This was the key!
Everything in the war chess trial was illusory, but the trial takers who entered it were real.
If these trial takers died within the War Chess Plane, their minds truly experienced the process of dying. This was the key to generating the power of slaughter. The moment they were killed, it actually affected reality, only at a much lower cost: they lost a little soul energy and remained weakened for a time. For the same reason, Soren gained very little power of slaughter. The amount produced by the deaths of roughly three trial takers was equivalent to a single formal prayer from a devout believer.
This trace of the power of slaughter was insignificant!
Yet Soren saw far more in it. He had only just received an information prompt for the [Murder] portfolio, which meant that the proportion of energy he converted through the Slaughter Domain was not high. A portfolio converted far more power than a domain; otherwise, Soren would not have been so eager to acquire more important portfolios. Then there was the second point about this trial. Soren intended to test it and then use it to train more subordinates. That meant more people would undertake the trial in the future, and Soren would collect more power of slaughter through this method.
At the same time.
If Soren could reduce the cost of the trial and expand its scale, how much more power of slaughter would it generate?
Virtual reality.
This sort of trial could satisfy people's desire to kill, and to deities, human emotions, mental energy, and faith could all serve as sources of power.
Every man actually had a desire to fight somewhere in his heart!
As a deity of an evil alignment, Soren naturally converted power differently from other deities.