Ending, A new Trap for an Enemy

Immediately, the form began to establish the likeness of the original Life essence doll of Mrs. Carliste. It was slow, but it was already undergoing restoration. However, if one looked closer, there seemed something…different with it, but the others, including the Dean, did not notice it.

"Restore the broken threads of life, reform the lost soul, establish the karmic threads that was once was, and reform the corporeal body once more!"

At this point, everything was still going smoothly when suddenly, the formed bundle of karmic threads began to shake, and rapidly began to unravel and disintegrate.

"To attempt to restore what has been banished beyond the scope of the universe is a sin," a cold, yet calm voice resounded throughout the magic array, as well as the area in the LEO dimension where the light had penetrated.

Upon the uttering of these words, a cold, overwhelming pressure began to descend on the Dean.

"To attempt to restore what has been punished is a sin," the voice continued, but its intensity was higher than before. It echoed throughout the soul dimension, confusing and scaring the Dean.

He had thought the enemy was of the same level, but the way the voice could already cause a disturbance in the dimension indicated…he was playing against someone beyond his grasp.

However, he continued channeling the spell, while also activating several Karma-related supportive and protective spells.

"Beyond the Karma, restore what was lost, recover what was not originally to be removed, and reveal the identity of the creature behind this fault!"

Immediately, the spell was activated in the soul dimension. Karmic elements at his command, the Dean began to utilize it to guide towards the perpetrator.

However, the moment it was formed and began to move in a certain direction, it froze, before collapsing.

"…To attempt to manipulate the essence of the soul, using the threads of what can be to recreate what one has lost and one that has been, is a sin."

Immediately, the karmic threads and life essence dolls within the dimension area began to fluctuate, as if agitated or excited by something. It had caused several problems with the protective karmic barrier produced.

The Dean, seeing this, began to prepare other supportive karmic spells.

"Activate, [Karmic Repression]! Calm the wildness within the hearts!"

"Activate, [Karmic Solace]! Allow the soul to enter the fortress of solitude!"

"I call upon the threads of Karma to show the path towards the being that desecrates the sanctity of the soul, the one that led my friend into destruction—"

Before he could finish his next mythic-level spell, he was once again interrupted by a force, followed by the cold, overwhelming pressure that descended to the magic array as well as in the area in the soul dimension.

Everyone was surprised before being pushed towards the ground, a few of them spitting out blood. The one who bore the majority of the pressure, the Dean, was still ok, but his face had already turned pale, and it was only his willpower and body that was barely supporting him from collapsing, causing the spell to completely fail.

The half-cast mythic spell was known as [Embrace of Karma], allowing it to protect the soul, while searching for its target through karmic connection.

The spell had already begun and covered the nascent life essence doll of Mrs. Carliste, while also tracing the related karmic lines.

He was still under the impression that he could delay the counter-spell of the person that made Mrs. Carliste disappear forever, allowing her to fully reform her back as well as the physical body in material dimension.

However, the prepared program by Xander, did not care about these things and continued to execute spell after spell.

"I call upon the weaver of Fate, the arbiter of intelligent soul, the one who controls the Threads and Weaves the Life of All."

"Clotho."

"Break the abomination and restore the sea to its calmness!"

Upon these words, the sea trembled.

Everyone in the room once again experienced double the pressure, to the point 3 of them fainted while the Dean had to kneel down.

However, the latter continued casting supplementary spells, targeting the members of the team and himself, as well as the life essence doll.

However, it was all for naught.

The seas of the soul dimension churned, crashing upon each other, forming the outline of an arm.

Within seconds, the arm began to solidify, producing a crystalline, delicate texture, with a hand that covered the skies.

The [Embrace of Karma] was like paper in front of it, and with a movement, the created tracking lines collapsed, the protective barrier around the life essence doll dissolved like sugar meeting water.

A feminine voice sounded out in the hearts of all the members.

"Hmm… ingenious trick, attempting to restore what has been banished beyond the universe by utilizing nascent threads."

"A pity, however, the resulting person won't be the same colleague that you have lost."

"Attempting to create new life is an overestimation of your abilities. The resulting simulacrum is nothing but a monster within a human shell."

The voice giggled as it responded, while at the same time revealing the true form of the life essence doll that they were restoring.

Immediately, it began to turn red as it was dissolving, the sounds of a wild beast mixed with the hissing of a demonic allure began to resound, before being completely destroyed by the hand.

"I have to thank you as well, as I finally found an oversight in my karmic spell. Don't worry, because of the spell, you have now completely given me access to the protected photos and information within that container of yours."

