Soul Trigger

Chapter 14: Aftermath

The leading woman took the device that looked like a smartphone from the other person and nodded:
"very good."

"Then...let's call it a day?" the guy with glasses said happily.

"Well... check again to see if there are any omissions. File all the reports and sort them out when you go back. This is different from previous leaks. This is a cover-up of the other world, so everything will be handled with the utmost severity."

"Is the information from Flash Street really reliable... Can someone really escape when the other world is covering it?" The man with glasses glanced at the scary pit next to him. "To be honest, this pit is really scary. The residual spiritual reaction is about to explode our equipment, but is it left by the 'evil' or by humans..."

Captain Yan paused and asked, "What do you mean?"

"It's just... I can't tell the psychic reaction of the traces here... Um, sorry, what I mean is that our instruments can't tell whether it's evil or awakened."

"Like a ghost or a human?"

"More like a ghost."

"…That's the abnormal spiritual essence. Have you detected any other special ingredients?"

"No, it's quite pure in a sense."

"Then he is not a Contracted Demon..."

“You mean…” The guy with glasses stood at attention.

"A schistocrat, he is a schistocrat." The woman touched the trigger of her soul.

A silent wave swept across the entire environment, and her pupils shrank:

“…This spiritual essence.”

"Yes, it's almost higher than the captains in the bureau, but the fluctuations are huge, and the quality doesn't seem to be very stable."

"Then the conditions are met. A newly awakened Splittermaster."

"But Flash Street is unwilling to reveal more information. We don't even know who the 'bounty hunter' is or which organization he belongs to, let alone the survivor who was taken away."

"A lot of the Red Whip Society's kidnapping lists have been destroyed, but we still have to try. When we go back, check the list for individuals with severe and extreme alienated mental illnesses, and we'll look for them one by one."

"That means I have to work overtime again..."

"Don't want a promotion?"

“Of course I do!” Brother Glasses stood at attention again, “I promise to complete the mission, for Aurora City, for Silla, and for humanity!”

"Go do something."

After sending the guy with glasses away, the woman pressed the soul trigger, allowing her soul to "lick" the remaining spiritual essence in the pit inch by inch.

"He has already achieved such power just after awakening. No matter who he is, what his character is, or how old he is, he is a talent that the Special Management Bureau must recruit..."

"The focus is on our team, right?" Glasses poked his head out.

"You are assigned to duty during the Double Celebration Festival."

"Captain Yan, I was wrong! I'll get to work right away!"

……

When Ji Li regained consciousness, he saw the endless gray soul space in front of him. "I'm still alive."

He looked at his hands in the soul space. It seemed that here, he appeared as a small white light man.

The faceless bone was suspended not far in front of him. A little further away, stood a dark grey figure.

"Odin... or rather, my past self."

The name "Odin" was his code name when he was a mercenary. Later, after he joined the World Tree Company, it became his employee code name, and he used it until before his ascension... He didn't expect to see this name in this world.

Completely different from when he first entered this space, the gray figure has now turned into the appearance of "Odin". Every mechanical detail on his body is exactly the same as the one in Ji Li's memory, except that there is a faint black gas floating on his body surface. The model is also the first body he built for himself when he first joined the World Tree Company.

The full-body prosthetic modification aims to replace all parts except the brain with precision machinery. Apart from the technical differences, it is almost the same as digging out the brain and throwing it into a mechanical body. Therefore, as long as the brain nerve limit and adaptability are strong enough, this steel body can be of infinite scale and carry countless weapons.

To put it simply: Driving a Gundam is nothing, I am a Cybertronian.

He tried but still couldn't get close to "Odin". Apparently, the special pistol he had before could only allow him to temporarily use this powerful soul force, or "recover" to a certain state?
"I know too little about the rules of this world. It's meaningless to speculate on my own. I should be able to get some answers from Jin Misha..."

Although it was difficult to trace the source of these powers, and it was impossible to obtain specific ability data because the panel displayed by the Ascension Protocol was full of question marks, but now as his attention was focused on Odin, he could see a number:
19.834.

According to the log records of the Ascension Protocol, this is the time from when Ji Li used Odin to when it began to disintegrate. In other words, he could only use about 20 seconds to enter the Odin form at his peak.

"If you encounter a situation that requires extreme force, like Spider-Woman just now, these 20 seconds will be crucial. It is not yet known whether it is possible to enter Odin Form by means other than 'pistol', but if the length of time you can maintain this form is positively correlated with the Well of Souls..."

Ji Li looked to the side.

In addition to Odin and the Faceless Bone, there is a new thing in the gray space——

A well.

Strictly speaking, it didn't look like a well, because the ground of the soul space was very abstract and full of fog, and visually there was no real place that could be called a foothold.

That thing was more like a bunch of cracks made of white light, which gathered together in one place and formed a bulge. It looked like the shape of a well, with a faint blue light rising from it.

"Well of the Soul... these rising blue lights should be the 'soul energy'."

Ji Li clearly felt waves of discomfort and a feeling of exhaustion, as if his soul was in danger of dehydration. But he could feel that this thing seemed to be recovering slowly.

Before in the Lingbo Prison, Ji Li had only a vague feeling about the Well of Souls, which were manifested as "feeling full of energy", "feeling running out of power" and "drained".

Even if he was not in the gray space, he could still clearly sense the state of the Soul Well. If the Soul Well was a 100 ml liquid container, there was only about 3 ml left.

"Based on the actual situation, let's assume that the capacity of the Well of Souls is positively correlated with the operating time of the Odin form, just like the relationship between batteries and electrical appliances. Let's also assume that the volume of the Well of Souls is related to my new four-dimensional properties. If I continue to upgrade the Faceless Bone, can I continue to enhance the four-dimensional properties and expand the 'capacity' of my Well of Souls, while also increasing the operating time of the Odin form..."

Ji Li checked the condition of the faceless bone:
[Faceless bone: An ordinary relic of a personality left behind after the death of an unknown life form. It has been collected.]

[Soul quality: inferior]

[Features: Willpower Amplification]

[Embodying: The remaining power of the personality relic is manifested in the cognitive world in the form of weapons, so that the host becomes one with the personality relic for a period of time. The appearance displayed varies depending on the type of the embodied personality relic.]

[Do you want to inject cognitive index to improve the soul quality of the personality entity in this relic? ]

【Current cognitive index: 15】

(End of this chapter)