3 Months [1]

When Damien exited his spiritual world, he immediately entered meditation to refine the remnant spiritual energy left by the old man's will.

'I had hypothesized that something like this was possible, but I never thought I could actually put it into reality.'

When he thought about it, he figured that this must be a relatively unique circumstance. That old man's soul had been degraded to the point where it wasn't even a soul anymore. It was just a remnant will.

And as a will, it was basically a bundle of spiritual energy that held a sliver of consciousness. What he had done was just eliminate that consciousness and take control of the ownerless spiritual energy.

If the old man still had a remnant soul remaining, he probably wouldn't be able to do the same thing. After all, a soul was far more complicated than anything he could fathom at the moment. Even his own soul injury had yet to heal.