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

"You young man, don't look down on me!

"Back then, I was chased by them in the mountains, but after all these years, I'm no longer the same person I was back then!"

Ye Yiyi raised the corner of his mouth, "Then I'll wait and see."

He lit up the holy monument next to the dilapidated wooden house, and the name of the holy monument here appeared in his mind.

Feilongshan 6th Rest Stop

"What a simple and crude name..."

He curled his lips, restored his status to full at the holy monument, and the three of them continued to head up the mountain path.

According to Aidan, there are a total of 9 rest stops in Feilong Mountain.

When the trade routes through Feilong Mountain were still prosperous, these nine rest stops provided a lot of convenience not only for passing caravans, but also for many mercenaries who ventured up the mountain.

Among them, rest stops 1, 4, and 6 are located on the circular mountain road at the bottom of Feilong Mountain and were once trade routes.

If you want to continue walking up the mountain, you need to first follow the circular mountain road to the 4th rest stop, and then climb the ladder up the mountain.

"So, apart from these three rest stops, the rest have nothing to do with the trade route?"

After hearing Aidan's explanation, Alice couldn't help but ask.

"That's okay." Aidan nodded. "The remaining rest stops are for the mercenaries going up the mountain."

"What is it used for?" Ye Yiyi was a little confused.

Since mercenaries don't travel long distances with the caravan, why would they have nothing better to do than run up the mountain?

Is there anything else there besides the Magician's Tower that attracts them?

Aidan looked at him strangely and hesitated for a long time before speaking.

“They’re here to pan for gold.”

"Gold panning? There's a gold mine on this mountain?"

"I don't know. I've never seen gold."

"Why do I feel a sense of resentment in your words?"

Ye Yiyi raised his eyebrows and asked, "Old man, have you ever dug for gold in the mountains before?"

"cough!"

Aidan pretended to cough twice, then suddenly pointed ahead and changed the subject.

"We've arrived at the fourth rest stop."

"Then it seems that it has been found."

Ye Yiyi nodded in understanding, and looked in the direction of his finger. He saw a dilapidated two-story house beside a slightly empty mountain road.

On the rock wall next to the dilapidated house, there is an old rope ladder hanging from a high place.

That wooden house was once the fourth rest stop, but judging from the dilapidated roof with several holes, it seemed that this place had been abandoned for a long time.

Ye Yiyi went in to take a look out of curiosity and found several bodies that had turned into skeletons in the dusty house.

"Wait? Is there anyone else here?"

"Judging from their attire, they must be mercenaries who have been up the mountain before."

Alice glanced down and picked up a rusty cross shovel from beside a skeleton, looked at it, then put it down with a shake of her head.

"It's badly rusted. It seems these mercenaries have been dead for quite some time."

"How did they die?" Aidan asked, poking his head in from outside the door.

Ye Yiyi pulled out a white steel needle that had penetrated deep into the bone marrow from the back of one of the skulls and waved it towards Aidan.

"Obviously, he died in the attack."

"It seems that the one that came there earlier didn't just wander in by accident..."

Aidan frowned and said, "It's hard to say, they patrol these rest stops regularly and kill any living creatures they find.

"The last time I came here, I encountered a monster outside the ninth rest stop."

"They consider Feilong Mountain their territory," Alice said, shaking her head. "That might not be right. They might have been ordered by some entity to guard this place.

"After all, they are monsters transformed from humans, not naturally occurring ones."

"What a sin..." Aidan sighed, "That's a living person!"

There was nothing special to be found at the rest stop. Apart from shovels, the mercenaries only brought long swords for self-defense.

Ye Yiyi looked at them one by one and found that these weapons were damaged. In desperation, he had to use the universal cauldron to turn them into ore materials and put them away.

The steel needle that killed the mercenary was originally neither an object nor a prop, and there was no light screen display on it, but out of curiosity, Ye Yiyi still used the universal cauldron on it.

But to his surprise, as the universal cauldron flashed, the steel needle turned into a small piece of mineral material.

【Silver of Induction】

Item Description: A rare silver metal alloy found in ancient ruins.

One of the materials used to make props,

It can also be used to cast highly conductive weapons.

The alloy invented by the master craftsman "Stethius", who was famous for his electromagnetic magic,

It is said that he used this alloy as the skeleton to create extremely destructive sensory golems.

"Ok?"

After reading the item description, Ye Yiyi's eyes widened.

That unremarkable steel needle is actually made of this metal?

"what happened?"

Alice was a little confused when she saw him staring at the metal in his hand as if he had seen a ghost.

"Do you know the Royal Craftsman Stetis?" He glanced to the side and saw Aidan standing guard outside the room, so he asked.

"I know, but I only know that there is such a person."

Alice nodded, a slightly odd expression on her face.

"The Royal Craftsman, Stitis... well, he's not very sociable and doesn't like to go out. It's said that he threw himself into the workshop, and he hasn't been seen since the Royal Craftsman Meetings for the next ten years..."

