Sweat dripped from Dys’ brow and nose and fell onto Jay’s back and neck as she panted with exhaustion. Her legs felt weak and unsteady as she held her half-crouched position behind Jay, her inhuman stamina starting to fail her. Her hands wrapped around Jay’s waist in a powerful grip.
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Syd’s body, having already been glowing for some time, flashed brightly as Jay’s orgasm subsided. The illumination was nearly blinding, but slightly less so than the first time. A strange sensation entered Jadis’ mind as it cleared from its cum-induced haze. The need to choose a new skill to replace what had been duplicated before impressed itself upon her consciousness.
Jadis had deliberated which skill to duplicate quite a lot as she had gone about her business about town before retiring to her room in the inn but hadn’t given it any further consideration once the ritual had begun, her mind far too distracted by more pressing, sexy concerns. Now that the moment had come, she still found herself uncertain as to what to choose. She’d narrowed her choices down to three possibilities, but all three had pros and cons that made picking one difficult. Out of ten passive skills, the three possibilities she’d earmarked for duplication were Mirror Knight’s Might, Minor Fractional Spread, and Mirrored Strikes.
Mirrored Knight’s Might seemed like the most obvious choice. The skill was already pumping her strength attribute up by fifty percent. If she took the skill again, she could increase another of her stats by fifty percent, or even potentially boost her strength up by double, assuming the duplicated skill would stack in that way. It was always possible that the skill might add fifty percent to the already multiplied strength stat, which would mean an even higher number. Jadis wasn’t sure how the skills would interact, but either way would be an impressive increase to her ability to smash demons.
The downside in her mind, though, was what might happen if she came across a skill she wanted to duplicate more, later. Admittedly, Jadis knew she tended to act in the moment rather than plan long term, but she was trying to give some thought and care to what skills she chose. So far, she’d seen no sign of being able to respec her stats or skills so the choices she made were likely permanent. So, after considering the ramifications of duplicating a skill that would massively raise her strength, Jadis had to wonder, if she grew to rely on that huge increase, would she be in a sore bind if a better skill, one that made more sense to duplicate, came along? If she gave up something like twenty-five or thirty-seven points of strength, depending on how the system worked the combo, she’d suddenly be a lot weaker, presuming the skill she was duplicating instead didn’t do something better for her strength.
The presumption of loss when she hadn’t even selected the skill yet made Jadis’ brain itch. It was the kind of negative thinking she tried to avoid, but it was a consideration. Thinking about the ways taking a skill might backfire was the important planning. Of course, she could avoid all of that hoopla with Mirror Knight’s Might and go with a different skill, like Minor Fractional Spread.
While not as dramatic an improvement, duplicating the eldritch-dependent skill would give her seven more points in all of her physical attributes. Agility wouldn’t be affected, since it was currently being overlayed by another skill, but the remaining five stats would benefit from the increase. Plus, the boost would only get better as she continued to funnel points towards eldritch. Also, if she did end up switching her duplication skill to something else, the drop from twenty percent to ten percent wouldn’t be quite as hard to adjust to. There really weren’t any downsides to duplicating Minor Fractional Spread that Jadis could think of, other than she wouldn’t be benefiting from the massive boost to her strength duplicating Mirror Knight’s Might would give.
There was also her third option, Mirrored Strikes, to consider. The skill had no hard numbers, thus had the greatest amount of uncertainty as to how duplicating the skill would affect Jadis. However, Mirrored Strikes turned her already powerful attacks into absolutely devastating blows. If she could increase the damage her joint attacks did by even half again as much, the results would be… considerable, to put it lightly. The boost to raw attack power when her bodies worked together was extremely attractive.
Her earlier internal deliberations on what she should choose swirled in Jadis’ mind for a short while when she suddenly noticed the glow coming from Syd’s skin start to fade.
“Shit, we’re on a timer!” Jay cried out.
Panicking, decision still unmade, Dys lunged for the pile of discarded clothes on the floor. Grabbing a leather pouch from out of the heap, Dys withdrew a silver coin and flipped it into the air.
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“Heads it’s Mirror, tails it’s Spread!” Dys called out, watching where the coin landed and spun on the stone floor.
“What about Mirrored strikes?” Syd asked as she and Jay floundered in a slippery, sticky heap as they tried to disentangle themselves.
“Fuck, too late!” Dys cursed.
