Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-31165326-20181113050408/@comment-28876888-20181114043901

Other explosions don't do the same. As for soul negging, see Acererak again, a Soul Devourer who was using the souls to ascend to godhood (and a canon character, oddly enough, with very few adjustments- the art on his page is actually for the canon character).

As for quantity, it isn't some over the top world number, but as far as I know it was in the thousands. Acererak needed a city's worth of souls to begin ascending by force.