A Day In The Mind Room

While everyone in the guild had their own plans and check out the finished guild hall, Jay was still training like a madman on the ruined castle. But of course, no one knows of this since the Chicken Lord was the one who was controlling his physical body and Jay was currently controlling two bodies within his Soul Space and the Mind room.

--- Mind Room (The Fate System) ---

[Combining Phase Rush + Shadow's Embrace...]

[Combining Indestructible + Chilling Hand...]

[Combining Tamer's Empowered Fists + Loved By Beasts...]

[Combining Phase Rush + Indestructible]

[Warning!!! Combination has 100% chance of failing

(cannot combine spell with skill.)]

[Combining Phase Rush + Instant Shatter...]

[Combining...]

[Combining...]

[10+ combinations in queue...]

...

Jay just kept on tossing skill after skill on the Creation Orb. It did not matter what skill it is. May it be the low-tiered skill books, his favorite skills like Instant Shatter or Feather Storm, or the skills the Chicken Lord was currently learning for him through the training sessions with Tygon. And while he was doing all of this, Hellson, who was currently a floating eyeball, was watching him.

[Jay learned {Passive Skill: Shadow Phase Rush - Let's you perform Phase Rush when concealed in the shadows.}]

[Jay learned {Tier V Protection/Destruction Spell: Frozen Armor - Create an indestructible armor made out of ice that covers your whole body. Lasts for 5 seconds. After the duration ends, the armor shatters and sends the fragments towards nearby enemies.}]

[Jay learned {Active Skill: Howling Fist of Love - Instantly knock out any monster. Can only be used once per day.}]

[Jay learned {Passive Skill: Instant Shatter - As long as you wield any type of weapon, Instant Shatter will immediately activate if attacking something.}]

...

"Wow. I did not expect my experimental project, The Fate System, to be like this at all. I thought it was just some kind of voice that helped those who are using it." Hellson thought as he looked around the Mind Room.

"Wait... I remember now! This is the very first prototype of the Fate System I scrapped a long time ago. But it is really strange... I know I saw all of these kinds of functionalities from the systems created by me fellow Fatelords..."

"No... impossible... Only Maris and Nixon agreed with the 'Virtual World Project'."

"That status screen must be from Shevitte's 'Light God System.' Those three orbs must be from Goldwisp's 'Golden Draconian Alchemy.' That shelf... must be one of Merlin's inheritances. And that map... why is it here? That map looks exactly like the one we use at the Sacred Song Isles..."

...

While Hellson was having his own problems as he observed each and every bit within the mind room, Jay was still in his trance combining skills.

Even though the new combines skills were already a bit overpowered, Jay just kept doing the same routine. And when he did not have any other skills to toss into the Creation Orb, he will start tossing in the newly combined skills. But sadly, the moment he did so, the time it took for the combining process slowed down. There was even an apparition of an hourglass that appeared near the creation orb.

[Combining Shadow Phase Rush + Instant Shatter...]

[Time Remaining: 2 days...]

[Combining Frozen Armor + Indestructible...]

[Time Remaining: 5 days...]

"Damn. It looks like this Creation Orb is not that godly as I thought it would be. Oh well, let me then check..." Jay was just thinking of checking every skill he managed to create these past few hours, but an intense pain flooded his head and he started convulsing.

"What is it now? Crap! The Chicken Lord told me not to pass out. This is bad... AAAHHH!!!!"

He then heard a notification from the Fate System.

[Skill/Spell Limit reached. Status screen will now be refreshed.]

[Skills/Spells learned will now be imprinted into player's soul.]

Jay was not sure what that notification meant since he cannot think clearly at this time. He was in so much pain that he screamed loudly just to keep himself awake.

...

Around 30 minutes later, Jay realized that the pain was gone and heard a new notification.

[Skills and spells successfully imprinted on player's soul.]

[Status Screen updated]

[New skills or spells learned will immediately be imprinted on player's soul. (Special Skills not included.)]

"What the hell just happened? And what the hell was that notification all about?" Jay wondered to himself as he tried to straighten himself up and looked around to see if anything changed around him. He then saw something weird on his status screen.

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Jay Castle (Sage, Tier VI Beast Tamer)

Race:

Beastman - You have noble beast blood flowing in your veins

Special Skills: (Only available in Chicken Form)

Chicken Herder

Bawk!!!

