Become Tyrant On My Own Way
Chapter 53 – REAL OR FAKE ALBERT?
Hundreds of praying mantis monsters surrounded Helios' party. However, Helios's ice shots and Nunu's aura spear attacks were able to repel and kill the monsters one by one.
If anyone says he's not in his vit, it's Albert. Still, Albert was able to lift his great sword and defeat monsters one by one.
In an instant, all the monsters were defeated.
Unlike usual, Albert did not take the initiative to lead the way ahead. Helios responded to this as a sign that Albert was tired of recently falling unconscious from his wounds after fighting Leon. Finally, it was Helios who led the way in front of their party.
Albert suddenly looked ahead with seriousness. He looked forward with a cruel look and raised his sword high without having the slightest dinotice by Helios and Nunu who were in front of him. Then then, then,
“Slash!”
There was a sound of slashing, and blood was pouring everywhere.
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Meanwhile, Alice and Codi's impromptu party combination seems to be improving. They had found synergy in carrying out attacks in their party. As usual, Alice acted as a tanker where Codi took advantage of Alice's solidity of protection in doing his techniques of assasination more freely.
“Srak srak.”
Slowly, they were able to cope with the slime of the nightmare more easily. Codi opens a path that allows them to escape into a place full of slime nightmares.
They ran, but suddenly,
“Slash!”
A non-elemental sword aura shot right past the two of them then charged towards the nightmare slimes chasing after Alice and Codi's party.
Alice and Codi looked ahead. Albert did everything.
Just as Helios was about to approach Alice and Codi's party, Albert stopped him immediately.
“Hold, Master. Look to your left and right.”
Apparently, what Albert meant was that there were each other Alice and Codi parties to the left and right of the Alice-Codi party that Helios was about to meet. True, there are 3 pairs of twins Alice and Codi.
It can't be real. Certainly, the other two were the disguises of nightmare slimes.
“Take it easy, Albert. I know what I'm doing.”
Helios brushed Albert's hand away as she reached for Alice and Codi's hands near them.
At the same time, Helios floated each of his ice moves against Alice and Codi's other two doppelganger parties without anyone noticing.
“Srak srak srak srak.”
The sharp ice pierced each to the region of the vital point and the sightings of the two began to melt. Apparently, the other two couples are true slime nightmares in disguise. Without having time to fight, the nightmare slime was defeated by Helios in one overpowering attack.
“Master, this?”
“Eatya says. No matter how great they disguise, I who have a sensitivity where still will be able to distinguish them.”
“But still for such a thing to happen..”.
“Slash.”
Not yet had Albert finish his speech, the original Codi suddenly advanced to attack Albert. Fortunately, Albert was able to fend off Codi's assassin attack well through his greatsword.
“What the fuck, Leon's men?!”
“Sorry, Your Highness the Second Prince. I just want to ascertain the identity of the creature that is behind His Highness the Prince. The real Mr. Albert should still be lying in the clinic, it feels strange for him to come here. Except... she is a nightmare slime disguise itself.”
Helios immediately grabbed Codi's shoulder.
“Tenace. I can guarantee that he is the real Albert.”
“How can His Highness the Second Prince be so sure?! Isn't it strange that she was here in the middle of her condition that should still be sick? After all, wasn't there even a mage who was able to distinguish a nightmare slime monster that was disguised as a human? So, how could His Highness the Second Prince confirm it?”
Codi's right. However, Helios is an exception thanks to his sensitivity. It is true that not only exists, slime nightmare is also able to copy the flow of mana so that it is even difficult for mages who detect through the flow of mana to distinguish between this slime nightmare against the original person.
However, Helios was well aware that there were prominent differences that made it easy to distinguish a disguised nightmare slime from a real person. That was because of the sensitivity of where Helios was at a higher level compared to the others.
Not only the flow of mana, the sensitivity of which Helios is also able to scan down to the physical realm like a skeleton located inside the human body.
Is correct. Helios learns that the nightmare slime has no skeleton at all. That's what made Helios able to tell the difference immediately.
In other words, Helios was convinced that it was indeed Albert amidst the absurdity of how he could meet him amidst the haze chaos of such a vast forest of monsters.
Nevertheless, it was impossible for Helios to answer such a reply to Codi that he still wanted to keep the ability a secret to his younger brother, the third prince, Leon. Telling Leon's loyal bodyguard, Codi, is tantamount to revealing the information to his sister.
Helios tried to act by saying,
“Monster we face today is not a kraken minion that copies a person's form based on the memories of others, but a slime nightmare. Slime's nightmare was only able to copy someone he saw straight away. He wouldn't be able to copy Albert if Albert really never came to this monster forest.”
“But wasn't His Highness the Second Prince with Mr Albert also able to visit the monster forest region earlier? Maybe at that time, the nightmare slime had beamed Mr Albert's face?”
Codi's deduction was correct and that's what made Helios even harder to refute. Plus an aura where Albert was a non-attribute that could also be possessed by any living creature as well as any monster including a nightmare slime. Helios is completely out of his mind to prove to Codi that it is indeed the real Albert.
However, it was too late to notice it, but the lights on Helios' head immediately lit up. There is another easier way to distinguish between the disguise of a nightmare slime against a native.
Unexpectedly all included by Albert himself, Helios suddenly sharpened his ice and cut several hair blades behind Albert's head.
“See, this hair does not squirm strangely which means this does belong to a real human, not a nightmare slime.”
But not only Codi, Alice and Nunu can only gape at the astonishment of Helios' unclear explanation of the causes.
Meanwhile, Albert tries to hold back his deep cries of sadness that his handsome appearance has just been stained with the flap of his head. But he could not blame the person who thoughtlessly did that to him since he was none other than his beloved master, Helios.
Seeing that none of his party members understood his explanation, Helios grew increasingly frustrated about being out of his mind. But suddenly, a figure of their duplicate again appeared and was seen to be about to attack.
It was something thrilling, but in that situation, in Helios's heart even shouted ‘eureka’, because of her blessing, she said, Helios finally had the means to demonstrate the fruit of the knowledge he gained by diligently reading it, namely to show his party colleagues the clear difference between the disguise slime nightmare against the original person.
Helios did the same to one of the monsters disguised as a human by cutting off part of his hair. All the party members could see clearly the hair on Helios' hand immediately turned into mucus and wriggled in disgust.
“See, this is how if the nightmare slime disguise cut her hair. Since all the cells in the monster's body are active cells, then if a little part of it is cut like in the hair, then if the hair is cut, they will show a reaction like this before they will die because they do not get the supply of nutrients from their stem cells. Obviously it is different when real human hair is cut. It won't show any reaction.”
The entire party finally understood the difference between the real and the fake thanks to Helios' explanation. However, of course they did not have time to think about it now since they had to face the horde of nightmare slimes that had come to attack.