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Chapter 633 Perfect Imitation Teardrop

Lord's Great Lift.

The large elevator, which had not been in operation for a long time, made a roaring sound today and slowly descended from the exit of the snow mountain, but stopped halfway down.

This is of course not due to a malfunction, but because the train has arrived at its destination.

Li You walked down from the elevator and came to the entrance of the secret passage leading to the sacred tree.

As long as you collect two secret symbols of the holy tree, you can make the Lord Elevator stop halfway and open the way to the Holy Snowfield.

Of course, as mentioned before, Li You could actually choose to fly down from the Giant Snow Mountain, but similarly, the BOSS hidden in this secret passage was the Lonely Imitation Teardrop that he was determined to obtain.

Li You looked at his wrist. The wristband transformed from the young teardrop had now completely merged with his robe. Even he would not be able to detect it without careful observation.

This is the change that happened to the larva of the Mimic Teardrop after it devoured the body of its counterpart in the Eternal City and was nourished by the power of the Supreme Distant Staff in the past few days.

Li You didn't expect that the power from the Mother of Finger would also be useful to it, but it was normal when he thought about it carefully.

Now, the transformation ability of the mimicking teardrop larva has reached perfection, and it can change into Li You's appearance exactly, but it still lacks the ability to replicate the object's power.

In other words, the clone it transformed into was just a facade - this certainly did not meet Li You's expectations. His own teardrop larvae had eaten so many precious materials along the way, if it could only transform the appearance, then the prosthetic puppet and grapefruit could do it, so why would he need it?

The larval form of the mimetic teardrop was obviously still lacking something, but the only thing Li You could think of at the moment was the other mimetic teardrop here.

Although in the abandoned plan, it seemed that it had to devour some liquid from the holy grail to grow, Li You had previously been to another eternal city in the underground world, Noxstella, and still had not found it. Presumably, the abandoned plan prop did not exist in this world, so he could only give up.

Today, the larva of the mimetic teardrop is becoming more and more active. After coming to the secret passage here, it not only responded, but also actively transformed, extending an arrow and pointing out the direction for Li You.

Looking at the small silver arrow sticking out from his sleeve, Li You was somewhat amused: "Has this been upgraded from a treasure-hunting radar to a treasure-hunting navigation?"

He called to his companions: "Let's go without further delay."

V looked at him and said, "Wait a moment. After we came back from Shadowland, we rushed to Lienia first, and then to the Snow Mountain. Now you should tell us what we are going to do. And what kind of agreement did you reach with Lani? Don't keep it to yourself."

Li You looked at her, then at the other companions, and found that everyone except Youzi had the same opinion, so he said: "It's not that I don't want to tell you, but there are some things I'm not sure about yet."

"But you're right. At least I can tell you the general arrangement. Let me think about where to start."

After a short pause, Li You said, "Kara, I won't say anything more. Do you remember what I said before? The ultimate goal of this world is to select new gods and kings in the border area and start the next era, right?"

Everyone nodded.

"I am preparing for this. Originally, the one who was to become the king was supposed to be a certain faded one with a mission, and he would choose the god and bring new laws to the borderland. However, I do not intend to follow this rule."

Li You said this and glanced at Kara. Everyone, including Kara, understood what he meant.

Obviously, the person who had the greatest hope of becoming the King of Elden was Kara, who was chosen by Melina, but there was no way that Li would leave herself in this world to be the king.

Listening to Li You's words, Kara's lips curled up into a smile.

"However, the system of gods and kings has become a custom in the borderland. Even before the time of the Golden Tree, this system was in place. The Dragon King you know and the Dragon God who has long since departed were the rulers of the ancient times."

This news surprised everyone. For example, V thought that the God King system only existed in the Golden Tree Era, and even Kara didn't know the secrets of the Dragon God.

