Chapter 219: The Plan

Jayden's smile grew even wider as she began to quietly chuckle at herself, she could only imagine how Emilia Reid reacted to what had just happened, her anger being more and more hilarious to her the more she imagined it.

Jayden's plan was fairly simple, and although the best outcome was not achieved, which would have been to save Abby, it still well served its purpose. 

Through more personal, intense training, Jayden pushed herself into improving her clone skill. Now, she was able to summon upwards of 4 clones instead of 1. 

Usually, those clones would be rather simple-minded, allowing the user to infuse certain memories in their body. They were used only for meagre tasks or to fake very shallow emotions, complexity was not in their nature. Even if they were inflicted with the simplest of wounds, they would cease to exist. 

Thus, during her training, in a moment of genius, Jayden discovered the use of a new, unique type of clone, one much better than the rest but with its own unique drawbacks.

By infusing a certain part of her soul and infusing that soul with a predominant emotion of hers, she was able to make such a clone. 

A clone that even had the capability of creating their own clones, but only to the limit of the original user which was in her current case, 4.

It was far stronger than her normal clones, being able to withstand actual punishment, yet still fairly fragile compared to her original body. And, its mind was far more complex in nature, although its emotion range did not cover the full spectrum, being subconsciously tamed and quelled by the certain emotion that had been infused by the part of the soul used to make the clone. 

And thus, when the clone dies, no matter where it was, the soul would return back to its rightful owner, along with all the memories and emotions experienced by that soul as it merges into the soul of the user. 

Jayden used this to her advantage when she had infiltrated the Reid mansion.

After she had disposed of Preston, she created a clone, infusing it with all of her current emotions, and the emotion that she infused into the part of her soul that she gave to that clone was her kindness and trust to those she cared about.

She made the clone believe that they were the original, that they were not a puppet, just to make their interactions with Abby more natural and organic. 

The reason she chose trust and kindness to infuse into her clone was for many reasons. She knew that if there was something wrong that happened, a rational version, or non-caring version would have no doubt retreated, concluding that there was something wrong but not what and that it was too dangerous to proceed further. 

However, by infusing emotions such as trust in her soul, it would make her disregard subtle or sometimes obvious hints that there was something wrong, making her proceed with the original plan either way, which was exactly what she had wanted. 

If the hints were false and everything was alright, then that would have been perfect and they would safely escape the mansion together. However, if the hints were accurate and she was lured into a trap, then that would still serve for intel gathering and would have been much better than if she were just to flee. 

A quirk of the soul clone was that Jayden was able to connect to it at any time, seeing exactly through their vision and senses without them even knowing. However, that skill was only reserved for when there was nothing in the way hindering communications. Hence, when they entered Abby's room, she had lost all contacts. But, from the hints that Abby was showing prior, it was clear that something had gone wrong with her. 

So, when the clone grasped the door of the balcony, it somehow meant that she was no longer under the effect of the communication crystal, and for that split second, she was able to reveal the truth about who they truly were, the truth that they were only a clone and that they were going to die, and now their main goal was to gather as much information as possible and not worry since it was the purpose they were even created in the first place, which came as a massive surprise to the clone as it thought that they were the real Jayden Griffith. 

From the memories she had received from the clone, it was truly a terrifying, mind-boggling experience. She could personally not imagine how she would feel like if she were told right now that her entire life had been a lie and that she was only created a few hours ago in order to serve as part of an experiment.

However, the clone seemed to have some sort of inner feeling that suppressed the shock of them finding out they were a clone, like they always knew but it was just deeply hidden somewhere in their fake minds so the pain was not at all as severe as it would have normally been.

Thus, after the clone begs and pleads for them to know the truth before they die, the 2 clueless sisters would probably reveal some sort of pertinent information before killing it, only for the clone to disappear, their body and soul both being absorbed back into Jayden's original body as she was forced into interpreting what had just occurred all at once, the mental pain being far greater and more severe than she expected. 

The clone had initially thought that Abby must have truly been a traitor, but that was because her hazy mind did not allow it to think clearly, from Jayden's current perspective, it was clear that she had been influenced or maybe even controlled by her sister in some way. There was no way that the Abby she saw was the same Abby she knew and loved, and that fact was even further reinforced by the fact that Emilia said that she "gave her a little push". 

That little push turned her into an unrecognizable, twisted monster, filled with hate, even going as far as to insult and disregard Moby as her lord, which was what was most surprising of all, something that Jayden never in her life thought she would hear willingly come out of Abby's mouth, Jayden's mind still in pure hurt and agony every time she thought about what her sweet little Abby had turned into.

Yet, this still brought up the question of how she would have been influenced in the first place, to her knowledge, there were no such mind controlling item that allowed the user of it to change a person to such an extent, and there were no such items that would allow someone to become another person's slave. The only mind-related skills that might have had a chance to do such things were demon-related, so it brought into question her methods and how she was able to do such a thing… 

She did mention that she had a lord, who was the rightful owner of the entire universe, talking about him like some sort of almighty god and clearly not as a fellow student. So, there must have been some sort of outside power other than her family backing her up. For some reason, she got a weird feeling in her stomach that they must have been some sort of alien overlord, which might explain how she was able to influence Abby. But with absolutely no evidence to go off of, there was no way she could come to such a conclusion, and would have made her think about how a regular school girl would have come into contact with such a being and why they were backing her.

Now, more than any time from before, she wanted to share what she had just learned with Moby, to see how he would react and what they should do now with the information they currently have, saving Abby still being her top priority, even more so than before now that she knew the truth. 

However, still, when she tried to contact him using her mind-link, he would not respond at all, only hearing the sound of an empty void, once again reminding her that he must have been deep in some sort of mental training.

She once again took a deep breath, sitting back down on her broken chair, cracking her bones that had once again gotten stiff before sitting up straight, her gaze focused on her computer screen to continue the rest of what Moby had told her to do, not even bothering to put on a new shirt that was not tattered since there was really no one else in her room to see her half naked body.

For now, all she could do was calm her nerves and continue pondering over the information and continue Moby's plan, focusing on tomorrow rather than today since there was not much that could be done. 

She scrolled down the page of the website, various crystals filling her vision as she continued searching for what she was looking for as she had a certain list in mind that Moby had provided her.

For some odd reason that he had yet to explain to her, Moby asked her to purchase another ability crystal and to ask her parents for extra funds, begging them for it since it was an emergency, something that he seemed to be ashamed to ask her to do yet did it anyway since he knew it had to be done, Jayden fully understanding his intentions.

Yet, what she could not understand was why he even needed another ability crystal and what he wanted to use it for. So, the only logical conclusion that she could come up with was that he knew someone in the school who was abilityless and had massive potential that could possibly help them retrieve Abby.

Moby already had an ability of his own so she completely disregarded the thought that he wanted it for himself, throwing it to the back of her mind as she continued scrolling through the black market, trusting wholeheartedly that Moby has something planned as she bore a mixture of a smile and serious expression on her face.

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