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

The old man looked at the cane emitting white light on his forehead, and immediately realized that he had come across the real thing. He explained with a bitter face.

"I have never been to the Empire, and all I know is hearsay. I had no idea that the Empire doesn't use gold coins. I really didn't mean to tease you, sir! I hope Master Mage will forgive me! Master Mage, please forgive me!!"

When Ye Yiyi saw this scene, she suddenly smiled deep in her heart.

"This old man is really cunning. He knows he's been exposed, and now he knows how to find a way out for both sides."

"Humph!"

Ye Yiyi snorted coldly and retracted his staff.

The white light on the top of the staff gradually dimmed. He held the staff in both hands, stood in front of him, and said coldly.

"Just let it go without saying I don't know?"

Since others are giving him a way out, Ye Yiyi doesn't mind giving him a way out.

The old man breathed a sigh of relief silently, picked up his staff and said this as a threat.

Putting down the staff and saying this means letting bygones be bygones.

Then he smiled and nodded.

"I have offended the Master Mage, so naturally I must make amends!"

He waved his hand back again and gave orders loudly.

"Come quickly, prepare a good horse!"

The soldiers behind him looked at each other, and finally put down their rifles, and some of them ran towards the village in small steps.

"Sir, would you like to come in and sit down?" The old man in a tuxedo took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat off his face and said attentively to Ye Yiyi.

"No." Ye Yi said expressionlessly, "I have urgent matters to attend to. I'm also rushing to visit a friend."

The old man showed a look of sudden enlightenment.

It turned out that this person was planning to go to the Magician's Tower in the east.

Soon, a soldier came leading a tall horse.

The old man took the reins and took out a metal business card and handed them to Ye Yiyi.

"Your Excellency the Magician, this is my master's address.

"My master was once helped by a magician, so he has great respect for magicians! If you have time, you may come to my house and have a seat.

"As for this horse, I will give it to you, sir."

Ye Yiyi took the metal business card, stepped onto the horse, and his expression relaxed a little.

"If I have time, I will definitely visit you."

After saying this, he kicked the horse's belly and rode away in a cloud of dust.

Chapter 49: Large Smelter

After riding a horse and temporarily leaving the ranch, Ye Yiyi's tense face finally relaxed.

"Damn it, luckily I know enough about the background of the game, otherwise it wouldn't be fun if there were any flaws."

The old man in a tuxedo should be a butler-like character.

Some insights, but not much.

He is quite well versed in the ways of the world.

Although it was unclear why he was on this ranch, except for the housekeeper, ordinary ranch managers were not qualified to give out business cards.

Thinking of this, Ye Yiyi took out the metal business card from his arms.

"No need to think about it, the business card thing was also spread by the cyber refugees."

The metal business card was engraved with a string of jumbled, tadpole-like alien language. Ye Yiyi was completely confused and couldn't understand it at all.

Fortunately, Guangmu provided him with a faithful and elegant translation.

【Görgen's business card】

Item Description: A metal business card with the address of Count Görgen of the Principality.

Only given to guests of high status.

As the principality declined, Count Gorgon decisively turned to the Empire and the Kingdom Alliance, abandoned slavery, and engaged in large-scale trade activities, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the Holy Blood Order.

Presenting this business card at the Earl's residence will earn you a warm welcome from Earl Görgen.

Address: Castle No. 11, Upper Town.

"Interesting props, it begins to explain the background of the world to me." Ye Yiyi turned the business card over and over, then put it into the four-dimensional chrysanthemum.

The Empire bordering to the east, and the Kingdom Alliance bordering to the northeast, are expanding their commerce while carrying out the magical industrial revolution.

This caused dissatisfaction among many feudal conservative forces.

After all, most of the countries and regions bordering us today are still in the dark ages of the Middle Ages.

When foreign refugees with advanced systems come to this world, it is natural that they will promote social progress from a fundamental institutional perspective.

For example, the "Xingji Society", this group of refugees from the cyber world, has long since mastered the use of capital.

Speaking of the Hall of Stopping War, this group of magicians once set foot on the satellite of their own planet.

If the curse had not broken out, they would probably have followed the path of the ancient kings in exploring the stars.

With magic and technology integrated together, and productivity and social systems complete and without shortcomings, it would not be surprising what kind of social form would be created in the end.

Ye Yiyi was happy to see this group of people beating up the feudal lords of the old society.

As for that alien planet with gods from which the hymn came...

Oh, let’s not talk about it.

Finally, there is the fourth alien planet that has little presence in the game.

This planet has no special features, and there are no survivors or refugees. The only thing it brings is "stagnation and decadence."

This is a kind of curse that tends to be weird and rule-based, and it rarely appears in the game.

But in terms of danger, Stagnation and Decadence is second only to the "Stagnation Curse" itself sealed in the Broken Continent.

Ye Yiyi suspected that the production team was planning to release a DLC, so they didn't specifically describe this kind of curse in detail.

