Chapter 379: War of the clones
Because he created a perfect clone copy of himself, Atlan was able to create a clone that had all of his powers in its own Soul System.
The reason why he hadn't been doing this all this time was because he didn't think it was possible. However, when the White Beauty puppet died, he found that it wasn't possible to revive her by creating another puppet in her likeness.
So, he was forced to think about other sources of inspiration for his new puppet. However, he didn't have any other figure that he could come up with. After all, he needed to be intimately familiar with the subject he was trying to make into a puppet.
With no other choice left, Atlan was forced to draw from himself. After all, he knew himself the best, so he thought that it would be easy to create a clone of himself.
When he created the clone, he instinctively knew that this was what he should have been doing in the first place.
When he looked at the clone, it was as if he was looking at himself. He couldn't distinguish it from himself, meaning that it had the exact same properties and aura as him.
And since he could telepathically communicate with his puppets, he knew that the puppet had the same LifeSkills as him.
The idea of creating a never-ending loop of clones emerged from his mind when he realized that his clone puppet had the same Spinster LifeSkill that could create its own puppets. And since the clone was the same as him, it had the same idea as him at the same time.
Slowly, the air got filled with copies of Atlan and his puppets. One became two, two became four, and four became eight until there were about tens of thousands of clones in the air in a matter of minutes.
The Dragon couldn't believe what she was seeing. She thought that Canzers like her were the only ones who could clone themselves perfectly, but it seemed as if this human boy was the sole exception.
The more she fought Atlan, the more she realized that he was special. Not only was he able to communicate with her through some weird power, but he was also able to pull off moves that not even the strongest of humans could make.
The Dragon Queen Malificient looked down at Tulip, who was sitting safe and sound amid hundreds of clones.
She was sure. The human boy named Atlan was the chosen one in the prophecy. He was the one who could threaten her life.
This infuriated the Queen. Just when she thought that she had gotten rid of the pesky prophecy, it kept coming towards her any way she did.
She regretted taking her leisurely time killing Tulip.
If she had simply killed her and not tried to make Ninth and the humans submit to her, then she could have been done with this whole thing before Atlan arrived on this battlefield.
Without Atlan, the prophecy would have no chance of being fulfilled.
She cursed her own vanity. This was all her fault.
But it didn't matter now. Just because Atlan could clone himself infinitely didn't mean that he could kill a being like her. The difference in strength was simply far too wide for him to overcome.
The Dragon Queen Malificient roared to the skies, with her shout rumbling the entire Remedium.
The trees in the magical forest shook, shedding off the leaves from their branches as a massive horde of Dragon clones emerged from the horizon and rushed towards the battlefield.
This time, the Queen wasn't going to hold back her strength. She was going to demolish Atlan before he could even try to kill her.
'You're just a cheap imitation! Let me show you the true power of Canzers!'
The Dragon Queen Malificient roared, and the tens of thousands of dragon clones surrounding the battlefield roared with her, creating a sound that was only comparable to the breaking of the entire world in half.
To protect himself, Atlan commanded his puppets to command their own puppets to prepare for a large battle.
As the first horde of Dragon clones came rushing from all sides towards the humans, a fiery bluish-green sea of arrows fired off from the thousands of Huntsman clones. They all targeted their own dragon clones, making sure to target their wings, which was the only source of their flight.
The dragon clones, in retaliation, opened their mouths and created mini black holes that arbored death and destruction. Upon screaming at the top of their lungs, the dragon launched the black holes toward the humans.
As the thousands of Apocalyptic Hellfire arrows hit their target, a large explosion with great magnitude propagated through the air. A large green plume of smoke emerged from the point of contact, almost creating a mushroom cloud.
Immediately, tens of Dragons fell from the skies, with their wings burned or destroyed from the explosion.
However, most of the Dragons came out of the volley of arrows unscathed. They were ruthless in using their dragon clones as a defensive shield to defend against the arrows.
Meanwhile, the thousands of black sped through the air, continuously sucking up the air and atom particles, making itself bigger by the second. And as its mass increased, so did its force of attraction.
Atlan and his tens of thousands of clones and puppets felt their bodies slowly starting to get sucked towards the black holes.
To defend against this attack, Atlan made contact with the Prince puppet.
With a single snap of its fingers, the thousands of Prince puppets used their Protective bubble LifeSkill to protect themselves.
And as the golden bubbles intersected with each other, they popped and joined together.
As thousands of them joined into one, the whole protective bubble became a giant golden dome with enough defensive properties to even defend against an atomic bomb.
Case in point, the black holes collided with the golden luster of the dome, creating sparks of energy as plasma.
But no matter how much the black holes tried to swallow the energy of the golden dome, it could not do so as it pleased.
As the seconds passed, the black holes started to get smaller and smaller before dissipating into nothingness.