Come On, Fight the Tarnished

"Um, Teacher, isn't the Eternal King's Mimic Tear supposed to be pretty strong too?"

Beside the Campfire in the Realm of Night, Leon and the others were forcing back their laughter as they comforted Gapar.

Gapar stared at the words [Eternal King's Mimic Tear] in the Hunter's Manual, his brow twitching uncontrollably.

He couldn't make sense of it.

He had assumed that the Eternal King was a member of the Mimic Tear race, so why had an Eternal King's Mimic Tear appeared now?

Was this some kind of nesting doll situation?

No, even before he had entered the temple, the stone tablets had already provided a hint. They said that the Tears that had gained the ability to think imitated the Eternal King's form.

That was also why he had encountered Mimic Tears along the way to the temple that had copied all sorts of famous heroes.

Other Mimic Tears could only transform into one target, but the one he had challenged just now could change freely, eventually taking on the Tarnished's form.

If that was the case...

That meant the true Eternal King could imitate everyone it had encountered during its campaign against the Elden Lord!

And the other Mimic Tears here had each copied one imitation target from it as their source.

Then the [Eternal King's Mimic Tear] was perhaps the most exceptional member of the race, so it had directly copied the Eternal King. That meant it possessed all of the Eternal King's abilities.

Right, that made much more sense!

No wonder that thing had been able to transform into the Tarnished at the end!

Then where had the real Eternal King gone?

"It couldn't have left with the Tarnished, could it..."

Gapar muttered in a voice only he could hear.

Only now did he realize that