A calm red sea sitting in a red world, overlooked by a black sun hanging in the sky, and finally an island floating in the sky.
It had been some time, but Seth found his soul space still looking almost the same as he had left it, he said almost because on taking a closer look at the floating island, it was a little smaller than the last time he had seen it, and for some reason, he felt like the sea had lost some of his elasticity, but that wasn't all, because located high up in the sky and floating along with the black sun, Seth caught sight of a red light, the light giving off a familiar aura and bringing a smile to his face as he made a realization.
Noticing all these changes, Seth silently looked around him, and then stared down at the red sea in silence, confirming his thoughts that the red sea had somehow gotten smaller.
"Hope this isn't a bad sign, "Seth thought, the fact that he was here means that his body was pretty much knocked out cold, and he could only hope his being here was just because of his strong desire to wake up and not some problem with his body.
Sighing to himself, Seth looked up at the island and the next second he was standing on a green grass field, staring at a small cottage that had been built beside a pond.
"Come in" Seth heard the cute teenage voice of Alexia say, and the next minute he appeared in a traditionally decorated room, with statues and different colorful paintings on the wall, with mats placed on the wooden floor.
"Darling that's rude, you can't just appear in people's houses, you're supposed to use the door" Alexia complained with her hands on her hips,
"so am not welcomed " Seth casually said, turning to leave.
"Nooo!" Alexia screamed, of course, you are, "you're always welcomed, am just trying to teach you how to be a gentleman" the woman said, now standing beside Seth and holding onto his arm like he would disappear the next moment.
"ha ha ha" Seth chuckled on seeing her antics, and then proceed to carry her bridal style and then fall back, a black tall throne appearing behind him as he fell.
"Hmm, I thought I was the only one who could create and destroy things in my soul space, my former prisoners couldn't". Seth said as he looked around the house,
"Former prisoners," Alexia asked.
"Yeah there were some ehhh spirits I had locked up here earlier, they couldn't do anything but quietly stay in their cages".
"Perhaps it's because you thought of them as prisoners, it's your soul space, so your thoughts and feeling should matter a lot" Alice guessed, not probing Seth on the prisoners.
"That's a possible reason," Seth said as he began stroking his hands through her hair, and then he spoke.
"So what's up with you not popping out these days, since I joined Dinzel you made no appearance, only popping out for a few seconds when I was with Alice" Seth said, observing Alexia's expression but noticing no change,
"Are you angry" he decided to ask.
"Angry about what," Alexia said looking at him innocently.
"Well you stopped coming out when I joined Dinzel, and I know since that day I have had a lot of sexual encounters, so am asking if you're angry about my promiscuousness.
"he, he, he" Alexia laughed " darling don't be dumb, how can I ever be angry at you, no matter what you do, I always love you, and besides how can I be jealous of women who you would choose me over any day, those women can never get your love or your genuine feelings of care, so I truly pity them".
"It's really worrying hearing you confidently tell me I won't fall in love with any other woman I meet, aren't you being a bit delusional, " Seth asked.
"Is the fact that you were considering killing Alice if she became a nuisance after you killed Adriana a delusion, or what of Dorian, that woman has no idea how close she was to being cooked by your fire breath".
"Darling" Alexia said, her voice being serious for a moment as she turned around on Seth's lap till her hips were on both his sides and she was facing him,
"I know you only want the sex and consider the rest to be you taking an interest, but can you try to be more considerate of some of these women you conquer, some of them have a genuine interest in you" Alexia advised, staring Seth dead in the eyes and not wavering.
"I see" Seth simply replied, and Alexia sighed as she looked away from him, it was a really long shot but she had tried, and as expected Seth had no intentions of giving her words any thought.
"So if you're not jealous, then why have you been in here all this time," Seth asked, breaking the depressed aura which had been emitting off her and then stroking her hair.
A smile immediately claimed Sonia's face as Seth petted her, but that smile disappeared from her face the next second as he looked at Seth with worry,
"Darling, we have a really big problem," she said.
"What is the problem," Seth said as he wearily leaned into his throne.
"Honey, it's your soul, when you broke through I could feel the massive changes in your body and qi, they transformed to a whole new level of power, but the problem is that your soul remained stagnant, it didn't increase in power". Alexia said.
Listening to Alexia's words, Seth began going through all his memories, especially those he had gotten from consciousness, and after some minutes, he let out a huff, having arrived at some terrible answers.
"So what are the consequences of this development," Seth asked.
"As you've already been experiencing, despite having a far more powerful qi than that of the average 3rds stage soldier, you are unable to use your qi outside your body, not to mention the fact that your ability to resist soul attacks attack is practically nonexistent, but that isn't the main problem.
The main issue is that breakthroughs though the soldier level strengthen one's soul and prepare it for transformation into spirit sense, but at the moment your soul is far weaker than the average 1st stage soldier, and this means that you can't have any more breakthroughs, if you try to do so, your soul will be destroyed since it can't handle the process of evolving