"You know what I'm talking about. That's" Alter Ego "... once, even the brave Angelo suffered, a horrible demon"
The day after all students in Group S for a year were defeated by BOSS at the bottom of the school labyrinth. The demonology class of the day was about "Alter Ego".
Just heard the name of his demons, Vikri and the trembling students. Looking at them like that with a caged eye of compassion, Eric Teaching continues the story.
"Of all the demons that copy the abilities of those confronted," Alter Ego "is the worst category. Do you have any idea why? Mr. Valerie."
To Eric's question, Valerie, the second-in-command of Group S for a year, stands up and answers in a snug motion that rarely makes him gaze at fatigue.
"Yes...... because" Alter Ego "mimics everything, from the memory, thought patterns and habits of the original person. As a result, you will read ahead of all actions: attack, defense and evasion."
That's it, Valerie sits around without waiting for the teacher's word "okay" either. Like other students, yesterday's defeat in internship still robs his body of vitality. When Eric looks around the classroom frowning over Valerie's more than expected wear and tear, everyone and he all have the same sinking face. It was like a farewell ceremony.
"Right, the biggest feature of" alter ego "… it means you can copy to your personality. That is said to be the most troublesome of a few demons with copying abilities... Oh, and to add, they also have [item copying] abilities, so even equipment is on the same terms. You're an increasingly powerful opponent."
Yes, some students came to the BOSS offense with powerful equipment obtained from random crates in the school labyrinth. But pierced their breasts were their proud long swords, spears, and short knives.
Difficult enemies who simulate all of their adversaries in different dimensions by means of an exorcism supply from Dungeon Core… that is the demon called "Alter Ego".
In their initial plans, they weren't supposed to struggle this far.
The last BOSS in the school labyrinth is the opponent. I didn't think I could handle it in one day, but other tiers of BOSS such as "Pamis Golem" and "Smile Clown" were growing enough to crusade alone. I thought it would be easy to get it if it was about the cut or thread of the attack.
Once you can grasp weaknesses and behavioral patterns, decide how you want to move. Previous labyrinth traineeships were proceeded in that way without any problems.
But the battle against demons with the same abilities as themselves, and moving much more efficiently than themselves, ended unilaterally without even being able to grasp measures.
If it is slashed, it can be avoided with a single sheet of thin skin. If you use magic, you can finish the chant earlier and get ahead of it. Then and if you try with a lot of trouble, any streak, any feint will be read, and as a result, you will get a handached counter.
Do such demons have weaknesses? If you tie the dictionary, it says, "You need the wisdom and strength to beat yourself," but only if you become stronger, so do your opponents. It was Abel who was overwhelmed with nothing meaningful, such as such advice, and was defeated untouched by his own shadow.
Even if I don't put it in my mouth, the students all share the same sentiment. That is, I doubt that "alter ego" can be defeated. Teachers say they can "take it down," but isn't it really impossible? Isn't it a trick to prevent the students from growing up? Not many students even think so.
So I also hear about this. It makes a serious weak noise in the elite class. Not so long ago, the Lord of the School Labyrinth was overwhelmed.
"Doctor... is" Alter Ego "crusadable...?
A boy student sitting in the front row asks Eric with his eyes facing down. That's a proxy for the feelings of all 1 · s. It's the idea they have somewhere in their minds of pride, confidence, and trust in the forged flesh crushed to the point of no complete skin.
But Eric, thrown so heavy, laughs and affirms with a grin.
"Yes, you can. You must."
Having said that, Eric retrieved the video crystal over the lecture floor.
In front of the students watching video crystals with surprising eyes, it activates. Then, what is shown is between the lowest layers of BOSS. Confronting the shooter was that abominable "alter ego" with Eric's face on.
But something's different. A demon with a look that even felt spared in front of the students has a distressed look on his face. That is due to Eric's magic and magic items, which are rolled out intermittently.
Deal damage to demons that you thought were impossible to even touch. The sight attracted the students' consciousness with defiant and difficult gravitational pull, despite the phantoms reflected by the video crystal.
Students who just hear groans and groans from time to time and watch the end of the battle silently, without saying anything.
Eventually, the video closed with Eric's victory. Impenetrable to them, the "alter ego" became a smoke of magic by the hands of a teacher who was also not in charge of internship, and was fogged.
"Ko, is this......!?
The students are confused. Eric in the footage hasn't done anything special. There was no skill, no equipment, no way to fight, nothing to keep an eye on anywhere. What he did was just pale damage to "alter ego". That alone didn't even plunge into a major crisis, knocking down the BOSS at the bottom of the school labyrinth.
Before the puzzling students, Eric looks troubled and laughs.
"I can't teach you anything more because it's a policy that the teachers in charge of internships don't give much advice... I'll just say this. I'm not good in action. I could do it, so you can all be sure. So next week...... no, even from today's voluntary training, good luck"
So just as the bell rings to mark the end of the class, Eric leaves the room. But the students forgot to thank each other, and for a while, they became stiff.
(Difference between Dr. Eric and me...... what is that?
