branches of the giant tree would output a small threadlike connection that would spin around the other knowledge branches' threads forming, a sort of rope.

This rope created by the memory tree was connected to the dark soul's soul-strand. Once the connection stabilized a weird thing happened to it, the connecting line formed by the soul strengthened and the line transformed into a sort of ethereal connection.

This new connection line was invisible, firm and unbreakable, making it more stable.

After the establishment of the connection, the knowledge and memory location was extending its reach, wanting to send knowledge and memories. These pieces of information gave a sense of closeness.

It was as if, it was something essential, and an anxious feeling was formed in the dark soul. He wanted to know all of these vital pieces of information immediately.

The location sensed the approval from the dark soul and was about to send memories and knowledge. When the dark soul heard the voice again, "do not intake any information just yet. You will have a lot of opportunities in the future."

Getting awakened by the voice, the dark soul noticed its mental fortitude was extremely low. He had been in a stupor many times, and his mindset is affected by temptations easily.

He finally calmed down from the enticement of the memories, and he noticed that his mental fortitude and soul was slowly getting stronger the more he resisted accepting the memories. This was a sort of resistance training.

This strengthening was very minuscule. But if it remained like this for a long time, this would be a sizable improvement to his soul and mental fortitude. Especially when all he has to do is resist memories.

Once he got a handle of this situation. Everything changed back, and the fog lifted.

Then suddenly a red streak of light that was flying extremely fast came and stabbed into his soul and sank into him.

The soul was confused at this point, and the red object did not give him enough time to react.

Quickly he realized what happened he thought, "I just got stabbed!?!?" He tried to analyze his soul, but he could not find out any wounds or cuts. He was not sure how a soul wound would look. Thus, he was searching in the blind hoping to find a clue.

What remained was a heated pain that he felt everywhere.

He had his vigilance high at this moment, and then he saw three bright lights with unique energy signatures were coming for him.

He wanted to dodge, but he could not move.

The energies slowed down when they reached close to him. But they were still fast enough to get into his soul without obstruction.

One by one, they sank into the soul, they went inside without any hindrances.

This made the dark soul anxious and afraid of what is happening and what is sinking to his soul.

After the first energy sank into the soul, it formed a round white circle on the left side of the soul. The colour and energy signature of the newly-formed-circle was similar to the first unique energy that sank into him.

Then the second energy sank in, followed by the formation of a circle on the right side of his soul. It was a multi-coloured circle resembling a barn of yarn. This circle had similar colours and patterns as the second unique energy that sank into him.

Finally, the last energy sank in, and it formed a unique shape in the soul, it was two conjoined circles forming a Venn-diagram-shaped mark at the centre of his soul.

The conjoined circles were made of two unique energies, one was dark and cracked, and the other would disintegrate and reappear shortly after. The energy signature of the two sides was unique. However, the area where they overlap gave off a similar feel to the energy that sank into the soul. Similarly, the intersected area showed the same colour as the energy that entered: spotted grey.

The pain intensified on the soul as the three energies sank, and the creation of the circles in the soul brought the soul into extreme agony.

After the conjoined circles were formed, the dark soul managed to catch his breath, "Heeeaa Heeea."

He felt disoriented and confused. He had no indication of what was happening.

He felt like he was targeted or fell into a torturous trap. The pain did not even allow him to get his bearing enough to fully understand what was happening.

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