Chapter 4  The prince

Ivar was playing with the blue orb, his red hot chair was wrapped in vines made of lava. His blue eyes were searching for something in the orb. His mind was having a single question that was "How, how a prince so young had powers to not only control souls but also to swap them and put a will." He had many guesses one of which was that the soul was an otherworldly soul that got transmigrated to this world, other was the prince was possessed by some old ghost. The third one which he thought was most likely was that the Goblins colluded with Shamans and sent an old Soul to infiltrate the land of the dead. Whatever it was he did not care, all that he cared about was to catch the soul and for that, he wanted to find the objective of that soul.

After some time he stood up and clapped his hands, soon an army of ghosts came. The room was filled with countless ghosts all on their knees bowing down to him. They were bowing in an orderly fashion as if they were from an Army.

"Did you find any clues?" asked Ivar

"We checked all the glasses, yet we could not find any of his traces. Whoever he is his capabilities lie in hiding," said Noah.

"Well there are still 5 days left, He will try to possess his body again and escape before that so keep more ghosts on the watch. Also, increase the frequency of Vibrations it's time to make this castle the castle of pain," said Ivar.

"As you command my lord." Noah vanished along with other ghosts after saying that.

He entered a chamber with them, it was a chamber full of coffins, all the ghosts started entering them, once they were all in. Noah walked towards a circle at the end of the chamber and started chanting.

He started feeling pain, but he kept on chanting. The mad ghosts from the castle started screaming more, it was as if they were ripped apart. There was a blue necklace on his neck which started shining and slowly the pain stopped however the mad ghosts from the castle started getting stretched it was as if their soul was getting pulled from all ends.

The chanting came to an end after some time, Noah entered one of the coffins as soon he entered he felt a threat. But before he could react his necklace was pulled apart and he was thrown out. The sudden noise tangled up his soul and he too started feeling as if all his soul was getting ripped apart.

Lucifer stepped out of the coffin with the necklace on his neck there was a blue orb shining in it. He smiled at Noah and started consuming his soul. However, suddenly he lost his powers and the necklace wrapped itself around his soul and then the vibrations started affecting him.

"You should not touch things that you don't know of," said Ivar. He had a grin on his face the vibrations were not affecting him at all.

Lucifer looked up and found Ivar on the ceiling. They both looked each other in the eye and the grin on Ivar's face vanished.

"Interesting, the vibrations are not affecting you that much. Who are you?" asked Ivar.

Lucifer smiled at him and said, " Unchain me, you have passed the test."

That response took Ivar by surprise because last he checked even the Ghost king was scared to challenge him in this castle. And here he was a young soul stating that he did all that to test him.

"Hahaha, I don't know who you are, But if you think you're capable of testing me then getting out of this bind should be easy for you. No?"

"I cannot, I'm just a crown prince of this domain. I want to take revenge on the King and I heard that you're the only one who is stronger than him. So I wanted to come and be your student. However, I wanted to prove to you that I'm worthy of being your student and also wanted to check the rumours regarding your strengths. Please forgive this disciple." said Lucifer.

"Hoh, Disciple you say then let me search your soul to cross-check," said Ivar.

Lucifer smiled at him and said, "You certainly can."

Ivar searched his soul and found that all that he said was true. "Interesting, you wish to kill ghost king, you already have level six darkness affinity. Your ambitions are not unreal," said Ivar.

The power of ghosts depended on their darkness affinity, the more the soul has suffered in a physical body the more powerful it would be. However, there were other ways to increase the darkness affinity that as by consuming souls that had suffered great sufferings and lost their way. Also the higher the affinity the better relics you can use and more chances of successful possession. Also, higher affinity means more resistance against light attacks. The biggest enemy of ghosts was the light domain where Angels lived and also the Martial artists and Magicians with affinity with light magic.

"Thank you, Master."

"So to start the training is simple, consume Noah while being bound."

The blue necklace had the power of light in it, the reason Ivar could use it was because it was made from his blue eyes from his real body so that light did not harm him but for other ghosts, it was a nightmare. The same was happening with Lucifer right now, his soul essence was all busy defending his soul from light attack. In such a situation his consciousness is unguarded so if he would consume Noah now there were chances that he would become a mad ghost and would lose his consciousness forever.

Lucifer started consuming the deformed soul of Noah slowly, he started feeling his pain as his consciousness was unguarded it kept on amplifying but Lucifer did not stop he kept on consuming more and more. Ivar watched him with an amused expression. After some time Lucifer started losing his sanity, however, he was already addicted to power by then, and Ivar could see that. He smiled and took away the necklace, The soul essence of Lucifer was freed and started healing his consciousness slowly and steadily he got his consciousness back and by the time it ended his affinity rating moved to 8.

"Thank you, Master," said Lucifer.

Ivar smiled and vanished a voice echoed "Your next task is to escape this chamber."

The vibrations began again, Lucifer this time quickly reacted and entered the coffin. He needed a plan to get out or to stop the vibrations. Time was running out, he wanted to learn techniques of this world and so he faked his soul to be that of a ghost prince. He used techniques from his previous world to fight Draco, Ivar and Noah. The moment he entered the castle he realized that he was able to use powers from his previous worlds so he formed a plan.