After some time, Kai gradually recovered and quickly moved around his regurgitation and without looking into the metallic container, made a small cut on his right hand, so that the External Art on his Left hand would not be affected, and he squeezed out a drop of blood into the container. He then turned away from the container.
Just as he was headed towards the wooden crate and the creature within with the weapons and bars, Kai felt as though the entire world froze for a moment. The next moment, he found himself back in the black space which he had assumed was his mind.
This time, however, he could see Kai in front of him. And through the eyes of this Kai, he could see himself. The only difference between the two was that one of the Kais had white hair and crimson eyes, while the other one had black hair and black eyes, and was highly sickly.
The Earth Kai reached out his hand, and the white-haired Kai subconsciously followed the exact same, and the two Kai finally came into contact. At that moment, a vortex suddenly formed, sucking in both of them and vanishing in the next instant.
A few seconds later, the darkness which Kai had assumed was his mind doubled in size, as a new Kai appeared, with the black eyes and hair of the Earth Kai, and the body of the white-haired Kai. There was also a scar running along his right palm which seemed rather odd since neither of the Kais had this scar.
However, before Kai could come to terms with his new appearance in his mind, the entire space was torn in half, returning to its original size, but increasing in number.
This new Kai was split into two smaller halves once more, one of them with more of the Earth Kai's features, while the other with the white-haired Kai's appearance.
Only, they no longer felt like separate people and were now fused together, and then split up but still remained the same people.
A moment later, Kai was thrown out of his mind space as his eyes opened in reality. Above him was the same ceiling of the secret underground room created by the lady who claimed to be his mother.
It was not that he suspected the lady of impersonating his mother, but he simply did not have any feelings as such towards his parents; partly because he was only half Kai from this world, and partly because even this world's Kai had never met his parents, or at least did not have any recollection of them.
Sighing, Kai stood up, only to realise that he was looking at his own self standing up while he was standing up.
Shocked, Kai turned around and noticed another Kai who looked exactly like him, except with hints of black mixed in with his white hair and red eyes. This Kai was equally shocked at seeing Kai.
It was an odd experience of looking at yourself through your own body, who was being looked at by you.
However, it did not take too long for the two Kais to understand what had happened. Essentially, his body was housing two souls, and they had merged together to form the new Kai in his mental space, before being cut into two almost perfect copies of each other, with slight differences.
Then, the Thousand Bloodline Clone Internal Art took effect as it used Kai's blood to produce his clone based on the new soul created as its base, creating this second Kai who had the exact same features as Kai, with just some hints of the Earth Kai in his eyes and hair.
He also had a scar running along his right hand that went all the way up to his chest, like lightning had snaked up his palm and landed in his chest before dissipating.
'Do you have the system?' Kai questioned himself in his mind. Since there was a connection between the two, their thoughts were open for each other to flow freely.
'…No'
'Then I am the original, and you are the clone. So, you will wear the mask. But we need a name for you.'
'Yes.' The clone said as he walked towards the mask and put it on, before equipping one of the two daggers, and handing the other to Kai to equip, only to realise that he was naked and did not have any clothes to hang his weapon on.
The two just looked at each other for a second before nodding and heading off in different directions.
Kai headed out of the underground room towards his room to get clothes for the clone, while the clone collected all the weapons and began testing each of them, the experience of the clone testing and checking the weapons was also flooding into Kai's mind.