Raze spent the next few hours reading, fully engrossed in the introductory section of soul magic.
But unlike every regular magic he'd touched so far,.fire, water, even the rare space magic, soul magic was nothing like them.
It didn't work with finding the mana frequency. It didn't work with attunement. It didn't even obey the same logic.
Soul magic tampered with the very existence of living beings. It manipulated a different energy entirely: soul energy. Some books classified it as a branch of mana, but the text made it very clear it was an existence of its own.
A mage could reach soul magic, yes, but if they weren't careful, a single mistake could cause catastrophic, irreversible damage… death to others… or even death to themselves.
There were no chants, no external spells, no flashy blasts like elemental magic. Instead, soul magic worked on one terrifying principle:
Equivalent exchange.
Nothing in soul magic went in one direction. Nothing was free.