Li You continued, "...So, I still plan to maintain this system, and then, based on this, start a new era for the border area. In order to achieve this goal, I need to find someone who is suitable to be the king and has the corresponding laws. Running around the border area is essentially a preparation for this purpose."

Kara thought thoughtfully: "Rani was once a god... Master, is she the god you chose?"

"At present, there is no better choice than her." Li You nodded. Facing Kara's questioning eyes, he further explained:

"Everyone knows that I am well-informed. I have already investigated the laws that may be implemented in the current border area.

"Using the Perfect Golden Law, the Law of Death, and the Law of Curse to repair the ring, or simply continuing the laws of the old times, is one method; Lani's Starry Sky Law is the second method.

"As for the third type, you have all seen it, which is the law of insanity... Let's not talk about it, the other types of restoration laws also have many problems.

"The perfect law holds that gods should not have joy, anger, sorrow, or personal thoughts, and they only need to be containers of law. The laws of death and curse will allow these two to fill the world respectively. Even if we do not use the repair rune and continue the old golden law, it will only usher in an era of decline... I don't want to choose any of them."

Everyone except Kara was confused, and Melina took the initiative to show up and looked at Li You with surprise: "How do you know this?"

"Because of my intelligence network." Li You smiled and didn't intend to explain more. Anyway, his other companions had already gotten used to it.

"Compared to these choices, Lani's star law is different. Her idea is to keep the law itself away from this land."

Melina frowned, and everyone was puzzled: "Isn't it said that the law is the rule by which the world operates?"

Li You nodded: "This is the special feature of Lani's law."

"'My life and soul are now with the law. I want to be away from it, to let everything be far away. I want to make the things that I can clearly see, feel, believe, touch... possible impossible. So I will abandon this land together with the law.' These are the original words of Lani."

Melina understood: "She wants the border area to get rid of the rules constructed by the law and operate on its own?"

"That's about it, but there are many problems. For example, what will the rules of the world be like after that..." Li You paused for a moment before continuing, "Let's not go into details about this. Anyway, Lani is one of the candidates for the god. I also talked to her and reached an agreement that both parties could accept."

"One... It seems that you are not going to tell me the other options now." V is very familiar with Li You's style, so he didn't ask any more questions. "I won't ask what Lani wants you to do. So who is the candidate for the king?"

"King..." Li You did not answer immediately, but looked in the direction of the secret passage.

V immediately responded: "After they came back, they went straight to the snowfield. Could it be...?"

Li You nodded: "That's it. So let's go, let's not fall too far behind."

Everyone understood now, so they stopped talking and entered the secret passage together.

The secret passage leading to the holy tree, if one only wants to reach the Holy Snow Plain, one only needs to go straight out on one road. There are not many obstacles on the road except for some evil soldiers and a few large and small terrestrial octopuses.

However, the Liqun Mimic Teardrop that Li You was looking for was not on this road, but was hidden deep in the secret passage. To find it, he had to walk across the invisible bridge in the secret passage and make several detours.

Fortunately, Li You was familiar with the map and had the help of the mimetic teardrop larvae for navigation, so the process of finding the target went smoothly.

This time, Li You did not throw a small animal in for the teardrop to imitate like before, but V fought alone. This was V's initiative, and she said that there were not many opportunities to fight with herself.

Li You naturally agreed, so V put Pandora down and walked in carrying only Lei Guang Yueying.

Watching the simulated teardrop quickly simulate its transformation and become exactly the same as his own, V smiled and slowly drew his sword.

"Very good, let's give it a try!"

——The battle ended quickly, but not so easily.

This battle was much more troublesome than V had expected. The Simulacrum could not reproduce V's prosthesis, but after seeing V use the prosthesis, it could simulate almost the same effect through magic, which was not inferior to the prosthesis itself.

The same physical condition, the same weapons, even almost the same fighting awareness, and most importantly, much stronger vitality than the original body. The characteristics of the replica teardrop are undoubtedly revealed, putting V in a tough fight.

In the end, V relied on his ultimately superior skills and strong combat instincts to seize the flaws of the replica teardrop and, opening fire at full power, triggered an instant explosion of the power of lightning and moon shadow, defeating it.

The replica teardrop that was beaten back to its original form still wanted to run away, but Li You had already blocked the surrounding escape routes in advance, blocking its retreat. Under the burning of the spiral sword flame, the replica teardrop quickly fell down completely, and its body became food for the replica teardrop larvae.

The replica teardrop does not need to sleep to digest and evolve. After devouring the second body of its kind, Li You's replica teardrop larva immediately changed. Its body became larger, the silver color of its body became brighter, and a strange breath emanated from it. Li You tried to communicate with it at that time, and then found that the replica teardrop was still the same as before, with only the most basic intelligence, and it could hardly be said that it had formed self-awareness.

It was in a daze, and apart from the fact that it was connected to Li You by nature and would act according to Li You's instructions, it had almost no mental fluctuations of its own.

"In a sense, it's not a bad thing, but the most important thing is whether it can completely replicate my power... Let's give it a try."

As Li You's consciousness was transmitted, the replica teardrop quickly deformed and became exactly the same as him, even the movements and expressions were exactly the same. It held its chin with one hand and looked at Li You.

Moreover, the appearance of the simulated teardrops was not like in the game, but a spirit form. But this was normal, after all, Li You's was just a living body, not ashes.

Li You snapped his fingers and said, "Let's go to the snowy field outside and try it out!"

——The Holy Snow Plain.

This is a vast snowfield. The southern entrance area is covered by unnatural blizzards all year round, while different ruins, buildings, pits and even small golden trees can be found in the north and west.

The blizzard in the south will not only make people lose their way, but there will also be huge spirits of dragon soldiers appearing, attacking those who try to cross, which is very difficult to deal with.

However, Li You just used these spirits as whetstones. Under his instructions, the teardrop that copied him rushed forward with the "Spiral Sword" and "Immortal Slash", and then... nothing happened.

Both the Spiral Sword and the Undead Slash contain extremely special powers. The Copy Tears can only copy their appearance and basic abilities, but cannot copy their core power - and that is the source of the power of these two weapons.

The two weapons, which were only for show, had little effect when they landed on the dragon soldier's spirit. Instead, the replica teardrop was slapped by the spirit and flew directly back to Li You.

Li You frowned as he watched.

He then passed on the instructions: "Transform into a dragon."

The teardrop began to transform, and finally transformed into the appearance of Li You's dragon man, flapping its wings and trying to rush forward. However, Li You saw at a glance that this form was just a facade, and it failed to replicate his dragon man's power.

Seeing that the replica teardrop was about to rush forward, Li You couldn't help it. With the sword in hand, he flashed over in an instant, cut the spirit of the dragon soldier, and then pulled the replica teardrop back.

"What's going on?"

The companions waiting at the exit of the secret passage also didn't understand, so Melina came out to explain: "Your powers are too special, and the Simulated Teardrops can't simulate them. There's nothing we can do about it."

"Then it has no brain... Is that also the reason?" Li You brought the restored teardrop in front of him. The teardrop ash in the game had a very strong AI in the first version and did not need any command.

But the one in front of Li You needed his distracted instructions before it knew what to do. It had no ability to think for itself at all, just like a particularly stupid artificial intelligence.

"This is probably because... this individual's situation is different. For some reason, its own consciousness has not been formed, so even if it copies you, it has no thinking ability." Melina answered after thinking.

Li You: "...You mean my account is useless?"

Thinking about the replicant teardrops in the game and those he had seen before, they seemed to have their own basic consciousness, unlike the empty head in his hand.

Now Li You really couldn't help but frown: What's the use of this?

I raised you for so long, and the end result is that you become a face-changing artist?
Melina thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps... it's still missing some key item? My knowledge of artificial life forms like the Mimic Teardrop is very limited, so I can only speculate. Perhaps it needs something with unique properties to be complete."

