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

Damage Modification: Strength B, Skill E

Durability: 287/300

Skill cost: [0/14]

Item Description: Adopts the design of Fire Sparrow Monastery.

A weapon bestowed upon an exceptional knight with a mission.

The knight had to make a difficult choice between mission and family.

Final decision:

Only by protecting the land where my daughter lives can we bring peace.

Combat Skill: Falling Fire

The sword was wrapped in flames, and it leaped forward while spinning.

A combat technique that involves stabbing the giant sword into the ground.

When the greatsword is drawn, a fire explosion will occur.

"Mission and family, and he also mentioned a daughter. It seems that this is indeed Fana's father's weapon."

Ye Yiyi looked at the extra-large sword in his hand with a relief of a fire sparrow carved on it. His fingers stroked the wide and thick blade covered with dust, and he sighed slightly in his heart.

This weapon has been lying around for years and no one has touched it.

What this means to the knights who shoulder the mission is self-evident.

Either he had abandoned his mission, or he was already dead.

Ye Yiyi looked around the dusty interior of the tent and already had the answer in his mind.

"So, can I still find the knight's body?"

Without the iconic oversized sword by his side, it would be extremely difficult for Ye Yiyi to identify the person's identity directly through the corpse.

He took out the wooden sign that Fana had given him, looked at the immature carving of a firebird on it, then walked out of the tent and continued searching other tents.

But after searching around, they found nothing except a ring and a box of active atria.

"It's completely empty here, not even a single body."

Ye Yiyi stood outside the tent with a frown on her face, looking down at the ring in her hand.

This is a silver ring, and its texture is somewhat like silver cast iron.

There was a small diamond-shaped red gem inlaid on it at regular intervals. The silver and red tones reminded him of the Tears of Pain Pendant.

[Ruby Ring with Gemstone]

Item Description: A gemstone ring inlaid with ruby.

A ring owned by knights skilled in the art of pyrotechnics.

It can increase fire attribute attack power, but reduce physical damage reduction rate.

It is said that in the Kingdom of Firefly,

Warm ruby ​​is a symbol of the spirit of fire.

Jewelry made with special techniques.

It contains some kind of artificial symbolic meaning.

"It's a ring that boosts fire, and it also has the side effect of reducing physical defense. I'm very familiar with this thing."

Ye Yiyi put the ring on the middle finger of her left hand, right between the other two rings.

“It looks pretty good. As for fire-attribute attack power, it should be able to include Fire Paper and Molten Flame Pot, and it can also increase the damage of fire combat skills.

"Although the main use of this ring is to be used with the Fire Hymn."

In addition to this problem, the strength of this ring is only mediocre and its durability is not high.

If you encounter an enemy like Pisanzu again and are hit in the face with powerful attacks from the opponent, this ring will be destroyed like the Poison Sting Ring.

Then he put away the active atria here, and Ye counted them one by one, and there were 32 in total.

Together with the 6 obtained before, there are 38 in total, which can enhance a named incarnation medium to +5.

"The harvest is not bad."

Continuing to move deeper along the stone carving, after a while, Ye Yiyi came to a mechanical elevator.

There is no other way here. If you want to move forward, you can only take the elevator all the way down.

He pulled the metal rod, and the elevator, which had not moved for who knows how many years, finally carried him down slowly.

"Finally... it's coming."

He stared at the rising stone wall, his eyes gradually becoming silent.

Two minutes later, the elevator stopped.

A bright corridor appeared in front of him.

The straight corridor was empty, and the metal door at the end blocked the only path.

Ye Yiyi walked slowly, and only his footsteps echoed in the empty corridor.

Finally, he stopped in front of the gate.

Looking up at the gapless door, he took a deep breath and took out [Alice's Magic Dagger]

"Kaka~"

A white light flashed on the thin blade, and accompanied by the sound of metal mechanism turning, the door slowly opened inward.

He walked into the gate silently, looked up, but saw only a lonely tombstone.

In the empty room, there was only a dusty tombstone facing him.

Even though Ye Yiyi had imagined countless times the scenes of meeting Alice and rehearsed countless conversations with Alice in her mind...

But after seeing this scene, his violently beating heart couldn't help but slow down.

"Is this... your promise to me?"

He walked up slowly, squatted down in front of the tombstone, lowered his head and spoke in a low voice.

