The Cursed Extra: Twin Souls Against the World

It hit Zayn as he said, <Hey, I think it's because of our hex core?>

[Hex core? Can the hex core even affect us?]

Zayn mentally nodded. <Yeah, it's just that the hex core has a very minute effect. But once we were in the coma, I think we became too vulnerable, and that's why we could sense that minor corrosion.>

Xane thought for a bit and asked, [Ok, I get that. But why did both of us experience different things?]

Zayn did not think much as he blurted, <It must be because of the Shroud of Madness.>

[Shroud of Madness?]

<Dude, it's the hex skill attached to our core. Remember, I told you this skill must be the reason why no one can detect the purity of our hex energy.>

Xane heard the sound of someone coughing next to him. [Yeah, but that explains nothing.]

Zayn mentally clicked. <Ah fck! How could that have slipped out of my mind?>

Xane asked in an uncertain tone. [What happened?]

Zayn was almost shouting. <Dude, you remember Miss Luna's lecture? Remember, she told us that the power of a hex skill depends on the potential of the hex core.>

Xane said in a deep tone to Zayn. [Come on, no more shouting, please.]

<Oh, sorry, sorry.>

Xane sighed and mentally nodded his head. [Yeah, I remember that. This is why I did not question you. After all, the ability to hide hex energy from even the top powerhouses of this world should not be normal.]

Zayn paused for a bit. <Well, you are not wrong; nevertheless, our hex ability is nothing compared to others in the novels.>

[Oh, are you talking about Liam? I mean, his ability to connect with the other world sure is broken. But that ability did not enhance his power in any way.]

Zayn frantically shook. <No, dude. That connection is just one part of the ability.>

[Part of the ability?]

<Yeah, in the novel, Liam's skill has active and passive forms. You already know the passive form, but in the active form, Liam could temporarily draw a massive amount of divine elements.>

[Divine element? Didn't you explain to me that Liam has the light element?]

<Oh, I just picked the light element as it was much easier to explain and imagine.>

[Are you for real?]

Zayn swiftly added. < That's not important. The important thing is that the active part of Liam's ability allowed him to create a small domain of the Divine element around him. >

<That domain enhanced all the hex arts that use the Divine element.>

Xane said in awe. [What the hell? Wait, so Liam has two hex skills?]

Zayn heard a few footsteps around him, but, ignoring them, he said. <No, think of it as part of the same skill. Just the passive and active parts use the same connection to do opposite things. That's not all. Dude, even other students have broken abilities.>

Xane asked with intrigue. [Oh, do tell me a few of them.]

Zayn thought for a bit and decided to stick to the people they already knew. <Yeah, so Melina's hex skill passively increases her ability to wield a spear.>

<She also had an active ability where she could shoot a large ray of fire from the tip of the spear.>

[Oh, her hex skill is customized for her to wield spear weapons.]

Zayn added, <It has something to do with the cursed spear she used to form her hex core. Most of the elites from the House of Zenairs who used those weapons would have hex skills that would help them with all that.>

Xane suddenly asked, [Wait, is this the reason Luan said that the shape of the hex core also plays a role in the hex master's skill?]

<Oh no, that has something related to hex core synchronization. But that's not important. You remember Kaia?>

[The black-haired heroine girl who's going to join Liam's team.]

<Yeah, so she also has an impure adamant hex core, and her hex skill allows her to freeze everything around her and even use the ice to create sentient ice creatures.>

[Oh, so she also has a domain.]

<Well, in a sense, you can say it's more of a physical domain that does not have any effect on her hex energy.>

The more hex skills Xane heard, the more he realized that his ability, the Shroud of Madness, was nothing compared to others.

He considered who remained and then asked. [Oh yeah, there was that elf girl too, right? What about her?]

<You mean Eline. She has dark gold potential, and in her case, she just has a super-powerful active hex skill, which could even shatter the ground.>

[Okay, and what about the dwarf?]

<That guy also has dark gold potential, and he had some craft-related hex skill, since he used a special cursed hammer to form his core. His active skill allows him to specially fuse his hex energy into items. Though I'm not too sure how his ability works.>

Xane started to understand why the top households had these specialties. Just to be sure, he asked, [Hey, do each of these top households use some kind of cursed weapon to form their hex core?]

< Nah, some of them do use other cursed objects, but it is not just limited to these households. Almost every big and small family used these cursed objects to pass down their hex art to their successors.>

[What about our card that Viyron used for the hex? I remember you were freaking out quite a bit about it. Are they also special?]

<You mean the Key of Chaos.>

[Wait, didn't our hex core's name have a Son in it?]

<It's the Son of Chaos now, but the original silver card we used was the Key of Chaos.>

[Whatever, so what's going on with that?]

Zayn paused and sighed. <Dude, I think you are ready to understand now.>

Xane asked in confusion. [Understand what?]

Zayn took his time to think about how to explain Xane. Outside, he even heard this buzz. It was like a group of people was talking among themselves.

Too bad they were quite far away, as he did not understand what they were talking about.

Not thinking about them, he said to Xane. <Xane, for any big or small hex master organization, the way they increase their power and influence is related to their ability to provide cursed objects to their successors.>

Xane almost rolled his eyes. [Oh, come on, I get that. You don't have to repeat yourself.]

Zayn frantically denied. <No. Listen to me first. You see, there are two types of cursed objects. First are the cursed objects that have hex energy and nythra.>

<These are items that hex masters who learn the core hex art of malefic craft build, but you can't use them to create a hex core from them.>

Xane remembers how the hex core formed from two energies. [Wait, don't tell me. ]

<Yup. The second type of cursed object only has pure Nythra in it. We could only use pure Nytra objects to form cores. Not objects that have already used hex energy. >

<To get any of these objects, we need to travel to special parts of the cursed world.>

Xane was about to ask why when it hit him that these objects must have a single type of Nytra. From Luna's lecture, he knew that there were limited places in the cursed land that had these objects.

Xane asked in confusion, [Wait a minute. If that is the case, then how come all the top families give that stuff to their elites?]

Zayn sighed. <Each organization has its way of acquiring them. Some discover them, while others form relations with cursed species, which give them these objects.>

[Wait, what is the cursed species now?]

<Those are creatures that retain their ability to think inside the cursed world.>

[Fck, so there are such species. Zayn, what kind of species survived there?]

Zayn sighed. <Hey, let's talk about them later. I just want you to understand that each organization spends a lot of its resources to acquire these special Nytra-filled objects.>

<You could not find them discarded in the living world; they are not like your typical fantasy weapons. After all, each nythra object would leak nythra into the real world, which is far more harmful for the living.>

[Damn, so they are like the radiation-filled objects of this world.]

Zayn paused at that comparison, but then he nodded. <You can say that.>

Xane thought for a bit and asked, [If what you said is true, then how come Viyron got two such objects?]

<Two?>

[Remember I told you about the rust sword Viyron used in the first vision.]

<Oh, that sword could be an unstable item. Most of the items in the cursed land were like that sword, and they were easy to find.>

<Those kinds of stuff are used as the material to create the first type of cursed weapons.>

He was about to continue when he heard a loud voice. "Now, everyone, focus on this specimen. This is what we call brain dead."

Someone else who stood a bit far away asked, "Hex Master, is this the new patient that you told us about?"

[What the fck is going on here?]

<Dude, I want to know the same.>