¡Boom! ¡Boom! ¡Boom!
The double shouted a war cry and ran away. Now he could understand how the apprentice knight felt when he threw away his pride and ran off the stage. So that was my look...
It makes sense why he ran away.
Due to the increased threat level due to the savage outburst, just looking at him gave me chills, a combination of almost violent intimidation and a great physique. First, it was necessary to equalize the weights.
[You have launched gigantization.]
[You have released Wild Burst.]
The eye level was adjusted instantly. Bending my abdomen, I shouted at the top of my lungs: «Behell-aaaaaaaaaaah!». It was the original battle cry that no doppelganger could copy.
Covering my torso with a shield, I lunged forward. The double did the same. The shields collided and a roar echoed like that of two colliding dump trucks.
¡Kwaaaaa!
As a double, the power difference was zero. The next move was also exactly the same.
[You have launched Balancing.]
[The doppelganger has launched Swing.]
The maces were crossed as identical copies.
¡Kwaaaaa!
Another explosion sounded and the ground shook. This was similar to a fight between large monsters. Fighting like this, the fight was going to last all day, but this guy and I had a crucial difference: Teammates.
Even in the game, having good equipment is considered a skill.
Without the need for orders, magical support did not take long to arrive. Curses with a relatively short casting time played the main role. In just a few seconds, the other self's strength, agility, physical stamina, and other statistics were reduced. Puzzled, the double stuttered: «Your m-mom!».
Are you really going to insult my mother now?
My head went blank at the unexpected phrase that guy had just uttered.
"Bam!
When I came to my senses, the double mace was touching my shield. If I had reacted just a second later, it would have stuck in my head. «Crazy doppelganger bastard!» I rushed back to my senses and retaliated.
It seemed like I had even inherited my characteristic of using dirty tricks when I was at a disadvantage. Unsurprisingly, he was not an opponent who could be underestimated. That is, me.
¡Whiipp!
While the bastard protected himself from Mr. Bear's arrow, I took advantage of that moment to hit him on the shoulder with my mace. Then, blood came out of his mouth.
Did he bite his tongue?
How classic. It was a pattern I anticipated, so avoiding it was no problem. That was because it was something he would undoubtedly do, even more so if the situation was unfavorable.
Chhhhh.
Acid blood sprayed the ground in vain and began to bubble. Seeing that, Missha vomited an exclamation. «Wow, how is he exactly the same as you?».
Yes of course.
«Stop standing still and help now».
«Okay.»
Soon, Missha and Ainar joined the front line. To save time, I grabbed the guy's mace and hugged him from behind. Now, all that was left to do was stab him in the head with a knife as his movements were restricted.
«¡Keeeeek!»
The double let out a screech as if scratching a blackboard as he put his face on me. At this, Missha stiffened. It wasn't for long, but just as he corrected his stance to wield his sword, a war cry arose from behind us.
«¡Behell-ahhhhhhh!»
It wasn't from Ainar. Even if his voice was on the deep side, it was different from that of a real man.
«Bjorn! Bjorn has increased to three!»
But why were they just my doppelgangers?
The second doppelganger had already launched gigantization and broke our formation, protecting his torso with the shield and charging like a beast, that is, Shield Charge (real).
«Don't think about blocking it, avoid it!».
Hearing my sincere advice, Missha and Ainar backed away without saying a word. It was a shame he couldn't finish this one off right away, but hey, what are you going to do? It must have been my karma for eating the ogre essence and turning me into a dull tank.
[The doppelganger has launched Swing.]
Ainar stopped the mace with his greatsword and flew back with true Lü Bu spirit. I was wondering if it was right to join now.
«Mr. Yandel, keep holding that one! We will take care of this side».
For now, I decided to follow Raven's orders. We couldn't lose one against four. So I just focused on marking the original double.
Ha, that's really annoying. Why is it so resistant?
Although the situation was more advantageous thanks to curse magic, it was difficult to finish this quickly and go help them. Even though it was a dead tank, it was still a tank. This was the same as a fight between trolls never ending.
I better stay looking.
I half resigned myself and went into spectator mode. To tell the truth, it was very interesting.
«Ugh, why doesn't the knife go in!»
«This is Bjorn, very good! Great warrior!»
The double was overwhelming two hand-to-hand fighters on his own. Mr. Bear's long distance support? Not even the arrows shot by the insane tension of the supermega crossbow could pierce the shield. Raven's magic wasn't much different either.
¡Chwaaaaa!
When the hand-to-hand sisters stepped back for a moment, a Baptism of Fire erupted. The timing was so exquisite that even the double was engulfed in flames without being able to avoid it.
«Behell-ahhhhh!» However, the other me just went through the flames and brandished his mace. He chose the wrong spell. My flame resistance was the second highest after physical resistance, and the mana resistance setting was also quite finished.
«...I didn't know you were so strong». Mr. Bear let out an exclamation. Even though we had been fighting battles together all this time, I guess facing me was different.
This was the same with Raven. «Why are you still rank 6?!»
That was because to reach rank 5, you needed to accumulate achievement points. Although my companions were being attacked, I couldn't stop my shoulders from rising. Now he was strong.
«Mr. Yandel, don't just stare and say something. Do you have any weaknesses?»
It wasn't really a weakness, but something to aim for. Should I call it Bjorn Yandel's Fighting Tactic? As I struggled with the doppelgänger I was scoring, I just shouted the key points. «Missha, Ainar! Don't cut, stab!» The iron skin increased physical resistance four times, but only for the cuts. In fact, pits of a certain level had immunity. «Abman, you're just aiming for the legs!» The lower part of my body was weaker than the upper part. I hadn't adjusted the lower gears yet. My arms were also fully exposed, but my upper body could be covered with the shield.
