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Like a door-to-door salesman, the Cosmic Trader handled his free hand so that he would start talking.

"Edward, I can see that you are not in a good situation, as your soul that should be completely in ethereal form, has a half ethereal and half physical form, this is not good and can cause a lot of problems."

The being stopped mid-speech as if trying to make the little cloud scared and curious, which worked even with Edward realizing his intentions, Edward then looked at Trader as if he hadn't noticed anything.

"Well if my 'soul' is the way you described it, why would that be a bad and problematic thing?"

The being then continued its speech as if it was used to this kind of question.

"Well, first you must understand that all living beings have a soul, and it is the same as your physical body, but of a gray color, this is for common souls and most, when a living being dies, your soul separates from the body and is drawn to the planes of the axis of that particular plane, where it will be able to live the afterlife."

The being coughed, clearing its throat humanely.

"But in some relatively rare cases, living beings who have suffered a very strong emotion before they die that is linked to something unfinished, they become Beyonders, those who are beyond the physical but before the ethereal, these beings have ethereal bodies that can interfere with the physical, and in rare cases becoming physical, the strongest can still possess the bodies of other living beings and take their lives, essentially devouring their souls."

Cosmic 'looks' at Edward strangely, making his smile even scarier.

"But your case Edward is even rarer, let's say that throughout the cosmos and its many different planes it only happened 3 times, when the 'Firstborn of all Races' was born, the time God died and now."

Edward is perplexed, there is a lot of new information but he decides to keep quiet and ask after Cosmic finishes his monologue.

"I don't even need to say how the strongest beings would react when they found out about you... I wonder what would happen if a certain Cosmic Trader 4371 spilled the beans about it, I dare say I could buy a Quasi-Prominent Dimension just for myself with the how much would you get with that information..."

Cosmic cupped his chin and looked up as if his last lines were him rambling to himself completely oblivious to being talking about essentially

sell the one in front of you.

Edward looked with a strange face to cosmic and then he sighed and with a passive face said.

"I don't think you intend to do that, or else you wouldn't be here talking to me and you wouldn't have told me about all this"

Said Edward making Cosmic look at him with a smile, not that he had eyes or another sticker on his face, Cosmic then sat in front of the bench, it looked like there was an invisible chair there, he crossed his legs and left his hands together fingers crossed, Edward wondered how this guy could sit and walk in this place, let alone talk to him without a mouth.

"Oh, I think you didn't understand the gravity of your situation, souls weren't made to be able to be sentient in normal ways, even Beyonders don't have intelligence without having a physical body, just a few instincts created and guarded by their strong emotions , this is because the connection between soul and body is essentially an intricate system, the body interacts with the outside world day by day, while the soul stores the information that the body collects about everything."

He then pointed at Edward.

"The shape of your soul is something unprecedented, not to mention the perhaps infinite uses of a semi-physical soul, even I who am not very versed in the modes of production can think of 2 or 3 possible uses, but I can see that it is slowly becoming dissipating."

Cosmic gestured with his hand as he spoke, with the other he supported her chin.

"Your soul is not able to bear the brunt of interacting with the outside world all by itself, with every thought and speech it wears out a bit until it eventually dissipates, which is why it is in this 'gaseous' form. Do you understand?"

Edward continued with a poker face, he knew no one would give out information for free, and until he understood why Cosmic was giving out so much, he refused to express his emotions on his face.

"Well, this only adds more weight to what I said, I don't think a being called Cosmic Trader would seek such small gains in this situation, when he could earn more supporting a perhaps next power, since I believe that in the other 2 situations the beings involved will be very strong right? I mean, as a being called the Firstborn of all races can be weak, so I ask you Cosmic Trader 4371, How much are you willing to bet on me, since that's what you want..."

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