The Cursed Extra: Twin Souls Against the World

<So where were those grey dots that we didn't check?>

Xane froze in silence. [Wait, I thought you remembered that?]

Zayn took a deep breath. <Shit, nothing is going right these days.>

Xane motioned to the five grey dots. [No point crying, Zayn. Okay, how about this time we only go to the left? No other direction, we just keep going straight on this path.]

Zayn thought for a bit and said, <That can work. I think we can check the new grey dots along the way, and instead of randomly moving, we'll come back and then follow the same direction.>

[Oh, I was thinking of leaving the grey dots, but your method is much better.]

With their new plan, both of them started to move through the projection plane, but to their despair, even after spending hours traveling, they did not find any new grey dot at all.

All that traveling had already reduced them to dot sizes, and they were about to get thrown out of the projection plane when Xane shouted. [Look, there is a grey dot in the bottom corner.]

The duo wasted no time and moved closer to it.

When the grey dot reached golf ball size, Zayn gulped. <Dude, it has almost ten times the attraction force.>

Xane just stared at the ball as he then combined with Zayn.

Even their combined size was just slightly bigger than a dot. Not caring about anything else, both of them zoomed to the golf ball.

The very next moment, a gigantic grey world was before them.

Xane screamed in excitement. [Is this a high-purity world?]

Before Zayn could say anything, both of them felt a huge attraction force.

They tried to move back, but just then their soul projections shrank to nothingness, and they blacked out.

…

A few hours earlier, in the metal hall.

Time continued to pass inside the empty hall, and from time to time, the white lines pulsed, releasing more smoke into the circle.

An hour passed, then two.

At this time, the platform moved back with Xenor on top of it as he stared at the thick smoke with slight interest.

In all his years as a hex master, he had seen at least a hundred people go to the projection place, but none of them had this much smoke density.

Not only that, but this student of his was able to stay in the projection plane for almost double the normal amount of time.

Even for him, this was the first experience with someone with a chaos element using the projection shifting ritual.

Everything about this student was abnormal.

All of this was super interesting, but Xenor felt a headache as he saw the rune lines practically blinking every second.

It would be good if this guy could find a suitable world, but… Xenor just sighed and quietly watched the smoke pillar.

…

After a long time, Zayn came back to his senses.

He tried to move, but to his surprise, he had lost control over his body.

He asked Xane in confusion, [Dude, you there? I lost control of the body.]

Xane, who was chilling, suddenly heard Zayn's voice in his head.

He opened his eyes in surprise. <Oh, I got the control back. This is interesting.>

Xane pushed himself to sit up and looked at himself to see if anything was missing, but no, everything was the same as when he had naturally taken over the body.

He said with interest, <Well, I'm not sure about that soul strain theory of yours, but at least we have a method to manually switch control over the body.>

Zayn mentally rolled his eyes. [Dude, I hope we don't have to rely on this method for long.]

<Haha, true.>

With that, both of them became silent. Xane was the first to break the silence. <What was that world? The attraction I felt to it was far beyond what we have experienced so far.>

Zayn mentally nodded his head. [Yeah, that should be at least a mid-purity world, if not a high-purity world.]

Xane said with excitement. <I remembered the color of the world was a light-tone grey, but it was proper grey this time. Not like the white mixed with grey.>

[Well, that's an improvement for sure, but the reality is we still have found no way to search for more grey dots.]

Those were like cold water.

Xane's happiness was short-lived as he knew that the world was not what they were looking for.

He rubbed his head, as in a way, they did not achieve anything in this round at all.

At this moment, Xane heard footsteps.

He saw Xenor walking toward him with a stretched smile on his face. Just like the first two times, Xenor asked with a smile, "So how did it go, my student?"

Xane stared at Xenor for a long time and just shook his head.

Xenor shook his head and said in a consoling tone, "Well, don't worry. You can still find a world as good as Soren's."

Xane raised his eyebrow. He knew Xenor was using this jealousy tactic. Though he didn't care, he still asked, "Sir, what is the purity of the world Soren formed a link with?"

Xenor smiled at him. "He picked a gold-purity ice world. It was an excellent result for an advanced element."

Xane nodded in surprise, as after grinding in the projection plane, he knew just how difficult it could be to find a gold-purity world.

Now he understood the reason why that guy was so smug. He still had this feeling that there was something else going on here.

After all, it was just their first meeting. He just did not understand Soren's behavior. <Hey Zayn, I remembered you talked about Xenor's student who beat gold rank. Was Soren that student?>

[Ah, I don't know the character description, man. We have to wait for Soren to use some hex arts; only then can I say anything.]

Xane sighed and tried to stand up, only to fall back to the ground.

He looked down at his feet and saw them shaking.

He didn't even realize he was in this terrible condition.

Not only that, but he heard his stomach growling. It was clear that skipping dinner was a poor decision.

Xenor waved to him. "Take your time. Going into the projection plane places a high strain on your body. I recommend you not do any physical work today."

Xane just sat there, taking deep breaths. After about a minute, he finally pushed himself to stand up.

Xenor asked him, "You okay now?"

Xane nodded to him. "Yeah, let's go, sir."

With that, Xane dragged himself to the platform and walked back to the office.

He said goodbye to Xenor and rushed to the cafeteria, only to meet the novel's protagonist there.