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

After trying to take two steps, he showed a look of satisfaction.

Those two white cloaks with shapes behind him are so cool!

Finally, he took out the Eagle Wing Knight's straight sword and hung it around his waist. He disguised himself as an Eagle Claw Knight and headed towards the depths.

Back at the crossroads, Ye Yiyi turned right this time.

Soon we arrived at the end of the corridor. This place was the same as the corridor on the left, where skilled slaves were stored.

But unlike before, all eight doors here are open.

Ye Yiyi took a look at every room.

There were no skilled slaves in the room, they must have all been awakened.

Ye Yiyi returned to the crossroads, and finally the only way left was to go forward.

I continued along the road, but before I took two steps, I heard hurried footsteps coming from deep in the corridor.

Ye Yiyi was shocked for a moment.

"You met someone so soon?"

He pretended to be calm and continued walking in an orderly manner.

Soon, a middle-aged Eagle Claw Knight without a helmet trotted over in the crimson corridor.

When it saw Ye Yiyi, the knight in disguise, its eyes suddenly lit up.

"Hey! You've arrived just in time! There seems to be something wrong at the bottom of the furnace. It seems that the ancient slaves were disturbed by the lava creatures and accidentally got stuck in the gears!

"I asked that ancient man to go down and take a look, but when he heard about the lava creatures, he refused to go. Since you're here, why don't you go down and take a look!"

He stopped and then walked back in the direction he came from.

Ye Yiyi's face inside the helmet turned dark.

It seemed his disguise was perfect, but the problem was that the knight seemed to treat him as a subordinate.

Look at the tone of your voice. You want to leave all the dirty work to your subordinates, right?

"But ancient people?" he mused.

In this case, the ancient people should be the imprisoned unsung heroes.

Ye Yiyi had a plan in mind, and immediately walked towards the middle-aged knight without saying a word.

Soon, after walking down another flight of stairs, the two came to a room inlaid with transparent glass.

Looking out through the glass, Ye Yiyi couldn't help but open his eyes wide.

The outside world is an extremely huge underground cavity. At the edge of the cylindrical cavity, there are layers of houses and buildings built with steel on the rock.

In the center of the cavity was a gigantic metal cylinder that the middle-aged knight called the "melting furnace."

Countless metal pipes hang down from the rock formation above, eventually converging into the furnace.

There were countless pipes, as complicated as a spider web.

Before Ye Yiyi could observe carefully, he heard the middle-aged knight beside him urging.

"What are you doing standing here? Go!"

Ye Yiyi reacted, nodded, and walked towards the door on the left side of the room.

"Where are you going?" The middle-aged knight frowned. "Why, do you want to take that ancient man with you?"

Ye Yiyi thought to herself, “I do want to. I also want to take him out.”

He scratched his head as if he had remembered it wrongly, then walked towards the door on the right.

Unexpectedly, just as he reached the door, he heard the serious voice of the middle-aged knight behind him.

"Wait! Stop right there!"

Ye Yiyi stopped and her heart tightened.

what happened?

Am I exposed?!

Chapter 52 Lava Creatures

"Wait! Stop right there!"

The solemn voice of the middle-aged knight reached Ye Yiyi's ears, and his heart tightened, but he still stopped and slowly turned around.

At this moment, his whole body was tense, his mind was highly concentrated, and he was ready to take action.

Exposure was inevitable. Ye Yiyi had no idea how the Knights operated, nor did he know the knights' daily code of conduct.

The middle-aged knight in front of him was obviously of higher status than ordinary knights.

In this situation, it is very common for the other party to see through your flaws.

Ye Yiyi said nothing, staring at the middle-aged knight walking towards him.

Then he watched him walk past him, pick up a metal shield from the corner of the room, and hand it to him.

"Hey?"

Ye Yiyi looked down at the shield in his hand and was stunned.

"Time is precious. There's no time for you to go back and get your shield equipment, so take my shield with you."

The middle-aged knight said seriously, "Go down and take a look, then come back. If you encounter a group of lava creatures on the way, don't go deeper, just come back and report. We'll gather people to explore again when daybreak."

"I don't know what's gone wrong with those monsters lately. They've been acting unusually active, and some have even reached the upper levels!

"You didn't prepare any pills to resist the high temperature, right? Come, take mine."

As he spoke, the middle-aged knight took out an iron box about one finger long and half a finger wide from the inside of his armor and placed it in Ye Yiyi's hand.

"If you feel like you can't take it anymore, take one. There are five left in this box, enough for you."

Finally, the middle-aged knight reached out and patted Ye Yiyi on the shoulder with a kind smile on his face.

