Swamp People technology happened to be the opposite of the authority of "desire."
Or rather, the two abilities complemented each other perfectly.
Jacob's Swamp People technology could create a soul and body exactly identical to the original. It only lacked the original's consciousness, and might even give birth to an entirely new consciousness.
Creating a body was easy enough. For the Extraordinary Abilities of this world, that was no great challenge.
But this technology of "increasing the number of souls out of thin air" made no sense at all!
—It was neither scientific nor mystical.
Because, broadly speaking, the total number of souls in this world was fixed. If the souls of the dead could not become phantoms of the Dream Realm, they would be recycled as materials for new souls.
Generally speaking, following this cycle, the number of souls should only decrease. Yet the population of the Material Realm continued to grow. The reason was simple... The law of reproduction brought by the Source River of Creation had given the First Source River the mission of "creating new souls."
In other words, the First Source River replenished any shortage of souls.
That was why the souls of ancient times were close to gods, like the "sun"; the souls of the Dark Ages were savage and bloodthirsty like beasts, because they were mixed with the essence of "beasts"; and as the ages developed, every race gradually moved toward "love." That was why the Hourglass prevented necromancers in the Material Realm from manipulating and retaining souls, stopping people from returning from the dead... and why it disliked the Fallen Angel, who directly abducted souls.
From the sparse population of ancient times to the billions of living beings now, all of it was a miracle brought by the First Source River flowing