Previously, Rui couldn't have even imagined why soone would do what they did to Amare. Who would do such a horrible thing to a baby girl?
However, now that he had heard the man's explanations, everything clicked into place. He even recalled what Amare had told him about her conversation with the Shield of Gaia. He had uttered many cryptic sentences at the ti that now made sense in hindsight.
"…out of all the experints and potential solutions that I have tested, she has been the most successful experint thus far," the Psycher remarked with a profoundly deep tone. "But it doesn't matter anymore. I don't need her. She is worthless."
The Psycher's blind eyes grew more vigorous. "I have found the perfect solution."
His tone grew more eerie.
"I have found you."
One could almost feel the intensity of his desire from his voice.
"I know that you too are an inheritor," the Psycher's tone was chilling. "An inheritor that we didn't create."
The Esoterist shook where he stood as he turned to Rui with a stunned expression.
The Psycher's eyes sharpened with a profound intensity.
"You have found the solution. The perfect solution. No need for cumberso and tedious sealed soul rituals. No need for esoterics. No need for anything else." His body language intensified. "Tell … tell how you did it!"
He drew closer and closer to Rui with heavy eyes. "Tell how you found Enlightennt of Self. Tell how you overca the curse—"
"Enough."
Chills crawled across the skins of both the Psycher and Esoterist as a profound flood of extraordinary power erupted from Rui.
RUMBLE…
The world shook.
It shook under the weight of his anger.
"Did you…" His tone was chilling. "Did you say Amare is worthless?"
The Psycher's eyes darkened. "Of course. I do not require her anymore. Although…"
His gaze shifted. "I do have a debt to Esil. I promised her that I would help her overco the curse, one way or another. But I do not require Amare for that anymore. I can just create another inheritor for Esil and have you break her and through."
RUMBLE…
Rui's dark eyes flared with his cold fury. "And just what makes you think I would agree to helping you or Esil?"
The Psycher's unfathomable eyes deepened. "What do you want?"
"…Heal Amare," Rui's voice was dark. "In return, I will give you Enlightennt of Self with my solution to the curse."
When Rui developed the large soul model, he didn't even know about this 'curse.'
He hadn't known that it was supposed to be impossible for him to reach the Sage Realm.
He hadn't known and before he even found out about the curse, he had inadvertently found the perfect solution in his desire to accelerate his growth to the Sage Realm. The large soul model was a fundantally different kind of Enlightennt of Self than the normal kind.
Specifically, it was fundantally different in its nature.
It was a conscious awareness.
Whereas the regular Enlightennt of Self was mostly subconscious awareness. One learned more about one's self subconsciously, instinctively, and intuitively for the most part, with very little of it being conscious.
In Rui's case, it wasn't that he had no subconscious awareness, after all, he too had followed standard growth trajectories to the Sage Realm, such as growing stronger, and the dream technique he had gotten from the Panamic Martial Federation.
In addition to it, he had the large soul model.
From what he understood, the soul transference ritual caused a rift between the mind and the soul. The mind was deluded to believe that they were the person whose mories they inherited while the soul was that of a whole new person.
This caused an unimaginable gulf that could not be crossed with ordinary ans. The normal thod was simply too ineffective to get one to the other side, leading to what the Psycher described as a curse of never being able to reach Enlightennt of Self.
In Rui's case, he had created an extraordinarily powerful tool that would help him bridge the gap. The large soul model that he had dedicated ten years of his life was extraordinarily powerful.
Powerful enough to help him overco this massive gulf.
But it also ant that he needed to ensure that it was never outdated, lest he lose his Enlightennt of Self.
Rui was willing to offer him the large soul model, even if he disliked this man, in exchange for healing Amare.
"…I find your proposal to be very acceptable," the Psycher's tone was chillingly calm. "Unfortunately, it cannot happen."
RUMBLE…
Rui's dark eyes flared with a murderous bloodlust.
"You don't have much of a choice."
His tone was chillingly perilous.
The Psycher gazed at him with his unfathomable blind eyes. "…It isn't that I don't want to. As I ntioned, I wish to achieve Enlightennt of Self to discover the secrets of the soul. However…"
He shook his head. "I cannot heal her."
Rui's expression crumbled with grave severity.
"For one, it is her own subconscious mind shackling her consciousness. It's an internal discrepancy that cannot be fixed with external forces," the Psycher told him with a solemn tone. "It is not sothing that I can fix."
Rui's heart sank when he heard the man's words. He felt his stomach drop.
"Then…" his whisper was grave. "Then will she be like this forever? Till the end of her natural life…?"
It was a horrifying revelation.
He wasn't sure if he could live knowing that she was destined to suffer for the rest of her life in the depths of darkness trapped in her mind.
If she truly was stuck in the depths of her mind, then perhaps he ought to spare her the misery and suffering by—
"I said I am unable to fix her," the Psycher remarked. "I didn't say that there was no possibility of her recovery whatsoever."
An ember of hope returned to Rui's eyes.
"Tell . Tell everything."
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