Nightmare's Call

Chapter 349: Expansion: Part 2

Everyone inside the café had noticed it as all of them subconsciously got up with shock etched in their face.

A few waiters even dropped their trays without them knowing it as the café which was bustling with chatter suddenly fell silent.

“Aaaaaahhhhh!!!”

Then came the screams as customers all got up and ran out of the café. Even the waiters scrambled far away as the manager called the cops with a pale face.

Only that office lady’s BFF, still shivering, mustered up some courage as she grabbed her best friend’s hand.

“Oh my god! Oh my god! Liv! My god!”

She was only capable of repeating a fear-ridden ‘Oh my gods’ as she tried to pry her friend’s hand from the fork. Yet the latter’s strength was mysteriously beyond her imagination as she could not even move her wrist.

Lin Sheng sat behind and saw clearly the small boy slowly flowing out of the long hair beauty, reforming and heading out of the café.

He did not act, as this was just the body of a crimson armor warrior, he did not have the speed and reaction to stop it.

On the other hand, this was the first time he saw these non-shade monsters causing such damages.

“A pity, a crimson armor warrior is not all that strong or reactive. Or else I could stop that boy and save a life.”

Lin Sheng sigh.

BAMM!!

And just at that moment, a ruckus broke out at the Chowchow Records Tower. The window pane of one of the office level Basbo was at suddenly shattered as countless of glass fragments rained down.

ROAAARR!!

A shapeless soul ripple halo blasted out in a frenzy from there, and spread across the entire place. The sound sounded like a bestial roar, yet no one seemed to have heard it.

Lin Sheng got out of the coffee, and looked at the incident scene at the tower. And soon, a monster with a dozen human heads jumped out of the building with a middle-aged man in its hand and landed brutally onto the ground.

BAMM!!

Two massive foot marks suddenly appeared on the ground.

In the eyes of the crowd, Basbo was simply held by the neck up high by an invisible monster, yet he survived the fall unscathed.

“So it begins...” Lin Sheng pretended to scream with the rest and ran to the side streets for safety. In fact he had transformed into black smoke when no one was looking and observed from nearby.

“Basbo!! Give Leah back!!” The dozens of head on the Shade Homonculus all wore a furious expression as it roared.

The core of his body was a normal man who was about to get married to his beloved girlfriend.

Yet, this originally happy ending was shattered when Basbo used his powers to charm his girlfriend forcibly in a bar.

The girl’s loss of the chastity aside, she had become a willing slave to Basbo and any important VIPs he deigns to.

And that sent the man into a deep despair, and not too long later, at the grip of crushing despair, he consumed poison and committed suicide.

Yet Lin Sheng’s luck was on his side as he managed to find remnants of his soul that have yet to disappear.

So he used the Shade creation technique to turn him into a Shade, and during the experiment he had added another ten different spirit fragments and something special as well.

It was not only that. What Lin Sheng wanted was a powerful weapon that he could send into a battlefield.

Using the large amount of memories and knowledge he had as a basis, plus his continuous study and extraction of souls, he had made huge strides in the study of the souls.

And the study made him realized that his usage of the souls were the crudest of methods.

The power that could be unleashed from a person’s soul is probably beyond his imaginations, so he now focused on uncovering the secrets of the soul.

BAM!!

The Shade Homonculus opened its mouth as it gave Basbo’s arm a brutal bite, and tearing the limb off. Amid the bone-chilling cry, a pool of blood splashed against the ground.

The homunculus did not just stop there as it started to infuse a large amount of black smoke-like substance into the arm wound.

“The Asterism should be showing up any time now.”

Lin Sheng looked at the time and saw that most of the pedestrians had already cleared away as a couple of green dots were quickly making their way towards the deserted street.

“Based on their aura, a two-wing leading a couple other one-wing. They won’t be able to do anything to the Shade Homonculus.”

And soon a couple of green silhouette clashed with the homunculus.

Amid the clash, aside from some flesh wounds, the homunculus was like a battle tank as it ran rampant. The walls and pavements were crushed and torn apart as Basbo was simply tossed about as he hung upon death’s door.

The small Asterism squad had no means to save the hostage as their ranks were soon thinned by wounded.

All of their attacks against the homunculus only left minor scratches.

At this point, Lin Sheng had no need to further observe. He had obtained all of the combat data he needed, so he turned and left.

Basbo will not die, this was the order that he had engraved in the mind of the homunculus. But he will suffer, and suffer he will as the dark power medical techniques, even when paired with modern medicine will not be able to do anything for his wounds.

Only the Holy Sanctum, and only the holy power was Basbo’s only hope, and by extension, it was Cavendian’s only hope.

On the way back, Lin Sheng ran into another bizarre shade attacking a living person. This time, he managed to stop it, and took out the boy shade as well.

With Asterism running all around town trying to maintain order, even normal civilians could see them flying around every corner of the city. And the normally bustling city center, barely had any cars on it.

Now that cases upon cases happening back to back, the streets were deserted as no one dared to head out and tempt fate.

When Lin Sheng walked past a few darker areas, he could sense that there were dangerous aura permeating from the darkness.

“That’s the aura of the Blacktide...”

Lin Sheng was now very familiar with that aura. With his present knowledge, he could clearly tell that the world he was in was slowly being engulfed and consumed by the Blacktide.

That made him suspect that this was the reason that he was so easily able to enter the dream; where expanse contracted and eons became instant, into the worlds that had long been consumed by the Blacktide.

It was not for the fact his soul was powerful and could ignore the distance between worlds. And the biggest possibility was that his world, and the consumed worlds, were simply just too close...

As he refocused, Lin Sheng’s main body in the underground lab slowly opened his eyes.

“The test results are pretty good. And the mission objective is completed as well. The control is perfect. The third homunculus experiment is a success.”

He said as he stood up and walked to the lab desk, as he typed into the notebook the results and process of the experiment earlier.

Lin Sheng had been onto the homunculi experimentation ever since the patrol mission.

Using the various effects and distortions of the soul based on locality, plus the special brainwashing technique of the Holy Sanctum, and the technique he had gained for controlling the Shades, Lin Sheng had managed to further improve upon all of them into the homunculus technique he had now.