“You think Jin would like this?” Lynn asked Qiu Yue as she carried a well covered plate up and prepared to summon the portal to the Dungeon Maker’s Instance.
“Oh please, anything that you make, he would definitely love it.” Qiu Yue sighed as she could not help wondering why Lynn had so low confidence when it came to making food for Jin. Ever since her debut, people were dying to try Lynn’s cooking, especially after how the Royal Zodiac Heads had been boasting how amazing her food was. “Let me summon the portal for you for your one and only job is to bring that secret plate of food to him.”
“It’s a rather big hotplate, we can share it among each other, you do not have to be jealous lol.” Lynn could already feel Qiu Yue’s jealousy for Jin. Not because of her love interest but because she wants the food that was hidden under the lid.
“Weird, the portal isn’t coming up.” Qiu Yue said as she tried once more to summon it out but it was not working at all. “Sub System, are you able to open the portal instead? I can’t seem to contact the System.”
“Hmm? That’s rare for the System to be uncontactable just like that. I just contacted it minutes ago that I am going into the Dungeon Maker instance.” Lynn commented but to their relief, the Sub System was able to open the portal up. However, the portal’s connection seemed a little …wonky before it turned stable. It was the first time it was happening to them and the two girls felt something was amiss.
Yet, it did not bother them too much until they entered the Dungeon Maker instance and saw Jin standing nonchalantly with Kraft plummeting onto the ground once again.
“Did the both of you have another quarrel once again? I thought you two said that you guys had make up and had a truce?” Qiu Yue said until she noticed that Kraft did not seem to be moving at all.
“Wait, Jin…. How could you beat him until like-” Before Qiu Yue could finish her sentence, she heard the sound of the plate that Lynn was carrying, dropped to the floor. When she turned her head, Lynn was already dashing towards Jin with chi filled with killer intent.
The Red Panda Sub System User was dumbfounded and was too slow to react as Lynn had already brought out her sword and clashed with Jin’s Bam. “Woah! Lynn! Why are you acting like this?!’
“WHERE IS JIN?!” Lynn shouted as the ‘Jin’ not only blocked her attack but also countered with a Panda Swipe. This caused Lynn to fall back but the Fake Jin was not giving the Penguin Cultivator any chance to recover as he opened his mouth to shoot out his signature Panda Yawning attack.
Qiu Yue was still confused as to what was happening but she managed to intervene just in time to block the Maqi Energy Beam. The beam was surprisingly intense but the skills she learnt from Zeru came in handy, allowing her to deflect most of the beam away, destroying the sides of the Dungeon Maker.
“What the fuck?! What is happening!!” Qiu Yue kept her eyes towards Jin while asking Lynn about it.”
“We are surprised for a commoner to notice the difference that quickly.” The collective booming of voices echoed through the Dungeon Maker instance. “We did not even have the chance to talk back and you attacked.”
“It’s so bloody obvious! What did you do to him?!” Lynn screamed while Qiu Yue knew that Lynn was in no condition to fight rationally.
“We had teleported him away for a vacation. You have to bear with this clone.” The System said but both of the Sub System Users knew that it was an even more terrible impersonation of the System.
“What did you do to the System, Kraft and Jin?” Qiu Yue seemed to be the only rational person in the room at this moment but the situation was too volatile as it is to get any proper explanation.
“You commoners have no need to-“
“The System had been compromised.” Both Sub Systems owned Qiu Yue and Lynn started to speak in unison. “The System had been compromised. The System had been compromised.”
“Searching…. Searching….. User is still alive but compromised. Activating Backup System. Transferring rights of User temporarily to Sub System User Qiu Yue and Sub System User Lynn. Sub System User Claire is to be instructed to move to a safe location as the designated survivor.” The Sub Systems reported out loud and the fake System chuckled.
“Heh. To see our tool able to secretly plot escape plans amused us. Very well, fellow commoners! If you have the ability to defeat this clone, then perhaps we will give you a reward.” The fake System declared as it commanded the cloned Jin to pick Kraft up and threw him towards the ladies as a sign of declaration that the battle had started.
“Hey Kraft! Tell me you are alive.” Qiu Yue managed to grab him before he was slammed onto the Dungeon Maker’s wall while the fake System immediately turned the entire instance into one large arena on a mountain peak, atop the thunder filled clouds.
“That is no Jin. You do not have to give any mercy against it.” Kraft said rather weakly, an image that did not bore with him rather well. “Call the other foxes, the fake Jin -cough is as powerful as the one you knew.”
“Won’t that be an easy fight? He does not have his minions at his behest now that the System passed us his rights, no?”
“I fear not. That is why I always demanded a secondary system in case such things happened. Also, you all have never seen Jin fighting his utmost yet. He had been hiding a lot, a fuck lot despite giving his ‘best’ all the time-cough cough.” Kraft continued to cough as his vitality got even weaker.
“You better not die on us! You have lots to explain the fuck is happening!” Qiu Yue exclaimed and before she could turn to Lynn, she found him dashing towards the fake Jin once more.
“GIVE US BACK OUR JIN!
