The Tale of Hero Alice’s Social Death

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"Is there something wrong with Soul's Return? I saw that it was recorded in one of the elective textbooks for second-year high school students, so it should be a popular spell," Alice said, scratching her head.

Andusia was right to assume that Alice did not read the spell's introduction. This was because Alice had skipped straight to studying the spell's operating principles after opening the book. Meanwhile, based on what she gathered from reading the operating principles, she concluded that Soul's Return could indeed be used to influence the remnant souls lingering in the air. Hence, she had learned it.

In Alice's opinion, any spell that could manipulate the remnant souls lingering in the air should suffice for her purposes. After all, she was only out to collect a small amount of remnant souls to stuff into the Living Wood figurine and get it to have the skin characteristics of a human. She didn't need precise control over souls to accomplish this task.

In addition, Soul's Return wasn't a particularly complicated spell, which suited Alice's needs perfectly since she didn't have much time to invest in learning soul magic.

"Elective textbooks… They're letting children learn such a thing?" Andusia scratched her head when she heard Alice's words. Then, she took a deep breath and looked at Alice, saying, "Listen well. Soul's Return might be an easy-to-learn spell, but it has very limited uses… It can indeed do a simple search for remnant souls and manipulate them, but the selection of remnant souls is extremely restricted."

"The selection of remnant souls?" Andusia's words stunned Alice. "What do you mean?"

"Soul's Return is designed specifically to target only remnant souls that have attached themselves to intelligent creatures. In other words, under normal circumstances, this spell can only collect remnant souls attached to a person for reasons such as 'yearning,'" Andusia explained.

"For example, say that your grandfather is incredibly worried about you even on his deathbed. His 'yearning' will cause a portion of his soul to stick to you even after his death. This remnant soul won't cause you any harm. On the contrary, some strong people's remnant souls can even bring blessings to their target of yearning. Anyway, that's the gist of things."

"So, you're saying that Soul's Return can only manipulate such remnant souls?"

Realization dawned on Alice. In other words, Soul's Return could only be used to collect the remnant souls attached to a person for reasons such as yearning and was useless against remnant souls lingering in the air.

"Yes. Also, while it is true that Soul's Return can manipulate the remnant souls attached to a person, the spell's main purpose is actually to project images of those remnant souls," Andusia said, shrugging as she looked at Alice's frustrated expression. "In other words, this spell is normally used to remember the deceased. For exam…

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