Princess Cromwell and Her Six Brothers
These days were the closest Carl had come to soul shattering, days in which his body repeatedly collapsed and was repeatedly reborn, days in which he hovered on the brink of life and death tens of millions of times.
His body was completely incinerated by Heaven's Power several times, leaving only a ghastly white skeleton, yet it was forcibly reconstituted with flesh and blood by the life force of the secret realm, skin regrowing anew.
His soul essence was completely worn away several times by the Power of the rules, leaving only a faint trace of obsession, yet it was forcibly bonded again by the primordial source of life, reassembling his sea of consciousness.