"Ah... Lu Yuan... are you even human?"
Ink spoke somewhat dizzily, the runes on its body flickering.
After a long while, Ink finally regained its composure.
"Your Sanity is just too exaggerated! I've never seen so much Sanity in a low-level transcendent!"
"You aren't some kind of Eerie in disguise, are you?"
Ink looked wary, but after twitching its tiny nose a few times, it indeed didn't scent any Eerie aura.
"Talent."
Lu Yuan spat out a single word calmly.
"Huh?" Ink looked at the serious Lu Yuan and felt a strange urge to punch him.
"Do you have any idea how close I came to dying just now? I was nearly drained dry just to guide you in constructing that mental barrier!"
"Never again!"
"Is the gap between your Sanity and mine that large?" Lu Yuan picked up on the meaning behind Ink's words.
"Of course not! Even though your Sanity is high, it's still far from matching a noble book spirit like me!"
"It's just that your Sanity is a bit strange. It's very difficult for me to mobilize. Besides, you seem to have already mastered some techniques yourself; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to finish even if I were completely drained."
Ink said with a frown.
"I see." Lu Yuan didn't say anything more.
It seemed Ink's method had many limitations. This time was quite a coincidence, and it actually required mobilizing his own Sanity...
Lu Yuan was not willing to let his secrets be discovered by this little thing.
In the evening, Mary brought Mina back.
When she returned, Mina had already taken a bath and changed into new clothes, her small face looking rosy.
"Remember to come and find Sister Mary to play later."
Mary left after giving her instructions.
By this time, Brent had returned from outside with hot bread and vegetable soup.
Under the dim yellow light.
Mina sat on a small stool, nibbling on the softened bread in small bites, her face full of satisfaction.
After Brent ate heartily, he began busying himself with tidying up the rooms.
Ink sat at the edge of the table, occasionally taking out a ball of black light and swallowing it into its belly.
After eating, Lu Yuan took out the "Illustrated Handbook of Deep Sea Creatures: From Eggs to Adults" and leaned back on the sofa to flip through it.
This brief moment of warmth seemed to shut out the cold, damp Gelimu Port outside the window, lasting until the next morning.
【Sanity III: 2/74】
The Strange Dreams that arrived as promised once again took away another point from Lu Yuan's Sanity limit. Lu Yuan's dream had returned to the state of facing the great sea.
At this moment, the fog in Gelimu Port had dispersed.
The occasional jingle of passing carriages could be heard from outside.
Until a rhythmic knocking on the door broke the clinic's peace.
Lu Yuan stood up, put down the newspaper Brent had brought, and opened the door.
Outside, there were no customers.
Instead, a group of people wearing white robes with gold trim stood there.
The leader was a middle-aged priest holding a shimmering scripture, with two solemn-faced, burly men standing behind him.
They were from the Holy Church.
"Good morning, lost lamb. I am Priest Andrew. Please forgive my uninvited visit. These two are the deacons who follow me."
Priest Andrew bowed slightly, though his tone carried a hint of arrogance.
"The Lord Angel has sensed a child here. To ensure she is not seduced by evil, we need to take her back to the cathedral."
"There is no child here for you." Lu Yuan held the doorknob, his expression calm.
"If the Lord Angel says there is, then there is."
Priest Andrew smiled and gently opened the scripture in his hand.
"Buzz—"
In that instant, Lu Yuan's pupils constricted sharply.
Everything vanished.
The sound of carriages on the street, the chirping of cicadas, the wind... all sounds disappeared instantly.
The entire clinic seemed to have been abandoned by the world.
【Warning: Your environment has changed. You are enveloped in a Silence Barrier.】
Lu Yuan looked at the gray-white prompt before his eyes and understood everything in an instant.
Everything here was isolated; even the nearby sentries wouldn't know what was happening here.
By the time the sentries realized something was wrong, this group of church people would likely have long since fled.
"This is the authority bestowed upon me by the Lord Angel. I hope Dr. Lu can sense the power within it."
The smile on Priest Andrew's face remained unchanged as he lightly traced a finger across the scripture.
"The Angel grants us fortified armor."
A golden light instantly enveloped the deacons behind him.
A layer of golden light surfaced on their skin, and their muscles bulged, instantly filling their seemingly ordinary robes with explosive power.
"The Angel grants us speed."
Another flash of cyan light fell.
Simultaneously, the two deacons moved. With the enhancement of the cyan light, they were as fast as two afterimages, lunging at Lu Yuan from left and right in a pincer attack with the sound of whistling wind.
"The church's ways... are truly nauseating."
Lu Yuan watched them rush forward, his gaze cold.
"Then let me experience the Angel's blessing for myself."
In the next moment, Lu Yuan's thumb lightly pressed the dark gold pocket watch.
Click.
【Acceleration (Activated)】
【Sanity in consumption... -1... -1】
The world instantly slowed down in Lu Yuan's eyes.
The deacons' fierce charge now looked like ridiculous slow motion.
Lu Yuan's right hand reached into his coat and drew 'Flame', the enchanted revolver.
For the church's shameless behavior, Lu Yuan intended to give them a profound lesson this time.
Did they think his clinic was a trash can where anyone could come and go as they pleased?
"Bang! Bang!"
Two bursts of orange-red fire bloomed from the muzzle.
The silver-plated alchemical bullets spun, carrying a scream that tore through the air, accurately slamming into the deacons' joints.
"Clang—crack!"
The first sound was the bullets colliding with the golden light.
Immediately followed by the sound of the blessed shields shattering and bones snapping.
The defensive power of the church's blessing at this level was indeed not weak; ordinary swords might have found it difficult to break through.
Unfortunately, they were facing an enchanted large-caliber revolver, a weapon born for the Eerie.
"Aah!!"
The deacons who had been charging forward with such momentum had blood mist explode from their knees. The massive impact caused them to lose their balance instantly, crashing heavily to the floor like stray dogs with broken legs and sliding forward for several meters.
Priest Andrew was clearly shocked by the scene before him.
"Damn it! Get up! For the glory of the Lord Angel!"
Andrew's brow furrowed as he shouted a harsh command.
The two deacons on the ground endured the excruciating pain, actually trying to use their hands to push off the floor and lunge again.
"Bang! Bang!"
Two more gunshots rang out.
Lu Yuan's expression was cold.
This time, the bullets accurately pierced the deacons' wrists.
All four limbs were disabled.
This time, the two deacons completely lost the ability to move, only able to let out agonizing groans as their blood stained the floor red.
Lu Yuan lowered the muzzle as a wisp of blue smoke drifted up.
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