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

“Snap! Snap! Snap!

"As expected of you, the most powerful of all the unsung heroes. You managed to break free from the eternal cage I set up just for you so quickly."

There were bursts of applause from the darkness, followed by a thin male voice praising.

Suddenly, bright lights poured down from above, illuminating the dark space.

Ye Yiyi narrowed his eyes, looked around the luxurious hall, and finally looked up at the second-floor stairs not far away, where he saw a tall man wrapped in a black robe that covered his face.

Not far behind him stood two tall and strong men in black robes.

The abstract monster whose arm was shattered by his magic comet was curled up beside one of the tall men in black robes.

"Haha~"

The black-robed man at the head smiled gently, then stretched out a white hand and spoke with a smile.

"Then, this unknown hero, could you please tell me your noble name?"

Hearing this, Ye Yiyi's mouth corners curled up slightly, and then he revealed a ferocious smile.

"Dead man, there's no need to know my name."

Chapter 284 [Map Fragment: Dragon Soul Fortress Upper Level]

"Dead man, there's no need to know my name."

Ye Yiyi's cold voice echoed in the spacious hall. The black-robed man sitting high in the corridor on the second floor seemed stunned when he heard it.

The tall man in black robes behind him said nothing and showed no reaction, but the abstract monster clinging to him shrank in fear.

"Haha, Mr. Hero, I think you seem to have misunderstood something."

The black-robed man let out a delicate laugh, revealing his white but not pale wrist, and began to explain.

"I am still a living person, not a deep dead person.

"Furthermore, like you, my hero, I have also awakened from a thousand-year slumber, a name-seeker searching for the past."

"?"

Ye Yiyi frowned, a little surprised by this self-introduction.

It turns out this guy isn't a purebred Curse Master, but a hybrid?

"I don't care who you are."

He spoke calmly, "Were those winged people outside sacrificed by you? Did you summon the lighthouse? What exactly do you curse-bearers want to do by doing this? Tell me."

"Hero, this is not in accordance with etiquette."

The black-robed man held his forehead and asked in confusion, "Before asking these confidential questions, out of respect for both parties, shouldn't we exchange names?"

"You're not going to say it, are you?"

Ye Yiyi raised the Moonlight Spear expressionlessly, and white light burst out from the tip of the spear.

"That's perfect. Actually, I didn't really want to ask..."

"Don't be impatient, hero, things don't have to come to this... I'm telling you, isn't that enough?"

Seeing that Ye Yiyi was about to start a fight after a disagreement, the man in black robe suddenly softened his attitude, and there was a hint of wry smile in his tone.

"You've gone through so much trouble to get here, why do you lose your temper and resort to violence before you can even say a few words?

"That wouldn't do you any good, would it? Why don't you calm down first and sit down and talk it over?

"In this way, I can not only help you, the hero, but you may also understand my thoughts. Wouldn't that be a win-win situation for everyone?"

"Too much nonsense..." Ye Yiyi shook her head slightly, "So, are you a curse controler or not?"

"In a sense, I am..."

“Bang!!”

Before the man in black robe finished speaking, a violent air explosion sounded in front of Ye Yiyi.

A blue meteor flashed by and pierced through the black-robed man's forehead, making a small hole in the luxurious wall behind him, and then no trace remained.

The tall man in black robe narrowed his eyes slightly under his hood and subconsciously turned his head to look at the hole in the wall.

"Wow!!!"

The abstract monster was startled and collapsed to the ground with a clang. The human heart wrapped in transparent crystal inside the metal skeleton was beating rapidly!

"This... this is exactly as the rumors say. Not only is the attack swift, accurate, and ruthless, but it's also incredibly clean and efficient..."

The man in black robe patted his undamaged hood and smiled bitterly as if he was afraid.

"Just now, I thought I was really dead."

"Uh?"

Seeing this, Ye Yiyi frowned and glanced down at the moonlight gun in his hand.

He took a head-on hit from my Bound Star Meteorite Armor-Breaking Cone, but his head didn't explode?

How can this be?

Is it a defensive spell? Or something else?

He looked at the man in black robe warily, and after a little thought, he raised the light gun in his hand again.

Seeing this, the man in black robe couldn't help but shrink his body and almost hid under the railing in front of him.

Although Ye Yiyi couldn't hit him, he would still be afraid of this attack that was filled with cold murderous intent.

It's like when you are in the zoo and see a tiger baring its teeth and growling at you through the cage. Even though you know it can't hurt you, you still feel scared.

But after a flash of white light, the man in black robe was surprised to find that Ye Yiyi did not launch an attack. Instead, a faint white light suddenly appeared in his eyes.

Ye Yiyi used [Stargazing] to strengthen his eyes. At this moment, the black-robed man in his eyes was not a physical entity, but was composed of colorful ripple-like lights.

"It's not a real person, but an illusion..."

He shifted his gaze thoughtfully to the tall man in black robe behind him.

