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

Of course, due to the nature of the puppet, it is extremely vulnerable to the erosion of stagnant evil, thus turning into a minion of the decadent king Cyber ​​Messiah.

Unintelligent creatures are representatives of this type of cursed and eroded enemies.

"By the way, the notebook Dino gave me seems to have a combat skill called Magic Lightning."

Riding Virgil on the road to the ruins, Ye Yiyi suddenly thought of something.

Taking out the notebook of the most outstanding person, he used his eyes to open the light curtain and found the combat skill in a long list of combat skills.

"30000 responses? Not much, I'll buy one and see."

Soul Echo -30000.

Current soul echoes: 194581.

Ye Yiyi closed the notebook and felt the new combat skills he had acquired.

【Magic Lightning】

Skill consumption: 16.

Attribute correction: Skill B, Intelligence A, Mystery B.

Skill Description: One of the lightning combat skills of the Flash Thunder Monk.

Imbues the weapon with lightning and points it at the enemy, unleashing magical lightning.

Can be released continuously.

"Such a simple explanation of combat techniques..."

Ye Yiyi pursed her lips.

But fewer words does not mean that the combat skills are not strong enough. We have to try it to know the specific effect.

Thinking of this, he took out the Moonlight Spear with his backhand and pointed it forward against the whistling wind.

"Don't get scared, Virgil. 群護]〒一翅爸爸。/捌澪流引〢]"

He instructed the horse under him, and then launched his combat skills directly on horseback.

"Crackling!!"

There was a flash of lightning on the tip of the gun, and a silver-white arc of electricity shot out, hitting an electrified crystal insect the size of a wolfhound floating in the air, causing it to tremble all over.

"?"

A feeling of doubt was transmitted into Ye Yiyi's mind through the cosmic light.

The electrified crystal worm looked back in confusion, then its body flashed with electric light, and it shot a magic lightning towards Ye Yiyi.

"I really doubt that this so-called Flash and Lightning Warrior learned his fighting skills from these crystal insects."

Ye Yiyi muttered softly, and then saw the dung beetle falling like lightning, forcibly blocking the winding arc of electricity.

The crystallized body effectively suppressed the spread of the electric arc. It then flapped its wings and hovered in the air, with blazing spiritual fire burning on the two pairs of large horns on its head.

"Bad bug! Look at my big fireball!!"

The dung beetle shouted excitedly, and suddenly a fireball appeared out of thin air next to its burning horns, and then flew out into the air.

"boom!!"

The sensing crystal insect released an electric arc to hit the fireball from a distance, but it had no effect. It had no way to deal with the white spiritual fireball and was directly blown to pieces by it.

The dung beetle then flapped its wings and flew over, accurately catching a magical electric crystal the size of a marble among the crystal fragments in the sky.

"Well done."

Taking the crystal, Ye Yiyi smiled slightly.

"Hehe~"

The dung beetle also smiled happily, flapping its wings and flying ahead to lead the way.

"..."

Virgil said nothing, but couldn't help rolling his eyes, and then was hit on the head by Ye Yiyi.

"Run faster. You flinched when you faced the lightning just now, right?"

If you don't back down, are you waiting to be beaten?

It hurts so much to be struck by lightning.

Virgil had no choice but to run faster again.

Ye Yiyi felt a little helpless as she sensed Virgil's unspoken thoughts.

As a mammal, the horse's starting point is too high.

The higher the starting point, the stronger the spirituality and intellect, and the richer the emotions.

In other words, their performance in the face of lightning is far inferior to that of dung beetles, creatures that evolved from a low starting point and can completely overcome their natural fear.

Of course, the most important point is that being beaten is equivalent to evolution for dung beetles. Over time, they can fully adapt and even master that power.

But Virgil is not like that. He just takes a beating.

"In this case, it seems that the only way is to find a way to increase defense."

Looking at the dragon armor on Virgil's body, Ye Yiyi seemed to be thinking about something.

Then he collected his thoughts and looked at the notebook in his hand.

"The Magic Lightning skill is pretty good. It's extremely fast and doesn't cost much, but it's not very effective against enemies of the same origin... I'll take a look at the others to see if I can buy any more interesting skills."

They continued to move forward, and at noon when the sun was high in the sky, Ye Yiyi finally arrived at the location of the ruins drawn on the map.

"Hey, no, where are my relics?"

He sat on his horse, staring blankly at the forest in front of him.

"It's clearly here on the map!"

