Chapter 92: Summoning: Part 2
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The warrior’s body was fully encased in thick white armor . His face was not visible and only emotionless but sharp eyes were exposed from the slit on the helmet .
The eyes were determined and pious, and at a glance give anyone thoughts about determination, victory, sacrifice and the likes .
*Clang!*
A loud thud later, the Sacred Shield Tyrant suddenly knelt before Lin Sheng .
Without a word, without any consciousness, the giant before him was like a loyal fighting machine, quietly waiting for Lin Sheng’s orders .
Lin Sheng took deep breaths and felt that he just needed to think and he will be able to enter the mind of the tyrant and check on his status .
“Based on the laws of the summoning ritual, the monster I summon should be form-malleable and could easily pass through the rift, but this Sacred Shield Tyrant here…”
He had no idea how this giant bugger was being tethered and summoned .
One needed to know that the rift was mostly located between the void and reality . If it was a solid physical form, even something the size of a hair would have difficulties getting through .
But the giant before him…
Before Lin Sheng could react, the massive Sacred Shield Tyrant was suddenly enveloped by a layer of black mist . And following that, his entire form quickly came apart, turning into puffs of pure black smoke and rushed into Lin Sheng’s chest .
Lin Sheng could not help but close his eyes, and in the darkness, the tyrant’s massive frame appeared once again .
And beneath the latter was a small Ancient Rehn numeric symbol for one .
Lin Sheng looked around .
“When I performed the summoning ritual I saw two light orbs, and now that I’ve summoned the Sacred Shield Tyrant, I don’t see that small red light orb anymore . ”
“Also, it seems my mind is being burdened with something . And based on the tome, I probably am bearing the tyrant’s soul right now, and that is causing the dissonance . ”
Lin Sheng recalled that when he had killed the cleric previously, the memory fragments he obtained contained a detailed description of the soul .
“…A summoning ritual can only follow the strength of the summoner’s soul, and summon being of corresponding strength . The stronger the summoner, the stronger the summoned being . ”
“And should the summoning succeed, the foreign being would slowly consume itself, and the matrix will program it basic hunting instincts for it to maintain its existence . ”
“And a summoned being with a physical body would need flesh or food to survive . Ethereal beings, on the other hand, require different things, but normally, if it is not wounded, it could absorb the natural elements from the surroundings to sustain itself . ”
Lin Sheng had an idea, and open his eyes .
On the ground before him, a surge of black smoke rushed out of his body and formed into the three-meter-tall giant in white armor .
The giant breathed slowly before bowing down in deference .
Lin Sheng walked over and held his hand out to touch the white helm with cow horns .
On the sturdy helmet were many intricate serpentine patterns .
While his chest armor had a carving of a massive lion baring its fangs .
There were similar lion motifs on the pauldrons on his shoulders as the beast bared its razor-sharp fangs .
Aside from the lion head motifs, all across the joints of the armor were wave-patterned marks .
And the weapon in the giant’s hands astounded Lin Sheng even more .
He had no chance to inspect it up close before, and upon touching it, he now knew that it was by pure luck that he had defeated the Sacred Shield Tyrant .
The giant held a giant shield with white and gold trims in one hand, and a massive knight’s lance in the other .
The giant shield had a white crest that looked like mish-mash between a dragon and a snake while the lance was simple yet heavy, about two meters in length .
“That’s not right… a normal knight’s lance would not be that short . ” Lin Sheng started inspecting again .
The lance in the giant’s hands, was more akin to a fusion between a broadsword and a lance, than a proper lance .
The lance bore a keen edge on both sides while its tip was tapered as a menacing hollowed-out frame extended from the tip .
One could imagine, if the lance were to be stabbed into a foe, the massive gaping wound would be tore in said foe’s body .
Blood would inevitably shoot out like a fountain, and the foe would be bled dry within a short amount of time .
Lin Sheng looked around the Sacred Shield Tyrant as the powerful warrior simply knelt like a statue, allowing him to inspect as he wished .
After an hour later, only did he snap out of his excitement and started cleaning up the mess the ritual had made .
The tyrant then turned into a puff of black smoke and entered his body .
Even though he had managed to summon an extremely powerful being, Lin Sheng’s mind kept playing the memory again and again .
“Why did this situation happened? Was it because I had absorbed the memory fragments of those monsters and that formed a bond that made the summoning process easier?”
Lin Sheng guessed . But this was just a wild guess based on the mess of memories in his mind, and he had no way of getting to the bottom of this .
As he sensed the dissonance coming from his chest, Lin Sheng suddenly recalled the giant, Harsenna in the memory .
“I’m not sure if this fulfills his dream of escaping the nightmare?”
For some reason, he thought of that . But he knew very well that the Sacred Shield Tyrant he summoned, was just a being that contained the memory fragments that he had replicated .
He was the same Harsenna he had seen . But somehow, he was reminded of that determined yet faithful giant .
“Let’s find a place to test this out . A Sacred Shield Tyrant eh, I sure was driven to a corner by it . Not sure he’ll be able to fight against the gray angel in the dream or not . ”
He would need a proper place to do some testing, and the thought of the tyrant’s three-meter frame gave Lin Sheng headaches .
“Let’s see if I can do that in the dream . ”
He then took about ten minutes to clean everything up .
And what made it easy was all of the ritual materials had lost their original sheen and become charcoal dust-like junk .
Lin Sheng only needed to pour everything into the pan and bring the pot out to be buried somewhere in the nearby woods .
After settling everything, he tested the power and ability of the tyrant there .
Lin Sheng was surprised to find that when the tyrant was in its black smoke form, it would not come into contact with the crow . It was as if he was like a shadow, and the crow simply flew through him without any resistance .
And when the crow flew, it was as though it did not even notice the tyrant and simply flew through him .
And that reminded him of a summoned being from the tome, a nightmare .
A nightmare can take both a physical and an ethereal form, and switch around at will . In its ethereal form, normal people would not be able to see it .
Dongwu Complex .
The room where Chen Tan was murdered .
Chen Hang and the Venomancer alongside a few aides circled around the room as they looked at the Azurewing egg on the floor .
And that moment, the egg was about as lifeless as a normal egg .
Some sort of spider web seemed to be secreted into its surroundings, and the web would fly all around the room at the slightest gust .
What astounded everyone was, the spider web would only exist in the room itself . As soon as it left the door or the window, it would immediately disappear .
“A darkside Azurewing . Top-notch stuff there!” the Venomancer was full of praise when he saw the egg . “This is not something you’ll come by cheap . How did you get it?”
Chen Hang demurred .
“I paid a hefty price to get it . And can only use it once . ”
“That’s good enough . ” The Venomancer lay on the bar stand behind him, looking all relaxed . “The egg will hatch tomorrow, we’ll just wait for it to do its magic . Get your man ready for tomorrow . ”
“I will . ” Chen Hang nodded .
He had given everything for vengeance, and he did not want to think of anything other than that .