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

This description sounded too philosophical, and he couldn't understand it at all.

Also, if this thing is an active conceptual conglomerate, why is it called "Inert Darkness"?

Active yet inert? That description would drive your chemistry teacher crazy.

"One of the manifestations of stagnation..."

He lowered his eyes and chewed over these words in his mind.

"This stagnation, does it refer to the stagnation curse?"

"Some of the characteristics of darkness are very similar? Then what is darkness? Dark attributes?"

"So annoying! I don't understand anything at all!"

His expression was conflicted, his thoughts were in a mess, his brain was dizzy, and he wished he could just lie down on the spot and fall into a dream with an empty head.

In other words, get going!

"Anyway, all I need to know is that this thing is a throwing prop."

As for the rest, since I can’t figure it out no matter how hard I try, it’s better not to think about it.

"But does this thing require concentration points to be thrown?"

"Why does it consume concentration points? Is it for activation?"

"And it deals significant dark damage, and it also accumulates the stagnation meter? Stagnation?"

He was stunned. In the game, the dark attribute was simply a dark attribute, but there was no abnormal state like stagnation?

Thinking about being hit by the black thorn and the strange state he fell into afterwards, Ye Yiyi was thoughtful and roughly understood the effect of this abnormal attribute.

"In short, it's just a sloppy play."

He looked down and found a humanoid black-scaled monster wandering alone. His eyes lit up and he immediately fell from the air, landing on the ground in the monster's eyes.

"Hey! Grandson!"

He raised his middle finger at the monster and taunted it, and the effect was remarkable!

"Roar!"

The black-scaled monster became furious upon seeing this, raised its head and roared, then swung its limbs and rushed towards Ye Yiyi like a mad dog.

"Let me try the effect on you."

Holding the Inert Darkness high above his head, Ye Yiyi's thoughts moved, and he felt something flowing out of his body, along his arm and into the sea urchin.

"Is this the concentration value?"

It was the first time he clearly felt the existence of concentration value, and he looked up thoughtfully.

After injecting concentration value, thick black mist suddenly emerged from the surface of the sea urchin crystal in his hand and floated around the crystal.

From a distance, half of his arm was covered in black mist.

"This black fog should be the deep darkness, right? It's a bit strange, why doesn't it have any effect on me?"

A thought flashed through his mind. He waited for the black-scaled monster to rush in front of him with its fangs and claws bared, then he moved his arm slightly and threw out the black mist ball wrapped in sea urchin crystals.

"Pong!"

The inert darkness activated by the concentration value hit the monster's forehead directly, like a smoke bomb exploding, and a large ball of dark fog emerged from it, covering the monster's body in an instant.

"It looks a bit like a smoke bomb," he thought.

The black-scaled monster's furious roar came to an abrupt halt, as if it had disappeared into the black fog.

When the black fog dissipated, we saw it lying quietly on the ground, motionless.

"died?"

He took a closer look out of curiosity and found that the monster was still breathing and was not dead.

Although its body was intact and without any external injuries, its breathing was weak, as if its vitality was fading and it was in a near-death state.

"Is this dark attribute damage? It seems to be the same as magic, not external injury."

He thought to himself as he squatted down in front of the monster, lifted up its head with his hands, and used his fingers to pry open its eyelids covered with tiny black scales.

The monster's golden vertical pupils enlarged slightly, and the brutality and murderous intent in them disappeared without a trace. Even when Ye Yiyi raised his head, he just turned his eyes and looked at him, and other than that, he did not move.

There was no resistance, no struggle. It was like a dried salted fish, having lost its ambition and only wanted to lie down.

Ye Yiyi had a strange expression on his face. He held his head with one hand and took out a short sword from behind his back with the other hand, and stabbed it into the monster's eyes.

The wing-shaped blade tip suddenly stopped before the vertical pupil, without actually piercing.

But even when faced with the threat of death, the monster's pupils only contracted slightly, and there was no other reaction.

It stared straight at the tip of the sword before it, then slowly closed its eyes and breathed weakly but evenly.

That's like... falling asleep?

"hiss!"

Ye Yiyi took a breath of cold air.

It seems that this abnormal state of depression is more serious than he imagined!

Not only can it turn a brutal monster into a harmless little white rabbit, it can also completely destroy the opponent's will to survive, forcing it to give up until death!

That's really playing badly to death!

If this were used for imprisonment, for example, by regularly injecting deep darkness into the cell, keeping the prisoners in a state of constant despair...

"I must be careful of these curse-wielders from now on..."

He secretly increased his vigilance against the Curse Master.

The eternal cage failed to imprison him before, but the cage controlled by the deep darkness might be able to.

After all, even he couldn't completely ignore this abnormal state.

Thinking this in his mind, he put the monster's head down, raised the short sword and stabbed it hard into its spine.

"Crack!"

A flash of blood appeared, and the monster suddenly widened its eyes, breathing rapidly, with rage and murderous intent flashing in its golden vertical pupils.

"It seems that pain or attack can relieve the state of depression."

Seeing this, Ye Yiyi seemed to have a glimmer of light in his eyes.

