Academic Gathering with Lich Colleagues

Chapter 681 The Shapeshifter

The upper corners of the sheepskin scroll are blurred, only the approximate area covered by the red cross.Lyle stared at the map with squinted eyes, trying to figure out the current location from the blurred lines.Nia's tentacles stood up like antennas, pushing the green shade above her head to let out a small cloud of sunlight.

Lyle stood in the sun for 3 minutes and put the map back into his bag.

"Have you found it?" Nia's mouth fell out of biscuit crumbs, and she made a crisp chewing sound, lying lazily on Lyle's head.

"almost."

"Clair said so an hour ago, when Nia was eating pre-lunch." The hungry hatchling didn't hold out much hope, she had already treated this as an excursion, and the only thing to worry about was what was in the pack. food reserves.The tentacles slowly flipped Lyall's pouch to check when the excursion was over.There are still three hours, and no matter what Lyle says, she will open the door of bones to go home.

"We must have entered that range, we just need to find a hidden entrance." Lyle replied stubbornly, the surrounding plants remained unchanged, and he kept moving forward in the woods, from night to day.The sunlight made the woods a little brighter, and there were subtle sounds from the tangled bushes, and the ensemble of insects flapping their wings.He lowered his head and looked at the blurred shadow under his feet. In the dim light, the shadow was like a cloud of blurred fog.

"Did you find anything? A bad omen."

As the incarnation of Lyle, Omen is just a group of negative energy that has to curl up in the shadow in the material world. Mental shock, that is, weaving illusions to intimidate is his main ability.Omens are very sensitive to mental activity, which is conducive to searching for "living creatures".

【Nothing at all. 】

"Nia."

Lyall had to bow to Andrea's abstract painters and use the most savage carpet search to find the target.Nia swallowed the last piece of salty cracker, and her body liquefied and fell into the tree roots.The vibration under his feet ranged from mild to severe, and Lyle stared at the trees in front of him with a little regret, taking a last look at them.

The sound was like the footsteps of a herd of beasts migrating. The tentacles crawling in the soil spread into a huge circle and rose in an instant, like a group of furious snakes dancing wildly in the air, picking off the roots, blowing up the soil, and whipping With the air, the lifted ground was smashed into slag.The berries in the bushes were smashed, and the broken branches and rotten leaves were bright red with juice, and were swallowed by the spilled earth.Like a bulldozer, Nia shoveled out a small piece of open space, and the scope is still expanding.

I just let her stretch her tentacles to find her way.

[There is movement. 】

Nia's playful behavior aroused a new reaction, and the ominous sign pointed out the sudden spiritual impulse in her mind. It's not that there are no living things here, but something disguised itself as a dead thing, and even the thought was disguised together. .

Following the induction, Lyle looked in that direction, which was the side wall of a mountain with black-blue moss and emerald green creepers.Lyle was stunned for a moment, and he dismissed the idea of ​​making a mistake.Although it was a bit unbelievable, the gable in front of him did have thoughts about Nia's behavior of destroying the forest just now.

Watching silently, Nia climbed onto Lyle again, and the weak mental activity was also weakening.

Lyall pointed his hand straight at the mountain, looking like a fool.

"Stop pretending, I know you're here."

There was no response, but the ominous laughter echoed in his mind, that mental activity was getting stronger, like a thief who was exposed, far less determined than his appearance.Lyle grabbed a rock the size of a duck egg, raised his hand, and made a gesture of throwing himself.

"Stop! Well, you win, I give up!" A dynamic voice came from behind the mountain, and then Lyall realized that the voice was not behind the mountain wall.The moss on the stone seems to have grown feet, and the rough rock texture twists and moves like water, swirling on the wall that is one person high. In just a few seconds, the gable twists and changes, forming a huge human face .The messy creeper draws two slender eyebrows, the bumps on the stone block depict the eyes, the beard composed of moss and mushrooms, and his mouth is a hidden rabbit hole.

The wall came alive, revealing the vast and clean sky behind it from the top of the sparse plant hair. There is a hidden secret here, and the gatekeeper is a living wall that can deform.

Excluding alchemy creations, they only obey instructions and do not have thought activities; excluding flesh and blood creations, their limbs are distorted and deformed, and the filled souls are also chaotic.

"Vilimlo..." Lyle searched for the knowledge in his mind. Velimlo is also a shapeshifter, commonly known as a mime, a doppelganger, and a substitute phantom, a magical magical creature.It will transform into a replica according to the contact object, and the appearance camouflage is exquisite to the point of perfection.No one knows their original appearance. It is said that Velimlo began to mimic changes the moment he was conceived and exposed to the air.Lyall was very excited, because Mr. Dragon had mentioned this extinct species in his previous spirituality class.

Doppelgangers are generally considered extinct on the mystical side.They do have a long lifespan, they will copy other people's memories, habits and even abilities, and they have the nature of trying to change and replace others.No one likes to be displaced, and this amazing species ends up being hunted and hunted.Mr. Dragon clearly emphasized that shapeshifters are dark creatures, they will invade the privacy of others, and gradually eat away at the final replacement body.Still, the extinction of every living creature causes a lich to groan.

Lyle looked at the face in front of him that was filled with abnormal enthusiasm, and the vigilance in his heart was raised to the peak.A creature of darkness that survived the curse of Bosuwa, a monster that exploits the weaknesses of its enemies and eventually erases its existence altogether.The doppelganger, a creature that lurks in the shadows and relies on intrigue to make a living, is a perfect cancer for Bosuva.And their talents matched him very well, and Lyle quickly thought of the secret that Mr. Reporter proposed that would help his promotion.

Changeling monsters can adapt to any ethnic group, because they have the talent to disguise themselves as others.In other words, this kind of creature may even copy Lyle himself, even the part that includes the evil god.

That would make the problem easier, Lyle swallowed.

Behind that light, there is a mystery that is entangled with his opportunity for promotion.In this secret realm, there is a group of shapeshifters. They have the talent of shapeshifting and can become anyone's group.What Lyle needs to do is to join them, use himself as a template for the entire shapeshifter group, get the approval of his clone, and be promoted to Four Locks.During this process, we must also be alert to these shapeshifting monsters secretly assassinating them and prevent them from replacing themselves.

Lyle sighed, and his memory returned to the previous classroom.

"Professor Dragon, how do we deal with shapeshifting monsters?"

"We don't have to deal with it, you idiot, this magical creature is extinct."

"What if? Maybe they're hidden well enough that we haven't noticed."

"In case, kill Velimlo before he fully understands you. During this period, he may turn into someone or something around you to contact you. A perfect copy needs enough time. You may Flaws are found in this process, but remember, never face Velimlo alone, because you can't defeat yourself, it is best to have a companion, and the gap with your ability should not be too large. In this way, Velimlo will choose Confusion when copying objects."

"What if there is no companion."

Mr. Dragon paused for a moment, staring carefully at the scrawny apprentice sitting next to his beloved apprentice.

"Then you will be miserable. The perfectly replicated Velimlo will know your weaknesses, and defeating you will be no more troublesome than me unscrewing the head of you, an annoying spirit."

(End of this chapter)