Ren proceeded to go through the same interaction thousands of times.Every few hundred times Ren could sense a disturbance in the mana comprising the vampiric city.
It seemed as though the city lost power whenever every few hundred souls moved onto the afterlife.The city appeared to shrink whenever the disturbance in the mana happened.
All the souls gave similar stories as the obese man from before.They all reported voices in their heads that apparently belonged to bored gods that travelled the cosmos.They also mentioned the 13 year long internal timer and the spawning of entities.They were all killed by the same entity Count Andreus.
Ren was now devoting himself to depleting Count Andreus' stash of souls to zero.That way he could fulfill one of the conditions required to respawn.
Once he was done all he had to do was wait for Count Andreus to die.Ren was counting on Raphael to do something even though he couldn't kill Count Andreus.
"Wait I never told him I could respawn." Realisation dawned on Ren as he realised that there was a reason why souls were only moving on to the afterlife only due to him and not due to Andreus using his soul consumption regeneration ability.
After a few more souls passed on Ren found Ruth's soul.Her face was missing and her hands had been severed.Her entire body was covered in blue and purple bruises.She was currently trying to cover her non-existent face with her non-existent hands and was screaming in pain.
Ren repeated the process but Ruth had something to say.
"Ren...what are you doing here?"
"I'm...here to set things right...I..." Ren said emotionally before he was interrupted.
"You think you can set things right after leading us to our deaths.Are you insane." Ruth grasped the situation immediately and expressed her displeasure.
"I'm sorry I was just trying to kill the vampire count before he became too powerful." Ren attempted to explain himself and his actions.
"That's bullshit and you know it.I saw your face before you went off to kill the dryad.The greed,excitement and avarice on your face when you agreed to go kill it because you figured out you could keep the loot.The look temporary despair on your face when you saw Raphaels strengh firsthand.You only wanted the vampire counts loot in order to catch up to him.Getting a soul weapon wasn't enough for you huh.You only wanted more power in order to surpass Raphael didn't you.Well your not only weak your also incompetent.Even if you survived you would never surpass Raphael." Ruth's words cut into Rens heart like a knife.
"That's not...look just move on to the afterlife.You can start over." Ren attempted to convince Ruth to move on but she had other ideas.
"I can only move on after I kill you." Ruth stood up in order to attack Ren.
"Please don't make me do this." Ren said with tears in his eyes as he summoned his thorn dagger and stabbed Ruth's soul in the neck.Her eyes gave a look of disbelief and then closed.Her soul then dissipated and Ren could sense the mana that comprised her soul had dissipated into the surroundings.
No rift had opened and Ren knew her soul didn't go to the afterlife.It was all his fault.His fault that Ruth had died.If he didn't bring her along then perhaps she would still be alive.Perhaps she would be able to confess her feelings to Raphael.Ren would eventually be able to respawn and reunite with them.
After what felt like hours of crying Ren eventually got up and continued getting thousands of more souls to pass on to the afterlife.
Once Ren was done with every single soul he found and all his exploring resulted in finding zero souls.Ren was the only one left.
Ren didn't know how much time had passed but he eventually stopped waiting as the world appeared to collapse in on itself.
[Respawning]
Ren then found himself in familiar scenery.He was in the attic of the vampires mansion.Ren saw some unfamiliar people who were looking at him strangely.Ren saw that he was naked but that didnt explain why they had their weapons pointed at him.Weren't they the help that Raphael got in order to kill the vampire count and properly clear the mansion.
"You...where did you appear from?Are you an entity?" An unfamiliar 20 year old man asked Ren as he had a spear pointed at him.
"Aren't you the help Raphael got and no I'm not an entity." Ren replied as he looked down at his body.His prominent musculature had disappeared and he was now scrawny.All the power and speed he had built up appeared to have disappeared.
"Is this the catch to having such a powerful ability." Ren thought to himself but what the man said next interrupted his thoughts.
"Who's Raphael and you haven't explained why you suddenly disappeared when we killed the vampire count." This got Ren thinking and he asked something.
"What year is it?"
"Oh it's 4046" One of the men said nonchalantly.
"700 YEARS PASSED BY SINCE I WAS LAST ALIVE." Ren yelled out without realising it.