A few months after Viltz's clone set out on its journey, Viltz finally felt that his soul had recovered enough to be able to create a second clone.
This time, the clone he chose was that of a crazy drunk from the streets of Oxenfurt.
The man was a source but due to lack of training, his psyche was severely damaged.
Viltz repeated the same process as before and despite believing he was sufficiently prepared mentally, when that excruciating pain came, Viltz wanted nothing more than to throw himself out of the window from the pain he was in.
A week later, Viltz recovered and left it to his new clone to develop the Soul Slavery Technique before taking Magna and Lena to Oxenfurt, where they would spend the next five years.
Viltz registered himself and Magna at the academy, who hid her ears using an illusion spell.
Lena he registered at a school for young ladies where she would spend the next four years before she reached the minimum age for registration at Oxenfurt.
And so the first two years passed.
...
"Listen to me...I think it would be best to leave him, it's not working for us anymore. The best thing for both of us is to go our separate ways."
"I understand..." Sighing, Viltz could only shake his head as he watched Rita disappear.
During these years he was too wrapped up in his studies, explorations and researches and neglected her so it was quite normal that she would end up getting fed up with him.
"I guess I'm just not cut out for love."
Viltz went to a tavern where he got drunk all night before opening a portal to his room, throwing himself on the bed and falling asleep.
On the other hand, somewhere in the desert, a dark-haired man with dreadlocks entered a temple with decorations of black dragons with the symbol of two black stars crisscrossing in their center.
The man sat down next to the other worshippers and began to pray.
What no one of those praying near the man noticed were the tiny insects that flew out from under his sleeve, which began to fly very close to the ground, scouring the various corridors and rooms of the temple, apparently looking for something.
Half an hour later, the man got up and left the temple with the others.
Entering an alleyway, he pulled a small metal stick from one of his dreadlocks.
One of the runes on the stick ignited and it magically expanded into a long staff.
The man waved the staff and his body disappeared, appearing inside what looked like a treasure vault.
The man ignored the glittering jewels and gold that were scattered all over the place and instead walked straight towards a hermetically sealed box.
He tapped his staff on the floor and the protective spell on the box broke, at the same time a shrill alarm sounded throughout the place.
The man grabbed the box and with a wave of his cane, disappeared without a trace.
A few seconds later, men armed with scimitars stumbled into the vault, immediately noticing the missing item.
"Inform everyone! It's a red alert! The egg of the evil deity, Rarog, has been stolen!"
On the other hand, the dark-skinned man appeared inside Viltz's lab, where his clone was experimenting on a test subject.
"You have the package?"
"Right here, he keeps blabbering nonsense about how he can grant me immortality and supreme power and stuff, my head hurts from listening to his crap."
"Haha! That's normal, the poor guy is desperate! He lost the battle against his mortal enemy and in exchange he turned into an egg in order to be reborn. But who would have thought that his enemy wouldn't let him escape even in this pathetic state!"
"Who are you calling pathetic you insolent fucking worm! I demand that you lead me immediately and offer me the necessary sacrifices in order to be successfully reborn!"
"Stupid bird! Why would I do something so foolish? I have something better prepared for you! Relax. Your time here will be quite long. I estimate at least a hundred years until you will be of use to me."
The consciousness emerging from inside the box was confused as she perceived the two consciousnesses in front of her transmitting the same words in unison as if they were one being.
"You...what the hell are you?"
"You don't need to know."
The man with dreadlocks who was Viltz's doppler clone opened a specially designed safe for this individual and put him inside before locking it.
"It seems the isolation works wonders. Now it's no longer chattering inside my head."
"Who would think that a majestic demonic demigod phoenix demigod, worshipped as a deity, would be reduced to such a pitiful state..."
"The one who forced him into such a state, the black dragon Baal Zebuth, I have been gathering information on him but he seems to have disappeared after his battle against Rarog, it seems he did not come out of that battle unscathed either."
"What difference does his whereabouts make, after all he is not needed, unlike Rarog who is in ideal condition to be part of the Genesis project."
