episode_0091

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[Regarding Villain Lilith’s powder (individual name Bobbin Park), the above instructions will be maintained.]

The instructions given after the mysterious doctor attack incident were not that surprising to Sia. Bobbin’s actions at the time of the monster attack were sufficiently suspicious, and the Association did not neglect measures against Lilith, an axis of the Genesis information network.

However, there was a feeling of skepticism as to whether there was a need to leave anxiety factors alone.

When the association makes such decisions, in most cases, the influence of either Changhyuk or the priestess is involved. If Changhyuk’s influence was involved, there was a high probability that it was an experiment to see if it was possible to reform Lilith’s body, and if it was a priestess, it would mean that Bobbin was involved in the future.

And now, the contract magic has been reversed and summoned. Sia thought that maybe it was both.

“I really don’t know what will happen in this world.”

The fallen bobbin was literally white. It was because he took the brunt of the murderous actions of a high-ranking awakened person.

Her eyes were swollen with tears, and blood was flowing from the corner of her mouth, as if she had bitten down hard to keep from fainting. It was easy to see that he desperately resisted his doppelganger.

I don’t know if it was really an action for a friend, or a struggle to save his life.

Sia decided that it would be okay to wait a little longer.

“A crazy bitch has appeared.”

“The rat is barking easily.”

On the contrary, the doppelganger was busy thinking about overcoming the current situation. The combat power of the doppelganger’s main body is at best low even among the S-class. The odds of winning against Sia, who was called the Queen of Massacre among villains, would have been slim.

However, it was the handshake that immediately escaped. The greatest strength of the hero Titania is the violence of numbers. You wouldn’t know it if you hadn’t noticed it from the beginning, but once it did, it was extremely difficult to get away.

It was fortunate for the doppelganger that Sia was injured. Immediately after quickly thinking that I should dig into that part.

The doppelganger’s body tilted after being hit hard on the side of the head.

“Wow, there’s not a single drop of blood. Still, do you think it’s a bit sturdy?”

“This bastard… !”

A belated gunshot revealed the identity of the attack. sniping. Both the impact and the magic contained in it caused definite damage and made the doppelganger’s body cry.

The subsequent attack was caused by self-immolation. That too was not a materialized clone, but a deteriorated clone due to magical power. Are you understanding yourself? Or is it a power limitation due to injury?

“Inhale!”

Doppelganger’s Memorization──The attack of swinging a thumb-sized weight with a thread of magic shattered Sia’s alter ego. The shattered clone turns into magical energy and scatters away.

In order for a doppelganger to transform into the other person, even briefly, a part of the other person’s body was needed. Degraded clones are easy to deal with, but destroying them only wastes time and is of little significance.

“That’s really scary. Then how about this?”

alter ego, alter ego, alter ego. The deteriorated clones that continued to appear looked like fairies due to the blue magic light coming from their bodies.

If time continues like this, reinforcements will come. Judging by that, the doppelganger’s body shook like a ghost and disappeared. However, Sia had already caught the new form of the doppelganger breaking through the clones at high speed.

The attacks of the fire clones hit the doppelganger’s body one after another. However, even after being hit, the doppelganger did not stop charging. The will to fight in a short-term battle was reflected in the way he rushed forward, barely avoiding attacks that inflicted high damage.

‘If you strengthen your alter ego even now, it could cause great damage.’

Sia shook her head and shook off the thoughts that came to her mind. The proper alter ego had the same specifications as Sia’s main body. I didn’t want to give the doppelganger a chance to transform into me.

The fact that I wasn’t in very good shape also played a part. There wasn’t much of a problem with the fire alter ego, but I was reluctant to use a proper alter ego.

That’s why Sia chose to retreat.

“Don’t miss it!”

Even though there was a gap like this, the only attack was still Yeolhwa’s clone. The doppelganger sensed that Sia would not be able to properly use her alter ego due to her injuries, so she changed the way she moved.

From a flashy step that deceives the opponent, to a straight lunge. The finesse was gone, but the increased speed was enough to catch Sia retreating backwards.

As I said just now, the strength of the hero Titania is the violence of numbers. Conversely, it is difficult to demonstrate strength at times when it is difficult to use numerical violence.

The doppelganger, who was caught off guard by the charge and created such a gap, swung both hands. Memorized objects such as weights, needles, and transparent blades flew at Sia in a bizarre direction.

Even though the power of each attack is not strong, it is an attack aimed at wounding the enemy rather than defeating it. The doppelganger was confident that even if just one swipe, it would be the same as his victory.

“… !?”

“Is this the end? Is there any more?”

