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

Ye Yiyi looked up at the sky in the distance, but couldn't see the sun.

"It looks like it might rain tonight, but that's okay. There are rest stops along the mountain road where we can rest."

"Rest stop?"

"This is what was left behind when Feilong Mountain was still a place of peace."

Aidan said with regret, "This mountain was very lively back then, with mercenaries heading up there every day. The trade routes back then also went through here, instead of going around the mountain and taking a long way around.

"Until the dragon in the swamp went crazy and started flying around the mountain for no reason, and incidentally, it also implicated Ampollet on the other side of the mountain."

"Crazy?" Alice felt something was wrong.

"But flying dragons are now just mindless beasts. Their behavior follows the same logic as wild beasts. Unless there is a special reason, they will not leave their habitat."

　"Yes, I find it strange too."

Aidan couldn't help but take out his pipe and take a drag, looking confused.

"I thought there was something wrong with the ancient ruins in the swamp, so I went to check it out myself, but I didn't find anything unusual.

"Later, I suspected something might be wrong on the mountain, so I went up to take a look. At the ninth rest stop, I discovered a new kind of monster had suddenly appeared on the mountain!"

"What does he look like?" Alice asked.

"That shape is very strange..."

Aidan bit his pipe and thought.

"Its head is very long, like a banana, and it can spit out something like a steel needle from its mouth. It also has four spider-like legs, like a human upper body attached to a spider. Of course, most importantly, it has a human face."

"This……"

Alice frowned and thought for a while, but she couldn't find any creature with a similar appearance in her memory.

The fact that they have human faces is enough to exclude them from the category of normal creatures.

"There are such monsters?"

Ye Yiyi was also confused. He had never seen an enemy with this kind of appearance in the game.

"Didn't anyone try to kill those monsters?" Alice asked.

"A clean-up operation requires money, manpower, supplies, and equipment. Who will provide these things?" Aidan asked.

"But wasn't this a former trade route?" Alice asked, a little confused. "Isn't the Lord of Amberlet willing to pay?"

"He did think about it, but it was just a thought." Aidan shook his head. "The monster appeared after Ampollet moved the city."

After the old man said this, Ye Yiyi and Alice immediately understood.

"At that time, people only cared about whether they could survive well. Who would care about the monsters in the mountains that had nothing to do with them?"

"But Ambolette is right at the foot of Feilong Mountain. Can you say it's irrelevant?"

"At least compared to the dragons, those monsters haven't harassed the city." Aidan shrugged. "Most of the people of Amberlit don't even know there are monsters in the mountains."

"I think that monster should have been created by the magician's tower?" Ye Yiyi thought for a moment and spoke.

"To be honest, I had my doubts too." Aidan sighed, "But that tower is a deserted tower left after the Great Hunt. There are no magicians in it at all."

"The Great Hunt..."

This word appeared many times in the descriptions of various items. Ye Yiyi only knew that it was a hunting operation targeting the magicians in the southern border. Since then, the magician group has withdrawn from the southern border.

The many magician towers left in the southern border area have become hiding places for evil spirits and curse-controllers.

This naturally includes the one that Ye Yiyi is going to.

In other words, they also created those monsters.

After walking for more than ten minutes and crossing a mountain road again, Ye Yiyi saw an abandoned wooden house and a mottled holy monument.

"Rest stop six, we're here... No!"

Aidan quickly lowered himself, his voice suddenly alert.

"Ka, ka..."

The sound of metallic footsteps came from a distance. Ye Yiyi looked in the direction of the sound and saw a strange black monster walking out from the wooden house.

"What the hell!" Aidan's eyes widened. "They actually ran here?!"

"Click..."

The monster seemed to have noticed something and turned its long, curved head like a banana. Its pair of red eyes suddenly looked over here.

"call out!"

Before Ye Yiyi could react, he felt a black screen in front of his eyes, and a strong force came from his forehead, causing his neck to lean back unconsciously.

"Oscar!"

The old man was startled and immediately grabbed his arm, trying to pull him to the ground.

"I'm fine..."

Unexpectedly, Ye Yiyi pushed aside his pull, lowered her head with a gloomy face, and looked unharmed.

"Dangdang~"

With a crisp metallic sound, a white steel needle the length of a palm fell to the ground.

"It's been a long time since I've been attacked like this."

Under Aidan's stunned eyes, he pulled out the Moonlight Gun from behind and raised it high.

"You bastard, I'm going to chop you into pieces!"

Red light flickered slightly in the four-legged monster's eyes, and lightning exploded in its mouth.

The next moment, a barrage of white steel needles shot from a distance.

Chapter 269 [False Life Core]

The white steel needles were as numerous as cow hairs and moved as fast as lightning.

The four-legged monster opened its mouth wide, and as electric arcs flashed around its mouth, a large number of white steel needles shot out!

