Soul Path

Above the grassland, the moon moved slowly across the sky. A shaft of moonlight slipped through a hole in the yellow canvas tent and shone inside.

The moonlight shifted little by little. No one knew how much time had passed before a faint streak of white light suddenly flew out from the boy lying on the bed and dropped directly into the vines beside him.

The vine rapidly began to grow. The eye-like structure at its tip groped its way to the boy's lips, then drilled straight inside.

As the eye-like structure entered the boy's mouth, the entire vine withered rapidly, turning directly into a pile of black ash.

The boy's body gave off a faint ripple. A pale green halo swiftly spread outward from his mouth.

The boy's body, which had been on the verge of collapse, began repairing itself at an astonishing speed. His pallid complexion quickly flushed with color.

As time passed, the boy opened his eyes. A trace of bewilderment still lingered in them, and his gaze toward this world was filled with wonder.

He slowly sat up in bed. Seeing the black ash on his clothes, he patted it away, straightened his garments, then reached up to his head and slowly removed the white gauze wrapped around it.

The huge horizontal gash above his forehead had completely scabbed over. The wound had healed thoroughly.

The boy stood up and surveyed the surroundings.

"Looks like... it worked!"

Green took a deep breath, feeling the weakness of this frail body, yet his eyes were filled with excitement.

The entire process of possessing the soul had gone even more smoothly than Green had imagined.

(PS: In this book's setting, the soul and the will are two separate things. The soul is the foundation of existence, while the will