“Why did the master of the labyrinth imprison you?”
How long has it been since you entered the Starlight Fountain? At first, it seems like only yesterday that he didn’t even know how he died.
Zero opened his mouth after thinking for a while as he slashed the dagger aiming at his hideous bone.
“Because it’s a doppelganger?”
Gamur laughed softly at Zero’s words, grabbed Zero’s collarbone with his fingertips and crushed it, opening his mouth.
“It may be right or it may be wrong.”
When Zero dies, it reverts to a seed. Then Gamur and Bahadi pick up Zero’s seed and soak it in the Starlight Fountain.
Then, if it is long, it will be revived in half a day, if it is short, in two hours.
“The pain you feel is an illusion. You keep saying, Zero. Stop acting like your average doppelganger.”
Gamur was accustomed to covering Zero’s mouth with his hand before he could scream.
“I guess I’ve been locked up for so long that I don’t really realize it. What does it mean to be a doppelganger, and also a suzerain? Why did you have to keep it there?”
Stay focused.
It’s a gentle voice, but there’s a coolness in it.
Freed from Gamur’s grasp, Zero gasped. The crushed collarbone is a poorly restored body.
“I’ll give you my blood this time, Zero.”
Gamur opened his mouth as he watched Zero drink the fresh blood from the small cup Bahadi handed him in one gulp and wipe his lips with his sleeve.
“Unlike other doppelgangers, you know by now that you become stronger as you devour. I wouldn’t recommend it. Just swallow the bare minimum of information as you do now.”
However, Zero remembered that there were people who should not even be spoken to among them.
“Especially that guy with black hair.”
Gamur didn’t mention Kane’s name. Stir or not.
“Do not touch even a drop of his blood. Forever, unless you really get caught up in it.”
Or is it to be wary?
“The reason is, if you swallowed part of my memory, you will know.”
Maybe it was because he drank the blood and flesh of elves instead of eating while he was here. The more he died and came back to life, the more the inside of Zero’s jewel shook, step by step away from his original appearance.
From noble mtl dot com.
* * *
“Adelian! I really missed you. Let’s get out, we! out. yes?”
no, what is this
“It’s boring. I can really help out at least one hand now. I couldn’t even get a bowl of soup here. They don’t even give me food.”
“Oh, that crosses the line.”
Rice is not important.
Even in the middle of the day, I answered without knowing. Ah, after all, Koreans have a heart for food… Are you serious about rice?
“First, let me explain a little before that.”
As I pushed aside Zero hiding behind me, Bahadi glanced at Riff with a doll-like face before replying.
“What explanation are you talking about?”
“Why did we come out in the middle of the forest. The assailants got a bag there, but what did you guys do? and.”
I have grayish hair close to silver, my face is very smooth, and thanks to my height, the only thing that hasn’t changed is my green eyes that have turned slightly like jewels and my way of speaking.
Then, he grabbed Zero by the ear, which he wouldn’t have recognized if it wasn’t for his voice, and shook it.
“Why did this guy become like this?”
Elves, I thought you only strengthened items, but do you upgrade units as well?
At my sarcastic words, Bahadi fell silent, and Zero cried out in pain.
When I returned to the Spirit Forest after the battle with the chaser, I burst into laughter.
To be honest, I didn’t expect to see smoke rising, buildings collapsing, and forests devastated.
I saw the fairies walking down the street smiling as if nothing had happened.
‘It’s because I got a fever.’
There, I went to the place where Gamur’s mansion was originally located, and the mansion was there.
No, then what is the entrance to the forest we came out of? I guessed it roughly, but what needs to be torn off must be ripped off.
“You must have used us very openly. Then you have to pay the price. Thanks to us, it wasn’t enough to snatch the dagger that reached below the chin, so we returned it and stabbed the other person.”
At my words, Gamur sat down on a vine chair and opened his mouth with a gentle smile.
“When you want, just once. We will spare no support.”
“The elder?”
At that, Bahadi turned his head in surprise and called out to him.
“Did the elders discuss that? Doesn’t even the elder have such authority?”
To my words, Gamur answered in a calm tone like a lake without ripples.
“The elder does not have such authority, but the name of Akpension has such power. I promise you in the name of the last remaining elven royal family.”
“What!”
In response to his words, Bahadi spoke in a rare harsh tone, so Gamur raised a hand to stop him and continued.
“Are you satisfied with that?”
that strange air.
I opened my mouth as if I hadn’t erased my smile.
“Shall we talk to each other?”
Bahadi squinted at the words as she rubbed her hands together as if she had bitten a large hukou, but she has no strength right now.
“Call me if anything happens.”
When Luna told me to leave, I nodded lightly at the whispering voice as if she was nervous about leaving me here, and then I sat facing Gamur in the room where only the two of us were left.
“What about the sound?”
“We have taken measures to prevent leakage. At least no one in this forest will be able to hear us.”
He is clearly smiling, but a cold voice that surprises even me comes out of his mouth.
“What do you know?”
“I knew you would come back from there without much damage. So I believed and did the job. I don’t think you want an answer like this.”
Someone might find that soft voice very nice to hear, but now it feels like noise to my ears.
“Give me the answer I want.”
Don’t go around like that.
At my annoyed words, Gamur burst into a small laugh.
