Chapter 233: Soulless Mystery
’Another day, another wretched soul for my collection!’
A week after checking out the area the Night Temple used to be, Sunny was sneaking through the shadows of Kravax. He had checked the apartment complex he used to recieve any messages from Constance, and it looked like another sorry fellow got caught in her grasp. After a quick beheading — he dragged out the fight a little for the viewers — he went back to the apartment complex to feed Ghastly Hunger.
Throwing the corpse — and the detached head — in the same spot he had devoured Kurt’s soul, Sunny activated Ghastly Hunger. Immediately, a maw filled with rows of jagged teeth, along with a crimson, bloodthirsty eye appeared. A moment later, an intangible, transparent image of the man he killed floated above the corpse.
Without any input from Sunny himself, Ghastly Hunger seemed to bloat and inflate to an illogical size as it tried to consume the soul in a single bite. The soul itself seemed to be struggling, but with a quick inhale, Ghastly Hunger fully swallowed it’s meal.
Unlike last time, the soul wasn’t rapidly dissolving into nothingness. Sunny figured that it had to do with how Saint had eaten Kurt’s shadow. The shadow of the lunatic he had just killed still remained in his Soul Sea.
Actually, this caused Sunny to frown as he began to ponder the mechanics of souls and shadows. Common knowledge said that souls were destroyed immediately upon death. This was information gleaned from Nightmares, remnants in the Dream Realm, and even Awakened who had Aspects related to the soul.
However, Shadow God had supposedly created death. That meant that shadows had to be involved with death, which also meant they were indirectly involved with souls. Suddenly, Sunny regretted not looking into the souls of the creatures he killed.
Whatever he killed had it’s shadow added to his Soul Sea. The destruction of one of those shadows seemed to mean the rapid disintegration of that being’s soul. But shouldn’t the soul already be destroyed at the moment of death? At that point, Ghastly Hunger would have no uses.
Sunny sighed. He reminded himself to use the enhanced ability of Blood Weave to check the next time he killed something.
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Ice cream sandwiches.