I needed to calm down for what I was about to do, needed to calm my nervousness and fear, and anger.
I sat cross-legged and with my hands on my knees while breathing steadily, I cleared my mind and tried to slow my heart that was beating wildly.
Thanks to my meditation skill which was one of the first things I learned in this world, I quickly fell into a meditative trance.
It only took a few minutes to stabilize my mindset, so I got up, unfortunately, I couldn't use synthesis on the Phantom Orb and the fake Hero's Soul crystal.
What I did is wave High Priest Henry away, then I make the catalog with the Soul float closer to the Demon Goddess Kalistos statue, then I start activating my Auras to envelop the crystal, the Phantom Orb, and the Goddess statue.
I felt a powerful and infinite energy inside the statue, I know the statue could rip my Aura to pieces and I'm glad I didn't.
The crystal with the Soul hasn't had any resistance to my Soul so far, but I can't get my Aura to enter the crystal either.
The Phantom Orb didn't even let my Aura get close, but other than getting close with my body, I wasn't afraid of my Aura being so close to the Phantom Orb, this could be an opportunity.
"< Blood Servant >" (I)
"< Vampire Servant >" (I)
I activate all three skills at the same time I use the full power of my Auras, this must be the first time since my Aura got so powerful that I use it with all effects to the fullest.
I felt a little relief that I didn't have to hold on, it felt like my body was lighter.
I cut my hands and controlled my blood to make my abilities work, I enveloped the crystal with the false Hero's Soul with my blood as the red energy of the two servitude skills entered the crystal.
<[ Skill [ Blood Servant ] and [ Vampire Servant ] activated ]>
<[ You are trying to submit Soul of Heroic descent (Infected) ]>
<[ Neji's Soul Fragment (Hero of Light) is trying to stop the Soul Submission it is infecting ]>
<[ [ Blood Pact ] skill has been activated ]>
<[ The [ Astral Body ] Skill was forcibly activated ]>
I feel a mass of shapeless energy moving from somewhere deep inside me, I feel as if something awakens and breaks its restraints, then a dark energy surges through my entire body and takes the form of the ethereal creature of shadows wearing a hood that has wings of ethereal black feathers as if they were made of black smoke that inside them I could see the same image that has under the hood, a starry sky as a representation of my powers in chaotic flow.
His dragon claws with black crystal scales glistening with stars like my scales, his presence is still lingering and strange no matter how many times I look at it.
As soon as he appears he turns to the crystal and opens his palm where my Aura condenses into a ring making me sweat as if a part of me is continually being crushed, then he thrusts the claw of a finger inside the crystal which cracks fully before retracting the claw bringing a point of golden light that places that ring made of my Aura.
After that, my Aura, blood, and the two red energies entered the crystal making it turn red.
<[ You have successfully submitted Soul of Heroic descent ]>
<[ Choose 3 powers to grant the Soul of Heroic Descent ]>
At that moment the spiritual energy, mana, Ki, and my Aura are embraced from my body being frantically absorbed by the Soul inside that crystal, then suddenly I feel a Blessing within me awaken and a gray energy emanates from my body at the same time the statue of the Demon Goddess Kalistos glows.
As I endure the wave of information inside my head about what to bestow upon her of power, my Astral Body looks at the Demon Goddess Kalistos statue before handing over the glowing object encased in the ring made of my Aura, I assumed it would attack- the was the Soul fragment of the true Hero of Light.
I see the statue move a crystal arm and grab that Soul Fragment before warning it shatters into pieces that turn into a gray arrow that pierces the space disappearing completely.
Soon a new option appears in my mind, the Blessing of the Demon Goddess Kalistos, so I choose that and as the second option, I choose my eye skill that I created by synthesizing dozens of types of eye type skills, the third option I choose the Phantom Orb that I had just subdued with my Aura when the Blessing of the Demon Goddess Kalistos awakened in me.
I chose this second option maybe as an influence when I saw the name of the Hero of Light, I thought it could be interesting, I also thought about the name I can put on him at the end.
After the choice I feel my Astral body following my will and raising both claws, one claw absorbs the gray energy that comes from me and the Demon Goddess Kalistos statue, and the other claw stands in front of where his face should be and takes it a crystal coming out of the chaotic space inside the hood.
The gray energy in the first claw crystallizes into a gray crystal, in the second claw a crystallized eye appears and in the end, the two go to the Soul while my Astral body takes with its claws the Phantom Orb that starts to burn in its hand in flames gray, then place this flame next to the crystal where the false Hero's Soul is and the two crystals containing the power granted to him.
<[ Power grant ended ]>
<[ Demon Goddess Kalistos (Demon Goddess) interference has been detected ]>
<[ Analyzing Soul Traits, Granted Power and Blessings ]>
<[ The Demon Goddess Kalistos (Demon Goddess) began to purge the Blessings of the God Baldr (God of Light) from the Soul of Heroic descent ]>
<[ Soul of Heroic descent allows the purge of God Baldr's Blessing (God of Light) ]>
At that moment I see a golden glow being burned by gray flames until nothing is left, then a cocoon forms where nothing can be seen inside.
<[ Awakening process starting ]>
<[ Awakening process finished ]>