Nightmare's Call

Chapter 273: Experimentation: Part 1

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Soul Fortress, Single Person Training Room.

“Let’s first test out the strengthening of the skin.” Lin Sheng sat inside the room as green spots appeared all over his body.

All over his body, underneath his skin, if someone could see through his clothes, then they could see that a large number of green spots were appearing all over him.

That was the effect of the dark power’s corruption.

“About there now.” Lin Sheng sensed that the corruption was almost complete and quickly recalled all of the dark powers. Very quickly, he released his holy powers throughout his body.

The pure, cleansing glow started radiating from inside his skin outwards as it started to heal his body.

Lin Sheng sat down and closed his eyes for a few minutes as he let the white glow dissipate.

“It’s done. But the effect seems to be... weak? My skin is only enhanced by a little bit. At this rate, even if I slog for a year, I won’t see much effect.”

He shook his head and decided to forgo the corruption method, as he tried the other remaining two methods.

A few minutes later...

He was disappointed again.

As expected, using dark powers to train one’s body was just too inefficient. The other two methods were just a smidge stronger than corruption.

“The training method using dark powers is just too undeveloped...no wonder many Darksiders chose to forgo their humanity and transform into monsters, all to enhance their body.”

Lin Sheng could now understand why some Darksiders made that choice.

“While dark powers can be used to enhance my body, it will not work for now. So what about the holy power instead? Seems like it’s still down to that.”

Lin Sheng could see the hope of strengthening his body from the massive increase of his holy power.

“Within the Holy Sanctum, there should be quite a number of training methods to strengthen one’s body. And now that I’m at Level 7, I should have gained a divine ability.”

As he thought of that, he gave up training his dark powers and focused his thoughts on the core of his holy power instead. He started to look for the divine ability that he had gained after he achieved Level 7.

“A three-fold increase of my total holy power capacity, surely I’m already at Level 7 then. So that ability...”

Lin Sheng’s consciousness slowly entered his abdomen, and into the swirling pure white orb. The orb let out a white glow and radiated a tidal wave of holy power every moment.

Just as his consciousness entered there, he felt a warm, welcoming sensation, as if he was soaking inside a hot spring.

He quickly checked the core of his holy power, and soon, he found the divine abilities he had already gotten.

Detect Evil, and Divine Word: Nowhere to Hide.

These two divine abilities were of the reconnaissance type, not combative.

Within his core, the two divine abilities were engraved onto the inner wall of the white orb in with gold threads, not unlike two unique patterns.

The Detect Evil pattern was much simpler, and the Divine Word: Nowhere to Hide pattern was a little more complicated, not by much.

Lin Sheng skipped through the two abilities and focused on the third pattern that was slowly appearing.

Armor of Dawn.

“That’s the one?” Lin Sheng was surprised as he let out an elated smile.

From the memories he had gained, he was very clear how powerful the abilities of those who managed to awaken their Level 7 divine ability were.

The Armor of Dawn was an evolving ability where its potency increases alongside one’s holy power.

It could use the holy power within one’s body to rapidly form a powerful heavy armor.

The key to the formation of the armor was the use of holy power as a basis to attract all surrounding positive energies to form it.

A powerful ability that totally utilizes one’s holy power to its maximum capacity.

“Finally, I’ve reached the watermark of a Holy Knight...” Lin Sheng smiled. “Only with this ability that I’m considered upgraded from a Paladin to a Templar.”

After he confirmed that he had indeed obtained a new divine ability, Lin Sheng decided to end the experiment.

“Something’s not right!” He suddenly paused as he felt something changing within him.

As his consciousness dove back into his body, Lin Sheng’s powerful spiritual consciousness immediately detected something wrong.

Tiny hairline cracks had appeared on the edge of his skin, and a minuscule amount of pure holy power was leaking out.

“Sh*t... it’s leaking?” Lin Sheng never expected a simple body enhancement experiment to result in his body leaking holy power.

He had just been so excited about the massive increase of his holy power, and the leakage was putting him in a slight panic.

“I need to find a way!”

Lin Sheng then recalled the compression technique he used to train his dark powers. The books had clearly stated that once a person’s dark powers reached a certain stage, they could try to compress it to increase their density and potency.

Nonetheless, the compression technique was not just any simple compression, rather it uses a special meditation technique than adjusts one’s spirit.

“The soul is a source of both holy and dark powers...” Lin Sheng flipped to the page about the compression technique and started reading it.

The technique mentioned in the book was not easy, and it requires him to create three nodes first as a solid framework. Only then could he use it as a basis to adjust his spiritual frequency and allow himself to enter a state of emptiness to draw in the current of both dark and holy powers.

Lin Sheng expanded a lot of time and effort before he barely managed to stop his holy power from further leaking as he sealed all of the cracks.

With that arduous attempt, he no longer dared to willy-nilly experiment with his own body anymore.

While he dared not try it on his body, there was still a way for him to keep trying.

As he let out a long breath, a strand of black smoke quickly formed and a vault guard appeared beside him.

Lin Sheng then transferred his consciousness into the vault guard, and with his soul moving, his holy powers followed as well.

“Let’s start then.” With a mental command, a surge of holy power slowly revolved inside the vault guard.

The parts where he dared not experiment on himself, he could do it with the vault guard’s body.

Dark and holy powers were of the same source, but they had distinct differences too. What Lin Sheng wanted was to find a way to rapidly increase his physical strength.

He had absorbed a large number of memories, and the memories of elites like the Steel Lord as well as the Night Lord showed that their control and knowledge of the basis of their powers were far beyond any Darksiders.

With such an overwhelming difference, the chances of success were higher as well.

As time slowly passed, Lin Sheng’s ideas and theories about the correct training methods were corrected or discarded one by one.

*Bam!*

Suddenly, the vault guard’s body could no longer withstand the strain, as a surge of holy power blasted out of his armor and disintegrated into black smoke.

“That failed, huh... Let’s continue.” Lin Sheng was impassive as he summoned another vault guard out.

He then restarted his experiment, but soon, the second vault guard disintegrated as well, and the experiment failed.

Lin Sheng did not stop and continued to summon the third, the fourth...

By dinner time, Lin Sheng had destroyed six summoned beings before managing to have a slight grasp on the technique of how to vastly strengthen his body using holy power.

He had mixed all of the methods from the dark power texts, with the control techniques of the Holy Sanctum before slowly coming up with a special technique called Gloria.

However, the technique was incomplete, and the fact that it required the use of both Ashen Seals— Sanctuary and Furious Howl—resulted in a very complicated structure.

Thankfully, Lin Sheng’s spiritual power was strong enough to hold the framework in place, preventing it from collapsing upon itself, and garnering some results in the process.

He had no intention of simply throwing everything into it in a single night. The technique still had many stages of perfecting to go through.

After dinner, Lin Sheng went out for a walk. He first returned to the school district before taking a car towards the night time Miga City.

He needed to replenish his summoned beings to experiment, and at the same time get in touch with his people in Xylond.