After school that day, students who saw footage of Eric dealing with "Alter Ego" and winning at his leisure were all visiting to the bottom of the school labyrinth.
Both sides of the long main road passage are provided with equally spaced and decorative wooden doors. There are fifty of them and "alter ego" lurking in each of them.
One of the small rooms on all fours of ten meters, which only allows you to enter alone, now shows up the third child of the Ranju family, Velvet. Then, something like the shapeless slime that was hanging in the back of the room turns into a human form as he looks at it.
And the demon that forms like a mirror image of the girl in front of you... yes, this is the ability to copy "alter ego". Demons who simulate not only their appearances, but even their voice colors horribly alike, greet each other with a velvet voice.
"Hello, are you a challenger?
"Yes, it is"
'Okay. Okay, let's get started.'
Apparently, he even copies a velvety personality that is honest and doesn't like vanity, and "alter ego" slashes him there on the front mouth as well.
Is some of it familiar by yesterday's match, a velvet trying to recieve it in a sabel?
But with such skill that she doesn't seem to have the same ability, the BOSS monster slaps a kick into her empty torso.
"Ugh......!
Still, is it the gift of daily training to jump in the opposite direction from the reflexively kicked side and try to kill the impact?
But the demon who chases Velvet just because he knew he was going to move that way. Either because it mimics an infighter velvet or "alter ego" who fights her preferred melee. She thinks while also preventing, preventing and managing to outmaneuver that streak.
(Dr. Eric was fighting at a distance... no, that doesn't matter. That's the type of thing the teacher fights for medium to long range magic in the main, so he was just doing the same thing with demons that mimic his personality. Yes, like we are now. So what the hell is an element for victory......)
For a change of mind, a velvet swings sideways with a skill [Crescent Caliber] that emits a three-day moon-shaped shock wave, bouncing off thoughtfully and taking a distance. Cuts stood out everywhere in her body, even though it had only been a few minutes since the start of the fight, as proof that she was not a sweet enough opponent to fight with extra thought.
"[Heels]"
Even [Crescent Caliber], released at close range, avoids "alter ego" with a combination of backstep and repetition. Avoidable is woven, velvet striving to recover within the present.
But at the same time as we land, the demon rushes out and packs the distance again. She is exactly the same as the original girl who dared to bring her into infighting, and the person at the time she was made to look objective looks bitter.
(Damn... I haven't recovered enough yet. How much do you like to ramp, yourself!
In order to intercept him, Velvet was forced to interrupt the [heel] he had just begun to call. From there, it's also the beginning of a melee between a blade and a blade. The fact of complete defeat, the meaning of the video crystals Eric showed, his frustration with copying monsters who use their abilities better than themselves… they mix with the sound of the sword trident and disturb the stability of Velvet's mind.
"Gu, gu, ah!!
A velvet servel that starts unconsciously targeting a blow of reversal that exceeds the damage taken and sweeps naturally. That gap could not have been missed by "Alter Ego".
In the end, the day also ended with Velvet's complete defeat. I should have apprenticed Eric and been thinking of doing steady damage, but on the contrary, it was she who was shredded to shreds and was brutally knocked down in the last blow.
A velvet honestly on the road to home that the taste of bitter defeat and the outcome is the same even if you rematch in the mind disturbed by your impudence. Now in my garden, I'm finishing up my routine training.
"Shh! Ha! Let it go! Ha!"
Right, left, right, left, alternately protruding fists resting on his hips. This is the basic form of [Positive Fist Punching], taught by Takadai Sayama, her field training instructor.
Added to the routine in longing for the powerful skills of your greatness that crushed "Smile Clown" in one blow, but she was liking this training itself because she could be heartless within sticking out her fist.
"Yikes! Ha! Let it go! Ha!"
It's all that matters to her now that clutter still comes to mind disappearing. "Alter Ego". The losing self. Victorious Eric. The difference. How do I fight? Can you win? Will you lose again?
It's an image that floats like a bubble and disappears, but I don't see myself beating "alter ego" in it.
"Ha, ha... Phew... it hasn't gotten there yet, is it?"
Eventually, he also finished his workout by [Positive Fist Poking], velvet wiping the sweat off his forehead. It seemed like she was still ahead of her to get an image statue of her victory.
"How did the teachers get over it..."
It's not just Eric. From what she has heard, she says not only are interns in charge, but not many even research teachers have won the "alter ego". I also heard rumors that, leading up to Eru, he would win unilaterally, as if he were looking at a meeting of chess.
"I shouldn't. Raise yourself before you rely on people for cheap. That's the attitude of those who live in Takemen's high-ranking Ranju family. It's only workout."
Several students are apparently negotiating to ask about tactics. However, Velvet, who decided that it would not reach him, even if it would be a temporary solution, decided to conduct another set, voluntary training.
A velvet that receives a cup of water offered by a samurai who was refraining beside her and slowly swallows it with dust and dust. Eventually, emptying the cup, she handed the sweat-wiped cloth to the samurai and began to run around the outer perimeter of her home training ground, which was quite spacious.