Soul Division
Splitting his mind to communicate with the outside world was much harder than he expected and he had to try repeatedly before succeeding.
It worked by splitting of a small part of his soul form and using it to leave the space inside his mind. The feeling of splitting his soul form was one that was extremely painful and terrifying but after he had started there was no way for him to stop.
Finally a small part was split off and as soon as the last connection to the rest was cut of it reformed to become a smaller version of his main soul form. His main soul form too reformed to form the same form as before wich was a splitting image of himself.
<< Congratulation you have created the skill Soul Division by splitting your soul form and resisting the resulting pain. >>
Surprisingly this act of him had given him a new skill and any remnants of pain he felt vanished with the sound of the prompt popping up.
<< Skill Soul Division (Unique) Lvl. 1
Passive
By splitting your soul form you have created a second form that can act independently from the main form. This allows you to effectively multitask on the highest level.
Remarks: The second form can't leave the body until it's level is high enough.
Comment: One has to be either stupid or crazy to even try something like this. Who would have thought that it could work.
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* Wow this comment from the system is even worse than the ones before. *, Ivan couldn't help but be disgruntled by the comment left by the system, but he wondered why there was no rank but only the word 'unique' at the header of this skill.
Before he could try to click on it to hopefully get more information the next popup came up.
<< Congratulation you have gained the title Unique >>
<< Title: Unique (Legendary)
You are a unique existence, since you posses 1 unique skill.
+ 5 Honor each day
To reach level 2 you have to gain 1 more unique skill, title or item.
Comment: You sure are uniquely stupid and unlikable.
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* Holy s*t. *, this time his surprise concerning the reward for this tile way outweighed his unhappiness towards the comment. After all these were five honor points each day which meant that he now got six time as much as before. And he could even buy the pill, that would increase a random unlocked stat by 1-3 forever, every four days.
But this wasn't the end of it as the next popup appeared.
<< Congratulation you have discovered a completely new characteristic of the soul form and as such you will be rewarded with one Golden Lottery Ticket.
Comment: Why?? Oh why??
>>
This time he had to laugh inside his heart when he read the comment. It seemed like the system was really unhappy with him discovering something it didn't seem to know.
But even more important was the lottery ticket, since he had never heard of something like this before. He hurriedly checked his inventory and found something new floating in it.
It looked like the ticket for the train he took to the outpost but was made from an unknown material which was extremely smooth and had a golden color that was only disrupted by dark red runes carved into it.
<< Golden Lottery Ticket
A ticket that is given by the System for extraordinary feats and can be used to get one random item from the Golden Lottery Pool.
Hold it in your hand and inject some mana into it to activate it.
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Even though the description didn't tell him much it still invoked the desire to try it out in him. But for now he had to postpone it and first ask his mentor on how to proceed.
He used his secondary soul form to take control of his body while his main soul form stayed in the space inside of his mind.
As soon as he once again regained control of his body he realized that with the current strength of his secondary soul form he was only barely able to control it and only basic movements could be made. It would be impossible to use it to fight and he could only relay on his main soul form for that.
Van Bergen had watched his student the whole time and when he saw him open his eyes he asked, "So what did you see?"
Ivan was surprised by the question and he checked out the void again, since he was sure that his mentor hadn't meant the blue ball of light. But even though he carefully checked once again he wasn't able to see anything.
"Nothing, only the small blue ball that is the source of my mana."
"Nothing?", his mentor seemed surprised and a thoughtful look emerged on his face.
"Hm, try again and this time get closer to the mana source."
"Can't you just tell me what I am looking for?"
"That would be impossible, since it is slightly different for everyone."
Ivan moved his main soul form closer to the ball in the center of the space and after he got so close that he was nearly able to touch it he saw that there were thin wisps of a dark liquid flowing around it.
He told his mentor what he had seen and his mentor nodded in understanding.
"The liquid should represent your mental power. Now try to collect it and form another ball out of it which then should move around your mana source like the moon circles the earth."
Following the directions he had been given Ivan tried to collect the dark liquid but it was much harder than he had expected since the wisps were to fine and it was nearly impossible for him to touch them.
Luckily nobody was able to see the scene inside the space as his main soul form ran after the wisps of dark liquid while trying to use its hands to catch them.