The day everything changed
The year is 2057, the exact same year said to be when Earth would get to the top of this circle of evolution based on the theories formed by a famous artist also known, for some, as the father of spiritism.
In reality, this year humans proved the existence of souls. It was proved the difference between soul and conscience.
Apparently, the soul allows us to reincarnate, and through experiences, we can strengthen our conscience and allow us even reborn into more complex beings.
For example, a plant reincarnates countless times in order to sharpen its conscience enough to be reborn as an insect, which reincarnates countless and can be reborn as a small animal, and so on.
Based on this new knowledge they could create technologies that could affect the soul itself to create vivid experiences for the population without affecting their real bodies.
For example, long-term studies which the limitations of our real bodies that make us need to sleep and create distraction with hormones can't; Soldiers training for difficult situations in the warzone; And more realistic VR games.
In the middle of an all-white room, is a young man, wearing super expensive clothes, sitting in a golden chair. There are piles of paper around him and projections of different classes in each corner of the room.
This bro is Jay Windgarden, from one of the wealthiest families in Europe, the Windgarden family.
Jay always used his money to surround himself with soul-binding technologies, which allow the soul to live in the body and be projected into another realm.
Right now, he is using it to study for his final exams in electric engineering and business.
'I've been here for five days already, but I am almost done. I just wanna end it fast and go play some video games...'
One hour later, Jay closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He finally finished his studies.
"Code of commander 20395678," Jay said out of nowhere.
"Code confirmed, whats your orders Jay?" A female voice sounded in the all-white room.
"Take me to the beta game, RPG Soul-Bidding"
"Order confirmed, taking Jay to RPG Soul-Bidding..."
Jay's starts to get blurry when the voice sounds again.
"Error, RPG Soul-Bidding is being deleted from soul-bidding internet..."
"Canceling transference..."
"Error! Transference cannot be canceled due to the device's malfunctioning"
'What the fuck is happening? If the game was deleted why does my vision continue to get blurry?' Jay thought.
"Loading emergency transference back to body" The voice sounded again.
Jay then gets to his knees with his hand on his head feeling too much pain, a headache.
"Haaaa my fucking god! Stop this shit ring now!" Jay screams in pain.
"Order received, Stoping emergency transference"
'What the fuck? I did not connect as the commander to make orders!' Jay thought while the pain in his head stopped.
'Is it the malfunction of the device?'
"All services have been ended, shutting down the device..."
"Wait, NO! For god's sake, stop the....." Jay's words were interrupted.
...
Meanwhile in Jay's room, a common boys' room, with a bed, a television some sports posters on the wall, and a picture of his parents beside his bad.
There is also a capsule, with vivid blue and red light emanating from within. Jay's real body was also inside.
Suddenly the capsule lights turned off and a strange energy, invisible to the naked eye is thrown away from the capsule at an incredible speed. It is Jay's soul.
Jay's soul passes through the orbit and continues at an incredible speed.
...
On a planet on the other side of the universe, much bigger than Earth, Jay's soul landed in the middle of a vast desert.
Right now, Jay's soul wasn't being modeled by the previous device from Earth, so it had the appearance of a small cloud around one-meter square in size.
'Where am I? What just happened?' Jay thought.
'The device turned off with my soul inside, I should be dead or trapped inside, right?'
'Since I'm not dead, I should be trapped inside... But why am I in a desert?'
Since Jay is not in a meat body, his senses are extremely limited. But, he still can see and hear a bit as a remaining extinct soul developed by living in a human body for so long.
He can hear only loud sounds and see very blurry. But enough to recognize his surroundings.
[Word system connecting with the new foreign entity...]
a robotic voice sounded in Jay's head and a blue screen appeared in front of his current point of view with those words.
[Word system connected]
[Please access your information in your status system for confirmation]
'Status System?'
[Connection confirmed! Welcome to Ozquiris]
[ -* Status System *-
Name: ???
-PhysicalAttributes-
Strength: 0
Endurance: 0
Agility: 0
senses: 1
-EnergeticAttributes-
Mana: 0
Spiritual power: 0
Soul power: 20
]
'It seems like videogames and those systems novels...'
'And 'Ozquiris'... Is it the name of the current planet?'
'That stats may be related to my form currently...'
'How do I have a physical attribute if I do not have a physical form?'
'And my soul power... wait a minute...'
[Soul power: 19]
'???'
Jay turned really confused, But soon enough he got a realization that made his confusion turn into despair.
'If I am a soul right now, if the soul power gets 0, am I going to disappear from existence?'
Jay looks around and sees absolutely nothing except sand. But a moment of concentration made him have a slight hope.
[Soul power: 18]
'Is it a cactus in front? It's too blurry to be sure...'
'What should I do?'
Jay could not even move himself. Actually, he simply doesn't know how.
'I need to get a physical body as soon as possible! That cactus is my only option. I hope it is a cactus...'
He then started to concentrate to figure out how to move.
[Soul power: 17]
'Soul is being described as 'Soul power' in the Status System and in the EnergeticAtributes, right?'
[Soul power: 16]
'Doesn't that mean that the soul is a kind of energy that can be controlled to empower?'
[Soul power: 15]
'But, it may consume even more soul power, making my death come quicker...'
'But if I do nothing I will die anyway...'
[Soul power: 14]
Jay then concentrates to his fullest to try to manipulate himself to increase his mobility.
[Soul power: 13]
[Soul power: 3]
[Agility: 1]
'I got it! Move fast!'
However, his agility was only 1, he could not move fast...
Jay moves extremely slowly in de direction of the blurry green that he hopes to be a cactus.
[Soul power: 2]
Jay got near enough to recognize the blurry green.
'Thank god! It really is a cactus!'
Jay continued to move to it as fast as he could.
His speed was similar to a turtle. In fact, even a turtle could move a bit faster.
[Soul power: 1]
'I'm almost there!'
Jay's soul then finally got the cactus and vigorously inserted his soul into the cactus cell.
He had experienced the process of having his soul back into his body hundreds of times on Earth.
Even though back then he had the assistance of the device, the feeling of the process was memorable. He only used the soul power as a means to assimilate himself into the cactus.
He leaned back on Earth that the sense of existence comes from the conscious and the soul is a container that is used as a means to keep the consciousness after death.
So he spent the last soul power he had to assimilate himself with the cactus, which could be used as the container to keep his consciousness.
'succeed'
'wait, I feel so sleepy.'
'Am I being rejected by the cactus? Why?'
Jay uses all his vigor to resist his rejection when he remembers something.
'Why didn't I think about it? The cactus still has a soul himself!'
'Thank god, his conscience is still badly developed, which gives me some advantage.'
'I may be able to hold for a while then...'
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-* Status System *-
Name: ???
-PhysicalAttributes-
Strength: 0
Endurance: 5
Agility: 0
senses: 0
-EnergeticAttributes-
Mana: 0
Spiritual power: 0
Soul power: 0