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

The transition from stillness to movement seemed to happen in just a moment. The water surface rolled violently and the earth shook, as if an earthquake had occurred.

"What on earth is going on?" Alice was a little scared. "Is this an earthquake?"

"It's not an earthquake. It seems we have entered the territory of a certain being..."

He watched the simplified light curtain flying towards him, leaving a long blood bar in front of him.

A dull hymn suddenly sounded in the void.

Bubbles suddenly appeared on the water surface under his feet. Seeing this, Ye Yiyi no longer hesitated, bent his knees slightly, and then leaped forward heavily.

Amid Alice's panicked screams, he leaped forward several dozen meters, engulfed in a gust of wind.

With a shrill scream, the monster emerged from the depths of the swamp, splashing huge amounts of water.

It was a huge monster that was more than ten meters long, with a metallic body and a thin layer of black mist covering its surface.

"what is that?!"

As Alice screamed, the health bar in front of Ye Yiyi filled up rapidly, and eight big words appeared on it.

[Stagnant Evil: Devouring Earth Dragon]

Chapter 183: This one is just right for you

"Earth-devouring dragon? Shouldn't it be a stone-gold earth dragon?"

Ye Yiyi turned her head and looked back. After seeing the black mist wrapped around it, her heart tightened slightly.

"As I expected, this earth dragon has been corrupted by the stagnant evil spirit."

Although they are all stagnation curses, there are differences between curses.

Like a stagnant evil spirit, it can destroy the organic components of intelligent life forms.

But this statement is quite general. To be precise, it is the organic component of intelligent carbon-based life forms.

Therefore, cursed creatures of this type are generally not carbon-based creatures.

More like robots, skilled servants, puppets and silicon-based creatures

But this does not include the Stone Gold Earth Dragon.

Although the big earthworm is covered with a thick metal shell, its main body underneath the metal shell is still a carbon-based structure.

In other words, the Stone-Gold Earth Dragon cannot become a cursed creature that brings stagnant evil.

Of course, the name of this thing is not Stone Gold Earth Dragon, but Devouring Earth Dragon.

As for the differences between them, we will have to wait for Ye Yiyi to reveal it personally.

He fell to the ground, his feet stomping heavily into the swamp soil.

"ah!!"

Alice on his back screamed, then asked worriedly.

"Yiyi, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, just hold on tight. I need to find a safe place to put you down first."

As soon as she finished speaking, Alice hugged his neck tightly and put her head on his shoulder.

Ye Yiyi nodded, adjusted his posture, and leaped forward again.

The Devouring Earth Dragon raised its cylindrical body, which was more than ten meters high, and moved its head, which was covered with crystal gems and was emitting a faint light.

As if it sensed the breath of life, it plunged into the swamp, its long body forming an arch, constantly bringing out fresh silt and muddy water.

Finally, it disappeared into the swamp, and a hemispherical, fast-moving mud bag rose from the ground, causing another tremor.

Even Ye Yiyi, who had run a long way away, felt the strong shaking from the swamp ground.

"Such a huge commotion, like an earthquake, it's like a dragon turning over in the earth!"

He couldn't help but be amazed, and casually called up the map screen, jumping and rushing towards the northwest.

The swamp is the opponent's home ground, and fighting with them here is a bad idea, not to mention that he is carrying someone on his back.

Who knows what will happen if Alice learns of the curse?

Ye Yiyi didn't want to gamble, even if she would know sooner or later.

The girl behind him hugged him tightly, and her pounding heartbeat could be heard through his jacket and metal armor.

No matter how nervous and scared she was, she didn't say a word, for fear of disturbing his progress.

Ye Yiyi casually took out a crab egg and put it in his mouth to increase the speed of energy recovery.

Behind him, the Devouring Earth Dragon would occasionally leap out of the swamp, bringing up tons of turbid mud. Every time its extremely long body entered the water, a thin black gas would spread out in all directions and float above the swamp.

Finally, before his energy was completely exhausted, he found a place to stay in the middle of the swamp.

It was a conspicuous "island" with a wooden house that had turned into ruins standing on it.

Several large crabs are currently foraging for food near the cabin.

That was undoubtedly the former stronghold of the Fire Crown Knights, but it is now abandoned.

“That’s the only place I can choose.”

Glancing at the thin energy bar, Ye Yi took a deep breath and made the decision to stop there.

Once his energy bar was exhausted, he could no longer run.

Not far behind him, the Devouring Earth Dragon leaped out of the swamp water again, let out a shrill roar, and plunged into the ground.

It was getting closer.

Ye Yiyi made one last leap with all his strength and finally reached the island before his energy bar was completely exhausted.

