Chapter 5 The Soul realm.

It was the third world of Lucifer, where souls reigned supreme. There were humans but they were only safe in their blessed lands. Almost 80% of the area was under souls. The only way humans could put up a fight was through light magic and strong consciousness.

Also, higher-level ghosts were capable of entering the blessed lands however they would have to possess a human and their powers would get sealed. So normally ghosts did not infiltrate blessed lands, they would only infiltrate at times of war to collect intel and destroy strategic weapons.

Lucifer got reincarnated in the land of Oden, It was a small blessed land surrounded by soul cities. The people there were not that powerful and thus they always stayed within the blessed land. Also, their view of the world was limited to their blessed land and they did not possess much knowledge of light magic or dark magic.

Lucifer was transferred to the body of a rich merchant who had a loving family. After staying a few days in a village he figured out the situation of this world. He started learning light magic, the first exercise he did was to meditate and channel his light energy. Every human on this planet has two energies, light and dark. If they channel enough dark energy they are capable of leaving their bodies and being ghosts.

After a few months, Lucifer figured out that light energy was created from pure thoughts and pure emotions. At first, he started doing charity, he started behaving nicely however this did not change anything. Then he started taking in disciples he started teaching light magic to all for free. Slowly and steadily his fame rose and within a year he had an army of loyal followers with good light magic power.

After a few months, the town faced a major drought and had very little food. In such a situation the only option left was to go out. The elites of the town visited Lucifer and requested him to venture out in search of land. Lucifer agreed to them and took 7 of his disciples out as soon as they got out a ghost attacked them but got repelled by their defensive wall. Currently, they are adapting to bending light according to their will. So whatever they would imagine would get formed. However, the strength of it would depend on the pureness of thoughts and consciousness.

The second attack by the ghost had dark energy it broke their shields and three of the students got killed. The ghost leaped on the fourth student however Lucifer came in his way the energy collided with Lucifer's hand and turned into ashes.

"Run" screamed Lucifer.

Hearing that ghost turned his consciousness towards the remaining students however at that exact moment lucifer's hand passed through the soul and created a bright light. There was a stone in his hand which exploded and with it the soul of the ghost got bruised.

The students stopped and came back to Lucifer. They sealed his wound and took him back to the village. The whole village heard about how Lucifer selflessly protected his students and risked his life. Not only that how he easily killed a ghost with just one hand. That day a new legend was born in the land of Oden, the legend of "The right-handed God."

The legend took fire soon and more and more people started learning light magic. Lucifer also taught them the use of Light stones through which they could kill ghosts. The light stones were his invention he created a method in which he would meditate and focus on pure thoughts and use that to focus his light energy on stones as this was a blessed land the stone there already had light energy however by moving his thoughts and will into them he slowly make the stones his will and thus make them grenades capable of blasting with a mere thought.

He started training people in light magic ever since the incident where he lost his hand, the negativity in him died down and his essence of light started increasing like crazy. After 4 months the blessed land finally hit its limit there was no food. Lucifer started a crusade, his idea was to infiltrate the nearest soul city and find out about details regarding other blessed lands.

The red moon reeked of blood that night a group of 1000 warriors equipped with light armour shined like fire in the dark they were getting ready for the dawn to break.

The dawn broke and a thousand warriors started marching towards the soul city, the people of the blessed land started praying, their drums vibrated with passion, the land shook with emotion and their hearts synced with devotion. It was all towards a single man who was leading them, he was their pride, their hope, and their only escape.

He was leading from the front and was killing any ghost that came in their way, his Aura was much different from the last time his gaze was enough to burn down the ghosts from the outskirts.

Soon the souls of Soul City Ether spotted them. They started screaming and then all the other souls followed them. There leader who was in a slumber walked out he reached the gates in an instant. He looked down and saw 1000 warriors marching towards him. He smiled and said " Fools."

Soon tons of his subordinates came behind him. The atmosphere grew intense the lively sun got covered by black clouds. Lucifer felt a chill in his spine. Soon the ghosts charged from the castle. He focused his attention on the leader and ran towards him he had a sword in his right hand. The leader of Ghosts jumped on Lucifer. However, Lucifer swung his sword at the right moment the light pierced the soul. However, Lucifer felt nothing. He used light magic on his eyes and saw that there was no one ahead it was an illusion. His army was already throwing light bombs at empty spaces, and just when he was trying to know he heard screams right from the back.

And then it clicked, he looked up and saw clouds, they were not just clouds they were a veil which helped ghosts to come behind them where they were the weakest. Lucifer charged towards the end, his generals followed however the moment they reached to the middle, their front got attacked by ghosts from under the land.

"Everyone defensive dome," yelled Lucifer.

His knights formed a circle and created a defensive dome, slowly the number of Knights inside the defensive dome increased and after a minute all the Knights who were alive were inside the dome.

Almost 500 Knights were already dead and they were surrounded and not a single ghost had been killed up until now. Some Knights were losing their belief in Lucifer some were just lost. The battle was not the battle they imagined the ghosts were tricky, there was no frontal assault.

The reason they never thought of trickery was because they lacked experience. Also, they saw ghosts as a superior race and hence subconsciously expected them to attack head-on.

"Fools, Why are you here?" asked Leon the king of Ether.

Bang his soul got pierced by Lucifer's sword, he could not even give a proper reaction his soul perished just like that.

All the other ghosts moved away from the dome.

"Well, we were here to kill you as you were the only one capable of stopping us," said Lucifer.

The other ghosts grew tense, and some of them started growing backwards but it was then their real nightmare began. Lucifer lifted his sword and a light pierced through the sky as soon as he did that stones with light magic started raining down.

The birds that he trained carried special stones the only one capable of killing birds in the sky was their leader and hence to kill him Lucifer used one of his trump cards which was the dome of light it looked like a defensive dome but Lucifer added a layer of illusion to which made ghost believe that all people inside are in meditative state. And thus they dropped their guard also their carelessness of not thinking that ghosts would use tricks worked as a blessing. When ghosts saw that humans were simple-minded they did not expect any trickery from them.

Some of the ghosts fled, some of them died and some of them got captured. 473 warriors survived the ordeal The news of victory soon reached the village. The Legends of One hand god added a new story to its biography.