Blood Assimilation

Naturally, Randy had heard of such cunning people before, but this was the first time he met someone, who was shameless enough to sneak attack someone during a battle, especially when they had initially feigned not to care and were unwilling to intervene.

However, in anticipation of the black-horned demon's eventual participation in the battle, he had been making ample preparations.

Even as he fought against the red-scaled demon, he did not waste any opportunity in between to prepare further.

In reality, he had been preparing for this ever since the black-horned demon punched him against that giant rock, and now was about the perfect time to bring it out.

He had made the distance between them by purposely using the Shadow Swap ability. Therefore, currently, he only had a few seconds, at most, to put his plan into motion.

Thus, without squandering these few seconds, he quickly used his mental will to bring out something from the black ring on his finger.

Subsequently, a silhouette flew out of the ring, and its form became displayed shortly after.

The true identity of the silhouette was a young man with a simple, gray weathered shirt and pants. His appearance looked extremely modest, almost like he used to live in the countryside. But he had a listless expression on his face, almost like he had no soul.

This young man was, in actuality, Randy's incarnation.

And from what he had discovered, it did not have any consciousness since it was defective.

Normally, after the creation of the incarnation, there was an extra step that would allow the conjurer to synchronize their mind with the incarnation to share memory and perspective.

Essentially, it was akin to having extra eyes to perceive the world through the clone.

Unfortunately, that turn never came, and instead, it became a lifeless creation, which was no different from a living corpse.

However, it was not without hope, as he could still insert his consciousness into the incarnation right now.

Originally, the method of inserting consciousness into a body was mostly performed by conjurers to take control of the minds of conjured clones. Since they usually had their very own personalities after creation, unlike the incarnation that had the same personality as the conjurer.

Fortunately, the arch sorcerer added some knowledge about how to create a clone and how to control them along with the Incarnation Technique.

After all, it seemed to be the basis of the Incarnation Technique, so they probably deemed it still necessary to understand that before conjuring an incarnation.

However, he wondered why they had even created such a tome with so many of their life's secret research and spells compiled within.

Were they worried about forgetting their spells, or was it simply to keep records of their lifetime achievements?

Randy couldn't care less about their reason, but he cared more about learning the secrets held within the ancient black tome.

Then again, without his system, even he wouldn't have been able to get access to the secret knowledge contained in the ancient black tome.

That aside, Randy had also memorized the method of clone creation, and he easily understood it since it was a relatively simple process.

Unlike the Incarnation Technique, which needed the construction of a magic circle that had complex runes that he had no idea what they meant, even though he had memorized and even knew how to inscribe them, the clone spell was simpler as one only needed a sample of their hair to conjure the clone by using the right incantation words.

But what he needed right now was the mind cloning spell that clone's your mind's consciousness and then transfers it into your clone and thus creating a synchronization with the clone.

Although, in this case, it would be synchronized with a failed incarnation, therefore, Randy had used the time when he knocked against the rock to momentarily cast the spell.

After ensuring that it worked, he secretly attempted to use his mind to transfer the duplicated consciousness into the black spatial ring that held his incarnation body.

Even though the black ring could only hold inanimate objects, the incarnation body was not fully alive since it lacked consciousness, so it was possible to store it inside the spatial ring. Moreover, according to his system, the incarnated body wasn't considered a living being. That was why he dared to attempt to put his incarnation into the black ring.

After determining that, Randy had stowed his incarnation inside his black ring at that time.

But, earlier, when he tried to insert his duplicated consciousness, the black ring also rejected his incarnation body as his incarnation seemed to be coming to life.

Noticing that, he stopped his actions and proceeded to wait for this moment, the moment when he had been separated from the two demons, to take it out and finally complete the transference of his consciousness.

The consciousness of a living being was not a tangible thing that could exist in physical form, so it could only be transferred from one mind to another by splitting a portion of one's mental energy. Otherwise, it would only dissipate without a host.

Furthermore, to conduct such a highly advanced process, one needs their mental energy level to be high and flexible.

To determine that, you only need to be able to project and extend your mental energy outwardly from your body. That was something that Randy could do already ever since he acquired his first mental ability, All Law Seeker.

Moreover, he had relied on his system's knowledge points to drastically increase his psionic energy level, which was the same as his mental energy in a more sublime form.

Furthermore, it did not even cause any damage to the caster when the consciousness became duplicated through the art of magic. After all, the duplicated consciousness would become like a file that gets 'copied' and then 'pasted' on another computer.

By that analogy, the original file does not get affected, even if something happened to the 'copied' version.

However, according to the arch sorcerer, it was not a recommended practice to constantly duplicate one's consciousness since there were certain risks involved.

If compared to a computer system, it would be that there are bound to be 'viruses' if you keep 'copying' your consciousness.

As such, it was stated by the arch sorcerer that the practice of consciousness duplication should be done in moderation.

With that aside, Randy finally looked at his incarnation that was slowly gaining life, and gradually, a light began to flash in its eyes.

At the same time, he also felt some intangible existence developing within him.

It was a separate consciousness that was different from his original consciousness.

Over time, he started to see another perspective through his incarnation.

He also found out that he could easily switch between the two perspectives if he wanted to.

With that, the synchronization of the mind of the main body and incarnation has become completed.

A moment later, Randy came back to his senses, and he prepared to face the two demons along with his incarnation this time.

As such, he decided to let his incarnation body gain independence by undoing the synchronization state.

However, something unexpected happened.

"What do you think you're doing?"

A sudden voice reverberated close to his ears, startling him.

"What?!"

Shocked, he quickly turned his head around but was met with an expansive, giant fist as big as his entire body; It slammed against his entire body shortly after with great force enough to break all the bones in his body.

Boom!!

'How could this have happened? What happened just now? When did he get close to me? He clearly didn't make any movements since he's still standing over there at the same position.'

Randy felt his vision turn dark as he inwardly muttered in bewilderment.

He flew through the air, leaving his incarnation behind, as he didn't have enough time to relinquish his control over it.