I'm really not a Sanctuary Warlock.

Same rank as the temple guards...

"Oh."

Karthus finally moved his neck, turning his gaze away from Eve and looking at Lynn with interest.

The corners of his mouth slowly turned up.

"interesting."

"A level 60 little thing..." Karthus tilted his head, "yet it can summon a level 79 mythical creature?"

"You've caught my attention."

Before he could finish speaking...

Karthus vanished from the spot.

Lynn's Eye of Truth issued a frantic warning at the same moment, as if time had been stretched out infinitely.

Then he arrived, and less than half a meter away from him, a pale, slender hand was reaching towards his throat.

Karsas's face was inches away.

"Let me see... what's hidden in your soul?"

Then, the ground exploded.

An earthen wall rose up in front of Lynn, blocking the way between Karthus's fingertips and Lynn's throat.

"boom!"

Karthus's finger poked into the rock face.

The earthen wall lit up with dense patterns, blocking his attack.

"Oh?"

Karsas's slightly surprised voice rang out in front of the earthen wall.

The next moment, a figure appeared at the edge of the earthen wall.

Eve had somehow escaped from the monster horde. Her black hair fluttered slightly in the morning breeze. Her hands were empty, but as she stood before Karthus, her aura was more imposing than ever before.

"Your opponent is me."

Karthus slowly withdrew his finger, scrutinizing the seemingly frail, dark-haired woman before him.

“The Third Guardian…The Watcher.” He savored the title. “Your brother once single-handedly sealed off the Land of the Underworld.”

“Indeed a formidable enemy.” Karthus shook his head with a smile. “Unfortunately, he is dead.”

Eve's expression remained unchanged.

“And you,” Karthus tilted his head, “how much of your brother’s skill do you possess?”

Eve didn't answer. She simply raised her hand, and the longsword stuck in the ground ten meters away hummed, flew up, and landed precisely in her palm.

The moment the sword touched her hand, the ground beneath her feet trembled slightly, and a visible ripple of earthy yellow spread outward from her.

Lynn felt as if the ground beneath his feet had come alive.

When those mutants that were still rampaging around stepped onto this land, their pace slowed down noticeably, as if they were sinking into a swamp.

"Is this... the power of the Watchers?" Anna's voice came from not far away, tinged with a hint of amazement.

Her fingers were getting sore.

One light-based spell after another deflected the attacking monsters, but failed to kill them.

This purely defensive combat style of warfare is extremely taxing on physical and mental strength.

"Anna." Lynn got up from the ground and rushed to Anna's side. "Can you hold on?"

"No problem for now."

"Where's that shadow?" Lynn suddenly remembered something and turned his head sharply.

He saw the temple guards clashing with the dark figure.

Holy light and the abyss collided violently in a corner of the plaza, each clash unleashing a devastating shockwave.

The two beings, both at level 79, fought to a standstill.

Good news: The shadow has been restrained.

Bad news: The temple guards are also tied down.

Just as Lynn was at a loss, a deafening roar came from the direction of the obelisk.

He turned his head abruptly.

On the battlefield where Eve clashed with Karthus, the earth was torn open, creating a chasm tens of meters long.

Eve knelt on one knee, her longsword planted in front of her for support.

Karthus hovered in mid-air, surrounded by a dozen rotating dark purple magic circles.

He appeared to be almost completely unharmed.

“Not bad, a bit worse than your brother, but certainly not bad.” Karthus looked down at Eve, then turned his head, his gaze passing over Eve and landing on Lynn in the distance.

"But what I'm more interested in... is your friend who can summon mythical creatures."

Eve stood up from the ground, her left arm hanging at her side, with faint traces of blood seeping from under her sleeve.

"I told you."

"Your opponent is me."

Karsas ignored her.

He hovered in the air, his eyes, flickering with purple flames, fixed on Lynn in the distance.

“What a pity.” Karthus sighed. “I was planning to study you slowly after the ritual was completed, but since you have already destroyed a node, I have no choice but to kill you ahead of time.”

No sooner had he finished speaking than Eve suddenly moved.

The earth responded to her will at that moment.

The ground within a radius of fifty meters cracked simultaneously, and countless sharp rock spikes shot out from the ground like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, densely piercing towards Karthus, who was suspended in the air.

