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Spirit Magic:
WN

To define Soul magic the expression of ‘magic that interfere with negative material possessed by living thing’ showed its true nature the most. To say it specifically, this magic could also interfere with things like energy inside the body that was magic power, heat, electricity, then thought, consciousness, memory. Although this magic was designated as ‘soul’, what Yue and others could exercise with this magic was interference at thought body more accurately. And then if someone could handle this magic perfectly, the caster could personally create consciousness and the like, they could configure it too. To put another way, it was possible to create artificial intelligence using magic.

LN

Spirit magic was magic that manipulated the incorporeal elements of sentient beings. In more concrete terms, itcould be used to manipulate the heat, electricity, and other matterless energy that circulated within a person’s body. That also included things like memories, thoughts, and consciousness. With enough skill, a spirit magic user could take those incorporeal elements, duplicate them, and create a new soul out of them. In other words, create another person.

Spoiler: Sanity=Soul=Mind=Will

Soul and sanity:

At the same time, the bloody wind that was blowing violently in hell――that which was called as “the wind of lamentation”, seemed usable to form a transient flesh body which was centered on the soul.

Although, in the first place, “hell” was a world that wasn’t suitable for people with a flesh body to continue to exist. Thus, just like how those ghoul-like things looked like that, the flesh body there was constantly incomplete and ugly. As for their ability to think, people whose soul was of particularly fine quality when they were human would have it to a certain degree, but normal people were only able to act instinctually.

「That is the reason why they are trying to descend into this world. If they are able to materialize on Earth, they will be able to maintain a definite flesh body. Like that, naturally, the rank of their soul will rise, and they will be able to take back their thinking ability.」Ch 308

Mind, curses and madness:

They had prepared the remains of Japan’s three great youkais just in case. It was a secret art, a special awakening technique that transformed the youkai as foretold in legend into “Shikigami” just as the caster imagined. The technique was being completed.

This was one of their trump cards. As long as the caster hadn’t run out of energy, it was possible for the Shikigami to regenerate super fast because in the end it was just a Shikigami that was patterned after the caster’s imagination.

In addition, they also used the secret art of wide range extermination, by killing human mentally through polluting their sanity and vitality.

As compensation, the caster’s own mind would be remarkably fatigued and their resistance against curse would be temporarily reduced drastically but…… Ch 422

He filled his mind with such feeling while observing the three great youkais and the ghost swarm attacking in waves.

The subordinates around him, and most likely the people positioned throughout the sea of trees were also similarly exhausted physically and mentally just like Zhen Ying. They would be in danger if the “Shadow Monk” side got hit with a counterattack curse at this moment.

(Push through……push through-. For the sake of the homeland! Victory!!) Ch 422

Mind and Will:

『……It can’t be helped.』

The divine spirit who somehow recovered his calm muttered with small voice.

Actually, a clear death didn’t exist for divine spirit. Although, they also weren’t invincible. Because they were existence of nature phenomenon with their own will, their existence was depending on their will――in other word their mental strength.

In other words, if they were damaged to the extent they lost the willpower to regenerate, they would lose strength or get forced into dormant state for a while. They would become unable to materialize for a few years to dozens of years. Ch 333

Soul and Mind:

The divine spirit who somehow regenerated shouldn’t feel anything like physical exhaustion, and yet he was breathing roughly 『Zee zee』.

Surely it was the fault of mental exhaustion due to damage to his soul or the unknown existence of the absurd rabbit. Ch 333

「Teleport to the shrine-!!」

It was unknown how many were able to react to the warning shout of the elder. Hidzuki’s strafing fire and Hinata’s barrier saved them from instant annihilation, but not a few of the Tsuchimikado were swallowed by the monster.

But as expected, the silver lining here was the monster was a “shadow”. For an instant, everyone thought that their comrades had been swallowed alive and turned white, but there were definitely flesh bodies falling on the ground after the shadow jaws passed through.

It seemed they weren’t physically eaten because of the shadow body. But, there was no way they could feel relieved from that. There was no way Yamato no Orochi had just taken a meaningless action.

「Tsu, their soul is disappearing?」

Dread ran through their whole body. It couldn’t eat the flesh body. Then, it would eat human’s mind, their soul. Naturally what lied ahead from there was the death of mind. It was a straight course to become an invalid.

「I won’t let you-. ――tamanowowo musubikatamete yorodzuyomo mimusubinokami mitamafuyurashi!!」

She clapped once, twice. It was the secret words to alter reality for prolonging life in Shinto. It was a secret ritual that fastened down the soul that almost vanished to keep them alive for a while right now.

Although her body was trembling due to a large chunk of her willpower being taken away as compensation, she desperately kept the lives of her clan tethered down. Ch 424

Soul and Will:

Hajime couldn’t sense anything of Ehitruje’s personality or will from the creature. The existence-denying bullet had indeed killed Ehitruje himself. The only reason he hadn’t completely disappeared was because his attachment to eternal life and desire to trample over everything were so strong that a shade of him composed of only those feelings had remained.

The creature that had once been Ehitruje let out another scream.

“Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!” Vol 13 p223

「……Then, it’s just our imagination that it seems like it has its own will?」

「No, there is a will dwelling in it. It can’t exchange words with us no matter what, perhaps because it’s too old, but Aularodde is able to understand it to a certain degree.」

According to her, dwelling inside the holy sword was the will of the first avatar of the Great Tree, Ua Alto.

It seemed that this sword was created in order to oppose Ehito when descended to Tortus and several years hundred passed since he started baring his fang. But, the hero at that time and also Ua Alto herself were tragically defeated in the end. Ua Alto then used her last strength to transfer her soul into the sword. Ch 386

Then Shizuku asked 「In the first place, just what is the mud beast?」.

「If I remember it right, the explanation is that it’s a shadow of living thing that lost its soul……」

「I guess. Just like Meeres said, those things don’t have anything you can call soul or will. It’s more accurate to call them a natural disaster.」Ch 525

Spoiler: Soul/Mind/Will=Madness resistance

The counterattack didn’t last long. Myuu fell into Alv’s hand──and then,

「Tio-san, Aiko-san, won’t it be better to put mental protection on everyone just in case?」

「Remia? ……Aa, no, it’s just as thou said.」

「Certainly, that might be best.」

Tio and Aiko guessed what Remia’s worry was and applied the magic of mind protection on everyone in double layer. Then it happened right after that.

「「「Hih……」」」

It was the Shirasaki couple and Akiko who unconsciously let out such stiff voice. Even Yaegashi family’s expressions were twitching and they clenched their fists to suppress the shaking of their body.

There in the projection, was Hajime’s ghastliness that might sent anyone who saw it into madness even from across a projection and with soul magic applied as protection.

Eyes that were pitch black as though all resentment and rage in this world were boiled down and left to ferment, murderous crimson aura that was radiating from his whole body.

──Everything can just disappear

It was the moment the concept magic to curse and erase everything in the world was born from emotion of extremity.

The hole in his stomach was still gaping wide open, blood soaked his whole body, his body was clad in crimson aura while swaying like a revenant. And yet, everyone whether they were approaching or fleeing got split into small parts and obliterated without being able to offer any resistance whatsoever.

That figure was like the personification of a man-eating rakshasa. Even Shuu and Sumire were rendered speechless and shuddered before it. Ch 449

There were more than ten demons whose eyes rolled back and fainted in the demon king castle’s throne room.

After that parent and child demons fainted, the people who in the past got left behind from entering the holy precinct heard the commotion here and came running one after another. That caused the damage to spread in succession.

Their expression looked exactly the same like “someone whose SAN parameter got greatly reduced from encountering cosmic horror”.

It was chaos, pure and simple.

The air was deathly silent. Even the old man with unknown intention who sought for a meeting that forcefully, even the man in knight uniform who were holding him back, and then even Shuu and Sumire and the other parents were harmoniously watching in mute amazement.

In addition, the human and beastman soldiers who seemed to be the troops who were stationed here, and also the people with matching emblem embroidered on their chest who seemed to be the members of the delegation could be seen cam running here in great hurry while raising their voice.

Hajime glanced at those before he looked at the unconscious demons.

「Good grief……even though we had also talked before I returned to Japan.」

Perhaps it was because this reunion was too sudden? Hajime sighed. He scratched his head because of this bad timing while looking at Tio and Aiko.

「Sorry but, can you two use soul magic on them?」

「Ah, yes! Leave it to us!」

「Umu. It might cause misunderstanding if they immediately shriek and faint again after getting awakened. So we shall also temporarily strengthen their soul so they can endure even when looking at the sca~ary Goshujin-sama.」Ch 450

Conclusions:

1. Soul, mind are generally treated as the same(unless specified).
2. Strong Mind/Soul=supernatural willpower.
3. Soul/Mind damage is a form of madness inducement.
4. Resistance to curses, fear and madness comes from the strength of their Soul=Mind=Will.

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Agree: @LuffyRuffy46307 ,@Lloydblitzed ,@Eseseso ,@Shiraito983 ,@BeTheWay1rst ,@Elizhaa ,@DarkDragonMedeus ,

Disagree:

Neutral:

 

[LuffyRuffy46307]

It looks good to me

 

[Lloydblitzed]

Agree to the thread too

 

[Lloydblitzed]

Let me add this real quick

Mind=Will

And that's a MGR negation.

Prettt straightfoward here so I agree

 

[Lloydblitzed]

From the WN scan: "Although this magic was designated as ‘soul’, what Yue and others could exercise with this magic was interference at thought body more accurately."

Does this mean that the soul itself is a concept ?

Feel like this is more about the magic affecting their physicals

 

[Lloydblitzed]

What is physical here?

Thoughts and ideas are abstract.

"this magic was interference at thought body more accurately."

Nvm I missread "thought as throught"

 

[Eseseso]

Seems ok

 

[Shiraito983]

looks fine

 

[BeTheWay1rst]

Looking good, i agree

 

[Elizhaa]

These changes look fine.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Looks alright.

 

[TheTenno07]

Bump

You already have enough votes to do the changes