I'm really not a Sanctuary Warlock.

The room fell silent for a moment.

Standing to the side, Sain looked at the blueprint that was taller than him, and then at the mountain of classified documents, his mind completely blank.

Is this... a reconnaissance mission?

Did they just bring everything back from the enemy's lair?

Nora reacted the fastest; she went straight up and opened a letter.

After only a few glances, her hands began to tremble uncontrollably.

"...The Order and the lord of Graymist City...had a secret agreement...to provide military rations and assist in the blockade..."

She quickly picked up another letter.

"...The baron who is threatening Cliff Fortress...is sending his private army...or he will unleash a plague..."

Each letter was a shocking scandal, irrefutable evidence enough to send those lords who betrayed the kingdom to the gallows.

Her breathing became rapid, and finally, her gaze fell on the huge blueprint.

That was none other than the complete structural diagram of the black obelisk in the central square that had swallowed countless lives!

The obelisk's energy core, its connection to the entire city, and four core nodes personally guarded by priests were marked in red ink.

"you……"

Nora abruptly looked up at Lynn, her usually rational face now filled with shock and disbelief.

"You give the city lord's manor to..."

"Yes, it's been demolished."

Lynn's answer was understated.

"The commotion may have been a bit significant, but I've uprooted the core of that altar. At least until they repair it, that damned sacrificial ritual has been forcibly suspended."

These words exploded in Nora and Saine's minds.

Forced...pause?

That terrifying altar, personally overseen by the Abyss Bishop, which devoured the life force of the entire city and drove people insane by mental pollution just by approaching it, was... temporarily brought to a halt by him alone?

"This...this..."

Sain stammered, completely at a loss for words to describe his feelings at that moment.

"Great!"

Nora slammed her fist on the table, so much so that the whole table shook.

"You bought us, and this city, the most precious time!"

With this intelligence and this respite, they now have the possibility of launching a counterattack.

A fire reignited in Nora's eyes.

She took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, and then bowed slightly to Lynn in a very solemn manner.

"On behalf of the Flame, and on behalf of all the people of Holy Song City who still yearn for freedom, I thank you."

Lynn accepted her thanks without hesitation.

He did all this not only for the city, but also for his beloved Anna.

“Don’t thank me yet,” Lynn said, bringing the topic back on track. “Destroying one node only pauses the ritual. The blueprints clearly state that four nodes must be destroyed simultaneously to completely stop it.”

"As for defeating Karthus, I have absolutely no confidence."

The excitement on Nora's face slowly faded.

She remained silent for a moment, as if making an extremely difficult decision.

Finally, she looked up at Lynn.

"Perhaps... we have enough power to rival Karthus."

Her words surprised Lynn.

"The reason why Burning Fire dared to resist the oppression of the nobles of Holy Song City was not just because of his passion."

"Because our side has always had a guardian of the kingdom."

"There are ten strongest beings in the kingdom. They are the embodiment of the kingdom's will and the manifestation of its rules."

Nora slowly recounted the information Lynn had already heard from Vigo.

"And the founder of the Burning Flame, our original leader, is the third guardian recognized by the Kingdom's will, the Watcher."

“But,” Nora’s tone shifted, her face showing pain and helplessness, “before the Abyss Order descended, she went alone into a forbidden area in search of a lost relic, and then… she never returned.”

Nora's face was filled with resentment.

If the Watchers were still around, a mere Abyss Bishop wouldn't dare to act so recklessly in Holy Song City.

After saying that, she seemed to have made up her mind, turned around and gestured to Lynn to "come with me".

She led the three of them out of the command room, through the crowd, and to the very edge of this enormous underground cavern.

Here, there is a bottomless underground river.

The river water was as black as ink, and a chill that lingered year-round rose from the surface, causing the surrounding temperature to drop several degrees.

Nora stopped on the riverbank, raised her hand, and pointed upstream.

Lynn looked in the direction she was pointing.

In the middle of the river, a hundred meters from the bank, an ancient stone coffin floats silently on the water.

It was made of some unknown type of stone, and was entirely grayish-white with no carvings or patterns on its surface, yet it exuded an aura of death and end so intense it was almost palpable.

“That’s the entrance to the ‘Land of the Darkwater,’” Nora’s voice echoed in the empty cavern. “It’s also where the Watchers last disappeared.”

