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

"The robe is in my bedroom closet, the fourth double door from left to right, and the eighth from left to right. It has a pattern of the Shrimp Claw King embroidered on it in dark gold thread, making it easy to identify.

"The hat is on top of the wardrobe, the third one from the left, the gray-black pointed hat with the platinum thorns hanging from the hat.

"The second one is at the top of the tower, where..."

"Stop! I said stop!"

Ye Yiyi stretched out his hand to make a pause gesture, then said with a dark face and a bad tone:

"I'm talking about important items! Things that must never fall into the hands of the insect people! For example, your research records and experimental samples. Do you understand?"

"what……"

The old man opened his mouth and exclaimed "ah" for a while, then reached out and scratched his messy gray hair.

"If that's the case... then I don't have anything to take away."

"What?" Mercury Lamp's tone was a little out of control.

"It's not that I don't want to take it away, but the problem is that the things you mentioned have already been packed up and taken away by those insect people!"

The old man looked bitter. "They stayed only to verify whether my research results were consistent with the theory. Otherwise, they would have left long ago."

"That's more like it..." Mercury Lamp's expression brightened slightly. "What are your research results?"

"Can mutations in albinism viruses directed towards induction work in insects?"

"Directed induced mutation?" Mercury Lamp raised his eyebrows. "Which direction?"

"You understand..." The old man was a little surprised, and then he said quickly under the unfriendly eyes of Mercury Lamp:

"It's the 'Berserk' direction. It can cause the insect's muscle system to proliferate without destroying its overall structure, significantly increasing the insect's energy and endurance! This will lead to a boost in combat effectiveness!"

"Berserk?"

Mercury Lamp's expression suddenly became strange.

"Could it be that albino millipede, your experimental subject?"

"How do you know? Did you meet him?"

The old man was greatly surprised, and then his face changed drastically.

The corners of his lips trembled as he looked at the mercury lamp that was whistling and looking away, and stretched out his fingers tremblingly.

"Don't tell me...that millipede has already..."

"Ahem, I think your experiment was very successful, and the results are very consistent with the theory!"

"Gah..."

Hearing Mercury Lamp's euphemism, the old man rolled his eyes, straightened his legs, and collapsed backwards against the wall.

"Ah this..."

Mercury Lamp walked forward with some concern to check on the old man.

"I...I'm fine..."

The old man waved his hands in a confused manner, indicating that he was still alive.

"friend!!"

The next moment he suddenly sat up, staring at the mercury lamp with his big bloodshot eyes, which scared the doll.

"what?"

"After you rescue me, you must take me to the best brothel in all of Fire Sparrow Flower! No! I want the whole place to myself! Three days and three nights... No! Seven days and seven nights!!"

"what?"

Ye Yiyi was stunned.

No way, old man, you are still going to a brothel even though you are in this state?

I'm not afraid of death on a woman's belly.

"This is your compensation for killing my experimental results!!" the old man growled with his eyes wide open!

"..."

Mercury Lamp was silent for a moment, then turned and left.

"Forget it, I won't save you. I hate it most when people use their morals to blackmail me... You and those bug people can continue playing the kidnapping game."

"I was wrong! I was wrong! Don't go! Boss!"

The old man's expression changed instantly, and he followed the mercury lamp, crying and crawling.

"After all, that millipede is the fruit of my labor. If I leave it in the Empire's hands, I'll have to pay compensation even if I accidentally damaged someone else's work. Boss, please at least show some respect."

"Do you think this is still the Empire?"

Mercury Lamp suddenly stopped, then jumped over the old man and landed at the window.

The old man turned around in a daze, rubbing the tears that squeezed out of the corners of his eyes, staring blankly at the small and exquisite human figure.

The silver-haired puppet turned its back to the azure Eternal Moon and cast its cold red eyes down mercilessly under the moonlight and stars.

"This is the southern border, a place where the strong prey on the weak."

She raised her hand and snapped her fingers.

In the old man's confused eyes, a silvery-white crescent moon suddenly blocked the light of the stars and the eternal moon, and slowly rose in the dark sky.

"Just like the insect people can decide life and death over a weak person like you, I can do what they can do..."

"Boom!!!"

As invisible waves spread in the sky, the unicorn man suddenly woke up from his dream, then rushed out of the wooden house and looked up at the sky in disbelief.

"Is that... the moon?"

The ant man stared blankly at the crescent silver moon, muttering to himself.

"Silver...moon?"

"But the reason I didn't do that, and instead chose to destroy the insect people and come to save you, is because I am kind and compassionate..."

