Nightmare’s Call

No one knew how much time had passed as the dust clouds were slowly blown to the right of the temple. From afar, it looked like a gray screen was slowly engulfing more and more land.

“Augh, cough…”

The moment he stepped into the dream, Lin Sheng felt like he was being suffocated by dust as his body heated up, and his breathing difficult. The contamination of dust and debris in the air from the explosion was clearly very thick. Only after a few good minutes Lin Sheng was able to get used to the air and started checking the area out.

He first circled halfway around the ruins of the temple and found the entire place was covered in dust clouds.

Upon confirming the effectiveness of the explosion, he then slowly made his way to the epicenter of the blast as he had a rough grip on the situation around him.

Now it was to see if the Night Lord had survived or not.

*Whooosh…*

A chilly gale blew within Blackfeather City and the dust cloud from the explosion went along with it. But this sort of dissipation was a little too slow and did little to reduce the number of particles in the air.

“Hopefully no one will come suing me for environmental damage, heh,” Lin Sheng joked to himself.

After a few more coughs, he looked up and could see the once magnificent temple complex before him. The originally gigantic temple’s main door was broken beyond recognition as a small part of the door hung precariously on the door frame, seemingly about to fall off at any given moment.

Half of the temple complex’s wall lay broken on the ground, as a scarred façade riddled with holes appeared. All of the windows were destroyed, and the panels charred with spiderweb-like cracks forming all of them.

Lin Sheng changed his mind and did not enter from the main door but instead from the left side.

On the left side of the complex, a good part of the wall had already collapsed, leaving a few massive gaps there, and revealing the interior of the hall.

Lin Sheng quickly got to one of the gaps and made his way in.

From his position, there was a pillar that was still standing. The moment he stepped in however, Lin Sheng saw one of the slanting pillars was falling towards him.

He quickly stepped aside and simply let the pillar smash against the wall. The pillar’s motion was stopped there and then, and it remained still.

After making sure that the pillar was no longer moving, Lin Sheng then scouted the area out.

Within the hall, a number of its supporting pillars had already been shattered. The remaining ones were unevenly broken and barely held onto the collapsed room.

The space within the hall had greatly shrunk, and the ten-meter-tall hall had its height shaved significantly, with cracks and rubbles all over, looking like it could collapse at any moment.

“Where is the Night Lord?” Lin Sheng paid no mind to the condition of the building, and was only focused on the status of the Night Lord as he carefully made his way deeper into the hall.

The temple hall was almost completely ruined, and what was left was just a destroyed hunk with nary anything left aside from the blackened blast marks and the support pillars that barely held on.

Lin Sheng walked about in the hall and did not find the corpse of the Night Lord at all.

“Did he survive?!” Lin Sheng suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

He had gathered so many explosives. If the Night Lord did not die and managed to escape, then he was really out of options.

He then made his way out of the main door of the hall as he kicked away some of the rubble. Barely a few steps later…

*Crash!!!*

The temple complex behind him completely toppled over, and whatever space that was left disappeared entirely as clouds of dust were kicked up like clouds into the air.

Lin Sheng was still startled when he looked back. If he had to die, the worst way was to be trapped within rubble with no way to get out. This type of death was the easiest to drive someone insane.

“That was really close.” Lin Sheng took a few steps back as he avoided the oncoming clouds of black dust.

By then, the entire temple complex was gone, and he had scouted the place out without seeing any remnants of the Night Lord’s armor or weaponry.

If he was killed, these items were possibly the hardest thing to burn and there should have been something left.

“But there’s nothing at all, could it be…!”

Lin Sheng stepped out of the temple complex towards the street across it.

Due to the massive explosion, the dust kicked up by the blast remained, and the visibility of the entire area around the temple complex was very poor.

“With that sort of explosion, even a Six-winger would have struggled against it.” Even the Steel Lord was not invincible and without weakness.

It was a powerful compressed explosion from all directions, and even the Steel Lord himself would be hard-pressed to escape unscathed, much less an assassin-type character like the Night Lord that was not known for having high defense.

Lin Sheng looked at the collapsing temple ruins as he shifted his gaze towards the edge of the area engulfed by a storm of dust.

“If there was any place to hide, it has to be this area!”

Without much thought, Lin Sheng started to circle around the general vicinity of the temple complex from left to right in a clockwise matter. Not ten minutes into the dust-engulfed area, he found the trail of the Night Lord.

It was before a patisserie. And Lin Sheng was about ten meters away from it.

Over on the third floor, the Night Lord sat calmly by the side of the cupboard, his armor and hair was a mess.

Lin Sheng quickly measured the Night Lord and noticed that there was a faint dent on the lower right leg and his abdomen, seemingly being struck by something massive. There were bloodstains on his mouth as well.

“Damn! To only be injured and not die in that explosion…”

Lin Sheng was astounded.

He did not know how the latter had evaded that massive explosion, but he knew that this was the moment where the Night Lord was at his weakest.

If he did not strike now, he would regret it later!

Without much thought, Lin Sheng picked up a fist-sized rock and started infusing sacred power into it.

He wanted to test, to see how badly injured the Night Lord was.

To see if he had any chance of taking him out for good.

Frankly speaking, Lin Sheng did not dare to put much hope on that explosion killing a councillor-class elite.

His original goal was probably injury but not death.

As he readied the rock, Lin Sheng adjusted his angle, his gaze cold.

*Wuff!!*

He flung the rock with all of his might. The fist-sized rock was already infused with sacred power, and with the enhanced muscle strength of his half-dragon form, its lethality was never in doubt.

The rock seemingly traversed the distance of ten-odd meters within a split second and crashed right into the middle of the Night Lord’s chest.

*Bammm!!*

The rock crumbled into fragments. The Night Lord was unharmed, but he instead was attracted by the sacred power imbued within the stone.

His blank gaze slowly shifted towards Lin Sheng.

“With this distance, I don’t believe you are much of a threat.” Lin Sheng sneered.

After being killed so many times, even Buddha would have been pissed. Plus, he was no Buddha himself.

Now that he had the opportunity for revenge, even under his calm façade, Lin Sheng felt a measure of relief.