SSS SKILL: DUPLICATE

Chapter 116 Preparation for the New Era

After Melody and Seanlu's practice of aura, he let them soak in bath tubs with medicine in separate bathrooms.

While they are in the bathroom, Edgar smithed another piece of equipment that will hide the true energy of Seanlu.

After they took a bath, he put them into illusion again and taught them magic. He gave them the rune equipment after their practice.

When he took them home, he flew to the restricted area and went inside the broken world, Space Land. He took off his mask and put on the magic oxygen mask that covered his nose and mouth. It has a big space inside, which is like a small storage space. The space is where oxygen is stored. A magician can activate the runes and absorb oxygen from the air, then store it in space.

Edgar flew to the northwest to continue his exploration.

As he flew further, the plants got bigger.

The dark purple plants are thirty to fifty meters tall.

Near the plants, there is a big purple flower. It looks like Dahlia. The flower has one hundred meters of circumference. It is sitting on huge leaves that look like the leaves of an agave plant. The leaves are dark purple with faint shimmering purple lights. There is huge dew falling from its leaves, causing a purple lake to form around the plant. There are a variety of beasts drinking in the lake. Huge, dark purple bees are flying around the flower, protecting it from any harm.

After flying for a while, Edgar flew down.

He landed on the ground. Around him are small mounds with one- to two-meter-tall purple grasses with lavender flowers.

LIFE DETECTION

The shockwave spread below the ground.

"Finally, I found it," said Edgar with a smile. He float, then flew forward.

He reached the area. There are stony, purple mountains around. The ground has huge roots, but it is barren. There are no grass or plants.

Edgar landed on the ground.

Bang! Two huge carnivorous plants jumped out of the ground. Their huge mouths with saliva are wide open, and they are moving toward Edgar on his left and right.

Magic circles flashed on Edgar's hands. He raised his arms.

Brrgh! Two huge earthen purple arms rose from the ground and catched the heads of the carnivorous plants.

Edgar grips his fists.

CRUNCH! The heads of the plants are crushed as the earthen arms squeeze their heads. Purple liquids flow from the fists of the earthen arms.

A magic circle flashed beneath Edgar's feet.

WARRIOR OF IFFENHEIM

An earth mound rises from the ground, including the earthen arms. The mound rises up to ten meters, then molds into a purple golem with gorgeous whole-body armor. Magic runes appear on the armor. The helmet almost covers its whole face. Edgar is standing on its shoulder. The golem stretched its arm to the side, then the earth floated from the ground and formed a huge sword. Runes appear on the sword, then it becomes smooth and sharp.

The golem took a sword stance.

Boom! A huge hole appears on the ground as the golem dashes forward.

At the front, the earth is shaking as something big is coming out.

Bang! Boulders were blown away as the huge head of a carnivorous plant came out of the ground.

ROOOA- The ferocious plant wanted to roar and announce its presence, but it was cut off by the golem.

CRUNCH! The huge head of the carnivorous plant separates from its body.

Behind the plant is the huge golem that slashed the huge sword. There is purple blood on the sword.

Bang! The huge head crashed to the ground. The body of the plant fell into the hole where it came from.

The huge golem swings the sword to remove the blood, then walks toward a stony mountain with a cave.

Within a cave, there are purple crystals embedded in the ground and walls. There are also purple crystals beneath the cave, which Edgar detected earlier.

Edgar smiles as he looks at the space crystals.

The sword on the golem's hand turned into a pickaxe.

Edgar floats and moves away from the golem.

Bang! The golem swings the pickaxe on tough rocks around the crystal. It started mining.

Edgar stopped mining after many crystals had been mined.

He went home and went to his underground training hall, where his clone is studying the last book on the computer.

He had already expanded his underground hall. In the corner, there is a huge room. In front of the room is a light purple shield that moves like a waterfall. It is a shield that protects the room from a possible accidental attack by Edgar during his training. The waterfall-like shield is powered by lightning.

Edgar moves in front of the room, and the shield separates.

The wall of the room is white. In the middle, there is a huge chamber. The huge chamber is currently empty. On the left and right sides of the room are smaller purple chambers. The chambers have magic runes. They are power sources. The color purple within them is lightning that Edgar put in and sealed in the chamber. Under the floor, there are wires that connect the power source to the big chamber in the middle, the waterfall-like shield, the computers, and the lighting in the whole underground training hall.

The clone closes the book. There are bookcases on both sides of the room. They are filled with knowledge on computers and electronics. Edgar has been putting the clone in an illusion whenever he is at home, when the clone does not need to guard his family because he is at home. The clone has already studied for nearly one year and a half in the illusion. The clone uses the illusion to study while Edgar uses parallel thought. Edgar has now learned a lot.

There is a touch-screen computer in front of the clone. In front of the computer is a hologram. The clone operates the computer and swiftly types on the touchscreen keyboard, many hologram screens with codes appear.

Edgar nods. He controls the clone.

The clone closed the screens, then stood up and faced Edgar.

"Here it comes," said Edgar.

Puff! The clone puffs into blue smoke.

The clone's consciousness combined with Edgar's

"Ahhh!" screamed Edgar as the many days of knowledge that the clone had learned forcefully combined with his memory.

"Shit! I already experienced it many times, but the pain does not decrease at all! These are just days of memory. Van Flameworth's many years of memory are not this painful! Was it because my mind was protected by the gate? I should accelerate the research of magic that will help prevent the side effects, or else I won't be able to fully take advantage of the illusion space and it might have a bad effect on my mind in the long term. Seanlu and Melody were okay because it's their own consciousness that entered the illusion space, not a separate consciousness like mine," thought Edgar as he holds his head because of the pain.

He created another clone and put it into an illusion. He let it study the code and runes for the AI. He will combine magic, electronics, and computers. He also let it set aside more time for the study of magic that would prevent the painful side effects of combining memories.

In the morning, he went to the villa again and trained the legatees.

In the afternoon, after taking them back home, he flew to the broken world.

At home, he put the clone into illusion again, then absorbed the clone's memory. The routine repeated itself for one week.

One week later, the clone is standing in front of Edgar.

Edgar stretched his left hand.

A magic circle formed beneath the feet of the clone.

SPHERE OF MEMORY

WOOSH! White threads rotate and gather around the clone. The threads are forming a sphere.

The white sphere has formed. It covers the clone while slowly rotating, and it has magic runes on its surface.

The clone puffs into blue smoke. The smoke is trapped within the sphere, but the blue smoke slowly moves out. What remained in the sphere is a faint, small white fog.

The white sphere floats and moves to Edgar. It gets smaller as it moves until it becomes a size of ping pong ball, then it moves to his forehead and disappears.

A blue magic rune in Edgar's sea of consciousness flashed, then a white sphere suddenly surrounded the magic rune. He let the sphere release a little of the white fog, and a memory appeared in Edgar's mind.

"Success!" said Edgar, with a smile. It is no longer painful. He slowly digested the memory, and when it started to get painful, he stopped releasing the white fog. The sphere shrinks to the magic rune. It will appear when Edgar needs to combine the memories again.

He looks at the center of the room. The glass in the chamber has been removed. Within the chamber, there are already computer components installed. They all have magic runes. The runes are black because they are not activated yet. They will light up once they are supplied with energy. There is one last component missing in the center: the core chip.