The Actors and the Audience

"Damn it, we were almost at our destination. Why did another clone suddenly show up?" The instant Mania hit the ground, he cursed bitterly in his heart. Before he could roll away, a wave of hot, fishy liquid splashed over him. It was fresh, scalding horse blood. Mania had no time to care about anything else and shouted, "Protect Skywalker!" As he spoke, he sprang backward. At the same time, two pitch-black vortices appeared out of thin air behind him, and two figures wrapped head to toe in tattered black cloth crawled out of them. With a forceful sweep of Mania's hands, the two black-clad figures drifted ghostlike in front of him and shielded him behind them.

His ability was none other than the Dead Puppet Technique. As the name implied, it used secret methods to turn corpses into puppets and control them in battle. Yin Kuang did not know much about this ability, but he knew one thing: once a corpse was made into a puppet, it could perfectly inherit all the abilities it had possessed in life, becoming undying and indestructible! Judging from that alone, Mania was a formidable enemy. Who knew how many dead puppets he had made?

The others reacted slightly slower, but fortunately, only one monkey-hair clone had appeared. After a brief moment of chaos, the forty guards swiftly formed a circular formation, protecting Jason and Da Si in the middle. Yin Kuang and Golden Swallow, however, did not receive such treatment and were instead squeezed far away.

After swinging his staff, the monkey-hair clone did not attack again. Instead, it grinned "Heh heh" as it looked at the group, pointing here and there as if it did not take any of them seriously. Then it pointed at Mania and crooked one furry finger at