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

Spell slots occupied: 2.

Skill consumption: 55.

Requirements: Intelligence 62, Mysticism 18.

Item Description: The innate power passed down from generation to generation by the ancient dark warriors.

Deep magic carved by the Hall of Impressions.

It can release ancient dark light and obscure vision.

Swallows all light within range.

The Ancient Dark Clan and the Sky Light Clan have been fighting each other for generations.

But they have the same origin.

They are said to be strange spirits of light and darkness.

They are also direct descendants of immortal life.

"What an impressive background!"

Ye Yiyi was surprised.

It’s okay to be a god, but he is actually the direct descendant of an immortal being?

Wouldn't that mean they are at the same level as the "Tree Sages" born from the immortal life and decaying green trees?

But such a powerful race finally died under the destruction of the Zhoujue meteorite?

"But it is true."

He pondered, "Even the withered green tree flung its own seeds away in the face of the stagnation curse. The Zhoujue meteorite is even more powerful than the stagnation curse, so it's normal that they can't stop it."

He muttered as he took out another Radiant Key and put them together.

A flash of light passed, and the two keys disappeared, turning into a strange key of light and dark.

The light curtain then popped out.

【Starlight Secret Key】

Item Description: A secret key that was once split into two and kept separately.

Can open the blocked dome door on the top floor of the Starlight Tower.

During the great hunt that swept across the southern border.

To avoid being hunted by the hunting magician from the Zhige Hall.

Toro and his former companions broke into the Forest of Ten Thousand Stone Crystals.

This earned him recognition from the Fallen Star.

Discovered the secret of the Tower of Starlight.

After reading the item description, several questions suddenly popped up in Ye Yiyi's mind.

"Wait, what do you mean... a hunting magician from the Hall of Stopping War?"

How come the magician hunter came from the Hall of Stopping War?

Chapter 529: Fantasy Elements and Hand-Rubbing Bullets.

After reading the item description of the Starlight Secret Key, Ye Yiyi felt confused.

When did the Hall of Stopping War become involved in hunting magicians?

After a while, he suddenly reacted.

The hunting magician he had killed in the forest before, [Flotimoro]

He masters the high-level concealment magic of [Silent] and is suspected to be the former magic master of the Hidden Palace of the Zhige Hall.

The organization represented by the magician hunters is the "Gossipmongers".

During their invasions, they appeared as the spirits of "prophetic demons."

The oath item "Prophecy Sky Shell" obtained after hunting down the invaders also mentioned that it was the birthplace of wisdom and curiosity in the ancient legend of Ron Moa.

All these signs actually indicate that the hunting of magicians is closely related to the Hall of Stopping War and the magicians' hometown, Roenmoya.

Recalling the setting about "gossipmonger" in the game, Ye Yiyi suddenly realized.

"Most of the Gossipmongers are also magicians themselves. They serve the Stagnation Prophecy. Perhaps, like the Hall of Stopping War, they originated from Ron Moya."

"In other words, the so-called Great Hunt at the southern border is most likely an internal struggle among the magician community?"

Thinking of this, Ye Yiyi seemed to understand something.

In other words, there are factions within the Hall of Stopping War, and the gossipers may be the black gloves of one of the factions.

After all, the stagnant prophecies were caused by the magicians' research on taboos.

Given the nature of magicians, even if a disaster destroyed Ronmoya, it would be unlikely to affect their thirst for knowledge.

Some magicians may fear disasters and curses and thus prohibit research.

The remaining part is probably the crazy ones among the magicians.

They may still continue to study taboos, or even seek the truth of lingering prophecies.

Perhaps this is how gossipers were born.

Ye Yiyi's thoughts flowed, and he seemed to grasp the essence of it.

But these are just his speculations, and more information is needed to confirm whether they are true or not.

He raised his head and looked at the top of the tower hidden in the mist.

"That magician named Toro should have something describing the Great Hunt. Now that we have the key, we just need to find him."

He collected his thoughts and walked towards the gate of the Star Domain Hall.

"Kaka~"

Pushing the heavy, tightly closed steel door open, a dilapidated hall filled with steel debris came into view.

Compared to the lower level, this place seemed to have experienced many changes. Ye Yi glanced around and found a large number of remains of skilled slaves and corpses that had long been weathered.

"Did the war that year also affect this place?"

He came to the corner of the hall, in front of the remains of an assault-type skill slave, and lit up the holy monument.

[Starlight Tower Upper Star Domain Hall]

"Upper level? It seems like we're still some distance from the top floor. We need to find a way up there."

But before that, he took out the pistol he had just acquired and looked at it carefully.

