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

With the weapons put away, it was finally time to search the bishop's office.

"Uh……"

Glancing at the bishop who was torn into pieces and had no complete body, Ye Yiyi's expression was stiff.

I almost forgot that the bishop's body was placed on the chair in front of his desk.

The concentrated feces was thrown and the dragon roar lava rock exploded again.

The bishop, accompanied by filth, unfortunately blended into the entire room...

"Ugh……"

He sighed deeply. It was impossible to search the bishop's body, so he decided to look at his desk.

He stood up and walked to the desk, reaching out and pulling open the drawer.

Ye Yiyi breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the desk was made of solid metal and could withstand the explosion. Although the things inside were a little messy, they were all intact.

After searching for a while, his eyes lit up and he picked up a book with a black cover.

"Found it! The Psalm of the Lord of Holy Blood!"

Hymns of the Lord of the Holy Blood

Requirements: Faith 30

Attribute correction: Faith B

Durability: 88/100

Skill cost: 12

Item Description: A hymn praising the Lord of Holy Blood.

A hymn that strengthens faith in the Lord of Holy Blood.

Praise be to the Lord of Blood, who was born from the haze of holy blood, came to the world to eliminate blood diseases, and is now a god in heaven.

Praise the Lord of Blood, who grants freedom from pain and disaster, redeems the soul from sin, and grants eternal love to all people.

Combat Skill: Praise the Lord of Holy Blood

Chant hymns in praise of the Lord of Holy Blood and call upon the gods for protection.

It can increase the physical damage reduction rate and increase the damage of hymns.

"How come this item's description... actually has a hymn written on it?"

Ye Yiyi frowned and read the hymn book over and over again.

"And it doesn't even have a hymn chapter! What does that mean? Just like the Flying Bug book, the hymn chapters are torn out?"

Ye Yiyi took out the hymn chapters he found in the Holy Blood Priest's room and tried to put them on the hymn book in his hand.

As he expected, verses from the hymns were incorporated.

"I knew it."

He checked the item description again, and sure enough, there was an extra sentence at the bottom.

Newly added hymn chapters: [Blood-soaked Ritual], [Hemolytic Weapon], [Blood-plundering Life]

"Wait a minute, isn't it recovered? It's newly added?"

This is different from the words when he retrieved [Metamorphosis]. One is "retrieved" and the other is "newly added".

Ye Yiyi sighed helplessly, "Looks like I have to go to the downtown area and kill all those Holy Blood Churches one by one to collect them all...

"And if I remember correctly, there's also a concentration training method for Holy Blood there, which can increase my mana bar limit and grant new characteristics.

"Besides, Eurost is still in prison waiting for me to rescue him."

After putting away the hymn book, Ye Yiyi continued to explore other drawers.

But unfortunately, the rest of the drawers contained nothing but books and documents, and no light screen popped up.

"I was greedy. The harvest was already abundant enough, so I didn't ask for more."

He originally came here to get the hymn book of the Lord of Holy Blood. Now that he has reaped a rich harvest, there is no need to be too greedy.

Fortunately, Ye Yiyi found a box of black tea and a box of sugar cubes in the drawer, and a complete set of porcelain tea sets, a lot of wine and drinks, and a recipe he had always dreamed of in the bedroom next to him!

His mood suddenly became happy.

[Recipe: Steamed Silver Swordfish]

Item Description: Contains recipes for dishes with special effects.

After use, it can increase physical attack power.

Ingredients required: Silver Swordfish × 1, Emerald Green Bay Leaves × 3, Sword Grass × 1, some spices

"Let me take a look. It's a recipe for fish. Silver swordfish... That doesn't sound like a good name for a fish."

Ye Yiyi walked towards the holy monument holding the recipe and fell into deep thought on the way.

"There are quite a few of these fish in the lakes bordering the south. I guess I'll have to prepare a jib or lightning spell by then. After all, no one will be fined for electrofishing..."

As for the other materials, except for the sword-shaped grass which requires some effort, the others are easy to get.

After putting away the recipe, Ye Yiyi returned to the Cursed Hall with the help of the Holy Stele.

Before looking for the saint to upgrade, he first went to the old blacksmith, inlaid the blood coagulation gem on the slave hammer, and chose the "bleeding" qualitative change.

This is his only blunt weapon at the moment. It is very useful against heavily armored enemies, and with the bleeding effect, it is even more powerful.

He then went to the Fairy Garden and saw that the fairies were still fast asleep. He had no choice but to find the Saint and transform and upgrade the soul echo in his body.

A total of 63530 soul echoes are converted into 10 attribute points.

Current Soul Echoes: 3030

Soul Echoes Required for Upgrade: 7700

Since he had enough mana bars and spell slots, Ye Yiyi put all of his 10 attribute points into intelligence.