I was astonished at the fact that all of that was in Sia’s hands.

Even though I panic, my body doesn’t stop. The doppelganger’s hands and feet stretched out without stopping. At the same time, the memorization was slowly revealed as if hidden in the movement.

But they never brushed Sia’s body. Even a piece of skin, a piece of cloth, or a strand of hair.

Kwasik. The doppelganger’s neck was caught in Sia’s hands.

“I knew right away that he had learned Tang family martial arts.”

“How… , crab!”

“Are you stupid? There’s no way I could tell you.”

The doppelganger’s attempt to cut off the hand holding her neck was thwarted when Sia threw the doppelganger. The thrown doppelganger tried to adjust its posture, but Sia’s alter ego was already in its place.

“Sub!”

“Smash!”

“Dunk!”

“That’s basketball.”

Due to the presence of magical power, the mass of the awakened person was so small that it was meaningless compared to its power. It’s not impossible to play with people by bouncing them like balls.

In fact, the doppelganger had to be beaten around by Sia’s clones for a long time. If you tried to subdue him, it was difficult for the doppelganger to even come to his senses because he continued to try to attack you at every opportunity.

Fortunately, the doppelganger was able to escape by rolling around on the floor thanks to the forceful explosion of magic power and the half-self-destruction of the clone.

“Crazy, bitches… ”

“You must speak clearly. Not bitches, just bitches.”

As he regained his bearings, the doppelganger did not give him a chance to play the same joke as before. Of course, it didn’t really matter to Sia. The reinforcements are probably setting up a barrier to prevent escape in this area, leaving the doppelganger in Sia’s care.

If it is completed, it is checkmate. So it wasn’t Sia who had to do something now.

“Do you know what this is?”

What the doppelganger took out of her arms was a sphere large enough to fill one hand. Sia tilted her head because there was only one thing the doppelganger would say in this situation.

“Isn’t this the center of the barrier that the priestess was using? That’s what they stole like a rat.”

“To be exact, it is a tool that seals the center.”

It is an item that becomes the starting point of a barrier that dominates the entire region. Of course, there was no way he could have secretly taken it with him while on the run.

The doppelganger cut the tool in half to hide its presence and appearance.

“Look carefully. This is the object that the priestess used to create the barrier──Kwon Seong’s heart!”

Inside the sphere, a vivid red heart was still pulsating. The doppelganger held it out to Sia as if showing off.

In fact, Sia only reacted indifferently.

“Yes. It’s the heart. So?”

“So… It’s not a joke or a lie, it’s the real heart of Kwon Seong!”

“Who says what? So, what’s the point?”

I tried saying it again, wondering if she thought what she said was a lie, but she remained steadfast. There was only pure questioning on her face and a hint of annoyance at repeating the same thing over and over again.

However, it was too perfect to be a high-level performance trying to deceive one’s inner self. If you were to see your relative’s body being used even after death, and you performed a perfect performance, it wouldn’t be acting, it would be at the level of an art.

“Ah, did you think I would be jealous that the priestess took my senior’s heart? If so, it’s a shame. I’m not a fan of corpses that gets me excited to the core. I’m a little jealous, though.”

In the end, Sia even said something like that. The appearance was so strange that the doppelganger had a moment of suspicion as to whether it was him who was strange.

“Did you know that Kwon Seong’s heart is used in the barrier?”

“No? I just heard it for the first time.”

“Even so, you are messing around with the corpse of the deceased… ”

“Ah, my senior doesn’t care about that. Rather, ‘My corpse? ‘Use whatever you want!’ And he must have given generously.”

A dead person could say something like that. But wasn’t it originally said that funerals were for living people?

Hoping that the dead leave behind is the wish of those left behind. The doppelganger didn’t understand how he could kick it away so easily.

At that moment, a piece of information passed through the doppelganger’s head. The story is that the Fairy Queen did not attend Kwon Seong’s funeral. The information that only those in the know knew was that it was a period when the heartbroken Fairy Queen was overcome with grief and her heart was broken.

But what if that information is wrong? What if the Fairy Queen really wasn’t interested in Kwon Seong’s life or death?

Isn’t the woman in front of me just a mass murderer?

If Sia had found out, she would have gone out of her way to refute it, but unfortunately, Sia did not have the ability to read minds.

“… ha ha ha. You really were a crazy bitch.”

“Why do you keep swearing at others like that? The one who said he was crazy was crazier.”

“Okay. Maybe so.”

The doppelganger laughed as if it was absurd and brought the heart in her hand to her mouth. Seeing that, Sia’s voice became slightly tense for the first time today.

