Talk:Evileye/@comment-5105419-20151201104726/@comment-27168967-20160122155242

@Grim

Uh... soul released and absorbed? Try reading from the beginning of WN again. The Katze's plain soul absorption scene is something of a special effect of Avarice and Generous gathering experience points. To the soldiers who saw that, they presumed Ainz was harvesting the souls of the dead because he was using Avarice, the part that looks demonic, as that's the part that can gather experience points.

During the massacre at Carne village, we are not told of any such effect. When Ainz first killed the soldier to save Enri in the WN, did you see any mention of a soul being released after Ainz killed the pursuers? When the Death Knight killed someone, did you see a blue orb released? No. Even for all the other carnage Ainz is directly or indirectly involved after this battle, there's no more mention of this blue orb being released anywhere else.

Also, taking this particular scene in the WN to say anything about the LN wouldn't sit right on so many things altogether. These may be conjectures but you'll understand why I think the author ditched the soul equal exp part. First, if souls are needed to level up, what did Enri kill to get her levels in LN? Or are you saying she's sharing souls with her summoned goblins?

Two, if the released soul is absorbed into another then wouldn't the resurrection magic on the victim who can be revived cause the one who gathered the experience to lose an equal amount of experience (or at least partially) because the soul has been returned to the corpse? If the soul cannot be returned (possibly because it has been totally absorbed over time), wouldn't the resurrected one simply become an undead without any intelligence? Unless, you're implying that the resurrection magic can duplicate one's soul. Lastly, if souls are really needed to level up, what happens to those who never go out to kill something? Think of people who are farmers, actors, laborers, carpenters, etc. Are you saying that they can never level up past lvl 1 in the NW?