Chapter 203
Chapter 203: Anomaly: Part 3
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Get-Get out of here… quickly!” Carney patted Adolf’s arm with difficulty, his eyes bleak .
The wall beside the three of them suddenly exploded, and Zeon Sr . emerged from the blast hole with a hideous smile on his dark, muscular face .
“I am sorry, but anyone who sees me in this form must die . ” Just when Zeon Sr . raised his hand and was about to harm them, a shadow lunged out from the left and rammed into him . It was Zeon Jr . whose fluorescent purple eyes glowed even brighter, and his body had grown one size bigger than before .
“I will kill you!” The momentum sent Zeon Sr . flying together with Zeon Jr . through the wall and off the second floor . The two brutally fought in the air, their punches and kicks sounded as if heavy hammer striking on a giant drum .
“Go! Now!” Carney, half-dead, roared with his remaining strength .
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Adolf quickly came to his senses and just when he was about to carry his father running down the stairs, a thought suddenly came to mind . He reached his shivering hand into the jacket pocket and fished out a white stone, which the Blackfeather swordsman gave him earlier, and which he could break it apart to gain help from the temple in the time of danger . Adolf wanted to crush the stone in his hand, but he was too nervous . The stone then slipped through his shivering hand and dropped to the ground before it rolled down rapidly in the other direction .
“No!” Adolf carried Carney and gave chase . At last, he managed to retrieve the stone again . This time, he decisively crushed the stone, which was only as hard as an eggshell, with one hand . And after it broke apart, stone powder began to fall off onto the floor and slowly dissipated in the wind .
“What are you doing here? Get out quickly!” His elder sister hurriedly urged .
“No, we cannot go!” Adolf suddenly calmed down after crushing the stone . He looked at his elder sister . “We can’t possibly outrun Zeon Sr . with father on my back . We will surely be dead if we do that . What is more urgent is to treat Father’s wound first . So let us head down to the basement!”
“Are you crazy? We can call the police when we get out!” Sheena looked at his young brother, face filled with horror .
“It won’t matter . Do you think the cops could stop Zeon Sr . ?” Adolf retorted . “Follow me!” That said, he carried Carney and flew toward the stairway .
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“Adolf!” Sheena called out aloud from behind .
“Trust me! Someone will come for us! Trust me!” Adolf said aloud without looking back . His only hope now was that the power behind the Blackfeather swordsman could make it here on time, as they had made a promise to protect him .
A thick blanket of white mist surrounded Lin Sheng as he quietly stood in front of a summoning circle in a three-story building in the forest outside the city . A faint white light lit up in the summoning circle as if someone was shining on a torchlight at it . He was in the critical moment of summoning his soldiers, which was his third summoning today . In the previous two rounds, he had mustered eight vault guards, which was all the vault guards he had . After that, he saw no light sphere that belonged to the vault guards in his mind’s vision anymore . So Lin Sheng decided to call up the Blackfeather swordsmen instead .
The Blackfeather swordsman formed the largest group of his summoned creatures . Bearing in mind that when he was in Blackfeather City, he had killed no less than a hundred of them . There was no way he could use all of them in such a short time .
In contrast, the vault guards had suffered a high casualty in Xilin . What was more was that not all vault guards that he killed possessed soul remnant, and this had significantly reduced the number of vault guards Lin Sheng could summon . Only creatures with soul remnants were capable of being summoned, and this had been one of the iron laws that Lin Sheng discovered in the summoning ceremony . He had tried to summon the Sacred Shield Tyrant before, but unfortunately, the dead Sacred Shield Tyrant was no longer summonable .
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Lin Sheng stood with his eyes closed as two Blackfeather swordsmen rapidly materialized out of black smoke . They carried a long sword on their back, head wrapped in a white bandage, and their sturdy, tall body stood still like a statue .
“The price-to-performance ratio of these two is pathetic…” Lin Sheng sighed as he opened his eyes, glancing at the Blackfeather swordsmen . So he willed them away . There was still enough room in his soul for another ceremony, he thought, and this time, he wanted to summon the red-armor, hatchet-wielding warriors that he had killed in the warrior union .
Before long, amid a series of soft chanting of initiation words, a blanket of white mist emerged and shrouded Lin Sheng in it . Unknown to him, however, was the white stone that vibrated and glowed in white light in his bag .
A moment later, two red-armor warriors appeared, kneeling on one knee before Lin Sheng . They were fully covered in armor with a pair of hatchets hanging from their waist . A pair of red eyes could be seen behind the visor of their helmets . Standing a little taller than the Blackfeather swordsmen, their bodies were more well-proportioned than that of the vault guards .
Lin Sheng opened his eyes . By running some calculation of his soul linkages in his mind, he deduced that he had forces of ten vault guards, three Blackfeather swordsmen and two red-armor warriors with Khadula and the Steel Lord as the commanders .
“It still lacks midrange forces, barely making a whole army . But I will make do with that for now . ” Lin Sheng ended the ceremony and began to clean up the scene . With the resources and money of Adolf, he could conduct as many ceremonies as he wanted . As long as there was enough room in his soul, he could rapidly expand the size of the Ironfist Society .
Rolling up the plastic sheet of the summoning ceremony and dusting the dirt and any ingredient residue, Lin Sheng suddenly sighed . He had been using the same ritual sheet since a long time ago . From Xilin until here, it never broke despite the frequent usage . The only large hole in the middle was his purposeful creation, just to accommodate the bonfire last time .
“There is no more room in the soul . With so many soldiers here, I can reserve a part of them to protect my family and myself and send out the rest into the field to prop up the reputation of the Ironfist Society . ” These soldiers were intelligent although not as independent as the Steel Lord and Khadula . If he could let them be, they might be able to carry out some simple mission, as long as he set a proper limit in advance . Lin Sheng picked up his bag, unzipped it, and shoved the circle sheet into it . Only then, he saw the white stone, which was vibrating and emitting a white glow .
“This…” He suddenly recalled it; this stone was initially one of the two stones, which he had bestowed it upon Adolf . He had only begun to develop this application after discovering that the soul was the essence of sacred power . Bit by bit, he infused a stone with sacred power before breaking it in half and gifting one of them to another person . If any of the two stones broke apart and sacred power disappeared, the other stone holder would immediately know it . Lin Sheng was transfixed . However, he quickly came to his senses and lunged to his feet .
“Khadula,” he called out in a low voice . Plumes of black smoke appeared and rapidly formed the figure of a human before him . “Go and bring Adolf here . ”
The black-smoke humanoid dispersed and accelerated toward the city . Following immediately, another dozen plumes of smoke appeared from the building and coalesced into a black cloud of smoke before it suddenly broke up again and disappeared in the direction of where Adolf was .