Chicken Warrior

Feather Storm

Chicken Claws

Short Flight

Call Nuggets

Chicken Fury

Others:

- Chicken Lord's Soul detected within player

- Currently under effect of Thundergod's Blessing

- Currently under effect of Life-Death seal with Nuggets

- Currently under Master and Servant contract with Heda

- Unknown Soul detected within player

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"Huh? Is this for real?" Jay wondered and tried executing a Whirlwind Kick. The moment he did, his body moved on its own and auto corrected whatever mistakes he did on its execution.

"Woah."

[Used Whirlwind Kick.]

[Skill Success Rate: 300%]

Jay suddenly heard a notification and suddenly, a thin but wide blade of wind appeared after he used the skill.

"No way... a Tier 1 skill became this strong after that intense pain I felt? Awesome!"

Jay decided to try every skill and spell besides his Sage or Beast Tamer skills since he cannot find a target to use it on.

[Used Frozen Armor.]

[Spell Success Rate: 300%]

The Frozen Armor's duration extended for 10 seconds before shattering into a hundred pieces of ice fragments.

[Used Tree of Life, Nature's Soul]

[Spell Success Rate: 300%]

After Jay tried using this legendary spell, he was surprised by the changes. He only needed 3 minutes to cast the spell, the instant spellcasts Nature's Soul gave became 5 times instead of 3, and lasts for an entire day!

"What the f**k? (Awesome! But I bet it is still not enough. Those plane invaders must be ridiculously strong that even the Chicken Lord fears them.)"

...

"What?! How?! That soul imprinting function belongs to Nixon's 'Soul Tactics Volume Three.' How the hell did this function merge with Shevitte's system?" Hellson cannot keep calm anymore and decided to show himself to Jay.

...

"Jay! We need to talk! Right now!" Hellson said the moment he appeared in front of Jay. He used his normal form, a monk in white robes.

"Hellson? I thought you were in my Soul Space?" Jay immediately questioned Hellson since he did not know how this guy got here in the first place. But he then had a line of thought that might answer his question. "Oh yeah, Hellson was the one who created the Fate System. So does that mean he can enter the Soul Space or the Mind Room anytime he wants?"

While Jay was caught up in his own thoughts, Hellson grabbed Jay by the shoulders and spoke a bit ecstatically.

"Jay! Did you meet any other Fatelords besides me?"

Jay was surprised when he heard this but he shook his head since he never even met one during his ten years of experience from the past. The only one he met was Hellson, who was standing in front of him right now.

"Jay! What do you know about the history behind this... room." Hellson almost stuttered as he spoke.

"Hah? I thought you were the one who created the Fate System. What are you implying right now, asking me that simple question of yours?"

"It seems like he does not know why... forget it then. I should just tell him." Hellson thought to himself before he told everything he thought so far about the Mind Room.

After a few minutes later...

"WHAT!? Are you really serious?" Jay was very shocked to learn that the Mind Room was actually a combination of different things from the different systems the other Fatelords created.

Hellson was about to turn himself back into a floating eyeball after telling Jay about this stuff. But Jay suddenly grabbed his left shoulder and said, "Wait."

"Huh? I told you before that we will have our long talk when you get strong enough." Hellson said while having a frown on his face since he thought Jay was going to start to ask him a lot of questions.

"That map over there. What do you think should I do?" Jay said as he pointed at the Fatelord Plane Map on the room.

"What do you mean? You use it to locate places around the plane. What other uses..." Hellson was about to say something else when he suddenly saw the flickering white dots on the map. He also managed to read the different things written, including the casualties where his name was written.

The moment he saw the name 'Maris' on the casualties, he staggered and dropped down on his knees.

He started muttering to himself as tears flowed out from his eyes.

"Maris? Maris died?"

"No... this is impossible..."

"My sweet Maris..."

"No..."

Seeing Hellson suddenly acting like this, Jay knew he should comfort Hellson and patted him on the shoulder before asking, "Hey, what's wrong?"

"Maris... my wife..."

Hellson stuttered a few words before he pushed Jay away and transformed back into a floating eyeball and disappeared, probably hiding somewhere. But even when he was in this form, tears still flowed out from him.