«Tie your feet first, right? It really is like fighting a big monster».
«Yeah. There is no regenerative power, so don't think about killing all at once and go for the long battle. Raven, use lightning magic instead of fire magic!»
The cold blocked the bleeding, and the wind and earth were considered physical damage magic. Lightning, on the other hand, was best suited because it dealt elemental damage and focused on penetration and instant firepower.
I can't believe I have to teach my companions how to kill me.
It seemed strange. Still, my advice worked and the tables of battle turned little by little until the double fell to his knees. Seven crossbow arrows stabbed into his leg.
«...What a monster».
«I agree. So much so that I don't want to fight him again».
Although victory was assured, my companions shuddered as if they were fed up, to the point that just hearing them made me shudder. Much of those reactions were because the double even looked like me in personality. He really fought like crazy.
«Look at that. Keep trying to get up. What kind of person does that?»
If it bled, he sprayed it; If both hands were tied, he used his teeth. If an exchange was about to occur, he would cling to it like a ghost and charge towards his attackers to give flesh for bone. The bastard did everything he could to survive and this kept happening.
«Mi...ssha...» The double watched Missha with desperate eyes. Since winning a fight was impossible, he was employing the final move. Without realizing it, I chuckled.
Do you think that's going to.?.?
«Uh, ¿eh?»
«I... like you... you...»
«¿In series?
Oh... works.
It was a dirty trick, manipulating Missha's emotions. I squeezed the neck of the double tighter and sighed loudly. «Why are you stopping?! Kill him now!»
«It-wait! I want to ask you something!» Missha jumped up and waved her hands before looking seriously at the double. Then he asked a question. «Pp-but why did you reject me then? If you like me». Missha looked at the ground embarrassed.
«Oh my God!» Raven's eyes lit up at the sudden outbreak of a romantic relationship.
But did this aggro work elsewhere? Instead of responding, the double stared at Raven. «Ra...ven...»
«What, this time it's me? What are you...?»
«I... like you... you...»
Raven's expression grotesquely contorted at the second love confession. «Uh, Mr. Yandel...?»
Shame came over me. How much lower was it going to fall? «...Ignore it. He only says it to live».
«Do you mean you would confess your love to anyone to live, Mr. Yandel?».
No, but... No, is that so?
I just admitted it. «...It seems so.» I judged that admitting it would avoid a misunderstanding.
However, even as we had such a conversation the double's eyes moved away, in Mr. Bear's direction. «A-Ab...man...»
¡Este loco bastardo doppelganger!
«Yo... yo... »
Fortunately, that sentence did not come to an end. Mr. Bear pierced his forehead with a crossbow.
Stabbed!
The final blow protected the last dignity I had left. «I'll pretend I haven't heard... No, I haven't heard anything». My friendship with Mr. Bear would last forever.
The first round of doppelganger was over. After defeating one of them, we all banded together and killed the remaining one. Missha took the last hit.
«My...ssha...?» The doppelganger bastard tried the same trick when he found himself cornered, but Missha's anger-tinged willpower was unyielding.
«Die, you stupid barbaric bastard!». Sticking his sword into the doppelganger that looked exactly like me seemed to ease his tension. I stayed silent, although looking back, I didn't really do anything wrong. It was better to keep quiet when the atmosphere was this rarefied, so at least you wouldn't step on any landmines. A survival tactic I learned from my ex-girlfriend.
«¡Urakburak! ¡No hay piedra de maná!»
The doppelgangers disappeared like light along with their equipment, but they did not spit out any mana stones. The only Doppelganger to appear in the Doppelganger Forest was the final boss. The ones we caught were only low-level entities summoned through Self-Replication.
«So let's keep moving forward».
Afterwards, we continued hunting doppelgangers and resumed exploration. They usually came in groups of one or two. Only once did three appear at the same time, but it was easier than the first time. Fortunately, I didn't show up again. After moving like this for half a day, the straight hallway pattern ended.
«Finally, there is a fork in the road».
A path divided into five branches. This meant that we had finally reached the center.
«From now on we can meet the other teams, so be careful.»
To add some explanation, it was now possible to meet not only our doppelgangers but doppelgangers from another team. It was safe to say that the difficulty had increased significantly. There was no enemy more difficult than the one you had no information about.
Please let it be of our level.
Thinking this, I proceeded to the crossroads Raven chose. A lot of time passed like this. Unfortunately, we did not find the room with the hidden piece we were looking for. However, instead we meet a strange explorer, a thin man about five feet tall.
«Please say your name. Otherwise, we will treat you like a double and kill you».
At the request of Raven, the man is born the capucha. It was very difficult to badge in the oscuridad, pero in cuanto lo vive a déjà vu. The restlessness adds up was an extra.
Why will it be?
While I was worrying about this, the man spoke. «..s, believe...sen...» He was the idiotic speech pattern of a double. I assumed it when I saw that he was alone, but this confirmed his identity.
«Mr. Yandel, please take care of this on your own.»
«Is it to analyze it?»
«Yeah. We don't know what kind of people they really are, do we? We need to learn it beforehand. If it gets dangerous, I will intervene immediately».
Actually, I was thinking the same thing, so I followed orders without question. Meanwhile, the double continued muttering something resembling a broken recorder. «Me, I'm not... a doppel... ganger...»
I covered my upper body with the shield and approached slowly.
«C-Chris ... one. »
He had no visible weapons. He didn't look like a priest, probably a guy with special abilities.
«Hans…Chrisen…»
"...¿Which?"
«That... is... my name».
Chills ran through my entire body.