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

"And you have a reason to survive. For the sake of those you have to take care of, you can't and shouldn't throw your life away here."

"But...but, but..." Wattold's tone was full of hardship and struggle, and he seemed to be engaged in a fierce ideological struggle.

As his teammates stared silently, he suddenly raised his head, his tone firm and paranoid.

"But! I've already made a vow that I will never abandon any of my teammates and run away alone!"

"So you're planning on moving on with us?"

Ye Yiyi didn't quite understand why Wattol was so paranoid.

"But there's a very good chance you'll die."

"I understand! But if I have to choose between death and breaking my oath, I would rather die!"

"I don't understand. If you die, your family will be in trouble! Where is your father?"

"I have no family."

Watteau's eyes were dazed, and he suddenly lowered his voice, as if mumbling in his sleep:

"Sir Michaela, you won't understand how I feel."

"I don't want to have nightmares anymore, Your Excellency. I really don't want to have nightmares anymore...

"Ten dives, seven wipes out!

“Every time I dream, I see the faces of my teammates who died in front of me, faces covered in blood, with lifeless eyes.

"It's like asking me: Why are you the only one who survived?

"Their remaining family members don't blame me because they know I never embezzled their share of the money.

"But that guilt has always been lurking in my heart, turning into nightmares that torment me in the dead of night.

"I shouldn't be the lucky one who survived. I should have died early in my first dive!"

Wattol smiled miserably.

"If I have to die, I have to die before my teammates!"

“…” Bai Yu was silent.

Ye Yiyi didn't know what to say.

Isn’t Wattold’s self-narration a reflection of Bai Yu’s inner thoughts?

The Royal Guards of Dasgard were annihilated in the war with the Army of Life and Death, but the only one who was resurrected as an unknown hero was Bai Yu, the Knight Commander.

The living have to bear everything of the dead, so she never gave up looking for the past.

Bai Yu looked at Ye Yiyi in silence. Although she was touched, she still chose to ask Ye Yiyi's opinion.

"Watol, you are actually a little wrong." Ye Yiyi said suddenly.

He smiled, even though the other person couldn't see it.

"I understand your thoughts. It's easy to want to die, because living is difficult.

"There are things people can't abandon, right? Those who choose to keep fighting for this are heroes.

"So I respect your decision."

"Then, Wator! Take your weapon!" the female knight suddenly spoke.

Her tone was sonorous and powerful, like two clashing swords, making an unstoppable sharp sound.

Wator gripped the spear in Ling Meng's hand tightly!

"That being said, since you've chosen to fight alongside me, I won't let you die so easily."

Ye Yiyi smiled,

"Let's go, the battle has just begun."

He nodded to Bai Yu and walked up the stairs.

Wattol looked at his three companions and said softly:

"Go back, I'm the only one who made the oath, there's no need for you to act foolishly with me.

"If I die, please go to my residence in the Holy Fish District. There is a safe in my room. The password is 0723. The key is in the third flower pot from left to right on the balcony.

"My accumulated wealth is stored in there. Please help me distribute it to those families and say that I died in the ruins.

"The ultimate fate of bounty hunters is death. They will understand."

"0723...your son's birthday."

Salvo with a mustache had a complicated look in his eyes.

"Why didn't you tell those two gentlemen that your son also died in the first dive?"

Wattol shook his head and didn't answer, but the guilt in his eyes became even stronger.

"Okay... Anyway, take this."

Salvo with the mustache sighed deeply and stopped trying to persuade him. He just handed the round shield in his hand to Wator.

"Although I want to say that you are seeking your own death, I can understand your thoughts. You want to find your son, right? Anyway..."

Salvo shook his head. "Anyway, let's wait until you die first! With that gentleman around, you might not be able to die even if you want to!"

He patted Wator's shoulder heavily, then walked back the way he came without looking back.

"See you outside."

His other two teammates also waved at him and disappeared around the corner of the stairs.

Wator watched them leave, then tied the round shield to his arm, held the spear in one hand, turned around and ran upwards, keeping up with Ye Yiyi and Bai Yu.

The three of them climbed up in silence, and soon they came to a street built on vines.

“This is the corridor pedestrian street.”

Bai Yu glanced at the many shops built on the corridor, raised his hammer axe, and smashed a mushroom man that was howling and rushing towards him into pieces.

Then she looked down at the sign in front of the stairs, nodded, and added.

"This is the Eighth Pedestrian Street of Huozi Teng."

"Fire Vine?"

Ye Yiyi asked curiously, taking out the molten gold paper, enchanting his palm with flames, and then waving his cane forward heavily.

The metal staff split and stretched in the air, turning into a long silver whip with sharp horns.

The long whip swept across the three fungal zombies rushing towards it, and the flames on the whip ignited their wooden shells, turning them into human-shaped torches almost instantly.

