Nightmare's Call

Chapter 557 Searching for Hope: Part 3

Holyspirit Palace.Lin Sheng sat upon the supreme throne as he slowly closed his eyes.

His consciousness gradually sank into the deepest parts of his mind as he let go and relaxed as he slowly sank into silence.

He had not experienced the sensations of entering the dream for a very long time now.

When he was still a normal person, he had relied on the dream as he explored everything, and acquired everything.

The boundless knowledge that he had, were all obtained from the dream.

But in reality, he could only obtain non-material items like knowledge.

Divinity itself was in essence a type of understanding of limits and power, and was a consolidation of information and was non-material. so it could only be transferred through the soul and one’s consciousness.

Lin Sheng felt himself like he was falling from a height before falling and splashing into a lake.

His entire body began to be wrapped in a warm and gentle material.

No one knew how much time had passed.

He slowly opened his eyes.

He now found himself standing before the massive Divine Pillar.

The towering, twisted black pillar constantly writhed about, as if it was a living being.

On the dark red ground around him, there were still slight traces of scars left behind when he made his breakthrough.

It was just that the golden-red figure and Aisha the Torturer had disappeared.

“With my current strength, I might be able to escape Aisha, but killing her will be difficult.” Lin Sheng thought for a bit before coming to a conclusion.

If Aisha could fully utilize her divinity, it would be extremely difficult for him to defeat her.

As he thought of this, he pulled out the God’s Speed divinity he had sealed with protective wards from his pocket.

This was a strand of hair he had preserved with his wards.

When he had fused the God’s Speed divinity into the hair, the originally black hair had turned grey following the fusion.

Before then, when he made contact with the divinity, he did not feel anything special.

But now it was different.

Just by touching the hair alone, he could sense a huge amount of complex information within it.

This information was just an aggregation of itself, and yet it could affect its material surroundings.

It was utter madness.

“Then... let’s absorb it.” Lin Sheng held his hand out and gently pressed the hair, as it suddenly shattered and a gray shadow blasted out of it and struck into the skin of his palm.

He closed his eyes and stood quietly as he digested the large amount of God’s Speed divinity that he had absorbed.

Silently, his perception of speed rose exponentially.

Divinity was essentially a soul’s talent.

and the absorption of other Divinity was to observe and appreciate the other talents of the soul in existence.

There was naturally some loss during transference, and it was not insignificant.

After all, the soul talents of others would naturally be the most suitable inside that person’s flesh and soul. It was impossible to gain a hundred percent of the potency even if he was to absorb all of it.

The degree of divinity absorption depended on perception and compatibility.

Lin Sheng’s perception was not bad, and the absorption rate was relatively high. Plus he himself was a divine being of a similar level, and the power systems he had dabbled prior was various and complex.

After all, he was the man who had absorbed tens of thousands of souls. When it comes to wisdom and intellect, he was no slouch.

And in a blink of an eye, Lin Sheng had mastered 50% of the God’s Speed divinity.

The rest of it was incompatible with him, and could not be used. These were parts that belonged solely to Cypross and had to be set aside.

Perhaps should he encountered a being of the same kind as Cypross later, that thing could be used then.

After mastering 50% of the God’s Speed divinity, Lin Sheng began to adjust his mind and soul according to the principles within it.

And this adjustment was just a natural form of ascension.

As long as the mastery was sufficient and had reached a high level of divinity, the soul would naturally produce some kind of wondrous changes and alterations.

“The soul transformation would take some time, and just nice I could use this time to search the other places around the Divine Pillar...”

But before he could put the thought into action, Lin Sheng suddenly felt his surroundings began to darken.

In the distance, indescribable desolate darkness was spreading rapidly in his direction.

“This is...!!!?” Lin Sheng grimaced.

He had not encountered such a forced change of dreams in a very long while now.

He had thought he would never encounter it again, but...

“Still it came again huh?” He stood still and concentrated.

But as he looked at the massive Divine Pillar before him he had a touch of regret in his heart.

There were still a lot of things for him to explore and excavate from the Divine Pillar, like Aisha the Torturer, or the Portal of Wishes, or the other clues left behind by Anselia, or even yet, how powerful is a demigod?

That was a powerful existence that could persist within the Blacktide and not be consumed by it.

Yet, had it been consumed by it, or had it completely disappeared?

Lin Sheng had planned to explore this one by one.

But now that the encroaching darkness once again reminded him he was still in the dream.

This place was, after all, a dream...

“I hope I will come back here again and have the chance to explore all of the truths...” he murmured.

*Huff!*

The endless darkness instantly surged past the Divine Pillar and swallowed him whole.

He still had yet to obtain many divinities...

The darkness slowly crept in.

This was not the Blacktide, rather it was darkness produced by Lin Sheng’s own senses.

Just like the darkness formed when one closes their eyes.

He was seemingly just ‘disconnected’ from that dream, and before his senses had adjusted itself, the consuming darkness had already appeared.

“So, what’s the next dream like?”

He looked forward to it.

Time slowly passed.

One minute.

Two minutes.

Five minutes.

Ten minutes.....

At last...

A blurry wall with a metallic texture appeared beside him.

The wall was covered with a dense gray vein-like circuit that looked like an electrical circuit, or something similar.

Following that, the darkness quickly faded away.

Lin Sheng blinked and only then could he clearly see where he was.

He was standing in a dark, closed surveillance room.

Less than three meters before him were three screens, one big and two small that were flickering.

There was nothing on the screen.

Lin Sheng looked at them before turning away and started to all over the place.

All around him was a semi-circular station made out of an all-black metal, and on it was a large number of switches and buttons of unknown functions.

Computer monitor-like screens were lined neatly across the station with no one manning it.

In the surrounding rooms were switches and warning lights that glowed in green, as if they were breathing.

The ground was covered in a layer of thick dust, and the station was full of scattered documents and stationaries that seemed to have been left like that.

Lin Sheng took a step forward and picked up one of the documents before glancing at it.

It was written in the script he did not recognize at all, and could not discern it.

“Seems like it’s back to the old rules. Gotta find the natives here, or else I can forget about figuring out the origins of this place.”

Lin Sheng looked around and found a location that looked like a hatch before walking over.

The moment he approached, he heard a faint sound of strumming from beyond the door.

It was a clear guitar-like strum that echoed outside, sounding lonely and desolated.