“I’ll definitely be able to use it next time.”

“Roar…Roar!”

The monster let out threatening growls but was unable to get up. Ye Yiyi broke its spine with a dagger, sentencing it to death.

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Seeing that the monster had stopped breathing, he stood up with a frown, and took out a rag from behind to wipe the bright red blood off the dagger.

He looked around, trotted over to a nearby place, and picked up another black sea urchin from the ground.

"This is the inert darkness that fell from the sky before."

Looking up and around, he saw a lot of black sea urchins scattered around, so he took out the hymn and cast a [Run] on himself, spending five minutes collecting these inert darkness one by one.

“The quantity is limited.”

After a rough calculation, including the one he already had, he had a total of 27 Inert Darknesses.

"It seems that this thing can't be thrown away casually." He thought to himself.

There is currently no stable source of this item. If you throw one away, one less will be yours. Therefore, you cannot waste it and must use it in the right place.

As for using the Lighthouse Star Hammer to summon the big hand again and let it make this kind of item for him?

Ye Yiyi shuddered inexplicably and quickly put this dangerous idea behind her.

"Forget it, though. That star is incredibly powerful. Extracting concepts from matter is something only the kings can do. If it discovers that I'm not actually the Indigo Lighthouse, then..."

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt guilty.

Is there a possibility that the big hand had already discovered that he was not a lighthouse?

For a moment he was in a dilemma.

The ability to extract concepts, with its help, he can not only obtain a large number of strange items, but also purposefully gather the concepts needed for the [False Life Prototype Embryo] and hatch immortal life in advance.

But if something goes wrong, such as using too many combat skills, it will discover the bordering location and then descend.

The disaster and consequences that would result would be beyond his ability to bear.

It’s not that he was afraid of losing the battle, but he was afraid that the other party would break through Yongyue’s defense line and summon a large number of stars to descend.

Who knows if it has this capability?

"Tsk... Anyway, let's just take it one step at a time."

He reluctantly put away the Inert Darkness and took out the Dragon Soul and Life Spirit to take a look.

"As for this thing, can it give a beast the physique of a flying dragon? Beast...is Virgil a beast, or a domestic animal?"

Patting his head, Ye Yiyi rolled his eyes.

What's there to be entangled about?

Dung beetles are insects, obviously not beasts, so the only one who can be used is Virgil.

"If that's the case, then this crystal is a Pava fruit?" Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile.

It can enhance strength, and the user is Virgil, isn’t this the Pava fruit!

"With the physique of a flying dragon, Virgil is about to ascend to heaven and become a dragon horse!

"It's quite interesting. One is a pava fruit and the other is a rotten fruit."

After putting the items away, he looked up at the giant tower that penetrated the void not far away, and continued to rush in the direction indicated by the yellow line.

Although he was very curious about the tower and wondered if he could find any treasures in it, it was more important to find Angel at the moment.

Relying on the speed of [Galloping] that was no less than flying, he quickly left the hole and arrived at another corridor.

"Walking through this corridor, there should be another hole ahead..."

He opened the light curtain and took a look, then looked forward, only to see the yellow line slowly falling from the sky, and finally extending forward along the ground, deep into the ruins of the large number of metal buildings stacked throughout the corridors.

"He came down from the sky and couldn't fly for just a short while?" Ye Yiyi scratched his chin and thought to himself that with this level of flying, Angel couldn't even fly as well as him.

"No wonder he said the flying dragon was the king of the sky, eh?"

"Crack!"

There was a sound of something breaking under his feet. Ye Yiyi looked down and found that he had crushed a piece of skull into powder.

"head?"

Zooming out the map screen, he lowered his head and looked around, only then did he discover that there were a large number of skeletons and rotten weapons on the ground around him.

"The traces of battle... look quite ancient. They must have been left behind a long, long time ago."

He pulled a rusty sword out of the ground, and watched the sword body disintegrate and turn into iron filings falling to the ground, and he couldn't help but think in his heart.

"The battle took place inside the fortress. The armies of the kings must have broken in..."

Looking up at the wall again, he found that the metal facilities and platforms had varying degrees of damage, and a large part of them had fallen from the air to the ground.

Glancing at the huge metal platform pressing on the wreckage of a flying dragon nearby, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"Then why was that corridor intact before?"

He thought about it, then looked at the junction of the corridor and the cave, and found a giant, slightly protruding metal door.

"Oh, there is a door, and it's retractable. It seems that it was sealed during the war."

Continuing along the yellow line, he soon stepped into a side door of a collapsed building and found a holy monument and a disemboweled winged man's corpse in a room filled with rubble.

The corpse had died in a horrific manner. The chest had been cut open from the chest to the lower abdomen, the blood had been drained, and the various internal organs had been gnawed beyond recognition.

That was not Angel's body, because the deceased was a female winged person. Her head was still there, her neck was twisted like a pretzel, her face was pale but intact, and it seemed that she did not suffer much pain before death.

"It's so miserable..."

He muttered softly, looked down at the bloody claw marks and footprints, and the pool of smelly vomit next to the corpse, and knew what had happened.