I'm really not a Sanctuary Warlock.

Three nearly skin and bones of desiccated corpses crashed heavily onto the snow at Alice's feet, too weak to even struggle.

Lynn stood behind Alice, looking at the three mummified corpses, and a cold sweat inexplicably broke out on his back.

Whether it's a warrior's weapon strikes or a mage's elemental bombardment, the essence is to end the enemy's life through physical or energy destruction.

But what Alice just did was skip the destruction process altogether and wipe out the other party's life force at its source.

The abyss steals the body, and this so-called divine authority directly deprives life of its existence.

The remaining wolves were completely terrified by this scene.

The monsters' instincts told them that the seemingly weak human girl before them was a monster a hundred times more terrifying than the top predators.

There was no howl of the alpha wolf, and no signal to retreat.

The remaining twenty-odd Frostfang wolves tucked their tails between their legs, turned around frantically, and tried to escape back into the dark depths of the coniferous forest.

But Alice had no intention of letting them go.

She slowly raised her head, her eyes, burning with emerald flames, coldly sweeping over the fleeing pack of wolves.

"Since you're here, leave your life behind."

She opened her arms, palms facing up.

The green life force she had just extracted from the three wolves gathered in her palms into two dazzling orbs of light.

As she moved, the ball of light suddenly exploded, transforming into countless tiny green threads that spread rapidly in all directions, precisely catching up with each of the fleeing Frostfang wolves.

Green threads wrapped around the wolves' bodies and instantly blended into them.

"Waaaaah."

A series of piercing screams echoed through the forest. One after another, the Frostfang wolves that had been running wildly suddenly collapsed to the ground. Their bodies convulsed and rolled wildly in the snow, but no matter how much they struggled, they could not stop the life force within them from surging madly towards Alice along those invisible threads.

In just a dozen or so breaths.

The entire coniferous forest returned to tranquility.

Alice stood in the center of the corpse and took a deep breath.

She slowly lowered her arm, the green flames in her eyes gradually extinguished, and she regained her serene appearance.

She turned her head to look at Lynn, and that smile returned to her lips.

"Mr. Lynn, did I do a good job?"

Lynn looked at her and remained silent for a long time.

He was neither so shocked as to be speechless, nor was he intimidated by the terrifying strength displayed by the other party.

He was simply reassessing the girl's level of danger in his mind.

"Very efficient," Lynn finally commented, his tone still calm. "But next time, control the scope. What you just did wasn't just draining the wolf pack's life force, it almost dried up the trees within ten meters of us."

Alice paused for a moment, then looked down.

Sure enough, the snow within a ten-meter radius around her had completely melted, revealing the soil underneath.

The once towering conifers now have scorched and cracked bark, and large swaths of withered pine needles have fallen from their crowns, clearly indicating that their vitality has been severely damaged.

"I'm sorry, I still can't fully control this power..." Alice bit her lip in frustration, like a child who had done something wrong.

Lynn didn't say anything more. He walked up to a wolf carcass and kicked the shriveled skeleton with his toe.

“It’s alright, let’s keep going.” Lynn turned around and continued walking deeper into the woods.

Alice quickly followed.

The two of them, one after the other, quickly disappeared into the depths of the coniferous forest.

Chapter 184 Seeking Justice (Part 2)

About half an hour after Lynn and Alice left.

In that coniferous forest that had just experienced a one-sided massacre, the wind and snow were still raging.

However, a tall, slender figure appeared without warning in the center of the wolf pack's shriveled carcasses.

This is a man with a full head of silver hair.

He wore a long black overcoat without any insignia, without a hood, letting the cold snowflakes fall on his silver hair.

His eyes remained expressionless, as if nothing in this world was worth his attention.

The man slowly crouched down and gently touched the dried corpse of a Frostfang Wolf at his feet.

With a crisp crack, the iron-hard, mummified monster corpse instantly disintegrated into a pool of grayish-white powder.

The silver-haired man stood up, his black leather boots making no sound as they stepped on the powder.

He slowly raised his hand, looking at the wisp of emerald green light remaining on his fingertip. A hint of surprise finally flashed in his previously calm eyes.

"what happened?"

"Didn't the intelligence report say that the little girl from the Laurent family didn't inherit her mother's immortal bloodline at all?" He rubbed his fingers together, crushing the last bit of green completely. The trees within a ten-meter radius that were already dead instantly turned into dust.

The silver-haired man looked up and gazed in the direction Lynn and Alice had left.

"I initially thought that the Queen Mother had just lost her mind by issuing such an order from the royal family, but now it seems... that girl really is something special."

The man took a step forward, his figure disappearing without warning like a drop of ink merging into the night, leaving behind only that eerie forest where even the snow was rapidly decaying.

……

It was about 20 kilometers away from that coniferous forest.

Lynn and Alice were riding their respective bikes through the hilly area.

Alice's face was somewhat pale. Although she had just gained extremely terrifying power, draining the life force of more than thirty monsters at once was still a huge mental burden on her.

