"Whew—"
"This turtle shell is way too hard to deal with, isn't it?"
As the Melancholy One fled, Linsey had just climbed out of the moat and come ashore again at the foot of the mountain within the Royal City.
Splash—
Linsey shook off the river water clinging to him.
Looking up, he saw the towering Mountain Peak directly ahead. From here, he could still barely make out the outline of the Law Radiance.
"Just this last stretch remains."
The battle was not over, but Linsey already felt much better.
The Law Power had also kept the Melancholy One's bewitchment at bay.
His heart was returning to itself from its bewitched state. The feeling of his soul being freed surpassed any physical pleasure!
Linsey walked forward step by step, as though his entire being were undergoing rebirth and liberation.
Then, his peculiar train of thought surfaced again:
"This feeling of liberation is so pleasant."
"If this guy treated his skill as a service, could he grasp people's pleasure and use it to control humanity?"
Linsey returned to normal.
As he prepared to climb the mountain, his first instinct was naturally to scout the area.
Linsey unfolded the map he had forgotten to open during the chase and escape. He immediately saw a Red Dot less than a hundred meters directly above him, rapidly closing in!
"Someone else?"
"Right. The Abyss School's target is this place. It would be stranger if no one were here."
Linsey fixed his eyes on the other party's position.
Just as he was considering whether to burrow underground and sneak upward, or defeat the enemy before him head-on and continue onward,
the other party's voice rang out from directly above him first:
"For someone to climb the mountain at a time like this, what a rare