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What they found wasn't Khepri's ornament, it was a bit farther behind the entity, inside a golden cube, which seemed to have several holes, as if the creature they encountered had tried to reach it, but it was unable to.
However, what they found, this being, was already beyond just the aliens, the Doppelgangers they had battled. Aquarina's eyes widened in surprise, because the Orichalcum Golem she was expecting to fight was right there.
Its circuits and metals have now merged with a Doppelganger- no, several of them. these Doppelgangers took the shapes of monsters from the desert, and some were even humanoid. It seemed they were unable to hunt down the one they copied their DNA.
But at some point, something terribly wrong happened, and they assimilated the Orichalcum Golem, something that nobody thought even possible or ever considered at all!
"W-What the hell am I seeing?!" asked Silvia. "Is that the Orichalcum Golem?!"
"GRUOOOHHH!"
