My Soul card is a Reaper

Chapter 606: The call of the cosmic jewels

The next set of memories contained 12 sizable fragments turning into Shadow Beings with a spell in an alien language, each one eventually infecting a human and turning them into dark creatures.

Surprisingly, one of the dark creatures created by this Shadow Being was captured by the military and brought to the Star Labs. Azzy saw Eren's dad there with the other scientists as they experimented on the unconscious dark creature.

Louis wasn't seen anywhere though.

The unconscious creature then got up and went on a rampage, killing some and infecting some. The ones that were killed stayed dead but the ones bit by the creature became zombies.

Another memory showed a bunch of soldiers killing a dark creature somewhere, reducing the zombies into dead bodies.

In what seemed like several hours in the dream, only one minute passed away in reality and Azzy opened his eyes in realization, "So, there was no virus in the first place and everything was fabricated to hide this truth? But then again, it is understandable.

In the world of mortals, an unknown creature infected the scientists and made them zombies, which in turn, creating more and more zombies, would have greater panic among the public compared to the virus. After all, in the latter case, people could atleast hold onto the hopes that a cure or atleast a vaccine could be created.

Speaking of which, let's go and check that dark creature. If a dark creature is killed and the zombies become dead bodies, then shouldn't it apply the same to the creature if its creator (Shadow Being) is dead?"

With a push onto the floor, Azzy jumped high and broke the ceiling, entering the upper floor.

After reaching the lab, instead of a dark creature, he saw a young man lying on the floor in a dead state.

"Hmm… it looks like my theory is true," Azzy used the Protos energy to reduce his body into charcoal powder before deciding to leave the facility and return to Arland City.

Since it is where the entire problem started, he wanted to inspect Star Labs for once.

But, before that, he had to take care of another matter.

"Uhh… Protos energy, would you mind going back? I can't be seen with the energy of layer over my skin. People would freak out," Azzy requested before leaving the building.

The Protos energy complied with his request but before it left, it surely reminded him of something good.

"Really?" For a moment, Azzy was elated to realize that he could now have access to the storage card during the time protos energy was outside but then again, except for clothes and snacks, everything available there will probably freak out the people of this world.

Since he could not take out any suspicious thing, Azzy thought for a bit and finally took out something that looked like a steel rod.

"Hmm, this one will come in handy. As long as I keep it in this form, people would think it is a steel rod and I could transform this into the plasma scythe when needed."

8 days later;

Somewhere in the mountains near the equator of the planet;

*Slash*

Azzy swung down the plasma scythe at the shadow being, cleaving it into two parts.

It disappeared into specks of light, leaving behind a fragment, just like the others.

Picking it up from the ground, Azzy let out a sigh of relief, "finally, the last one was plucked out. This should effectively end the rampage of the last remaining horde of zombies on this planet."

As he absorbed the fragment and attained its memories too, he finally put his focus on his secondary mission, proceeding with tracking the location of the main body of all those fragments he collected so far.

The cosmic jewels also assisted the process while the Protos energy took the back step, staying there a mere spectator.

The Protos energy has a negative aura while the cosmic jewels have a positive aura. Hence, working together will only bring down the results. Not to mention, it doesn't have a clue about tracking someone or something. The cosmic jewels were the ones that did the job so far.

The Protos energy's knowledge is too limited, almost close to nil. Hence, it voluntarily became a spectator.

There's also its increasing curiosity and frustrations as to why Azzy's soul hasn't changed a bit no matter how many fragments of darkness he was absorbing directly. But, that's a mystery to be solved by itself. Azzy had no clue about it.

At the moment, his concentration was split between the cosmic jewels as he was sending them toward the sky and scanning the surroundings with Aura sensing.

Usually, his Aura sensing range is about 100 kilometers, but with the help of the cosmic jewels and the fragments fused with his soul orb, he extended it to roughly 3250 kilometers.

In theory, he would have covered the entire planet at will, once he completely achieved mastery/synchronicity with them but for now, in one scan, all he could cover is almost 5% area of the current world.

Doing such two difficult things that already need a great amount of concentration and willpower for each one turned out to be quite exhaustive for Azzy.

Azzy found his breathing become heavier. He was sweating like hell and his hands were shivering, looking as if he was about to lose control over the comic jewels at any moment and make them fall back into the ground.

But, he persisted.

Eventually, they stopped flying at 136km altitude, where the atmosphere of this planet ends, and so were the world laws.

Gaining their maximum power in space, the cosmic jewels embedded in their respective items started to give off a bright glow, enough to be called three mini suns and attract the attention of the space agency.

"Come to us, our sibling." "We are waiting for you" "Let's reunite like the old times" "Remember, we are one and the same no matter how much time has passed."

Maybe, it is because he is connected to them or maybe, it is because of the fragments fused with his soul orb. Whatever the reason it could be, Azzy's ears were filled with nothing but their whispers. He cannot see or hear anything.

Thankfully, it didn't last long as the Protos energy came to his rescue and nullified those effects, helping him to focus on his job.

Not long after, Azzy's senses picked up something in the east.

There were two auras traveling together at supersonic speeds, traveling toward him.

"Hmm? This feeling…" Azzy furrowed his brows as he shifted his concentration on the incoming auras.

The three cosmic jewels floating in space started falling down like meteorites.

Azzy was unaware of it as he was baffled by one of the auras which was completely familiar to him.

And it wasn't the Jewel of Darkness.

"A cosmic jewel? Louis? What the hell is going on here?"

"Ummm… my host, now it is not the time to get distracted," The Protos energy interrupted his thoughts and brought him to his senses.

"Hmm?" He raised his head to look at what seemed like fireballs coming at him at blurry speeds. "Ahh, I almost forgot about them."

He quickly reestablished his control over them and stopped them in midway.

Jewel of Lightning: Who is it that said our master is a once-in-a-mega-annum genius? If we had fallen, a sizable portion of this world would have been gone.

Jewel of Earth: He is still a kid. Mistakes happen, hahaha…

Jewel of Life: Master, you idiot…