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Chapter 126

“You dare obstruct our lady’s path?” The driver snarled, lifting a whip and sending it out again.

I instinctively flinched, not wanting to feel the pain again. I could always shut down my pain receptors, but I couldn’t do it quickly. They did have various purposes in helping me understand my body, so I let them be after I evolved into a human. This was the first time that anything had caused me significant distress though. Even being stabbed by a knife felt like little more than the poke of a needle. This was because the pain was connected to the amount of damage done, and my high health and high defense made that meaningless, but this driver’s whip seemed to have some strange property that sidestepped that.

Before the whip struck me again, Sammy pulled his blade and managed to block it from hitting me. This was the first time