The gray-white tombstone stood there alone, without answering.

He reached out his hand silently and gently placed it on the tombstone.

[Hero Alice, a researcher of Leftgard's magic. At the end of the war, she sacrificed herself in the Temple of Kings.]

"You were a hero then... too."

He slowly withdrew his hand, lowered his head slightly and closed his eyes.

"Yeah, I'm a hero too."

"..."

Ye Yiyi opened her eyes blankly and turned her head to look back.

In front of the gate, a wheat-skinned girl in a dark black windbreaker leaned against the door with her arms folded, giving him a bright smile.

"you……"

Ye Yiyi rubbed his eyes in confusion, turned his head to look at the tombstone in front of him, and then turned his head to look at her with a smile.

"You...your tombstone is clearly here...Aren't you...not dead?"

He stammered, his brain was confused and he had no idea what to say.

"Yeah, I'm a hero after all."

The girl raised the corners of her mouth, with an ambiguous smile on her face, and walked slowly towards him.

"Do you know what this place is called?" she asked with a smile.

"The... crypt of the original heroes..." He looked dazed.

"Then, do you want to guess who this initial hero is?"

"Could it be..." Ye Yiyi's expression was dull, "It's you?"

"So smart, worthy of being Yi Yi!"

She smiled and stopped in front of Ye Yiyi, reached out and pinched the boy's chin hard, turning his cheeks over and over to examine them.

"Don't move, let me take a closer look... Hmm, not bad! I haven't seen this face in a long time, it's really perfect!"

"you……"

Ye Yiyi frowned and tried to push the hand away, but was surprised to find that Alice was extremely strong. Even with his strength attribute of 60, he had to use a lot of force to push it away.

"What on earth is going on with you?"

Finally, he gave up trying to break free and let Alice hold his chin and look him over like a gangster.

"Is it hard to understand? I became a hero and was resurrected as the original unknown hero."

"The first one?" Ye Yiyi was a little confused. "You woke up a long time ago?"

"That's not the case. I woke up two days ago... on the rainy night you met me."

Alice nodded at the tombstone beside him.

"right here."

"I still don't understand..."

After taking a look, Alice showed a satisfied expression on her face, then loosened her fingers, grabbed his shoulders and lifted him up from the ground.

"Let's put it another way. I'm the first original hero to be transformed into an unsung hero."

"Transformation?"

"Yes, isn't it written there? At the end of the war, sacrifice yourself in the Temple of Kings."

Alice put her arms around his neck affectionately and led him outside.

"The so-called unsung heroes are the backup plans left by the kings to deal with the stagnation curse. The curse spells used to resurrect them were provided by His Majesty, the Universal Light Master.

"And I am the first unsung hero to undergo the transformation."

"Is that right?"

Ye Yiyi smelled the fragrance coming from the girl's body at a very close distance, and his head felt a little confused for a moment.

"But didn't the Universal Lighter... die in the war?"

"Yes, so there is no possibility of improving that curse spell, and the success rate of the transformation is uncertain.

"It just so happened that I was on the verge of death at that time. Thinking about the promise I had made to someone, I decided to ask His Majesty the Heavenly Creator to use it on me."

“Near death…”

Ye Yiyi looked at Alice's smiling face with a complicated expression.

Alice has changed.

Yesterday she was a girl who would scream when frightened by crabs, but now...

Alice looked over with a smile and reached out to pinch his tender face.

"But if I think about it carefully, since you're still alive and well in the future, then this curse won't be a big problem... Fortunately, Her Highness the Universal Light Divine died early, otherwise she would have scolded me again."

"You also know the kings..."

"After all, I am also a top magic researcher. It's not surprising that I know the kings."

Alice suddenly sighed deeply as she spoke, and her tone became deeper.

"By the end of the war, apart from the civilians unable to fight, there were less than thirty people who could follow His Highness the Heavenly Forger into the temple... and two-thirds of them were Royal Craftsmen.

"Do you remember all those things?"

"Not really."

Alice shook her head. "While the curse works, it's flawed. It strips the recipient of their memories and powers, and there's something else I haven't figured out yet. The first thing to be forgotten is their name..."

"As for me, I've almost forgotten all the details of the battle, and I only have a tiny bit of strength left. If I want to return to my peak, the time it will take me will probably be no less than it was in my previous life."