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

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"It's a little taller than the previous humanoid one."

Ye Yiyi put down the Moonlight Gun, walked past the dazed Angel, and came to the corpse of the monster with curved black horns on its head to check.

"Is that... the legendary magic comet? The high-level star magic of the Star Palace?"

The winged man came out of his daze, looking confused.

"How could he know this magic? Wasn't it lost in the Xingdou Palace explosion?"

"Angel, come here." Ye Yiyi suddenly called out.

The winged magician swallowed silently and walked forward with a complicated expression.

"Do you know what race of subhuman this thing was before it was transformed?" Ye Yiyi asked, pointing at the corpse.

"……Let me see."

Angel suppressed his nausea and discomfort, leaned over to take a look, then shook his head in response.

"This isn't a subhuman, but a black-horned antelope, a special kind of cattle that lives in the Gobi Desert."

"Is it really a cow?" Ye Yiyi muttered, pinching his chin. "I thought it was a minotaur."

"This horn... Ugh!"

"what?"

"vomit!"

Angel couldn't help it and started vomiting while grabbing the steel railing.

Ye Yiyi looked down at the antelope whose spine was shattered by the magic comet and which had completely collapsed into a pile of rotten meat. He then looked at Angel who was vomiting violently and couldn't help rolling his eyes.

At least finish what you're saying before you spit it out.

"Cough cough..."

After vomiting for a long time, Angel finally vomited out everything in his stomach.

"Haven't you seen blood before?" Ye Yiyi asked casually.

"I've seen it, cough cough!"

Angel wiped his mouth with his sleeve and looked at the pair of pitch-black horns with a pale face.

"Sorry, I have some psychological trauma. When I see such extremely bloody scenes, I can't help but... Ugh!"

Glancing down at the bloody hole, he rolled his eyes and retched again.

Psychological trauma? Ye Yiyi was a little curious.

"How to say?"

"It takes more than a few words to explain."

Angel shook his head and looked away, trying not to look down at the body.

"The horn of the takin is a valuable smelting material. You can keep it."

"Oh?" Ye Yiyi's eyes lit up, "Is there such a good thing?"

He took out a small silver-cast iron knife, bent over and cut off a pair of cow horns.

The ox horn felt heavy in his hand, surprisingly heavy.

Taking a closer look, Ye Yiyi discovered that the ox horn actually had a metallic texture and luster.

"Is this metal?"

He muttered to himself in confusion, glancing down at the light curtain.

【Black Iron Corner】

Item Description: A twisted animal horn as heavy as metal.

One of the materials used to make props,

It can also be used to cast tough and unbreakable weapons.

Takin living in the Gobi Desert,

Large horns used to fight metal creatures.

The heavy horns that have been tempered by the metal core for a long time have the properties of metal.

Won't break easily.

"That's not metal," Angel explained. "After being refined by construction magic, just adding a small amount to alloy smelting can greatly increase its toughness. It can be used to make the internal metal structure of buildings."

"?" Ye Yiyi raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Angel strangely.

Metal structure inside the building? Reinforced concrete?

"This kind of takin horn is in short supply in the imperial market. The two pieces you have are of excellent quality and can be sold for 32 takin horns per gram... Oh, sorry!"

Feeling Ye Yiyi's inexplicable gaze, Angel finally broke free from his own world and lowered his head in embarrassment and shame.

"Sorry, this is my professional habit...I can't change it."

"You're more like a blacksmith than a magician," he said.

"Really? Actually, my people say the same thing."

Angel forced a smile, feeling a little embarrassed, and suddenly fell silent again, and then his eyes suddenly became wet.

From now on, he probably would never hear his tribe members say this again.

"How many of the ones just now are there?" Ye Yiyi sighed slightly, put the black bull horn into the four-dimensional chrysanthemum, and changed the subject.

"I don't know the exact number, but there are many, many..."

Hearing Ye Yiyi's question, he rubbed his tears, shook his head, and answered with some fear.

"When I was doing research before, I saw quite a few experimental subjects they had captured. Among them were not only humans, but also subhumans, non-humans, and even various animals. Almost every race was included.

"And there were a lot of them. The most I saw them capture was more than a dozen carts of beasts of all kinds. Oh, and even a group of ratmen."

"Ratmen..." Ye Yiyi said thoughtfully, "The wild beasts should have been brought in from other places, and as for the ratmen, they should have been caught right here in Amblett."

Angel nodded in agreement. "After all, Ambright is a border trading city. It has a large floating population and a diverse ethnicity. If we're going to conduct transformation experiments, it's indeed a good place."

"This is not good news for you." Ye Yiyi's eyes were deep.

