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

"And what about the Firefly Abbey?" he asked again.

"Ha!" Alice sneered. "To intensify the conflict, the monastery probably wants us to kill this lord."

"What do you mean?" Aidan was stunned.

"We'll talk about this later. This can't be explained in just a few words."

Ye Yiyi waved his hand and led the people down the stairs.

Leaving the tower and heading east to the edge of the cliff, Ye Yiyi lowered his head and looked down.

The sea of ​​clouds still covered the mountainside, and the rumbling of thunder could be faintly heard coming from between the gray clouds.

Looking up at the sky, it was still late at night and the rain was still falling.

"This is not the way down the mountain." Aidan said in confusion.

"It can be."

Ye Yiyi spoke, then looked at Bai Yu and Big Beard and nodded to them.

"Thank you both for your assistance tonight. We will handle the pursuit from now on."

"You're too polite." The bearded man shook his head and said, "Companions should help each other. I'm glad I can help with this kind of thing."

"Yi Yi, you don't need to thank me." Bai Yu said with a murderous look on his face, "But I have a request. If you encounter a traitor among the White Feather Knights in the future, please summon me again..."

"And me," said the bearded Delin, "if you need me, I'm at your service."

"Okay!" Ye Yiyi nodded heavily.

Seeing the two people turn into phantoms and disappear on the spot, Ye Yiyi turned his head to look at Aidan.

"The lord's mansion should be right below the cliff. Does the magician live there?"

"That's right," Aidan said with a frown. "But won't you reconsider? If you choose to become an enemy of the lord, you won't be able to take a single step forward in the Firefly Kingdom."

"As long as you don't tell our secret, no one will be able to find us." Alice said meaningfully.

"I'm not the kind of person who would betray my companions."

Aidan shook his head, but his expression was still sad.

"But I am the bishop of the order. I cannot lead the Dragon Order into trouble..."

"I understand. After all, you're not immune to it, so it's normal for you to back off." Ye Yiyi said calmly, "So, are we just going to let the hypnosis thing go?"

"Bah! I've walked all the way to the top of the mountain with you guys. How could I possibly shrink back when I'm coming down? Wouldn't that make me a dwarf shrimp?"

Aidan spat, rolling his eyes.

"What I mean is, use that face-changing spell on me! Many people in the lord's mansion know me, so don't let anyone recognize me!

"Also, I'm going with you this time, but you can't put off joining the group to me later!"

The old man puffed up his face and said fussily, "Otherwise, if I come down from this trip and get nothing, what's the point of that?"

"So you still care about us."

"Of course not! Our cult is in need of strong men like you two!"

"Aren't you afraid of getting into trouble after recruiting us?"

"Delin said it well. Companions should help each other, and the same goes for brothers. If we really run into trouble, then we can help each other."

Aidan raised an eyebrow at Ye Yiyi, "Don't underestimate our Dragon Cult, young man."

Ye Yiyi smiled when he heard that and winked at Alice.

The girl understood what he meant, smiled, took off the magic ring in her hand and threw it over.

"Magic props, do you know how to use them?"

"Of course." Aidan took the ring and looked at it, and couldn't help but sigh, "There are actually such strange rings. Magicians really have many tricks!"

After putting on the magic ring, the old man concentrated his attention, and soon his face and body shape changed together, from a skinny old man to a handsome man with long hair and melancholy eyes.

"By the way, don't forget to change your armor." Melancholic handsome boy Aidan said, "Dragon armor is so unique, and many people know about it."

Ye Yiyi took off the dragon armor on his body and put it away, then took out the hymn book from behind him.

"Let's go."

"So how do we get down?"

"Of course I jumped."

"what?"

"Don't worry, you won't die."

Ye Yiyi and Alice looked at each other, then smiled, and both fell off the cliff.

Before Aidan could react while standing on the edge of the cliff, a ray of silver light flew up from below and attached itself to his waist.

"Wait! I'm not ready yet...Ah!!"

The old man's heart-wrenching screams were heard from the air.

The strong wind blew, whistling in my ears.

Before Aidan could react, he felt the wind supporting him, and his rapidly falling body gradually slowed down.

After passing through the pitch-black clouds, the sound of heavy rain came into his ears again. He calmed himself down a little and looked down.

In the dark night, Amblett stood quietly in the rainstorm. In the huge city, only the lights of a few diamond-shaped lights remained.

As if to prove that the city is not dead yet.

"Something's wrong."

He looked at it and couldn't help frowning and speaking out.

"What's wrong?"

Ye Yiyi's questioning voice came from the side. Aidan turned his head and found that the two people who jumped down earlier were not far away. Like him, they were slowly falling in a gust of wind.

"The city is too deserted." Aidan frowned and said, "Ambright is a border trade city with a huge flow of people, and there are many hedonistic and lucrative dens here.

"Even with the dragon attack, Amblett still dared to call itself the city that never sleeps, but now..."

