Chapter 27
“These two places…” Lin Sheng did not think he was strong enough to be entirely fearless .
Spaces like squares were attractions for a large number of monsters . Who would believe that a place as important as Blackfearher City Hall was without high-level monsters?
“Going to these two places is a no-no . ” Lin Sheng thought better of it and laid his eyes on the other three places . The letters showing the name of the three locations had faded entirely, leaving only some faint traces of ink that were completely illegible .
Standing at the city gate, Lin Sheng was hesitant . “Maybe I should first kill some rotten swordsmen in the wilderness . ”
He reckoned that he still did not have enough strength . Since killing a rotten swordsman was able to yield him some residual memories, he could only kill more of them . Perhaps he could find more clues as he acquired more fighting skills from those memories .
“It’s better than running around like a headless chicken . ” Once he made up his mind, Lin Sheng turned and headed outside . For now, his priority was to kill more rotten swordsmen and build up his strength .
Going out through the path he had entered from, Lin Sheng started to circumvent the city wall . He quickly bumped into a rotten swordsman behind the fence on the right of the city gate . This rotten swordsman was a lot weaker than the previous two, and Lin Sheng was able to finish it off after just a few rounds of exchange to acquire the fragmented memories . Regrettably, this person was only a city-wall guard who knew nothing but basic sword-fighting skills . Nevertheless, he was able to obtain some other information .
Lin Sheng searched on and quickly found himself face-to-face with two rotten swordsmen near the city gate . One fell while another struck back, injuring Lin Sheng’s arm before he was killed too .
“Damn it, I was too careless for him to hurt me!”
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Lin Sheng had no idea whom it belonged to, but an instinctual urge came from the acquired chaotic memories . He hid in the corner of the city wall, put the corner of his nightdress in his mouth, and tried to rip it apart . The fabric was not torn as intended, slipping from his teeth instead . Lin Sheng felt a sharp pain in his gum .
“The TV shows are all full of crap!” He applied pressure on the wound, but the bleeding became worse over time . The wound was the length of his palm, and it could be fatal if he did not stop the bleeding . He had no choice but to take off his clothes . He found the nearby artery and tied his clothes around the wound . It worked; the pressure kept the bleeding under control .
Just then, Lin Sheng felt apathetic like he was about to wake up soon .
“It looks like exhaustions like injury and fatigue can shorten the duration of my stay in the dream . ”
Lin Sheng had good horse sense, and quickly, an inexplicable feeling rose within him . He shut his eyes slowly as he plunged into unconsciousness .
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in his bedroom, and the alarm clock was ringing loudly beside him . Exhaling, he turned off the alarm clock and checked the time; it was a little past six in the morning . His head felt bloated from memory overload . He did not have the time to sort things out yet . He hurriedly cleaned himself up and put on his school uniform before he rushed out of the door to catch a bus to Hui An High School .
After he absorbed the memories of the three rotten swordsmen last night—the garbage information excluded—Lin Sheng began to have a good grasp of Blackfeather City’s landscape . After all, they were guards of the city gate, and their memories would come in handy someday .
On the other hand, something was bugging Lin Sheng; many of the guards’ memories were contradictory . For instance, what to do if his sword was entangled with an enemy’s light weapon? Lin Sheng was able to find three different solutions, which were fine in themselves . It was just that they were too complicated, and two of them even contradicted each other .
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The large influx of memories in his mind made him feel dizzy the whole afternoon . He wolfed down his lunch in a hurry and took a quick nap in the classroom .
The first lesson right after lunch break was Math, and his class teacher gave them a test . Lin Sheng answered all the questions, not knowing what he wrote . He did not even remember when he had submitted the question paper . Only God knew how he would fare in the test . He just knew that he finished the test paper by pure intuition .
It was not until eight o’clock at night that Lin Sheng began to recover from his daze .
The first thing that Lin Sheng wanted to do was find the location of the little temple in his dream . There were two purposes for his continuous hunt of the rotten swordsmen to piece Blackfeather City’s map together .
One, to find the little temple and see if he could get his hands on anything about superhumans .
Two, find La Chapelle and see if he could get any personal protective gear .
“According to Ravel’s memories, La Chapelle and the Valent Sanctum should be right within Blackfeather City . ” Lin Sheng began to sort out the nodes of the routes to these two places .
“Using landmarks as nodes is the best way to get out of trouble when you lose your way . If the memories are correct, there’s a clock tower here, here, here, and here respectively . ” Lin Sheng used a notebook to jot down how many turns he had to make, and quickly, he made out a clear route to the two different places .
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“All done! Next, to sort out the miscellaneous information . ” With the memories of multiple people coming at him simultaneously, he had to compile them together as soon as possible, lest things get mixed up over time .
On a new page of the notebook, Lin Sheng jotted down the following: martial arts, landscape, and supernatural .
“These three things are all that I care about . The rest is irrelevant . ” He had established his priorities . Soon, he found something useful from the memories of the city gate guards .
“Limit Breaker?
“The method to break through the Level 2 limit into the supernatural Level 3?” It was a surprising find upon sorting out the memories .
The guards may have been low-ranking soldiers and possessed low combat strength, but their knowledge, as well as experience, were unmatched . They had a fantastic network of grapevines and learned tons of gossip without having to look for them consciously .
In a place like the city gate, rumors and gossip flew as people traversed in and out of the city . It became the center of information . Whenever the government had a public message to spread, this place would be the first place where notices were put up . The guards were responsible for checking every merchant who passed through the city gate and chasing away the beggars as well as the homeless . They were the first to be alerted when something significant happened in the city .
Eder, the city gate guard from whom Lin Sheng found out about the Limit Breaker, was different . He was the one who injured Lin Sheng before he died . He was a soldier who had retired after serving in the war . When he was still healthy, he had the potential to undergo warrior-level training .
It was the proudest moment of his life, and that was why he kept recalling it in his mind . Eventually, it became a handy way for Lin Sheng to learn things about Level 1 warriors .
Level 1 warriors learn and master only a single type of weapon . They are skilled in attack as well as defense, and only require fighting in the battlefield a few times . So, it merely takes a year to mass-produce a batch of these soldiers .
Level 2 warriors are veteran soldiers . They are wandering swordsmen who possess sword-fighting skills handed down from their families . Those who are the best of the best in their fields and have trained themselves close their human limitations can qualify as Level 2 warriors .
Level 3 warriors are those who have transcended their human limitations . They are superhuman killing machines . This is a realm that no one can achieve through training .
That was all Lin Sheng had compiled . However, it was so much more comprehensive when compared with the fragmented information he previously got .
The more important thing was that he had heard a name in the memories: Austen Reine, Level 12 shieldbearer, the lieutenant general of Blackfeather City Army Corps .
“When Level 3 already sounds like a superhuman, it’s hard to imagine how a Level 12 warrior looks like!”