Chapter 219: The Plan (1/2)

Jayden's smile grew even wider as she began to quietly chuckle at herself, she could only imagine how Emilia Reid reacted to what had just happened, her anger being more and more hilarious to her the more she imagined it.

Jayden's plan was fairly simple, and although the best outcome was not achieved, which would have been to save Abby, it still well served its purpose.

Through more personal, intense training, Jayden pushed herself into improving her clone skill. Now, she was able to summon upwards of 4 clones instead of 1.

Usually, those clones would be rather simple-minded, allowing the user to infuse certain memories in their body. They were used only for meagre tasks or to fake very shallow emotions, complexity was not in their nature. Even if they were inflicted with the simplest of wounds, they would cease to exist.

Thus, during her training, in a moment of genius, Jayden discovered the use of a new, unique type of clone, one much better than the rest but with its own unique drawbacks.

By infusing a certain part of her soul and infusing that soul with a predominant emotion of hers, she was able to make such a clone.

A clone that even had the capability of creating their own clones, but only to the limit of the original user which was in her current case, 4.

It was far stronger than her normal clones, being able to withstand actual punishment, yet still fairly fragile compared to her original body. And, its mind was far more complex in nature, although its emotion range did not cover the full spectrum, being subconsciously tamed and quelled by the certain emotion that had been infused by the part of the soul used to make the clone.

And thus, when the clone dies, no matter where it was, the soul would return back to its rightful owner, along with all the memories and emotions experienced by that soul as it merges into the soul of the user.

Jayden used this to her advantage when she had infiltrated the Reid mansion.

After she had disposed of Preston, she created a clone, infusing it with all of her current emotions, and the emotion that she infused into the part of her soul that she gave to that clone was her kindness and trust to those she cared about.

She made the clone believe that they were the original, that they were not a puppet, just to make their interactions with Abby more natural and organic.

The reason she chose trust and kindness to infuse into her clone was for many reasons. She knew that if there was something wrong that happened, a rational version, or non-caring version would have no doubt retreated, concluding that there was something wrong but not what and that it was too dangerous to proceed further.

However, by infusing emotions such as trust in her soul, it would make her disregard subtle or sometimes obvious hints that there was something wrong, making her proceed with the original plan either way, which was exactly what she had wanted.

If the hints were false and everything was alright, then that would have been perfect and they would safely escape the mansion together. However, if the hints were accurate and she was lured into a trap, then that would still serve for intel gathering and would have been much better than if she were just to flee.

A quirk of the soul clone was that Jayden was able to connect to it at any time, seeing exactly through their vision and senses without them even knowing. However, that skill was only reserved for when there was nothing in the way hindering communications. Hence, when they entered Abby's room, she had lost all contacts. But, from the hints that Abby was showing prior, it was clear that something had gone wrong with her.

So, when the clone grasped the door of the balcony, it somehow meant that she was no longer under the effect of the communication crystal, and for that split second, she was able to reveal the truth about who they truly were, the truth that they were only a clone and that they were going to die, and now their main goal was to gather as much information as possible and not worry since it was the purpose they were even created in the first place, which came as a massive surprise to the clone as it thought that they were the real Jayden Griffith.