Chapter 513: Chapter 513 - Obtained
The Divine Pillar in the Nightmare Plain .
Inside the cylindrical cavern, Lin Sheng looked up at the darkness above, from where Cypross, the fly monster, came to attack him last time . Black stuff still billowed from the honeycomb walls . It seemed that the blast of his holy power here last time had affected this place . But he could not have cared less about it now; his attention was on the biggest threat .
“Do you think you’re confident enough?” The golden red humanoid asked .
“Never try, never know . ”
Lin Sheng leaped up without the aid of the holy power . All that had been burned away earlier . He did not know how to fly . Even back then, he was relying on the jet of the holy power to create back thrust to propel himself in the air . With the holy power gone now, he was merely climbing and leaping with the use of his limbs .
It did not mean that this method was slow . If not for the noise the power of the Dark Wheel would produce, he would have to summon his Ward skills to launch him up the cylindrical well . He wanted to do it more quietly because he had something else in mind .
Lin Sheng kept climbing until he could no longer see the bottom . It now looked like a pitch-black abyss to him . After a thousand meters or so, he finally saw something different above him .
There were fewer honeycomb structures up right here, and the color of the wall had changed into a striking fuchsia, with something that looked like cotton wool sticking to the wall and a red cocoon right above him . Lin Sheng could see through the cocoon the fly monster inside .
“That is the nest of Cypross . ” The golden red humanoid reminded him . “Because of the Black Tide, half of Cypross’s body has been corroded . So he is mad half of the time . But his consciousness had this madness under control . If you can wait for half a day, it would be its bedtime—to go into hibernation . ”
“That means it is not dead entirely?”
This was the first monster with such a strong will he had ever seen around here . To be honest, he was a little in awe .
“No . Its soul has disappeared long ago . What remains of it was just its body reflexes and instinct . After fighting the corrosion all its life, it has become a sort of instinct . So long as there is still vitality in its body, it will carry out the same action, which is dictated by its consciousness . ”
“Understood . ” This was akin to the theory of soul angels in Blackfeather City .
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He had wanted to survey the surroundings carefully, but the noises coming from the wall were drawing his attention . He heard the tearing sound of cloth and then came the cotton stuff on the wall being ripped apart as maggots wriggled out from the inside . Each maggot was as long as half the height of a human, its mouth hideous like the saw with a pair of semi-transparent wings on its back . There were hundreds of this creature, flapping their wings in a loud buzz as they flew toward Lin Sheng, who was hanging on the other side of the well . Knowing that he was already exposed, there was no need to conceal himself anymore .
“I suggest that you wait . These maggots are attacking on instinct . You have not woken up Cypross yet—it is still sleeping . But once you use force, Cypross will burst out of its cocoon and go on a rampage,” the golden red humanoid suddenly said .
Lin Sheng’s heart missed a beat, and he held back the urge to summon a Ward . He scanned around . Analyzing with his eyes and mind, he found a route that he could avoid the maggots . After striking away two maggots that blocked his way, he suddenly saw an opening, a hole with no maggots . He lunged toward it, and had only collided into three maggots despite being surrounded by hundreds of them, finally weaving past a small opening in a sea of maggots .
It was the advantage of intelligence . He suddenly got a lightbulb moment, finding the most simple solution in a complicated situation . Before this, he never had this quick calculation ability and good judgement . He had relied on his powerful ability of concentration . This time, it was more like a natural ability as a result of the accumulation of soul power, not an effect of intelligence increase .
Lin Sheng rolled and took a soft landing into the hole . Inside, silk web that looked like pink cotton wool were everywhere . There were even a few human skeletons, rusty weapons and tattered clothes lying around at the entrance . He waved his hand toward the entrance and a powerful pure soul power instantly sealed off the opening, separating the inside from the outside .
As soul power was none physical, when used on its own, it would appear like a mist and not produce any gravitational or kinetic phenomenon . But when used together with a living body, soul power could become even more powerful . But right here, Lin Sheng was using it as a barrier to conceal the scent of his soul .
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“Nice place . ” He concealed his scent, scanning the hole . There were no maggots pursuing him . It looked like the barrier and the concealment of his scent had worked .
“What are you going to do?” The golden red humanoid was perplexed .
“Do what I want to do . ”
He started by carefully drawing several complex magic circles on the ground and on the walls . He was a dab hand at this, taking less than ten minutes to finish drawing one . After he finished, magic circles had filled the entire hole .
He then checked the situation outside . Those maggots had returned to their lairs, and it was quiet outside . Standing near the entrance, he looked up at Cypross, quietly waiting .
Time ticked away . After several hours, the giant cocoon shook suddenly, its surface bulging . Something sharp was cutting the cocoon from the inside . Cypross, the fly monster, burst out of the opening, circled in the air once and flew straight down .
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Just then, Lin Sheng took down the barrier of soul power . Cypross suddenly changed its direction and flew toward him . His maneuver was quick and smooth without the slight hesitation, as if it knew where Lin Sheng was hiding from the very beginning .
The speed of the fly monster’s reaction surprised Lin Sheng despite he had engaged the thing once . Before Lin Sheng could react, Cypross had come in front of him, opening its hideous mouth about to bite at his forehead .
The thing could maneuver at high speed . Without the help of Rock Dragon blood, Lin Sheng’s physical strength and reflexes had weakened . It would be no good to fight a close-range combat . That was why he had prepared everything in advance .
“Explode!”
A massive soul power explosion went off inside the hole all of a sudden . The pure and highly concentrated soul power rushed out of the hole at speed in the form of a navy-blue air current, hitting on Cypross’s body . Cypross shivered as its corroded soul was stunned . The effect was almost the same as setting off a stun grenade in the hole . The impact had disengaged the soul from the body momentarily .
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