Chapter 83: The Mimic

Her familiar was the spirit of the Muramasa itself? Then the one who is speaking to me earlier was the familiar of Maple? It looks like it but I am not quite sure about it since there are many cases in the world about multiple personalities in one body, therefore, I decided to not pry much. Blue also returned to silence after she noticed that I did not ask her the same questions I usually ask her to.

Maple is once again out of consciousness. I sighed and decided to accept that this girl's ability is to pass out. On the other hand, I am thinking that I have not done too much on that battle since Muramasa did all the job by itself without relying on my support. I don't even think I am needed on that one. Also, my plan to use his weakness were all foiled which made me a little bit sad. I have not used a little bit of my muscle at all on the battle.

The cave was messy and the girls were all still sound asleep. Then I remembered that they can be revoked from the training as soon as possible if they used their own holoballs. I gathered their holoballs and revoked them from the training one by one and I doubt they will remember anything. From my guess, the spell on their heads were all revoked after the guy was killed.

After everything was done, I found the minced parts of the guy earlier which was due to Muramasa's ruthless punishment. I am able to handle a small amount of gore and this is just about the limit. If it surpassed that, I would have barfed. I don't want to see the disgusting meat, therefore, I decided to burn them to cinders.

Since I was not sure what to do next, I decided to use this chance to explore the former home of the dragon. I didn't use the memory of the dragon this time because the thrill of exploration will disappear if I use some sort of walkthrough.

The cave is huge and spacious. Unlike what I imagined as the lair of a dragon which should be messy with human bones and monster bones alongside the equipment of the humans, the lair was quite clean and I don't see it as a messy lair of a monster. More like it was a normal cave where a few people were living here for a while. I explore the cave and I found out that there is a hidden place where it is also spacious. I am not even that far from the pathway of the place but I already smell the different smells of metals and a few tinkers that seemed to be part of the same materials that most magicians bring with them.

When I checked the place, I saw the mountain of glittering gold and several items that I am quite sure as items with value. On the top of the gold and items, a lone gold chest sits on the mountain of gold making me curious. Just as I was about to approach it, my Weakness Perception skill activated allowing me to see what this chest really is.

[Shapeshifting Mimic]

Weakness: Flames, Blunt and Heavy weapons like Hammer

I have seen mimics in games and I know that they love to disguise themselves in the form of a chest sitting in a corner in dungeons. And if interacted, they will immediately pounce to the unsuspecting looter.

So the dragon is also raising one to guard the treasures huh? In that case, I will make sure that this Mimic will submit to me. I clap my hands and embers started to appear on my palms and it allows me to exhaust the flames out of my hands.

The mimic still continues to stay still like a real chest but I am not fooled. Burning a treasure or two are not much to me if there is a lot of treasure beneath you. I am not that greedy.

I aimed the flames in my hands to the chest and started to throw fireballs to the mimics direction. One thing for sure, it didn't continue to imitate the mimic and quickly jumped off its former location and started to escape before the flames hit.

As soon as it moved, I quickly jumped towards the mimic and grab it on its hinges. It tried to snap its mouth but I quickly ignited my palms with flames.

"Let me go human! You will regret your decision! My master will kill you as soon as he knows you are going to kill me!"

"And who said I will bother to kill you? Killing a mimic is not my style. I have more things to do with you though."

"My dragon master will not tolerate this barbaric act! Release me at once!"

The mimic acted mighty but it was shaking. I never expected this monster is a coward. What is more, this mimic can even talk like a human. Much easier to communicate and reason with if that is the case.

Also, based on the way the mimic talks, this guy has not yet found out the demise of his master. It didn't sound like he was bluffing me too so from what I can see, this mimic has not received the news yet.

"Looks like you still have no idea what is happening aren't you little fella?" I grinned and ignited the flames causing the mimic to panic.

"What the heck are you talking about?! Just let me go already!"

"No. And since I am refusing to let go, I will make sure you become submissive to me."

From the memories of the dragon, I found out that Mimics are able to store several thousands of treasures in their bodies making the mimics to be a favorite pet by dragons since they can act as a moving storage. What is more, they eat only rocks and a little bit amount of meat. And since this mimic has the ability to shapeshift to a chest, that doesn't mean this monster is limited to a small chest. It can transform on whatever form you want it to go.

"My master is formidable! He will smack your ass off if you refuse to release me!"

"Oh, you mean the dragon that bestowed me this mark?" I said as I show him the mark that is given to me by the dragon.

As soon as the mimic saw the mark, he stopped moving and he did not say anything. Looks like this is too much for the mimic to process at the moment.