The Astral soul system

Zen was just about to wrap things up. There was just one little thing he had to take care of.

He entered his soul realm, appearing in the castle. He didn't find Lilith or Freya in the throne room so they were probably somewhere else in the castle.

He quickly focused his attention on the floating crystal with a prisoner in it at the center of the room.

"You!!! Get me the fuck out of here!!!"

Zen ignored his rants, planning on using as much of that anger as possible

Zen immediately began using the seven deadly sins cultivation technique.

The room started filling with what looked like red fireflies.

Following the techniques instructions,Zen started gathering all those small bits of rage energy in one place, trying to get them to converge.

The amount he had wasn't even close to what he needed for the flame,so he just kept gathering for now.

It was strange, Zen could feel Jesse's rage, but he couldn't. It was like he knew he was angry, and to what extent, but it didn't affect his own emotions at all. If anything, the rage he felt was extremely watered down,a muted version, but it was enough.

Zen kept gathering for a few minutes before he realized that the amount of rage had considerably lessened.

He looked at Jesse who although looked very annoyed,was keeping his cool.

"I guess that makes sense"

The inside of the crystal suddenly burst into flames, throwing Jesse into a panic as he flailed around helplessly inside the small crystal.

Resounding laughter rang out through entire castle, clearly being directed towards Jesse.

Jesse looked at Zen who looked like he would fall over from laughter any second now.

Indignation filled his heart as he started banging on the inside of the crystal, trying to get out and attack Zen.

"Not a bad performance"

Theia said, noticing his rage had spiked again. Zen got no pleasure from watching Jesse suffer, after all, there was no strife between them, Zen had only seen him a few hours ago, so there was no reason for him to be so entertained by his suffering, but that itself was the reason it was so effective.

Zen quickly realized his initial intention wouldn't work. He had originally planned on using Jesse to form all the heart flames, but he realized he'd have to focus on one now.

The whole point of sin was that it had to be done willingly,if he kept doing it this way,he wouldn't get anything substantial.

Sure he could just torture him as much as possible while making him believe he enjoyed his pain, but that would only work for so long before he either became mind broken,or braindead.

He suddenly teleported to the top of the crystal, shattering it immediately. He placed his hand on Jesse's head, and immediately,he fell unconscious, falling to the ground.

Zen watched him fall,a bit confused with this place.

It was almost exactly like the real world, except he was in charge of everything. There seemed to be absolutely no rules concerning what he could do...then again,it could just be because of how unique Jesse was.

Zen picked up Jesse and started walking towards one of the empty rooms in the castle.

"What are you going to do with him?"

"Something similar to the trial"

(Challenge from the author: Guess Zen's plan)

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Jesse suddenly woke up in a completely white room. He looked at himself and noticed that all his previous injuries were gone. He was dressed neatly in pure white clothes.

"What's going on here? Where am i?"

A loud voice boomed from all directions.

"Welcome my child"

The ground trembled and out of it a massive entity popped out of the ground, with an appearance more ethereal and majestic than anything he had ever seen. Such an entity could only be a deity , right?"

"W-who are you?"

The huge majestic silhouette in the sky stroked its long beard and laughed heartily.

"I am what your people would call a god, but at this time i am here to serve you. You were brought to me after facing death at the hand of your cruel and evil captor You have suffered enough"

Jesse was suprised, confused, and a little intrigued. So he had died and been brought before a god?

"Serve me?"

"Of course. Someone of such grandeur and status as yourself was never meant to face defeat. You suffering at the hands of such plebians was a huge blunder on my part,as such,i am here to remedy this injustice"

At this point,Jesse had already calmed down. He could hear genuine regret in this voice. Something told him that he could ask for anything and this entity would do it without complaint.

"So what is it you desire? You could be reborn with the means to execute your righteous vengeance upon those that wronged you, and be as wrathful as you desire"

The white room suddenly changed to what looked like the scene of a slaughter. The skies were painted blood red and the ground was covered in actual blood that flowed like water in an ocean. Jesse noticed a sword in his hand, turning around,he saw what looked like giants slayed and on the ground, unmoving.

"I can sense that although this scene pleases you,it may not be what you desire the most"

Jesse suddenly found himself back in the white room.

"You could be a king in a kingdom of your choosing,with literal mountains and mountains of riches"

The scene once again changed and Jesse found himself on a throne made entirely of gold. He was dressed in red and gold robes, and surrounded by gold as far as he could see.

Before he could say anything, he once again found himself in the white room.

"No. You deserve better. What is your deepest desire? Do you wish to be surrounded by the most beautiful and desirable maidens in all the nine realms?"

Jesse found himself completely naked on a tropical island. In front of him was every straight teenage male's wet dream.

