The soul which has reached the river of reincarnation blends in with the bazillions of souls that are flowing in a uniform manner.
The souls all seem to flow towards a huge portal which is coloured blue. according to the speed at which they're flowing, It seems Erwin's soul would have to wait for at least a decade before it can reach the portal.
After 1 year
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The soul seems to have awakened. It does not have any thoughts but it's instinctual will start to awaken. The same phenomena is happening to all the souls that have travelled with it for the past year
After 4 years
The soul's consciousness is formed. It can feel the surroundings. It can observe the trillions of souls that are in front of it and also the portal at the end. But the soul's consciousness is that of a baby hence except taking all the surroundings in, it cannot do much.
After a few days of observing the nearby souls, which are doing the same, Erwin's soul goes back to sleep as if it is extremely tired. The reason is that Erwin had cut off a part of his soul and sent it to reincarnation. Hence it is a damaged soul that needs all the rest to heal itself.
The surrounding souls do not need sleep and their consciousness is developing at a slow speed as they are required to do something on the other side of the portal.
After 7 years
Erwin's soul wakes up again. It can hear a jumble of chatter around it.
"STRENGTH, STRENGTH,STRENGTH"
"Need to be beautiful, need to be beautiful, need to be beautiful"
"NEED A BIG DICK! NEED A BIG DICK! NEED A BIG DICK"
"Fire is my only friend"
"Eyes as sharp as the hawk"
Erwin's soul listens to the chatter curiously, wondering what do those sounds mean.
The chatter is the last will from the previous lives of the souls. Not all souls speak because one needs to have a certain level of willpower to send this reminder across death. Out of all the souls that are near Erwin's soul only around 10 percent have the will of their precedents.
But it can be seen that all the souls had the intelligence of a 2 year old. It can be said that over the years the souls have been becoming more self aware and their instinctual desires is becoming more prominent.
The instinctual desires of a soul is not something a soul is born with. It is an amalgamation of all the lives the soul has led.
The characterstics of the person which is molded by the experiences he has had is etched on the soul. These characterstics give birth to a consciousness during the time when a soul travels through the river of reincarnation. As time passes the consciousness becomes more stronger and independent. The consciousness of the baby born is not related to this consciousness formed in the river of reincarnation.
Erwin's soul only has the self-awareness of a new born. It does not understand anything that is going on around it. It can hear and see but that just seems to be data that is gibberish. After trying to understand it for a few weeks again it feels tired. The soul is not fully healed hence the tiredness. It drifts back into a deep sleep.
After 9 years
Erwin's soul wakes up again. It woke up due to the aura it felt from the portal. It's souls seems to have been fully healed, though it is weak, there is no noticable flaw.
The surrounding souls have matured consciousness of 4 year old who has a basic understanding of what is happening around them. Some are even waiting to pass through the portal, curious about what is on the other side.
Erwin's soul which has just healed still has a consciousness of a baby which puts it at a disadvantage when compared to the other souls. The instinctual will of Erwin's soul is has been barely awakened and it's presence is very feeble. It can in no way affect the judgement of the current consciousness that is present.
Days passes into weeks and Erwin's soul's time to pass through the portal has come. The surrounding souls can be said to be in an excited state as something new is going yo happen. But Erwin's soul is just silent not understanding anything.
Finally the set of souls pass through the portal and are transported to a different space. Erwin's soul finds itself alone in a vast dark space with glittering stars.
Each star represents an attribute. The attribute can be a power, an affinity or a characterstic.
The power-type attributes can give the person the power that is specified in the attribute. All powers are growth-type and the level will depend on the person's luck and hardwork.
The affinity-attributes similarly gives the person an affinity to the specified [ENTITY]. this [ENTITY] can be the elements namely: Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Dark, Light, Time and Space. It can also be stuff like Poison, Bugs, Animals, Plants, Technology, etc. Basically anything with which one can have a profession, the affinity-attribute of it can be found.
The characterstic-attribute represents the different characters or personality a person can have. It includes Righteous, Cowardly, Courageous, Foolhardy, Naive, Kind, Friendly, Introvert, Psychopath, Sadist, Diabolical,etc. When a characteristic-attribute is selected the specified characterstic will be an integral part of the persons psyche. Their growth and the environment they grow in may cause some deviations but the thoughts that are created by the characteristic attribute will remain
For example, If a person choose kind as one of his attributes, but if the environment he grows up is harsh, the life he leads will deviate from the kind - attribute and he may become a cruel person. But when his life stabilizes the kind thoughts in his mind will again pop up and mellow down the cruelty in his heart. If he leads a peaceful life for longer period of time then he will slowly revert back to being kind. This does not mean he is not cruel anymore but more like the cruelty has been used as a flame to hammer his will into something stronger.
Any single soul can only select 10 of these attributes after which they will reincarnated.