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

"Learning, mastering, and integrating is a long process, especially with extraordinary power and knowledge."

Alice tilted her head and looked at him. "This is a matter of course. Why do you think so?"

"Lady Alice is right." The bearded man agreed, "It also took me more than a year to learn some of the hymns.

“Learning is a long process and cannot be accomplished overnight.”

Why do you two say that?

Can't you learn the hymn directly by consuming soul echoes?

Ye Yiyi looked back and forth at the two of them, his expression becoming increasingly strange.

Or is this ability something only I, a time traveler and game player, possess?

"Wait, a year?"

Alice noticed something and looked at the bearded man with a raised eyebrow. "So, you woke up a long time ago?"

"Yes, at that time I didn't understand my mission yet, and I thought I was alive because of the Lord of Brilliant Destiny...

“So I joined their monastery and practiced the power of psalms with them.”

The bearded man sighed, his expression gradually becoming gloomy.

"If it weren't for the God Knights of the God of Gods raiding the monastery and slaughtering everyone there, I wouldn't have discovered the holy monument..."

"You also met the Divine Knight!?"

Ye Yiyi widened his eyes and stood up suddenly.

The noise was a little loud and startled the bearded man.

"also?"

When the bearded man reacted, a fierce light flashed in his eyes and murderous aura emanated from his whole body.

"Sir Michaela, do you know the whereabouts of the Divine Knight? If you can tell me, I will be willing to offer you a generous gift!"

The bearded man's words were filled with murderous intent, but he remained calm.

Ye Yiyi shook his head helplessly and sat down again.

"I'd like to tell you, but unfortunately I don't know where they are."

"Oh..." The fierce look in the bearded man's eyes disappeared for a moment, and he finally sighed deeply.

"What is a Divine Knight?" Alice suddenly asked.

It has only been three days since she woke up, so she knows nothing about the current situation on the border.

Ye Yiyi told the two of them that they had been invaded by Astralia and that the sacred blood of the supreme god existed in Linhai Tower City.

Of course, for Alice, he also had to explain the existence of foreign gods.

"According to what you said, there is no reason or need for the Divine Knights to attack or even massacre a monastery."

Alice looked at the bearded man. "Unless there's something about the Supreme Being there... you weren't in the monastery when they attacked?"

"I was out hunting at the time, hoping to improve the food for the nuns and the priests, and I was not in the monastery..."

The bearded man lowered his head with a deep expression, "Who knew that after I came back, I couldn't find a single person alive...

"The old lady once saved my life but never asked for anything in return.

“She said that even though she is a hermit and cannot achieve glory, she will not lose the most important salvation!

“They were good, selfless people who didn’t deserve to die like this.

"So, I will avenge them! Kill all those divine knights without leaving a single one alive!"

His face became more and more ferocious, with deep hatred flowing in his eyes and anger burning all over!

"Otherwise, after I die again, how will I have the face to see the old King of Philanthropy?"

"I'll help you keep an eye out for the Divine Knight."

Ye Yiyi sighed slightly and said, "Nivea should have given you rainbow leaf branches, right? If I encounter them invading again, I will call you to come and avenge me."

"Thank you very much!" The bearded man solemnly bowed to him as an explorer.

Afterwards, Ye Yiyi began to learn the hymns taught by the bearded man.

Although Big Beard is willing to share for free, Ye Yiyi still needs to consume soul echoes to learn.

According to Big Beard, Ye Yiyi should first choose hymns that are relatively simple and have a low threshold to use.

In this way, you can learn it in the shortest time.

Ye Yiyi just agreed to this, and then spent his soul echo to learn it directly.

After destroying Pisanza, the total number of Soul Echoes he possessed was 137933.

While it would be possible to learn all of Big Beard's hymns at once, that wouldn't suit his resource management style.

After all, you won’t be able to use the hymns you’ve learned now, so you might as well upgrade them first, and then buy a few hymns with a low faith threshold to use.

After careful consideration, he purchased and learned the following hymns.

[Emergency Treatment], [Minor Recovery], [Deliver Poison Removal], [Deliver Fire/Demon/Thunder/Darkness Protection], [Purge], [Fragrance Exorcism], [Fingertip Fire], [Electric Arc]

As a result, the soul echo dropped from 137933 to 118333.

He took the remaining soul echoes to the Saint and transformed them into 4 attribute points.

Originally, this amount of soul echo was only enough to upgrade to level 3, but seeing that there was only less than 9,000 gap before the next upgrade, he simply took out the source of curse on his body and squeezed it to fill it.

Current Soul Echoes: 109

Soul Echoes Required for Upgrade: 33600

Then assign attribute points.

The wizard naturally goes all in in exchange for the extremely important spell slot.

Level 78 → 82

Concentration 17→21

Focus: 234 → 262

Concentrate on reaching level 20 and gain the second concentration feature.

