Looking at the white glow enveloping his wound, Evan was now certain of his earlier guess.
’She really does have a healing skill, and a healing skill that is effective even against poison.’
Healing-type skills were extremely rare and valuable because they rarely dropped like other skills.
On top of that, normal healing skills couldn’t cure poison. A detoxifying skill was usually required to remove poison from the body.
But Anna’s healing skill was clearly different. Evan could feel the damage caused by the poison inside his arm slowly healing, while the poison itself was gradually being expelled from his body.
’She did say that she doesn’t have an attack-type skill...’
Evan recalled what Anna had told him when he had asked why she hadn’t used her skill during the fight.
"My healing skill is a bit special. Because of how potent it is, I can currently only use it twice a day..." Anna explained when she noticed him staring at the white glow around her palm. "My skill was still on cooldown when we were fighting those two slave traders. If I could have healed us at that time, our situation wouldn’t have been so dire."
Evan nodded at her explanation.
As the white glow completely enveloped his arm, he felt as if he had placed his arm inside warm water, with something gently caressing his skin.
It was an incredibly soothing sensation.
A few seconds later, the white glow disappeared from his arm, and black blood began flowing out of the wound.
Evan watched in surprise as the black blood continued to pour out.
Five seconds later, the flow of black blood finally stopped, and the wound on his arm began to heal, completely disappearing within a few seconds.
"Your healing skill is even better than healing potions..." Evan commented when he saw the wound on his arm disappear.
He turned to look at Anna, intending to thank her, but saw that her face had turned pale.
"Are you alright?" Evan asked with a frown, wondering if there were any side effects from using her skill.
Anna didn’t answer his question immediately. Instead, she took out a mana potion and quickly drank it.
Only after finishing the potion did she speak.
"Are you really human?"
Evan’s mouth twitched slightly at the familiar question, and he looked at her speechlessly.
Seeing his expression, Anna felt a little embarrassed and hurriedly explained.
"Don’t get me wrong. It’s just that the amount of mana my skill consumes depends on the severity of the injury. Normally, even if I treat a deep wound, it wouldn’t consume all of my mana. But just now, I lost all of my mana."
"You mean the poison was far stronger than you had thought?" Evan raised an eyebrow upon hearing her.
"Yes." She nodded and looked at him in amazement. "That poison was definitely not something an unranked Evolver could withstand, but you..." She shook her head and didn’t say anything else.
"It’s not that surprising if you think about how he beat down a Rank One Evolver despite the difference in their levels," William said with a wary smile.
Evan didn’t think too much about Anna’s words. After all, his Health Points were already far higher than those of a typical unranked Evolver.
Moreover, Steel Body didn’t just increase his physical defense. It had also greatly strengthened his body’s natural resistance and immune system.
Suddenly, Evan remembered the children they had brought back with them.
"Where are the children?"
"They are currently at the guard station. The guards there are treating their injuries."
"I see..."
Evan nodded before looking toward the four guards who were still trying to wake Mike.
Seeing that their attention wasn’t on them, he lowered his voice and asked,
"Do you know where those children live? I mean, are they from Rivo City or another city?"
Anna and William were confused by Evan’s serious expression, but they still answered him.
"The girl you saved first isn’t from Rivo City, but the other two children are," William replied, still looking at Evan with a confused expression.
Hearing that the two children were from Rivo City, Evan frowned slightly and looked toward the guards.
"Was the guard office already aware of their kidnapping? Since they were from Rivo City, their parents must have reported them missing to the guard office, right?"
"That..." Anna shook her head. "No one in the guard office was aware of their kidnapping. From the way they acted, it seems they never received a missing-person report."
"No report..." Evan sneered slightly. "Or maybe there was a report, but someone simply suppressed it so that no one would know."
William and Anna’s expressions changed when they heard his words.
"You mean someone from the guard office is working with those slave traders and intentionally suppressed the reports about the missing children?" William asked with a grave expression.
"It’s possible..." Evan nodded before shaking his head. "But it’s also possible that those children were sold to these bastards by their parents, which is why no one reported them missing."
"No way." Anna immediately shook her head. "I don’t think any parents would sell their own children. Besides, I asked those two kids about their parents while we were bringing them back, and from the way they spoke about them, it didn’t seem like they had been sold by their parents."
"It would be best if that’s the case. After all, it’s really strange that these people were able to bring those children out of the city without being caught by the guards at the city gate..." Evan said with a shake of his head.
"Considering those those children weren’t sold by their parents, then does that mean there is a problem within the guard office?" William asked in a low voice.
Evan looked toward the group of guards, his eyes flickering slightly.
"If there really is something wrong with the guard office, I bet the person behind these slave traders will definitely come or send someone here to help this guy escape," William continued in a low voice. "After all, if this guy is taken back, that person will definitely be exposed as well."
"You mean..." Anna’s eyes widened upon hearing this.
"Yes. Among these four guards, there must be someone connected to these slave traders." Evan nodded before suddenly thinking of something. "By the way, what happened to those other two slave traders?"
William shook his head.
"When we came earlier with the guards, we passed through that area, but those two had already been eaten by the monsters."
"I see..."
Evan wasn’t surprised. This was the Dark Forest, after all.
Since he had broken their limbs and tied them up, it was natural that the magical beasts in the forest wouldn’t have let them escape.
"In that case, this guy is the only person left who can tell us whether someone from the guard office is working with them," Evan muttered as he started walking toward the four guards.
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