These souls are both the natural lives of the Laisel Forest slaughtered by the Lord of Withering over the years and those infused into him by Khan Yamun.
This is not a small number, reaching up to hundreds of thousands. Although most are the souls of ordinary creatures, each having just a few Life Dice, the sheer amount makes them an excellent tonic for the starting Dragon Oak Mother Tree.
It's not just the Dream Divinity and Corruption Divinity doubling. It also makes the operation of the Dragon Oak Dream Realm smoother and significantly enhances its stability.
Even if all lives go offline simultaneously, this dream realm will not collapse, supported by these purified souls.
In other words, since the opening of the Dragon Oak Dream, it has always maintained a certain number of online attendants, especially later, as more things were shaped in the dream, requiring more souls to bear.
When there were only Gaven and Lord Virginia, this place was a barren expanse, with nothing.
