It happened the day after Lucario left and I had already contacted Beatrice to figure out how to get the Legacy Cave scam mastermind.

I would be naïve to think that this mission would end so smoothly.

While the brave man is the protector of the people, he is also a troublemaker of the same scale, just like the elementary school student of the Grim Reaper in a Japanese mystery comic, although he does not go anywhere, where there is such an exaggeration of homicide, but wherever the brave man visits, without exception, it will cause incidents of great or small size.

These events may be due to the accumulation of time and eventually erupt, but they may also occur without warning, the former is mainly man-made disasters, and the latter are mostly related to monsters or natural disasters, and this time the trigger undoubtedly belongs to the latter.

Listening to the description of the local villagers, there are traces of the shapeshifter outside the Inheritance Grotto.

Here is a little digression, introducing the difference between the alien world and the illusion monsters in modern earth fantasy works.

As almost everyone on the modern earth knows, the fantasy works featuring a dead child with a lightning scar on his head have this description of the changeling: "The changeling is a shape-shifting creature that becomes the most feared thing for those who face it. No one knows what changelings look like when no one is looking at them. Changelings are particularly fond of confined spaces, but can also be found in forests or shady corners.

From the above information, it is not difficult to see that although the changeling monster will reflect the fear in the hearts of others, it is harmless on the whole, but with the difference in region and plane, the monster of the same name living in another world is not as kind as in Harry Potter.

In the initial stage, the changelings of the other world are not threatening, because they do not have a stable appearance at this time, they look like an irregular air mass that floats slowly from a distance, and even if they accidentally make contact, as long as they run away immediately, the changelings that move slowly and have no means of attack will not be able to do anything to hinder them.

However, if they remain in the air mass for too long, this can be a big problem, as changelings will invade the body of the lingering person, using it as a host, and over time, changelings will gradually gain the same abilities and appearance as the host.

However, this is only the second stage, at this time, the changelings will frequently appear in front of the host's eyes, but they are still unable to damage the host for the time being, and they are too far away from the host, so they only need to use the skill of expelling the monster on the host's body, or enter the barrier to isolate the monster, and the changeling will be forced to expel from the host's body and return to its original air mass shape.

Thanks to this trait, changelings have a high danger rating and are quite low in threat.

It's just that if you continue to ignore it, when the changeling evolves into the third stage, things will be in trouble.

The rules of survival of changelings are very simple, there are only six words: imitation, assimilation, and substitution.

When the evolution reaches the third stage, the original peaceful coexistence will also come to an end, and the moment of obtaining the physical body, the changeling will immediately attack like a host, and will not rest until death.

Because of the mastery of all the host's memories and personality traits, the ability value and combat skills are exactly the same, the host will undoubtedly fall into a bitter battle, and the result of defeat is naturally replaced by the changeling, and this replacement is comprehensive, and the changeling will also completely get rid of the monster identity at this time, and transform into the host's race.

Also, as mentioned above, since changelings have copied everything in the host, even if the host has been replaced, their relatives will not be able to notice anything unusual.

Why do changelings want to replace hosts, and what are they doing so for?

After hundreds of years, scholars have not yet come up with a clear result, and among adventurers, there is an interesting proverb associated with changelings: "When did you create the illusion that you are yourself or yourself, rather than being replaced by changelings?"

At first glance, the content sounds very funny, but if you think about it carefully, it is vaguely creepy.

Ahem, let's get back to business.

After hearing the news from the villagers that there was a third type of changeling monster haunting the Inheritance Cave, I didn't mean to mix in at first, but soon, as the news became more detailed, I began to feel interesting as an unrelated person, and chose to join the crowd of onlookers.

This time, the object of the changeling lodgement is none other than the problem child Lucario, the Dark Demon Swordsman.

"Why are you attacking me, my half?"

According to the news brought back by the first eyewitness at the time, the Dark Demon Sword Envoy did not give up the possibility of talking to the changeling monster while confronting it, and still did not forget to appeal to the other party in the rapid sword attack that was difficult for others to interfere with.

Ahh

This idiot, it must be because of the illness of the second middle school, and as a result, he regarded the changeling monster as a special ability that he had awakened, or it was a second personality!

However, if it were only to this extent, it would be just an ordinary farce at most, but because the changeling monster completely replicated the host's personality, the original farce escalated instantly, becoming a hilarious comedy that no one should miss as long as it is human.

"I am not an ordinary mediocre man, but a brave man, a child of destiny who wields a dark sword and is destined to save this world, and you are the one who gathers my pain, jealousy, sorrow, and anger...... The dark side of the soul from which all negative emotions split, ah, yes, the negative elements that come out of the glass of my body in order to bring me closer to 'perfection'." Holding the black twin swords, let's call them the Pitch Black Magic Sword, the young man of No. 2 looked sad, plunged one of the swords into the ground, and pinched his left chest with his right hand: "But this is true arrogance, even if it is not perfect, it doesn't matter, in the future, I will continue to carry the inferiority of these human natures - in order to understand the human heart and sorrow, this weight is just right!"

"Goo!" Overwhelmed by the momentum of the pitch-black magic sword, the number one bit his lower lip and whispered between his teeth, "As the fifth on the list of famous quotes that must be said once in your life, isn't it quite handsome? It's half of my body......

Maintaining a mouth artillery battle that is comparable to the attack and defense that is difficult to capture with the naked eye, the square in front of the inheritance grotto has become the best stage for the brave of the middle and second diseases. (To be continued.) )