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

Ye Yiyi listened to Alice's voice gradually becoming weaker and weaker, and finally disappearing.

The girl hugged his waist, rested her cheek on his shoulder, and fell asleep just like that.

He stared at the forest beside him, listened to the even breathing sound beside his ear, recalled what she had just said, and remained silent for a long time.

He suddenly understood what Alice had said to him yesterday in the Cursed Hall.

How can a mere insignificant admiration compare to the symbol of hope for a better future that has been regarded as such for the past fifty years?

"It turns out that I was not being sentimental, but I underestimated this feeling." He thought to himself.

To describe her feelings towards me as "like" is putting the cart before the horse.

"It's so heavy..." he thought as he felt the weight of the girl on his shoulders.

It was not until dusk, when the sun set behind the horizon and the azure moon hung high in the night sky, that Ye Yiyi finally saw the majestic figure of Lupe Castle above the earth.

"Woo..."

A faint moan was heard behind her, and Alice, who had slept for a whole day, woke up slowly.

"Why is it so dark, Yiyi?"

She wrapped her arms around his waist tightly, rubbed her cheek against his shoulder, and blew warm breath into his ear.

"Of course it's because you slept for a long time... Did you sleep well?" Ye Yiyi said in a gentle voice.

"Of course I sleep well with Yi Yi by my side~"

Alice rubbed her sleepy eyes, stretched herself comfortably, then looked up and around, her gaze finally settling on Lupe Castle in the distance.

"Here we are?"

"Yes, we have arrived at Fort Lupe. I don't know if we can still enter the city at this time." Ye Yiyi answered.

He squeezed his legs together, causing Virgil beneath him to speed up his pace.

As she walked, Alice looked around at the surrounding farmland in the moonlight and frowned slightly.

"Have you seen this? The crops here are severely malnourished. This is a sign that their vitality has been drained.

"Although it's not serious, it does mean that the Cursed Death Tower is in the process of restarting."

"So that's how it is." He nodded as if he understood, thinking of the withered crops he saw along the way when he first came to Fort Lupe.

It turns out that since then, the Tower of Death has been draining life.

Walking along the farmland into the town outside Lupe Castle, every house is brightly lit, noisy sounds come from the taverns on the street, people come and go on the road, and it seems that the atmosphere is filled with joy everywhere.

Even at night, it was still very lively here, which was very rare for Ye Yiyi.

He was a little surprised, while Alice looked at the world ten thousand years later with curiosity.

She hadn't seen such a lively atmosphere for a long time.

Near the city gate next to the moat, he and Alice dismounted and he mentioned it casually when paying the tax to the tax collector.

"What's going on here?"

The tax collector, dressed in black and yellow striped clothes and with unusually rosy cheeks, looked up.

After seeing Ye Yiyi's appearance and dress clearly, he couldn't help but laugh and teased.

"It's you. Didn't you chase after those mercenaries? Why are you here asking me why?"

"Could it be that you got lost outside? And only now did you find your way back?"

Ye Yiyi was stunned when he heard this, and then he recognized that this was the tax officer he met when he first entered the door.

"Instead of hunting earth dragons, I went deeper into the rain forest."

"Deeper in the rainforest?"

The tax collector's face was almost wrinkled with laughter. I don't know if it was because of the atmosphere or because he drank too much horse urine that night, but he started to mock:

"If you're scared, then so be it. Why are you bragging? We're all walking together, and you're the only one who dares to go deep into the rainforest?

"Is that a place you can go? The Knights and the Monastery have lost men there. Who do you think you are? Why are you pretending?"

Before Ye Yiyi could speak, Alice's eyes froze, her dark pupils briefly lost their luster, and the dagger fell into her hand, flashing with white light.

"Alice, what are you doing?!"

Ye Yiyi was startled, and with quick eyes and hands, he kicked the tax officer in the face like lightning.

"Wow!"

The tax officer felt a black screen before his eyes, and he flew to the side in a spin and fell heavily to the ground.

As he flew out, a circular beam of light shot out from the dagger, smashing the small table in front of him into pieces. Then it continued to move forward and fell straight onto the city wall, creating a huge dent in the thick stone wall.

The soldiers guarding the surroundings stared blankly at the city wall, and then looked at the tax collector who was wailing on the ground with his hands covering his cheeks.

Only then did he realize it and raised the spear in his hand, pointing it at Ye Yiyi and Alice.

But as soon as they raised it, they regretted it with pale faces.

The white light just now was not a trick a mercenary would use!

That strangely dressed, androgynous fellow might be a monk who possesses the power of hymns!

To deal with him, I guess we can only let the monks of the Fire Sparrow Order take action.

A smart soldier among them quickly exchanged glances and asked other soldiers to go into the city to call for help.

"Alice, what are you doing? Are you trying to kill him?"

Ye Yiyi held down Alice's right hand that was holding the dagger, and looked at the confused girl seriously.