Just a four-legged monster could produce the same effect as a Gatling gun.

But as early as when Ye Yiyi raised the Moonlight Spear, the obscure dragon armor on his body automatically unfolded and turned into armor.

Gray armor scales spread along the body, and metal scales like dragon scales covered the surface of the body layer by layer, eventually climbing up the body to the cheeks, turning into a flying dragon helmet with two horns on the head.

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

All the white steel needles hit Ye Yiyi's surface, and the crisp sound of ding-dang-dang continued, and for a moment it was like a heavy rain.

His body trembled slightly and he took a few steps back, but the Moonlight Spear he held high never wavered.

A faint white light flashed at the tip of the gun, and the next moment, a long spike as thick as an index finger and in the shape of a spiral cone condensed out.

After the initial failure of deconstruction, Ye Yiyi abandoned the flashy deconstruction method and re-deconstructed the most basic magic [Magic Arrow] based on the definition of single target, high damage and high consumption.

Then he got the "Magic Armor-Breaking Cone" which was praised by Alice.

【Magic Arrow】(Deconstructed)

Spell Slots: 1

Skill cost: 20

Required intelligence: 25

Deconstruction effect at a glance:

[Magic Attribute]: [Magic 80%/Thrust 20%] → [Magic 95%/Thrust 5%] (Moderately increased damage, greatly increased bullet speed)

[Bullet Speed]: [Normal] → [Extreme] (Skill cost increased)

[Appearance]: [Arrow] → [Custom Appearance: Spiral Armor-Breaking Cone] (Slightly reduced bullet velocity, increased intelligence requirement)

[Magic Explosion]: [75% Efficiency] → [75% Aftereffect] (Can cause a medium-magnitude magic explosion after armor penetration)

[Vulnerability Infection]: [70% Efficiency] → [75% Spread Efficiency] (Adds a medium-duration magic vulnerability state to the location where the magic explosion spreads)

"go."

He swung his spear lightly, and a magic armor-piercing cone shot out.

The four-legged monster couldn't dodge in time and was pierced straight into the forehead by the magic armor-piercing cone, which then caused a violent magic explosion.

"boom!"

The back half of the monster's banana-shaped head exploded directly, and a large amount of sticky black liquid and strangely shaped organs splashed everywhere.

"This……"

Aidan, who had stuck his head out to observe, was stunned where he was.

Is this the power of a magician who can fully unleash the might of magic after wearing dragon armor?

Those four groups of monsters that chased him all over the mountain and finally had no choice but to jump off the cliff, actually died so easily?

Aidan turned around and stared blankly at Ye Yiyi who was standing in the middle of the mountain path, swallowing silently.

Isn't this too outrageous?

Could it be that what my old friend said is true?

In terms of offensiveness, is magic really more powerful than hymns?

"Om~"

Half of the head was blown off, and the front half of the four-legged monster's head, which was connected to the neck, hung limply, and the red light in its eyes dimmed.

"This is really... so strange..."

Aidan sighed and was about to stand up when Alice, who was squatting behind him, grabbed the back of his collar and forced him to sit down.

"The monster isn't dead yet."

The girl spoke coldly, forcing the words down Aidan's throat.

"Kaka..."

Before he could say anything, the metallic footsteps sounded again.

"What?" The old man was surprised and stuck his head out to look forward again.

The four-legged monster raised the half of its head that was left. On its expressionless human face, there was a huge bloody hole on its forehead.

But even so, it still didn't die.

"Half of his head was blown off, but he's still alive?"

Aidan was a little confused, but after all, he was a man who had seen a lot of storms, so he quickly calmed down and turned to look at Ye Yiyi who was still standing there.

"Oscar, do you need help?"

"No need for now."

Ye Yiyi shook his head and looked forward through the gap in his helmet.

On both sides of the four-legged monster's slender body that supported half of its head, four hands as thin as bamboo poles slowly raised up, with white light flashing at the tips and pointing forward.

"Is this... magic?"

Ye Yiyi frowned. He was very familiar with that white light. It was obviously the light of magic.

But the one that emitted this unique magical light was a four-legged monster!

This kind of thing didn't seem right no matter how he thought about it, so Ye Yiyi took the initiative to attack, raised the Moonlight Spear again, and launched the magic armor-piercing cone.

In just a moment, two magic armor-piercing cones condensed out one after another and shot forward.

When the magic was activated, two of the four-legged monster's hands suddenly flashed with white light, and a spherical light circle suddenly opened, wrapping it in it.

The magic armor-piercing cone attacked, but when it approached the aperture, it was driven off its original trajectory by an unknown force and flew elsewhere.

"what?!"

Ye Yi was shocked.

"Magic Conduit? Not only does it know magic, but it also knows this?"