After being unconscious for god knows how long, I woke up.
I struggled to stand, more or less walk, I felt indescribably weak, both physically and mentally, I felt like I could pass out again.
Having no choice, I started crawling, slowly towards the stairs.
It took me almost one painstaking hour to reach the stairs, and probably might take longer to climb it.
And it did.
After climbing for what felt like an eternity, I laid on the floor at the entrance of a small hall with only three rooms.
Two rooms stood opposite each other, and the last further down the hall.
The room to my left was the room I came out from, and the other was....
"My head!" I muttered softly.
I struggled to open the room on the right.
But I had to, I felt there would answers to what was happening to me there.
After struggling to open it for a while it eventually opened, and I crawled in.
This room was more larger than the one I slept in, also more elegantly decorated.
Halfway into the room, my head suddenly felt like was going to explode from pain.
"Ahhhhh!!!, my head!!!, my head!!!" I screamed, rolling and crying in agony.
Memories were painfully ingrained in my brain, both mine and my shadow's.
I convulsed uncontrollably, shook violently, but strangely I couldn't pass out.
I was forced to go through the pain.
After hours of excruciating pain, the pain died down.
I laid there, on the floor, unmoving, just staring at the ceiling.
After more hours go by, I could finally think.
"What the hell is going on?" I muttered, with my cracked and dry voice.
I had information now, not just information but memories, but not only that i got the experiences of both my lifes.
My entire being was made anew, from both my human self, and my shadow self.
I was a new entity. My soul was complete, bringing me to the pinnacle of two races.
Though I felt a bit confused, as my consciousness was from both my lifes, who had different experiences.
One considered everything happening, one big paranormal event.
The other, planned for this, worked his entire life, to make this work, and when he saw an opportunity he took it.
I felt an unknown joy, felt like being given back something that was taken away from you, without you even knowing what it was.
I resumed crawling, and soon reached the bed.
I climbed, and slept.
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How long I slept was unknown to me, but when I woke up, I felt better, reenergized.
I rubbed my groggy eyes, as I walked towards the mirror, subconsciously.
I stood before the mirror, awestruck.
My appearance slightly above average in both my lifes, in my opinion.
Was now nothing but, perfect.
With well chiseled jawline, perfectly shaped nose, paled skin, jet black hair and eyes.
My body was in its peak as well, with perfectly chiseled abs, broad shoulders, though not too broad.
One could say I was a well built mesomorph.
And even my height was elevated, from 6'4, to about, 6'7.
"Haa", a small chuckle escaped my mouth, when I saw, even my nether part had go through changes.
'From an anaconda to a dragon, haa, this is just great!!'
Finally looking around the room, one could see the effort applied into it's design
From the king sized bed, to the giant wardrobe by the corner, to beautiful paintings hung around the room, to the elegantly carved desk.
A strange yet beautifully designed carpet laid on the perfectly polished wooden floor
And just before it, was a disgusting mess, made during my earlier agony.
It was truly shameful of me to leave such a mess, just because I was in pain.
Though that pain wasn't ordinary, if human were to undergo such pain, he/she would die, same goes for shadows as well, regardless of their cultivation stage, as the pain is mainly directed to the brain.
'I should clean that up', I thought.
"And also get cleaned myself", I said softly, looking at my naked self in the mirror.
I did a few poses in the mirror, before chuckling and proceeding to clean.
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I cleaned the floor and went to take a bath.
I slowly deeped into the water, expecting the freezing cold, but it never came.
The water didn't feel as cold as in my previous bath, though it was still considerably cold.
I finished my bath, and entered back into the room, this room had its own bathroom, which was what I used.
Standing naked in the room, my brain momentarily blank, looking around, my eyes fell on the bed spread.
It was ruined with messy stains, from me laying on it, without cleaning up.
Sigh~
I removed the bed spread and took it to the bathroom for washing.
I came back to the room and decided to wear some clothes.
Opening the wardrobe, one could see the variety of clothes that filled the wardrobe, from mediaeval fantasy clothes, to eastern looking clothes, with some clothes sharing resemblance to the 70's fashion.
"Hmm"
I decided to take something blend, a plain white shirt on a grey coloured trousers.
I exited the room and went downstairs.
In the living room, a small pile of clothes laid on the floor.
I rolled my eyes at the sight, and hesitantly cleaned it up.
~Phew~
Getting bored, I decided to take a stroll around the house.
This house was pretty okay, in human standards, it has one large living room, two bedrooms, a study, and a normal sized kitchen.
This house was all alone at the edge of the cliff, and outis my shadow, owned the entire hill. Which was a luxury most shadows didn't have.
Well the truth is, this house was a gift from a friend, he helped said friend become a noble, and thus after becoming a noble, he sponsored Outis.
I decided to make some food and then visit the town.
Just below the hill, was a massive town, peaceful and striving, a stark constract to many towns and cities in the Donn empire.
