Later on in the day, Suzaku looked for different books about Artificial Soul, and found a book his dad had purchased about it. It explained that creating artificial souls is the art of gathering spirit energy into a sort of clump, and then enchanting them into different forms and abilities. It was strange to see that people know about it and actually practice it for a living. He then thought to change his hero outfit a bit since he thought his first one was a bit too cumbersome for him, but he was interrupted by a message from Ray and Orchid. "Well look who decided to show their faces. The jerks that locked me in the library, you both completely suck!" Suzaku yelled. Orchid apologized and said they found a strange clump of magical energy that was expanding in size, and that it was growing rapidly and draining people of their energy. Zheng tried to dispel it but it just rejected it and attacked back. Ray then asked if he could come over to see if they could absorb it or make it overflow with energy till it exploded outward and released all the energy it had absorbed. Suzaku agreed and said that he would meet them in an hour, and went to his dad to ask for a new suit. "A new one. Well okay, but you'll have to do the work. I'll help with the design and such. Now let's get to it." Harris said as he created created threads for Suzaku to work with. In a quick 40 minutes, Suzaku had a new suit that was a bit skin tight, but extremely durable. He had a full body tight jumpsuit with shoulder armor plates and he had two long sleeves that was connected like a short jacket. He also had metallic boots, and armor hanging from his hips connected by cloth similar to his dad. He also wore a glove that amplified his Meta and Yokai magic.
When he was finished with his outfit, he ran to the Mana Clump and saw everyone else was in their hero suits as well along with Isaac. "Wow, you actually look like an RPG hero. Might wanna watch out though, foxy and undead are piiiiiised off at you." Ray said as he pointed to Zheng and Kyubi having angry looks on their faces. Suzaku wasn't sure what they were angry about, but then saw Isaac making a seductive face at him and realized he was in a ridiculous harem situation. "Okay don't you guys start. I can love all three of you okay, I'm not some anime protag who's a hit with a bunch of bland ladies that do a whole bunch of nothing but cry for the main guy because he's got a weird sack or something. I'm poly, and I'm bi. Let's just put aside sexy urges till we're older...or end up in the same room again like with the kissing game. Okay?" he asked. Everyone ended up blushing at remembering their secret game, causing Quason and Gabriel to silently laugh about it as they were monitoring from a hiding spot. "We shouldn't laugh at this, people do it as a sign of trust, I don't think that's funny. As long as it wasn't incest-y. Then again that whole subject is kinda bullshit considering Egyptian kings did it as a sign of genuine affection. As long as no one gets pregnant then whatever. If your soul screams for love, the one who responds gives it no matter what. It's not solid but goddammit it's what I believe people should not shame." Harris said from behind them. Suzaku then set down a doll under the clump of energy and everyone tried guiding the energy into it, but it was too much and the doll burns up. Isaac tried absorbing it but it was too much for him and had to release it as small clump of astral matter. "Damn, how do we get rid of this thing? It's absorbing energy faster than it can be released. And the energy conducts so much heat it burns whatever gets too close or absorbs it. Maybe we should try our second idea, give it more till it bursts like a blimp in a knife fight. Let's do this you guys." Kyubi said as he used a spell to feed the clump energy at a rapid pace. However it was strange how it seemed to be emitting a strange wailing the larger it got, and was showing what looked like human faces. Everyone had stopped and saw that the massive clump was actually a monster that was in an evolution phase and was now finally complete, and was a massive ball of screaming souls forced into a ball of anguished faces with a dragon head in the front.
The beast roared out, shooting energy from it's mouth and absorbing more energy than before and swelling up to a massive size. Ray manifested a railgun in his hand and shot at the massive beast, but the shots just bounced off, so he went with a strange alien liquid metal and attacked it directly, managing to pierce through it. Orchid manifested sharp thorn covered vines and Kyubi lit them ablaze and they both attacked it at the same time. Isaac created a barrier around them in order to keep people away from the massive creature, but it was only temporary so they had to kill it. Only problem was that the body instantly regenerated no matter how many attacks it was dealt. Then Eve got the idea to attack the head, and it instantly dodged out of the way to protect itself, and prepared a massive shot in all directions. Zheng pulled something out of it, and what it he held was a soul, so he performed an exorcism rite to purify all the souls that was inside of it, causing the beast to shriek in pain. Isobu stabbed the dragon head with his kunai and it died on the spot, making the barrier vanish and the souls to fly away for reincarnation. "What exactly is that thing? It was like a massive flesh covered soul ball with a dragon head. Gross..." Orchid said. It was definitely a new type of monster, but as to how it came around no one knew how it got so powerful. Ray decided to chest his archives but came up with nothing as to how it was created or who made it. They all walked to the treehouse to discuss their next moves, but ended up eating fruit and drinking lemonade instead, then watching a movie.