He summoned the light screen map again and looked around for the location.

But after walking around the area for a long time, he found nothing except a small creature.

"Ah this..."

It was only then that he suddenly remembered the item description on the map:

This item was made by the Great Earth Master Unoa, and was also a hastily drawn survey map commissioned by an old friend, so there will be errors in some locations.

"Tsk!"

He rolled his eyes and smacked his lips.

"I thought so. So you were waiting for me here."

But on second thought, the errata here may just mean that the location is wrong, not that the ruins do not exist.

He dismounted and led Virgil to the stream, which was only one meter wide on the other side, to rest for a while.

"The pale blue stream..."

Looking at the empty stream without even a fish, Ye Yiyi hurriedly held down the horse's head as it was about to lower its head to drink water.

"Don't drink it yet, the water might not be clean."

He took out the fresh water he brought with him to quench Virgil's thirst, then went to the stream, took out a clean glass container, filled it with water and picked it up.

"It's still light blue, but there's no light curtain..."

Ye Yiyi took a small sip thoughtfully, then rolled her eyes and quickly spat out the water in her mouth.

"It clearly doesn't smell like anything, but why does it taste fishy when I put it in my mouth?"

He couldn't describe the fishy smell, he just felt a fishy odor rushing straight to his head, making it difficult to swallow.

He wiped his mouth with a bitter face and looked upstream again.

"Looking at the terrain, the land upstream of this stream seems higher than elsewhere?"

He called out the map and compared the directions.

Then I was surprised to find that the source of the stream actually flowed out from the center of the forest.

"Where is the center? Is the terrain higher?"

He thought for a moment, then remounted Virgil and headed upstream along the stream.

"The ruins aren't here anyway, so I can't come here in vain. I'll go find the source."

Not long after, an ancient wooden house suddenly appeared in Ye Yiyi's eyes.

"Wooden house?"

Chapter 515: The Ancient Merchant and the [Spiritual Induction Card]

"Wooden house? Is there anyone still living here?"

Ye Yiyi stopped his horse and looked into the distance at the quaint wooden house sitting on the rock platform beside the stream.

From the outside, although the wooden house has been exposed to wind and rain, its overall structure is intact, with walls, roof and windows all intact.

It doesn't look like an abandoned ruin, but rather a residence where people are still living.

With a slight induction of the cosmic spiritual light, the bright spiritual light possessed by higher intelligent life will light up.

"It's amazing."

Ye Yiyi thought it was outrageous.

This place is countless miles deep into the forest of crystal stones, which is already a desperate situation for ordinary people.

What kind of person would deliberately live in seclusion here?

Ye Yiyi narrowed his eyes slightly and thought to himself.

"Those who live in isolation are either gods or beasts... In any case, they are definitely not simple people."

"It's okay, brother. We are very strong now. It is no match for us."

The dung beetle was very optimistic about this. It flew around Ye Yiyi and Virgil, exuding excitement, as if fear did not exist in its dictionary.

"That's true."

Ye Yiyi smiled slightly, then rode his horse forward towards the wooden house.

"But then again, dung beetle."

On the way, he asked the dung beetle.

"Why do you call me brother?"

"what?"

It flapped its thin wings and landed on Ye Yiyi's shoulder, tilting its big horns towards him in confusion.

"Brother...isn't this a bad name?"

"I'm just curious why you call me that."

"That's because my brother takes good care of me."

The dung beetle said happily:

"My brother was willing to take me out of that forest and travel with me. He not only gave me a lot of delicious food, but also said he would find me a wife. He even fed me many precious things, which gave me the wisdom I have now..."

As the dung beetle spoke, he suddenly felt depressed, and the two tentacles on his head drooped unconsciously.

"But, brother, you've always treated me as a friend, right?"

"Half-Stone Oturo said I was neither a pet nor a slave, but that I was his brother's friend."

"But Oturo also said that friends should help each other. If you just blindly accept help from others without giving anything in return, you won't be able to be friends for a long time."

"My brother has helped me so much and always takes care of me, but I rarely help him. Every time he goes to a dangerous place, I can't help..."

"But the dung beetle isn't a pet, nor is it a slave. In that case, I can only call him brother, right?"

"Maybe one day, the dung beetle will be strong enough to help me. Then I won't be my brother anymore, but my friend."

Having said that, the dung beetle's depressed mood quietly disappeared. It waved its thin wings and circled around the leaves one by one, becoming cheerful and lively again.