The main produce of this town were books, they made books, writing equipments, and sold written works.
This town is a paradise to scholars, hence making this town one of 21st major towns and cities.
After making and eating a simple yet delicious meal, I made my way back upstairs to change.
I changed the grey pants to black and add a black coat adoned with sliver patterns around it, and a fitting black shoes.
I made my way to the stable, and what I saw in there wasn't a horse, though I wasn't really surprised, as it was all in my memory.
A two legged dark green ferocious looking beast, stared at me with familiarity, it was a dinosaur in human term.
Getting rid of my human fear, I slowly approached it, my left hand were stretched out trying to touch it like they do in, how to train your dragon.
My palm met it's rough skin, as I rubbed between it's eyes, it made some loud purring sounds, seeming to be enjoying my touch.
The more I rubbed it, the more comfortable I felt with it.
Recalling my senses, I led it to my carriage, and hooked it up.
This carriage was slightly different from the usual carriage in the human world.
This carriage took inspiration from the 21st century vehicles, by having the coachman's sitting area covered, leaving the front open for visibility,
While on the ride to town I felt familiar with my surroundings but at the same time I felt uneasy because one instead of a horse, I ride a fucking dinosaur, secondly this carriage is modelled after a car, instead of the usually type of carriage where the driver is usually exposed, this carriage's driver's seat has a wooden door, a glass to see the road, and a roof for the driver with a small rectangular gap below the glass for the reins. So in other words the driver can ride safely without being exposed to sudden attacks.
This town is one of the 21st major towns in the Donn empire and is known as the book town due to it having a high number of book merchants. Arriving at town one could see and hear how busy it was, with several carriages coming and going and loud noises from people bargaining for an agreement in prices. "Sir Jin, Sir Jin" a young girl called for me, it seems like she knew who I was but I don't.... Oh I remember now. I stopped my carriage by side of the road, came down to answer the girl "Amaya how are you and your mom" I asked as i made a smile on my face " weeee...we are fine" she replied seeming flustered as she got hold of herself and adds " you didn't say you will be coming to town today" "yeah something came up recently and i needed some books" I replied adding " well let's see if your mother has the book am looking for " I said giving her the sign lead the way.
We arrived at a rundown bookstore, well this place doesn't have the best looks but as the best books.
"Oh my, am sorry my lord my daughter didn't mean to disturb you and bring you to this dump" Mrs Charna said as she ran over from the counter to my feet begging."Mrs Charna it's me Jin your loyal customer, do I look so different?" I said urging her to get up "Sir Jin?, what happened you look soo... noble like, it's like your appearance has been finetoned, what did you do?" Mrs Charna said with a face of relief and confusion. "It's Nothing much it's just the side effect of an experiment and it's not that bad right?" I replied with a smile on my face "yeah it's great, you look like nobility. So what can I get you or are you still looking for the sequel to that book?" Mrs Charna asked "yeah am still looking, do you have it now?" I asked but in my mind part of me doesn't know what's happening right and part of me does and remembers the book, right now am pretending to be Jin or I might be Jin.
"Am sorry but we still don't have it yet and there are no other books from that author, it seems like he wasn't even known" Mrs Charna says with a face of disappointment. "Well then can I get other books related to consciousness" I asked Mrs Charna, "well of course" she replied walking towards a shelf and picking out four large books and slammed them on the counter table making a lot of dust "a little dusty but it should be fine" Mrs Charna said with a smile " yeah it is. How much does it cost please?" I asked while Deeping my hand in my pocket "not a lot just four Donn night steel" Mrs Charna replied "alright" I said as I brought out my medieval purse and counted four Donn night steel and gave her. "Here you go enjoy" Mrs Charna said with an happy expression "thanks and take care of yourself Amaya" I said patting Amaya on the head while going.
Few minutes later I arrived at my manor, I sorted somethings outside before going in with the books. I went immediately to the study room " everything feels strange to me for a reason, I know things but at the same time am ignorant, I feel like am pretending to be Jin but at the same time I don't completely feel like Jin-hun. Well let's solve things one by one, let's deal with ignorance first, I have about 826 books in this study room plus this four on consciousness making it 830 books, the books here are diverse having history books to science books then to martial arts books and some novels. I plan to read it all before stepping back outside, I checked and also bought some food supplies for this.
Few days later
A few days as gone by and am struggling to take it all in but I don't plan on giving up. I have finished 27 books including the four books on consciousness, I started with history books and it's seems quite interesting, do you know that? this world has only three continents and it seems to me that Asia and Europe on earth is the Donn empire in the shadow realm, Africa and South America together is the Holden Federation, North America and Greenland together is the Eldjàrn kingdom.
This kingdoms are powerful in their own right and has maintained balance for centuries."Hmmm I found a book with quite an interesting title, it's called world's restrictions"