Lance was also taken aback. He hadn't anticipated this situation, yet a strange reaction still occurred when the Collector's artifact attacked him.
If the Alpha Wolf's roar earlier had felt like a breath of spring, the Collector's artifact's attack was like a mosquito bite.
Indeed, the artifact's attack, which seemed to penetrate his defenses, actually felt to Lance like he had been bumped by an insect; it was barely noticeable. But he soon understood. How could those artifacts, with only a faint blue light, possess any physical substance? Thus, both the Alpha Wolf's roar and the Collector's artifacts' attacks were psychic assaults on the soul.
However, due to his "Sanctuary" trait, his soul simply couldn't be harmed by psychic attacks. This meant the eerie and fearsome powers that would terrify ordinary people could not touch him at all.
If the Collector itself and its artifacts only use psychic attacks... then something is definitely off.