This pistol is made entirely of silver-grey metal and is quite thick. The barrel is about one and a half palms long, with a trumpet-shaped nose and the handle is covered with various delicate brass mechanisms, but its appearance looks like a sawed-off single-barreled hunting rifle.

"It's a folding pistol?"

Ye Yiyi was a little surprised. Doesn't this mean that it can only load one bullet at a time?

"Crack!"

He used his thumb to pull the brass mechanism next to the gun handle, and the silver-gray barrel immediately bent, revealing a black round hole.

"The caliber is quite large, it seems to be almost 20mm."

He looked at the gun and thought about it.

"Also, the barrel looks very thick, and there are faint magical fluctuations, as if it has been cast with special magic."

"Also, the bolt actually has a separate crystal primer, and it's linked to the firing pin?"

"In other words, instead of using gunpowder gas to propel the bullet, a special crystal replaces the gunpowder's function..."

After taking a look at the item description of the hand gun, Ye Yiyi nodded thoughtfully.

"Interesting. The gun design concept in my world is completely different."

After all, this is an era with magic and hymns, not to mention special materials made with natural craftsmanship and ingenious techniques.

If he were a weapons holder, he would naturally not miss the opportunity to use new materials and new technologies to upgrade existing weapons and equipment.

And Toro, the previous owner of this "Yuxing Gun", did just that.

After an overall inspection, Ye Yiyi found that the overall structure of the gun was intact, but it had been idle for too long, and some structural components lacked maintenance and were slightly aged.

The maintenance issues can be left to the old blacksmith. Another problem he faces now is the lack of matching bullets.

"However, this gun doesn't fire fixed bullets, but spherical projectiles. As long as the caliber is correct, with my current ability, I can make one by hand."

Ye Yiyi's eyes turned and an idea suddenly came to his mind.

At the holy monument, he installed the Three Kings' Spell that he had just learned into the spell slot, then took out a piece of raw iron ore and used the "Identify Object" of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Spell on it.

In an instant, the nature and properties of raw iron ore turned into a large amount of information and appeared in his mind.

The so-called essence refers to the composition of metal.

Raw iron ore is not the raw metal ore that has just been mined, but the finished metal product that has been smelted.

It is true that its main component is iron metal, but it is different from the iron oxide ore that Ye Yiyi has in mind. It seems to be mixed with some special elements that do not exist on Earth.

This surprised him.

These special elements do not exist in the periodic table of elements as we imagine them, but in the description of their essence in the basic chapter of Tiangong Shufa, they are called imaginary elements.

The so-called imaginary elements refer to special elements that do not exist in nature.

According to the description in the Basics, it is an element that only exists on planets with intelligent life.

In other words, it is an element created by life's cognition.

"An element created by human cognition? Like the 'ether' conceived by Aristotle?"

Ye Yiyi was very surprised and thought this statement was quite interesting.

He later learned that this was not the first fantasy element he had known.

The attributes of "dark" and "holy" are both fantasy elements.

It's just that these two imaginary elements were born a long time ago. In the basic chapter, the Creator of Heaven speculated that they were imaginary elements that existed at the beginning of the universe.

In other words, as early as the beginning of the universe, special life was born along with the universe.

And that kind of life leaf is not unfamiliar to me.

The creator Tiangong introduced it in the book: Huayue Yonghui named it "the prototype of life".

"In the past, the prototype of life sprouted in the dead universe. It is said that it was the first form of all life."

"It's the same as the description of the 'Life Tangle' accessory."

Ye Yiyi thought of the strange ornaments he had obtained in the underground cemetery before.

By the way, the special imaginary element present in raw iron ore is called "rutile".

This element can only exist in the presence of metal elements and will affect all the physical properties of the metal, such as hardness, ductility, density and melting point.

In addition, the amount of "scale quality" will also affect the metal's special properties such as "property correction", "element affinity", "characteristics", and "mystery".

In short, the more "scale" elements a metal contains, the rarer and more valuable it is.

"Unfortunately, I haven't learned the technique to control the ruler's quality yet. Besides, since I'm only forging bullets, the ruler's quality won't have much impact... No, that's not the case."

Ye Yiyi held the ore in one hand and raised the other. Suddenly, a bright light appeared in his palm and turned into a translucent strange hammer head.

The "forging" in the Tiangong technique can condense the "forging marks of Tiangong" and forge materials with the power of heaven and earth.

The specific manifestation is that it transforms into a hammer head composed of the "power of heaven and earth" and is named "Heavenly Forging Mark".

Then he raised the hammer high and hit the ore in his hand hard.

"clang!"

With a crisp sound, the forging marks on his hands turned into spots of light and dissipated.

The ore seemed to melt, becoming red hot, and a faint black smoke rose from the surface.

"This will activate the substance, purify impurities, and increase the content of the scale!"