Chapter 461: Soul experiments(3)

Chapter 461: Soul experiments(3)

The way he intended to do this was a bit special however as he wanted to shift the true shape of the soul much like one would edit an image or sentence. Nick wanted to remove the parts that felt redundant and shift that mass to what he saw as improvements. The beetles for example lacked magical abilities and were basically at the bottom of the food chain for animals. He wanted to see if it was possible to change that somehow. His first experiment in this regard had him take out the soul of a beetle and then begin to clumsily he will admit manipulate the shape of the soul.-

First he removed the middle set of legs and used that mass to improve the shape and power of the remaining four slightly. Then he began to narrow the beetles body shape with it coming out like a needle point arrowhead. He then put this newly modified soul back into the body he took it from originally and watched as the body began to change shape. The final result was fatter than he made the souls shape but the general form of the beetle remained as he designed.-

It was a fascinating difference that fueled his curiosity in the subject of souls even further as it was such a complex and wide topic. Even in the first half of Slytherins library Nick had seen only three mentions on the topic and those were merely uses of it the founder had personally seen. Sadly the medical magics that were in the first half of the library focused exclusively on the mind and body such as curses , poisons and mental wounds. Even in the library of Hogwarts there was a tiny amount of books on souls and all of them minus two were books on dark magic.-

After pondering it for a moment Nick developed a theory on why the two different approaches to the same result had different results in the end. Basically all souls "knew" what they and by extension the body was supposed to be like and acted on the body to manifest this. By forcefully altering the shape and function of the soul Nick had introduced imperfections in this "knowledge" that translated to the body not being able to cope with it as some parts didn't know they needed to change as well.-

In the case were one soul devoured the other however the entirety of the soul was overhauled and improved thus meaning there were no imperfections in the design of the "knowledge". Nick could only frown at this though since if true it meant that to manually alter a soul he needed to either change literally every facet of the souls form himself which was way more effort than it was worth in the case of simple bugs or rats. Or he needed to limit the changes to the soul to less fundamental things like small upgrades to the legs.The initial posting of this chapter occurred via N0v3l.B11n.