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

"No one wants to adapt to this kind of thing." Ye Yiyi answered with mixed emotions. The scene reminded him of Bai Yu and Alice, and himself.

If possible, he hoped that he would never get used to such things.

Wushanzuo remained silent for a moment, but did not present facts or explanations like Alice did.

It simply gave a warrior's salute to the dead knight, and then whispered to Ye Yiyi.

"……you're right."

About ten minutes later, the cover of the black box disappeared out of thin air, and the knight's body fell from the sky. Adam, who had been waiting for a long time, caught it himself, but he was also covered in blood.

"If I remember correctly, this should be a cemetery, right?" Ye Yiyi looked towards Wushanzuo.

"Yes, the underground cemetery of the Abandoned Princess." Wu Shanzuo nodded in response, but his eyes were looking at Adam who was holding Yalu's body.

"He died at the hands of the Curse Master. Her Royal Highness the Princess will allow him to be buried here."

"No." Adam shook his head sadly. "I promised Yalu that I would bury him next to his parents after he died... Bringing everyone home is my promise to them."

“…Go home.”

Wu Shanzu sighed and nodded lightly, but did not force it. He turned and faced the bottom of the stairs:

"Then let's go, grandson of Dino. Her Highness the Princess is still waiting."

"..." Adam looked up blankly after hearing this, "Master Wu Shanzuo... do you know my grandfather?"

"About 33 years ago, I was the one who entertained him. You have a token of his presence on you, and you look very similar."

Wu Shanza replied solemnly, "He is a very determined warrior."

"Really..." Adam forced a difficult smile, looked down at the dead knight in his arms, and his expression finally became lost again.

"I have a question."

On the way down, Ye Yiyi floated to Wu Shanzuo's cheek and asked in a low voice.

"Who is the Abandoned Princess?"

"?"

Wushanzuo looked at Ye Yiyi in surprise.

"You don't know the princess?"

"After I was resurrected, I lost a lot of memories." Ye Yiyi came up with the same excuse again.

"I see." Wu Shanzuo suddenly realized and replied:

"Princess Qishi is the daughter of one of the ancient kings, the Lord of Life and Death."

Chapter 399 The Witch of the Cursed

"The daughter of the Lord of Life and Death..."

Hearing this, Ye Yiyi was suddenly stunned.

The daughter of the Lord of Life and Death?

Wait, he has a daughter?

what……!

He suddenly realized that there was nothing strange about the Lord of Life and Death having a daughter.

He is a king, not a high monk who has severed all ties with marriage. He has a wife, and it is normal for him and his wife to have a daughter.

But the problem is...

Ye Yiyi looked towards Wushanzuo and asked tentatively:

"Could it be that the witch people are talking about is the Forsaken Princess?"

"Witch, what an ancient title..."

Wu Shanzuo had no doubts about it, but sighed in a long tone:

"This reminds me of my first encounter with the princess over a hundred years ago. I didn't expect that after all these years, this nickname would still be circulated in the outside world... Ah, I was distracted. After all, no one has spoken to me for a long time, and I accidentally said a little too much..."

"It's okay, I'd be happy to chat with you."

Ye Yiyi shook his tail to show that he didn't care, and signaled Wu Shanzu to continue.

"Hehe, although I am happy to chat, I should answer your question first.

"You are right, Her Highness the Princess is a witch. Witch is a title she holds."

"So that's it."

After receiving the personal confirmation from Wushanzuo, Ye Yiyi nodded as if he suddenly understood, and muttered to himself.

“This is not the same as in the game.”

The witch in the game is the first magic teacher the player meets in the process.

In addition to teaching players various basic magic, she will also show players the way to Roenmoya and how to repair the teleportation array.

As for why she knew how to repair the teleportation array, it was related to the witch's own experience.

In the game, she claims to be from Roanmoya and is a powerful magician.

After the crystal disaster broke out on Roenmoya, she followed the Temple of Stopping War to escape to the border, but was accidentally infected by the curse on the way. Due to various accidents, she was transformed into an incomplete deep dead.

This doesn't mean that she is dead, but she is not completely dead either.

Like Schrödinger's cat, the witch is in a superposition of dead and not dead.

She couldn't be killed in any way, but at the same time she wasn't alive either.

She possesses human emotions and intellect, but her body is like that of a dead person. Moreover, because she is infected by a curse, all magic she casts is forced to have dark attributes.

That form of existence was feared by the magicians, so they expelled her from the Hall of Stopping War and gave her the title of "Witch".

According to the witch herself in the game, "witch" refers to "a woman with ominous demonic qualities" rather than "a woman who masters magic."

After being driven out by the Hall of Stopping War, the witch wandered the bordering lands for many years until one day she encountered a being similar to herself - the Cursed.

So in order to understand her own condition, she began to study the reasons why scholars became the deep dead.

But you can't conduct research alone.

So she found this place and welcomed other cursed people to come under the pretext of sheltering the cursed people.

As time passed, the number of cursed people in the underground cemetery where she lived increased.

