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Chapter 2 - The Reath

Taking Etox doesn't only increase the rage, frustration and hatred in him but also the desire for vengeance for his family.

The moment he submitted himself, he was thrown in an arena where the Metal Skull was already waiting.

The huge audience was around the arena. It seemed nothing less than a big ring where multiple matches were taking place in multiple cells.

But Jack cared about nothing and went to give a punch to the Metal Skull. The Metal Skull instantly caught his fist and grabbed it. It proved that he had been in many fights in this arena and had fought almost every kind of reath with different powers.

There was a refree, but it wasn't here to keep the fight fair but to learn the reath power.

Jack could see how the veins of his body were turning red with his anger. MS (Metal Skull) spoke, " Are you trying to control it from inside? Because if you are, then it will kill you, and if you accept it, then it will kill only a part of you."

It was a horrible situation, but to stay alive the Jack had to accept it.

He submitted himself to his anger and hatred, which exposed his powers. He had shape-shifting power, but unlike shape shifter, he could turn into a beast, which was completely different from the lusty monsters.

With long fangs and sharp nails, hair grown on his whole body and a hyper sensitive tail with enhanced smell, eyesight, and hearing power, Jack was undefeatable.

As soon as the beast-Jack went forward to kill the Metal skull, he vanished, and the match was instantly stopped.

Jack turned back into human and felt different voices in his head.

(Who are those? Are those people on chairs around me, or is it my mind that is crowded now?

He fell down and got unconscious. The moment he woke up, he could see some people fighting each other. All had the same face, all had the face of Jack. One of them was exactly what he was turned into before : the beast Jack. There were 5 more of them, each had unique and different clothes.

One of them came to him and introduced others as the rivals of Jack. Jack couldn't understand what was going on, so the other Jack helped him. He was wearing nothing but shorts. He called himself the flirty and mentioned that this is a big void in which there are 7 reaths now and only one chair exists.

Whoever gets to sit on the chair has a free will to do whatever he wants with the body.

This time, it felt like flirty is only one who is willing to help the og Jack to take control instead of the other 5.

So he helped him to get near the chair in a light. As soon as Jack sat on chair, he woke up in the lab where he was being analyzed for what he really is, as this was the first time DAB saw this beast.

The reath means what a person really feels, what are the true emotions, and what he desires to do.

To understand reath better, it's important to understand the principles of personality.

There are three principles of personality: Id, Ego, Super ego

->ID

To make it straightforward, it can be said that Id is the desire of a person. It usually reacts on pleasure and aggression.

Id is the only reason a person doesn't only crave but also do harmful activities like smoking, drinking alcohol, bullying someone, and getting into fights without any reason instead of doing something productive.

It's weird how a person can desire so much just from one principle of personality.

->Superego

It is more like a moral part of personality. It helps to learn about the consequences as well as what society says about it.

Anything a person does without its will or is forced to do by a society is happened due to superego. Damn that's why a person thinks so much before making any decisions.

->Ego

Ego is more like something in between. It helps in taking risks and finding something that helps to satisfy ID as well as get supported by society, religion, and family.

Now, the thing, according to DAB, the ego and superego is a lie. If a person has only id and it can be manipulated, then that's the successful result and future of the world.

However, there are not many people left with good id these days. Everyone has something about someone, which is somehow not good. Maybe that's why the E-tox project was more successful than the reath project.

That's why the DAB has been trying to get reath (real emotions and true heart) out of a person and manipulate it according to their needs.

However, due to the superstrong ego and superego of a person, it ends up killing it when the experiment is done to pull out the reath.

Jack's id ego and superego got divided into multiple parts. It's possible that it is because he accepted it with strong id as well as superego. However, his ego didn't want the same. That's what pulled out every part of his personality and allowed him to access whatever he wanted exactly whenever he wanted.

Seeing his parts and listening to their quarrels makes it clear that the mind and heart can never walk on the same path. But how will he deal with everything around him as well as everything inside him?