"Not that—people! Turn into something like him!"
Linden used one of Puji's tentacles to point at Dylan's bewildered face.
And in front of Dylan stood a large Puji with thick black scales, two arms, and a mycelium tail dragging behind it!
The wings on its back seemed to have been stuffed into its chubby body—this Puji looked a whole size fatter than Little Black's original form.
What the hell!
Why had she mimicked a Puji?
What had I spent all that magic for?
No, wait—if he called it camouflage, it did seem like it might work a little.
At least the adventurers wouldn't know there was a Dragonkin on the fifth floor, only that there was one especially conspicuous, oversized pure-black Puji! (Compared to the other Pujis, anyway.)
But in the end, why was she black?
She should have been able to change color!
Did this girl even know how to use it?
Wouldn't they really mistake her for an elite monster and draw adventurers over to fight her?
Wouldn't that make conflict even more likely?
Linden still wanted to make another attempt.
A Mycelium Tentacle stretched over to Dylan, the template tool-man, and pulled his cheek longer.
"Little Black, take another good look. Mimic this!"
LV4 Mimicry was no longer at the level of simply changing color or smoothing out wrinkles.
Instead, it could alter the user's actual body shape to a certain extent while ensuring their attributes remained unchanged.
Just like Little Black now, having turned into a special tailed Puji.
So changing back was also extremely taxing.
"Mm—"
Watching as Little Black flailed around with a whole lot of random effort, not only failing to turn herself into human form but instead becoming a lump of coal that looked like nothing in particular!?
At that moment, a