On the other side, once the woman entered the necklace, she looked around for only a single second in her dizzy state, before suddenly, all hell broke lose as sand rushed into the necklace. She didn't know what happened outside, but the sudden movement caused damage inside of her, she didn't even have time to do anything before she fell down.
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An unknown amount of time passed. But when the woman woke up again, her body looked much younger, only a girl remaining. Yet every second, her body seemed to age endlessly up to old age, only for it to then decompose and rebuild into the young form of a girl. This form seemed to be the most stable, but even so, it would only be like this for a few seconds longer than the other forms.
She looked at herself and understood what happened. During this whole time in the necklace, it had corrupted her to a point. Although she didn't know how long it took, one thing was for sure – her soul, yes it is her soul that exists in the necklace and even before, was changed to be more compatible with the powers contained in the necklace.
Only superficial knowledge was contained in the introduction she received through the corruption, but she knew that this necklace was called the 'Necklace of Inheritance' – it is an inheritance thrown into the depths of the spiritual world, where she had just left.
The spiritual world connects the sea of consciousness of every being in numerous worlds, it is ever expanding and always reaches out to worlds when enough sentient beings are on these worlds. From then on, it will connect fully, corrupt the world and give rewards to the natives.
There is one reason for this – being composed of the sea of consciousness, any newly added world with sentient beings would expand the spiritual world in many ways. How much the worlds benefit depends on their quantity of sentient beings, not so much the quality.
The Necklace is an inheritance among many that were thrown by various organisations or even single people with the attempt of having it become a reward for new worlds. Once the inheritance is chosen by the spiritual world as a reward, the people will gradually become stronger and finally establish contact with the forces behind the inheritance.
How exactly they will interact from that point on is often different, but one thing is for sure, at least native resources of the worlds will often be trades for foreign resources. There is no need for worry that native resources are of a lower level.
After all, the corruption of the spiritual world is deep. To ensure it connects all the seas of consciousness, it will spread the spirituality of the spiritual world all over the world. The people will fall unconscious as they receive this, while the world itself establishes its own connection to the spiritual world, the spiritual world and the native world will be in a state of trade.
In exchange for the sentient beings, the world will gain spirituality, spiritual power will spread all around and into the depths of the world core to corrupt it too – until the world is able to produce its own spiritual power.
The ones that suffer truly in this exchange are the sentient beings – they die en masse, but naturally neither the spiritual world nor the native world care about this, the first even accepting a rapid growth through absorbing the fallen consciousnesses.
Of course both of these aren't sentient themselves, they only operate under the laws that have established themselves over time.
As for this specific inheritance, it is from one of the major organisations all around the spiritual world: the Coven of Witches!
There are many major organisations and all of them would throw inheritances into the depths of the spiritual world. The spiritual world would commonly choose several of them to be the core inheritances for each new world.
It is unknown whether the coven is lucky or not – after all, their inheritor died just after receiving the inheritance. Usually, this would be fine. The inheritance would only choose a different person to inherit it, while the first person would become fuel for the artifact.
Unfortunately for the coven or fortunately for the inheritor, this necklace belongs to a special faction among the coven. There are several factions among the coven, separated by the type of witch they are. Some other major organisations have different ways of separating, but the witches are very united in this case.
They are sorted by the type of witch they are. So to say, even if the worlds are extremely far apart, they still belong to the same faction and will be treated as a member. The first inheritor and their faction would be the ruling faction of the world from then on, and all the following factions would become subordinate in that world.
There is no other way – after all, becoming a witch is dependent on affinity, so even if the major faction is many steps ahead, they can't become the only faction, that would make the local coven weak, which is not something the higher coven wishes to happen.
As for the faction behind the necklace – it is one of the oldest, mightiest, but also rarest factions of the coven. The successful ones all took important positions in the higher ranks, their few numbers make them much more generous to other factions and they have become the impartial judges among many witches.
It belongs to the faction of the Aeon Witches!
They are the witches with a high affinity for time. This affinity is extremely rare but very long lasting. Not to mention the body, influencing it has always been difficult for the witches that are more inept with the soul. But the soul in comparison is nearly immortal.
Naturally all souls are immortal, but they all shed themselves of their mortal coil and enter the river of reincarnation once their lifespan run out. Those with the time affinity have a higher lifespan normally and are expected to live long, their souls not severing the connection to their body even after the body has become extremely weak.