I Can Copy Curses

"My weakness?" Orion laughed wryly. He had almost infinite energy, a curse for physical strength, and elemental curses of fire, ice, and lightning. He can teleport, make his body intangible and many other cheat-like abilities that almost make him a perfect being.

Although, if he did have a weakness, it would be his rank. He was just at the iron rank, and without his curses, he wouldn't belong here at all.

And the most dreadful thing was that his clone also possessed all those abilities but had a higher level of control and strength over them than Orion, making the clone even more terrifying.

"My only weakness is my rank, which is only at the iron rank," he said to her.

Elyn frowned when she heard him. "Aren't you too full of yourself?" She asked, her voice laced with irritation.

"It's truth and I don't care if you believe it or not." Orion shrugged.

Elyn was about to argue more when she sensed something and turned her head upward to look at the sky.

In the sky, both Astral and Grey Orion suddenly came to a stop after clashing with each other with only brute strength.

"You are strong, very strong." Grey Orion nodded in excitement.

However, Astral didn't seem as excited as Grey Orion and only looked at him with a deep frown.

"You... who are you?" He asked. "How could you be so strong when you are only at iron rank?"

He had never seen anyone with such a low rank possess such monstrous strength. It was impossible to have that level of power at such a rank, even for someone like himself, who was at the peak of gold rank and had to use a forbidden ability to reach that level.

But the guy in front of him didn't seem serious at all. It was as though he was excited about the fight, like someone who had been holding back their strength for a long time and finally had the opportunity to unleash it.

"Who am I?" Grey Orion smiled. "Don't you see the face? Don't you recognise the voice? The Body? I am Orion but far better and more powerful than the original one."

As if thinking something, he suddenly looked towards Orion. "You know, I have been telling you you are original all this time but the thing is, I am original too. I have all the memories of you, from when you were born to how you came here. It's a very strange feeling."

He suddenly clutched his head and an expression of sorrow appeared on his face.

"And knowing I have a family outside but they are meeting you, your sister—my sister is playing with you and happily chatting with you when I am trapped here all this time made me want to kill myself—made me want to question my existence—who am I? Why do I exist here when there is another me out there living his life?"

His expression suddenly turned gloomy.

"And you know what the worst thing is? I can see everything you do outside as if I am the one doing it, but I am not. I am here, stuck in this sorrowful world, while you get to enjoy your own life when I and you are in essence the same being. Why? Why is that?"

He stood there in the air, tears dripping down his cheeks.

"For fifteen years, I have been watching your life—my life played out with my own eyes. At first, when I was born, I thought it was cool to see another me who was living outside. I experienced your life.

I cried at your sorrow, smiled when Big Sister Emily played with you, imagined playing with Ella when I saw you two together, hated my father when he sealed our memories and disowned you and then I experienced another life in a different world. But as a matter of fact, I couldn't enjoy any of those moments. I am just a mere clone born here when you were born."

Looking at Orion, he further said, "I don't hate you. I can't hate me, can I? But since the moment you came here, my heart has started beating very fast. This is the chance I have been waiting for. If I can somehow replace you, then I could go outside and play with Ella and eat with my mother. I wonder how blissful that life would be.

But for that reality to come true, you can only vanish from this world so that I can become you."

Everyone took a deep breath as they heard Grey Orion. They hadn't imagined that there was such a story behind his actions.

Orion was also shocked. Previously, he had only thought that the clone only had access to his body and his arsenal of curses but after hearing him, he was speechless.

As the clone said, it was him, and he was it. They were the same being but born in different worlds, and yet connected at the same time.

It was all too bizarre for him to know that another him existed and now he wanted to be the original.

"Are you guys?" At that moment, Grey Orion looked at everyone, including Erick, Elyn, and Astral. "I have a big surprise for you."

As he said that, he swiped in the air beside him, causing a crack to appear in the void.

"Are those?" Erick's face turned grim when he saw what came out of that crack.

Grey Orion smiled. "Yeah, these are your clones—all the people that came here have a clone here."

"How could that be possible?" Elyn exclaimed, seeing so many clones of themselves come out of the crack. Meanwhile, her eyes were fully focused on the clone of her, who just looked like herself but only in black and white.

"How do all these clones exist?" Astral frowned. The situation became even more complex now that everyone's clones were here.

Grey Orion laughed. "Don't worry too much; these clones are not like me. You see, all of them appeared to have been controlled by someone unlike me, who has complete control over my body and thoughts. Also, they want you guys dead so it all works out for me."

Astral and others could tell that there was something wrong with their clones by how they only stared at them like puppets.

"You know what the best thing is?" Grey Orion continued. "Although they appeared to be controlled by someone, for reasons unknown, they seem to listen to everything I say to them."

Everyone's faces turned dark when they heard him for they knew what he could do with that ability.

Grey Orion smiled, seeing their expression. "Clones, kill them."

As he gave them the commands, all the clones came to their originals and started attacking them.

And in a moment, the grey lands became a battlefield between clones and originals.

Astral's clones were attacking him, who had also opened his five limits. They were fighting toe-to-toe with each other, just like Elyn and her clone. Erick, Princess Luma, and all the people that came here started to fight with their clones.

Only Orion and his clone remained.

One was smiling while watching all of this, while the other had his head down, completely oblivious to the ongoing war between the clones and the originals.