I'm really not a Sanctuary Warlock.

His gaze, blurred, took one last look at Lynn.

The man stood there, not even raising his hand, as if looking at a person who was destined to die.

Hagen's consciousness was completely crushed at that moment.

His body leaned forward, and the Dragonblood Warhorse crashed to the ground before him, raising a cloud of dust.

Hagen, the commander of the Ironscale Dragon Cavalry, fell face down onto the gravel road.

Until the very last second before he completely lost consciousness, the same sentence kept echoing in his mind.

impossible.

That's absolutely impossible.

How could two level 50+ characters possibly kill him?

But no one answered him anymore.

The singing faded away.

The siren's phantom shattered silently into silver specks of light, merging into the night.

The town returned to quiet.

Lynn stood in the middle of the street and exhaled.

He walked over to Hagen, squatted down, and took a look.

His pupils were completely dilated, and his chest was rising and falling slightly.

No wonder he's a level 63 dragon knight, he can still survive this!

Lynn pulled out his adamantite short sword and finished him off.

"Is it over?" Anna's voice came from behind.

Lynn turned her head.

Anna stood four or five meters behind him, her nun's robe torn in several places, but her expression remained calm.

"Hmm." Lynn stood up. "How's your sanity?"

"It's alright," Anna answered frankly, "I haven't fallen below seventy yet."

The battle cost nearly thirty points.

Lynn gasped.

Those forbidden spells are indeed effective, but the price they come at is truly terrifying.

"Let me treat you."

As Lynn spoke, he was already mobilizing his sanity.

Anna nodded and remained standing still.

After disengaging from combat, available sanity points begin to regenerate automatically.

Lynn waited a few seconds, then raised his right hand.

Silvery light emerged from his palm, radiating a gentle glow.

【The Moon's Blessing】

Consumes 20 sanity points.

Silver light rained down from Lynn's palm, like moonlight showering on Anna.

Anna closed her eyes.

The tears in her nun's robes hadn't been repaired, but the tiny wounds on her body were healing at a visible speed.

The residual internal injuries from the burning light, the several meridians ruptured during the head-on collision with Hagen, and the internal injuries caused by the backlash of the forbidden spell were all soothed away in the silver light.

Lynn looked at Anna with her eyes closed, confirming that the treatment was working.

then.

For some reason, his right hand stretched forward.

A hand, its palm gleaming with a silvery light, landed on Anna's chest as if by some strange twist of fate.

Lynn swore.

This was completely subconscious.

The Moonlit Blessing requires no physical contact whatsoever.

He used it so many times, but never once did he need to touch the other person's body.

But he still touched it.

Through the fabric of the nun's robe, my palm felt an unexpected softness.

Lynn's brain seemed to freeze for a moment.

Anna opened her eyes and looked down at Lynn's right hand, which was resting on her chest.

Time seemed to stand still.

The silver light was still flowing.

The treatment is not over yet.

Anna did not push him away immediately.

Perhaps it was because they were too shocked.

It could also be because... they didn't want to interrupt the treatment.

But in those few seconds, Lynn's fingers unconsciously clenched.

It was much softer than I expected.

Then I pinched it again.

Anna's expression changed from shock to an extremely subtle look.

The silvery light from the treatment finally dissipated.

Anna raised her hand and, with an extremely graceful movement, gently brushed Lynn's hand away from her chest.

"Thank you for the treatment."

Lynn withdrew her hand, her expression equally natural.

"You're welcome, Your Highness."

The two looked at each other for a second.

Then simultaneously look away.

It's as if nothing ever happened.

"Lisa." Anna turned around and waved to Lisa, who was standing in the distance looking bewildered.

"Come here, we should go."

Lisa jogged over, glanced at Anna, and then at Lynn.

What are you talking about?

"nothing."

Anna and Lynn spoke in unison.

Lisa felt something was wrong, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.

Hmm... she's probably overthinking it.

......

The three of them left the town and headed south along a country road toward a low hilly area.

The night wind carried the smell of burning from afar, and it was unclear which village was still on fire.

Lynn summoned the unicorn and had Anna sit sideways on its back.

Although Anna's injuries have healed, the fatigue from continuously casting forbidden spells cannot be eliminated by simple treatment.

The three of them didn't say much.

It wasn't because the atmosphere was awkward.

It's because so much happened today.

A town isolated by plague, a vicious cavalry regiment, and Anna's forbidden spell battle.

And then there's the current state of Holy Song City that I heard from that middle-aged man.

After walking for about twenty minutes, Lisa stopped in a hollow that was hidden by bushes.

"You can rest here; the terrain is low, and you can't see the firelight from outside."

Lynn thought it was good too, so he helped spread out Anna's blanket first.

Anna dismounted from her horse, sat on the blanket for a while, and rubbed her temples.

Lisa knelt down beside her and untied the torn ties on the outer layer of her nun's robe, then rummaged through her bag and pulled out a spare robe, handing it to her.

"Your Highness, please rest."

Anna shook her head.

"You and Lynn should eat something first."

Lisa responded and got up to look for food.

Lynn leaned against a low rock, munching on half a piece of hard bread, lost in thought.

The city of Holy Song has been occupied.

The place Anna wanted to go to was turned into a slaughterhouse by the Abyss Order.

He glanced at Anna furtively.

She sat on the blanket with her knees bent, her arms wrapped around her calves, and her eyes looking at the ground.

“Lisa,” Anna suddenly spoke.

Lisa, who was munching on jerky, looked up.

"Ok?"

"Go check if there's a water source nearby, and also check the safety of the surrounding area."

Lisa glanced at Anna, put down the dried meat, didn't ask any more questions, and turned to walk into the night.

Lynn swallowed the last bite of bread and watched Lisa's figure disappear.

Then he heard footsteps.

Anna stood up and walked towards him.

Moonlight filtered through the gaps in the clouds, illuminating her face.

Lynn saw the hesitation on her face.

Anna stopped in front of him.

"Lynn."

"Ah."

Anna remained silent for a few seconds.

Then she said something that Lynn had never expected.

"It seems our journey... is coming to an end."

Lynn was stunned.

"What do you mean?"

Anna didn't look at him; her gaze went over Lynn's head and landed on the dark horizon in the distance.

"I've always believed that as long as we go far enough, we'll eventually find a different place."