"Oh?"

Karthus raised his hand, and a dark purple magic shield materialized in front of him. Hundreds of rock spikes struck the shield, producing a piercing scraping sound.

But not a single one penetrated.

"Not bad in terms of strength," Karthus commented with a smile, "but..."

"Don't be too happy yet," Eve interrupted him coldly.

Her sword plunged into the ground.

boom!

Under Eve's command, the entire earth twisted and deformed, transforming from a flat plaza into a massive bowl-shaped depression—and directly above Karthus, the earth closed in like the mouth of a giant beast, attempting to devour him entirely.

Hundreds of tons of rock were pressed in from all directions.

"This is getting interesting."

A burst of dark purple light erupted around Karthus's body, and all the rocks that were pressing in were instantly reduced to dust upon contact with the light.

He floated out leisurely from the gaps in the rubble, his robes untouched by even a speck of dust.

“Watch.” Karthus finally looked directly at Eve. “Wall of the Earth, Immortal City, your power is indeed formidable.”

"But you have a fatal weakness."

He raised his finger and pointed to Eve's feet.

"You can't leave the ground."

As soon as he finished speaking, Karthus clasped his hands together, and a dozen rotating magic circles turned from dark purple to pitch black.

The ground beneath Eve's feet began to collapse, and the ground began to blur under Karthus's power, becoming like a phantom and no longer able to bear weight.

Eve felt something strange coming from under her feet.

“I cannot remove the earth beneath your feet, but I can temporarily detach it from the material world.” Karthus’s voice carried the composure of a scholar. “Without the earth, your power of protection is completely useless.”

Don't be too happy yet.

Eve retorted, and the next moment, she appeared on a stone slab twenty meters away that had not yet been blurred.

As long as there is even an inch of earthly property left in this square, she can use it as a medium to move.

"Wow." Karthus raised an eyebrow. "There's even a way to deal with this."

Eve didn't give him any more time to think.

She raised her sword with one hand, and golden light spread from the sword to the ground, and then from the ground to the edge of the entire square.

Those areas that had been blurred solidified again the moment the light touched them, turning them back into hard rock.

"The indestructible city wall," Eve whispered.

The entire square became her domain at that moment; every stone slab and every grain of sand was her weapon, her shield, her city.

Karthus's smile finally faded a bit.

He landed gently on the ground.

"Then... let's get serious."

Chapter 149 The Power of Guardianship (Part 2)

Karthus conjured a staff out of thin air in his hand.

The staff was entirely black, with a rotating dark purple sphere at its head. Inside the sphere, countless distorted human faces could be vaguely seen struggling and screaming.

At the same moment, Lynn's left eye twitched violently, the Eye of Truth was automatically activated, and a line of information flooded into his mind like water.

【Kal'sas】

[Race: Abyss Apostle]

[Level: 85 (Demigod)]

[Sanity Value: 56]

[Weakness: The core of the abyss is located directly in the chest cavity—its magic supply depends on the obelisk, and its power decreases significantly after it moves out of the obelisk's effective range]

Lynn gasped.

Level 85.

Good guy.

Information he couldn't identify before is now clearly presented before him, even his sanity level is crystal clear.

Indeed, these are eyes given by the gods; they can even see through things at the demigod level.

Lynn didn't have time to think, because Karsas had already made his move.

With a light tap of the staff, more than a dozen dark purple beams shot out from the magic circle and poured towards Eve's direction.

Each beam of light that struck the ground left a corrosive pit several meters deep, and the stone slab crumbled rapidly as if dissolved by acid.

Eve raised her sword, and the ground beneath her feet rose up.

A rock wall, three meters thick, rose abruptly from the ground, blocking her way.

The beam of light struck the rock wall, producing a piercing hiss. The surface of the rock wall was corroded with pits, but it was never penetrated.

“Level 85,” Lynn whispered to Anna beside him. “Kalthas is level 85.”

Anna's expression suddenly changed.

"you sure?"

“Hmm.” Lynn’s gaze was fixed on the battlefield. “But his power depends on the obelisk’s magic. If we can drag him away from the obelisk’s range…”

Before he could finish speaking, a loud explosion came from the battlefield.

Karthus, holding his staff in one hand and clenching his fist with the other, smashed the second rock wall that Eve had erected.