I'm really not a Sanctuary Warlock.

Is it a hallucination?

Lynn was somewhat dazed, but the softness of Lisa's body in his arms and her still beautiful singing voice reminded him that it was all real.

It wasn't until the bubbles broke through the dark sea surface that Lynn finally understood what had happened.

The enormous, twisted, and ugly deformed sirens disappeared.

A breathtakingly beautiful creature appeared on the surface of the sea.

She possessed a beautiful female upper body, with skin as white as snow, and a cascade of long black hair that swayed gently in the air. Those repulsive eyes were no longer visible.

Her features were exquisitely beautiful, and her eyes were a pure azure blue. She was softly singing a moving song.

Her lower body was no longer that writhing mass of tentacle flesh, but a huge fish tail covered with dazzling silver scales, gently slapping the surface of the sea and creating ripples.

Is this the same species as that monster from before?

The bubbles gently carried Lynn and Lisa to the rocks, then quietly burst.

Lynn didn't have time to appreciate the miraculous transformation before him; he immediately brought up his own panel.

Name: Lynn

[Sanity Value: 40+/-]

Forty points.

broken!

Lynn's heart skipped a beat. If his sanity dropped below 70 points, he would attract the followers of an evil god. Now it had dropped to 40 points. Who knew what even more perverted things would be attracted?

However, Lynn was clearly overthinking it.

To his astonishment, he discovered that the familiar "+/-" sign had returned after the sanity value column.

This means... the danger has passed?

Without time to think it through, Lynn's mind was frantically focused on that plus sign.

Forget everything else, let's get it to a safe level first.

……

[Sanity Value: 80]

[Sanity Value: 100]

The number soared until it returned to 100, at which point Lynn finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

Before the feeling of relief at surviving the ordeal could fully take hold, he discovered another strange place.

[Upward fluctuation: 25 points]

[Sinking Points: 45]

The number of sinking points only increased by five points compared to before.

In other words, even if he were to lower his sanity level to the lowest possible level again, it would only drop to 55 points.

This puzzled Lynn.

That's unreasonable.

His sanity level had clearly dropped to 40 points just now, so why has the lower limit on the panel increased now?

Is it possible that actively changing one's sanity value through a panel is not the same as the changes in sanity value caused by various situations in reality?

Lynn shook her head.

Screw it.

He doesn't have time to worry about this now; the fact that no new monsters have appeared is clearly a great thing.

On the sea, the sirens continued their soft singing.

The song transformed into softly glowing notes, like gentle fireflies, drifting towards the rocks and landing on the unconscious Anna and Lisa.

Healed by the song, Anna's pale cheeks gradually regained color, and the aura of death emanating from Lisa also dissipated somewhat.

Seemingly sensing that Anna was about to awaken, the siren on the sea gave Lynn a deep look, its eyes, which seemed to contain the entire starry sky, filled with gratitude.

Then, she gracefully swished her tail and sank into the dark depths of the sea, disappearing from sight.

Almost at the same time, Anna's finger twitched.

She slowly opened her eyes.

"What happened?"

Anna's voice was still weak. She struggled to sit up and the first thing she saw was Lisa lying unconscious beside her.

She reached out to help Lisa up.

However, Anna stopped moving the moment her fingertips touched Lisa.

The cross pendant that Lisa used to wear around her neck is gone.

"The pendant is gone..."

Anna let out a soft, dreamlike murmur, seemingly unable to believe what she was seeing.

"No no no..."

Lynn was startled by her violent reaction.

"What's wrong? Is that pendant important?"

Anna stared at Lisa's bare neck, feeling as if her soul had been ripped out.

"Punishment Pendant..."

"That is the source of every disciplinary nun's suffering, and the shackles that bind them to atonement."

“Removing it means they will use their lives to complete their final act of atonement.”

"Their health will drop to one percent instantly, putting them in a near-death state, but in exchange, they will receive an attack... powerful enough to sever all sins."

Anna looked up at Lynn, her eyes filled with sorrow.

"The method of attack is related to the professional characteristics of each disciplinary nun."

“Lisa’s is the Sword of Dawn.”

"After sin is eradicated, dawn will break."

Chapter Twenty-Four: A Piece of Wood

After sin is eradicated, dawn will break.

This proverb remained in Anna's mind.

She held onto the rocks beside her, struggling to stand up, but her body swayed uncontrollably due to exhaustion.

Lisa lay there quietly, her long, silvery-white hair soaked by the seawater, clinging messily to her cheeks, devoid of its usual vitality.

ended.

The nun who always followed behind her, expressing her loyalty through silence, eventually reached the end of her destiny.

Anna reached out to touch Lisa's cheek, but her fingertips trembled in mid-air.

It's all her fault; she failed to protect Lisa.

"Your Highness, Lisa should be alright."

A voice interrupted Anna's self-reproach.

"The Sirens healed her."

Sirens?

Anna's thoughts paused for a moment.

treat?

How can this be?

A feeling of utter absurdity welled up inside Anna.

She wasn't shocked that Lynn mentioned the Sirens, but because Lisa's current condition was beyond the scope of treatment.

If her health only drops to one percent, any low-level healing spell can bring her back to life.

The key point is that after sacrificing the pendant, the user will immediately enter a "near-death" state.

When a person is near death, all healing spells will become ineffective.

There is only one way to save someone who is on the verge of death.

That is to use the resurrection spell.

In the entire Kingdom of Orentia, there are only a handful of people who can cast resurrection spells.

Anna knew that arguing with Lynn about these things was pointless.

If questioning is useless, then let's confirm it with our own eyes.

[Identification Techniques]

Lines of data flashed through Anna's mind.

Name: Lisa

[Occupation: Punishing Nun]

[Level: 38]

【HP: 7%】

[Sanity: 101 / Your will has rendered the evil god unable to influence you anymore]

……

Anna's breathing stopped.

Too much information.

So much so that her brain couldn't process it for a moment.

The near-death state... is truly over.

Lisa's health points have recovered to seven percent. Although she is still seriously injured, there is no doubt that she has survived.

Anna's tense nerves finally relaxed a little at this moment.

She began to force herself to calm down and analyze this unbelievable situation.

The mutated siren displayed unparalleled regenerative abilities in the battle; even limbs burned off by the Holy Light Judgment could regenerate in a short time.

With such powerful vitality, perhaps... it truly possesses some kind of resurrection-like ability.

This explanation, though far-fetched, is barely plausible.

Anna breathed a sigh of relief, then her attention turned to another, even more outrageous statistic.

Sanity value: 101.

It broke through 100 points.

If she remembered correctly, Lynn's sanity level had also exceeded this theoretical limit.

What does this mean?

One hundred points is definitely not the end of sanity; it's more like a threshold.

The secret has remained undiscovered for thousands of years because there is no effective way to increase sanity on this continent.

A bold guess began to frantically grow in Anna's mind.

If your sanity level is below 100, you will attract the followers of evil gods.

So... what about above 100 points?

That long-extinct, winged angel; that holy unicorn that exists only in ancient texts…

Could it be that after the sanity value exceeds one hundred points, what is attracted is no longer the followers of the evil god, but... the followers of the heavenly god?