"What is this place?" Coco asked curiously, looking at the huge, technopunk-style metal room that seemed familiar. The style of this place is very similar to that of Ingneil's Laboratory, and at first glance it is clear that it was made by the same person.

"This is the center of the Trials Space, or as the bard put it, what you call enemy headquarters. Tenel said with a smile. She sat on the podium in this control room.

"What?" Coco jumped in surprise as he heard this, "Is it possible that you control everything here?"

"You can only make real progress through actual combat, at least that's where you succeeded?" Turnelle's answer undoubtedly acquiesced to Koko's guess.

"But why did you do this? Do you know how many innocent fish-men have lost their precious lives in your so-called actual combat?" Coco couldn't help but exclaim. He had never met his own people since he was born, and it was only after entering the trial space and seeing the army of fishmen waiting for him that he realized that he was never alone.

The feeling of fighting alongside his own people was a thrill that Koco had never experienced. It was in the process of the real game that Koko truly realized the value of his own existence and the significance of his efforts to improve his strength.

Before, whether it was Alfie's guidance or Tenel's teaching, Koko had always simply thought that improving his strength was just to make him happy and proud to care about him. Seeing his compatriots die in front of him in a brutal battle, Koko hated why he didn't have the strength to protect his people and protect them from the battle.

It was this state of mind of "I want to be stronger" that made Koco suddenly advance in the middle of the river, when the mechanical crocodile fired the water dragon cannon. At that time, Koko knew that if he couldn't stop those water dragon cannons, tens of thousands of people behind him would all die in the river, and in this desperate situation, Koko finally broke through that barrier.

"It's just some lowly fish-people, dignified and colorful...... Fish-people, how can they be compared to those things. Tenael's voice grew lower and lower in reply, and she noticed that Koco's face turned ugly when she heard her disdainful words.

"Aunt Tenell, please don't use the word "lowly" to describe my people in the future, for I am also a fish-man. Coco told him with all seriousness that Alfie had never seen Koko so serious.

"Hehe~You don't understand~" After Tenelle lowered her head and muttered, she raised her head and said to Koko, "Haven't you found it yet?"

"Found what?" Koko looked at Tenail, who smiled meaningfully.

'Illusions!' Alfie reminded aloud telepathically when she saw Tenelle's smug smile.

"Illusion?" Coco was stunned for a moment, and casually told Alfie's guess.

"Sure enough, it's different after advancing to the Sanctuary!" Tenelle said approvingly, "That's right, those fish-man armies are just illusions. ”

"How is this possible? their existence is so real, and the energy fluctuations on their bodies are definitely not explained by a word of illusion!" Coco exclaimed in disbelief, unable to believe that the robes that had fought side by side and died could be an ethereal illusion.

With a "pop", a ball of energy suddenly appeared in front of Koko, this energy kept changing around him, and gradually the prototype of a fishman appeared, and after a flash of purple light, a fishman miscellaneous soldier appeared beside him. The fish-man saluted Coco in a comical gesture: "Hello sir!"

"Is this really an illusion?" asked Koco bitterly, a great sense of loss called loneliness struck him. He could sense that the fish-man soldier in front of him was actually just a mass of energy, and then Tenelle used illusion to put on a fish-man coat.

Obviously, Tenaier didn't want to engage in a pointless verbal battle with Koco, and directly conjured up a fish-man miscellaneous soldier to speak with facts. If it weren't for Tenaire directly demonstrating the process of the fish-man transformation in front of Koko, and letting the fish-man appear in front of him after the transformation was completed, even if Koke had advanced to the Sanctuary, he would not be able to tell that it was an illusion. This can only prove that Tenel's illusion level has indeed reached the realm of supernatural powers.

'So I was happy in vain, and these people were just illusions conjured up by Aunt Tenail in order to make me break through?' Coco thought to himself.

'Koko, believe me, your people must be living in some corner of this continent, and as long as you have enough strength to protect them, they will definitely appear in front of you!' Alfie quickly comforted Koko when he sensed the unstable situation caused by his depressed mood.

"Alfie, you're not lying to me, are you?" said Koco's tone with some disbelief, he had seen too many of Alfie's wonderful performances of cheating the dead.

Although the fish-people are rare on the mainland, they are far from extinct. If you go outside to inquire, there will often be news of fish-man infestation, but the strength of the fish-man is too low, and the fish-man language is coveted by other races, so the fish-people will hide and not often appear in front of the world. Alfie said solemnly, "Believe me, when the fishmen know that you have been born and a sanctuary that is enough to protect their safety, they will spontaneously appear in front of you and accept your protection." ’

'I hope you're right!' Koco secretly determined that he must continue to grow until he can become a towering tree that can shelter the Fish-People from the wind and rain, and justify the name of the Fish-People.

"Now you believe it, right??The so-called Fishman army is just an illusion created by me with a little bit of energy and illusion, otherwise that guy wouldn't be unpredictable, how could he arrange an army of Fishman for you specifically for your race?" Tenelle said with a smile, but she didn't know that her words revealed too much information.

It's not that Tenelle gets carried away, it's that she knows Koco and that the simple Koko isn't the kind of witty character. It's a pity that she didn't know that Alfie was using shared vision at this time, otherwise she would not have been so careless. Although Alfie was a little suspicious of his life by Kenobi's successive blows, in Tenel's eyes, he still maintained the image of a wise man who was cunning and cunning like a fox.

"It's no wonder that when I entered the metal labyrinth, I could sense the presence of the fish-man army, but I couldn't see them. After losing the appearance of the fish-man, the pure energy is not easy to detect in such a dim light, and even if it is discovered, it will not be thought that it is my lost fish-man army. Coco recounted Alfie's speculation with gusto, and although Alfie encouraged him to stop being so depressed, he was still a little unmotivated.

"I'm so happy to see you grow!" Tenaire gave Koko a thumbs up, although she wondered when Koko had become so alert, she also saw that Koko had been hit a bit hard just now, so she wanted to take this opportunity to give him a little encouragement.