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

The girl deliberately said in an enigmatic tone:

"You possess vast wisdom, but are limited by the complexity of this mundane world and have nowhere to display it."

The little deer in the forest transformed into a deer-headed human priest, and was now fortune-telling for a passing dragon man.

Ye Yiyi was slightly stunned when he heard this.

Isn't this sentence... exactly what the witch says before the player becomes her apprentice in the game?

Does this also match the scene in the game?

He thought for a moment, then smiled evilly in his heart, then frowned, showing a sad look, and looked at the girl in a conflicted manner.

"What should I do?"

"Don't be afraid, don't worry! Fortunately, you met me."

The girl nodded seriously and solemnly, waving her white and tender hands as if to command someone, and finally clenched her fists suddenly, as if her destiny was in her hands.

"Master! Please teach me." Ye Yiyi's distressed expression turned into surprise.

"Don't worry, I will allow you to display your wisdom and make all the creatures in this world call your name... What is your name?"

"Your Highness, he is the Name Seeker..."

Wu Shanzuo said helplessly in a low voice, and at the same time signaled Ye Yiyi with his eyes to be patient.

"In that case, let me give my beloved disciple a name!" The girl straightened her chest and nodded heavily with great vigor!

No, that's messed up. It's not time for you to become a disciple yet, don't call me your beloved disciple in advance!

Ye Yiyi twitched his lips and whispered, "I found the name."

"What's your name?" The girl also raised her eyebrows and moved her white-haired head closer to ask in a low voice.

"Uh, Ye Yiyi...but I'm using an alias now, Hawkwood."

The girl's eyes rolled around, then she nodded slightly, and then she straightened her chest again, which was almost flat, and the pure white dress underneath her swayed gently like a flower blown by the wind.

She said loudly:

"Then, Hawkwood, come and become my disciple and learn magic from me!"

"me?"

Ye Yiyi opened her mouth in surprise, seeming a little bit unbelievable.

"Can someone like me learn magic?"

"Don't worry, your potential is beyond your imagination! I will inspire the great wisdom you possess! And make you a powerful magician!"

"That's great!"

"Ahem, but as the saying goes, a strict teacher produces excellent students. I will not show any mercy in teaching you, but will do my best to spur you on."

"I can't ask for it!"

"Great, great! This is exactly the momentum we want!"

The girl gave a sly smile, and amidst Wu Shanzuo's long sigh, she stood on tiptoe and patted Ye Yiyi's shoulder.

"I'm very optimistic about you, don't let me down~~"

"So when do we start teaching?"

Ye Yiyi took out two thick books from behind her.

"Eh?"

The girl stared at the magic book in his hand and was suddenly stunned.

"What's the matter, teacher?"

Ye Yiyi tried hard to hide the desire to curl up the corners of his mouth, pretending to be confused and looked at the girl and asked.

"Is it not possible to bring your own teaching materials?"

"Well, this... is not impossible."

The girl lowered her voice and scratched her gray hair subconsciously. She raised her head again and looked carefully at Ye Yiyi's expression of pretending to be similar, but could not find any flaws.

"Are you serious?"

The girl was puzzled and couldn't help but talk to herself in her heart,

"...But I'm just looking for a hard labor job. Why are you like that guy last time, really thinking that something good will fall from the sky?"

"teacher?"

Ye Yiyi held two books in his hands and looked at her straight with an expression full of curiosity.

"Ahem! Um..."

The girl covered her mouth with her fist and coughed twice, then suddenly widened her eyes. The innocent and pure girlish feeling on her body suddenly disappeared, and her eyes were replaced by vicissitudes and dead eyes. Her whole body exuded an ancient, heavy, solemn and majestic air.

The girl fully released the might accumulated over ten thousand years, staring at Ye Yiyi and then said seriously:

"However, there is one fact you must know. I am known as a witch by the Zhige Hall!"

Witch?

Adam, whose first impression of the princess had completely collapsed, felt his mind becoming more and more confused.

This extremely changeable personality and temperament...it seems right to call her a witch.

"Witch?"

Ye Yiyi pretended to tremble all over, as if he couldn't breathe because of the pressure, and then said in a trembling voice:

"What is a witch...?"

"Humph!"

The witch sneered and said, “Witch, you are a symbol of terror that those ungrateful and cowardly magicians fear!

"I have killed countless lives and witnessed with my own eyes the transformation of all living things on the planet into eternal, unchanging stone!

"I bear the curses and hatred of billions of lives. After death, all the living beings around me will turn into resentful spirits, coming to claim my life day and night!

"Even so! You still want to become my disciple? Learn magic from me!"

Adam and the other knights had already collapsed on the ground, their eyes wide open, their bodies shaking uncontrollably, the cold sweat on their backs already soaking their underwear.

The immense fear turned into an unshakable mountain pressing down on their hearts, and the silent howling of the resentful souls almost tore their sanity apart.

