Nightmare's Call

Chapter 217: Search: Part 2

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After a minute of observation, Lin Sheng noticed his opponent had run out of skills to throw at him, and simply threw one of his short axes toward the latter’s head.

*Whuff!!*

The short ax spun into a ring and sank directly into the monster’s head.

It stopped for a moment, as a surge of holy white light exploded out of its body, leaving it a walking mess bellowing black smoke

“Roar!!”

It let out a painful roar as it charged forward again, swinging its flaming blade wildly at Lin Sheng.

His eyes turned crimson as his veins expanded and popped all over the surface of his skin, not unlike swarms of green worms.

Lin Sheng did not dodge this time. A deafening clang rang out as he blocked the blade while he lashed out a powerful side kick.

A thud later, the monster flew away and slammed hard against the floor, its hip twisted into an odd angle. Its spine broke.

“Defense Level 1, strength Level 4, speed Level 3, combat awareness Level 3. Average level, three. If it has some better defense, it could be Level 4 even.”

Lin Sheng looked at the armor worn by the monster, it seemed to have slivers of purple crystals in it, but it did not activate during battle. Probably too much time had since passed, and it has lost its effect.

“It probably uses some supernatural defense, but has lost its effect due to time, causing this to happen.”

He slowly walked over to the howling monster and smashed his ax against its head.

*Bam!*

The skull and the ax head cracked at the same time.

The monster’s howl stopped as it flopped, and stayed forever quiet.

There was a massive gap in its head as a large amount of gross yellow-white matter flowed out of it. Lin Sheng waited for a moment, and realized that there were no black lines forming, surprised him.

That did not really bother him, though, as he bent down and picked up the flaming twin-bladed sword.

The moment the sword left the monster’s hand, the flames on the blade quickly shrunk, and became dim.

In his land, the sword looked more like a massive torch, and even with the smaller flames, the embers were still about the size of a finger, and was still capable of singing someone.

Oddly enough, he did not feel the hilt heating up. The burning blade seemed to be a junk blade a lousy smith had made. It was simple, crude, its blade thick and not tapered, and there were even chips off the edges.

The hilt had a simple brown cloth wrap, while the guard was fashioned out of a red metal into a horn-like shape.

The blade itself did not have any engravings and looked the part of a third-rate weapon.

“What about that shield? Lin Sheng remembered that the beast had a semi-transparent shield.

What surprised him was the shield had gone missing as if it had long disappeared.

“Seems like the shield was the monster’s own ability,” he guessed as he swung the flaming twin-bladed sword about.

A surge of sacred power soon went into the blade

*Boom!*

Suddenly, the flames of the blade roared to life as the embers spat out at least half a meter away as if Lin Sheng was holding a ball of flames.

The flames even burnt him, but Lin Sheng had dragon skin and was highly resistant to fire, so that did not bother him.

He gently swept the blade onto the wall. As the blade barely made contact with the wall for over two seconds, a black scar was burnt on the wall.

“Not bad!”

Lin Sheng knelt down, satisfied as he started rummaging through the body of the monster. As he did not manage to find anything else, he picked up the sword and started looking around the room.

The room seemed to be purposely made for this monster. There was no furniture or any signs or visage of life, not even any combustibles nearby.

After a quick search, Lin Sheng left the room and came to the second one on the left of the hall.

He gently pushed the door open. Before he could even fully open a door, a surge of power blasted out from the room and slammed at the door onto Lin Sheng.

*Bam!!*

A monster with four horns on its head, wielding a flaming sword charged out at Lin Sheng.

*Clang!*

The two flaming swords clashed against each other as Lin Sheng lashed out a punch against the monster’s head.

With a massive thud, the monster’s entire face collapsed inwards.

Not even two seconds later, the monster collapsed on the ground and died. The battle was over.

Lin Sheng was pleased as he withdrew his sword.

With his Level 5 sacred powers and the combined strength of Level 6, a Level 3 to Level 4 monster was nothing to him.

*Hiss...*

This time around, a black line appeared from the monster’s body and entered Lin Sheng’s chest.

He closed his eyes as he absorbed it. Images of darkness, slumber, and feasting entered his mind.

There were two particular images that left a mark on him, one was that the monster with the flaming sword was gathered with many other monsters as they gorged on food and drink in the hall.

The second one, the four-horned monster, was being defeated head-on by a young man in Blood Armor and fell on the ground without any resistance.

Lin Sheng saw the face and noticed some similarities with the Steel Lord’s aide. This monster was probably defeated by an elite of the Warrior’s Guild before and had carved that memory into its soul.

He could feel his spirit grow a little, just a wee bit.

“After reaching Level 5, the total volume of sacred power has increased. I think I’ll need at the very least hundreds of these monster’s soul fragments to level up... Seems I need to find stronger monsters to meet the requirements, otherwise it’ll take forever to get to Level 6 with these trash mobs.”

He sighed to himself as he pried the flaming sword from the monster’s hand. Two blades in both hands, that suited him fine.

As he kicked the body aside, Lin Sheng walked into the second room.

There were metal discs of various sizes in there. The plates were all dark yellow, with intricate engravings on the surface of them, probably a part of some special book-making process.

Lin Sheng walked closed and took one of the discs to read. It was written in ancient Rehn, and aside from some odd grammar, he could read it.

The discs were all placed neatly within the holes in the wall, and on every disc was a short but special essay.

Lin Sheng looked at the disc in his hand. It was the size of a human head with almost thousands of tiny words engraved into it. It would not have been legible if he did not focus.

On top of the disc was a title. “Ideas and theories about building the Holy Sanctum’s defense system.” Beneath it were many rows of tiny words.

“The defense system of the Holy Sanctum? Could that be...” Lin Sheng recalled that ritual that had appeared in the Steel Lord’s memories.

As long as the Steel Lord lived, every non-human being would not be able to escape the city. If it was that ritual of such a scale...

His interest was piqued, and he gave the disc a thorough read.

On the disc was everything about the functions of the city’s defensive system without any detailed instructions.

Lin Sheng quickly went through it, and aside from some conceptual ideas. There was nothing.

He then placed the disc back at its original place before sweeping his gaze over the rest and checked their titles.

“The Introductory Usage of Defensive Runes.”

“The Discussion of Possible Issues With the Energy Nodes.”

“Babylonian Effect Calculation”

“The Relation of Energy and Electromagnetic Fields’ Exchange.”

“The Font of the Holy Sanctum: Construction and Maintenance (Volume One).”

Lin Sheng’s gaze paused for a moment as he took the disc about the Holy Sanctum down and started reading it.

“A font of sacred power. The construction of any Holy Sanctum would need a font as its base. As a massive facility to store and convert sacred power, the font of sacred power would need the attributes that the sorcerer’s magic fonts do not have.

“Its functions: The storage, provision, and conversion of sacred power. Providing a natural base for a Soul Benediction matrix (Soul Benediction: One of the most basic Divine Arts. It is a supernatural matrix that will provide natural healing of any ailments upon gathering a large amount of sacred power. The area of effect will fluctuate according to the reserve of sacred power.)

“Requirements:

“A convertor to change the spiritual power of prayer into sacred power.

“A sealed structure that will not be exposed to store sacred power for the long term.

“The required items are waterproof masonry, platinum, gold, Ashen Seal core, anti-corrosion paint, heat-resistant paint, insect repellent matrix, yellow crystals, activation sacred powers.”