Marvel's Hogwarts Wizard Chapter 639: Seizing the Soul Gem (First Update) - Novel Cool

Chapter 639: Seizing the Soul Gem (First Update)

Chapter 639: Seizing the Soul Gem (First Update)

"Sorry, you can only exchange the soul of someone you love. Using the souls of others won't work."

At that moment, the guardian of the Soul Gem, Red Skull, seemed to receive some instruction and turned to explain to Jerry with a helpless expression.

Being fellow Earthlings and old acquaintances, Red Skull didn't want to make things difficult for Jerry. However, in the end, he was just a pitiful puppet enslaved by the Soul Gem, merely a mouthpiece.

The true decision-maker was the will that had emerged from the Soul Gem itself.

"They are my loved ones. I can throw them both down, using the souls of two people to make the exchange."

Jerry pointed to his unconscious son at the cliff's edge and smiled at his mother, who was now free from the Soul Binding Curse and looked terrified.

Red Skull shook his head again.

"I'm sorry, they won't do. You don't love them."

"But the person I love isn't here."

Jerry shrugged his shoulders.

Red Skull hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"Your soul will also work. After you die, they will become the new masters of the Soul Gem. However, I advise you not to do this. Go back to Earth."

Having been imprisoned by the Soul Gem for seventy-two years, Red Skull had come to understand some of the gem's consciousness.

The rule that one must sacrifice their beloved to become the master of the Soul Gem wasn't absolute. It was just a rule set by the gem's consciousness.

The gem enjoyed the pain of life and death, and it liked to collect particularly special souls.

The current state of Vormir was largely due to the Soul Gem. Every time the gem's user died, it would return here.

Without sufficient power to control the Soul Gem, possessing it could be disastrous rather than beneficial.

It was the only one of the six Infinity Stones with its own consciousness.

"Alright, then I'll exchange my soul!"

To Red Skull's surprise, Jerry didn't show any shock after hearing this. Instead, he nodded, walked to the edge of the cliff, and jumped down without hesitation.

However, when he flew to the cliff's edge, he found that Jerry, who had fallen to the bottom, was standing unharmed on a stone altar a hundred meters below.

"Hey, this height can't kill me. How about you come out and take my soul yourself!"

Jerry landed heavily on the stone altar, then brushed off the dust on his clothes and shouted down to the altar.

As he finished speaking, a strange smile appeared on his lips.

"Sure enough, it's hidden here!"

With a wave of his hand, the Space, Power, Reality, and Mind Gems suddenly appeared from his Ring World.

With a single hand, he lightly tapped the stone altar, and with the power of the Celestial-level, the four Infinity Stones erupted, instantly turning the altar into a massive black hole.

A bright orange-yellow gem, radiating powerful soul energy, revealed itself within the black hole.

Sensing a threat, the Soul Gem suddenly burst with powerful soul energy, attempting to escape the black hole. However, Jerry wasn't about to let it get away so easily.

"Come back here!"

Under Jerry's control, the Space, Power, Reality, and Mind Gems burst with equal force, creating a powerful suction that pulled the Soul Gem towards him.

"Give it to me!"

Grabbing the Soul Gem, Jerry didn't waste a moment and immediately flashed into his Ring World.

It turned out that when Jerry realized the mother and son he captured could not be exchanged for the Soul Gem, he already understood.

The rule of trading the soul of one's most beloved for the Soul Gem was not a universal law of the cosmos, but rather a rule set by the Soul Gem itself.

After all, if Thanos's most beloved person was his adopted daughter, Gamora, Jerry could barely accept it. However, it seemed a bit far-fetched to say that Hawkeye Barton's most beloved person was Black Widow.

Hawkeye had a wife and children, and his relationship with Black Widow was more of a very close friendship, not necessarily the deepest love.

So, he had been thinking that perhaps the Soul Gem's definition of "most beloved" was not absolute, as no one could truly know who another person's most beloved was.

Maybe the Soul Gem just sensed certain emotions from the people who approached it, such as Thanos's paternal love for Gamora, or the friendship between Hawkeye and Black Widow. It simply wanted to witness the pain of separation and death.

In the end, it was just trying to be a relationship wrecker, purely to satisfy its own twisted desires.

Fortunately, he had already thought of a plan to deal with this.

It was simple: if the plan failed, he would just take it by force. With enough power, rules didn't matter.

He had encountered similar situations many times and was quite experienced with them.

Although the Soul Gem was one of the six Infinity Stones, possessing immense law-based power and being the only gem with its own consciousness, it couldn't exert much power without a sufficiently powerful being to control it.

Otherwise, Thanos wouldn't have been able to shatter it with the other Infinity Stones after snapping his fingers.

The Soul Gem was deeply hidden, and even when he was right above it, he couldn't pinpoint its exact location.

So he used himself as bait to lure the Soul Gem out.

The Soul Gem was clearly very interested in his powerful soul. Seeing that Jerry survived the fall off the cliff, it quietly moved toward him, extending its soul power in an attempt to directly seize Jerry's soul.

This allowed Jerry to discover its location. He then took out the four Infinity Stones he had, combined their power with his own, and forcefully transported the Soul Gem into the Ring World.

At this point, the Ring World was not yet a fully developed dimensional world, but with Jerry's efforts, it had taken on a preliminary form.

The basic framework and initial operational power were completed during his two years as a Magic apprentice.

Within the Ring World, his power was significantly enhanced, and he could manipulate the world's laws to forcibly imprison the Soul Gem.

He could even attempt to erase the self-aware consciousness within the Soul Gem, making it like the other stones.

The Infinity Stones were not indestructible; they represented the fundamental laws of the universe. Even if destroyed, they would eventually be reborn after a long period of gestation.

However, if they existed for a long time, they could develop their own consciousness, as the Soul Gem had.

Among the six Infinity Stones, the Soul Gem had existed the longest. The other five had been destroyed and reformed, and had not yet developed their own consciousness.

But Jerry didn't need them to have their own consciousness. He only needed the knowledge of the laws they contained. Therefore, erasing the Soul Gem's consciousness was clearly the better choice.

(End of Chapter)

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