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

"The concentration of magic power in this place is too high compared to other places..."

Ye Yiyi rubbed his nose and looked around.

"And these crystal columns make me feel like I've arrived in Roanmoya. That place is full of these things."

"Help...help..."

At this moment, a low wailing cry for help suddenly came from the haystack beside the road in the distance.

Ye Yiyi and Harville exchanged glances silently and rode over.

The old magician held the staff in his hand, while Ye Yiyi got off the horse and walked towards the source of the sound.

"Who's calling for help?"

He asked in a low voice, his eyes suddenly attracted by a long, shiny crystal block in the grass.

"help me……"

Ye Yiyi was stunned when he heard the sound, and hurried over to turn over the long crystal on the ground.

Under the moonlight, flesh and crystals blended together, and the deformed cheeks that were almost indistinguishable from each other appeared in Ye Yiyi's eyes.

"Is this... a crystal person?"

Chapter 490 Ye Yiyi’s second exclusive magic.

"Crystal Man?"

Hearing Ye Yiyi's voice, Halville, who was sitting on his horse holding a staff, was slightly stunned. He quickly got off the horse and walked quickly towards Ye Yiyi.

"Someone actually asked for help? I thought it was some blind thief trying to fish."

The old magician muttered to himself, and when he saw the "crystal man" in front of Ye Yiyi, even though he was knowledgeable, he couldn't help but gasp.

"This... magic erosion? It's actually this serious?"

"Do you know what this is?"

Ye Yiyi turned her head and looked back.

"Of course I know this. This is the phenomenon of magic erosion that occurs after long-term activity in a place where high-purity magic energy gathers."

Halwell nodded in response, then raised his staff high above his head and emitted a bright white light.

Then he bent down and carefully examined the appearance of this "crystal man" in the light.

The man was not tall and even looked thin due to malnutrition.

But under the erosion of the so-called magic power, not only did his limbs expand three or four times out of thin air, but the flesh and blood on them also turned into a strange substance mixed with white crystals.

Ye Yiyi reached out and touched it, but it did not feel like flesh, but rough and frosted like stone.

This strange crystal erosion has covered the man's entire body, leaving only a little flesh color on his chest.

"It's too late to save her..."

After looking at it for a moment, Halville sighed and issued a death declaration.

"The magical erosion is too severe. Most of his internal organs and bones have completely crystallized. The only reason he's still alive is because his vital organs are still lingering."

"But this situation won't last long. In about an hour or two, his heart and brain will completely crystallize, transforming into a humanoid crystal."

At that point, it's no different from death.

Hearing Halville's words, the man let out a low whine of pain and despair.

"A human-shaped crystal?"

Ye Yiyi muttered to himself, then withdrew his hand and turned his head to look at the void beside him.

"Xiaoyu, you are an expert in playing with crystals. Do you have any ideas for this?"

"Wow~"

Amid the sound of flowing water, translucent tentacles stretched out from the deep blue mist, climbed up Ye Yiyi's shoulders, looked down, and then shook helplessly.

"The crystallization has penetrated deep into the bone marrow. Is it completely irreversible?"

Ye Yiyi repeated in a low voice what Xiaoyu wanted to express, and then sighed helplessly.

"Hey...give him a quick death, Master."

Halville stood up with the help of a cane and sighed.

"Master, I know you have a kind heart, but magical erosion is not a disease, and there is no cure. Otherwise, the ancient Roanmoya would not have been destroyed in the crystallization disaster."

"And the situation of this person in front of me is not an isolated case. The last time I came to Platinum Crystal Town, I witnessed many people whose bodies were crystallized due to the erosion of magic power."

"If my guess is correct, this person must be a slave who mines ore. Because of years of working in an environment of high-purity magic, he has become like this."

The old magician shook his head and said, "Even if you, Master, are able to save him, he will still be a slave and will be captured to mine crystal gems."

"..."

Ye Yiyi looked down at the man whose face was twitching, pupils were cloudy, and he was beginning to show signs of crystallization, and remained silent.

Just when Halville thought Ye Yiyi was about to give up, he heard him suddenly say:

"But slaves are also human beings. Now that I have encountered them, I will not ignore them. I must give them a try..."

"Ah~"

The old magician was helpless and sighed deeply, but squatted down again.

"Since the master has said so, let's give it a try... But forgive me for being blunt, the crystallization of flesh and blood is an extremely painful erosion process. It's a fundamental change in the nature of matter. Reversing the crystallization back into flesh and blood is essentially impossible."

"Nothing is impossible in this world."

Ye Yiyi shook his head and took out a golden fruit from behind him.

"What's this?"

Halville was stunned, his eyes widened as he felt the indescribable strong sacredness of the fruit.

"This is the Lingering Golden Fruit, the fruit of the Lingering Earth Veins."

"Lingering earth veins? Great earth veins?"

