Energy. It was all about energy. Magic, aura and the soul - it all depended on energy. Absorbing the souls of the dead? That was not it. It was simply converting energy from one form to the other.After all, energy could never be created nor destroyed, only changed from one form to the other.
"Ha ha haha ha ha ha ha...hahaaaaahaha...haah..ha.ha.ha."
He had found it, his route to power.
Magnifico!
Splendid!
Truly Magnificent!
His parents had no idea what they had done. How much they had opened the doors of power to him?
"Ha ha ha ha ha" Samael was laughing like a villain in his mind. Imagine needing a knife to arm yourself but instead of getting one, you are given the tools to build yourself a nuclear missile. That was how Samael felt.
Runes were so perfect for him and the soul training technique was simply majestic. All he had to do was kill and absorb. Kill and absorb. He was in a dungeon for gods sake and there were plenty of monsters to kill.
Ah! so many resources to harvest, so little time.
But he had to calm down...he had to hold done his horses. For now, he was just glad he had finished learning everything there was to know about soul energy . How to sense it and how to use it to inscribe the runes. He was lucky that his parents were a walking wealth of knowledge. They knew almost everything there was to know about soul energy even though they were forbidden from using it.
Being royalty really came with its glamor and splendor.
From all their theoretical knowledge provisions on soul energy, he had deduced his energy theory. That everything is energy, even humans and as energy beings, humans exhibited a natural and instinctual response to modalities that are directed towards balancing the vital energy centres in their bodies.
From that, he had inferred that nothing actually dies, it just follows the theory of conversion of energy forms.
Soul energy utilization was just another way of converting energy from one form to another and
what he was actually attempting to do was to increase his capacity and rate of conversion of "death" energy to a form that could suit him.