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In the dense, colossal forest of the Wrath Ring, Aiden slowly regained consciousness, his body sprawled awkwardly among broken branches and crushed foliage. The moment he woke up, a violent wave of nausea hit him. He rolled onto his side and vomited everything he had eaten recently — a mix of half-digested matter and bile. Wiping his mouth with the back of his stitched hand, he activated Idle Transfiguration to repair the internal damage from the fall, closing wounds and resetting dislocated joints with a sickening series of cracks.
"God… I feel more and more…" he muttered, struggling to find the right words. "I don't even know how to describe it anymore."
He stood up, brushing dirt and leaves off his torn clothes, and checked the small totems he had created earlier. They were copies inspired by the "Miracle" technique — vessels that could transfer damage to contracted souls. In his case, he used fragments of his own soul. Risky, but effective.
"Animals are getting harder to come by… and I still don't dare transfigure sentient beings… at least not yet," he whispered. "Until I find a better solution, I'll hold back on that."
Aiden ventured deeper into the forest. The flora here was wildly different from the Pride Ring's metallic metropolis — massive ancient trees with glowing orange leaves, thick vines pulsing like veins, and an atmosphere thick with raw, aggressive natural energy. It felt alive in a dangerous way.
"Alright… let's just hunt some creatures and build up my transfigured reserves," he decided, moving silently through the undergrowth. Insects, birds, small mammals — anything would do.
Time passed quickly. His reserves had dropped by 7% due to constant use of transfigured beings, but it wasn't critical yet.
"Let's see what I can do," he murmured. His right arm suddenly stretched like a snake, shooting forward to grab a hidden creature. But the moment it extended, something felt wrong.
"Huh?"
He retracted the arm. Half of it was cleanly severed, blood spraying out like a broken hose.
"Well… that's new," a calm but venomous voice said from behind him.
Aiden forced the severed limb to regenerate rapidly as he turned around, already entering a combat stance.
"A Hellborn?" he asked warily.
"More or less. I am Fall Dresser, personal chef to the Sin of Wrath," the woman replied, bowing slightly with elegant poise. She had multiple arms, closed eyes, and an aura that hid deadly intent beneath a professional demeanor.
"Why is there a sinner this deep…?" Aiden asked, muscles tense.
"That should be my question, young one."
"I just dug my way here. There's no rule explicitly forbidding leaving the Pride Ring by unconventional means. Besides, technically my soul is still registered in the Pride Ring, so I'm not really breaking any laws," Aiden explained, pointing out the technicality.
Fall hummed thoughtfully, then simply raised one finger forward.
**Bang.**
Aiden's instincts screamed. Every hair on his body stood up as he threw himself sideways. The gravitational force detonated behind him, shattering trees and carving a deep trench into the ground.
"Was that a fucking Makima Bang?!" Aiden roared. His arm morphed into a grotesque mass of flesh and fired several transfigured creatures that exploded into a net of meat on impact.
Fall didn't flinch. She casually used more Bangs, annihilating the constructs mid-air before pointing at Aiden again. He raised a thick wall of flesh just in time. The Bang exploded it into a shower of blood, but Aiden was no longer behind it.
"Got you!" he shouted from behind her, arms transformed into bladed whips. Fall blocked with the back of her hand without looking. The impact sent Aiden flying, vomiting blood as his torso deformed. He crashed hard into a tree, struggling to breathe.
"I think she punctured a lung…" he gasped.
One of his totems shattered in the distance, the soul fragment returning to him as the rat exploded into bloody mist.
"Let's go…" Aiden growled, standing up and vomiting three new totems. He transfigured two of them into massive war hammers and slammed them into the ground with full cursed energy reinforcement. The explosion sent a huge cloud of dust and debris into the air.
"Smart. But not smart enough, I'm afraid," Fall said calmly. She blocked one hammer with a single arm and countered. Aiden had already vanished.
**Domain Expansion…**
The environment shifted drastically. The sky filled with grotesque stitched hands forming a disgusting net. Aiden stood at the center, head lowered, malformed hands emerging from his mouth as he completed the seal.