"They promised me that they wouldn't use winged people as experimental subjects..." Angel pursed his lips and clenched the staff in his arms.

Promised you?

Ye Yiyi shook her head helplessly. Just listen to this. If you really believe it, you are either a fool or have a mental problem.

In the eyes of the Curse Master, even humans are nothing but unintelligent beasts, let alone you subhumans?

Who would be honest with a beast?

Ye Yiyi didn't mention this for fear of irritating Angel, so she changed the subject and talked about something else.

"Besides that little spark, do you know any other offensive magic?"

"I haven't learned any offensive magic."

Angel shook his head, looking somewhat puzzled.

"Only those magicians who remain after graduation and have fully joined the Zhige Palace are qualified to learn offensive magic. Magicians like me who are only studying in the palace are not allowed to learn offensive magic."

"???"

Ye Yiyi was stunned when he heard that.

So, this outstanding magician who graduated from the top three of the hall can't even cast an offensive magic?

"You don't know how to use magic arrows?" he couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know how to do it." Angel was a little frustrated. "Or rather, I'm not qualified to learn."

"What about fire magic? That doesn't count as offensive magic?"

"No..." Angel felt a little ashamed.

“That’s because of the requirements of the subject of smelting. I just learned a little bit in my spare time, and I haven’t even gotten started yet.

"The spark I shot at you earlier was actually very cold, it couldn't even ignite paper..."

"This..." Ye Yiyi was completely stunned.

You don't know any offensive magic, yet you dare to go with me to find my tribesmen. You are a real tiger!

As if seeing Ye Yiyi's surprise, Angel hurriedly explained.

"I won't hold you back. If I encounter an enemy, I will fly into the sky."

"fly?"

Ye Yiyi glanced at the curled up wings behind him and thought to herself, you were shaking just now, could you really fly at that time?

"Are all the magicians trained by the Zhige Hall now like you?" he couldn't help but ask.

What is the magician being trained now?

Angel thought about it and suddenly realized.

It turns out that this magician who can use the lost magic of Magic Comet established an academy in the Zhige Palace and traveled out before the big explosion of the Xingdou Palace!

No wonder he didn’t have a mage badge, because the temple didn’t have such a system at that time!

Angel, feeling that he had seen through the truth, understood it in his heart and no longer had any doubts about Ye Yiyi's identity.

It would be the same even if the other person had a tender face and looked not much older than him.

Appearance can be hidden or even changed, but magic cannot.

Extremely high-level star magic like Magic Comet cannot be performed without decades of research and study.

But he could never have imagined that Ye Yiyi had just learned the magic of Magic Comet.

"Yes."

Angel figured this out and no longer hid anything from Ye Yiyi.

"The current Zhige Temple is more professional than before. They have cooperated with the Empire and opened an academy that is open to all creatures with intelligence and wisdom.

"And the temple doesn't just teach magic. It also teaches various disciplines in various fields, from biology to metallurgy, from humanities to history, from the stars to the earth. Basically, all knowledge that can be categorized is taught in the temple!"

"I see."

Ye Yiyi suppressed the shock in her heart and tried not to let it show on her face.

Although he wanted to say that the Palace of Stopping War in the game was just a large box garden, except for a few NPCs, all the others were enemies who would shoot magic arrows at you as soon as they saw you...

But games are not equal to reality, and he can no longer use the settings in the game to fit the real-life background.

On the road afterwards, Angel suddenly felt that Ye Yiyi became silent and taciturn.

He seemed to be thinking about something, which made Angel, who had finally let down his guard and thought he had found the great magician senior of the Zhige Hall, feel a little uncomfortable.

But when he thought about the danger his people were in, he didn't want to think too much.

He just wanted to get to his tribe as soon as possible and save those who were powerless.

Following the road through this huge corridor and killing several humanoid dragon men along the way, the two finally arrived at the first large facility on the light curtain map.

A giant steel tower located in the center of a huge spherical cavity, connecting the upper and lower rock walls.

"what is this?"

Ye Yiyi stood on a raised platform, looked up at the densely packed circular holes in the tower, and couldn't help but ask.

"That should be the dragon tower where the ancient flying dragons lived."

Angel beside him looked up at the tower and spoke thoughtfully.

"I overheard those magic hunters say that this place was once a military fortress of ancient dragons, and every hole in the tower was a dragon's lair.

"They used to live here. Once they received the order, they poured out from the tower, followed the tunnel we came from, and finally flew out from somewhere."

Angel couldn't help but sigh, "Ancient technology is truly amazing! I never could have imagined such a magnificent structure before..."