55 Troublesome News
He waited for the manifestation to arrive and patiently waited. He was currently standing in the last place he had been in the Blood World: The Arena.
It was one of the most horrible experiences of his life, where he had to constantly fight magical creature after creature to the death.
But the gains surpassed the pain at least until this point where he discovered that the [Berserk] ability had taken over his life. He connected himself to the blood world using his blood energy as a medium and willed himself to leave the arena, teleporting outside the arena grounds.
As soon as he landed he saw the manifestation was waiting for him exactly at the spot where he had teleported. He knew that he shouldn't ask questions such as "how did you know where I would arrive.." Because it simply wouldn't answer, so he moved onto the main reason why he had arrived.
"Do you know why I am here?" Kai asked the manifestation. "Of course, I do, I am a part of you. You can't hide anything from yourself," it answered in a weird voice like it was trying to hide something.
"So, can you help me?" Kai asked. "Kai do you get the feeling that you come to me whenever you can't deal with a situation. The manifestation asked straightforwardly.
"From the beginning, you have constantly asked for my help when you have encountered hard and seemingly unbeatable situations.
What you have failed to understand is that while you are the main consciousness and I am the subconscious, we are still the same being. While it may not look like it but I too am suffering from the effects of the [Berserk] ability.
The longer it takes for you to solve the problem the more the both of us are going to be influenced and eventually destroyed by this thing that has been created.
And to make things worse the ability impacts me more than it does to you the dominant conscious." "What do you mean, I know that [Berserk] should affect the all the parts of me, but it shouldn't target specific pieces of me more than it currently is."
"Well you are wrong it does and the first place it targets is the subconscious mind. ME. I'm on my last defensive barrier and every second that you delay, you are causing me greater risk and to be honest I don't have much time.
The [Berserk] ability targets me because it needs to incorporate itself into your mind. The best place to start is the subconscious mind because you the main consciousness can't control or know when it's influencing you. And that way it would be able to pierce your mental defences better and more efficiently.
You know what." He stopped and seemed to be in thought. After a few seconds, he said after coming to a decision." I will show you how much damage it is doing to us right now."
The red coloured version of him that was the manifestation of his subconscious waved its hand and teleported away. Moments later Kai felt the blood world communicate with him and ask him if he wanted to move towards the subconscious personality.
Kai was happy even at this critical moment because he had managed to gain enough authority over the blood world to negate some of his subconsciousness' orders.
Unlike the beginning where he could only helplessly let his subconscious take him wherever he wanted in the blood world.
Now he could control it somewhat, proving that he had gained a monumental gain from the arena battle. If he managed to survive this crisis then he could make sure that something like this would never happen again.
He let the blood world teleport him away. What greeted him was the original location where he had first met his subconsciousness. The area with the vast seemingly endless sky and earth, and innumerable memories and feelings floating around.
But this time there was a drastic decrease of memories instead in their place was an enormous circular dome that was protecting the remaining memories and emotions.
What the dome protected against was an enormous dark tornado like-windy mass that was so vast that Kai couldn't estimate how far it spanned to, even with his connection to the blood world.
Howling inside the winds were many familiar faces that signified many different desires and traits. They were the bloodlines that Kai had absorbed and the faces portrayed a certain emotion or desire that was being released.
They were howling out their desires continuously, Victor White's face suddenly crashed against the dome with a twisted and violent expression on his face and Kai heard him say "Kill, Kill, KILL!" He repeated it over and over as his face vanished into the winds.
Many other faces appeared and disappeared startling Kai but this wasn't enough to shake Kai. After all, he had killed each of them twice so they were no longer a threat to him. Instead, the [Berserk] ability that was in the shape of the tornado was the true threat.
Kai turned back to the subconscious and asked him "How long do you have before it breaches your defences?" "I estimate 2 weeks at most."
Kai was shocked at the brief time he had to solve the issue and pondered on the issue. His eyes suddenly lit up and he looked at his subconscious. "I have an Idea, do you think that if I reinforce this barrier then we will have more time?"
"It depends. Show me the spell and maybe it will work." "...Alright, it is a new spell that I have been working on ever since I have discovered that I have discovered that I have no defences regarding the soul.
Its created by combining Occlumency's principles along with my [Mind's eye] and my [Soul aura.] Although it isn't possible to use in the real world due to the insufficient energy required, it should work here with your help.
It doesn't have a fixed name yet but do you think it is feasible?" The next 10 minutes were spent trying to modify the spell in a way that would strengthen the defences as well as give it some attacking capabilities instead of just passively defending.
There was some success and Kai and his copy instantly got to work after modifying the defensive barrier as well as condensing several layers of protection for Kai's subconscious. The memories and emotions were given a reduced amount of space but in exchange, they were given a secure position inside the dome.
Whenever the wind would attack the dome the dome would reflect 1% of the damage back at the wind and thus reducing the total mass of the [Berserk] ability.
All in all, the spell's estimated amount of time spent on defending was two months' time in total. After that the [Berserk] ability would engulf Kai. They had also discussed the attacks on Kai's emotions and he had understood that as long as the ability didn't breach his subconscious defences then he wouldn't be at risk of losing control of his emotions.
He would have to find a cure in that time frame or else...