"Well, I guess I'll go to the dragon mountains now."
"Be careful, the dragon mountains are the last stronghold of the dragons so they must be infested with them."
"I'll be careful."
Viltz's clone looked at a display case in which rested an irregularly shaped orange stone.
"The sun stone..."
"I had a hard enough time retrieving it from that elven crypt, I just hope it can be put to use the end and doesn't end up becoming nothing more than an ornament in this display case."
"You know how we're altering a lot of events by looting so many things that will be needed by the main characters in the plot? Now that the stone amphora isn't in the river, Geralt will no longer be able to meet Yennefer and magically bind their fates as it happens originally. And the sunstone is a necessary element in the future plot."
"Do you really care?"
"No, I'm just bored and looking for a topic of conversation."
"Why don't you go comfort the prime? The poor guy seems to be feeling bad about the breakup, even though it's been a few months."
"Comfort myself? No thanks.
Besides that jerk brought it on himself, from the beginning he knew he didn't really take the relationship with Rita seriously."
The Viltz doppler just shrugged before opening a portal and disappearing, leaving the investigating Viltz to get on with his work.
...
A year later, the investigating Viltz looked expectantly at the test subject in front of him.
The test subject got up from the hospital bed he was in and knelt down in front of the investigating Viltz.
"Master!"
The investigating Viltz laughed maniacally in a peculiar manner before ordering his new servant.
"Kill yourself!"
He handed a sharp knife to the test subject, who didn't hesitate to slit his own throat, causing blood to splatter all over the floor.
"Finally! Three years of tireless work finally paid off!"
The Viltz researcher sat at his table and drank a glass of wine to celebrate his success.
When he finished drinking, he called Viltz prime to come to the lab immediately using his telepathic link.
Viltz got out of bed with tired eyes and listened to the telepathic message for a while, not understanding what the other guy was saying until he had to repeat it loudly for him to finally understand.
Getting up from the bed, Viltz noticed a few arms pulling him back.
Three women with goat horns and strange tattoos all over their bodies started caressing him and giving him kisses all over.
"Mmm, why don't you stay a while longer?
We still want to have fun."
One succubus bit his ear as she tried to tempt him, while another one of them wiggled her breasts in a lustful manner.
Viltz shook them off and hastily pulled on his clothes before opening a doorway to the lab, where he was greeted by the scene of the man with his throat slit open and a pool of blood under his feet.
Viltz crouched on the floor and began vomiting like a wretch.
"Man! You sure are as shit if something like this has managed to get to you!"
"I've got more alcohol than blood in my body. What did you expect to happen to smell this nasty blood smell first thing in the morning?"
"First thing in the morning? It's 3:30 in the afternoon! And you've smelled your own smell? You smell like a sex marathon! You sure know how to have fun, don't you? What was that Cher song that fits your situation perfectly? Eh it was something like: If you believe in life after love? Param pam pam! I can feel something inside me say! I really don't think you're strong enough no!!!"
Before he continued singing that nonsense, the Viltz prime threw the bottle of alcohol he was holding at him.
"Leave me alone!"
Viltz pushed his clone away and began to review the notes the clone wrote about the enslavement spell.
"Good! Since the spell is now ready it's time to get you an assistant!"
"Great! I was already dying of boredom. Any more and I'd go completely insane."
"Doppler got that thing?"
"Yeah, two months ago."
"Good, using that will make it easier to find this guy."
The investigating Viltz handed the Viltz prime a plate with a few numbers on its surface.
Using the same method he used to infiltrate Geofrey Monck's lab, Viltz managed to focus on the scene of a sinister-looking man doing something inside a lab.
Without wasting any time, Viltz opened a portal to the other side and directly hit the other sorcerer in the head before he could even react.
A giant centipede came out of the ground and tried to attack Viltz but Viltz sent a fireball straight into its mouth, causing it to burn inside.
Grabbing the unconscious sorcerer, Viltz transported himself back to his lab.