Nightmare's Call

506 Divinity: Part 3

The giant shadow groaned, letting out a strange growl as the white holy light hit and sent it crashing into the wall. Just then, Lin Sheng finally got a glimpse of the thing.

It was a six-meter giant fly. It might look like a fly, but it had six pairs of wings flapping in high frequency to produce a buzzing sound. After getting hit and forced into the wall, the monster quickly pulled itself out. Just like Lin Sheng, it came out unscathed.

It roared at Lin Sheng, flapping its wings. It then faded in a shadow again, flying toward Lin Sheng at incredible speed. A huge crack that looked like the result of a sharp knife cut expanded from Lin Sheng to the cavern wall in the surroundings. He was struck back to the wall as soon as he flew out. His Dark Wheel spontaneously resisted the horrible slashing attack.

The attack range of this opponent, compared to other powerful beings, were small. But its concentration and intensity were far higher than ranged attacks. Lin Sheng had never felt this tricky even when he fought against Faldt last time. Faldt’s attack was extensive, with ranged firepower. In comparison, the attack range of the fly-like monster was small, but its strength and damageability were unbelievably brutal. As the slashing attack hit his protective force field, Lin Sheng could clearly sense a massive difference between their strength. The power concentration of the fly monster was five times higher than Lin Sheng’s holy power and Ward force field. Even though its total power output was far lower than Lin Sheng’s, it could unleash the same level of damage and lethality as that of his.

“No. We are not at the same level. Actually, I am the underdog!”

Using the power of the Dark Wheel, Lin Sheng struck out with his hands at lightning speed to parry the fly monster’s attack, which looked like powerful pneumatic blades. He had never seen anyone capable of compressing air to such a high pressure level that it turned into a pneumatic cutter. It could almost cut through the dimensions of space.

Each time he parried the attack, it exhausted a high amount of energy of the holy power and Dark Wheel. By forming a barrier that looked like an invisible brick wall, he tried to deflect the attacks. He felt like he was blocking a rock with a layer of cotton. The difference is their power concentrations were just too huge and apparent.

“Damn it!” Five minutes down the line, Lin Sheng started to feel his body ache. The huge power disparity meant that he could barely cause a scratch on the opponent’s skin, let alone hurting it. But the attack from the opponent was hurting him despite there being a defensive force field between them. More so because the incredible speed of the monster did not give him time to lock his radar on the target. That meant no he was totally on the defensive.

“Flee!”

Still struggling to ward off the attack, Lin Sheng retreated. The monster was moving so fast that it faded into a shadow as it flitted in the cylindrical cavern. Lin Sheng had no way to know where it was going and where it would appear next.

Ten minutes later, Lin Sheng had retreated outside the cavern. The opening was too small for the monster to pass through.

What surprised Lin Sheng was that the monster stopped attacking the moment he left the cavern. It flew up and disappeared in the direction it had come.

Standing outside the entrance, hand on the wall, Lin Sheng was quivering big time. Since he last defeated Faldt, he had never met such a formidable opponent, whose threat level was several-level higher than Faldt’s.

“The strength difference is too huge...” Lin Sheng recalled the battle just now. While the combat strength of the opponent was as solid as steel and diamond, his must have felt like a doughy bread. The difference in strength meant his every attack move felt like he was fanning his opponent’s face. There was not a scratch he could inflict on the opponent’s skin, let alone hurting it.

“The world ruled by the demigod is more brutal than what I’ve imagined.” Thinking for a moment, Lin Sheng fished out the golden-red humanoid from his pocket, disabling the sound insulation of the Ward of Carceration.

“You say that you are the Divine Pillar. Then do you know the fly monster with six pairs of wing earlier?” He spoke to the humanoid, who had been restrained like a golden-red gemstone.

“It is Cypross, the Strangler,” the humanoid replied. “He is the guard of the treasure vault at the top. You’re at level three now. How did you manage to agitate it?”

“What level of power does it belong in the Divine Pillar?” Lin Sheng was more interested in this.

“It is second to Aisha, the Torturer. Of course, the master is the power most powerful among them all.”

“What weaknesses does it have?” Lin Sheng asked. “If you tell me the truth, I will consider your proposed deal.”

“Weaknesses? It has no weakness,” the humanoid said. “Cypross is a powerful being with the divinity of the speed of god, worshipped by over a hundred tribes in the last thousand years. His strength has transcended to a divine state. Other than the master and Aisha, the Torturer, no one is his match.”

Lin Sheng frowned. “Tell me about its features and strength.”

“You won’t get a chance. The chances of survival for ordinary beings in front of the combat-type divine beings were as good as zero. Even if you could unleash all your powers at once, it is just a gentle touch of a breeze on its face. You won’t be able to hurt it. If the nature of your power is similar to its, it could even make use of your powers against you. You should be glad that it isn’t. Otherwise, you would have been history.” The humanoid’s voice reeked of sneer.

“That means there is no other way?”

“It is at least a couple of level-ups from you. When you have not even figured out the nature of your strength, don’t dream about transcending it. You are just making a fool of yourself.” The humanoid did not even bother to hide his scorn.

Lin Sheng did not rebut. He knew he still had a long way to go in terms of bringing out the best of his power. He was just fumbling his way all this while to become what he was today. Earlier, he had been relying on the strength of the holy power and won the battles solely because of the advantage in number. Now when he had finally met something more powerful than the holy power, his weakness was instantly exposed.

“Give up. Go home and cultivate for another few hundred years, then you might get a better chance.” The golden-red humanoid continued to sneer.

Lin Sheng stood on the spot, ignoring him as he was deep in thought. “How to elevate strength? Like what he has said before, purifying oneself, using oneself as the furnace vessel, pressuring and compressing the strength. My chosen major is soul power. Then what I need to do is compress my soul power so that it changes to become a more stable structure...”

Lin Sheng thought for a moment and decided to retreat, going out of the hall, following the route he had come to return to where he came from. In less than five minutes, he had left the Divine Pillar, teleporting himself back on the Nightmare Plain.

Releasing a Ward of Stalwart Wall from the Dark Wheel, he used the powerful skill of the Palatinates to form a 30-meter security zone around him. He then sat with his legs crossed and closed his eyes.

“My physical strength and the total energy needed to elevate my power and strength should be enough. What I need to do is just start the compression refinement.”