When the monstrous, black feline creature dashed to Alan’s position with opened fangs, Amelia’s summon tackled it and bit its neck. After throwing swipes, the doppelganger released a black dense mist from its maw, which the original countered with a fire breath.

Did that thing try to eat me?

From the burning house, a pillar of fire rose to the sky, making Alan cover his gaze. He glanced at the Fire Amelia a few feet away, who had her eyes locked on the monsters.

That must be some kind of magic clone, while the real Amelia is giving everything she has against a second opponent. He gritted his teeth. And you had the time to send me some help? You worry so much about me.

He looked back at Ashley, who had swapped her bow for a knife. With quick calculated movements, she stabbed the enemy in the stomach, chest, and neck, but Serenity’s body reformed like made of black sand.

“Alan Warden,” Serenity called from afar, ignoring Ashley’s physical attacks. “You may think you have gotten information out of me, but it also applies the other way around.” Serenity giggled, strolling towards him, as Ashley tried to hold her by the neck in vain. “Now I have corroborated what you know. That makes my job easier.”

Think, Alan, think! She and whoever Administrator is behind this, gain nothing from killing me in a world of immortals… Her objective is to kidnap me so they can guarantee my silence and prevent my interference.

He glanced at Ashley, who had stopped her attacks, and was instead glancing at the beast doppelganger in silence. Both creatures had crashed against a house, from which a User ran away.

Something worse than what happened to me in the Shooting Stars headquarters awaits me...

He looked down, where a pitch-black shadow slowly crawled towards him.

She tried to sink me with that thing before, and the fake cat tried to swallow me, so this black mass must be her ‘method of transportation’. With that in mind, I won’t let her get me that easily.

“Anastasia,” he called.

“Yes, Master.”

“Distract Serenity.”

“Understood.”

With that said, Anastasia dashed and bashed Serenity with her shield, getting the same results as Ashley.

While Alan ran towards Amelia’s clone, he locked eyes with Serenity who only smirked at him. Why is she not retaliating as before?

“Amelia II!” he called.

Although the clone was made of fire, Amelia’s features were clearly distinguishable. She was floating, and her hair made of flames hovered behind the back of her neck.

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“Alan Warden,” she greeted in a monotone voice. “You have cute eyes.”

“You can talk, neat! And… Um, thanks for the compliment…” I don’t think the real Amelia would ever say something like that. He cleared his throat. “Where is--?” a sound interrupted him. Something had crashed against the neighbor’s house in the distance.

Was that the enemy or Amelia? Crap, I don’t think I could survive something like that!

“Alan,” Ashley rushed to his side and pointed towards the enemy. “I have figured out how her magic works. Although I can not touch her, Amelia’s giant tiger is hurting its counterpart. Do you remember those spikes she threw at us? They must be made of the same substance as that monster. That means she can only attack at once.”

“Or there is a limit on how much ‘shadow’ she can use, and the doppelganger is currently using it all,” he whispered while processing the information. “What can you do, Amelia II?”

“My priority is to protect you, Alan Warden. To accomplish it, I have access to 50% of my Master’s mana pool and every single magic spell she knows. I had already used 10% and my Auto Combat configuration is set to Reactive.”

Alan opened his mouth, and a piercing sound made him flinch. He glanced at the monsters and observed that the shadow one had sprouted spikes from all over its body. Although Amelia’s Summon was getting impaled, it released an incandescent breath of fire to break free.

“You’re controlling the Summon, right?” Alan asked.

“Yes.”

“Can you set it to auto and change its parameters to fully aggressive?”

“Request Accepted.”

The fire tiger roared and its body glowed, melting everything in a 150 feet radius.

“What is it doing?!”

“He’s self-destructing, and the heat will gradually expand to an approximate 300 feet radius. You can not stay here.”

“Anastasia! Get the hell out of there!” Alan called through Party Chat and the NPC quickly turned around, but Serenity caught her ankle with a shadow tentacle sprouting from the ground.

“Do not fear death, sister, for we are immortal after all,” Serenity said, giggling.

Dammit!

“Amelia II, do you know any buff?”

“Request Accepted… Fire...”

“Wait! For all of us, Anastasia, Ashley and me!”

“Changing spells... Major Fire Charm, Rally & Destroy.”

Alan felt it immediately, like liquid fire running through his veins.

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