“Wow, will you turn into a senior? Really? Can you handle it?”

“That’s… You won’t know unless you try it.”

You cannot change to an opponent that exceeds your soul level. Confirming that that information was also known, the doppelganger licked his heart once.

You can check later where the information was leaked. It was important to get out of this place now.

“Wow wow──!”

With a scream, the doppelganger’s right arm swelled. It had an appearance that would more accurately be described as a piece of meat with a finger at the end rather than a human arm.

What a terrible sight. A failed transformation. However, that does not mean that its power was low.

“Aaaah!”

With just one swing, the Yeolhwa clone was annihilated. In other words, he was no match for most A-class heroes.

Sia ordered the surrounding heroes who were creating the barrier to destroy it and rebuild the siege. At the same time, the doppelganger started running towards the other side of Sia’s body.

‘It looks like there is reason.’

Even if the power received is enormous, the vessel called the soul that contains that power does not change. As long as the vessel itself was of a different level, it was a distant possibility for the doppelganger to defeat Sia. Choosing to run away probably means that there is reason to judge him.

Moreover, the speed of escape had also increased dramatically compared to just before. Seeing her doppelganger jumping over a building in a single leap, Sia took out her proper alter ego.

‘… huh. are you okay.’

I feel a little teary inside, but that’s it. It wasn’t a problem for Sia as long as she didn’t use alcohol.

“Wooo──!”

A shock wave from the right arm swung by the doppelganger sweeps the surroundings. In response, Sia’s one-man multiple chanting disrupted the shock wave.

The only thing to watch out for is your right arm. It was ridiculous to even say that he had turned into Gwonseong. Sia, who actually confirmed the information from the association that transformation beyond her capabilities was impossible, began to work more confidently on suppression.

“Oh, ahhh!!”

Shia’s clone uses an ax to stab her left leg in the square of her right arm and escapes backwards. When the doppelganger turns to attack from behind, Jang Kwon catches the momentum and delivers a blow.

In the end, there was only a difference in degree, but the fun was the same. The doppelganger’s attack did not reach Sia, literally, just by a single sheet of paper. When the enraged doppelganger swung his arm widely, he did not miss the gap that was revealed, and numerous wires held onto his huge right arm.

“If my arm is cut off, will I still be able to run wild like now?”

Sia fell from the sky and swung her huge scythe with the force of cutting off his shoulder. If this continues, my entire right arm is in danger of falling off.

However, the doppelgänger was not suffering either.

“… !”

A huge scythe. Kwon Seong’s heart got caught in that orbit.

Even if Sia did not respect the heart, it did not mean that she denied the power of the heart. Damaging the heart itself had to be avoided.

If you have the superhuman reflexes of an S-class hero, it is not difficult to correct the scythe’s trajectory. In an instant, Sia tore off the wire and twisted her body to avoid the rushing right arm.

Looking at the results, the doppelganger’s attack only grazed Sia’s arm, and Sia’s attack cut off the doppelganger’s finger.

However, the expressions the two made were completely opposite to the damage they had inflicted on each other.

“Haha, barely… !”

“Tch, annoying!”

The contrast between the man with the distorted face and the girl clicking her tongue became identical in the next moment, like a mirror image. The doppelganger, who dodged Sia’s attack, smiled and said goodbye in the form of Sia.

“This is no match for the infamous Slaughter Queen. Bye then.”

“Stand there!”

There is no such thing as a villain who just stands there. The moment the doppelganger ran away, the number of doppelgängers began to increase from two to four to eight. The fleeing doppelgängers were holding copies of Kwon Seong’s heart in their hands.

Should I chase after him in the same way? Sia thought for a moment and then gave up on that choice.

The circuit wounds that Sia suffered from Cheongun have not fully healed yet. If it was a battle of numbers between alter egos like this, it would be at a disadvantage.

In that case, all you have to do is overcome numbers with numbers. Sia destroyed all of her clones and delivered instructions to the heroes remaining at the base.

“All Titanias except for entity number 1 are considered villains as of this time and are to be suppressed immediately. Repeat──”

After leaving a mark on herself, she eliminates all other ‘Titanias’. If he didn’t use his alter ego, this would have prevented the confusion.

Now all that’s left is to find out which of them is real. Fortunately, it wasn’t that difficult.

“Stand there!”

“Aaaah!”

The fact that there was still a difference in the specifications of the main body remained. Sia has been chasing the real doppelganger—more precisely, the doppelganger holding the heart of the real Kwon Seong.

“How did you find it!?”

“You’re leaking power!”

A doppelganger’s ‘replication’ only copies the object’s physical information, unless it is overwritten. In other words, what the other clones were holding was nothing more or less than just a fresh heart.