The ground was shaking violently. The big crabs, sensing something was wrong, fled the island one after another. They then dug holes and buried their bodies underground.

"Hurry... huh... find a... huh... place to hide."

He put Alice down and spoke breathlessly.

The girl said nothing and took out a black dagger.

The dagger flashed, and two rays of light flew out and landed on Ye Yiyi.

"you……"

He looked down at the energy bar that was recovering at an extremely fast rate, and the transparent light shield that appeared around his body, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier that you knew this trick?"

"That's not a normal creature."

Alice didn't answer him, but turned her head to look at the mud pile that suddenly changed direction and rushed towards the side of the island.

There was a brief silence over the swamp.

They both remained silent and looked towards the place where the mud bag disappeared.

"boom!"

The next moment, a column of water exploded in the swamp, and the Earth Devouring Dragon rose out of the ground with a shrill howl, its body of gold and stone soaring into the sky.

"That is……"

Alice looked up and her eyes widened.

At the top of the Earth Devouring Dragon's head, a large crab was supported by a gemstone head that emitted colorful light.

Fire, lightning, holy light, white light, and lights of various colors flashed together.

The big crab suddenly exploded in the light, and the splashing body fluids and organs were eroded by the black mist, turning into white ash and floating away in the air.

"That power... decay, death, it can actually completely corrode life, even constrain the soul?" Alice stared blankly, muttering, "My Lord, why is that power so similar to your own death?"

“…” Ye Yiyi frowned slightly.

The stagnant evil is very similar to the death of the Lord of Life and Death?

"Whatever that force is, you should back off."

He placed the Danghai throne on the ground, and then took out the Silver Moon Staff.

"This Earth Devouring Dragon must die," he whispered, "whether you agree or not."

"That's not life at all!"

Alice's face turned pale, and she hurriedly turned back to look at Ye Yiyi:

"My spiritual blessing tells me that it is just a metal shell controlled by an unknown force!"

"What do you mean?" Ye Yiyi was stunned.

Metal shell? Isn't it the Earth Devouring Dragon?

"There's no living thing inside it. It...it's devoured countless lives, imprisoning countless souls within that metal body... Then, it's a metal puppet created to devour lives!"

"...So the "devour" in "devouring earth dragon" is a verb?" He thought thoughtfully.

"But that's not important. What's important is getting rid of it."

Ye Yiyi held the Silver Moon Staff with a Gemstone in one hand and the Faceless Magician's Staff in the other.

Combat Skill: Chanting the Eternal Moon!

Combat Skill: Amplification Chant!

Two levels of combat skill amplification, the former amplifies star magic, the latter amplifies all types of magic.

"boom!!"

There was another loud bang, and the Devouring Earth Dragon rushed into the sky again from underground, killing and corroding the other two big crabs.

"Alice! Go find a place to hide."

He raised the Silver Moon Staff with a golden flower and launched a hail of magical power!

A little starlight shot into the sky, and then turned into a brilliant nebula, from which rain of stars fell.

"so beautiful!"

Alice looked up at the sky in surprise, then reacted, turned around and looked at Ye Yiyi deeply, then ran towards the ruins of the wooden house.

"It's hard to explain later..."

Ye Yiyi shook his head helplessly, controlling the hail of stars to fall from the sky, landing directly on the metal body of the Devouring Earth Dragon.

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

The sound of dense metal collisions was heard, and a large number of sparks were scraped off the surface of the earth dragon.

He glanced down at the health bar, only to find that the drop was extremely small, almost motionless.

"No, non-strike attributes can't break defense. Although Star Hail is a physical attack, it basically relies on the piercing attribute to deal damage..."

Ye Yiyi's eyes were deep.

"As for attribute attacks, they're useless against the Stagnant Bane. The Hellfire Dragon has already taught me a lesson with its mindless creations. I must use physical attacks first to dispel the curse."

He put away his staff and the Danghai Seat, then took out the bloody axe and the coiled ram-horn hammer from behind him.

Combat skills: passionate battle cry!

"what!"

He roared with all his might, and the sound waves turned into spherical shock waves that spread in all directions.

The Devouring Earth Dragon twisted its slender body and looked over, and its head covered with gems suddenly began to glow.

"Wow!"

A red light flashed, and a huge fire sparrow suddenly appeared. The fire sparrow flapped its flaming wings, let out a sharp cry, and swooped down.

"It actually has the Firefinch's Fire Hymn?!"

Ye Yiyi picked up the sledgehammer, took a heavy step, and rushed out of the swamp on the side.

"Wow!"

The Fire Sparrow followed closely behind, screaming again, and flames shot out from behind it, and it suddenly accelerated and attacked.