Chapter 89: Raid Dungeon (6)
Ketal clicked his tongue. I expected more when I heard the Mimic Mannequin could copy the strength of its opponent...
He had hoped to experience fighting a replica of himself at least once, but it was disappointing. The monster was slow and weak. He grumbled while his party members blinked in confusion.
“Huh? What just happened?” Geinalt exclaimed.
The mannequin had moved incredibly fast. The other party members couldn’t even track it with their eyes. By the time they realized what was happening, the monster was already trying to attack Ketal. And then—suddenly, it exploded.
The mannequin had been much slower than Ketal, yet they couldn’t even follow its movements. Seeing Ketal’s fist was out of the question. From their perspective, the monster had rushed toward Ketal, and then it simply burst apart on its own.
As they stood there, bewildered, Marcy, who had been deep in thought, finally spoke up. “Could it be... a glitch? When I was studying at the Mage Tower, I heard that Dungeons sometimes malfunction.”
“Huh? Really?” Geinalt asked.
“Yes. It’s extremely rare, but it does happen from time to time,” Marcy replied.
“So that’s what it was? Now that I think about it, the speed was weird too.”
The Mimic Mannequin was supposed to copy its opponent, which was Ketal—a barbarian with no knowledge of Myst. Given its target, it shouldn’t have been able to move that fast.
“We sure run into all sorts of strange things in Dungeons,” Geinalt muttered as he approached Ketal. “Well, that’s a relief. If something had gone wrong, we might have been in danger.”