Chapter 18: Fragmented Souls

Even though the chaotic creatures can be reincarnated after death, their numbers didn't increase. They remained at 100.

If the number of souls does not increase, neither will the number of creatures that can be born. The number of souls was the limiting factor.

However, I need to solve that problem as much as possible. Otherwise, the number of creatures in my domain will remain the same.

That problem was easy to solve. What I needed to do was to split a hundred souls into a thousand pieces each.

With that, the number of souls will increase to a hundred thousand, then split again.

which resulted in the number of souls increasing to a hundred million souls, then splitting them again, and so on and so forth.

At that time, the number of souls wouldn't be a problem anymore, and the problem of a few chaotic creatures would be solved.

I can't do that manually. After all, I can't just do everything in my domain. My domain also needs to work on its own without relying on me.

That was where the role of the rules would bloom. Rules were no different from commands or programs that were given to a robot.

With rules, I don't need to do everything. The rules could do it on my behalf, which made my work countless times easier.

For now, what I needed to do was to add rules to the plane between life and death. That was what I planned.

I will add the rule that was going to split each soul that was going to pass through the bridge into a thousand pieces.

If they were not split, they weren't allowed to pass and go to the underworld.

That plan was feasible, so I will proceed and do it now. I manifested the scroll of rules and then began writing what I planned.

Souls that came from the plane of life would be split into a thousand pieces before they were allowed to pass, and no one was an exception.

With that, the rule of the plane between life and death was completed. All I needed to do was to observe its effect.

In my line of sight, a chaotic creature died, then its soul entered the bridge towards the underworld.

After the soul appeared, it was immediately split into a thousand pieces by an unknown force.

Those fragmented souls entered the underworld. Since I was not ready to develop the chaotic creatures of the underworld, I killed them all.

which caused them to dissipate and eventually be gathered by heaven and hell to experience illusions.

The judgement of heaven and hell upon the fragmented souls was as a whole.

After that, they entered the reincarnation plane through the bridge and were eventually sucked in by one of the six vortexes.

The memories of the souls were also extracted and transferred into the dark star.

Before the souls were transferred into the safe zone of the plane of life, the underworld gave them some kind of memory.

That was the memory I gave to the first chaotic creature ever born.

At this moment, the souls attracted countless cells, which enveloped them till they turned into a ball of cells.

There were a thousand safe zones all around the plane, and each zone was given a soul, which made the 900 safe zones have a soul each.

while the remaining hundred safe zones had two souls each. Suddenly, a thousand balls of cells compressed till they shaped a humanoid creature.

With that, the population of the chaotic creatures increased to 1,100 from 100.

As of the moment, the population of the chaotic creatures was rapidly increasing due to their deaths, and after their souls went to the underworld, I killed them to dissipate, gather, and reincarnate.

10,000

20,000

50,000

Each soul was split into a thousand pieces and reincarnated into 1,000 chaotic creatures.

That was the reason for the rapid increase in the population.

I am afraid that the number of cells can't keep up with the increasing number of souls.

Fortunately, the cells weren't the same souls as before. Although it had only been a few hours.

Due to the assistance of time acceleration, the current cells can now be born in seconds and their numbers are countless.

which caused thousands of safe zones to form a kilometer-long pond of cells. Its appearance was no different from a pond of red blood.

Due to the barrier separating the safe zone from the harsh environment, the cells didn't expand outside of it.

Instead, the safe zone was getting filled up like a bottle of water, which made the thousand safe zones look like a rising pillar of blood.

Even with the help of souls that were reincarnated and attracted countless cells, it didn't help much in reducing the increasing number of cells.

With the increasing number of cells, the size of chaotic creatures was also increasing. from the average size of 1 meter to the size of 100 meters.

Due to that, it reduced the numbers of cells in the safe zone a lot, but not enough. It's not that I want the cells to remain in low numbers.

For me, the more cells the better. But the current capacity of the plane of life has a limit.

The cells can only be produced in the safe zone with a width and length of a kilometer and a height of a million kilometers.

That space might look like a lot, especially its height, but for the cells it was only a matter of time before that was filled up.

I can make it flow outside the safe zone, but it will make the entire plane submerged, which is something I don't want to happen.

After all, I also want the chaotic creatures to create a civilization. Besides, where will they battle? Battle while being submerged by it?

If it was, no one would win, no one would die. Because those were their cells, once they were injured, their cells would immediately heal them.

Unless the cells that were covering the entire plane were annihilated, they wouldn't die.