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RandomzSunfish23901 wrote: The reason I said the neutral pacifist route was because you don't take any souls at any time. Ah, but that's true of all the routes. While killing increases your LV, that increase in power has nothing to do with the taking (i.e. absorbtion) of souls. You are unable to take regular monster souls because they disappear immediately along with the body. You are unable to take the boss monster souls (i.e. Toriel's and Asgore's) because they break before you can absorb them. You are unable to take the human souls because it is impossible to do so. At no point in any run do you absorb a soul. Hence, even within a Neutral ending where you killed enemies, the exact same problem would arise, because no matter how strong your human soul is, it is still only a human soul.