This isn't a souls-like game at all.

But in that case, he would have to cross thousands of miles of uninhabited forests and mountains and delve into danger and difficulties.

In other words, Garden Village is located on the main transportation route from the Principality of Ritter to the Kingdom of Firefly.

Therefore, it is not surprising that a village can be so large.

Ye Yiyi put away the telescope, took a picture from a high vantage point using the light curtain, recorded it into the map light curtain, and then made a plan in his mind.

"Go into the village first, find the church of the Hunting God Church, and inquire about the situation here."

When Gavin went to seek help from the church, he went to Garden Village.

Going down the mountain road and passing a dirt road in the mountains, Ye Yiyi finally arrived at the outskirts of Huayuan Village.

This is a barren grassland located on the edge of the forest in the southwest.

"This place is obviously close to the forest, why is it so desolate?"

He was a little confused, so he looked towards the town in the northeast, and then he found something wrong.

He hadn't noticed it when he was on the mountain just now, but now that he was in the basin, he discovered that there was a long wooden wall nearly 3 meters high outside the farmland.

The wall faced the wasteland where he was and the forest behind it, like some kind of defensive measure built to protect against wild beasts.

"Besides, this is where the Lord of Holy Blood and the Archbishop met. Why don't I see any flower fields?"

He lowered his head and looked around at the land, but was slightly stunned.

"Is that a wooden arrow?"

Wooden arrows of varying lengths were scattered across the surrounding barren grassland.

These wooden arrows seemed to be quite old, and their surface almost blended into the grass.

"So, that wooden wall is really some kind of defense against wild animals?"

He seemed to sense something and looked up at the sky.

The dark blue crystal phosphorus powder fell from the sky, like a meteor slowly crossing the starry sky.

At some point, a deep blue butterfly with a wingspan of over eight meters, as bright as the starry sky, suddenly appeared in the sky.

"Star-pointed butterfly?" Ling Meng (Yao Cage Umbrella Man Shower Device Private Baking

He was stunned for a moment, then his eyes narrowed and he clamped his legs together.

After receiving the order, Virgil kicked off and galloped forward.

The next moment, several slender dark blue light spikes fell from the sky and sank deeply into the grass where Virgil had just been.

"What the hell?!"

He widened his eyes in disbelief.

"When did the Star-Dot Butterfly learn magic?"

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

At this moment, there was a sound of breaking air in the air. Ye Yiyi looked up and found that a sky full of feather arrows were flying through the sky and heading towards the location of the big butterfly.

But the big butterfly flapped its four dazzling wings, continuously pouring out deep blue mist like a nebula.

After the crossbow arrow flew into the nebula at an extremely high speed, it was like sinking into water, and its speed dropped drastically until it completely stopped.

"They are soldiers from Garden Village."

He suddenly looked towards the high wall in the distance. At this moment, the wall was full of soldiers wearing yellow cotton armor and metal helmets.

Most of them were armed with longbows, and only a few used crossbows.

Seeing the dark blue mist emerging around the giant butterfly, the soldiers stopped drawing their bows.

At this time, a man wearing metal plate armor leaned out from the wooden wall and shouted in the direction of Ye Yiyi.

“Run faster!!”

At the same time, the wooden wall on the side suddenly opened inward, revealing a door.

Ye Yiyi looked back at the star-speckled butterfly, temporarily suppressed the urge to attack, then tightened the reins and drove Virgil towards the wooden door.

"hold head high!!!"

A sharp soprano voice came from the sky behind him.

Ye Yiyi looked back and saw the star-dot butterfly gently flapping its wings. Its figure slowly faded in the shimmering blue mist and then disappeared.

Then a large number of wooden arrows fell to the ground from the sky.

“Is this really a star-speckled butterfly?”

He averted his gaze and urged Virgil to rush through the wooden door.

"You damned mercenary! Don't you know that it's a forbidden area out there?!"

As soon as he stopped his horse, the knight he had seen earlier came trotting over angrily with two soldiers.

The knight looked to be about thirty years old, with black hair, blue eyes, a high nose bridge, and a powerful body. He was wearing black armor and a sleeveless robe with a firebird painted on it.

"Capture his horse!"

At the knight's command, the soldiers behind him stepped forward with their guns drawn and reached out to grab Virgil's reins.

"咴咴!!"

But after what happened last night, Virgil was now wary and distrustful of strangers.

Seeing the soldiers reaching out to grab it, it immediately neighed and raised its front hooves high, scaring the two soldiers so much that they retreated repeatedly.

"What?"

The knight glared and drew his sword from his waist.

"Are you planning a rebellion?"

"Please calm down, sir. My horse has a bad temper and can't stand being provoked."

Ye Yiyi dismounted and pulled the horse's head to force its raised upper body down.

At the same time, the dung beetle on his shoulder flew up and landed on Virgil.

"Good skill!"

When the knight saw this, his eyes lit up and he burst into cheers.