"The city that never sleeps?"

Ye Yiyi looked down thoughtfully. Except for a few places with a little light, most of the city was hidden in darkness, even the lord's mansion.

"It's a large-scale hypnotism method."

Alice suddenly spoke, one arm around Ye Yiyi's waist and the other holding a dagger emitting a faint purple light.

As they got closer to the city, the purple light on the black dagger became brighter and brighter.

"Obviously, the magician sensed something was wrong and used a large-scale hypnosis technique, hypnotizing everyone in Amblett."

"This city?" Aidan was shocked. "What kind of strength does it take to achieve this?"

"Can't tell."

Alice looked a little gloomy. While asking Ye Yiyi to put on the magic catalyst, she secretly calculated in her mind before speaking.

"This shouldn't be a temporary, large-scale hypnosis technique. Instead, it's a pre-planned operation with corresponding magic arrays buried throughout the city, allowing them to hypnotize tens of thousands of people in a short period of time."

Alice pinched Ye Yiyi's waist and pointed towards a light somewhere in the city.

"Go there, holy monument."

"Okay... then can you solve this spell?" Ye Yiyi felt a little uneasy, "I always have a bad feeling."

"it should be OK."

At this moment, the three of them landed in front of a holy monument in a cemetery amidst the heavy rain. Ye Yiyi lowered his head to glance at the Birth of the Messiah on his left arm, which was emitting a faint purple glow, and then turned to look at Aidan, who looked drowsy.

There was a light purple cone of light on his forehead, just like before, which was obviously a symptom of hypnosis.

"Don't remove the catalyst."

Alice swung her dagger to shatter the lavender cone of light above Aidan's head, while admonishing him:

"I've engraved a hypnosis-removing spell into your catalyst, which will protect you from hypnosis. But be very careful when fighting that guy. The Chaos King's spells can affect the soul; they're not simple hypnosis!"

"I understand." Ye Yiyi nodded and took out the dragon armor and handed it to Alice. "Have you found a way to solve the spell?"

"After a quick glance, I got a general idea."

Alice nodded and put on the dragon armor.

"This spell should be a sleep hypnosis spell, so we have to split up into two groups. I will dismantle the magic circle to prevent the other party from using sleep as a springboard to perform soul-control spells.

"People under the influence of hypnosis are defenseless at the soul level. If he tries to use this to do something, tens of thousands of people in this city will die!"

"!!!"

Alice's last words were obviously meant for Aidan. The old man, who was originally drowsy, suddenly woke up and broke out in a cold sweat.

"Everyone... everyone must die?"

"That shouldn't be the case," Alice said expressionlessly. "Human lives are the perfect tools, both for experiments and as consumables. Their fate should be worse than death."

"Gulu..."

Aidan's eyes widened, his throat bulged as he swallowed, and his face turned pale.

Tens of thousands of people, worse than death?

Ye Yiyi also looked solemn. He originally thought that by destroying the stars, the biggest crisis would be resolved.

But now it seems that this has just begun.

"Take this."

Alice looked around, picked up a stone, carved mysterious patterns on the stone with a dagger that glowed purple, and then threw it to Aidan.

"This is……?"

"Put the stone close to your forehead to break the hypnosis," Alice said. "Go find someone you absolutely trust and who can fight, and wake them from the hypnosis."

Aidan suddenly realized something and quickly put the stone away carefully.

"Then... then what?"

"Come find me when the time comes," Alice said calmly. "It will be obvious then. Don't worry about not finding it."

"Okay... okay! I got it!"

Aidan gritted his teeth, turned around and rushed into the rain.

After Alice finished her instructions, she turned her head and looked at Ye Yiyi.

"Is there anything else you want to explain...hmm."

Before Ye Yiyi could finish his words, he saw the girl walk up to him, grab his collar and put her cheek against his.

"What...what is this for?"

Ye Yiyi felt the lingering warmth on the corner of her lips and was slightly distracted.

"Nothing, I just hope you don't think I'm too strange."

"Strange?" He was a little confused.

Alice loosened her grip on his collar and gently smoothed out his wrinkles, speaking softly.

"It's been many years since we first met, and I'm no longer the little girl who would panic and cry for help from the crab claws."

She sighed softly, "If possible, I don't want to be the one giving orders, but a free zoologist who can travel with you to Roanmoya..."

"Alice..." Ye Yiyi pursed her lips, "Although your changes are indeed quite big, I think this kind of change is actually quite good..."

"I quite like you like this." Ye Yiyi said, then suddenly hesitated: "Because when we first met, you were indeed a bit of a nuisance, a bit, uh, annoying..."

"Can I take this as a compliment?"

The girl narrowed her eyes, curled up the corners of her mouth, and once again revealed the smile that was both familiar and creepy to Ye Yiyi.

"I've made a note of that," she said with a sly smile in her eyes. "I'll get back at it in bed later."

"???"

"See you later."