From a feminine voice, it changed to a cold, apathetic voice of a man.

Upon saying those words, the tool used to contain the photos and other items began to shake. The photos inside the sage-ranked tool immediately began to change, visible to everyone in the room, as well as the written documents and materials present. Even the small blood vial glowed before completely disappearing.

The [Thread of Karma] spells utilized the connection of the magic array, the LEO dimension, and the materials inside the sage-ranked tool. The external protection and the karmic protections established did not produce much resistance for the spell to proceed. From there, it infiltrated the space contained in the tool and began to work its power, as well as the remnant, eradicative power of Xander's previous spell.

Time and space within the tool began to tremble and change, the elements began to collapse and reform, and the items inside tainted by karma began to change.

The Dean, in that moment, could not do anything but stare as the contents change and as his own memories began to adjust and modify, completely eradicating the memory of Mrs. Carliste.

Everyone showed the same expression as a pain assaulted their minds, which caused the magic array to fluctuate and the temporary channel into the soul dimension to completely close.

All members, the staff and military outside, and even relevant people who had information about Mrs. Carliste, including her sons and her husband far away from the university, once again fainted.

In less than 10 seconds, the magic array collapsed completely, but did not cause significant damage to the members or to the buildings.

Instead, a large amount of electrical, elemental, and magical energy was drained, and the concentration began to fluctuate.

Not long after, as if something was guiding the situation, the elemental and magic fluctuations calmed down.

…

…

Xander, back at his villa, twisted his hand once again and settled down. He was currently sitting in the living room watching some shows while having his watch on the side, displaying newly-published papers and papers from the Galactic Empire.

He considered the remedial action a success.

It was interesting that the deployed supplementary karmic spells casted by the Dean did protect them… but not entirely. It was still bypassed and completely altered the information about that lady.

Then again, he did supplement [Thread of Karma] the authority of Space-Time origin elements, as well as his nascent Life-Death origin element understanding.

What he found fascinating was how the recreated life essence doll became demonic.

"After all, they used recycled life essence threads from the ocean. It's possible that supreme or higher-level lifeforms may have died but left lingering information. The appearance of the spell was like a second chance for all of them, but the forceful fusion led to the collapse of ego due to the clash of identities, leading to a bestial creature in the body of a human as a result if it successfully formed."

Xander pondered, interested in this development. However, he didn't plan on further exploring this space for now. Maybe when he becomes a demigod, he'll be interested.

"I think this should resolve the problem, unless someone else has control over Life-Death elements or can surpass the bindings of karma. Probably a sage-rank or higher lifeform, maybe?" Xander mused, given that demigods whose souls already transcended to the LIBRA dimension failed to resist it.

Then again, the two dimensions, LEO and LIBRA, do share an intrinsic quality that they can solely contain souls and karmic threads. Nothing else can exist here, except for space and time elements as well.

"However, there seemed to be some 'special' people involved…the karmic modifications completely disappeared the moment it approached them, leaving no visible changes or confusion, as well as no elemental fluctuations."

Someone who can resist the forceful karmic modification and leave no trace…it's probably that mysterious Gold D. Roger or someone who is also blessed with control over the origin elements.

A pity that he could not use it to trace their locations, Xander mused. This was because the karmic modification occurred in the soul plane, instead of the material plane. Even if he traced their location in the soul dimension, he would not know their physical location.

Xander mused a bit, before he continued to watch some shows while also reading some published papers.

After an hour, he received several messages from his classmates, as well as from his new servant, Faykes Valentine.

Faykes was merely updating him about the things he had to do in preparation, such as expanding his influence in the younger generation, his choices for pseudo-spell replacements, information gathering, etc.

It was a detailed update and Xander merely skimmed over it, seeing that there wasn't much important info.

However, upon reaching the end, he saw something that made him squint his eyes.

"…It appears you have been targeted by other parties, as I overheard two of my elders talking about it discreetly in the hallway. The clan is currently investigating the other party, as it may be related to Gold D. Roger," Xander spoke, reading aloud the written report.

"So that was the scurrying mice that kept hovering near me for the past days, huh?"

"What to do, what to do…" Xander muttered, his silver eyes twinkling with murderous intent mixed with mischief.

"System, can you hack the terminals of nearby demigods and take over the server systems?"

[Hacking complete. Access granted].

Upon hearing this in his mind, Xander grinned wildly, as he began to cast magic after magic, and prepare the 'trap' for this annoying thing.

2 weeks was a lot of time to prepare and set the trap.