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Atiste returned to his studio, eager to examine the document.
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“Soul Swap Art”
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Author: Anonymous
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Preface—
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I do not know who I am.
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As I hold this pen, I sit in an unknown place; these hands are not my own, this body is not my own, and this pen is not my own.
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The face in the mirror is not mine.
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Yet, I have resided in this body for seven years.
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It still feels like a stranger.
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It is because I have swapped souls too many times that I have forgotten myself.
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The first swap was to extend my life.
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My original body was weak and nearing death, so I sought one that was young, healthy, and whose soul had dissipated.
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I succeeded, but my soul was damaged; I lost some memories and forgot who I was.
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However, the method of the soul swap remained clear, leading to a second, third, fourth, fifth… and to this day, I have swapped thirty-seven times.
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Who was the original me?
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I have already forgotten.
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My appearance, my name, my origin, my experiences; I cannot recall any of them.
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Whom did I love?
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Whom did I hate?
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I cannot remember those either.
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I have inhabited too many bodies, and I no longer know which memories truly belong to me.
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I leave this record not to teach the method of soul swapping.
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It is merely to leave a trace of my existence and the price of wielding this technique.
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The reader must be looking for “another way of living.”
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If so, read on—
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Part One: The Nature of the Soul—
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Before learning the method of soul swapping, one must first understand: “What is being swapped?”
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I speak to the reader from experience:
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The soul is not an abstract thing; it is neither light nor mist, and it cannot be seen, touched, or measured.
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The soul is a “trace.”
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Everything you eat, where you walk, what you say, whom you love, whom you hate, how you laugh, how you cry, and what you feel leaves a trace within your body.
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These traces overlap and weave together to form a network.
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This network is your soul.
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Why is it that someone might be dead, yet you still feel they are “alive”?
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Because their traces still linger in your heart.
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Why is it that someone might be alive, yet you feel they are “dead”?
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Because their traces have vanished and no longer exist in anyone’s heart.
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Therefore, the essence of a soul swap is extracting your “network” from your vessel, extracting the other’s “network” from their vessel, placing your “network” into their vessel, and theirs into yours.
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Does it seem simple?
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It is not so in reality.
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I shall share my experiences from my first seven failures—
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Some had their souls extracted halfway, becoming stuck mid-air; half remained in the original body while the other half drifted in the void, both sides screaming incessantly.
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Some had their souls enter the target vessel only to be rejected; the soul began to rot within a day, and after three days, the vessel became an empty husk.
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There were two souls who swapped, fell in love with each other, and merged into one; they became monsters without a self, and their vessels fused together in a twisted heap…
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Only after failing seven times did I dare to attempt this method myself.
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Although I succeeded, my soul was damaged, and a part of me “died.”
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Part Two: Scope of Application—
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This art applies to any sentient life form.
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Including:
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Humans, Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, Dragons, the Demon Race, and Demi-humans.
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Excluding:
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Those who have been dead for more than 12 hours, the dying, the insane, newborns, and animals.
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Prerequisites:
Both parties must be willing and have no regrets;
Life forces must be equivalent;
Both must “become each other” for 7 days in advance;
For 3 days before the ritual, both must consume the other’s “mark.”
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Part Three: Ritual Method—
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This section is blank, the text faint and shimmering.
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Atiste immediately recognizes it as a simple diversionary spell, but it requires special materials to dispel.
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He skips it for now.
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Part Four: Magic Circle Composition—
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As above, he must skip this for now.
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Part Five: Runes and Incantations—
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As above, he must skip this as well.
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Part Six: Failure Cases—
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Type One: The soul gets stuck halfway.
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Both scream in agony; the result is that neither returns to their original body, forever trapped in a state of separation.
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Type Two: Entering the wrong vessel.
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Both souls successfully exit, but Party A enters their own body while Party B enters their own.
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Both believe the swap succeeded, only to fall into a state of cognitive confusion—”Am I them or are they me?”—unable to revert, never knowing who the “original self” was.
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Type Three: Souls fuse and cannot be separated.
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Unlike the case of falling in love, this type of fusion doesn’t even enter a vessel; the souls repel each other after merging and refuse to inhabit the targets, eventually fading away over time.
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Type Four: Being sucked away by the moon.
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On a night of a total lunar eclipse, the power of the moon is too strong, and the soul is pulled away.
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Type Five: Being consumed by the magic circle.
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The circle is drawn incorrectly, and the soul is sucked into it, never to escape.
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Type Six: Soul fragmentation.
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Excessive force during extraction causes the soul to shatter.
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Type Seven: Being rejected by the new vessel.
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One party succeeds, but the other is expelled by the vessel and dissolves; soon after, the one who succeeded also dissolves…
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I can no longer write of further failures, for I have swapped too many times; I cannot recall who is who, or which face belongs to whom, nor can I connect them.
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Some who were originally human are no longer human.
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Epilogue—
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Writing this far, I have no strength left, and my hand trembles.
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It is not that I am afraid.
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It is that I have forgotten where I was writing.
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When I wrote of “souls getting stuck,” I suddenly could not remember—was that me? Or someone I witnessed?
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I look back at the preface and see I wrote: “Swapped thirty-seven times.”
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Is it really that many?
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No, that seems too few?
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Thirty-seven times?
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Then who am I?
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Am I the person from the beginning?
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Or am I the thirty-seventh one?
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I do not know.
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I only know that I am the author of this art.
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There were only three reasons to record it:
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First, to leave a trace of myself;
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Second, to record this technique;
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Third, to document the cost of this technique.
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But the more I write, the more useless it feels, for I no longer know “who” is recording this.
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If you have read this far and still wish to use this art, I can only wish you luck.
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You are braver than I.
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The handwriting begins to slant here.
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Atiste guesses the author must have sensed something.
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I hear footsteps.
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Who is approaching?
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This secret chamber should be known to no one.
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I do not know who it is.
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They are approaching.
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Perhaps they do not want this technique?
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I must tuck this document into my tunic; if they find it, let them have it!
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I no longer need this art!
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Remember!
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The soul can be swapped countless times, but you are only yourself once!
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What follows is an extremely long ink smudge, as if drawn deliberately, dragging all the way to the end of the page.
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Atiste checks the final page of the document.
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It reads:
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“I have mastered this art and am preparing to find some vessels to test it.”
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Having finished the document, Atiste’s assessment is:
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“What kind of garbage is this? The crucial parts are nowhere to be seen, yet there is plenty of nonsense written.”
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Moreover, looking at the situation with Lillian and Eileen, they are both definitely willing to swap souls, so the first condition is satisfied.
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But the current Lillian cannot even be considered a “living creature”; she is just a vessel, a dead thing, and her soul can no longer be considered her original soul.
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The moment she was reborn, she was reshaped by Atiste into an “Art Piece.”
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But for now, there is no better way to swap them back.
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It seems he must go find the materials, learn the specific operations, and then improve upon them.
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As long as the method exists, improving such things is a piece of cake for Atiste.
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This, too, can be considered creating art.
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