The puppet with the silver moon on its head spoke calmly in the increasingly bright moonlight, amid the increasingly chaotic insect camp, and under the dull and frightened gaze of the old magician.

"...And my kindness is not an excuse to impose conditions on you, or even to blackmail me morally."

"Boom!!!"

The bright moonlight transformed into a thick beam of light that fell from the sky, and the magic power of the new moon spread out with a terrifying extreme cold.

Snow suddenly began to fall from the sky, and all life in the insect camp silently turned into ice and shattered in the extreme cold.

The mercury lamp looked down as moonlight fell on the snow-covered sky.

"Now, do you understand, old man?"

Chapter 466: Halville and the True Evil Spirit

Amidst the falling snow, the old magician stared blankly at the doll standing on the windowsill, and suddenly he couldn't help shivering.

Is this guy...really a puppet?

Rather than some ancient giant beast in puppet skin?

That magical power just now, that beam of moonlight that fell from the sky... it's simply beyond the control of humans!

and……

The old magician swallowed and listened attentively subconsciously.

The insect camp outside the tower, which was originally in chaos, was now as silent as death.

What about those insect people?

What about the bugs controlled by the bug people?

Why did they suddenly become silent?

Could it be...

The old man's pupils shrank slightly, and an absurd idea suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Those insect people...are they all dead?"

He seemed to be muttering to himself, but his eyes were fixed on the mercury lamp.

Mercury Lamp glanced down at the prompt "Soul Echo +82312" on the simplified light screen, then turned around and looked.

As the crescent moonlight column quietly dissipated, the originally orderly insect camp now seemed to have turned into a huge ice sculpture.

Among them, there are insect-people with insect characteristics, extremely ferocious sickle-hook hunting insects, various huge alien insects, and even various small insects scattered everywhere.

Without exception, the entire huge insect camp was now wrapped in a huge piece of ice.

Their appearance is lifelike, the frightened expressions of the insect people are detailed and subtle, and the patterns on the surface of the insect bodies are clearly visible.

But their movements are frozen in time, like an eternal sculpture.

"All dead?"

Mercury Lamp frowned slightly as he looked at this scene.

How should I put it? Because this old man is too shameless and his ability to take advantage of others is first-class.

If I don't act tough to intimidate him, who knows what shocking words he will say next?

But what Ye Yiyi hadn't foreseen was that this pretense was very successful, no! It was too successful, even too successful.

With 92 intelligence points and 16 intelligence attribute bonuses, [Pale Moon Hanging High] wiped out all life in the camp in just a moment.

Not a single one left!

“There shouldn’t be any left, right?”

Ye Yiyi was thinking in his heart, he didn't know if these insect people had any special abilities that could allow them to survive such a blow.

After all, the hymn [Metamorphosis] itself is activated after the caster dies.

"I'm not sure if they are all dead." Mercury Lamp retracted his gaze and looked down at the old man with a pale face and trembling body.

Suddenly she frowned and asked in confusion.

"Why are you shaking?"

"...I...I'm cold, boss..."

The old man hugged his shoulders with his hands, his teeth chattering, and he exhaled a breath of white air from his mouth with trembling hands, and forced himself to smile ingratiatingly.

"The... the boss's... ice magic has truly reached... perfection. I was... freezing to death in the tower... wow!"

"Ah this..."

Mercury Lamp opened his mouth.

That's true. The magic power of the crescent moon can even freeze the flames of the hellhound into popsicles. You can imagine how low the temperature is.

This old man is under two curses and is now very weak. If he is frozen for a while longer, he will probably be buried in the ground.

"I understand." Mercury Lamp shook his head helplessly.

In the camp, Ye Yiyi, who was carrying a dung beetle on his shoulder and walking among many ice sculptures, waved his hand gently.

"Crack!!"

A crisp cracking sound was heard, and countless cracks appeared on the ice sculpture.

As the sound of ice collapsing continued, the crescent magic power that filled the entire camp dissipated at this moment.

Ye Yiyi looked at the ice sculptures around him, which shattered along with the limbs inside them and finally scattered all over the ground. He couldn't help but look down at his palms.

A faint pure white light swirled around his palm, like flowing silk, or a touch of bright moonlight.

"The new moon magic, the special magic produced by the blue moon hanging high, has an extremely cold nature, and can even freeze resentful souls into ice.

"But now, I can directly control this special magic power without using a catalyst."

He pointed his right hand, which was surrounded by magic, forward, and a soft white light slowly flowed out from his fingertips and disappeared into the air.

"Unfortunately, simply controlling magic power is useless. I still can't use magic without a catalyst."