I Became a Soul Eater

I knew it was an area full of starving people. Still, it is a different story to receive what you see through the eyes of an alter ego and to go and experience it yourself. Because the alter ego conveys only sight and hearing.

The biggest difference when you come and see it in person is the sense of smell. A similar smell can be found in battlefields, slums, or places hit by major natural disasters.

It’s the smell of death and despair. This was one of the most serious. As soon as I moved through space, the smell of burning corpses stung my nose. This is not burning a corpse for sanitation.

And in the corner of the back alley where I showed up, a few skinny kids were lighting a fire. Fortunately, this was not a fire made to eat something that humans shouldn’t eat.

“You guys there”

As I approached and spoke to them, the children showed extreme caution. Some even carried sharp stones in their hands.

“Don’t come any closer!”

The boy who seemed to be the captain screamed. It was a trivial threat. If they were to fight against each other, there would be no way they would be able to defeat Germain, a stout adult man.

For children who don’t seem to be surprised if they collapse and die right now, it would be worth risking their lives to be in front of the fire they lit.

“Pass it to me and I will give you this”

In my hand, I was holding a large chunk of well-grilled meat. It was not a comparison from the beginning. The sounds of saliva going out of the children’s mouths could be heard.

“Really?”

“Give me first”

When I put the meat in front of me, the captain was hesitant at first, but then took it as if snatching it from his hand. And without looking back, I started running out of the alley. Soon after grasping the situation, the rest of the children started chasing after the captain child, spitting out swear words.

In the back alley that was empty at the moment, only the fire the children had lit was left. And there was a small, fragile being lying in front of a campfire.

He hugged and healed a being with a dangerous soul that seemed to disappear at any moment. A little vitality returned to the limp body. Once the hurdle is over. But it seemed difficult to do anything right now.

With the little black kitten in my arms, I went back to Merlin. Yes. I chose Bastet before waking Zurvan or any other god.

As far as I know, I have found a god who is most benevolent to humans and who can give me the most appropriate advice for my current situation.

If I revive Zurvan first, but if Zurvan’s reaction is different from what I thought, or if he reacts negatively to me, then everything is in vain. Of course, it’s not very likely, but I hope there isn’t even a chance.

The time in the phase dimension was different, so the time I was out was not long. However, for the two remaining, it may have felt like an eternity.

Merlin and Kristian, who were still trying to figure out the area where the phased portal appeared by calculating many variables, looked at me with corpse-like eyes. Their gaze was, of course, fixed on the small creature sleeping in my arms.

“I suddenly asked where I was going, what was that?”

“What is a cat?”

“You know that, so why did you bring it?”

“It’s like a key that will solve everything. If I’m giving you the good news, you can stop doing that. I just found the place and looked around.”

Merlin threw away the papers he was holding and hurrahed as he jumped backwards while Christian charged at me with the momentum to kill me.

“You went in there? Why didn’t you call me?”

“Calm down, it wouldn’t have been so nice if you had gone.”

I lightly dodged and calmed Christian, who rushed at me, and explained what I saw in it, starting with finding the Viking’s corpse. He didn’t say anything about the tablet. For some reason, I had the feeling that I shouldn’t have put it in my mouth.

Should I say it was his coercion? It was Mnemosyne and other gods who arranged the tablet, but it was he who allowed it. He would not have been unaware that the gods were doing such work.

When Christian heard how Mnemosyne’s paradise had changed, he was so disheartened to the point of shedding tears, and when he was told that Mnemosyne’s paradise had completely disappeared, he was shocked and lay down.

Merlin fell asleep and did not wake up in the same state as if he was going to fall asleep.

Merlin and Christian lived a very long time. In fact, I even wondered a little how he was keeping his spirits up.

When the two of them lay down like that and couldn’t get up, I started preparing to bring Bastet back to life.

I started fattening the little cat, who was not yet Bastet but a bowl that could become Bastet, by feeding and putting her to sleep.

The near-death kitten started to follow me like a master as I fed and provided a good place to sleep.

Several weeks passed like that. As soon as Merlin woke up, he went out and never came back, saying he was going to work for the Freemasons, which had been overdue. Of course, I also did work, but it seemed that the time to meet the lovers I hadn’t met in the meantime was longer.

Kristian managed to get up and get up, but he did not fully recover. The time I spent sitting blankly increased.

The kitten grew up under Tuna’s protection and now has gained more weight than a normal cat. The time has come to resurrect Bastet.

The work itself is not difficult. Because it contains all the information obtained from the tablet.

The cat in front of me is a normal kitten physically and spiritually. But this cat is a bowl.