Concentration and Concentration

Chapter 201 [Wind and Fire Masters Paired Greatswords]

Concentration Feature: Concentration: When concentrating, the mental acuity is improved and the physical perception time is increased; the upper limit of concentration value is increased and the upper limit of spell slots is increased.

Spell slots 10 → 12↑ (5 + 7)

"The spell slots have increased by two, not bad!"

Ye Yiyi was very satisfied. This way, he could carry two more spells or hymns.

"Uh?"

Continuing to look down, when he saw the description of the characteristics, Ye Yiyi suddenly found some strange descriptions.

"Thinking agility? Increased perception of time? What does this mean?"

He thought for a moment, and simply focused his attention on the saint as the characteristics described.

The next moment, time seemed to slow down.

He saw the saint blinking slowly, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, and ripples appearing in her emerald green eyes, but still as clear as the surface of a lake.

His mind was as agile as before, and the same second seemed to become two or three seconds in his physical perception.

"Is this bullet time, or is it Sian Westin?"

He felt the changes around him with amazement, and tried to reach out his hand to take a look at it.

But moving your hands feels like paddling.

It was as if the air had turned into a pool of water, and there was a resistance preventing the palm from moving.

“The movements seem to be slightly faster than usual, and I can still control them precisely, but the problem is that I can’t go any faster.

"The more you want to go faster, the greater the resistance... I understand. Precise control is due to 20 skills, and the lack of speed is due to only 10 strength!"

He slowed down his mind and came out of his concentrated state. Then he felt extremely tired all over. Sweat kept pouring out of his body, soaking his clothes in an instant.

At the same time, on the simplified light screen on the side, the energy bar that was almost exhausted finally stopped decreasing and resumed growing.

"Why is this energy being consumed so quickly?"

He was a little surprised. In just over ten seconds of normal time, or more than half a minute of perceived time, he had actually used up the green bar that would only be used up after running for several kilometers continuously?

"Wait..." He fell into deep thought.

"The Mage's energy attribute is still at 10, and there's no upgrade. This might be why it's being depleted so quickly.

“If I use the energy of Strength No. 26 and combine it with the three energy characteristics, I might be able to maintain that state for a long time.

"In other words, besides simply increasing my mana bar and spell slots, can this attribute of concentration also improve my mental acuity?"

Ye Yiyi suddenly realized at this moment.

Improving the strength attribute will increase the strength of the torso, the skill attribute will increase the sensitivity of the torso, and the concentration attribute will increase the sensitivity of the mind, thereby increasing the endurance brought by the increased energy.

Improving a single attribute can bring about significant changes, but what if these attributes are combined and all raised to the highest level?

"That's a bucket without any flaws!"

Waiting for his energy to recover, Ye Yiyi lowered his head to look at his hands and once again entered a state of concentration.

After 15 seconds of normal time and more than 40 seconds of perceived time, his energy was completely exhausted and he was forced to withdraw from that state.

"Huff... Ha! So tired..."

He bent over and supported his knees, gasping for breath, sweating all over, as if he had been fished out of the water.

"Hero? Are you alright?"

The saint looked at him worriedly and took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

"I'm fine. I was just trying out a new ability that consumes quite a bit of energy."

Ye Yiyi stood up straight, smiled at the saint, and then continued to add some points thoughtfully.

I just added points to the Mage account, and the points to the Strength account haven't been added yet.

"Let me see how long I can last in that state with 26 energy and 60 strength."

This time he is not going to put in more energy, but is going to go all in and concentrate.

但一看到力量号15点的集中属性，这15加4才19啊，离获得集中特性还差1点呢！

"Damn! How come it's just a little bit off!" Ye Yiyi's expression darkened.

"Let's not add it right away... Oh, right!" His eyes lit up.

Isn't there a ready-made soul-refreshing spot in Lupe Rain Forest?

You can either farm Cursed Frogs at the Holy Monument in the Mountain of the Holy Land or farm Seafood at the Holy Monument in the Lone Star Swamp.

There are a lot of enemies wandering around these two holy monuments. You can use them to generate soul echoes and improve your combat proficiency at the same time.

The last time I brushed up my combat proficiency was in front of the Holy Blood Lord's gate.

From then until now, he has collected quite a few weapons, and it is time to improve his proficiency.

He did what he said and immediately said goodbye to the saint and returned to the holy monument in [Lupé Rainforest·Crypt of the Original Heroes].

He was accompanied by Alice, who was looking at the cursed bottle given by the saint.

"You came back in such a hurry, what's the matter?"

She put away the cursed bottle and looked at Ye Yiyi who was sorting out her weapons and equipment.

"I'm going to clear out the remaining cursed creatures in the forest and collect some Soul Echoes."

He had already thought of a reason, and now he said, "Do you want to come with me?"

"Remnants of the curse? You mean those cursed frogs?