“Very little. As if you secretly checked the contents of a book, as if you remembered only one or two sentences that caught your eye out of the few pages you flipped through quickly.”
For a moment, a mild headache as if a pulse was beating near the temple.
Do you know and compare or do you not know?
“What, for example?”
As if I was deliberately calm, I leaned back comfortably on the chair and put one ankle on top of the other, wiggling while Gamur’s jewels stared at me as if they were scattering light.
“I lived with the fragments stuck in my eyes. I knew what it was, but I didn’t know what it meant.”
Gamur’s body leans towards me a little, and his voice becomes insidious.
“Now I know. Adelian. believe in yourself and… A god, or someone who has reached the level of a god, can hear what he wants.”
As if it was a secret between the two of us, I swallowed my breath at the voice that rang low.
“Never mention all his names.”
Because someone might hear and find it.
* * *
“So why did it turn out like that?”
“no… If you say that outright… … .”
Ignoring Zero, who was muttering in spite of his voice, I spoke as if poking at Zero with a sauce-soaked fork.
“It’s getting closer to its original appearance.”
No, where is the original form of the doppelganger?
I’m not talking about a round nucleus.
As if he had read my question with his own eyes, Gamur answered instead.
“The appearance he was originally taking is one that was created by ingesting a lot of information, and was decorated so as not to be wary.”
So, originally, that ordinary appearance is a face made for hunting. Now that gray hair and smooth face with green jewel eyes is the original face.
“Doppelgangers who haven’t swallowed someone’s life whole are very rare. It is said that there was no contamination of any information, so it will be helpful to maintain purity in the future.”
I looked at Zero, whose eyes were only moving slightly, as if looking at me.
[The Beginning and End of Zero-Doppelganger]
Representative Traits: [Duplicate (SS)] [Cooking (S+)] [Celestial Manga (A)] [Magic Retardation (C+)]
Hidden Traits: [Dignity (C-)] [Gluttony (C)]
The level of cloning has risen significantly, the celestial manga and magical retardation have bloomed, and gluttony has arisen as a hidden trait.
Probably, the original kindness and eagerness for learning were pushed by the new traits, so they were kept hidden from the trait window.
Just looking at it, it’s a trait state that doesn’t have any problems.
‘Isn’t the nuance subtle?’
Combining the trait “gluttony” with Gamur’s words, it might be a trait related to something other than food that is commonly thought of.
In the first place, Zero likes to eat, but what if that’s the reason that’s etched into the instinct of the species?
‘I can’t get a person’s biometric information, so I like food as a rebound from that hunger.’
I shook my fork and took a picture of the cherry tomatoes.
“It means that as you die and come back to life a few times, your original characteristics will bloom and you will return to your original appearance, but what do you mean?”
I grumbled as I chewed the ripe tomatoes with my teeth.
“It stands out unnecessarily.”
“Originally, the more splendid it is, the stronger it is.”
Anyway, I’m doing that to not give one more item.
“Are you confident?”
“It will be more usable than before.”
I only raised one corner of my mouth at those words.
“It looks like it, but can I leave that thing outside?”
When Zero glanced at him, who was slightly hesitant, and said, Gamur replied with his signature bright smile.
“I trust you.”
trust me
There was a question I heard once.
Why were the doppelgangers trapped in the labyrinth? A doppelganger who eats others and becomes that person… … .
Is that so threatening in this fantasy world? Even if it brings confusion to any place, it does not possess transcendental force.
But now that I think about it, it wasn’t about locking up the doppelgangers. It was a prison only for Zero.
celestial cartoon. It can be used by borrowing the power of other doppelgangers subordinate to Zero or by borrowing the power of the biometric information absorbed by Zero himself.
mana retardation. Now Zero’s body was not made based on someone’s biometric information, but was made of mana itself.
So, the reason why Zero, who was weaker than Kane and had no ability, moved similarly to Kane at the moment Luna passed out during the last Dragon Fear.
A trait capable of partially adapting, reversing, or ignoring all magical phenomena.
‘In addition, he is the lord of doppelgangers, so he can create doppelgangers under certain conditions, and he has a trait called gluttony.’
Zero can swallow someone whole, clone them, and recreate them as a subordinate doppelganger.
However, it is impossible because he has never swallowed whole biometric information, but if he swallowed it even once.
Moreover, if that person is an evil person and Zero’s kindness is contaminated with that person’s memory, the trait disappears.
It may be swallowed and replicated infinitely, and the mind may become more contaminated and cross the boundary line.
In addition, Zero, the suzerain of the doppelgänger, is able to command by partially responding to them, and if he has enough mana, he can be revived even if he dies.
The war with the beasts, the plague, the monster wave, the civil war for the usurpation of the imperial throne, and the undead’s aggression.
A doppelganger’s raid on the continent might be added here.
“uh… Why do you look at me like that?”
If you roll the wrong zero with that stupid face smiling and looking at me, you will be ruined.
‘Kane will solve it.’
Gamur said he believed in me, but I believe in Kane.
Originally, it was said that poison is medicine if used well, so the same goes for Zero. If it is used well, it can feed the evil denominations greatly, but is there any need to draw only the worst situation?
‘In addition, the contract of God signed by Zero is also in my hand.’
After organizing my thoughts, I opened my mouth to Bahadi after a cool one-shot of wine.
“It’s unfortunate though. Bring me something.”