Chapter 119 : Silent Sanctuary, the Mechanical Maid’s Strength
Chapter 119: Silent Sanctuary, the Mechanical Maid’s Strength!
Before Brian and Liz could see what was inside—
A blinding red light flared.
【Warning, warning, illegal intruders detected.】
The gargoyle puppets that had caused Lynn no small amount of trouble
activated all at once!
The areas damaged by Lynn earlier
had already been fully restored.
It seemed the material used to forge them was a combination of memory metal and advanced magical craftsmanship.
Precisely because they could automatically repair and adjust themselves,
they were still fully functional even after a thousand years.
“So fast!”
Liz’s eyes widened in shock the moment she exclaimed.
The gargoyles had already arrived before them.
Their speed was nearly impossible to catch with the naked eye!
However—
Faster than the gargoyles
was Brian!
Bang!
The four shadows that had just been howling toward them
were sent flying back at a speed even faster than they came, slamming brutally into the alloy wall behind!
Four gargoyles were embedded in the impact craters.
Their joints were twisted beyond shape, their rear thrusters sparking wildly.
Their scarlet electronic eyes flickered erratically… then dimmed completely.
“Uh…”
Liz’s exclamation got stuck in her throat.
Just like that, it was over?
She hadn’t even seen how her uncle made his move!
“Uncle, you… be careful!”
Liz snapped back to herself and hurriedly shouted, “These ‘iron lumps’ might be treasures, the masterpieces of that genius alchemist! Leave whole bodies—”
“No, wait, leave usable ones!”
She stared at the smoking gargoyles with genuine heartache.
These were equivalent to Fifth-tier guardians!
Put one in Holy Light Town, and it could be worshiped like a guardian beast!
Although they looked weak like chickens before her uncle, that was purely because the opponent was too monstrous!
If she had been the one fighting, she probably couldn’t beat even one!
Brian ignored her nagging.
His gaze was cold, as though he was handling a trivial inconvenience.
Just four gargoyles embedded in the wall.
Their internal structure seemed to be adjusting automatically under some force, showing signs of repair.
But beyond someone’s expectation—
The defenses here were far more than just four gargoyles!
The alloy walls opened, and more gargoyles emerged!
Brian lifted his eyelids.
Expressionless, his lips moved slightly.
“Silent Sanctuary.”
In the next moment—
Liz felt her vision plunge into complete darkness.
All sound disappeared, all light vanished.
She couldn’t even sense her own body.
She couldn’t move, couldn’t shout, couldn’t think!
Her five senses vanished entirely!
As if she had become a cold stone thrown into an abyss of darkness!
What… what kind of ability was this?!
Panic surged uncontrollably in Liz’s chest.
However—
This suffocating darkness lasted only an instant.
So short it might not even have been a thousandth of a second.
Darkness receded abruptly.
Light, sound, touch…
All information of the world flooded back into Liz’s senses.
She took a huge breath and almost collapsed; her palms were drenched in cold sweat!
And before her—
Brian maintained the exact same posture as before, as if he hadn’t moved at all.
Only…
Those dozens of gargoyles that had charged fiercely moments ago
had completely lost all activity, lying motionless on the ground.
The red lights in their bodies were extinguished.
Clearly, their internal cores had been destroyed by some impossibly precise method—
leaving not even the possibility of repair.
“Huff… huff…” Liz patted her chest, still shaken.
“Incredible, Uncle… what was that? It was terrifying!”
“I felt like I… died for one second?”
Brian glanced at her and uttered two words: “Sanctuary.”
It seemed to explain, yet explained nothing at all.
Liz puffed her cheeks. “That’s like saying nothing… My realm isn’t high enough to understand, right?”
At least she adjusted her mindset quickly.
She understood that some heights simply could not be reached—no point obsessing.
Meanwhile, Lynn, who had been observing silently, saw something.
At the moment the gargoyles lunged,
Brian froze everything within fifty meters of himself.
He created a sealed battlefield.
And this battlefield was clearly under Brian’s complete control.
It did not affect him at all, and not even the slightest fluctuation of battle would leak outside.
“So this is Sanctuary—the Law Domain made manifest by a Seventh-tier powerhouse. True authority of speech, domain suppression…”
Lynn murmured, feeling troubled.
Unlike facing a Sixth-tier opponent—
When a Seventh-tier monster made a move, one might not even have the right to escape.
Let alone winning against them…
“No wonder the Empire would send Brian to investigate me.”
“He can suppress energy fluctuations to the absolute minimum. Other Sanctuary experts definitely don’t have concealment this strong.”
With that thought—
Lynn used his divine sense to observe the state of the ruins again.
The danger had been temporarily resolved.
Liz quickly recovered from her panic and curiosity took over again.
She and Brian inspected the pile of gargoyle remnants.
They confirmed they had completely shut down.
Although their internal energy cores and conduction systems were destroyed, the materials and craftsmanship remained highly valuable for research.
Liz even took out a small notebook and charcoal pen,
sketching several key structural diagrams at lightning speed.
Afterward—
The two naturally turned their gazes toward the core of the laboratory.
The most eye-catching object—the massive cylindrical glass container!
Liz approached, separated only by the cold, thick glass wall.
She could nearly count the silver-white eyelashes of the girl inside.
Her sleeping posture was serene, like a fairytale’s sleeping beauty, waiting for someone to awaken her.
“Incredible…”
Liz sighed. “Master Eldwin… His technology could create humans—oh wait, create life? This is comparable to divine arts…”
Brian continuously scanned the container and the girl within.
His expression grew heavier, brows furrowing deeper and deeper.
The surface of the container was smooth as a mirror.
The cracks left by Lynn’s avatar’s attempt to forcefully dismantle it had long vanished.
“Step back.”
Brian suddenly spoke in a deep tone.
He pulled the entranced Liz half a meter behind him.
“What’s wrong?” Liz tensed.
Her grip on Durandal tightened—had the girl awakened?
Brian did not answer immediately.
He stared fixedly at the girl in the container.
Especially the faint glimmer flowing beneath her synthetic skin—
the glowing veins.
Liz followed his gaze and gradually noticed the anomaly.
These glowing veins were not chaotic.
They formed some extremely complex… array? Circuit?
They were slowly circulating.
And they were continuously drawing some form of energy
from the surrounding fluid and the tubes connected to her.
“Danger. She… is not weaker than me.”
Liz felt as if her head had been struck by a bell!
Not weaker than… Uncle?!
This seemingly delicate, perfect, sleeping girl in a glass container…
was comparable to the Empire’s top-tier battle power?!