**"Self-Embodiment of Perfection."**
"Well… this is truly effective," Fall commented, covering her soul with layers of other essences to resist the sure-hit effect. The moment the domain activated, she felt something invasive touch her soul.
'Something's wrong… I… don't feel right…' Aiden thought, forcing himself to stay conscious. His soul felt oppressed by an unknown force. The areas previously patched with that strange soul were starting to take over.
{You really thought your soul was infinite?} a familiar yet unplaceable voice echoed inside him.
"What?" Aiden muttered. His domain suddenly collapsed. His body began swelling abnormally in multiple places before exploding outward in a mess of flesh, mouths, eyes, and screams that eventually gathered into a single point.
"You are not that young man… What exactly are you?" Fall asked, watching the transformation.
A being with blue-streaked white hair, stitches covering his body, and a blue poncho made from Aiden's transfigured clothes stepped forward.
"Nobody important… Just a special being," Mahito replied with a sadistic grin. He had finally taken control.
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**Current Soul Composition:**
- 48% Aiden
- 3% Dee Dee, Marky & Joey
- 43% Mel (soul fragments)
- 6% Rescue Totems
With the main body critically low on original soul mass, Mahito had seized the opportunity. He had donated part of his own soul to stabilize Aiden during the last domain, allowing him to force a temporary overwrite.
**Binding Vow:** "I shall permanently consume all stored souls within this body in exchange for a massive raw increase in cursed energy reserves that rivals Sukuna's output."
Mahito felt all the transfigured beings inside him burn away, flooding him with power comparable to his prime.
"Well… let's see what other vows I can make using the kid's memories~" he said, easily dodging another Bang.
"Unfortunately, you are now being cataloged as a rare ingredient…" Fall said, exerting gravitational pressure that forced Mahito to his knees. But the moment he touched the ground—
The entire forest deformed. Countless grotesque creatures burst from the trees, roaring as they charged her all at once.
**Boom!**
A massive explosion of flesh erupted. Mahito immediately crafted another Binding Vow.
**Sacrificial Binding Vow:** "I severely limit my Domain's range to a single location in exchange for instantaneous activation and drastically increased soul attack precision."
The domain unfolded in zero seconds.
**"Domain Expansion: Self-Embodiment of Perfection!"**
Fall had half her body explosively destroyed but instantly regenerated by transferring the damage to a previous contract.
"You… made a contract with yourself?" she asked, observing the much more refined domain.
"Yes. Unlike others who see souls as currency for power, I see them as tools for execution," Mahito replied, transfiguring a small animal caught in the domain into a polymorphic soul entity that charged at Fall without fear.
**Bang.**
The entity exploded. Mahito finally understood her technique.
"She distorts space on a specific target to crush it at a subatomic level…"
**Binding Vow—**
"I won't allow it," Fall interrupted, firing a rapid sequence of Bangs to disrupt him.
"Brat…" Mahito growled, realizing Aiden's previous vow was still restricting full reinforcement.
**New Binding Vow:** "I offer 10% of my soul to permanently remove the previous restrictive vow on this body."
The seal vanished. Mahito grabbed a nearby animal and transfigured it into a colossal worm-sword, swinging it at Fall. She dodged, but he had already exited the worm and struck her across the face.
"We'll make good use of you…" he said, reaching out to touch her. His hand met only himself.
"Huh?"
**Splosh!!**
His head exploded violently. A brutal internal soul struggle began.
"GET OUT OF ME!?"
"YOU GET OUT!?"
Both voices screamed as the body collapsed into a chaotic mass of writhing flesh, desperately fighting for dominance.
**BOOM!**
""He?""
Both voices looked up at the same time. Standing before them was a massive, furious figure radiating overwhelming wrath.
Satan.
"…Dig," Aiden's voice urgently commanded.
The body immediately began sinking into the ground at maximum speed. A millisecond later, the entire area was carbonized by a devastating breath of hellfire.
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What ring he go now? And what waifu sin?