The existence of the witch is so terrifying that it is impossible to describe in words. Under the oppression of such fear, Adam and the knights' spirits can no longer hold on and are on the verge of mental collapse.

The witch naturally noticed this scene, but she did not stop. She just slightly moved her dead red pupils and gestured to Wu Shanzuo who was waiting on the side.

"Ah~~"

Wushanzuo sighed deeply, raised his big hand, and materialized an illusory metal arm in the air, grabbing the knights and the crocodile that had rolled its eyes and foamed at the mouth.

"Guest, please follow me first."

It whispered to the expressionless and silent Norsley above it and pointed in the direction of the town.

The female psychic looked back at the two people who were confronting each other. After hesitating for a moment, she reached out and took the trembling dung beetle crawling towards her. At Ye Yiyi's tail-wagging signal, she followed Wushanzuo's pace.

"What happened just now? What are they doing?"

Not until they were a little further away did Norsley look up and ask in confusion.

“…In short, Her Royal Highness has taken a liking to Hawkwood and wants to hire him as a servant to do hard labor and errands.

"But Her Highness the Princess won't say it directly, and will instead cover it up by accepting a disciple."

Wushanzuo pointed at Adam who was unconscious on the illusory palm beside him.

"His grandfather, Dino, was the 'apprentice' that Her Royal Highness the Princess accepted last time.

“But unfortunately, Dino took it seriously and really wanted to learn magic, so the princess scared him a little, just like she did just now.

"And the princess is all alone, having lived for ten thousand years in the body of a dead person. Her experience, even just a little bit, is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

"Dino couldn't handle it and was so frightened he lost control of his bladder. He was demoted from 'apprentice' to just a handyman."

Wushanzuo sighed softly,

"So, let's give Mr. Hawkwood some face. After all, he's a guest. It would be embarrassing if he lost face in front of us..."

"?"

Norsley looked up, confused.

"Why do you say that?"

"What do you mean?" Wushanzuo was a little confused.

"My friend, he is very strong."

"Really? You mean to say he can pass the test?"

"test?"

"Yes, that is actually a test." Wu Shanzuo replied softly.

"Even though the king is now an enemy, the princess is still the king's daughter!

"How can it be so easy to become the princess's apprentice?"

"I see."

Norsley seemed to understand and looked down at the dung beetle that was still trembling slightly in her arms.

"But I think the partners will pass the test," she said.

"Oh? Why?" Wu Shanzuo looked over curiously.

"Because he has no fear," the female psychic whispered. "Unlike the dead, companions are born immortal, true heroes who dare to face everything..."

It was not until Norsley took the dung beetle and followed Wushanzu away that Ye Yiyi felt relieved.

The witch's power was so strong that it was almost like chaos magic, turning into an attack that could truly affect the soul and mind.

Even the dung beetle, which had been strengthened many times, could not withstand such an attack, let alone Adam and the others.

As for Norsley, she was a dead person without emotions. Just like mental attacks were ineffective against robots, the witch would naturally not be affected.

Although Ye Yiyi could ignore the effects of attacks, the witch's power was like the terrifying roar of an ancient dragon, and it still affected him.

He couldn't move. His whole body was out of control, hallucinations appeared in his eyes, and his consciousness gradually became hazy.

Looking at Ye Yiyi who was standing stiffly in the same place, the girl raised her eyes and asked calmly in a voice that could see through the soul.

"Then Hawkwood... No! Ye Yiyi, even if you knew what my existence meant, you still want to be my apprentice? Do you want to bear the consequences of my curse, life and death on your shoulders?"

"I……"

Ye Yiyi looked at the girl whose eyes gradually became blurred, listened to the familiar words, and the corners of his mouth curled up uncontrollably, just like when he ran the hundredth round, and spoke out his true feelings.

"With great pleasure..."

Chapter 401 [True Liberation]

"With great pleasure..."

"Hmph, I knew you wouldn't... Wait a minute?"

Hearing Ye Yiyi's answer, the witch sneered and was about to criticize the other party's courage, but she suddenly realized something halfway through her words and was stunned on the spot.

"What did you just say?"

Looking at the blurry girl in the white dress in his sight, Ye Yiyi raised the corners of his mouth with difficulty and gave her a stiff smile.

"I say... with great pleasure..."

After confirming that she had not heard wrongly or was hallucinating, the witch reacted and lowered her eyes as if she was lost in thought.

The witch didn't answer, and Ye Yiyi couldn't move. She could only stand there stiffly, continuing to endure the invisible pressure from her spirit and momentum.

"...This feeling of oppression is too weird." He couldn't help but think in his heart.

Although momentum is invisible and intangible, it does exist.

For example, the fire-breathing lizards we encountered in the Crucible. One of them was huge in size and was named "Dragon Roar". It was said that it had a trace of blood from ancient dragons, so it could make a dragon roar and cause shock and panic.