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

What does this mean? Once you're in, you can't get out?

"What the hell?"

If that's the case, then how did he get out last time?

Puzzled, he quickly picked up the arrow and put it away, then flew to the huge temple gate that was dozens of meters high and lit up the dim holy monument beside the gate.

As the golden light curtain spread, the name of the holy monument also appeared in his mind.

【Winter Gate Plain Gray Leaf Forest】

"Still the normal name and format."

Ye Yiyi tried the teleportation ability of the holy monument again, and the result was that everything was normal and there was no problem of being unable to leave.

"Or is it that the forest ranger in the forest can't get out?"

He left the holy monument with doubts in his mind and entered the doorless hall.

Looking up, a statue of the Creator stood in the center of the ceilingless hall. Tall boulders were scattered on the ground, almost piled up into a small hill.

In the distance, a half-sheep forest ranger was leading a group of slow-moving, short tree people out from the edge of a huge rocky hill.

Those tree people had a simple and rough appearance, with two human legs made of roots growing from their lower bodies, two thick arms growing on their sides, no head and no face. At first glance, they looked like a tree stump that had failed to transform.

The forest ranger was wearing strange stone armor, holding an iron trident in his hand, and wearing a heavy sheep-shaped stone helmet on his head. Combined with his tall appearance, he looked extremely powerful.

At this moment, it turned its head and saw Ye Yiyi at the door of the hall.

"What!!"

It raised its front hooves and stood up, letting out an angry cry like a sheep, then pointed the trident in its hand forward.

So the group of short tree people behind it, less than one and a half meters tall, holding various rusty iron weapons, came towards Ye Yiyi tremblingly.

"This……"

He had a strange expression on his face, wondering where these shrimp soldiers and crab generals came from.

Not only were those tree people short, but their movement speed was also extremely slow, not much different from elderly men and women.

With this level, I’m afraid he can’t even beat an ordinary mercenary.

Ye Yiyi shook his head silently. Seeing that the stone-armored forest ranger was standing still, he did not rush to attack. Instead, he held the prototype Lotus Fire Halberd behind him in his hand and slowly walked towards the tree people.

This leisurely stroll and disregard for the other party seemed to have angered the Stone Armor Ranger.

“Mee-mee!!”

It roared angrily and raised the trident, pointing it towards Ye Yi.

There was a faint flash of light at the fork, and the atmosphere vibrated, then turned into an invisible shock wave that flew over the heads of the tree people, knocking them over and rushing towards Ye Yi.

"So cruel? He doesn't even spare his own people?"

Ye Yiyi had a strange expression on his face. He let the shock wave with tremendous force fall on his body, but his body did not move at all.

“Meh?!”

The forest ranger seemed startled when he saw this. He subconsciously looked at the spear in his hand, then looked up at Ye Yiyi who seemed calm, and suddenly became angry.

"BAA Baa baa!!!"

It roared loudly, pointed its trident forward, swung its four hooves to knock away the tree people who had just crawled up, and charged towards Ye Yiyi.

"The momentum is enough."

Ye Yiyi watched the forest ranger rushing towards him, and he turned his body to the side, stretched out his hand and grabbed the fork, his five fingers firmly grasping it.

Then he pulled the spear to the side with force and pulled it out of the ranger's hand.

"What!!"

The forest ranger's eyes widened, almost in disbelief.

Ye Yiyi was too lazy to even use his weapon. He raised his foot and kicked sideways, sending the hundreds-kilogram ranger flying into the air, hitting the wall next to the door heavily and falling to the ground.

“It’s really not very good.”

He shook his head, weighed the spear in his hand, and looked up at the ranger.

The ranger gasped and struggled to get up from the ground, his sheep eyes fixed on the trident in Ye Yiyi's hand.

"What!!"

It let out another angry roar, then swung its four hooves and charged towards Ye Yiyi with bare hands.

"This four-legged sheep is a little too ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth."

Ye Yiyi rolled her eyes. His weapon was taken away and he was knocked away. Didn’t he know the gap between us and the enemy?

He was too lazy to say anything more and threw the trident forward with his hand held upside down.

"Pfft!!"

The halberd pierced the ranger's neck, and the huge force sent his body flying backwards, nailing him to the stone wall.

The ranger's limbs twitched twice, the light in his eyes dimmed, and he fell silent.

Soul Echo +4025.

"It's clearly the same reverberation, but the intensity feels even worse than those produced by bow players."

Ye Yiyi glanced at them and couldn't help but mutter a few words.

Then he looked up, but was stunned.

The group of short tree people who had been knocked to the ground by the ranger before now swarmed over like flies smelling blood, crawling to the bottom of the ranger and pulling his body off the wall.

Ye Yiyi couldn't help but frown as he watched the tree people surrounding the ranger's body, tearing him apart with his armor, and then smearing his blood and organs on his body.