Lynn stared at the stone coffin that exuded an ominous aura. For some reason, he seemed to hear the cries and murmurs of countless dead souls, which seeped into his mind along with the cold river water.

It seems there are no other options.

Chapter 130 The Eye of God?

Lynn's gaze slowly shifted to the ancient stone coffin floating on the dark river surface.

“The affairs of Burning Fire cannot be separated from me and Sain.” Nora withdrew her hand, her profile appearing somewhat pale in the torchlight. “You are the only one with the strength and the most likely to return from there.”

Anna and Lisa need to wait here; Lynn can't let them risk their lives. As for Thane and Nora, they are the core of the fire and can't leave either.

After much back and forth, this perilous mission ultimately fell to him.

"I go."

Lynn agreed without hesitation.

Nora seemed surprised that he agreed so readily, and all the prepared arguments stuck in her throat.

She looked at Lynn and, after confirming that he wasn't joking, nodded solemnly.

"it is good."

Just then, a cool hand gently tugged at Lynn's sleeve.

Lynn turned his head and met Anna's golden eyes, which were filled with worry.

"You must come back."

Lynn smiled and nodded at her, then turned to Nora: "Lead the way."

The group silently walked upstream along the edge of the underground river.

The closer one gets to the stone coffin, the colder the surrounding air becomes, as if even the vitality of life can be frozen.

Finally, they stopped less than ten meters away from the stone coffin.

By the time we arrived here, the river had completely stopped flowing.

The surface of the black water was as smooth as a mirror, without a single ripple. Even the light of a torch could not be reflected on it; all the light was swallowed up by the bottomless darkness.

The stone coffin floated quietly in the middle of the water, its entire body grayish-white, its surface engraved with dense runes.

"Lie down in it, and it will take you across the boundary between life and death."

Nora's voice echoed in the empty cave, sounding particularly solemn.

"The land of the underworld is a forbidden zone for the living and the final resting place for the dead."

"The things inside, in terms of both form and power, far exceed our understanding of monsters."

"The two top adventurers we sent to explore lost contact completely without even sending out a warning."

Nora's every word only amplified the terror of this unknown land.

Lynn just pursed her lips after hearing that.

Uninhabitable? That's for ordinary people.

He took a deep breath, wasting no more time, and turned to look at Anna and Lisa.

"Wait for me to come back."

After saying that, he leaped and landed steadily on the coffin lid.

A bone-chilling cold instantly spread from the soles of my feet.

Without hesitation, he pushed open the heavy stone coffin lid and lay down inside.

The space inside the stone coffin was neither too big nor too small, just enough to accommodate an adult.

The stone walls were cold and hard; lying inside felt like lying inside a giant block of ice.

Lynn took one last look at the three figures on the shore, and gave them a reassuring gesture.

The next second, he used all his strength to slowly close the heavy stone coffin lid.

"Boom—"

As the coffin lid closed completely, the last ray of light and sound was cut off.

Absolute darkness instantly engulfed everything.

Immediately afterwards, a strong sense of weightlessness suddenly struck, and Lynn felt himself, along with the entire stone coffin, rapidly falling into an endless abyss.

……

The excruciating pain, as if space itself were being torn apart, lasted only a moment.

"boom!"

Lynn felt as if he had been thrown out of a high-speed spinning drum and crashed heavily onto the hard ground.

He struggled to climb out of the stone coffin, and when he saw the scene before him, he was completely stunned.

This is a vast, gray wasteland that stretches as far as the eye can see.

The sky was like solidified lead, without sun or clouds, yet it emitted a pale light that illuminated the entire earth in every detail.

The ground beneath our feet was a dry, dark red, with cracks everywhere.

In the distance, a great river, shimmering with a ghostly green light, flows silently, seemingly the only moving thing in this monotonous world.

Is this the land of the Dark Water?

Just as Lynn was looking around, several sounds of bones grinding together came from not far away.

He turned his head and saw several monsters made entirely of withered bones, walking stiffly as they surrounded him, the uninvited guest.

Two eerie blue flames burned in their empty eye sockets, filled with hatred for the living.

Undead creatures?

Lynn habitually raised his hand and cast an Appraisal spell on the nearest skeletal monster.

The next second, the information that popped up on the panel instantly froze the relaxed expression on his face.

【Bone Warrior】

[Level: 60]

[Class: Undead Warrior]