Until one day, the witch realized that this place had become a holy city for the cursed, a gathering place that would never be disturbed by outsiders.

The witch herself is also honored by many cursed people as:

"The Witch of the Damned."

The witch is a fellow traveler who is both a teacher and a friend to the player in the game. Because of her personality and modeling, most players regard her as the third wife after the Saint and Baiyu.

But just like the endings of the second wife and the first wife, the witch's final ending is not good for the players.

Regarding the witch's side quest, you need to keep getting the witch's guidance while searching for the magic book.

Finally, he found a way to go to Roanmoya to help her break the curse of "neither life nor death" and let her truly die as a human.

The NPC side quests in soul-like games are always like this. The NPC always dies in the end.

Or die with regret, having no control over your life.

Or he fulfilled his long-cherished wish and died willingly.

So the companions who had traveled with him left one after another, leaving the player alone to continue moving forward in this dark world.

Such an ending is hard for many players to accept, but there is nothing they can do, especially for a character like the witch who is both popular and good-looking.

Although there is a way to block side quests in the game, that is, to block them before the step where the NPC dies and not do them, thus avoiding the NPC's death.

But in this case, you won't get the final reward for the side quest.

For example, at the end of the witch line, when the witch dies successfully as a human, the player can get a deep magic with super high output in her former residence.

Ye Yiyi didn't pay attention when she played the first round, and only regretted it after she got the magic after the witch died.

Therefore, after running through the map for multiple rounds, he would always block the witch line at the last step to prevent the opponent from dying.

Now that the game has become reality, the witch's identity has also changed. It is no longer as simple as in the game. This surprised Ye Yiyi, but also made him secretly relieved and feel a little happy in his heart.

Because in this way, the witch might not have to yearn to die as a human in order to survive like in the game.

As for the deep magic with super high output, please, Ye Yiyi is not the mute in the game who can't say a word except screaming. If it really doesn't work, he can just beg the witch to teach him.

After figuring this out, he finally felt better.

Feeling good, he naturally wanted to find someone to chat with, so he pulled Wu Shanzu over to chat.

"By the way, how did the title of Abandoned Princess come about?"

"It's understandable that you didn't know. After all, in that situation, no one cared about anyone except themselves... I also learned about this title from the princess's own account."

Wu Shanzuo patiently explained:

“When the war broke out, the princess happened to be participating in exploration and development in Roenmoya. In addition, the monarch did not initiate any rebellion at that time and was still on our side.

“So for the princess’s safety, she did not return to the border, but stayed in Roenmoya.

"Later, Chaos and Impermanence betrayed us and released the Primordial Stasis Curse. To prevent the curse from spreading, His Majesty the Heavenly Creator closed the teleportation arrays leading to various exotic planets..."

"Uh……"

Hearing this, Ye Yiyi's eyes widened. He suddenly felt inexplicably familiar and had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Could it be...that the princess was left in Roenmoya and can't come back?"

"Ugh……"

Wushanzuo sighed deeply.

"This is the origin of the princess's name, 'Abandoned World'. It's not that she abandoned the world, but that the world abandoned her.

"At that time, the Lord of Life and Death built a cenotaph for her, which is here."

"Is that so?"

Ye Yiyi swallowed silently, and suddenly frowned, feeling something was wrong.

"But the Lord of Life and Death hadn't betrayed him by then, right? And as long as the war was over, the Heavenly Creator could repair the teleportation array and allow the princess to return, right? And she wasn't dead, so why did she need a cenotaph?"

"Because the Lord of Life and Death's betrayal was not a spur-of-the-moment act, but was premeditated."

Wushanzuo shook his head slightly and said:

"In the second year after the Princess's Cenotaph was completed, the Lord of Life and Death suddenly announced that he had joined the ranks of the Dragon King and the Chaos Impermanent.

"Millions of the Abyssal Dead, composed of a cursed army, swept across the lands, fighting on the borders filled with the original stagnant curse, and were almost unmatched...

“And that huge number of deaths could not be achieved in just one year.

"Perhaps, the Lord of Life and Death anticipated this scenario, and therefore built a cenotaph for the princess, and..."

"And what?" Ye Yiyi's ominous premonition became stronger.

"Besides, the princess is just an ordinary human, not a name seeker. How do you think Her Highness could live for more than ten thousand years?"

"Could it be..." Ye Yiyi widened her eyes.

"She was also transformed into... the Abyssal Dead?"

"You're only half right." Wu Shanzuo shook his head gently. "The princess's current state is very strange. Although she looks like a dead person, immortal, she still retains her intelligence and emotions, just like a living person..."

Damn, why is this happening?

Ye Yiyi was stunned.

Before, he was glad that reality had changed compared to the game, thinking that the witch would not die this time. Who knew that after going around in circles, he would end up matching the settings in the game?

"Could this... be due to Resurrection Sickness?"

Ye Yiyi asked tentatively, then suddenly slapped himself on the forehead.

The princess was transformed in Roenmoya, so how could there be divine contamination in that place?

It's probably just like in the game, it's cursed!