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

It was made by Alice herself using the Lacquer Shadow Hollow.

The spatial distance from there to the underground cemetery is not far, but the time span is ten thousand years.

"a thousand years……"

He murmured the distant and unreal number softly.

"I don't understand, Alice, why would you go to such lengths for a promise?"

He stretched out his hands and pushed open the wooden door that had been covered in dust for many years.

"squeak~"

Dust settled and the door opened.

The hazy white mist flowed out from behind the door along the ground. Ye Yiyi adjusted the brightness of the waist lamp to the maximum, looked up, and his expression froze slightly.

Behind the door was a flat stone corridor, littered with skeletons in rotten armor.

He bent down in front of a skeleton and fumbled to pick up a rusty metal emblem.

The coat of arms features a bright red firefly, the emblem of the Knight of the Fire Crown.

"The Knight of the Fire Crown has indeed been here." He put down the emblem and looked around.

There are inward-facing display racks on both sides of the corridor. They were originally supposed to be places for gray-white stone sculptures, but now they are used by the knights as shelves for storing miscellaneous items.

"Did the knights come here just to move the stone sculptures?"

He checked the other skeletons, but found that they had no weapons or shields.

And their death postures and movements are somewhat strange.

He was kneeling on the ground with his back to the door and facing the corridor.

The bones filled both sides of the tunnel, leaving only a passable path in the middle.

"How did they die? Suicide?"

Ye Yiyi was a little confused. This scene made people feel like some kind of pilgrimage or cult scene.

Even death is so ritualistic, no one would believe it is just performance art.

Ye Yiyi walked through the tunnel filled with bones and came to the corner.

Turning my head, I saw a little light here.

The white lamp hanging at the top of the corridor emits a faint light, illuminating the deep corridor.

At the end of the corridor, Ye Yiyi saw a row of half-human-high stone fences.

A dim, pale white cold light can be seen behind the fence.

Crossing the knight skeletons on both sides of the road, I reached the end, and the view in front of me suddenly opened up, as if I had stepped into a huge underground cave.

Ye Yiyi looked down at the railing and was surprised.

"This is……"

On the vast empty surface, countless gray tombstones stand densely yet neatly in order.

There are so many tombstones here that Ye Yiyi feels a little dazzled.

"so much……"

He swallowed, shocked.

The cave is so wide that you can't see the end of it, and there are countless tombstones here.

Even a rough estimate shows that there are more than ten thousand tombstones.

Among these countless tombstones, there are illusory figures wearing the armor of the Fire Crown Knight, patrolling back and forth with weapons in hand.

"This is a little different from the underground cemetery I understand."

After the shock, Ye Yiyi fell into deep thought.

So-called underground cemetery, shouldn't it be a place with gargoyles patrolling, dump trucks and skeleton monsters wandering back and forth?

"The... crypt of the original heroes."

He murmured the name of the cemetery softly, looked around thoughtfully, and found a staircase leading down to the side.

Walking down the stairs to the empty ground, Ye Yiyi looked back and forth at the tombstones lined up in front of him, and stopped in front of one of them.

He looked down at the stone tombstone engraved with strange symbols, bent down, and reached out to feel the mottled traces of time on it.

"Whose tombstones are these?"

As soon as this question popped up in his mind, a light curtain appeared on the tombstone and translated the symbolic text on it.

[Warrior Dor, sentinel of the Xiheim Legion. In the eighth year of the war, he heroically died defending the outskirts of Lorenbo.]

"Dole..."

Ye Yiyi recited the name softly, then came to the tombstone beside her and touched it with her hand.

[Warrior Kansilo, infantryman of the Leftgard Legion. In the twelfth year of the war, he heroically died defending the Tianxian Mountain Highlands.]

[Warrior Jed, explorer of Xiheim. In the first year of the war, he died heroically in the Battle of Ten Thousand Dragons.]

[Warrior Manstein, a medic at the Glowing City of Dusgard. In the fourth year of the war, he heroically died defending the Rainbow Saliva Jade Tree.]

[Warrior Olmsted, a knight of the Kingchoir under the command of King Junheim. In the tenth year of the war, he died heroically in the Battle of Kings.]

After looking at the light screens of dozens of tombstones in a row, Ye Yiyi felt confused.

"Are these all the tombstones of those who died in the war?"

Through the light curtain, he could see the extremely brief life story of the deceased on the tombstone.

Their names, identities, and when and where they died.

Without exception, these are all tombstones of warriors who died in the war.

"And so much, that's all..."

He looked up at the endless group of tombstones.

"Each of these tombstones represents a warrior...or hero, in other words, someone who fought against the stagnation curse and ultimately sacrificed their lives in the great war."

Ye Yiyi stepped deeper into the tombstone group, passing by these former heroes, and felt more and more melancholy.

Each of these tombstones has its own name.

