As the pale, empty sphere, once resembling the demon Velmoryn, floated in front of me, I couldn’t help but notice how similar it was to Roy’s cracked core. Although this one wasn’t broken and didn’t need to be repaired either.
I moved the empty core closer to Orrvyn’s manifestation and stopped it right beside Roy’s core. Now, they looked nothing alike. One was larger and bright crimson, while the other was smaller and dead.
Suddenly, as I stared at the two cores, I realized there were two soulless cores in my realm. Just two. Where were the rest?
I hadn’t given it much thought before. At first, I assumed the souls of dead velmoryns didn’t reach me because of my incomplete Authority. Then, after I completed it, there simply hadn’t been any deaths. With so few Velmoryns, it wouldn’t be surprising if years passed before one died.
But now that I was the sole and absolute ruler of the velmoryn domain, and had just seen several dead velmoryns on the battlefield, why weren’t their soul cores in my realm? Unlike this demon velmoryn, their stars had been tethered to Orrvyn before, but after they died, those stars disappeared.
Why had only two remained? And more importantly, why these two specifically?
Guidance.
[Mortals After Death]
Unlike immortal beings, mortals whose souls are bound to a deity may enter that god’s kingdom after death and exist there indefinitely in a form shaped by the god’s will.
If a soul is not claimed by any deity, it will either dissipate and pass its essence to the world, or be reborn if specific conditions are met.
You possess complete Authority over the souls of your believers, but you have not yet established a dwelling for their eternal existence—your current Rank is insufficient.
Souls that fall under your Authority cannot be claimed by other gods. However, until a proper domain for the dead is created, those souls will dissipate and pass their essence to the world.