His first reaction after touching the stele was to shudder as he muttered to himself,
"How cold!"
The next moment, his consciousness was sucked into the stele before he even had time to process what was happening to him. If he had been in a hostile environment, this inexplicable phenomenon could have cost him his life.
Luckily for him, they were safe in Lodunvals, but with his wary nature he preferred not to dilly-dally here. The sooner he received his Soul Class, the sooner he could integrate with the natives of this world to get information.
As he tried to make sense of the strange feedback his mind was sending him, the force pulling his soul abruptly disappeared, giving his consciousness the illusion of being in an elevator that had just stopped at its destination.