Ball of Nothing - Chapter 36
Chapter 36
Hearing Egui's name made Zero's eyes widen . Egui's soul was missing? What happened?
Similarly, the goddesses looked at each other in surprise . They knew the ghost called Egui . Zero healed the ghost from his weakness earlier on . How could Egui's soul be missing?
"Egui was at the Mega Gourmet competition earlier but lost . How could his soul be missing? He walked away fine earlier . "
En frowned . "Could you explain everything? I cannot sense Egui's soul . However, traces of his soul ends in this room . Someone must have cancelled his sins and freed it before time . Egui has yet to finish his redemption so the records do not tally . Normally, only an angel can pardon sins and the records will be updated in my Book of Trials . This time, the sins were erased completely and the soul was freed without a proper ritual . If I cannot recover Egui's soul by the end of the day, Egui's soul will disappear into the void and never be able to reincarnate . "
Sedna gasped and Gaia looked troubled . For a soul to not be able to reincarnate was troubling indeed . Isis did not look angry any longer . She was frowning and Freya felt conflicted . Zero only meant good but the consequences were more harmful than helpful . How could they rectify this?
None of the goddesses understood how Zero's Mind's Eye worked . For a power to be able to completely erase the existence of sins is unheard of . In this world, regardless of dimension or planet, the law of energy is absolute . Not even Gods can defy it .
Energy cannot be destroyed or created from nothing . Everything is a cycle and Gods maintain that cycle strictly . Sins were a form of negative energy . For a negative energy to be removed, an equal amount of positive energy like blessings or redemptions must be paired to make it neutral again for only neutral souls could be reincarnated . Now that Zero has destroyed the balance, the soul cannot support its existence and can only disappear into what is known as the void . The void is a term for the unknown place that is lacking any kind of energy .
Coincidentally, the void was where the Great One and Zero originated from . Not much is known about the void and this troubled the gods and goddesses . Anything that entered the void will not return . This was the only known fact . The other secret known only to the Great Gods was that the void was home to the Great One . In fact, the only one who could enter and exit the void freely is Zero .
"We understand now . The situation is indeed dire . We will help to search for Egui . He must be still around La Boutique somewhere . As for the soul, a terrible accident has happened back then . We don't know exactly what went wrong but if we can find Egui, there might be a chance to recover his soul . "
En looked at Isis and bowed . "I will search for Egui's lingering spirit and bring it back here . If there is any method at all, please recover his soul . We cannot lose another one to the void . "
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"Is he gone now?"
Gaia loosened the vines . "Yes, Zero . "
The small brunet reappeared and gave the goddesses a tearful stare . "Is Egui really going to disappear? Is it because of what I did?"
Unable to lie to the young boy, the goddesses looked away . Only Isis looked at the young boy with a pained expression . "Everyone makes mistakes, Zero . You didn't know that this would happen and we know that you meant well . It's sad that Egui will soon disappear if we cannot recover his soul but this is the reality . You must learn from this and not make the same mistake again . "
"How do I recover the Egui's soul?"
Isis smiled sadly . "We don't know, Zero . Gods and Goddesses may be powerful but there are still things we cannot do . Egui's soul must be somewhere in the void and that is one place we cannot go . Only the Great One was able to enter the void and retrieve things from it as well as store things in it . "
"I can help search for Egui's soul! After all, if my past self was able to do it, I'm sure I can too . "
"No! It's too dangerous!" Freya cried . "Great One was never able to leave the void . Everything absorbed and created was thrown into that space . Great One was trapped there for a very long time . You must not do this, Zero . "
Hearing this, Zero frowned .
"No," he told the goddesses . "I will find Egui's soul . It is my fault, I should be the one to fix it . "
Instead of protesting like what Zero thought they would do, the goddesses resigned to fate . Isis gave Zero her ankh amulet for protection . Gaia created a small flower fairy who will provide Zero with light and directions . Freya gave a rune scroll that will allow him to contact the goddesses in case something happened . Sedna gave Zero a temporary blessing to increase his luck .
"When the luck blessing runs out, please return immediately . The rune scroll can act as a teleportation gate only if we are still in contact . As you venture deeper and longer in the void, Lily's light will fade until it runs out completely . When that happens, we will be unable to reach you . Also, always keep the ankh amulet close . It will protect you from the forces in the void . The power is limited so please do not spend too much time looking for Egui's soul . We do not know much about the void but nothing that entered the void can come back . "
Zero looked at Sedna and the goddesses gratefully .
"Don't worry, I will be back . "
Unbeknown to the goddesses, Zero wasn't worried about not being able to come back out from the void . It is true that his past self was stuck there . However, that was mainly due to the lack of energy . With Mind's Eye and absorption, Zero now has over 6,000 energy points from the Mega Gourmet competition . This allowed him to move freely in the void . According to Mind's Eye, the void is a place that has the same kind of absorption power Zero has . Everything will be brought to the centre of the space and that space was big enough to fit the multiverse with more room to spare .
[Would you like to start the mission – Tracking Egui's Soul? This will consume energy points . ]
Zero accepted it without hesitation .
[Mission received . Tracking Egui's Soul will commence now . ]
A blue thread appeared in his vision and with Mind's Eye explanation, Zero smiled . That blue thread was a guide to find Egui's soul . All Zero had to do was follow it . Mind's Eye was also helpful and informed Zero that he could teleport in the void to save energy consumption . The estimated number of teleports required to reach Egui's soul was seventy and each teleport cost five energy points .
After doing the math and deciding that he had enough energy to spare after making this trip, Zero walked into the void confidently . Mind's Eye opened the void portal for him and Zero took Lily with him after waving goodbye to the goddesses . They watched with great worry as Zero disappeared in a blink .
Everyone crowded over Gaia's reflecting orb and observed from Lily's eyes Zero's journey . Worried but unable to do more, the goddesses sat together in silence .