"The Soul is a strange thing. It and you are one and the same, but are also different and distinct entities in a sense. Upon making use of a Soul Art, meditation is the first step."
"The greatest difference between cultivating the soul and cultivating other forms of power and energy, is that for the soul, there is no ambient power to extract."
"There are no Soul shards or Soul cores. No, none of that at all."
"Instead, Soul Essence is produced by meditation."
Cain frowned, "That simple?"
A chuckle came from the communicator,
"Of course you will say that. But meditating isn't as easy as it sounds. Most of the time, a being can meditate for decades, centuries, even millennia, without seeing a single result. Not only that, but meditation is very dangerous."
Cain imagined the smug face of the Demon as he explained,