Chapter 503: Chapter 503 - As Fate Would Have It
Outside the coffee shop, in front of a video store .
“Barbabia is dead . ”
A man wearing a white shirt, sitting on a public bench in front of a video store, pretending to browse through a magazine in his hand .
“He and Argus are dead . They will leave behind the nurtured souls only come the powerful beings of the other world possess . And it is also the beginning of a disaster here . But according to the earlier record, Shermanton should have been destroyed and only less that a hundred thousand people are left now,” said another man, chewing on a pork floss bread while quaffing a bottle of milk .
“Could it be that we have come to the wrong timeline?”
“Impossible . Considering the age of the Night Patriarch and Night Matriarch, we are on the correct timeline . Probably this is just a minute variation in history . ”
“The biggest variation is the group called the Sanctum . I’m suspecting that our recorded history has been altered, and that is why there is no record of the Sanctum . ”
“Altered? Screw it! There are only sixty-seven days before it happens . We need to get ready to save everything . ”
“You have any idea how to go about it?”
“There are many ways to do it . But during the Black Tide lockdown, average persons have no way to leave the colony . Besides, they will not believe us . If you tell them, ‘your daughter is going to kill your entire family in two months’s time,’ I bet they will call the police right away . ”
“Anyway, in an accident two months from now, the Night Matriarch will experience an outbreak of dark forces in her . She will massacre her family . The good side of her personality will collapse, and the dark side of it will dominate everything . We must stop this tragedy from happening . So long as the good side of her personality remains, she will not go to extreme wickedness even if the dark forces awaken . ”
“Maybe we can work something out through the Night Patriarch as the dark forces in him have not fully awakened . We can convince him to help on the pretext of saving the Night Matriarch . ”
“This sounds like a better plan than the original one . Worth a try . ”
“Good . I will work it out and see how we can ‘tell’ the Night Patriarch that a tragedy is about to befall the Night Matriarch’s family . ”
The two leaned closer and mumbled to each other, their voices lower and lower .
The Nightmare Plain in the dream .
Lin Sheng struck the Divine Pillar with a sword . A streak of sparks lit up as the sharp holy power light sword slashed the vine, leaving behind a trail of dark-gray, burned cut marks . Other than this, nothing seemed to work .
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Lin Sheng got closer, reaching to touch the burned, cut mark, which had the depth of the distal phalange of the forefinger .
“What a hard shell . ” He frowned as he looked at the Divine Pillar mentioned in the disc .
The Dreamweaver, according to records, was the demigod who ruled this small world . Ancellia was just an outsider arriving here by accident . Following the spread of the Black Tide, the demigod created the Divine Pillar and moved every living person inside . The Divine Pillar was the only means to resist the Black Tide, which was what the record in the discs said .
“Structure that could resist the Black Tide will of course stand up to my powerful strike . That sounds entirely logical . ”
Lin Sheng suddenly had a lightbulb moment . He had circled the Divine Pillar many times . Using his powerful senses and perceptibility, he had studied the pillar down to the minute details . But what aroused his curiosity was the missing signs of the Black Tide, which should have overrun this world before but was now nowhere to be seen .
Although it was a desolate world, the disappearance of the Black Tide was real . He did not know if the credit should go to this world or the next world where the Infinite City was . But no matter what, it was a right decision to enter the Divine Pillar and understand the truth about this world . So he had come, circling the Divine Pillar many times, trying out various attack methods, but nothing worked . He could almost feel the vast number of souls inside the Divine Pillar, cramped together and not moving at all as if they were asleep .
“There must be a way to enter the pillar . ”
Lin Sheng flew around the pillar in a circle until he again saw a few lamp monsters on the ground .
“There are still lamp-monsters here?” With the flick of his hand, he turned pure-white holy power into a light beam, striking the lamp monsters with precision . Their bodies melt like burned candles with wax dripping to the ground . Black threads began to rise and scramble into Lin Sheng’s chest . He closed his eyes to receive these little soul fragments into his mind . Soon, his lips curled up in a smile .
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“These are the patrols . It is just right . Since there are patrol teams, I can kill more of them and might eventually figure out how to enter the pillar . ”
He started to search around in the surrounding for living beings . Quickly, he found two old man reliefs on the surface of the Divine Pillar . After the old man reliefs gave him two silver stone discs, he killed them . The discs had records of daily life inside the Divine Pillar . The texture of the silver stone discs felt better than the regular stone discs, and the record on them was complete .
Lin Sheng struck down another two light beams, killing yet two more lamp monsters . After they died, their bodies turned liquified into black fluid before it seeped into the ground . Two more black threads, which were slightly thicker than before, flew into his chest . The soul fragments he got this time differed from previously .
He saw in the memory the way to access the Divine Pillar . Closing his eyes, he studied it for a moment, then let out a long sigh . When he opened his again, he lunged straight down toward the ground . Once he was on the surface, he quickly found on the surface of the Divine Pillar a small arch pattern . Standing in front of it, Lin Sheng reached out to press on the surface .
“With all the strength, and all the dreams of the living . ”
Using the language of this world, he chanted the spell words to access the Divine Pillar . As soon as he finished, the pattern on the Divine Pillar surface lit up in purple fluorescent light . It got brighter and brighter until it illuminated Lin Sheng . Then came a faint voice of unknown gender .
“Detecting contamination index . ”
“No contaminant detected . ”
“Outsider, welcome to Hall of Dreams, the Divine Pillar . ”
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There was no opened door or access passage . All Lin Sheng got was a moment of dizziness, and everything in the surroundings started to distort . The next second he knew it, he found himself standing in a vast silver hall . There was nothing here except the silver stone discs, big and small, scattered all over, and purple light patterns in the shape of a crescent shimmering on the walls . The rest of the place had cravings of trees, vines and flowers .
Lin Sheng picked up a silver disc to take a look .
“His Majesty’s health has worsened, We must find a way to get out of here . ”
“But there is no way to open the door from the inside . ”
“His Majesty’s Sceptre of Mist controls everything . If we could get the thing…”
The words stopped there . Lin Sheng proceeded to examine the other stone discs . Most of them were empty; only a few had something on them . But even so, those contents were more or less the same, or records of something called Assyrian Dream Project . The project contained loads of technical jargons . Browsing through it, Lin Sheng could not make head or tail of what it meant . There were no explanatory notes, and no one knew what those terms meant .
Just then, his keen eyes caught a term which he found important: divinity .
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