Meanwhile, Dante’s clone exited the Zero Gate World after the timer ran out, using the official method of returning to a seat point and passing through a gate. Apparently, once they were in the real Zero Gate, they would have to do the same.

Once he came out, he materialized from seeming nothing in the pod that Dante had been in within the Inferno Battleship. After all, the quantum clone could exist in both reality and quantum worlds since it was generated by the superpower and attached to quantum markers.

When the clone exited the pod, he saw Beatrice outside who was sizing him up curiously. Before he could even say hi, a deluge of outrageous words came from her mouth.

“So, will this clone ever become strong enough? If so, I think we can try our own homemade threesome one day in the future without having to use a third person and make it infidelity,” Beatrice asked with folded arms.

Dante’s clone was left speechless and shook his head. “Who knows, maybe. If the time comes and you’re still interested, we can try. This clone is a body with my mind so maybe.”

Beatrice raised an eyebrow. “You actually agreed? I expected you to be angry and chastise me.”

“Why would I?” Dante asked with puzzlement.

“To be honest, I was reading some romance novels a while back and the male protagonist got his female love interest to agree to him using a clone spawned by his technique to double up on her,” Beatrice explained with a smile. .𝙘𝒐𝒎

“But whew, the comments. The male readers were furious and called it NTR, that the male lead had cucked himself with his clone. I thought you’d feel the same,” Beatrice concluded with a shrug.

Dante smiled. “Oh? What about you? What did you think about the male protagonist’s choice as well as the response to it? Do you agree or disagree?”

“Uh… well, I did think it was a bit weird, but it was probably the best way to get that kind of experience without risking their relationship. Also, if they both were happy, who cares about the semantics of whether it is cuckolding or self-sex?” Beatrice furrowed her brows and responded.

“And as for the response… I’ll put it nicely and say I have never felt that the male sex was more repulsive than in that moment,” Beatrice’s voice became slightly cold.

“Haha, I see. Well, as a man myself, I’ll explain it to you. It depends mostly on the type of clone in question. There are three different types of clones in this context, and they decide how men will view their actions in each case.”

“The first is the most typical kind: two bodies, split minds. The main body splits its soul or mind into the sub-body, and it achieves synchronicity to some extent. The issue here is that the sub-body, while split from the main mind, is still semi-autonomous and can make his own decisions independently of the main body.”

“Of course, the sub-body’s decisions are based on the interests and trends of the main body, or at least the person who split his mind. The experiences the sub-body feels may or may not be returned to the main body and can become unique experiences for the sub-body.”

“The second is the rarest type: two bodies, two minds. The main body either creates or acquires a clone of itself with a separate mind altogether. It’s their own body, and they could either claim it back or connect to it, but the minds inside are not necessarily the same in terms of origin.”

“One example is Time Remnants generated by speedsters, which are like alternate timeline versions of yourself. It’s you for all intents and purposes, but your minds are not linked, and you could both do whatever you wanted.”

“As for the third, it’s similar to my current situation: two bodies, one mind. It’s a situation where there can be a main body and a sub-body, but the exact same mind runs them without splitting itself.”

“So at all times, any words I say, any decision I make, is visible to my main body regardless of wherever he is. If I have sex with you right now, he would feel the exact same sensations I do because it’s literally the same mind.”

Dante cricked his neck and began to dress up since he was naked as a clone. “For example one, it’s a split. Some may be able to accept it if they view it that the split minds came from the same source since they can connect, while some cannot accept it because it’s still independent.”

“For example two, no sensible man should accept it. I may sound unreasonable to you saying this, but if the situation in the novel was like this, then the male readers were right to be angry.”

“For example three, it’s mostly acceptable in my opinion. It’s no different from having virtual sex with your partner in a VR or quantum world. It’s different bodies but the same exact minds, so you wouldn’t call that cheating, would you?” Dante concluded as he wore a black, long-sleeved cardigan and thigh-length camo shorts with big pockets.

“Huh? Well, I guess that makes sense. As for the book I think it was more like example one, two bodies split minds. However, his clone usually lived inside his body and only came out to help him fight,” Beatrice was distracted by watching Dante dress, and her fingers twitched.

“Then it depends on the viewer’s own understanding. Anyway, I need to head to the school and listen to them overreact over my performance and then waste 7 days in the Black Land,” Dante noticed her look and immediately ran by teleporting.

Beatrice took a step forward when Dante teleported away, making her face change to one of regret and unhappiness. “Ah! I hesitated for too long, and he ran! If I could have captured him and locked him up, I could have an endless supply of the ‘good stuff’!”

Meanwhile, Dante’s clone appeared in his residence and sat down on the couch calmly. Naturally, in time, a summons was made to all students to come to the Black Land area for the evaluation and next cultivation session.

“Well, here we go,” Dante muttered as he stood up and walked out of his residence.

He noticed that very few of his classmates came out of their respective rooms, and he was not surprised because many also chose to host their bodies in safe places. Even though the school was nominally safe, the unique batch of students was usually under a thin veil of danger each time because one less student was one less contestant in the ring for each faction.

Let’s not even talk about Dante; the past few months have been nonstop meetings by the higher-ups of each faction and clan on how to deal with him once and for all effectively. They had even put their best quantum AI to calculate feasible plans on how to do so, so you could tell how wild they were.

Dante walked into his teleporter and beamed to the room where they were usually received by their teachers. When he appeared, he immediately felt a hand on his shoulder and almost instinctively released a gout of hellfire to burn the person until he realized it was Xue Bing through his spirit sense.

Xue Bing felt a sense of fatal danger and let go of Dante like she had been bitten by a snake and then glanced at him with some fear. As for Dante, he turned and frowned at her.

“You shouldn’t do that. I have an auto-defense mechanism that could hurt you.”

Xue Bing nodded. “It won’t happen again.”

Their little episode was noticed by the teachers but not the students. Everyone was curious to hear how their evaluation would be as well as hearing the evaluation of their fellow classmates.

“Alright, without further ado, the Central Server will release the rankings and key highlights of your session to your AI chips. Look through them and realize where you stand if you were to enter the Zero Gate today,” Xue Bing recovered her usual ‘friendly’ smile.

Dante was curious to see the list and glanced at Humphrey as well as Slessor who were also staring at him. Dante could see the light of competitiveness and unwillingness to give up in their eyes, which left him amused.

They were way out of their league with this one. Once Dante’s main body reached the B Rank – since the quantum clone body could not increase its powers at all – putting aside the new quantum abilities, the strength of his previous abilities would grow exponentially.

Not to mention he could also take on a new power system into his body. If all of this occurred before the time the Zero Gate opened, these students would have a tough time surviving Dante’s domination, much less compete with him.