The Labyrinth Kingdom

Chaptre 45. Doppelgangers

"huhah.. Huhh...Hm"

Alice laughed awkwardly at her brother's question.

"i was just kidding before, you don't have to take my words seriously.

Look at that adventurer's face, his chin looks like a butt, hahahhh... Very stupid." Alice said with a laugh, occasionally she would glance at her sister.

He was trying to divert the conversation at this time.

Aaron who noticed his sister's silly behavior only smiled lightly.

He understood why his sister was acting like that, over 70% of the buildings in the bandit headquarters were destroyed by Corpse golems. Even the fortress that protected the headquarters, was destroyed easily by it.

No one knew how much damage they would cause if hired as guards.

Even so, there are many advantages when hiring them, such as: they do not need to eat, they do not need rest, they have strong endurance, have many variations of attacks. They are very loyal to their creators and they will carry out the orders given to them faithfully.

But for Aaron, it was just a disposable weapon that required a lot of materials to make it and was too wasteful to use at all times.

In contrast to Amara, Bodil, Raluk and the goblins were moving at their own will. You can't expect loyalty from them. At least more practical to use them.

Moreover, they could also give an advantage that exceeded his expectations as a labyrinth master, if he were to provide them with benefits without showing them the slightest weakness.

If you compare which one is more useful between the Corpse golems or the servants he currently has.

For Aaron, both are equally important and have their respective functions, depending on how smart you use them to get greater profits.

"i remembered something…"

"Hmmm...?"

"Dustin's been gone long enough, when will he be back?" Ask Alice.

“dia will probably be back in a few days, or no later than a week. ”Aaron Jawab.

“then, when he comes back, we just put him in the labyrinth defense team. Besides being strong, he was also smart enough to make his own decisions. He should be able to think of many ways to reduce the number of adventurers without scaring them. What do you think of big brother? ” Alice once again suggested her plan

But this time, she felt confident with the idea she had. While puffing out her flat chest, she smiled proudly awaiting her brother's response.

"That's a good idea. He meets all the criteria we need. But, it wouldn't be enough if it was just him alone.

We should also increase the number of pawns that will help him defend the labyrinth.

At least until, the Doppelganger we sent to the city of Bacau showed some results. " Aaron nodded after thinking for a moment.

“Un, I understand, brother!” Alice answered enthusiastically.

The doppelganger was a humanoid-shaped monster that did not have a single hair on its body.

The monster's appearance was very strange, its body was red like flesh that had no skin. Its entire body was also filled with blue-colored veins that protruded out, looking like a Tattoo.

Its head is oval like an egg, its mouth is probotic, like that of a butterfly and there are two black holes in its head that serve as eyes.

There was no eyeball in the hole, there was only darkness there, he had neither a nose nor ears.

Although his body shape was strange, very few people had ever seen their true form. Because the Doppelganger has a Racial skill called [Duplicate], which makes it able to imitate the form of people they have seen.

Actually the reason why the Doppelganger body shape became strange as it is now is purely because of the mistake of the god who created them.

At that time a great war between the gods against the creatures of the 'Negative Zone' suddenly broke out, which made the creator god Doppelganger forced to join the war before completing them.

Unfortunately the god died on the battlefield. But before he died, he had entrusted the last shards of his powers to another god to give to the Doppelganger he had created, as compensation for having failed to perfect them.

From that fraction of power, the racial skills of the Doppelganger race were created.

Thanks to this skill, they can live quietly without being ostracized because of their strange forms.

They live in the midst of other racial groups by changing their form into the race they belong to.

{ket: basically, the way they live is the same as the Cuckoo} bird

The race that most shows their hatred for the Doppelgangers is the Shapeshifter race.

Long before the Doppelgangers existed, the Shapeshifter race existed.some of their ancestors even participated in the great war.

Their hatred of the Doppelganger race was not without reason, Shapeshifter had a racial skill called [metamorph] whose effect was almost the same as Doppelganger's [Duplicate] skill.

It's just that Shapeshifter needs DNA from his victims, so he can change his form into a creature that has been targeted.

Because of their skill, they were often employed by other races as Spies. However, after the appearance of the Doppelganger race, their jobs became drastically reduced.

It is this, which makes the two races constantly fighting relentlessly.The two sides often send their best spies to the other party to conduct espionage and sabotage.

Although Doppelganger's change ability is far more practical than Shapeshifter's.

There was actually a fatal flaw of the racial skills they possessed.

First, the Doppelganger could only mimic the outward appearance of its target the first time it made a change.

Different from Shapeshifter that can directly mimic the target completely, outside and inside, because they have obtained full information from the DNA they use.

The second, Doppelganger needed the fresh bodies of his victims, in order to copy all the memories his target had.

So even though their skill was more practical to use than Shapeshifter, there were many flaws in it.

Doppelgangers usually eat the brain of a dead target, in order to fully copy the memory and personality that the target has. Moreover, the combat power of the Doppelganger depended on the physical and spiritual strength of the target he was about to emulate.

In fact the Doppelganger race belongs to one of the weakest races in the universe.they will not be able to win against wild cats while fighting using their original form.

Their strength depended on the target they were emulating. So, the stronger the power their target had, the stronger their strength would be.

But…

“By the way, Alice"

"Miss? "

"Before, I saw you give a lot of items to the Doppelganger before he left. Whatisit? "Ask Aaron.

“Ohhh..., I gave him an item that might help him when running a mission, after all the mission he received is very important for the progress of our revenge plan. So, I don't want him to fail this mission. " The girl replied faintly.

Previously Aaron used the body of an aide who was the captain of the expeditionary force of the city of Bacau as a mock target of the Doppelganger.

But since that person had been dead for quite a long time, the information stored in his corpse was already incomplete. This makes the Doppelganger impersonation ability imperfect.

That is why, to cover this disability. Alice gives him many items that can help him carry out missions.

"still, it would be much better if someone with a higher rank came to the labyrinth! Right, sis...? That way, we don't have to take the detour and inconvenience as we planned before. " Alice sighed

"Yes, at first I also hoped that greedy knights or officials of higher rank would come here.

So, we can order the Doppelganger to impersonate that person. But

Sadly, no one came"

Aaron did plan to use the body of the adjutant from the beginning, but in the middle of the road his plan changed.

He waited for a few more days, to see if any high-level officials of the city of Bacau would come to search for his missing knight troops. Unfortunately, no one came.

So Aaron is forced to return to his original plan and use the aide's body as a mock target for the Doppelganger.

He also could not wait any longer, because If he continued to delay it, then the information stored in the adjutant's corpse would completely disappear and the plans they had compiled would be delayed in execution.

"It's possible that Bacau city lacks talented people, after all, it's just a small town that can be called a big village, so it makes sense that they lack talented people in the alignment of their government, brother!" Alice's Advice.

"Maybe so, ...., there is nothing to be sorry for now, though the Doppelganger started it from an aide, as long as he carried out the plan we had well made, it will not take long for him to take the highest position in the city of Bacau. What we have to do now is focus on improving the defense of the labyrinth. "

"right.., we have to increase the number of pawns now, those insects are starting to lose their function. Let's go to the [Monster Spawner Room] to create a monster that might come in handy" Alice said excitedly.

Aaron and Alice stand up from their thrones and begin to activate the Teleportation spell to move the monster spawning shell.