Their owners have different identities, including soldiers, explorers, students, ordinary citizens, and even king-selecting knights.

But now they have all been buried in the ground without seeing the sun, with tombstones erected to commemorate them.

Ten thousand years have passed, and apart from the Fire Crown Knights who accidentally discovered and came here, there have been no other visitors here.

Ye Yiyi suddenly realized something.

Why is there a Pisces guarding this underground tomb?

Because what is buried here is not heroes, but the ancient and glorious era of land kingdoms.

He suddenly raised his head and looked at the Knight of the Fire Crown who was passing by with a weapon in hand in the aisle of tombstones beside him.

The phantom knight bowed slightly to him, then walked away with his weapon in hand, continuing to wander among the tombstones.

"They have now... become the guardians of this place?"

Ye Yiyi seemed to be thinking about something, then looked up at the end of the cave.

He walked forward, heading deeper into the cemetery until he came to the tall tombstone at the end of the cemetery.

This is a tall tombstone that is as red as fire, with boiling lava flowing on its surface.

"Whose tombstone is this?"

Ye Yiyi stretched out her hand and gently touched the tall tombstone.

Then the light curtain popped up.

[Hero Philrex, Dragon of the Flame Hell Volcano. In the twenty-eighth year of the war, he died heroically in a duel against the Lord of Life and Death.]

"The Dragon of the Hellfire Volcano, Philrex... That's the Dragon of the Hellfire Volcano!" Ye Yiyi suddenly widened his eyes.

He never expected to find the tombstone of his old acquaintance, the Fire Dragon, in the underground cemetery.

"Looking at the inscription, it turns out it died at the hands of the Lord of Life and Death..."

At this moment, Ye Yiyi finally understood why the Dragon of the Hell of Fire was resurrected as an unknown hero.

It is obvious that the ancient dragon and the little goblin are born immortal.

But if the opponent is the Lord of Life and Death, one of the ancient kings, then it makes sense.

"What's more, the Lord of Life and Death should have been eroded by the curse long ago." Ye Yiyi frowned.

The already powerful Lord of Life and Death would have been able to kill the ancient dragon even if he had not been eroded by the curse.

Recalling the boss battle with the Lord of Life and Death in the game, he couldn't help but shudder.

"Those aren't good memories. I even smashed an Elite controller...

"But now I know the lost name of the Hellfire Dragon. Perhaps I can tell it?"

Ye Yiyi couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"But starting the Flame Hell Dragon side quest ahead of time is equivalent to awakening the dormant Lord of Life and Death ahead of time.

"I remember the cutscenes in the game said that the revival of the Lord of Life and Death meant the destruction of the Seal of the Kings, and the countdown to the spread of the original stagnant curse began, which was equivalent to the game entering the late stage.

"In reality, that means the bordering land will once again fall into curse and death."

Thinking of this, Ye Yiyi shook his head silently and gave up the idea of ​​telling his name to the Dragon of the Hell of Fire.

If this is still a game, it doesn't matter whether it is done in advance or not.

Anyway, as long as you awaken the Lord of Life and Death at the last step of the Hellfire Dragon side quest and stop before entering the boss battle, the game progress will not advance.

But the reality is that he doesn't push forward, but that doesn't mean the Fire Prison Dragon himself won't push forward.

Once it awakens the monarch, there won't be much time left for Ye Yiyi and the border.

"I'd better not provoke the Ancient Kings until all my attributes are maxed out..."

He muttered to himself.

"Even if we go to bully the Declined King, it's far better than provoking the Ancient Kings. At least the former doesn't involve starting a war on the border."

He looked around, then walked around the tombstone and came to the wide stairs leading to the lower level.

Going down the stairs, we soon arrived at a hall that was smaller and more empty than the one above.

The hall was filled with various gray-white stone sculptures, and Ye Yiyi also saw a huge carving knife that was three or four meters high.

"This carving knife..."

He looked up at the huge carving knife leaning against the wall, the ceiling over twenty meters high, and all kinds of strange metal equipment in the corners, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"Could these stone sculptures have been carved by Pisanzuo himself?"

He felt that this was very likely because, in addition to the stone carvings, he also saw traces of the Fire Crown Knights' lives.

Not far from the carving knife, there were several rows of two-meter-high tents neatly stacked. Outside the tents were wooden boxes for storing [Active Atrium] and iron pots for cooking.

He went into the tent and explored around, and found an unfinished [Active Atrium] on a wooden table.

"In other words, those stone carvings were completed by the Knights of the Fire Crown and Pisan?"

Ye Yiyi looked around and found a thick and large sword in one of the tents.

"Could this sword be..."

He picked up the oversized sword and a light curtain popped out.

【Falling Fire Greatsword】

Chapter 195: The Devotion of Hero Alice

【Falling Fire Greatsword】

Requirements: Strength 30, Skill 10