After calming Virgil down, Ye Yiyi performed the mercenary etiquette to the knight and spoke.

"Thank you for your help earlier. I'm new here and accidentally got lost and entered a restricted area. Please forgive me."

Seeing that Ye Yiyi was sincere and had extraordinary skills, Virgil looked majestic and powerful, and was accompanied by a big red beetle that no one had ever seen before.

More importantly, there was a gleaming silver sword-shaped badge hanging on the belt around his waist.

The knight thought for a moment, then put his sword back into his waist and shouted back the soldiers who surrounded him. His tone was no longer as harsh as before.

"This is the first time I've seen a lost mercenary." The knight said, his tone unclear whether it was teasing or sarcastic.

"Traveling all night and accidentally losing the map along the way, even an old horse wouldn't know the way, so it's bound to stumble."

With the help of the degraded inscription, Ye Yi lied every time he opened his mouth.

He positioned himself as a skilled and courageous senior mercenary, as well as an assistant hunter of the Church of the Hunting God, so his words naturally leaned towards this identity.

"Traveling all night?" The knight was slightly surprised when he heard this.

"From Pioneer Town to here?"

"Yes, with the Azure Eternal Moon leading the way, it's not that difficult to walk."

"...Your Excellency possesses extraordinary abilities. May I know your name?"

There was a little more respect and less contempt in the knight's eyes, and even the address was changed from "mercenary" to "Sir".

"Your Excellency is too kind. I am Gus, a freelance mercenary."

I'm afraid it's more than that...

The knight glanced silently at the badge on his waist, then nodded and pointed to a wooden house guarded by soldiers under the wooden wall.

"I'm Dylan, a Knight of the Fire Crown from the Fire Sparrow Flower Kingdom... Please follow me and pay the money."

"Money?" Ye Yiyi raised his eyebrows.

What do you mean? I haven't even entered the village yet, and you're charging me a toll?

"I shot so many arrows to save you just now. Now that big moth is here, the arrows can't be retrieved. Who will pay for this?" Dylan said unhappily.

Ye Yiyi's expression froze when she heard that.

This is true.

Even if he didn't need their help, the arrow was indeed shot and did catch the star-pointed butterfly. According to the result-oriented theory, the knight helped but couldn't retrieve the arrow. It is reasonable for Ye Yiyi to pay for it.

Rather, what surprised Ye Yiyi was that they were willing to waste precious arrows to save an unrelated person who was seeking his own death.

"Knight of the Fire Crown..."

He held Virgil's hand and looked at Dylan's back, thinking about something.

When they arrived at the wooden door, Ye Yiyi patted the horse's face and threw the reins to the dung beetle on its back.

The surrounding soldiers looked over curiously, wondering if it was the first time they saw such a majestic horse, or the first time they saw such an obedient dung beetle.

"Alva, let's settle the bill." Dylan walked into the cabin and said.

"Settlement of debt? Are you sure this lowly mercenary can afford the money?"

A man named Alva, who was wearing the same style of armor as Dylan, had blond hair and black eyes, was short, and had a long scar on his face, answered impatiently.

"We don't have many arrows to begin with. In my opinion, there's no need to waste them on mercenaries. These treacherous bastards don't care about anything except money. If you save them, they'll just ignore you and maybe even stab you in the back!"

"Alva!" Dylan frowned. "Don't bring your personal emotions into work!"

It seems that this Alva is not very friendly to the mercenary profession.

Ye Yi had no expression on his face, he just looked up at the person who came.

Alva walked over with a gloomy and vigilant look between his brows. He looked Ye Yi up and down. When he saw the long hilt of the flame-shaped two-handed giant sword behind his shoulder, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.

Then he looked past him and saw Virgil outside the door, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Oh! Nice horses! If he has no money, then he can use the horses to pay for it!"

It seems that not all Fire Crown Knights are like Dylan.

Ye Yiyi was thinking in his heart, and suddenly raised his hand, with a green banknote appearing between his fingers.

"Do you accept Imperial banknotes?"

"???"

Alva looked over and his eyes froze instantly.

Chapter 144 The Old Residence of the Holy Blood Archbishop

"Imperial banknotes?"

Alva stared at the green banknotes between Ye Yiyi's fingers, his brows furrowed.

"You're a mercenary? Where did you get the Imperial currency?"

He reached out to grab the banknotes, but Ye Yiyi waved them away.

"Who says mercenaries can't have big money?" he said calmly.

With a flick of his fingers, his palm almost turned into a shadow, and the green banknote turned into an arrow, brushing against Alva's face and flying backwards.

The knight's pupils shrank suddenly, and he turned his head to look, only to see the banknote in Dylan's hand.

He turned around and looked at Ye Yiyi, his gloomy face still had a hint of solemnity.

"I underestimated you...mercenary."

Ye Yiyi ignored him and looked at Dylan who was stroking and looking at the banknotes in his hand.

"Is this money enough?"

"It's more than enough..."