Where did a mortal go after death?
The question had plagued scholars since time immemorial.
Even after continuous discussions and studies carried over tens of thousands of years, no one truly knew what happened to a soul in the afterlife.
There had been no consensus.
Some believed that souls of the departed were reborn in another vessel, their memories of the previous life completely erased. A clean slate, so to speak. Others claimed that upon death, the soul traveled to the spirit world.
But that raised several more questions.
Who or what decided that a particular soul would reincarnate? Where they would reincarnate? Was it all random?
If a soul did travel to the spirit world after death, then what happened to a spirit world creature upon death? Where did they travel?
Even Adam didn't know for certain. Despite having absorbed several memories from the Lotus, the concept of the afterlife was an enigma.
But what he did know — or rather, believed — was this:
