SSS SKILL: DUPLICATE

Within a forest, Edgar is looking for a magic beast. He is surrounded by tall trees with hanging vines. There are big mushrooms and plants nearby. There are some large insects flying. Some of them are being swallowed by carnivorous plants.

Edgar activated his skill.

LIFE DETECTION

The beasts, objects, and plants are seen by Edgar. He put special attention on a small monkey that is currently eating.

Edgar smiled when he saw it.

"I finally found you, monkey."

He quickly moves toward the monkey. He is nimbly avoiding the obstacles as he runs toward the area. After running for a while, he reached the area. He cloaked himself with magic and only released a weak aura. He jumped up a few times until he landed on a branch of a tall tree. He can clearly see the monkey. It is a two-foot golden monkey. It is eating a rare golden fruit. 

"How can tier 2 eat a rare fruit? That kind of fruit is definitely guarded by tier 3," murmured Edgar to himself. He took out his sword from the storage space.

He put more aura on his feet, then he jumped toward the monkey.

The monkey is startled that a weak creature is jumping toward it. It felt irritated as it did not finish the fruit. It stretched its right arm above it. Its arm suddenly became bigger, and then it broke a big twig of a branch. It stood up while still eating the fruit, then threw the sharp twig to Edgar.

Woosh! The big twig is flying to Edgar.

Edgar jumped and rotated in mid-air. A magic circle formed on the hilt of the sword.

A lightning blade flew toward the monkey.

The monkey is shocked. It quickly jumped on another branch of the tree. It was not able to hold the fruit as it was bigger than its left hand.

Crunch! The branch where the monkey was standing is cut.

The monkey looks anxious as it sees the falling golden fruit. It wants to jump toward the fruit, but Edgar's second lightning blade is faster.

Crunch! The whole fruit is destroyed.

Edgar looks at the destroyed fruit with a smile, then stares at the shocked face of the monkey.

"Monkey, show me your skill. I will make it up to you later after I duplicate it," thought Edgar.

The monkey's face looks blank. It has to risk its life just to get it. It was eating it slowly to enjoy it. It only had a few bites. Now it's gone.

Its eyes turned red, then its body became nearly one meter and a half tall. Its body turned into two, and then it fiercely stares at Edgar.

Edgar smiles when he saw the cloning skill. He tried life detection, but it cannot tell what is real and what is fake. The amount of energy is the same, but according to his research, the clone is a lot weaker. The skill probably has the ability to mask the real amount of energy in the clone.

DUPLICATE ACTIVATE

A clone of the monkey jumped and attacked Edgar in the air. Edgar jumped to the side. Lightning is flashing on his body.

Boom! The real body of the monkey is so quick. Its fist is already near Edgar.

"What?" Edgar is surprised. The difference in speed between its first and second attack is so great.

Bang! The fist hit the sword.

Edgar is pushed back. He rotated in mid-air and landed on a branch.

Bang! The monkey's fist hit the branch where Edgar just landed. Edgar jumped back and avoided the fist.

Woosh! The monkey's clone is behind his back, and its fist is moving on Edgar's back.

Edgar jumped with a backflip and avoided the fist. His feet landed on the shoulder of the monkey, which made the monkey more furious. It moves its left arm and wants to grab Edgar's feet.

Edgar jumped back.

Crakk! The monkey broke a twig from a branch, then jumped forward. It is swiftly jumping around trees.

Shoo! A twig suddenly flew from Edgar's blind spot.

Bang! Edgar's sword destroyed the twig.

"How does it know how to attack from a blind spot? Did it learn from battling with hyperbeings?" Asked Edgar in his mind.

Shoo! Shoo! Twigs keep attacking Edgar. Both the body and the clone are attacking him.

Crunch! A twig missed Edgar and stabbed a tree.

Edgar is destroying or dodging the twigs. He jumps from branch to branch or uses earth magic as a foothold to jump in the air.

The monkey stopped attacking. It recovered from rage. Its gigantic skill consumes too much mana. The creature it is fighting is not as weak as it thought. It deactivated its skill and started running away.

Edgar saw the monkey running away. He chased after it. He cannot use the dimensional lock because it requires space stones as a power source to activate. He consumed the remaining stone he bought when he activated it.

The monkey saw that the creature is chasing him. It looks anxious. It activates its clone skill, and moves in two separate ways. Edgar frowns, then notices the difference in their expressions. The other one looks more anxious. He smiles, then chases the more anxious monkey. The monkey increases its speed when it notices that it did not trick the creature. The clone turned into blue smoke and disappeared.

They keep jumping on trees and swinging on long, tall vines. Tier 2 beasts roared when they intruded on their territory. They are attacked by various skills.

The monkey created a clone and tried to trick Edgar again. It tried to hide its expression, but Edgar still noticed it.

Edgar followed the monkey, which he thinks is the real body. There is a huge lake not far in front of them. The anxious sound of the monkey suddenly echoes in the surroundings.

Brrgh! The earth suddenly moves. A huge cave rises from the ground.

There is suddenly a huge wave on the lake. A giant water tortoise is carried by a huge wave, and its eyes are red from anger.

An earth tortoise came out of the cave. There is a rare magical plant on its back being nurtured by it. It looks like a fruit was plucked from it recently. Both tortoises are looking in their direction with anger.

The water tortoise gathers water elements in its mouth. The earth tortoise is also gathering earth elements into its mouth.

The monkey looks at Edgar, who has an astonished face, then smirks.

"Fuck you monkey!"

The monkey turned into blue smoke and disappeared.

The water tortoise attacked with a rotating water pillar.

The earth tortoise attacked with an energy ball.

TNNNG! The rune skill is completely formed, but Edgar has no time to look at it.