"So cruel, not even sparing the corpse, how deep must the hatred be... No!"

He narrowed his eyes and found something wrong.

The flesh, blood, and organs of the forest ranger fell on the tree people, which made their withered bodies come back to life, sprout rich green, and then grow roots, buds, and new branches and tender leaves.

"It's still possible?"

He was shocked and watched helplessly as the tree people took away all the flesh and blood of the forest ranger. Then their short and slender bodies suddenly grew, and almost all of them grew into tree men who were nearly two meters tall.

The tallest one among them, a tree man with a sparse treetop crown on his head, pulled the stone spear out of the stone wall and held it in his hand.

It walked step by step towards Ye Yiyi, and in his surprised eyes, it then bent its knees and knelt down, and respectfully handed over the stone spear with a pair of big, rooted hands.

"This……"

He was stunned for a moment, and instead of taking the stone spear, he looked up.

Behind the tree man, seven or eight tree men also followed the leader's example, kneeling on the ground with their hands clasped in front of them, as if praying to him.

"But why?"

Ye Yiyi was a little confused about the purpose of these tree people.

Was it because he had killed the ranger and freed them from slavery?

He slightly extended the cosmic light, covering the leading tree man.

After a moment, he withdrew his spiritual light and his expression became clear.

Although the thoughts of these tree people were so disorganized that they could hardly be called thoughts, Ye Yiyi still understood the meaning of kneeling from the few limited words they muttered.

"They are saluting the original Thorn Knight!"

Ye Yiyi looked down at the prototype thorn armor on his body.

"So, they think I'm the Prototype Knight?"

Although the origins of these tree people are still unclear, they still remember the existence of the prototype knight, which makes Ye Yiyi a little curious.

They can all remember, so why can't the forest rangers remember?

He took the stone spear and gave orders to the tree people through the cosmic light.

"Take me to where the ash tree is."

The leading tree man nodded woodenly, stood up, and walked back where he came from.

Ye Yiyi followed closely behind, his eyes sweeping over the forest ranger who had turned into rotten meat on the ground, and followed behind the tree man, looking at the stone spear in his hand.

The light curtain then popped out.

【Saliva Rock Tri-pointed Spear】

Requirements: Strength 32, Skill 14.

Damage correction: Strength D, Skill D.

Durability: 442/450.

Item Description: A large spear weapon used by the Stonemen.

It has quite good weight and piercing attack power.

The Saliva Stone Man is one of the ancient descendants of the Colorful Saliva Stone Tree.

It is said that they were once an endangered race on an alien planet.

Later, they migrated to the border area along with the colorful stone trees and settled here.

Combat Skill: [Vacuum Wave]

Skill consumption: [0/24]

Attribute correction: Strength B, Skill C, Mystery B.

Skill Description: One of the White Feather Knight's inherited combat skills.

It can generate violent air fluctuations, turning into atmospheric shock waves to attack.

Consumes concentration points to increase its power.

"Salting Rock Man?"

He raised his eyebrows and glanced at the tree people in front of him, but he didn't think they had anything to do with the stones.

"In other words, there should be other races here?"

He seemed to be thinking about something, and then he sighed.

"What I didn't expect was that the stone man was an endangered species that migrated to the border area along with the colorful stone trees."

In this way, the question of why there are so many immortal lives on the border has been solved.

Including the Yunzi Linglian, these immortal lives are aliens from other planets.

Then, the lotus-faced messenger should be the same.

"Perhaps these tree people are also descendants of the Colorful Stone Tree."

He spun the stone spear with one hand and glanced at the combat technique instructions on the light screen.

"Vacuum fluctuations. This three-pointed spear has a rather complex origin. It even possesses the combat skills of the White Feather Knight..."

"Wait a minute, I seem to have some impression of the name of this fighting skill!"

He took out the "Notes of the Unrivaled" from behind him and looked through the list of combat skills. Sure enough, he found the "Vacuum Wave" combat skill in the column of 30,000 echoes.

"This is a pleasant surprise."

He nodded and put the notebook away.

With a weapon that comes with combat skills, he doesn't need to spend extra echo to buy it.

Thirty thousand responses is not too many or too few, but every penny saved counts. What if you are just short of thirty thousand for an upgrade?

Leaving the temple dedicated to the Creator of Heaven, Ye Yiyi followed the tree people and continued forward. When passing by a temple dedicated to the God of Skill, he suddenly heard a few low moans.

"Oh...oh...oh...oh, kings, no matter who you are, please come and save me..."

Is there anyone else here?

And he was still muttering the names of the kings?

Could he be an unsung hero?

Ye Yiyi stopped in surprise, ordered the tree people to stop, and then flew towards the direction where the sound came from.