After all, in the timeline at the beginning of the game, the stagnant and decadent King Decadence had already died.

In total, Ye Yiyi only needs to defeat three decadent kings from foreign planets before he can set off for the Broken Continent.

All in all, if there were no stagnation curse, there would be hope for [Border] to continue developing like this.

"If there were no stagnation curse..."

He rubbed his face, threw away his heavy mood, looked down at the black horse under him, and finally smiled.

"Good horse, good horse."

He reached forward and touched the horse's face.

The black horse snorted and rubbed Ye Yiyi's hand gently.

"Such a gentle temperament, you really are a good horse! As my first horse, I have to give you a name."

Ye Yiyi took out the dung beetle and placed it in front of him, then began to think of a name for the black horse.

"How about calling me Torret? No, no, you are a horse, not a cow. Besides, if your name is Torret, then the old man who sent me the horse must be called Melina, right?

"In that case, let's call him Carrot! Wait, forget it! I feel like if I call him Carrot, I might die miserably the next time I jump off a cliff.

"Brother Dung Beetle, how about you help me think of one?"

The dung beetle waved its tentacles and conveyed a name to Ye Yiyi.

After hearing this, Ye Yiyi's expression darkened. He reached out to pick up the dung beetle and warned it viciously.

"Brother Dung Beetle, don't you think the name black poop is disgusting?"

"Huh? You said you just like black shit?"

Amid the horse's rejection-filled neigh, Ye Yiyi put the dung beetle down and finally decided to name the black horse "Virgil".

This name is not chosen randomly, Dark Horse and Virgil do have something in common.

For example, they can't even double jump...

In that case, Torret should be renamed Dante or Nero.

With "Virgil" as his means of transportation, Ye Yiyi's travel speed has increased dramatically.

Starting from the ranch, Ye Yiyi finally arrived at the large smelter outside the royal capital in the evening.

Having arrived here, we can be considered to have already stepped half a foot into the royal capital.

Looking to the north, a huge wall rises from the towering mountains.

This huge wall is nearly fifty meters high and astonishingly long, almost completely surrounding the mountain in front.

Looking up again, the towering giant castles built on the mountains are right in front of you!

This is a huge structure that is hard for ordinary people to imagine. Based on Ye Yiyi's narrow understanding of the Middle Ages, it is impossible to build such a building with the limited productivity.

“That’s outrageous!”

He looked up at the giant castle complex that looked like a mountain range, his expression indescribable.

He didn't see the reason for the construction of this castle complex in the game, and thought that the production team built it simply to create an epic atmosphere.

Now that the game has become reality, Ye Yiyi has no idea how this giant castle complex built entirely on an entire mountain range was built.

“I wonder if this counts as a spectacle?”

Ye Yiyi muttered, rode his horse and stopped on a slightly higher hill, looking at the smelter under the towering city wall in the distance.

There, an extremely tall and bizarrely shaped metal tower stood under the city wall.

"Is this a fantasy version of a blast furnace?"

Ye Yiyi took out the monocular telescope he got from the magician's tower and observed from a distance.

The location he chose was high enough and far enough away from the smelter.

With the telescope, he was not worried about being discovered by the people in the smelter.

This large smelter covers a very large area and is surrounded by a five-meter-high wall, making it impossible for anyone to get in or out.

The entrance is located to the west of the smelter and is a heavily guarded gate.

Guarding the gate of the smelter were about twenty Duchy soldiers and four knights in silver armor.

"Yes, there is an eagle claw relief on the shoulder armor. This is the Eagle Claw Knight."

There are only four Eagle Claw Knights, not a large number.

Although it was almost nightfall, there were still carriages pulled by draft horses coming in and out.

The car was piled with pitch-black raw ore, and faint flashes of bright silver light could be seen among them.

That is the raw silver iron ore. After the miners collect it in the mines of the Fairy Mountains, the first step is to transport it to the gathering place outside the mountains by manpower. After that, it will be transported to the large smelter by a team of horse-drawn carts across the foggy plains.

Ye Yiyi thought in his heart.

When he first came out of the Fairy Mountains, he was located relatively east, so he did not encounter the gathering place and mines in the west.

"But why don't they just build a smelter near the gathering place at the foot of the mountain?"

Ye Yiyi was a little confused, "Is it because the transportation cost is too high, or is it because the smelting conditions are insufficient?

"Come on, why should I worry about that? What matters now is finding a way in and the location of the imprisoned unknown hero.

"Oh, right, we still need to find the location of the holy monument. I remember there is one nearby."

Ye Yiyi continued to observe from west to east.

After the convoy transporting silver cast iron ore enters the smelter, the first step is to unload the ore from the vehicle.

The unloading process is located in the square behind the west gate.

First, the carriage was uncoupled from the draft horses, and then a crane with a pulley structure was used to lift the front section of the carriage, and the silver cast iron ore was poured onto the ground.