"Yes, it's the Fire Vine, the fire from earth, water, fire, and wind. Initially, we believed these were the four elements that made up the world. Later, after the kings ascended to the throne, the theory of elements was abolished, but these names were retained and integrated into daily life."

Bai Yu swung his weapons vigorously, a hammer and axe in one hand and a big sword in the other, almost turning into a meat grinder, smashing all the so-called mushroom people who attacked.

Even so, she still had time to give Ye Yiyi some common sense education.

"In other words, this is the third of the four vine veins surrounding the Lingering Temple."

"Oh, the third one, that's the C in A, B, C, and D, right?"

Ye Yiyi put the whip in his hand and moved to the side with storm steps. The long whip in his hand pierced straight into the forehead of the mushroom man who was holding the round shield in Wator's hand and opened his mouth to roar at him.

"Crack!"

The cane whip transformed into a cane with a sharp sound. Ye Yiyi pulled out the cane, kicked up, and kicked the mushroom man who turned into a torch away.

Then he held the staff in both hands, took a stance, and swept heavily at the zombies that were attacking him.

Combat Skill: Scorching Stance!

A raging flame ignited on the staff, and as it swept forward, it splashed fan-shaped flames, engulfing all the mushroom people together.

Soul Echo +1320

"Are you okay?"

He turned to look at Wator, who was slumped on the ground, his chest heaving, and reached out his hand to pull the bounty hunter up.

"The big talk has already been made."

Wattol smiled bitterly, his tone full of frustration.

"But I really overestimated my fighting ability..."

"That's not the case. I have an old friend who said that people should do jobs that match their abilities."

Ye Yiyi shook his head, took out a silver cast iron knife from behind and put it in his hand.

"The mushroom people are extremely aggressive right now. I'm afraid I don't have much time to collect mushroom blocks, so I'll leave this task to you!"

"Collecting mushroom blocks..." Wator was slightly stunned, then nodded solemnly.

"Don't worry, Master Michaela, I won't let go of any mushroom block!"

"And take this too. It's filled with high explosives. Just throw it out there. Remember to stay away from it."

"it is good!"

Handing the molten pot to Wator, Ye Yiyi looked at the endless stream of mushroom people in front of him. After thinking for a moment, he took out a ruby ​​ring from behind and put it on.

This is the [Gem-Inlaid Ruby Ring] he found in the underground cemetery of the initial hero. It can increase fire damage but reduce physical defense.

However, physical defense is dispensable, what is important is that it can increase fire damage.

Then he rushed into the mushrooms, raised his staff high, and slammed it against the ground.

Combat skills: Sparks of Essence!

A huge flower of fire bloomed outward with him as the center, and the gentle but deadly tongues of fire licked the wooden ground and the many mushroom people, turning them into burning torches.

"puff!"

But the white mist that suddenly burst out from the wooden ground extinguished the sparks beside Ye Yiyi.

"What the hell?"

He looked confused and lowered his head to look at the place where the white mist was coming out.

"Mister Michaela! Natural flames will be extinguished by the ruins!"

Wator, who was searching for mushroom blocks among the charred zombies, quickly reminded!

"What the hell is natural fire? But I'm using combat skills!"

Ye Yiyi was puzzled. He dodged a mushroom man's attack by moving sideways, then pulled out a sledgehammer with a hammer head like sparks from behind, and smashed it into pieces from top to bottom.

Taking the opportunity to glance at the item description of the Spark Hammer, Ye Yiyi's expression suddenly turned dark.

"The top is like a hammer with a blooming flower. It is said that it is a natural fire flower that has not yet bloomed...

"This is ridiculous. Is this kind of flame considered natural?"

"boom!"

Suddenly, a loud noise was heard from the street in the distance.

Ye Yiyi looked up and found that Bai Yu was holding up a hammer and axe, with a white light emerging from the top.

She swung the hammer down hard, hitting a zombie with it. There was a flash of fire, followed by a huge explosion of fire!

"Crush the Earth?!"

Ye Yiyi was stunned.

"Wait, wait, that doesn't seem to be shattering the earth..."

"Roar!"

Before he could ponder the source of the fighting skills, he heard a sudden roar from the street on one side, and then a mushroom gorilla nearly three meters tall with giant wooden arms smashed the wooden door and rushed out.

"Great! My blood is boiling too!"

Bai Yu shouted loudly and heroically, suddenly raised his foot, and then stomped heavily on the ground.

"boom!!"

The pedestrian street trembled, and a circular shock wave spread outward from where the female knight landed, knocking many zombies into the air, over the railings, and falling into the abyss outside the pedestrian street.

Even the huge body of the mushroom gorilla was blown away by the shock wave and crashed heavily onto the street, with cracks appearing on its body.