The tall body was also composed of colorful ripples, which showed that he was also an illusion, not a real person.

On the contrary, the abstract monster beside him is real, not an illusion.

"Ha~"

After learning the truth, he couldn't help but sneer.

"I was wondering, you knew I was ruthless and decisive, yet you still dared to stay here and wait for me? Turns out you're just a projection, your real self isn't here."

He grinned and took a step forward, walking up the stairs on both sides to the second floor, and came to the two people who were looking at each other in silence.

"Ah ha ha……"

The man in black robe smiled awkwardly. "After all, you have a terrible reputation, hero. No one wants to take the risk, right?"

"lie."

Ye Yiyi glanced sideways, and the man in black robe was stunned on the spot.

"You fled here to avoid the impact of the lighthouse, right?"

He sneered and said, "Are you not aware of the consequences of a lighthouse?

"You knew that, yet you still did it, just to stop me from entering the Mage's Tower? You think too highly of me."

"But it turns out that even the lighthouse can't stop you." The man in black robe spread his hands and smiled bitterly.

"This also includes the painting I improvised. You truly possess extraordinary powers. You actually managed to break free from the eternal prison of the Wingless all by yourself... I'm truly impressed!"

"Oh, you're praising me?"

Ye Yiyi smiled brightly, but squinted her eyes when she spoke.

"No, I don't think that's what you mean. You're trying to fool me."

"How could that be?" The black-robed man sighed helplessly and held out his hand. "Nothing I say or do is false. I swear."

"Whatever you want, I don't care."

Ye Yiyi carried the Moonlight Gun on his shoulder and said indifferently. He glanced at the abstract monster hiding behind the tall man in black robe, then turned to look at the building built in the mountains.

The man in black robe was speechless. He looked at the tall figure silently and shook his head with difficulty.

"Did you build that building behind the wall?"

Ye Yiyi suddenly spoke, startling the two people who were looking at each other silently.

"Haha, Mr. Hero, what do you mean? I'm a little confused..."

The man in black robe was about to speak with a smile, but he saw Ye Yiyi standing in front of the small hole in the wall, pointing there and looking at them with a smile on his face.

The black-robed man's breathing stopped for a moment.

Seeing this, Ye Yiyi's smile widened and he chuckled:

"If I hadn't strengthened my eyesight, I might have overlooked this hole. I saw a cold light coming through it. Although it was extremely faint, it was not invisible."

The two black-robed men looked at each other in amazement, and the crowd remained silent.

"Ah, I think I understand!"

He clenched his right fist and tapped it lightly on the palm of his left hand.

"Is this one of your Curse Controllers' bases? Or perhaps a very important, strategically important location?

"You summoned the stars because you were afraid I'd discover this place? So, maybe the tower on the top of the mountain is connected to this place?

"You want to destroy the tower, or this mountain, or anyone who might know about the existence of Amblet?"

Seeing that the two men in black robes remained silent and did not refute or explain, Ye Yiyi knew that he had guessed right.

He took a few steps back with a smile on his face, put away the Moonlight Spear, took out the Mountain Seat from behind, and pointed it at the wall.

"Then let me take a look at what is hidden in it."

"Hero...why did it come to this?"

The black-robed man finally couldn't help but speak.

"Why are you pressing us so hard? Do you really think we're traitors? But the kings are all equals. There's no question of loyalty or betrayal.

"Now, more than ten thousand years have passed, and the once glorious king has long since passed away, becoming a forgotten part of history.

"The war is over. We don't need to continue this hostility. We can freely choose our future path instead of meaninglessly killing each other."

"None of my business."

"What?" The man in black robe was stunned.

"I don't care about the shit you guys say..."

Ye Yiyi stared at the wall without looking away. Golden light spots gathered from all directions and merged into the golden gun body.

He said calmly:

"...I only know that you're a nuisance, a bunch of lunatics who don't take human life seriously. What did those Winged People do wrong? Why should they be sacrificed to you?

"What have the people in this castle done wrong? How are they bothering anyone by living peacefully? Do you have to kill them all?"

"You...you actually...are you doing this for such a reason? For a bunch of insignificant ants?"

The man in black robe was shocked when he heard this and could not understand this logic at all.

"Insignificant? Ha!"

Ye Yiyi couldn't help but reveal a murderous sneer.

"So you're noble? You're important? Who gave you that confidence, that feeling of superiority?"

"We are the people of the Kings!"

The man in black robe couldn't help but raise his voice and argued loudly:

"What are they? Just a bunch of ignorant barbarians, a bunch of uncivilized savages, a bunch of beasts who don't know what truth and ideals are, who spend their days doing nothing and just living for the sake of living!

"Hero, with all due respect, they can't even be considered human! They don't deserve the title of human, they are just a bunch of insects! A bunch of ants!

“Our once-splendid architectural wonders, our incomparably brilliant artistic and technological achievements, have now become mere ruins and mere playthings for the eyes!