Marvel's Hogwarts Wizard

Chapter 639 Forcibly Taking the Soul Gem (First Update)

"I'm sorry, but you can only exchange your own lover's soul for this. You cannot exchange it using someone else's soul."

Just then, the Red Skull, the guardian of the Soul Gem, seemed to have received some instructions and turned to Jerry to explain helplessly.

As fellow Earthlings and friends of an old acquaintance, he didn't really want to make things difficult for the other party. But in the end, he was just a pitiful creature enslaved by the Soul Gem, merely a mouthpiece.

The true power lies with the will that gave birth to the Soul Gem itself.

"They are my lovers. I would throw them down with me and exchange our souls for them."

Jerry pointed to his son, who was unconscious on the edge of the cliff, and smiled at his mother, who was terrified after the Imperius Curse was lifted.

Red Skull shook again:

"I'm sorry, they can't do it, you don't love them."

"But the person I love isn't here."

Jerry shrugged.

Red Skull hesitated for a moment before speaking:

"You can use your soul; after you die, the two of them will become the new owners of the Soul Gem. However, I advise you not to do that; go back to Earth."

Having been imprisoned by the Soul Stone for seventy-two years, Red Skull had actually gained some understanding of the consciousness within the Soul Stone.

The idea that sacrificing one's most beloved person can make one the master of the Soul Gem is not absolute; it's merely a rule set by the consciousness of the Soul Gem.

It simply enjoys witnessing the pain of life and death, and likes collecting those special souls.

The reason Vormir is the way it is now is largely due to the Soul Gem; it returns to this place every time a user of the gem dies.

If one does not possess sufficient power to wield the Soul Stone, obtaining it may not be a good thing, but rather a disaster.

Because it is the only one of the six Infinity Stones that has its own consciousness.

"Alright, then I'll trade my soul for it!"

To Red Skull's surprise, Jerry wasn't surprised at all after hearing his words. Instead, he nodded, walked to the edge of the cliff, and jumped off.

However, when he flew to the edge of the cliff, he discovered that Jerry, who had fallen to the bottom of the cliff, was standing unharmed on the altar a hundred meters below.

"Hey, this little height won't kill me. Why don't you come out and take my soul yourself!"

Jerry crashed heavily onto the stone altar, then casually dusted himself off and shouted down at the altar.

As soon as he finished speaking, a strange smile appeared on his lips.

"As expected, it was hidden here!"

With a wave of his hand, the four gems—Space, Power, Reality, and Mind—suddenly appeared from his ring world.

With a single, gentle tap of his hand on the altar, he harnessed the power unleashed by the four Infinity Stones with the strength of a Celestial, instantly transforming the altar into a massive black hole.

At this moment, an orange-yellow gem, radiating powerful spiritual energy, was revealed within the black hole.

As if sensing some kind of threat, the Soul Gem suddenly unleashed a powerful soul force, trying to escape the black hole quickly. However, how could Jerry let it get away like that?

"Come back here!"

The four powers of equal level—space, strength, reality, and mind—exploded once more under Jerry's control, and the powerful suction force directly pulled the Soul Gem, which was trying to escape, towards him.

"Give it to me!"

Grabbing the Soul Gem, Jerry didn't dare to delay and immediately flashed into his own ring world.

It turns out that Jerry already understood when he learned that the mother and child he had captured could not be exchanged for the Soul Stone.

The so-called exchange of the soul of one's beloved for another's soul is not an ironclad law of the universe, but merely a rule set by the Soul Stone itself.

That's true. If Thanos's greatest love was his adopted daughter Gamora, Jerry could barely accept it. But for Hawkeye Barton to say that Black Widow was his greatest love seems a bit far-fetched.

Hawkeye has a wife and children. He and Black Widow have a very good comradeship, but it can't be considered his favorite.

So he had been thinking that perhaps the Soul Gem's claim about the person you love most isn't absolute, because no one can possibly know who someone's most beloved person is.

Perhaps the Soul Stone simply sensed certain emotions from those who came before it, such as Thanos's affection for Gamora, or the friendship between Hawkeye and Black Widow; it simply wanted to witness the life and death of others.

Ultimately, he just wanted to be the ringleader in breaking up couples, purely to satisfy his own perverse tastes.

Fortunately, he had already come up with a solution.

It's very simple. If the plan fails, we'll just take it by force. As long as we're strong enough, rules and regulations don't matter.

He had encountered similar situations many times and was very experienced.

Although the Soul Stone is one of the six Infinity Stones and possesses powerful laws, and is the only one with its own consciousness, it cannot unleash its full power without a sufficiently powerful person to control it.

Otherwise, Thanos wouldn't have been able to use the other gems to shatter it directly after snapping his fingers.

The Soul Gem was hidden very deep; even though he had just been on it, he couldn't pinpoint its exact location.

That's why he used himself as bait to lure the Soul Gem out of sight.

The Soul Gem was clearly interested in Jerry's powerful soul. After seeing that Jerry had survived falling off the cliff, it quietly moved towards him, extending its own soul power in an attempt to directly seize Jerry's soul.

That's how Jerry discovered its location, took out the four Infinity Stones, and used his power to forcibly bring it into the Ring world.

Although the Ring World has not yet been built into a complete dimensional world, it has at least begun to take shape thanks to Jerry's hard work.

The basic framework and the initial operational power of the framework were completed during the two years of magic apprenticeship.

Therefore, within the ring world, his strength will be greatly enhanced, and he will also be able to manipulate the laws of the world to forcibly imprison the Soul Gem.

He could even try to erase the independent consciousness born within the Soul Gem, making it like any other gem.

The Infinity Stones are not indestructible; they simply symbolize the laws of the universe. Even if destroyed, they will be reborn after a long period of gestation.

If they exist long enough, they will develop their own consciousness, just like the Soul Stones are now.

Of the six Infinity Stones, the Soul Stone has existed the longest. The other five stones have all been destroyed and reassembled, and have not yet developed their own consciousness.

But Jerry doesn't need them to have their own consciousness; he only needs the knowledge of the laws they contain. So erasing the consciousness of the Soul Gem is clearly a better choice.

(End of this chapter)