700. Sustainable Exhaustion of the Pond

The red-armored knight frowned, unable to figure out what Lu Ban meant.

All he felt was a surge of anger. After all, no commoner had ever dared defy him before.

In this territory, as an outside team member of a squad under the duke's guards, he was even more powerful than some barons who had bought their titles.

Whoosh—

He raised his whip, making it crack through the air.

The whip was about to land on Lu Ban, but this time, Lu Ban did not dodge.

The whip struck Lu Ban. His entire body seemed to split open as though cut by a knife, and the whip sank into his flesh. Then the wound suddenly healed, trapping the whip directly inside Lu Ban's body.

Seeing this, the red-armored knight's eyes widened. The shocking, grotesque sight dealt a direct blow to his sanity. Behind him, those soldiers who had looked elite began to lose their composure, and even the horses seemed startled, uneasily backing away several steps.

As for the townspeople, they did not seem particularly surprised. Perhaps because they lived on the frontier, they had long grown accustomed to seeing monsters run rampant and slaughter humans. They had witnessed every manner of death, so the sight did not stir much within them.

Of course, it was also possible that years of polluted water sources and land had already contaminated them to a sufficiently high degree. The grotesque appearance Lu Ban now presented was well within their threshold, making it impossible for their sanity to drop any further.

The knights, however, were not so lucky.

Perhaps they had never even fought a true monster. These knights, who only knew how to bully others through their authority, saw Lu Ban's current appearance and seemed almost to have the prompts **Sanity -1, Sanity