With the devils entering the fray, the Littlefolk's pressure throughout the war now mainly came from the calamities brought about by various historical events.
As a result, Naimus could sense that the originally one-in-a-thousand chance of transformation was rapidly rising.
So far, it had risen from one in a thousand to one in a hundred.
Out of roughly a hundred Littlefolk, one could see through the falsity of life in the face of death, undergo some sort of transformation in consciousness, and find the truth of their own existence.
During this process, their consciousness was accepted by Naimus and uploaded into virtual souls.
The so-called virtual souls were a byproduct Naimus had discovered after researching the trait—"Living Soul."
He could create artificial souls, and in the course of his research, Naimus gradually came to understand the rules represented by souls.
A soul was a vessel for thought.
In essence, a soul was merely a kind of matter.
A special kind of matter formed when thought came into contact with Source Essence.
Any existence of even slightly higher standing could potentially create this matter.
Therefore, soul matter was not the key. What mattered was the thought carried by the soul, as well as the Breed Count that might be closely bound to that thought.
That was right. The existence of Breed Count had always been profoundly mysterious.
Everything in existence possessed Breed Count.
Humans themselves also possessed Breed Count, but where it existed and in what manner it existed had never been particularly clear.
Most people believed that Breed Count existed within the soul, radiating in some manner onto both the soul and life's two auras.
That was why, upon advancing to the Golden Breed, one could use the two auras to absorb Breed Count and raise its upper limit.
But