Cosmic Ruler - Chapter 193

Chapter 193: Explorer V

Shelly, an energetic girl born into a middle-class family of four, had a fulfilling childhood. Though not lavish, she never felt the absence of anything and had many friends due to her bubbly and cute personality.

However, her life changed the day her spirit awakened. Her spirit, the Book of Souls, was powerful but limited in skills until she killed a being with her own hands. The only skill available to her initially was Soul Ensnare, which she used to capture cute little rabbits.

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Book of Souls

Name: Book of Souls

Type: Spirit

Description: The Book of Souls is a rare and powerful spirit that grants its owner dominion over souls. This spirit is not just a repository of arcane knowledge but also a conduit through which the owner can manipulate, control, and harness the power of souls. The Book of Souls is considered one of the most versatile and potent spirits, capable of both offensive and defensive applications, as well as providing unique utility skills.

Skills:

Soul Recall:

Description: Allows the owner to recall and bind the souls of beings they have killed as servants. These souls retain their abilities and memories from life but are completely loyal to the owner.

Effect: Summons spectral beings to fight, perform tasks, or provide information.

Soul Destruction:

Description: Grants the owner the power to completely annihilate a soul, preventing it from reincarnating or being resurrected.

Effect: Erases the target soul from existence, can only work on soul with lower strength than user.

Soul Heal:

Description: Enables the owner to heal and restore souls, including their own, from spiritual wounds and damage.

Effect: Heals spiritual injuries, removes curses, and restores vitality to both the owner and their spectral servants.

Soul Ensnare:

Description: Enslaving others by charming them, only works on with lower soul strength than owner.

Effect: Can Stores captured souls within the Book of Souls for future use, such as summoning or energy extraction.

Soul Harvest:

Description: Allows the owner to extract and absorb the essence of a captured soul, gaining strength, knowledge, or abilities.

Effect: Enhances the owner’s power, provides new skills or boosts existing ones, and accelerates spiritual growth.

Soul Constructs:

Description: Enables the owner to shape and manifest captured souls into physical constructs.

Effect: Creates weapons, armor, or tools imbued with the power and essence of the souls used, adaptable to different situations.

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For her friends, it was a sign of weakness and inferiority. They constantly showed off their cool-looking spirits like swords and scythes. Unbeknownst to them, every time they showcased their spirits, immense disgust stemmed from within Shelly as she gazed at those spirits. This feeling didn’t come from her but from her spirit. Being vastly superior, it couldn’t entertain the thought of those spirits. The other kids never noticed how their spirits shivered when shown to her.

Her love for life changed from sunny and bright to dark, gloomy, and cloudy. Other girls started passing mean comments to her, while boys treated her like their servant. Though she never tried to control any of them, she silently endured their torment. She found her school bag broken, her clothes painted with weird designs. She wanted to cry and ask what she did to deserve this.

She never used her spirit to bully them, nor did she insult them for having lower-level spirits. So, why were they bullying her? She didn’t understand. She never understood that her condition was close to upper class. With her beauty, she was a source of envy for others. But once her awakened spirit was perceived as lower than theirs, all the emotions they had been hiding came out.

She felt she could no longer have her bright life back until one day…

“Hey! You bastards, don’t you feel ashamed bullying a girl?” A boy came and kicked the hell out of a boy who was bullying her. He stood in front of her and helped her. He was the sun that changed her gloomy life back to a bright one.

His name was Antony, an orphan from an orphanage. From that day, they became friends, went on many adventures, and finally married. She was living her dream life until Antony, whom she trusted the most, drugged her and delivered her to an old demonic cultivator.

He did unimaginable things to her, and her end was as a hideous monster, captivated and raised as a beast. Once again, she vowed that she would submit to the person who saved her.

Shelly sighed as she recalled how, at her lowest point, she made this vow. Part of the reason she was so angry was due to this vow. She thought Aiden was manipulating her by showing false memories and vows.

“But it isn’t anything fake,” she mumbled as she looked at herself. Her soul was bound by an ethereal chain that connected to Aiden, who was sleeping on the bed. It was the sign of her vow, now completed, as Aiden had saved her from that hell.

“Maybe I was blind, or rather, I intentionally ignored it,” Shelly wryly mumbled to herself.

With her spirit awakened, she also received a sort of weird vision, where she could see anyone’s soul. It was more of a side effect of her spirit rather than her spirit skill.

It showed everyone’s soul in different shades: black for bad people, blue for good, and yellow for neutral.

When she first met Antony, he had this purple color. At first, she didn’t understand what this color meant, but later she understood it meant greedy. Antony was exploiting her, but by the time she understood, she was already deeply involved with him, resulting in a tragic future.

Sighing, she thought to herself, “I… am dirty now.” She felt disgusted by herself.

Her vow was to present her body and soul to the one who saved her, but she had already been played by that old demonic cultivator many times. He used her as a yin furnace before turning her into a monster.

She looked at Aiden peacefully sleeping and then looked at herself. Suddenly, she stood up as she saw something impossible…

“But how is this possible?” She looked at herself, inspecting her body. She had lost her virginity, but now she was as pure as jade. Her body still had her primordial yin intact, which meant she had never experienced sex.

“There is no way my primordial yin is still intact after that demonic cultivator harvested my yin essence,” Shelly mumbled, closing her eyes to inspect her body thoroughly. ‘Hmmm, there are traces of law—dark, light, life, and… time!’ Shelly opened her eyes, astonished, and looked at Aiden.

Going near him, she inspected him closely. “He is only a Spirit Lord and not even 10, yet how can he use laws that only immortals can use?” Shocked, she once again inspected him but found that he was indeed only a Spirit Lord.

Shaking her head, she went back and flew out of the house. “Until he wakes up, I should find more about what else happened. Maybe I might find more clues,” she thought.

She was now no longer a saint. Before, she never used her spirit because she found it morally wrong to imprison other souls and rob them of their chance of samsara, but no more.

She would now use it to her full content for herself and for that white-haired kid who saved her.

Recently, she had even used her spirit while carrying Aiden. She took him to an alchemist so that he could heal him, but that old man threatened her with Aiden’s life. Enraged, she killed him and imprisoned his soul. He is now serving Aiden 24/7.

While flying, she looked down and saw a few people attacking a carriage. Given the carriage’s look, it seemed it belonged to someone rich.

Shelly emotionlessly gazed at the scene and then, taking a veil out of her storage ring (the storage ring that once belonged to the Ghost Doctor), she wore it.

“Since God gave me back my pure body and a savior, now this body and face can only be seen by him, only belong to him.”

Shelly then swooped down from the sky and landed on the luxurious carriage roof.

The bandit leader who was sitting on a spirit beast and gazing at his underlings killing the guards frowned seeing the newcomer but then he licked his lips laviciously as he gazed at her.

‘ kekeke what a beauty ‘ he mumbled to himself and then smiling he said to Shelly.

” My lady are you lost why dont we accompany us brothers we will ket you experience heaven, aha hahahaha ”

Hearing him others begin to laugh too, they all greedly looked at Shelly.

Hahahahah

Hahahahaha

” Boss, please leave her intact after playing with her”

” yes, boss we never saw anyone this beautiful, it would be pity if she dies in one round”

” they are right boss, she is to be embraced for many nights to come”

Shelly emotionlessly gazed at them and then mumbled…

” Soul Destruction”…