Rise of The Anti God (Web Novel)
chapter-525

"Hey! What happened to him? I can't feel any undulations in his soul….it's like his soul has frozen up!" Kalypso couldn't help but panic since Damien had completely stopped moving, his expression frozen. If she didn't know any better, she would have thought that his soul was destroyed and what was left behind was just an empty shell.

"It's Yohr's Origin Seed's self-defense mechanism that got triggered…A soul manifestation from within. That sly, cunning thing was too cautious, but I didn't think that it would still get triggered if he willingly gave it. It seemed as if he didn't even trust himself. What a bastard…" Luna had known about this mechanism, but she didn't pay it any mind since she was going to make Yohr give it away 'willingly', but only now she realized that it was a mistake to not have taken the extra effort to save some energy.

"So you knew about it! You…" Kalypso felt anger seething through her nerves, but she knew now was not the time to play the blame game, and even if she did that, Luna would have a sound explanation for why she missed that.

"So how can we help him? Tell me something!" She asked Luna for a direct solution to help Damien since as every second passed, it seemed as if Damien's soul plane was becoming less and less active to the point she feared that his soul would go completely cold and dead soon if this continued.

"All we can do is wait…we can't interfere unless you want to destroy the only chance he has against fighting back against Yohr's soul manifestation," Luna said in a serious tone, though inwardly she wondered if Damien would be able to overcome the soul manifestation of a True God.

In other words, Damien's soul would be, in a way facing off against the soul of Yohr, an embodiment of himself.

"So…he is all alone again…" Kalypso mumbled in a sad and disappointed tone, making Luna briefly look at her, wondering why she mentioned 'again' and thought that she must have momentarily remembered about her previous master.

She had no idea why but she felt bad seeing Kalypso's saddened look and said, "You don't have to worry…Even if Yohr's soul manifestation is inside Damien's soul, its soul power wouldn't be much higher than Damien's since it exists in Damien's soul plane right now and not his own. Self-defense mechanisms are meant to get activated when somebody invades our souls. Only then would our soul manifestations would be able to fight back with full power. So it is not like something bad will definitely happen to Damien. He still has some chance if his soul is strong enough to overpower a true god's soul manifestation. That is the one and only challenge he has to overcome."

Kalypso's expression slightly relaxed, feeling a bit reassured by Luna's words, and thought that this supreme goddess indeed had her good moments.

Even if Luna seemed calm on the outside and even tried to reassure Kalypso, inwardly, she had never felt more anxious. Even if Damien died now, she wouldn't disappear or have her soul dissipate away since she had recently merged with her second soul shard, granting her more time to sustain herself even without a suitable soul plane to latch onto, though she would still have to wander and find a soul as perfect and suitable as Damien's to house her own soul.

But even if eventually she might be able to find one such soul, Luna still didn't want anything bad to happen to Damien since she felt as if her life wouldn't be the same anymore without him. Strangely, she was learning so many things through this mortal and wanted to learn more and see why this mortal seemed so interesting to her.

Meanwhile, inside Damien's soul plane, Yohr's soul manifestation was looking down at Damien's frozen soul body in contempt. Just like how one has a physical body, the soul has its own body as well, which someone like Damien can easily manifest within his soul or even converse with those staying inside his soul like Luna, Kalypso, and sometimes even Valentina, just like in the real world.

But the soul body was not some fancy function, but the embodiment of one's consciousness, and right now, Yohr was very close to freezing Damien's entire soul body, and if it was to get destroyed, then Damien could be technically considered dead.

"Ugh…this chilling pain…why can't I feel anything…" Damien was completely surrounded by darkness, and all he could feel was the sharp stinging sensation of coldness all over his body.

"No…Yohr…I can't let him kill me…I have to get up…Damn!" Damien was feeling increasingly frustrated since he could feel that he was this close to having his entire soul body getting frozen and shattered.

With his iron will, he borrowed the power of his fire elemental seed to warm himself up, which drastically slowed down the process of his soul body getting frozen up. But his fire elemental seed was not even his dominant one. Thus it was not enough to completely stop Yohr's soul manifestation from freezing him up and could only slow him down.

"Haha, how long will you struggle like an ant? Give up while I am still kind," Yohr's sinister laugh echoed inside Damien's mind, making him grit his teeth in rage, feeling that even after his 'death', this fucker still was able to get to him like this.

Damien knew that the Yohr that spoke just now was not the true Yohr, but a mere remnant formed out of his consciousness in the past. Still, it was a dangerous piece of a remnant that could destroy everything if it had its way.

"Wait a minute…my death essence should still be enveloping his Origin Seed…then his soul manifestation should also contain the same…" Damien suddenly realized a fact, and the despair he was feeling immediately disappeared as he called out in his mind, "Shackles of Death!"