Conditions

"I can swear a soul oath upon the River Styx!"

Now that was interesting. As mentioned before, the River Styx was the most wondrous river in the entire multiverse. Any being with a soul would be drawn to it, and the higher the level of life, the stronger that pull became. Thus, the more powerful one was, the more bound one would be by the River Styx.

This constraint became especially severe after one violated an oath witnessed by the River Styx. Even gods, if they broke an oath witnessed by the River Styx, would be devoured by it and eventually washed away into nothingness by its currents.

However, Shattered Demon Crystal had played a trick on Solam: what it swore was a so-called soul oath!

As mentioned earlier, River Styx oaths targeted beings with souls. But what if the one making the oath had no soul? Constructs, for instance. Divine artifacts, too. They had no souls!

When Arcane One, the tower spirit of Ocasuan, had been discussed before, it was mentioned that constructs had no souls. Even in the end, Arcane One had failed to obtain a complete soul, which was why he had wanted to devour Eilistraee's remnant soul and achieve transcendence.

Souls had always been the most mysterious things in this world. They could not be manufactured, and no one had ever created one. They could only arise naturally from the multiverse itself. No matter how much a construct resembled an independent individual, whether it possessed a soul had always remained a matter of debate.

Because no matter how powerful a construct was, its soul was incomplete and simply could not compare to a naturally formed soul. The same was true of divine artifacts. Gods were not qualified to create souls. Though their understanding of souls indeed