“Mr. Lynn, how much longer until we get out of this area?” Alice asked, panting.

“Once we cross that hill, we’ll see the boundary marker for the royal city’s territory,” Lynn replied casually without turning around.

His mental state remained highly tense. For some reason, ever since he left that coniferous forest, an extremely strong sense of unease had been lingering in his mind.

This feeling doesn't come from a threat from the surrounding environment, but rather from a frantic alarm similar to a biological instinct.

It's like... something extremely terrifying is approaching.

"Hurry up, don't stop." Lynn suddenly sped up his cycling speed.

Alice was startled by Lynn's sudden serious tone and quickly urged the little red horse to hurry up and catch up.

The two hurried along and finally climbed to the top of the mountain.

Standing on the ridge, one can already vaguely see the outline of the enormous city that lies on the distant horizon, like a giant beast.

"Finally arrived..." Alice breathed a sigh of relief and was about to reach out to wipe the sweat from her forehead.

The next second, she was horrified to find that the world around her had changed.

The blizzard, which was originally flying everywhere due to the strong wind, suddenly stopped in mid-air without any warning.

Each snowflake seemed to be nailed to the ground, maintaining its falling posture, yet unable to fall even an inch further.

The whole world seemed to freeze, and then the colors began to fade.

The snow beneath our feet, the dark green coniferous forests in the distance, and even the gray sky above us were all fading in color at an alarming rate, turning into a despairing gray-white.

"what's the situation?"

Lynn's pupils contracted sharply. He wanted to retreat, to mobilize the magic power within his body, to summon the temple guards, and even to forcibly raise his sanity level.

But he discovered in despair that there was nothing he could do.

"Tap...tap...tap..."

A series of extremely clear footsteps came from the gray-white void ahead.

A man with a full head of silver hair, wearing a long black overcoat, walked slowly towards Lynn and Alice, stepping on the snowflakes suspended in mid-air.

He didn't look at Alice, but instead focused his gaze on Lynn, who was completely imprisoned.

Lynn stared at the man in front of her, her back already soaked with cold sweat.

The moment their eyes met, a string of dark red information finally appeared with difficulty on Lynn's retina.

【Name:? ? ? 】

[Level: 99]

[Sanity Value: 91]

[Note: Kingdom Guardian - Annihilation]

Level 99.

Kingdom Guardian, second in rank.

Lynn's mind went blank. In the face of absolute power, any scheme, any trump card, any so-called counterattack against a stronger opponent was a laughable joke.

"I advise you not to try to summon that sacred creature within your soul."

Ji Mie looked at Lynn, his tone as calm as if he were discussing the weather.

"Forcibly summoning them will only cause your soul to collapse along with them."

Lynn gritted his teeth and stared intently at the other person. Although he couldn't speak, the hostility in his eyes was undisguised.

Looking into Lynn's wary eyes, Ji Mie suddenly smiled.

"Don't be nervous, I don't want to kill innocent people indiscriminately."

He paused for a moment, a complex emotion flashing in his silver eyes, a mixture of reminiscence and mockery.

“Especially… the Kingdom of Orentia, the former successor of the Fool.”

……

Ji Mie turned his head and finally focused his gaze on Alice, who was also imprisoned beside him.

“The young lady of the Laurent family.” Ji Mie stretched out a hand and gently grasped Alice from a distance.

"No!"

Alice screamed inwardly, and the emerald green flame in her eyes burned wildly—the power over life and nature that she had just gained.

But then a devastating scene unfolded.

The vibrant emerald light that had just emerged from Alice's body, before it even touched her lifeless form, quickly dimmed and withered in the air, eventually turning into wisps of gray dust.

In the desolate realm of [annihilation], any life force is nothing more than a lamb to the slaughter.

"A peculiar power, but too weak." Silence looked at the fading green flame in Alice's eyes, his tone remaining completely calm. "Let's go, someone is waiting for you in the royal city."

As the hand of annihilation clenched, Alice's body drifted uncontrollably toward him.

Lynn watched this scene unfold, his anger threatening to overwhelm his reason.

He had promised Marquis Laurent that he would deliver her to the capital, but now he didn't even have the right to lift a finger to stop her.

The next second, Jimie turned around.

The hovering snowflakes shattered instantly, and the gray-white world receded rapidly like the tide going out.

When the sound of the wind and the cold returned to Lynn's senses, the figures of Annihilation and Alice had completely vanished from the spot.

There was no trace of them, as if they had never existed.

"boom!"

Once freed from his restraints, Lynn's knees buckled, and he knelt heavily on the snow.

The oppressive feeling of level 99 was enough to bring his body to the brink of collapse, even though the opponent had not released any killing intent.

"What? You can't even handle this?"

A voice filled with mockery and ridicule suddenly rang out in the depths of Lynn's mind.

Immediately afterwards, the snow in front of Lynn distorted.

He was once again drawn into that familiar scene.

The god, dressed in a black Gothic Lolita dress, sat with his legs crossed on a throne made of bones, a wicked smile playing on his lips.