The cold hospital chair scraped against his back, it hurt but it didn't matter to him since he was looking for a solution to his intriguing problem.
The speaker besides the main desk counter buzzed to life as a nurse spoke up
"Patient number 11 please enter the room to the left of the sitting area, thank you for your patience."
He was up next.
When did everything go to shit he thought, a game that came into real life 40 years ago. He turned 25 years old two days ago but he had no one to celebrate his birthday with.
Players as they are called people who awaken unique skills linked to their souls. They help humanity, bullshit he thought if it did help millions wouldn't die every year. He knew it wasn't his place to think that way he was nothing more than a civilian.
The nurse on the intercom spoke again
"Patient number 12 please enter the room on the right of the sitting area, thank you for your patience"
He stood up. He was pale skinned, tall, and thin he brushed a lock of his long unkempt hair from his face, his eyes brown and hollow that didn't convey a shred of emotion, he walked towards the doctor's office. A nurse in the way muttered under her breath "What a waste of a handsome face."
A woman wearing a white coat, her glistening eyes scanning him, sitting behind a desk with a name plate on her desk, written on the plate "Psychiatrist Julian Grey", in her hand was the man's file, she was reading through it barely looking at the man herself.
"Mister Kaelen please have a seat". She points to the chair just in front of her she lifts her gaze from the file and looks at bim
Kaelen sits in front of her, his eyes hollow showing her exactly what she needs.
"You have a rather serious case of dissociative identity disorder." She paused and spoke again.
"You developed it at the age of 6 that's rather peculiar."
She started describing to him his very own symptoms which just didn't fit right with him.
"Your case is a serious one as not many people develope DID at such a young age and you have developed nine personalities not counting yourself, treatment is possible but it's rather..."
Kaelen's eyes glitter up with hope his eyes showed something new he spoke up
"I will do anything doctor just tell me, if it's about the money I will arrange it anyhow."
He had always thought they were a integrated part of him and he could never get it rid of them but the doctor's words renewed his hope.
The doctor looked at him, he was focusing on her lips as she spoke of the treatment she did not notice the gray look on his face as she continued speaking.
"It's not something we can perform actually from your file I read that you are actually a porter for dungeons, and that has created complications."
Kaelen looked a little disheartened then his eyes narrowed almost as if out of anger then he spoke
"Is there a way or not." He clenched his hand tightly as he spoke in a harsh tone.
The doctor was not suprised as she spoke "Since you are a porter and an unawakened at that, I think you have contracted great amounts of corrupt mana which has degraded your brain further."
"So what is my role in this?" Kaelen spoke still clenching his hand tightly.
"The treatment is a possibility but to remove the excess mana that you have absorbed you need to awaken and reach a high enough rank then you can get rid of the mana henceforth removing your personalities."
Though the treatment sounded simple it was utterly insane for one thing to become an awakened you need to awaken your unique ability which has hidden conditions that you don't know about until you awakened it and secondly climbing the ranks was insane too there are 10 ranks that divide the players and normal people he was an unawakened and he might as well need to reach the Chaos rank.
"I see." Kaelen mummered as he stood up and exited the room his head hanging low and he left the hospital.
***
As he was walking towards his house which he inherited after his parents and little brother died as he was walking He thought about what the doctor had said, he could get rid of them and there was a way, a voice mummered in his head
"My chance." The switch was between Kaelen and the personality was unnoticeable.
The world turned dull for him all he could notice was the noise of the traffic the sounds of rustling from the nearby bush but his mind was clearer than Kaelen's.
Kaelen worked as a porter and he had to manage his wages for days, weeks and sometimes months but the reason he was able to was because of them.
He arrived at his house he slowly turned the knob as he entered and flicked on a switch besides him he removed his jacket and hung it on the coat hanger.
There are ten personalities inside of Kaelen including Kaelen they all have different hobbies, social skills, favourite food and everything.
The first personality he had ever created was Lucian he didn't know how his personalities came into existence for Kalelen one day Lucian just appeared and started talking to him. Often times Kaelen would hallucinate Lucian in front of his eyes.
Lucian was the first personality Kaelen had ever created he was the most deranged of them all.
He walked towards the the basment wearing gloves as he did, he had a secret that only the other nine knew, he was a serial killer.
He entered the basement the muffled screams of a man could be heard as he put on a butchers jacket. Lucian walked down the flight of stairs and came into a 6 feet distance of the man a single light bulb on the ceiling showing how the man looked.