Li You was helpless now: "But I don't know what it's missing... Um, wait?"

He suddenly thought of something, loosened his hand and put down the imitation teardrop, then opened the system backpack and took out a small doll from it.

[Pope Doll/Avatar Amulet: Inject all your magic power to create an avatar with the same strength as your current strength, copy all your actions, or act according to your instructions. 】

[Number of uses remaining: (2/3)]

As soon as this little doll was in hand, the originally silly imitation teardrop immediately bounced up from the ground, and its fluid body rolled towards it in an instant!
The degree of desire is unprecedented.

However, with a snap of Li You's fingers, the Shield of Aegis framed the replica teardrop, completely locked it, and compressed it into a square cube that floated in the air.

But even so, the teardrop was still struggling. Li You tried to communicate with its consciousness, and all he felt was desire.

“…It seems this is really useful.”

Li You originally just remembered this prop and took it out to give it a try, but he didn't expect the teardrop to react so strongly. It seems that this little doll can indeed make it evolve again.

But even so, Li You was still a little hesitant about whether to feed the little doll to the Simulated Teardrop.

This Pope puppet is basically a perfect version of the teardrop, except that it is consumable. He has only used the little puppet once, and he still has two more chances to use it. It is one of his trump cards.

Feeding the doll with the Simulated Teardrops does not guarantee that it will grow to the same level as the doll. If it ends up being worse than the doll, it would be a huge loss.

But Kara came up at this time: "Master, this is your unique prop, right... let me see it?"

Having been watching for a long time, she already understood the problems Li You was facing and guessed what he was struggling with. And in this matter, she felt that she could help.

Li You wasn't sure what she wanted to do, but he handed the doll to her and explained, "The effect of this thing is..."

Kara listened carefully, looked at the doll for a long time, and even wrapped it with magic to carefully identify it for a long time. Finally, she said to Li You: "Master, if you believe in my judgment, then feed this doll to the Simulated Teardrop."

Li You looked at her, a little surprised: "Could it be that you... can also interpret the magic composition of this little doll?"

"That's not the case. The internal structure of this doll is too complicated for me to understand... But from the part I can understand, this should be what the Simulated Teardrop needs, and it can also release all its power." Kara said.

Li You looked at her again, then took back the doll without saying anything, tossed it in his hand, and then threw it at the replica teardrop.

"Goo-"

The restraints of the simulated teardrop were also released at the same time. It immediately jumped up from the ground and completely wrapped the little doll!
In an instant, a dazzling light suddenly lit up inside the simulated teardrop!

But the light was only for a moment, and the teardrop immediately fell to the ground and returned to normal. Its size did not increase but decreased, shrinking back to the size of a larva.

Despite this, Li You was not disappointed or annoyed. He felt a completely different aura from this shrunken replica of the teardrop.

At the same time, a prompt popped up on the system.

【Ding! 】

[The Simulacrum Teardrop has devoured the Pope Doll (Avatar Amulet), and its abilities are fully unlocked. The Simulacrum Teardrop will be automatically bound as a special companion. Please check the characteristics in the companion section. ]

Li You then opened the companion section, and the ability of the replicant teardrop was revealed to him.

[Fake Teardrop (No Name/Special Companion)]

[Favorability: None, Trust: None. ]

[Unique ability: perfect mimicry. ]

[The Simulacrum Teardrop has the ability to perfectly transform into the power of you or other companions, and can also copy the object's mind. You can also completely control it through your own consciousness. The Simulacrum Teardrop has no individual consciousness and will completely obey your instructions. ]

[Each time you mimic a form, you or your companion will consume all of their magic power, but the mimicry teardrops can replenish their energy. The transformation will not be automatically canceled, and you can actively cancel the transformation at any time. ]

[When not transformed, the Mimic Teardrop can mimic the objects around you without consuming magic power. ]

(End of this chapter)