Eunuch's Rebirth: I Reincarnated With My Manhood as the Young Master - Chapter 36: Soulborne

Long ago, the incarnations of celestial beings clashed with a single mortal on a continent now known as Chasm: the Graveyard of Madness.

After the fierce battle, the entire continent was left devastated. No sign of life remained, and the land could no longer sustain a civilization.

In that age, many lost souls still remembered their emotions and sins after death, wandering the land in the form of vengeful spirits.

Over time, they began to corrupt and lose their minds. To survive, they merged together. However, as their emotions also merged, they started losing their individuality, and the strongest emotions took control. The first emotions to emerge were vengeance, sorrow, and envy.

These storms of emotions gathered shadows, ash, bones, and rotting flesh to form their own bodies.

Since they are condensed, soul-like beings, they are called Soulborne.

However, Because Soulborne are made from many merged souls, most of them are not intelligent. Their minds are broken and confused.

Therefore, Those mindless, driven only by hunger and instinct, are known as Lesser Soulborne.

However, in rare cases, when many souls merge and one strong soul takes control of the others, the Soulborne becomes intelligent and may even develop goals or desires.

They can also wield magical powers and are classified in tiers resembling those of the Soul Realm.

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’… Lesser Soulborne?’ Gray narrowed his eyes.

He had heard about Soulborne monsters that resided in the Chasm: graveyard of madness, but he hadn’t expected to see them so soon.

Moreover, more than a hundred of them had crawled out of the tentacled creature’s mouth, charging mindlessly at the professors.

“Hmm…”

Gray then activated his mana sense to gauge their power levels.

’As expected, they are weak.’

Their strength was equal to that of the weakest human cultivators, those at the lowest stage of the Sword Expert soul realm.

As a result, fighting them wouldn’s be a problem. The real issue was their numbers, which seemed to be increasing endlessly.

“Grraaa”

“Eegghhhaa”

Within minutes, three hundred more crawled out of the tentacled creature’s mouth, mindlessly charging at the professors—only to be brutally killed.

Slash! Slash! Zaaaappp! Boom! Gkkr!

The professors from the Magic Department were attacking the lesser Soulborne from a distance with spells, while those from the Knight Department struck them down if they got too close.

However, it was only a matter of time before the professors were overwhelmed by their numbers.

Meanwhile, Kalsa Bakiraga, who had a rough personality, stomped on the floor and launched himself toward the lesser Soulborne.

Fwoooosh… Bam! Gkkkr!

In an instant, fifty to sixty lesser Soulborne were crushed by his dominating aura.

Some of the Noble Faction professors looked at him with dumbfounded expressions. They were hesitant to fight freely, as they found the Soulborne disgusting to attack and feared that pus would gush out, making their stomachs turn.

But Kalsa Bakiraga, on the other hand, just charged at them without a sense of disgust, like a fight-crazed barbarian.

Even the scared students were disgusted by his barbaric charge.

Kalsa Bakiraga ignored their looks and used his aura-infused fist to crush more of the lesser Soulborne’s skulls.

“Finally, something entertaining has appeared,” Kalsa Bakiraga said, slamming his fist onto the Soulborne’s skulls.

Seeing his actions, some students competitive instincts rose, and they also charged at the lesser Soulborne.

As most of the students were above the Sword Expert low stage, they had no trouble fighting them.

Now, the students and professors numbered a total of over 400, while the lesser Soulborne numbered over 700.

Clang! Slash! Shin! Cute!

The clash continued, and the lesser Soulborne kept crawling out of the tentacled creature’s mouth.

Meanwhile, Gray stood still, out of the fight, pondering hard. He realized that fighting those infinite lesser Soulborne was not the right answer. It was fine to engage so the weaker students could be kept out of danger, but that wasn’t the real solution.

He looked at the sky. The gruesome tentacled creature had completely emerged from the cracked portal, and the rate at which the lesser Soulborne were coming out of its mouth had increased.

Gray concluded that the optimal solution was to kill that tentacled creature, so it would stop producing the lesser Soulborne.

But the question was: who would do that?

Even he couldn’t guarantee he could kill the tentacled creature.

As he was lost in thought, just then, a system window appeared before his eyes.

Ding’

[Main Quest: 02]

[The Appearance of Vanitas von Noctvain]

[Scenario: The Rajuk Caeloria Academy has been attacked by Nefarius, accompanied by a “Creature of Ancient Time”. It has nullified the Dean’s mana, and the Dean is at risk of dying. Thus, hide your identity to instill fear in the third-eyed being, and sever the spell cast on the Dean by the Creature of Ancient Time.]

[Requirements: You must hide your face and present yourself under the persona of Vanitas von Noctvain.]

[Reward:]

• Vitality 1

• Mystery Box

• An exclusive skill

[Upon Failure: Death by Castration.]

Seeing the quest window, Gray’s eyes widened. There was the typical castration part and the tempting reward of Vitality, but his eyes fell on something confusing:

“… Nullified the Dean’s mana.”

Perplexed, Gray was about to look at the sky, where the Dean was fighting Nefarius, one of the former great evils.

But right then, A massive explosion occurred.

Kra boom!

The explosion was so strong that the shockwave forcefully pushed everyone a couple of steps back.

Fwoooosssh….

After the shockwave cleared, everyone looked at the source with worried eyes.

The place where the explosion happened was the same place where the Dean was fighting Nefarius, one of the former great evils.

As the dust settled, a horrifying sight was revealed before everyone’s eyes.

“!!This can’t be!”

“How can….?”

“Dean!!”

Female professors and students covered their mouths in terror, while the male students gritted their teeth in disbelief.

The reason for their horrified expressions was that the former Great Evil, Nefarius, was grabbing the Dean’s neck while the Dean was in a lifeless battered state.