“Oh, that’s right!”

“Can you please stop saying stupid things to my face!?”

Even though she felt uncomfortable with her strangely lack of urgency, Sia summoned her self-immolation. If there are no allies around, there is no need to worry about misfortune.

I thought he was going to lick my heart and struggle again, but that didn’t happen. Rather, the doppelganger accepted the struggles so easily, as if they had left them behind.

Sia was able to quickly realize the reason.

“… He ran away.”

The body of the doppelganger, whose throat was cut by a scythe, soon gradually dissolved into the air with magical power. It was a phenomenon that Shia knew very well, when an alter ego dies.

The doppelganger stole his body using the real Kwon Seong’s heart as bait.

“I hope other heroes do well.”

Even though she said that, Sia did not have high expectations. Self-immolation and cloning. It was a combination of abilities that were useless for running away.

Considering the doppelganger’s own skills as an agent, it would be impossible to catch him unless at least a priestess came.

Still, the important thing was preserved. Satisfied with that fact, Sia returned to the base, holding Kwon Seong’s heart tightly in her arms.

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“Damn, if only Grandpa Sword Demon was there… ”

The doppelganger went through the mountain where there was no path at dawn. The wounds all over my body, especially the blown off finger, were screaming in pain.

If he changed his body, this kind of injury would heal right away, but if he couldn’t get his soul, there was a time limit for his transformation. However, the main body was not strong enough to overcome this difficult mountain to change into the main body.

Therefore, he had no choice but to continue using the body of the injured executive who was crying and eating mustard.

The place he arrived at was one of the numerous caves in the mountain that had turned into another world. If no one was there to see the meeting, the doppelganger would have been in a bad situation, but fortunately, that didn’t happen.

“You’re here.”

“What, is it just you? What about Yongin? What about your daughter?”

“Is it possible for someone like me to capture Yongin? He passed away right after the work was finished. Sahi was injured and is receiving treatment.”

The only person waiting at the cave entrance is a sphere gentleman. Cheongwoon and Chae Sahee, who should have been together, were nowhere to be seen.

And that was quite frustrating for the doppelganger.

“Damn it! If I had a dragon, I would have dragged him in and wiped out all those bastards!”

“Haha, joke too. There is no way He will do what you want. Anyway, it looks like you got screwed.”

“Noisy! If only that bitch hadn’t been sabotaging!”

In fact, Doppelganger was planning to invest much more time in this operation. However, with a mental magic user in his hands and a priestess leaving the place, he couldn’t miss the exciting opportunity.

Of course, it goes without saying that everything was ruined due to that mental magic user.

“According to your request, the Winter Castle was struck against the barrier, the location of the center was determined, and the priestess was also dragged outside. You’re not saying that I failed, are you?”

For the Sphere Shrine, this was a game that involved investing a lot of important resources such as the connection with Cheongun and soul fragments. If it fails, the loss will be enormous.

The doppelganger, who had already returned to his younger self, clicked his tongue and handed what he was holding in his hand to the Sphere Gentleman.

“Now. Mission accomplished. It’s a ‘clone’ of Kwon Seong’s heart.”

“Oh, oh, oh… !”

Grumble. The black face of the Sphere Shrine shook violently. The sight of him holding his heart with both hands as if it were something new looked like he was full of joy, even if he had no facial expression.

“Isn’t it great! Why do you have such a glum face? It gave me the best results!”

“If it weren’t for that bitch, I could have brought the real thing, not a replica! damn. Just wait and see, I’ll fix that bitch somehow.”

“Wouldn’t it be impossible to start a new mission as that right-hand man?”

At the end of the sphere gentleman’s gaze was the doppelganger’s right arm, rotting black. It was rare for a doppelganger, who reorganized his entire body every time he transformed, to suffer injuries to his main body.

“This is because I overdid it a bit. It will get better after a few months of purification.”

“Hmm. Not being able to use you is a pretty big blow to the Black Moon Team.”

“I don’t know. The leader told me to do my best on this mission, so I just did as I was told.”

Considering that it was completed much earlier than expected, the actual loss of time was not significant. The doppelganger stretched out only his remaining arm and reported the rest.

“That heart lasts for 3 days, so be careful.”

“Oh! I, too, am so distracted by my heart. This was not the time. We need to start research as soon as possible.”

“Oh, wait. Take me too!”

The doppelganger also hurriedly followed through the gate of Bifrost, Genesis’ movement magic, opened by the Sphere Shrine.

Eventually, the mountain became filled with the usual otherworldly silence.

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