All was agony. Soulburning, mindnumbing agony. He felt his very essence burn for eons. Luckily, even torture can get stale, even pain can only ratchet up to a certain point before it can’t go any further, leaving the victim to let go and drift into a comatose state, or muster up their last failing strength to pick up the pieces of their shattered mind. This is where the story of Theo begins.

Slowly regaining the ability to reason, he felt what he intuited to be his body, burn and reform unendingly. His entire being was almost gaseous, but as he tried to stretch out, tendrils erupted from his cloudlike form. As he stretched out, he felt an increasing ache until finally it maxed out when he hit a wall. Panicking, he sent out more tendrils in every direction until he had mapped out the shape of his cage. The word crystalline came and went in the back of his mind, even as panic and his more animalistic side took control. Time and again he slammed into the wall, scattering and reforming only to muster all his strength and ramming it again, without any positive result. Finally, he tried to gather himself in rather than spred out, and eventually ended up somewhat humanoid in shape. Moving was still entirely by intent, but he felt a far larger momentum build as he once more hurled himself at his hated adversary. The crackling sound reverberated into his very soul, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard, as he flew to to the opposite side of his prison and once more flung himself with mad abandon. The soul gem shattered and night became day, a blind man regained sight, and a tortured soul laid burning eyes on a necromancer.

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Congratulations! You have slain your first enemy and eaten your first soul.

Your race has been changed to Soulspectre Revenant, you are now a level 4 revenant.

Your job and skill levels have been reset, you are now a level 1 novice.

Name: Theo Streetrat

Race: Soulspectre Revenant(lvl 4)

Secondary race (host): Human

Job: Novice (lvl 1)

Title: First if your kind (+25% skill growth, +1 skill point per job level)

HP:100/100

MP:100/100

SP:100/100

Hunger: Sated (+1 Wisdom)

Vitality:10

Strength:10

Dexterity:10

Intelligence:10

Wisdom:10(+1)

Charisma:10

Luck: Yes.

Undistributed attribute points: 15

General Skills:

Identify (lvl 1)

Job skills:

Manasense (lvl 1)

Racial skills:

Soul sense (lvl 8)

Soul avatar (lvl 3)

Feast (lvl 1)