"No... I didn't mean to..."

She finally reacted and tried to explain in a panic, barely catching the dagger and almost dropping it to the ground.

Ye Yiyi frowned, keenly noticing that something was wrong with Alice's condition.

He switched to the Mage and used his telepathy to sense the girl's state of mind and emotions.

A dark atmosphere as thick as oil and carrying a lot of malevolent malice was gradually dissipating.

"What exactly is that thing?" Ye Yiyi felt his heart tremble with fear.

And for some reason, that thick darkness always gave him an inexplicably familiar feeling.

"Have I seen this somewhere?" He was confused, and then he heard bursts of terrified wails coming from beside him.

He turned his head and saw that the tax collector he had kicked to the ground was pale and terrified. He struggled to break free from the support of the soldiers.

He screamed loudly and rushed into the city.

A black-robed monk, accompanied by a Knight of the Fiery Crown, walked out from behind the door at this moment, led by soldiers.

Seeing this, several people were stunned.

Seeing this, the Knight of the Fire Crown tried to stop the tax collector, but he didn't expect that the other party was so strong that even he couldn't suppress him.

He was immediately pushed aside and left to wail towards the city.

"Go! Two people, hold him down! Be careful not to get him hurt!"

The monk frowned and immediately gave orders.

Seeing the soldiers trotting after the tax collector, he came to the door with a gloomy face and looked at Ye Yiyi and the other person who were surrounded by the soldiers.

"Although the words of the tax collector Doron are offensive, you shouldn't torture him in this way, right, you two?" the monk said loudly.

Ye Yiyi looked at the monk apologetically and shook his head.

"That was a misunderstanding. He wasn't meant to look like that."

"Misunderstand?"

The monk sniffed and said unkindly, "Then I'd like to hear what the misunderstanding is."

Chapter 204 Conspiracy

"Then I'd like to hear what kind of misunderstanding it is."

Although the monk's tone was not very polite, Ye Yiyi felt a little relieved.

His purpose in coming here was to deal with the Cursed Death Tower, not to wipe out the Monastery and the Knights of the Fire Crown.

If this monk had come up without any discrimination and had insisted on accusing them of attacking the kingdom's tax collectors.

Then Ye Yiyi had no choice but to show the badge of the Hunting God Church and use courtesy first and then force.

But since the other party is willing to listen to their explanation, it means there is room for negotiation.

What he feared most was meeting unreasonable people.

Because then he would be forced to talk physics with the other party.

"Ahem, the misunderstanding is of course because..."

"It's my fault. I didn't control my emotions for a moment."

Ye Yiyi opened his voice and was about to make up an excuse when he was abruptly interrupted by Alice.

He stopped talking and turned his head in surprise.

Alice, who was a little flustered just now, has now regained her usual calmness.

But her expression was still a little confused, as if she was puzzled by her own behavior just now.

"I will compensate you for the losses caused."

She nodded to the monk with a puzzled look in his eyes, then twirled the dagger between her fingers, and a faint light burst out.

Seeing this, the Knight of the Fire Crown took a step forward and stood in front of the monk with a malicious look.

"It's okay..." The monk patted the knight's shoulder and shook his head at him.

"Pala~"

Suddenly, there was a sound of stones moving. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and found that the sunken stone wall was slowly bulging outwards and gradually returning to its original shape.

"This..." The monk was stunned.

"Click~"

Before he could react, another sound of sawdust rubbing against each other was heard.

A soldier stepped aside in horror, looking down at the sawdust flying around on the ground, gathering together and merging with each other.

In just half a minute, a small wooden table that looked exactly like the previous one appeared from nothing and stood in its original place again.

"Hey Firefinch..."

The monk looked at this scene with his eyes wide open and blurted out words of praise!

Not only him, but also the soldiers surrounding the two men, the passers-by watching from the outside, and the vigilant Knight of the Fire Crown were all stunned at this moment.

"what?"

Ye Yiyi also stared at the scene blankly and couldn't help but look at Alice.

The girl's eyes were indifferent and her face expressionless.

At this moment, the dagger's light dissipated, and it spun around between her fingers, and finally disappeared into thin air in her hand.

"Perhaps this can express the sincerity of my apology."

Alice looked at the tightly fitted wall and said to the stunned monk.

"Where is the frightened tax collector? Please bring him here. I will bless him with good health and keep him free from disease and misfortune."

"Fire Sparrow is above!"

Upon hearing this, the monk's eyes went dark and he almost fainted.

That kid Duolun is not in trouble at all, he is clearly lucky!

This distinguished lady, who was dressed in strange clothes and looked like a woman, not only repaired the sunken city wall, but even restored the wooden table that had been broken into pieces to its original state.

Now she also wants to bless Duolun, hoping that he will be free from illness and good health.

Oh my God, Fire Sparrow, who is this person who possesses such unheard-of power?