Chapter 771: Chapter 772 – Forgotten Mist – Part 3.

"The dungeon has several gimmicks." – said GreyHunt.

"The first is split up."

"No matter how you enter, you will be teleported and separated."

"The second gimmick is the mist."

"It restrict your vision."

"The third is labyrinth layout of this dungeon."

"The fourth is restriction of communication."

"And finally."

"The fifth."

"The doublegangers."

"..."

"Should we attack anybody that comes across us?" – asked the demonic knight monstrosity.

"No." – replied GreyHunt.

"This what this dungeons wants us to do."

"Murder each other."

"Shout your name and who you serv."

"If no response is given with words, slaughter the imposters."

"Understand?"

"Yes master." – replied GreyHunt as his demons bowed their heads.

"..."

"The question is, how the doublegangers works." – said GreyHunt.

"Is there like many of them all at once, like there are several copies of me out there, wondering around?"

"Or is there just one copy of me."

"..."

(If there is only 1 copy of each person.... Then this is a bigger problem.) – thought GreyHunt.

(That means the more monsters we summon, the more doublegangers there will be.)

(If that is really the case, then this dungeon is worst possible match up for a large parties as well as summoners.)

(...For now, I should refrain myself from summoning more monsters and see which theory is correct.)

<<This dungeon.... It is nightmarish.>>

<<Pure sadism.>>

<<I wanted to leave my demons behind to have them be the guide point.... But now this is just stupid. The demons would end up just getting killed without doing anything.>>

<<So, I’ve walked with my demons in a group and explored this mist covered dungeon.>>

<<And, after our first encounter with doublegangers, the number of enemies we started encountering also increased.>>

<<Each of them beings fakes.>>

<<And.... The annoying part?>>

<<Servants.>>

<<They are taking form of our own monsters.>>

<<By the looks of things, some of us had same idea as me as to summon monsters to their side.>>

<<And this may or may not fucked us.>>

<<Not only that.... I still haven’t found the "Real" party members or their monsters.>>

<<Fakes, fakes and fakes again.>>

"..."

(No. The main problem is size.) – thought GreyHunt as he found himself in yet another different area, a houses forming a massive towering walls.

(We are not walking in circles, although it feels like this.)

(This entire place is fucking with us mentality in more than one way nonstop.)

(Did by any chance we just missed each other?)

(There is good chance that it could had happened.)

"..."

(The doublegangers are not as strong as originals.)

(But the fact remains that they can use our skills and items.)

(Even if you can take on hundred cannon shots, you will still just die if you are decapitated.)

"..."

(What if my doubleganger appears from the shadow and shock as well as confusion will take over my party members mind.... Allowing the fake to just chop their heads off?)

(Single moment can get them killed if they are unlucky.)

(I need to hurry before some shit like this happens... Or something worst.)

(Maybe there are even more annoying gimmicks-)

"..."

"What is it?" – asked GreyHunt as he noticed his feral four-legged monstrosity with claws and hooves who had a long neck with a single eye as well as long jaw an extremely long tongue, was sniffing something.

"The Fear Beast had smelled something." – said the demonic monstrosity knight.

"Blood."

"Different one."

"..."

"Fallow it." – said GreyHunt as his hunting demonic beasts began fallowing the trail of the smell, while GreyHunt as his knights ran after the monster.

"..."

(I’m hearing something.) – thought GreyHunt as he stared hearing the sounds of battle from afar, causing GreyHunt to speed up and start slowly seeing figures ahead of him.

However, as GreyHunt gotten closer and the figure became somewhat more stable, he was met with a nasty surprise as several spears of blood came his way, forcing GreyHunt to use Caliburn to parry the attacks, but not all of them as some of them hit him.

Another volley of blood shots came GreyHunt’s way, but this time GreyHunt unleashed his demonic barrier, blocking somewhat attacks, before then using [Shadow Magic: Shadow Blink] to somewhat quickly close the distance while also dodging another volley of shots.

"STOP FUCKING SHOOTING! IT’S ME! GREYHUNT!" – shouted GreyHunt after finally getting close enough.

"!"

"Wait... GreyHunt?!" – asked a female voice as the figure and GreyHunt gotten close enough to finally see each other.

"!"

"Holy shit! You are real one and not that weird fake!" – said the attacker, who turned out to be the real Lilium.

"Yeah. You are the first one I’ve found that wasn’t fake." – said GreyHunt.

"Although, the first doubleganger I’ve encountered was also yours."