The way to find and recognize the bowl is the information passed from the tablet. There is only one bowl that fits. Fortunately, it doesn’t appear randomly.

If this cat had become the children’s meal on the spot, a cat worthy of a bowl would have been reborn somewhere in the area.

First you have to wake up the bowl. As of right now, it’s just a normal cat. There are many ways to awaken the vessel, but the easiest way is to go beyond the limits of what the body can accept.

There might be some training that physically pushes you past your limits, but that takes too long. The method I have chosen is to inject energy beyond what the body can tolerate.

If you did that to a normal cat, it would explode like a balloon and die, but this is a bowl. Surprisingly, there is a proverb in this world that comes out of breaking a bowl. I don’t know if this has happened in the past, but the meaning is similar.

I grabbed the cat and started injecting energy slowly. At first, the calm cat struggled with a strange feeling, but couldn’t let go.

The cat in my hand swelled up as if it were about to burst. Then, like a deflated balloon, it shrank in an instant and began to suck up the energy in my body with tremendous force.

In the first place, the amount of energy absorbed was not threatening, perhaps because the body was small, so I took the energy away without hesitation. This seems to be something to think about later when reviving a vessel that dwells in a human body.

As the energy was absorbed, the cat’s body began to heat up. It wasn’t giving off heat, but the cat’s body started to glow.

As I watched the process of the black cat transforming into a cat of light, I felt that the body of the cat was slowly disappearing. Eventually, the body completely dissipated and the light disappeared. It still looked like a black cat to the naked eye, but it was no longer just a cat.

[Who the hell are you?]

It was the voice of Bastet I knew. But this is not the Bastet I know.

“My name is Germain Akasha.”

[Why did you wake me up?]

“Would you please wait a moment?”

I pulled out the records and sorted out the common parts and the parts about Bastet from the information transferred from the tablet. I didn’t include the memory of Bastet I met in the other world. The Bastet in front of me is a completely different being. Even if I transfer my memories, I cannot become the same existence.

I brought the records to Bastet’s body.

“Knowledge Transfer”

Just like Utuka did, Bastet’s body froze for a moment. However, it did not last long because Utukawa had a different amount of transferable knowledge.

[understood.]

Should I say God? Bastet, who had received the transfer of knowledge, accepted the situation without any embarrassment.

[But why did you wake me up first? Isn’t it first to wake up other gods?]

“I know the other Bastet.”

[I see. You knew another me

“If it’s not rude, may I ask for advice?”

[What do you want?]

“May I go ahead with the plan that Mnemosyne and the others have designed?”

Bastet’s tail moved back and forth at my question. It was also a question that Bastet could not easily answer. I had that kind of trouble too, so I saved Bastet first to get advice.

[They still don’t understand why they were punished.]

According to the knowledge transferred from the tablet, this world called Earth was a kind of prison for the gods.

This was a world where nothing existed. Many gods thrown into that world of nothingness had to understand his mind.

In the world of nothingness, he created matter and created and developed life. However, due to mistakes, most of the creatures created so far have gone extinct a couple of times.

Gods who could not endure the process were destroyed, and there were also gods who died fighting over the direction of development.

And human beings, who can be said to be the most outstanding of God’s creations, were created. The gods loved humans. Humans loved by the gods began to evolve at a rapid pace.

With human prosperity, the world began to develop rapidly. The gods were delighted with the activities of the humans.

Thanks to human activity, the gods tried to further develop this world in their own way. However, the directions were different, and after fighting and negotiations, the gods decided to share their territory.

And each started to develop his district in a different way. In the meantime, the gods who did not receive their territories attacked the gods who had territories to gain their territories and took away their territories.

I wondered if that balance would be maintained. But their clash was foreseeable. As civilization developed, humans wanted more wealth and territory, which meant expansion.

A war broke out between humans, and the gods fought to protect the humans they guarded.

At first it ended in a small war, but later a great war broke out in which several great civilizations collided.

It was a great war to the extent that the battle of the gods had a great impact on the earth, the world of humans. Many gods perished or were seriously injured during the war.

At that time, the small gods, who had not had a territory and had been in the background, stepped forward and ruled over humans. And it broke down all the boundaries of the district.

And again, a great war began to break out in the human world. Again, the small gods who occupied the world urged humans rather than fight directly.

Many people died because of it. Then, this time, the gods who loved humans stepped in to stop it. And again the war of the gods broke out. The war escalated out of control.

Gaia, who was the representative of the gods who came down here and had the role of mediator, finally gave up mediation.

There is information that Gaia asked him for something right before the end, but it is not certain. I don’t know exactly what was requested or what was said.

And finally, He descended on Earth. Without a word, He punished all the gods on Earth.