Level 30 → 40↑

Intelligence 24→34↑

Intelligence increased to 34, and two new intelligence characteristics were gained again.

Intelligence Characteristics: Infection: Magical magic can add a magic attribute vulnerability state to the enemy, while increasing the damage of various types of magic.

Intelligence Characteristics: Frostbite: Grants attack magic penetration and strengthens penetrating magic damage.

After upgrading and returning to the holy monument in the Secret Holy Blood Church in the Royal Capital Sewer, Ye Yiyi changed his insect wielding power to a magic blade, stepped through the door, and walked deeper.

Chapter 81 Sealing Light Curtain and Skeleton

"This road doesn't seem to have been part of the ancient ruins..."

Ye Yiyi stepped deeply and shallowly on the rugged ground, looking around with the light of his waist lamp.

Unlike the metal corridors I had seen before, after going down the stairs, I came to a long stone tunnel.

The corridor is long and narrow, dark and damp, and has no lighting.

The stone walls were covered with traces of excavation, and wooden supports supported the tunnel. The ground was covered with rubble, as if it had been dug out of the stone.

"This wasn't dug by a skilled slave; it looks more like someone from the Holy Blood Cult dug it."

After some observation, Ye Yiyi came to a conclusion.

The craftsmanship of the skilled slaves is not that bad. Compared with this, the underground tunnels they built for the Weapons Museum are like the difference between a palace and a refugee camp.

But why did the Holy Blood Order spend manpower and resources to dig this tunnel?

Where does it lead to?

Ye Yiyi checked the map, determined his position, and fell into deep thought.

After walking for nearly ten minutes, he had left the area of ​​the Secret Holy Blood Church.

Looking at the map, he was heading east, in the direction of the black skull on the map.

"Could this be a shortcut?" Ye Yiyi thought.

"Crack!"

After walking forward for a while, there was a crisp sound under his feet. Ye Yiyi looked down and couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

He moved his foot away and saw a human bone that had been broken by his foot.

"Bones? No!"

His eyes widened and he looked down again.

He hadn't noticed it just now, but now he was surprised to find that the rubble was filled with a large number of human bones.

Among them were skulls without jaws, sternums crushed by rocks, and long thigh bones.

And even more were various human bone fragments that Ye Yiyi could not recognize.

"This number is too much! What's going on?"

Ye Yiyi shone his waist lamp towards the tunnel ahead, and what he saw made him hold his breath unconsciously.

In the dark tunnel ahead, a large number of human bones almost covered the gravel ground.

In some places, the piles of bones were even half a person's height, blocking even the road.

"Why did so many people die in this damn place?"

Not sure if it was because the tunnel was cold and damp, but Ye Yiyi shuddered inexplicably, feeling a sense of foreboding.

This kind of scene with bones everywhere, like a mass grave, is actually very common in games.

Ye Yiyi and other soul-like players have long been accustomed to this kind of scene rendering.

Who among us hasn’t fought our way out of an underground cemetery full of dead bodies? What are a pile of bones?

No matter how terrifying and eerie the scene is, it is just the unique art style of Souls-like games. People don’t find it scary, but are full of admiration.

But now that he had witnessed this tragic scene with bones scattered all over the ground, Ye Yiyi was speechless.

Ultimately, games and reality are two different things.

"I have a feeling we'll be encountering Skeleton Soldiers soon..."

Ye Yiyi muttered to himself and pushed back the dung beetle that wanted to stick its head out from his robe.

"Don't watch this, kids. You won't be able to sleep at night!"

Dung Beetle: "?"

As I continued to move forward on the skeletons, I could hear the sound of bones breaking.

Ye Yiyi took out the servant's hammer, pushed down the half-person-high pile of bones on the side of the road, and searched inside.

"There are no personal belongings. It seems that they are indeed slaves."

After walking forward for nearly 20 minutes, he saw no trace of skeleton soldiers, which made him a little disappointed.

The soul resonance that a skeleton soldier can provide is much greater than those priests and knights.

Moreover, the fragile bone frame can be broken by a blunt object. Besides the fact that it can be resurrected, which is a bit troublesome, but overall it is easier to deal with than humans.

Checking the map again, you are now halfway to the black skull's location.

"Look at where the arrow is pointing. This road really does lead there."

Not long after, a deep red light suddenly appeared from the depths of the dark tunnel.

"There's something wrong with the color. It doesn't look like the light from the lighting."

Ye Yiyi glanced at the light screen map. This place was still some distance away from the destination, so it was unlikely that the light was from a building.

That could be the light coming from the enemy.

He took out the Living Amber Staff, became alert, and prepared for battle.

Soon, he saw the source of the light.

"Is this the sealing light curtain?"