"Anyway, growing paranoid?"

"Yeah.... This fucking.... Fuck! I was suddenly jumped by your fucking clone when I was dealing with fake monsters!" – said Lilium.

"And he almost fucking ripped out my heart if I didn’t noticed him in time!" 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"Fuck me!"

"I really start hatting this whole stupid dungeon!"

"Yeah, me too." – replied GreyHunt.

"But still, this is still only the start."

"I’ve been wondering this place for long time, but so far? You are the only first person I’ve met."

"And I’ve covered a lot of ground."

"This dungeon is fucking massive and the mist is making sure we will have hard time finding each other."

"..."

"Honest question." – said GreyHunt.

"How many doublegangers you had fought so far?"

"Well... Several for now." – replied Lilium.

"Most of them were the fake monsters that we use."

"And did you ever encountered two of the same being? Not like for example two of my demonic knights."

"But more like 2 copies of the same being. For example, like this knight here who has splinted horns." – said GreyHunt as he pointed at one of his demonic knights.

"...Well... I don’t think so? Why you ask?" – asked confused Lilium.

"Neither have I." – replied GreyHunt.

"I’m trying to figure out the rules of this dungeon. Common. It is better if we find the others or at least find some pattern that can lead us anywhere in this freaking labyrinth." – said GreyHunt as Lilium re-joined his party and started exploring the dungeon.

"..."

(Is she the real Lilium?) – thought GreyHunt as he was ready to defend himself.

(So far? These monsters only spoke when using skills.)

(However.)

(The voices were also ours.)

(What if the dungeon was learning about "us"?)

(What if it was trying to learn our behavior and what not?)

(I couldn’t tell if they were real or fakes by looking.... Lilium is categorized as player by the system.)

(And her attacks were far more precise and powerful compare to the fakes.)

(Is she truly real? Or a better made fake?)

(...)

(Fuck me.)

(This dungeon really driving me paranoid!)

(I can’t really tell if she is truly real Lilium or not!)

"..."

"Hey." – said GreyHunt as he suddenly stopped.

"What were your country of origin again Lilium?"

"?"

"Why do you ask?" – asked confused Lilium.

"Answer the question. Now." – said GreyHunt.

"..."

"America." – replied Lilium.

"Can you speak English real quickly? Without the auto translator on." – asked GreyHunt as shown his blade to Lilium, alarming the vampire female mage.

"..."

"Is this fine? I’m speaking English." – said Lilium after turning off her device.

"..."

GreyHunt nodded with his head as he lowered his sword, giving Lilium a time to turn on her auto translator once again.

"So.... What the fuck was that about?" – asked Lilium.

"..."

"Paranoia." – replied GreyHunt.

"This whole place messes with your senses."

"Makes you questions everything and everybody."

"We don’t know the gimmicks of this place."

"Are the fakes only at this level? Or maybe they evolve over time?"

"Either way, we need to quickly gather others." – said GreyHunt as his group continues exploring the dungeon.

<<Honestly.... We... Fuck me.>>

<<This dungeon is really mentally exhausting.>>

<<Even as I’ve finally reunited with real Lilium, the search did not became one bit easier.>>

<<If anything.... Tired.>>

<<We tried making paths that we had been through, making sure that we truly weren’t going in circles.... However.>>

<<The buildings were reappearing themselves.>>

<<No matter how much destruction we had caused to make it as our land mark, the buildings would restore themselves.>>

<<The automatic map writer is working and it has been writing the map, we also had confirmed by back tracking that the map isn’t changing while we are not looking.>>

<<This place is just playing tricks on us.>>

<<Trying to manipulate us.>>

<<Even I am getting affected by this dungeon.>>

<<Lilium isn’t good either, she also getting more anxious as the times goes by.>>

<<Heck. There is air of suspicious around us both, straight up making us not trust each other to some extent.>>

<<...>>

<<But what annoys me the most is still the size.>>

<<This dungeon is massive.>>

<<And still no clue where to point us towards either end or the exit.>>

<<Houses are empty.>>

<<They are lifeless.>>

<<Hollow.>>

<<The only thing that is on these streets?>>

<<Monsters that pretends to be who you know.>>

<<And to even more to our problems?>>

<<"Benefactor"!>>

<<We don’t know if he will attack this place again or he will pull something else!>>

<<We have fucking invisible time limit over our fucking heads and that fuck us over if it reaches zero!>>>

<<So yeah!>>

<<FUCK!>>