"A otaku, huh?" Ye Yiyi's eyes twitched as he looked down at the metal in his hand.

"A otaku plus a puppet... or a large plastic guy, the elements are really maxed out."

"what happened?"

"If my guess is correct, his Royal Craftsman Workshop has been found."

Ye Yiyi raised the metal in his hand and said, "This is the silver of induction, invented by Stetis."

"Is that the steel needle shot by the monster?" Alice frowned when she heard that.

"Yes."

After putting the ore away, he stood up with a serious expression.

"After the Great Hunt, the owners of the ownerless Mage Towers are usually either demon spirits or curse masters. Let's not talk about the former for now. If it's the latter, then it wouldn't be surprising if they discovered the King Craftsman's Workshop."

"Where is Stitis's workshop?" he asked.

"Very far away, in the Far North." Alice shook her head. "He's an expert in electromagnetism. I heard he's studying the geomagnetism of the neighboring polar regions."

"That is to say, it borders the north..."

So how did this metal get here from the northern border?

Putting his doubts aside for the moment, he walked out of the abandoned rest stop and found Aidan.

They climbed up the rock wall along the ladder. Fortunately, this thing was quite sturdy and could bear the weight of three people. It took nearly ten minutes for the group to reach the upper level of the rock wall.

Once you get here, you’ve reached a high point.

Ye Yiyi looked in the direction of the mountain path and saw a vast green swamp.

"That's the Vast Swamp."

Aidan said, carrying the halberd, "The dragon's lair and the ancient ruins are deep in the swamp."

"Come to think of it, I haven't heard the sound of a flying dragon for a while." Alice looked up at the sky. "Has it gone back?"

"Maybe they're hunting," Aidan replied, "According to the observations of scholars in our order, dragons spend half of their day hunting.

"He's so big that he consumes a lot of food. If he doesn't have enough food, he'll become anxious."

"That sounds very reasonable." Ye Yiyi said and looked at Alice.

"That makes sense," Alice agreed.

With this person's approval, it seems that the flying dragon is indeed going to hunt.

After chatting, we continued to climb.

On the upper level, the number of four-legged monsters has obviously increased.

As Ye Yiyi walked along, he saw many monsters patrolling back and forth.

Ye Yiyi relied on a sneak attack and killed one with a magic armor-piercing cone.

Alice used a kind of magic to turn the rocky ground under the monster's feet into soft mud, causing it to sink into it.

Although this monster has a human brain and organs, it has no human intelligence at all. Facing the soft mud, it was completely unaware of it until only its head was left outside, and then it discovered the abnormalities around it.

But it was too late. Alice lifted the spell and turned the soft mud back into hard rock.

So the monster became a lamb to be slaughtered, allowing Alice to walk up to it and stab a dagger into its head, exploding a ground full of sensing silver.

It turns out that these steel needles are stored in the long banana head.

"Fossils turned into mud? Sirius, you are a member of the Peak Cult?"

Aidan was so amazed at the effect of the hymn that he mistook it for a follower of the Peak Order.

Alice just smiled in response and didn't argue.

Rather than explaining to him what the magic of the kings is, it would be better to let him guess.

Compared to the two people who had elegant ways of destroying their enemies, Aidan's method seemed a bit violent.

As the bishop of the Dragon Cult, his fighting style has nothing to do with that of a bishop. It is completely like that of a violent warrior.

He first took out the hymn book and gave himself a few states. Finally, he wrapped his whole body in a layer of crimson illusory dragon-shaped armor, carried a halberd, and flew out with a big jump.

With a leap, he cut a four-legged monster standing beside the cliff, staring blankly at the vast swamp, into two pieces.

Fortunately, their hatred was not linked, and the surrounding monsters were cleared out by Ye Yiyi and Alice. Otherwise, just the noise and commotion caused by this attack would soon cause them to be chased by a large number of monsters.

However, judging from the harvest, it is still quite rich.

Along the way, the three of them killed a total of 10 four-legged monsters.

Although some are weak and some are strong, the soul echoes are all 2750 and cannot be changed.

As a result, Ye Yiyi's total soul echoes reached 35560, not far from the 39800 required for upgrading.

In addition, he also harvested 10 [False Life Cores] and some induction silver.

Until the sun is about to set and it is almost dusk.

The group passed the second and fifth rest stops, climbed two soft ladders leading to the upper level, and finally reached the halfway point of the mountain.

"It's starting to rain."

Ye Yiyi looked at the gloomy sky where raindrops began to fall, and couldn't help but look up at the top of the mountain hidden in the clouds. Then he reached out and pulled Alice who was climbing the ladder.

"The road ahead might be difficult..." the girl said with a frown.

"I never thought that after so many years, I would come back here one day."

Aidan suggested with emotion.

"The ninth and final rest stop is just ahead. Let's take a break there."

"Is that the last rest stop?"