Halville was stunned, his mind filled with confusion and helplessness.

When will the earth veins bear fruit again?

what……

He seemed to have thought of a possibility, and his pupils suddenly constricted and his expression changed drastically.

The old magician stretched out his hand like lightning and firmly grasped Ye Yiyi's arm. The strength and speed displayed by his old body at this moment were not inferior to those of a strong warrior.

"What are you doing?"

Feeling the strength in the wrinkled palm, Ye Yiyi frowned and looked over.

"I said Master!"

Halville stared at the golden fruit in his hand, gritting his teeth, his face almost ferocious.

"Could this be the legendary blessing of the earth veins, the fruit of gold?!"

"Legendary?"

Ye Yiyi pursed his lips, switched to the Power, and easily broke free from the old man's hand that was as hard as a pair of pliers.

"This is indeed another name for the Lingering Golden Fruit. It's the Golden Fruit, for sure."

The Lingering Golden Fruit has the special effect of eliminating all abnormal states except divine pollution and stagnation curse.

That was why he took out the fruit, wanting to see if he could use it to save the slave's life.

"Master, are you sure you want to use the sacred blessing bestowed by the earth veins to save a slave?"

Then he heard these words from Halville.

Ye Yiyi looked at Halville, who had a shocked expression, and answered expressionlessly.

"Yes, what's the problem?"

As he spoke, he brought the fruit to the man's mouth and slowly crushed it with force.

Then, a stream of juice emitting a golden glow slowly flowed out from the broken flesh and dripped into the man's semi-crystallized lips.

"This……"

Halville's expression was on the verge of collapse!

He scratched his hair, his eyes bloodshot and turned red.

He wanted to reach out and stop Ye Yiyi from wasting the food, but the slippery tentacles wrapped around his wrists, restraining his body.

The dung beetle also landed on Harwell's shoulder and pressed its two sharp horns against the old magician's neck.

"..."

Feeling the chill on his neck, the old magician's brain, which had almost lost its mind, finally calmed down.

Ye Yiyi never looked at him from beginning to end, but just lowered her head and paid attention to the man's situation.

Soon, the man who drank the lingering golden juice began to emit a faint golden light from his body.

His stiff body seemed to soften, and the mottled crystals on his surface quietly began to crack and turn into pale powder.

During this wonderful change, Ye Yiyi felt a strange magical power evaporating from the man's body.

"Is this magic?"

He frowned slightly, his mind and consciousness spreading out involuntarily, and he subconsciously took over the control of the special magic.

Under the gaze of Halwell, who was sweating profusely.

Ye Yiyi stretched out his hand and held it above the slave. In his empty palm, a pale white airflow gathered from the man's body and turned into a faint cyclone that slowly rotated.

"Is that... magic?"

The old magician's expression became dull again.

How could the master control magic power with his bare hands without relying on catalysts?

How can this be?

Humans cannot perform magic without catalysts because the essence of magic is the reproduction of objective reality. Humans are not born with the ability to communicate directly with the world, so they can only rely on catalysts as a bridge to communicate with the world and reproduce the objective reality of the past.

And this power that can make objective reality reappear is magic.

In the eyes of magicians, magic is an objective natural phenomenon, no different in essence from fire, lightning, strong wind and rain.

Just as humans cannot control lightning and fire, they cannot control magic.

This is the consensus of all magicians and also Halwell's deeply rooted views.

But today, his three views were suddenly shattered.

Looking at the increasingly solid white gas in Ye Yiyi's hand, Halwell once again began to doubt Ye Yiyi's true identity.

Not only does the magic he releases possess intelligence, but he can even control magical power with his bare hands and even drive the stars.

The old magician looked down at the slave whose crystals had faded away and whose flesh body was revealed again, and couldn't help but talk to himself in his heart.

"Master Michaela, you are actually... not human at all, right?"

On the other side, Ye Yiyi, who was paying close attention to the magic ball in his hand, had no idea what changes had taken place in Halville's mind.

Of course, even if he found out, he wouldn't care.

Because in the eyes of some people, Michaela is no longer human.

Looking down at the man who had regained his human form, Ye Yiyi understood everything in his heart, and his understanding of the essence of magic became more profound.

"I was right. Flesh and blood that has been eroded by magic and transformed into crystals is actually a special abnormal state, just like bleeding and poisoning."

"Magic power itself has the effect of causing crystallization, and the prerequisite for this is the purity of the magic power."

"In other words, the higher the purity of the magic power, the easier it is to crystallize. From the perspective of the deconstruction of all things, the higher the purity of the magic power, the easier it is to enter an inert solid form."

The basic magic [Magic Splash] can shoot out a barrage of solid magic crystals, causing damage like a shotgun.

Its magic crystals, in the [Magic Concentration] entry in the Deconstruction of All Things, fall under the category of [Inert Magic Crystals].