Dozens and dozens of beautiful completely naked women with bodily proportions so ridiculous it was almost cartoonish. They were all dressed in nothing but a flowers and a few accessories leaving nothing to the imagination. Among them were clearly women of other races as well, like vampires, werewolves and even more.

One of them slowly crawled up to him,a loving and needy look in her eyes as she took in Jesse's naked form. Slowly she climbed up his body, caressing him gently from his toes to his thighs,brushing past his organ and to his chest, rubbing him all over until she was at eye level with him.

"Stay with us master. We need you"

She suddenly spoke and firmly grabbed his dick in her soft hands while looking him in the eye.

After a few seconds it all disappeared again.

"Are you not pleased? You can have so much more"

Jesse looked like he had made a decision.

"I want you to bring someone to me "

The deity listened to his request and immediately made it come true.

A familiar figure appeared before Jesse, chained up,naked, bloody , and being constantly whipped.

Jesse smiled menacingly as he saw Neo down on his knees in front of him.

"Yes"

Zen suddenly paused.

He noticed that the spots of energy had become mostly pink now, signifying lust.

Looking at Jesse, he noticed he had started pulling down his pants.

"So that's why the last one didn't work"

Theia looked enlightened.

"Theia, this isn't the real Jesse, but it's an illusion modelled after him,so -"

Theia interrupted, knowing what he was about to ask.

"It's completely identical to the real one in every way, including his orientation and preferencs. Though whether or not,Neo knows that,i don't know "

"I see"

Zen immediately took his place back as the "deity"

"I see you're satisfied with this prize. A man not swayed by wealth and power, but his own happiness. I am very pleased with you. For pleasing me,i grant you my blessing"

Jesse and Neo reappeared on the island, although Zen had made a few modifications to the place, and the residents.

Jesse at this point could barely hear him anymore as he creeped towards Neo who wasbin tears crawling away on the ground in fear, begging for Jesse to have mercy,all of which only served to further trigger him.

Satisfied, Zen walked out of the room, leaving Jesse to his fun.

"Interesting choice" Theia remarked.

"What?"

"An island inhabited entirely by primitive femboys"

"You already saw what he was into. It was the most beneficial choice"

Theia chuckled.

"I know, it still just sounds a bit silly. You're a top class actor by the way, would've had me fooled too"

Zen looked at the door and the word "Jesse" carved itself into the door.

He walked back to the throne room and started gathering the now pink bits of energy for the next few hours.

After about three hours,he noticed it had stopped, it seemed Jesse was taking a break.

Zen looked at the amount of lust energy he had collected from Jesse, and although it still wasn't even close to the amount he needed, it was a considerable amount, and besides,Jesse would get back at it in a while,it wasn't like there was much else to do on the island.

Zen converged all the lust energy into a single glowing pink ball the size of a pinball.

Seven crystal chandeliers suddenly appeared at the top of the throne room.

Theia had once said that he needed to protect the heart flame once he had created it,if possible,hide it. Zen felt that if he was eventually going to turn this thing into a flame, might as well hide it somewhere in plain sight. This castle was the heart of his soul realm, and had a deeper connection to him than the rest of the realm, making it the safest place here, and fire in a chandelier in a gothic architecture wasn't exactly eye catching, so it only made sense.

The ground in front of him began to rise as a flight of stairs rose up in front of him towards one of the chandeliers.

Walking up towards it, Zen placed it on one of the candles on the chandelier. It wasn't a flame yet, but it was a start.

Zen decided to leave for now, there was nothing else for him to do.

Zen opened his eyes and got up. It was a bit disorienting to go from feeling like you could do literally anything, to being just another weakling, but Zen adjusted quickly.

"You're back"

Zen recognized Black's voice in his mind. He had asked him why he had gone silent for so long, by even he couldn't tell.

Zen walked up to the edge of the mountain and looked down.

He didn't want to climb back down so he just decided to use some of his new skills.

Stepping off the edge, Zen activated soul movement.

With a thought he flew upward, although it was shaky.

After spending a few seconds in the air, Zen touched down back on the mountain.

"Harder than you thought?"

Zen nodded.

"Let's try it one at a time. Slowly lift off until you're a few feet off the ground and try slowly moving to the left or right"

Zen did as she said and slowly took off until he was about a foot in the air. He slowly tried moving in the four directions, and although it was a bit shaky,at least he could still move.

"You're gonna need to practice a lot more until you're good enough to use it at all".

After a few seconds of practice, Zen was empty

Zen looked at the edge of the mountain. Looks like he was climbing down after all.

He was about to start when he saw an interesting notification.

[Conditions reached]

[Received quest: Get back in the game]

[Hey there player. What are you doing slacking, it's time to hit the resume button on your last save file and finally finish this level]

[Objective: Kill 95sl(Kieth)

"Oh..."