After the announcement from the "System," Jun felt the pain in his mind begin to dissipate.
After a few seconds of resting, the pain was mostly gone. Jun opened his eyes, inhaled deeply, and caught his breath.
"Hah… Hah… Hah…" Jun sat down and clenched his chest. Sweat was visible on his face.
"Wh-What the f*ck!" Jun muttered.
As Jun was still catching his breath, the two voices he heard before when he was suffering echoed again. This time, he heard it loud and clear inside his mind.
It was as if these voices had always been there.
The first to speak was the youthful voice, "Yo, you good?"
Panicked, Jun hurriedly said, not answering the question, "Who are you? Why are you inside my head? Why are you doing this to me?" Why di—"
The youthful voice cut Jun's barrage of questions, and said, "Yo! Yo! Chill, geez… Ask questions one at a time, okay?"
Before Jun could repeat his questions, the youthful voice cut him off again.
"For your first question, we are also Jun. We are you, but without a body."
"Wai-" Jun, trying to speak, but the youthful voice cut him off again.
"Second, we also don't know. Why not ask the System?"
"The third question, Hm… We are not doing anything to you. I know you know that because we are the same person."
Jun gazed at the panel that shows the progress of the splitting process.
"Maybe because of me pressing the passive skill: split. That's why my mind gained two new thoughts. Yeah… It's possible, we are in a fantasy world after all."
"Whoa… You're smart, huh. Mr. Obvious." The youthful voice sarcastically said.
"Hah! What a day. What a new experience, me mocking myself…" Jun said to the youthful voice.
Jun then sarcastically said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Genius. Sorry for overstepping my boundary, perhaps you could grace this lowly one with your boundless knowledge. For I am still recovering from the pain I suffered creating you.
Jun prostrated to the youthful voice in his mind.
"Hah! Now I understand why my friends said I was frustrating to be around." The youthful voice said in annoyance.
Jun retorted, "You started it."
The youthful voice answered, "Because you're an idiot."
As the two Juns were throwing words at each other, the elderly voice stepped in.
"Silence, both of you. Focus on the situation we are in right now," said the elderly voice.
Both Jun and the youthful voice stopped talking. Jun looked again at the panel, and began to contemplate.
After minutes of silence, the System announced the second stage.
[System Notification]
[Mind Separation: 100%]
[Body Separation: 0%]
"Here it comes!" Simultaneously said by the Juns.
And what happened next was the continuation of what he had gone through not too long ago.
[Body Separation: 1%]
"AAAAHHHHHHHH!" The three Juns screamed at the same time.
Jun could not bear the pain and slammed his body to the ground, wriggling profusely.
"It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!" said the youthful voice as it screamed.
[Body Separation: 5%]
As the percentage climbed higher and higher, Jun's body began to change. The first change was the bumps forming on his temples, cheeks, ears, and lastly on his skull.
Then, with every passing second, the left and right sides of his body started to swell as well.
[Body Separation 18%]
After a minute, the bumps on his head started to take form. First came the ear, then the eyes, nose, and mouth.
[Body Separation: 27%]
Bumps on Jun's body were also forming different body parts. Hands and Feet.
[Body Separation: 39%]
At this stage, Half-formed faces were already visible on both sides of Jun's head.
[Body Separation: 50%]
The heads were already fully formed. Jun's body now had three heads. The first was the head of a young man with brown hair. The second was a middle-aged man with silver and a small amount of darkish-brown hair. Wrinkles were visible under his eyes. And lastly was the elderly man, with long gray hair and beard, wrinkles all over his face, a sign of age.
If one looks at this scene, their first impression is a bizarre and haunting one as the three heads are screaming simultaneously.
If one looks closely, all three heads share the same honey-brown eyes, an uncanny resemblance to each other.
[Body Separation: 75%]
Jun's clothes began to crack and tear as his body cramped up inside his clothes. Threads snapped loudly, ripping the fabric apart. The three heads glanced at each other, their faces were distorted with pain they were enduring.
Time went by as the progression on [Body Separation] nears its completion. Jun's clothes tore apart completely, his body splitting open on both sides. It was bizarre and disturbing to someone witnessing this kind of event.
But for the three Juns, this was a torment beyond words. They felt every fiber of their body being torn, then reassembled, over and over. It was painful on both body and mind.
After several minutes, the bodies finally separated. The excruciating pain eased slowly. Thus marked the completion of the second step in the splitting process.
As the system announced the completion, the three Juns lost consciousness due to the sheer pain they endured.
[System Notification]
[Mind Separation: 100%]
[Body Separation: 100%]
[Status: Updated]
Name: Junnix William
Level: 2
Physical: 36
Defense: 33
Agility: 33
Intelligence: 26
Magic: 0
Mana: 0
[Items]
Eye of the Shadow Stalker
[Skills]
Skills: ---
Passive Skills:
(Split) – (Description: Splits one person into three independent minds and bodies while keeping them linked by a single shared consciousness.) [Warning: if any one of the three bodies dies, the other two will also die along with him.]
[System Features]
Store: Locked (Required Level: 10)
Battle Arena: Locked (Required Level: 25)
Auction House: Locked (Required Level: 40)
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The first to open his eyes was young Jun. Noticing that he was naked, he hurriedly picked up his bag and searched for clothes.
Next to open his eyes was the middle-aged man, followed by the elderly one.
As the middle-aged one looked at the young one, he heard a voice in his mind, "What? What are you looking at?"
"The f*ck?" The middle-aged man cannot believe what really happened to him.
"Hey, Young Jun, could you hand me a pair of clothes?" the elder one said calmly.
Still wet, young Jun handed a pair of clothes to both the middle-aged and the elder Jun. The trio wore the clothes that were still wet.
After several seconds, the trio stared at the panel, reading its content.
First to comment is the young Jun, "Whoa… Our stats were upped by 20 points each!"
Followed by the middle-aged Jun, "Yeah. But the Magic and Mana were still at 0. Either we can't use magic, or we find a guide on how to use it."
"I have no problem with having no magic; being strong and hard to kill is more than enough for me." Young Jun said.
The middle-aged Jun looked at the young one and spoke, "That's your opinion. But I want to use magic."
Both the middle-aged and young Jun looked at the elder Jun. Then the young Jun spoke, "How about you, old man?"