Syd’s glow was rapidly fading and Jadis could feel the opportunity to choose closing.
“Tails!” Dys announced as the spinning coin’s momentum petered out.
Acting immediately, Jadis made the conscious effort to select Minor Fractional Spread for duplication. As she willed the change to take place, a bizarre sensation rippled through Jadis as Syd’s glow flared up even brighter than before. Suddenly, Jay was no longer entangled with another sweaty body and she collapsed onto the blanket nest with a surprised grunt.
The feeling of losing a whole body was so bizarre, Jadis had trouble putting words together to describe it. She had grown used to piloting three selves at the same time, seeing from three perspectives while processing the physical input of three bodies that weren’t always experiencing the same things. To suddenly lose one of those bodies was jarring, yet inexplicably, Jadis couldn’t explain what was actually wrong.
She still had her hands and her feet. She still had her eyes and ears and nose. She could see and feel and move around without any issue whatsoever, in duplicate even. Nothing was wrong with her and she was unhindered in every way, her strong bodies feeling even stronger as she sensed a change brought on by Minor Fraction Spread’s duplication.
Yet, she felt that she should feel wrong, because of her immediate memories telling her she should have more to herself than she currently had.
“I don’t like this at all,” Jay said with a shudder, standing up from her prone position on the ground.
“We need to get Syd back,” Dys agreed as she stood as well. The weird feeling of missing a part of herself was supremely uncomfortable.
Accessing her menu, Jadis mentally brought up her skill selection choices for Mirror Knight and confirmed her selection of Improved Mirrored Body. The moment she did so, another blinding flash of white light engulfed both of Jadis’ selves, causing stunned disorientation as the light faded.
“Fuck, forgot how confusing that feels,” Jay said, rubbing her eyes.
Between Jay and Dys stood a third self, identical in every way just as expected, except that she was clean of all sexual fluids and, oddly, wearing a white loincloth.
“Well, I’m back!” Syd announced with a wave.
“And you brought… more underwear,” Dys said with a puzzled tone. “Or is it the same?”
Kneeling and checking the clothing pile, Dys confirmed that Syd’s previous loincloth she’d been wearing before was missing from the heap of discarded garments. The rest of what she had been wearing was there, but the loincloth she’d been summoned into the world with had apparently de-summoned when she had.
“I guess that means the loincloth is a concrete part of the spell effect?” Jay questioned, staring at the pristine white undergarment wrapped around Syd’s hips.
“Also, we just found a great way for me to clean my underwear,” Syd pointed out, lifting the loose cloth up to sniff. “This thing’s freshly laundered.”
“Shut the fuck up,” Jay and Dys both said as they wrapped around Syd from both sides. Impulsively, both placed wet kisses on either side of Syd’s face.
“Glad to be three again,” Jay said with a sigh.
“However briefly, being just two felt so off,” Dys agreed, leaning her head against Syd’s.
Syd, wrapping both of her mirrored selves in her arms smiled and said, “Good to be loved! Even if it’s self-love.”
Basking in the comforting feeling of rightness having three bodies gave her, Jadis simply existed unthinking for a few minutes. Eventually though, she had got tired of standing, her worn out stamina not having recovered from the events of the long day.
Settling down into her nest, arms and legs wrapping around each self in a reassuring knot of giant-sized limbs, Jadis pulled up her main status menu to double check what she hoped duplicating Minor Fractional Spread would do.
Jadis Ahlstrom
Race: Nephilim
Primary Class: Mirror Knight (21)
Secondary Class: Perverted Ritualist of D (13)
Tertiary Class: None
Combined Level Rating: 34
Health: 500/500
Magic: 10/10
Attributes
Strength: 85
Dexterity: 25
Agility: 79
Vitality: 50
Fortitude: 35
Endurance: 37
Arcane: 0
Divine: 0
Eldritch: 79
Focus: 1
Resilience: 15
Will: 5
Jadis couldn’t be unhappy with what she saw. Her attributes looked robust in her opinion. Considering Aila had been happy with a five-point boost to two physical stats, Jadis supposed having two skills that worked together to give her a total of seventy-five more points spread across five attributes was… well, fuck, maybe more than robust. Jadis was beginning to think she might be something of a monster.
She had to wonder, if her stats looked this good, how’d they look for someone like the chosen hero of Oros?