“They are not the Palatinates. The power of the sealer is uncontrollable. We can only guide it. The consequences are unthinkable once it gets out of control,” the green-haired man said.
“Don’t worry. So long as you focus on clearing the markers and getting rid of the elites who posed the greatest threat, our mission is over,” the man on the opposite said.
“What are you going to do?”
“It’s not about me; it’s about the tower’s grandmaster. Just the same as before. We will send in the team. Once within a kilometer of the target, we will teleport and decapitate them. The time is set half a month later. The Palatinates will lead the strike team. Most of the markers on low alert will die.”
“A quick and sudden attack? I still don’t agree with this plan. Forget it, let’s report it to the grandmaster. I won’t go in this operation.” The green-haired man left.
“Jena.” A voice called out. The green-haired man stopped, waiting for his comrade to speak. “Take a stroll while waiting for the peace we want.”
The green-haired man was silent, and then he strode away. He disagreed with the great unification that the Hades of the Ashen World led. He joined the Sevenlocks Tower only because Plenilune saved his life before.
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In the dream.
At the bottom of a tower, two broken metal gates were knocked down with force, sending dust into the air. Lin Sheng emerged from the entrance and looked around. Rutted streets, empty shops, and rubble were everywhere. There was also a rancid smell in the air.
“It’s time to enrich the memories.” Lin Sheng tilted his neck twice. “It’s been a long while since the last actions. It’s good to kill again.”
He sniffed, looking to hs right. “This way.”
The ground under Lin Sheng’s feet cracked as he lunged forward to the right. The wind howled in his ears as he ran, the streets fading into blurry images around him. After passing by several streets, the ground looked uneven and full of potholes.
Suddenly, a huge green monster emerged from one pothole in the ground. It had the body of a frog, but lots of tumors on its back. Looking closer, these tumors were human heads, laughing with their eyes blinking.
Lin Sheng kept his pace steady. A dozen green threads burst out beside him like sharp blades, cutting down everything in his path.
Defenseless against these green threads, the frog monsters became minced meat in no time. As Lin Sheng ran past it, he absorbed the black threads of the soul power.
The frog monsters kept coming. But like the first one, the dark-energy threads cut them down. As Lin Sheng kept going, the skin of the frog monsters ahead was getting tougher and more slippery.
As dark energy lost it effectiveness, Lin Sheng summoned his holy power. A white, dazzling rays of light burst out of him. He focused all his energy to form lots of elliptical discs and shot them out all at once.
The frog monsters became vulnerable again and died as soon as they emerged. The death toll had soon passed one thousand.
The ground shook. Lin Sheng slowed down before he lunged out like an arrow onto the outer wall of a building on the right. As the ground burst open, a massive white frog crept out from the earth. It open its mouth and shot out its red tongue at Lin Sheng.
Using the rebound force, Lin Sheng launched himself into the air, dodging the frog’s tongue. While he was at it, his arm lit up in a dazzling white light and something as if a blade formed. The blade fell and cut the tongue in half with the stroke of his hand. The white frog shrilled in pain.
Without giving the monster the time to react, Lin Sheng thrust his right arm that glowed in a white light and penetrated the head of the frog with ease. When he dialed up his strength again, the holy power swelled in his hand and exploded, blowing the upper body of the white frog into pieces. Following that, a thick thread of black soul power rose from the corpse and flew into Lin Sheng’s chest.
He would not have given a damn. These memory fragments had very little content compared to human’s; it did not matter how many he had absorbed. At last, the body of the white frog fell to the ground.
Lin Sheng sped up his pace and came before an eight-story stone structure that had collapsed in the middle of the road. Once passed the fallen structure, the landscape changed. It looked white with rime.
He slowed down to just walking as if he had sensed something up ahead. After passing a cross junction, the icing phenomenon became more serious. Rime was on the eaves of buildings, ice on the ground, and the freezing wind in the air.
Lin Sheng further slowed down. He was almost crawling now. As the surroundings changed, he needed to be cautious and take it slow.
Two hundred meters down the road, Lin Sheng stopped in his tracks, looked up ahead. He saw a figure sitting leg-crossed in the middle of the road. It was a woman. Her pupils were dark, hair long and red, gorgeous like a burning flame. She was neither fat nor thin—curvy, in fact. There was a vertical red mark that looked like a scar on her brow. What attracted Lin Sheng’s eyeballs was the chilling-looking long sword lying before her.
“Hello, you alive?” Lin Sheng stopped and asked. The woman stared at Lin Sheng. Her eyer were dark and her face had little expression. She suddenly lunged to her feet and swung her sword forward.
A white avalanche emerged out of thin air, filling the entire street with snow that crumbled down at Lin Sheng. At over ten meters tall, the virtual avalanche materialized and came within three meters before Lin Sheng in just a second.
The snowstorm looked like a white beast. It could crush anything made of steel into rubble. Lin Sheng would have flinched had this happened last time. But now he was a different person.
After a loud roar of the dragon roar, scales grew over Lin Sheng’s body, his muscles swelling with white light glowing all over him. He thrust his fist forward into the avalanche. The shock wave and impact stopped the avalanche in its tracks. And then it exploded, sending snow flying in all directions.
When the snow fell back onto earth, the red-haired woman lunged out of the snow. She slashed down with her sword, but Lin Sheng clapped his hands, stopping the sword mid-air in between his palms.
But Lin Sheng could not stop the energy, which was far more powerful than he had expected. An energy surged up his arms that had just semi-dragonized. His blood vessels under the scales burst instantly.
The impact energy had exceeded what his body could bear. It blew a ten-meter-wide, twenty-meter-deep pit under his feet. Lin Sheng was only standing on a thin stone column the thickness of his arm.
“This level of strength! What the hell?” Lin Sheng was shocked.
