Chapter 114
Chapter 114: In Action: Part 3
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
A hell load of chaotic memories started to rush into Lin Sheng’s mind . Contrary to the experience of the last two dreams, the memories he was taking in this time completely knocked his socks off .
Messy footages and blurry voices formed no meaningful images . It was as if someone had tipped over a barrel of fuel, it was chaotic and incomprehensible . The slightly more complete memories were nonetheless just a hazy thought, which seemed to be the only obsession that this person was holding on . It was like the last dry land that had not yet sunk into the sea of wanton chaos; it represented the last orderly existence .
Lin Sheng carefully filtered the thought, noting what was truly valuable and ignoring the rest . This very piece of thought could still offer some information .
Find the Circle of Reaping that Dark Igor left behind in the Level 3 dungeon . With the power to extract primordial blood from any living creatures, the Circle of Reaping is the only way of reaping the Chaos Blood inside me . It is also the only way to saving me .
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That was all about the thought, and the rest was merely a bunch of illogical mosaics of thought .
“Dark Igor?” Lin Sheng spoke of the name from memory as if it was merely a pronunciation . The memories of this person had only a thought, which was the only thing that Lin Sheng could understand . Other than that, there was no language . The footages and voices were completely illegible, and the world in this dream did not use Ancient Rehn but a language that Lin Sheng had never heard before .
The body of the long-robe man leaned limply in the corner of the wall, motionless and long dead . So, Lin Sheng went up and searched his body . He found a silver key, a small glass bottle containing some silver powder, and a blurry scroll .
“This guy seemed to know something . He knew that the Circle of Reaping could directly reap primordial blood from any living beings and turned it into pure blood crystal . Cool . ” Lin Sheng stowed everything back into the black fabric pouch on the man’s body, and then took it and tied it on his own body . Killing the man was utterly exhaustive for Lin Sheng . So, he decided to take a little break before continuing his exploration .
After a while, he was off again . Not long after trudging deeper along the corridor, another three-man team of armored soldiers appeared . Lin Sheng made his move first to greet the three soldiers before they could react, and of course, he finished them off in a swoop . He got the fragmented soul of a soldier this time . Aside from a tiny piece of explicit memory, the mind of this particular soldier was mostly chaotic . But it was from this memory that Lin Sheng learned of the name of this place: The Fay Vault .
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Once upon a time, a formidable royal court magician, named Dark Igor, suddenly came to this place . He had brought a powerful magic circle called the Circle of Reaping, which he used to reap the different ancient types of blood from the convicts for his own benefit . The soldiers had been here to extend their cooperation to Dark Igor under orders .
Because of the language barrier, Lin Sheng found it extremely tricky to decipher the information . Not only that, in the memories of this soldier, those magicians called the power that they controlled as the Mastery of Death and Decay instead of magic .
“This place… the Mastery of Death and Decay?”
Lin Sheng took a short rest . He swapped his broadsword for another one before continuing his journey . There were stretches of downward slopes at different sections of the passage . So, Lin Sheng was moving deeper underground as he went .
Not long after, he again bumped into a wayward armored soldier . He finished off this one without much difficulty . After that, he encountered no more living being .
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As he hustled down the corridor further, the gray fog grew thicker . At first, Lin Sheng still had about ten meters of visibility, but that quickly diminished . With the monotonous surroundings, Lin Sheng began to feel a faint sense of fatigue in his mind’s eye; he was unsure how far he had gone, but just when he thought his time was up and he was waking up, he heard heavy footsteps coming from the front . He halted his steps, firmly clutching the hilt in his hands as he peered ahead intensely .
A man began to emerge from the thick gray fog . Massively fat and standing at over two-meter tall, the bare-chested dude had a hideous, black spiked tiger tattoo on his dark tone skin . He was bald, arms strapped with black armor, and wearing a pair of spiked metal gloves . When he saw Lin Sheng, he sped up his pace while making a low, furious roar .
Coming within four meters of Lin Sheng, the fat dude forcefully drew air into his lungs before spurting it back out violently in the form of fiery flames . In just a second, the flames had spread throughout the entire tunnel, sanitizing everything on its path . The fervor blaze blasted onto Lin Sheng’s shield before being deflected away in a ring of fire, which still burned for a full three-second before completely dying down .
As soon as the fire stopped, Lin Sheng launched his counterattack . He leaped four meters in a beat and slammed hard on the fat dude . But some repulsive energy hit back at Lin Sheng, who almost lost his grip on the wooden shield and fell back sitting on the ground . How did it happen? The fat dude’s belly seemed to be an energy deflector, bouncing off every attack that Lin Sheng struck at him .
But Lin Sheng had no time to analyze . He planted his feet on the ground and stayed behind and inside the wooden shield as much as he could . A beat later, a mighty force hit as the fat dude cupped his hands and smashed violently from above onto the wooden shield . The sheer force of the impact had left behind a deep crack in the wooden shield .
Lin Sheng still hid behind the shield, but his eyes, nose, and mouth were bleeding badly . Feeling lightheaded, he barely managed to stand on his feet . Quickly, he summoned the sacred power in his body and started the healing cycle . Although Lin Sheng had stabilized his health, he had missed an opportunity .
Despite the massive body size, the fat dude was agile, and his strength was extraordinary . Even his skin was tough and impenetrable . Lin Sheng and the fat dude had exchanged several rounds of assault . Thrusting his sword at the fat dude’s belly was of no use at all . Lin Sheng had tried Flash Riposte, leveraging on the fat dude’s own force to strike his own head . But the problem was, the broadsword was not strong enough to withstand the kind of abuse, and it snapped in an instant .
When the first step went awry, nothing seemed to work in his favor anymore . Failing to dodge an incoming fist, Lin Sheng was directly struck on his chest and sent flying backward . Crash-landing on the ground, Lin Sheng began to vomit blood in his mouth . The scale armor on his chest was severely dented from the punch, and he could no longer stand up .
“Fearsome!” Lin Sheng had not suffered such a severe injury for a long time . The fat dude’s combat strength was at least Level 3 . His flame-spitting skill was particularly destructive; inflicting a wide range of damage would work flawlessly in either one-to-one combat or melee . The fat dude was too strong for him to beat . He did not only lose in terms of combat skills, but also from a raw physical strength perspective . Particularly difficult to deal with was the fat dude’s skin; it as unbelievably tough, seemingly impenetrable .
Lin Sheng could barely make himself to sit up . He saw a flash of light, and before he could move his body to dodge, a burning flame had already wholly engulfed him . His body began to char and blacken quickly . A large hand suddenly reached out from the fire, grabbing his head, and with a violent jerk, it snapped Lin Sheng’s head off his neck like a lid coming off a bottle .