"Watch closely, pay close attention, and be careful not to get caught in the gears like the slaves of old. Do you understand?"

Ye Yiyi nodded blankly.

"Okay, then go ahead." The middle-aged knight was very satisfied.

Walk out of the room and step onto a steel bridge built against the rocks.

A surge of heat wave hit him, waking up the dazed Ye Yiyi.

"I thought I was exposed..."

He looked back at the closed metal door, then looked down at the iron box and metal shield in his hands, feeling a little amused.

He is such a nice guy, giving me so many things for free.

"But if this happens, I won't be able to go to the blacksmith for the time being."

Ye Yiyi looked around and saw that on the rock wall on the other side of the cave, there were several houses connected by metal bridges.

"The blacksmith should be inside those houses." He thought to himself, "Maybe I can find another way up."

Then he walked to the side of the steel bridge and looked down.

Without the obstruction of glass, he could see the environment below more clearly.

The underground cavity in front of him was very deep, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and Ye Yiyi couldn't guess how deep it was.

The metal cylinder called the "Melting Furnace" seems to be a little deeper than the cavity. It is connected to the buildings on the rock wall by a metal bridge, and it becomes thicker as it goes deeper.

It looks like a tall tower extending from the ground, and the top of the tower is the "metal blast furnace" that Ye Yiyi saw from the outside world.

The bottom of the tower is submerged in a lake of lava.

That's right!

At the bottom of this cavity is an extremely spacious magma lake.

Ye Yiyi looked down from a high place. Apart from the vast expanse of red magma, he could only vaguely see small black dots floating above the magma.

He didn't know what it was, but he thought it was the underlying structure of the melting pot.

The middle-aged knight needed him to go to the bottom of the furnace to check the situation, which should be the place he was referring to.

“I thought it was a small dungeon, but who knew it was a huge box garden.

"However, there are still many similar buildings in the game. For example, deep within the Hellfire Volcano where the Hellfire Dragon lives, there is a Hellfire City hidden. It is a steel city built entirely on a sea of ​​magma.

“And a depth of a thousand or even ten thousand meters underground is not even the bottom layer of the border.

"The vast underground world known as 'Hell' lies even deeper beneath the lava sea. The foundry of one of the ancient kings, the God of Skill, was built within 'Hell'.

"But it's too early to talk about that now."

Ye Yiyi let out a long breath and walked forward along the metal bridge.

Soon we reached the end of the bridge, and there was an open metal door on the rock wall beside us.

"This should be the way down." Ye Yiyi stepped into the gate and walked down a long staircase.

On the way, he picked up the metal shield in his hand and looked at it carefully.

This is a kite-shaped shield, and the overall shape is an inverted triangle.

The surface of the shield is painted with an eagle claw pattern in red paint, which is very different from the eagle-winged knight shield that serves as an iron shield.

Ye checked the light curtain one by one.

【Eagle Claw Knight Kite Shield】

Requirements: Strength 10, Skill 12

Attribute correction: Strength D, Skill E

Durability: 200/200

Skill cost: 4

Item Description: A kite-shaped shield with an eagle claw pattern painted on it. This is the shield held by the Eagle Claw Knight Master.

A specially modified metal shield with excellent fire damage reduction performance.

In an era when the Eagle Wings were tragically annihilated and foreign gods replaced the eagle faith.

Only knights who uphold honor and sacrifice will paint the eagle claw pattern on their shields.

Combat Skill: Storm of Retribution

Swing your shield and charge forward to bring the storm.

Redirect ranged attacks like arrows towards incoming enemies.

It can also perform the same function as the combat skill "Shield Counter".

"That guy is actually a Knight Master?"

After reading the item description on the screen, Ye Yiyi was a little surprised.

"No wonder he takes such good care of his subordinates, even taking out his own shield."

"As for this combat skill, it's pretty good. Besides being able to use it as a shield counter, it can also deflect incoming projectiles. It's quite useful against enemies who are good at long-range attacks."

The shield counter combat skill can deflect the enemy's attack, causing it to lose balance and create a huge flaw.

Taking this opportunity, you can deliver a fatal blow to the enemy to execute him.

Ye Yiyi tied the shield to his left arm and opened the iron box to check.

There are five marble-sized pills in the box, and they are red in appearance. When you smell them up close, you will immediately feel the fragrance of grass and trees.

【Anti-fire pills】

Item Description: Spherical pills made from ground herbs grown around volcanoes.

The red pill can temporarily increase the fire attribute damage reduction rate.

In order to open up the Hell of Fire Volcano, pills were made and distributed to the knights.

However, with the death of the Knight Commander at the hands of a flying dragon, the development was put on hold indefinitely.