The Mule Ref

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"The Engineers had done this thousands of times before, you take a piece of the crusader's soul and grow it by sacrificing other souls to it, a soul clone. One continues until it is engorged and then let it mature and sacrifice it back to the crusader. The process is repeated until the crusader dies. I saw the ones that were waiting for past crusaders, they sit obese and stupid gurgling for more. I could see the infinite swirling souls inside the bodies, not swirling individually but as huge masses of souls arbitrarily stuck together. It was pocket of afterlives jammed together somehow not exploding into its own realm. I wondered why the souls hadn't merged to control the body. 'They are endless in number but are copies in status.'  Ah the engineers were abusing the laws of the goddess to create chaos that could not order itself, intelligent.
The engineers droning always bothered me, they were given infinite intelligence but were so frighteningly short sighted. Thus I decided to wish for a sentient soul clone. The engineers said it revolt 100% of the time, nothing would want to be born to die, or that I would not be able to accept the sacrifice as I'd grow attached to it. I said I'd worry about that when that millennia manifests itself. Although I, mistaken and fresh to the omniverse, thought I would need a companion and I figured I'd keep track of my sacrifice.
    The engineers were able to deflect my questions on the process of giving the clone sentience. Unfortunately for them could not stop me from keeping a close watch on the soul clone. They packed the fragment at an unbelievable speed. Any soul they had they rammed into it, Apex predators, immortal mages, a Shuvian Dreadlord and his entire court, Septillions of humans, elves and dwarves, world trees, all manners of soulful life. I even watched them drain an entire universe of souls using gravitational wells. The body was just as all the rest, though not nearly as massive still fat and asking for more. It was a trait of my existence to be able to sense every single soul within the body. They all called out asking why, who, how and every question about their newfound existence. I found myself compelled to answer all their questions.
    After awhile the soul that asked the question was not the one to respond, the souls were losing their identity and developing as something different. The engineers were not happy (as far as they could emote) they spoke of an explosion, revolution, ruination to the millennias of work so far, my destruction, even harm to the goddess, but our work and my existence was nothing compared to the goddess and to harm her one must have power that even she can not fathom. Even though they ran their tests simultaneously to my consul with the body the engineers couldn't see, the responding souls were actually the same entity. I couldn't detect the entity other then by presence and vibration, thus I concluded the presence had to be using the body to speak. So I encouraged it to command the body but I realized the continued influx of souls kept warping the entity. Only the new souls asked me questions but the entity responded, I asked the engineers to stop the inflow of souls. Heretical they said...so I asked the goddess.
    The goddess was greatly amused by the whole ordeal. She removed the engineers and stopped the flow. In a moment the responder was a consistent entity when I asked it questions. It was aware and sentient but I saw that the masses of souls within it still had their own identities as merged as they were. It was undoubtedly a different entity that had transcended its artificial beginnings into its own reality. I was forced to say a temporary goodbye to it as I had another test from the goddess but I asked the goddess to take the sentient clone with me. The goddess had desired such a request, so she gave it a body and commanded it to do as I say, as a mule would. Thus it became the Mule. He was a bit of a hassle initially but once controlling his body he manifested as a simple creature that was slightly nonsensical. He obediently picked up behind me and was very happy to do mundane tasks. He gained his own interests and skills and was certainly not a bother once learning basic existence.
    He is surprisingly aware of his purpose for existing, he is genuinely looking forward to being sacrificed back to me and knows he has to continue to ingest souls. He is biased towards his own mind and only takes on souls that are weak or asked to be devoured so to not disrupt his personality. As to the engineers expectations I have developed a fondness for him, he is genuine and happy with simple things. He told me he would like to travel on his own to gain souls on his own. Such a parent-child relationship we have, so I am asking to allow him to travel on his own to develop as a sacrifice.

He will likely be my last sacrifice."

~The 9th Crusader's Request to The One with Head Bowed for the Independence of The Mule

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Mule's Body and Durability: He doesn't use air to speak but still causes directional vibrations controlled by his face which is why you can hear him more clearly when he is facing you.

It'll take an eternity to use blunt force impacts to kill him but slashing and puncture wounds will hurt him significantly faster. 

The Mule is a vessel designed to contain souls and is easily able to contain the exploding outward pressure of the souls resulting in a hefty durability to changes in pressure. Now if he was thrown into the vacuum of space he wouldn't explode as his body is heavily resistant to pressure but would be at the mercy of the temperature change.

Throwing the poor guy into lava or dangerous acids would certainly kill him.

TRIVIA:
When consuming a weak soul they'll just pass into his head. When a large soul commits to him his face opens up and a black head is revealed and the soul is pushed in through there. People with strong spirit capabilities may see this black head normally.

His head doesn't move his face merely rotates around it.

His phone is tethered to his original universe's network and can not be connected to the current universe's network. He's on the family plan.

The goddess that is continually being referred to is the Goddess of War and Conflict a multiversal god who controls all universes she can reach directly and sends out others from her domain to expand her domain. She creates a crusader as her symbolic entity to extend beyond her direct reach and only 1 crusader can exist at a time (relatively speaking). From the 9th crusader the Mule was created. (SHE IS NOT KING)

Extra Notes:
Can not tear the soul from a person without great effort, which he will not do anyway. He only sucks up souls that are free-roaming (without bodies) or from spirit based attacks.
Feel free to change the colors of his shoes, pants, dress shirt and belt. Just nothing too heavy pattern wise, stripes and plaid are fine, he dresses business casual.

His partner is a King of Something ghostlyskull.deviantart.com/ar…
His Bike's reference ghostlyskull.deviantart.com/ar…

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