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Chapter 345: Anomaly: Part 1
There was a loud boom . A leaning building split in half in an explosion . A ton of snow burst out at the fracture . Following another blast, two shadows lunged out and fought in mid-air .
Lin Sheng used his arms as swords, attacking and defending as quick as he could . But cuts and bruises began to show up on his body .
His attacks were too simple, relying on his beginner-level sword skills . Even the large library of memories in his mind lacked a powerful combat technique that suited him . It did not matter whether it was the Night Lord of the Steel Lord, they all relied more on their bloodline magic skills as their killer moves . And this was what Lin Sheng lacked .
It looked as if he and his opponent were evenly matched . But he knew he was on the defenssive .
A cloud of snow burst out in mid-air and transformed into a giant white eagle . It flapped its wings, crying as it swooped down .
When Lin Sheng heard the ear-piercing shrill, a pair of eight-meter-wide eagle claw had gripped and slammed him to the ground .
The mighty impact sent snow up in the air, buildings on both sides of the street broke up and collapsed with rising clouds of dust .
The red-haired woman swung her long sword . Snowflakes solidified and formed a slender staircase of ice in the air down to the earth . She walked down the icy stairway .
Lin Sheng was lying in the snow pit, covered with blood, and coughing .
The blow had exhausted every bit of his dark energy and holy light . He was now holding himself up by relying on the Rock Dragon blood . It did not matter which one . Be it dark energy, holy light, or Rock Dragon blood, each was as fragile as the other before the snowflakes . They were no match in power, speed and defense for the enemy; as breakable as a piece of paper .
It was as if the enemy had dad been crippled him .
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“I should’ve performed better with my current strength,” Lin Sheng thought to himself, feeling weird . “Something must have gone wrong and impaired my power . ”
He stared at the red-haired woman approaching . But he was not afraid; to him, death was all in a day’s work .
“I can still put up a fight . ” Lin Sheng struggled to hold himself up .
“Armor of Dawn!”
A white beam of light descended from the top of his head and shrouded his body . At that moment, Lin Sheng recovered half of his holy power, and his injuries healed by half .
A divine skill like Armor of Dawn was scarce, especially when Lin Sheng needed holy power the most . This was a skill with great price-to-performance ratio .
“This is the right way of using Armor of Dawn!” Regaining his strength, Lin Sheng bounced back and fled .
The red-haired woman raised her long sword, and a small, hazy circular array burst out above her head . It spun with a flow of symbols and characters . In the center was a golden chain that swam like a snake . As if something bound for a long time was breaking free .
“Soul Annihilation!”
As the red-haired woman howled, a dot of blue light burst out from the disc above her head and disappeared into the clouds .
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A chill washed down his guts . Lin Sheng felt as if some natural enemy was watching him, ready to pounce on and ate him alive . His gut feeling told him to run . So he turned and ran .
He was only a Six Winger and beaten by the boss in the dream was matter of course . There was no shame in running away . After all, no one was looking .
Without wasting more time, Lin Sheng planted his feet on the ground, cracking the pavement under his feet as he propelled himself away like an arrow . In a blink of an eye, he had run hundreds of meters, pulling away from the woman . He looked back; the woman was nowhere to be seen . He thought he was out of danger .
But Lin Sheng had a bad feeling . So he kept running . This time even faster .
The powerful defenses of the Rock Dragon blood allowed him to run like a Tyrannosaurus—forceful and brutal, leveraging the rebound force to spring himself forward .
In just a few beats, Lin Sheng had made out a thousand meters, leaving the woman far behind beyond his line of sight .
Just when Lin Sheng thought he could breathe a sigh of relief, a spinning dark cloud formed out of thin air in the clear sky . A giant snow-white eagle claw appeared . Semi-transparent, 30-meter-across, covering an area as large as two blocks of street, the claw swooped down at once like a giant pillar .
The descending claw destroyed a large area of buildings around Lin Sheng, sending waves of violent tremor spreading out in all directions on the ground .
The eagle’s claw sank into the ground, stamping a black claw print on the ruins of the city .
The giant eagle claws started fading . After it vanished, it left behind a 20-meter-deep pit on the spot . Looking down the pit, there was nothing but darkness .
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Suddenly, something fell from the sky . It looked like something that had been blown up into the air by the force of impact . It was a broken hand with dark-yellow dragon scales . It dropped on the edge of the pit, landing on a piece of rock covered in soil .
In the basement .
Lin Sheng opened his eyes, feeling upset .
“I’m sure my strength has increased and stabilized at Six Wing level . Why was it still felt the same as before?” He died instantly earlier . When the eagle’s claw fell, the massive icy energy of stagnation slowed down the revolving speed of his internal energy by half .
In that circumstance and with the little holy power left, he had only the Rock Dragon blood to hang on to . It was a wonder a hand was still left .
“That guy is tough to beat . ” Lin Sheng squinted, letting reality to sink in .
“Unlike the Night Lord and the Steel Lord, who were basically suiciding, reacting passively, and not resisting at all, this guy is different . ”
Lin Sheng could sense the woman’s fervent fighting spirit . She had attacked him with the sword as soon as she saw him . With no intention to talk, she was a rare aggressive monster, and powerful at that . Especially at the last moment, her power had surged several folds .
“I need time to think it through . ” Lin Sheng’s eyes flickered . Time was on his side, he would use it to his advantage .
But he would not use those soul powers that he had just absorbed for now . He would keep them, and wait until he wore out and killed the woman by attrition, he would then summon her . Besides, this would also solve the problem of failing to summon because of insufficient soul power .
He wanted to summon more helpers . He figured that even if he could raise his Rock Dragon blood by a bit to 60%, it would make no difference in his combat capability . He might as well summon a commander-class elite .
“I need some rest . Then go back to the university tomorrow and see if I could take in more elites . ”
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