The man maybe in his late 50s, balding, fat, a unkept beard, naked a rope around his neck tied in such a way that if the man wasn't standing he would be choked to death.
The man looked healthier than him by all accounts but it didn't matter to him, what mattered was the crime scene in the basement.
"You are a really bad man Mr. Hensly." He spoke as he unpacked his tools he removed the tape of the man's mouth.
"Why are you doing this to me I didn't do anything wrong if it's money you want I can give you anything just please let me live." His voice was trembling his words sounded geniune.
"You see I know what you did wrong Mr. Hensly, you ran over a family of four and had your awakened friends blame it on monsters from a dungeon. Don't you think they wanted to live, don't you think how wronged they were, they never arrived at their destination and they never will just like you Mr. Hensly, even if you want to live you won't be able to." He talked without even glancing a look at the man
He picked up a syringe
"You know I don't really find prey that I can kill because most people who commit crimes are awakened." He tapped the syringe to get the air bubbles out
"What are you doing." The man cried
Lucian smiled "This over here is a paralytic drug that well paralyzes the body but keeps the nervous system awake, don't worry I won't torture you Kaelen is not used to gore."
As soon as Lucian finished his sentence he stabbed the man in the neck with the syringe and empties the contents of it. A few seconds later the man's body became limp almost like a corpse that was tied to the ceiling.
He untied the man and put him in a body bag.
***
Lucian arrived at a graveyard with his almost recked car.
He took the bag and carried the bag towards a grave his thin frame which had more strength than what the conveyed because of his years of hard labour.
And with shovel he brought he started digging. The calluses on his hand reminding him how many times he has done this.
The cold air of the grave yard doing wonders to his joints that were hurting all over because of carrying the fat man, for a second Lucian forgot his reason for the vist at the grave yard. He began digging again.
After he dug a hole deep enough he unzipped the bag and threw the man inside the hole.
"This is your new home just beside your victims." He smiled as he spit on the man.
He started putting soil over the still conscious but unmoving man.
After he buried the man alive Lucian started talking out loud to himself
"See, it was that easy."
"You spent our entire week's wage on a drug so you could sedate a guy." Kaelen spoke from the same mouth
"So?" Lucian said as this without a care in the world
"We are gonna have to go to dungeons again you genius." Kaelen was tired of what Lucian was doing.
"Just because of one dungeon you crying out loud?"
Kaelen was stunned at the statement by Lucian since becoming a porter was easy but surviving was not so easy, the players didn't really care about the porters except a few kind ones.
"I can't do this anymore Lucian, please understand for the next month I can't let you harm another one of your victims." Kaelen cried
"We'll see." Lucian spoke
Kaelen was used to this type of response from his alter but he couldn't keep on handling it forever. And Lucian was right Kaelen needs to find another porting job at a dungeon.
***
Kaelen arrived early for the job as he always does. He got out of his old and worn out car that many would think doesn't even work at a glance.
In front of him the scenery he was used to the most, a blue coloured portal it was like a blue cloud that was spinning inwards with a few specs of purple it wasn't a pleasent sight to him since it brought back memories of all his expeditions all of which were unpleasant.
***
A hour and half had passed after which the attack team had arrived most of them were of mortal rank and a few of shade rank roughly making up 20 people.
A brawny man with ripped muscles and orange hair came up to Kaelen and in a rather sweet tone asked
"Are you the porter young man?" He asked
"Yes I am." Kaelen replied
The man looked bewildered as to how this scrawny kid was going to carry the weight of the drops but well what did he know.
Soon after 5 more porters joined, they began the expedition it was another simple job this was going to be Kaelen's hundredth dungeon the dungeon was ranked at shade which wasn't much since the attack team was plenty overpowered.
As they walked into the portal the first thing that hit their noses was the horrendous of waste mixed with God knows what a porter puked the scenario inside the dungeon was like that of a subway which was also a sewer but the explanation didn't do it justice.
This wasn't new to Kaelen he had been to dungeons of seeker rank the and by no accounts was he inexperienced.
The monsters that came out of the dungeon were infected rats and wolves and the attack team handled them with ease and after keeping their momentum they reached the boss.
The boss was a chimera of shade rank which was butchered by the main dealers of the party.
The porters gathered all the drops and got out of the dungeon.
After they left the dungeons Kaelen who had left the dungeon last got a notification not on his phone but on a floating blue screen in front of him.
The screen read
[Congratulations player]
[You have unlocked your unique skills]
[Error]
[Player has multiple souls residing inside of them]
[Multiple unique skills are being awakened]