AN: I made a mistake, The real Runar is not tempering his soul anymore, he already finished it and merged with the clone in the outside world. It was a memory flashback that was happening before the world hopping situation.
The memories of the academy, the desperate clone, and the world-hopping detour settled into the depths of Runar's mind like a perfectly indexed library. They were no longer a parallel existence; they were simply experiences, fully integrated and assimilated.
The clone was gone, reabsorbed. The grueling decades of soul tempering were finished.
