Nightmare’s Call

Chapter 380: Building the System: Part 3

Soon, Lin Sheng got all the specimens he needed to solve the Parasite cases.

Back to his underground research lab, he studied the make ups and nature of the specimens and then came up with an idea.

Using a machine, he compacted a fairly large amount of holy soil into a solid clay tablet. With this tablet, he turned it into a simple storage tank. He then poured sterilized water into it. He was reproducing the characteristics of the holy power in his memories.

In the sanctum of the dreams, the Templar used to soak in the pool when they practiced cultivation. After they left the pool, the water in that pool had shown the characteristics of the holy power for a short period.

Short-lived holy power might not that impressive as it could only last a few days. But this had given Lin Sheng an idea.

After he had built the holy soil tank, he looked around to make sure everything else was OK.

The activation of the small sanctum was imminent. This time, he could pass on the Ashen Seal and make a book of inheritance.

He was considering which type of Ashen Seal to make. He used to summon the priest, whose memories contained the specific images of other Ashen Seals. But without the book of inheritance, the priests who had mastered the Ashen Seals could not pass them on to others.

The disc of the Sanctum had the record of the technique making the book of inheritance. So it posed no difficulty for Lin Sheng.

Two hours later, he returned to the holy soil tank, standing beside it and wet his hands with the water. The water droplets sliding down his fingers glittered in a light-golden luster. The light was quite dim, but when looking closer, Lin Sheng could still notice the difference.

The golden glittering looked like gravels floating in the clear water; sometimes they gathered and sometimes scattered.

“It works.” Lin Sheng took a bottle and filled it with the water from the holy soil tank.

A plume of black smoke materialized into a red armored soldier behind him. The soldier took the bottle from Lin Sheng’s hand.

“Dilute it 100 times and distribute it to a hundred core believers. Let the Chief Patrolman decide who to give. Come back to me with results tomorrow.”

The red armored soldier acknowledged and left the research lab with the bottle.

Lin Sheng took a little water as a specimen, then closed the water tank back.

This was his self-made water containing the holy power. By the speed of the holy power dissipated, the water could last for at least a week. And he named it Holy Water.

The Holy Water will decrease in holy power strength with time. Lin Sheng had come up with this thing to contain the camouflage-abled monsters—the Parasites.

The Sanctum in the dreams used numerous priests to inject the holy power into human bodies to detect and clean them of the Parasites. This method worked well, but was inefficient. So Lin Sheng was not going to use it.

Fortunately, he had the special ability of making holy soil, which would only consume a little of his holy power and time. With the assistance of the Rock Dragon bloodline, he could keep producing the holy soil without getting himself drained.

Using Holy Water is to drive out the Parasite when people drank it.

When Lin Sheng was testing a new use of the Holy Soil, a chief patrolman caught another two unique Darksiders and had brought them to the research center.

“Master Seagal, this is the suspicious Darksiders we have captured from the city. We have checked; they are the internationally renowned mercenaries, the Unkillable Duo.” The chief patrolman said. Behind him was a black, rough metal cage with two black bodies curling up inside.

It seemed the two men have suffered some inhuman torture; they were dying.

“They have excellent recovery ability. So I have to use holy power to drive out the dark energy from them every ten minutes, and then shock them with a high electrical voltage. I’ve also gouged out their eyes and cut out their tongues. Using alloy spikes, I pierced their waists and nailed them to the cage to prevent them from escaping. Besides, I’ve deep-carbonized their limbs to keep them from regenerating too quickly,” the chief patrolman explained. “It works well by the looks of them.”

That was horrible.

Lin Sheng was speechless. He said, “Take them into the quarantine cell.”

“Understood,” the chief patrolman said. “I will just leave it to you, Master, for there are something else I have to attend back in my jurisdiction.”

“You’re good to go.” Lin Sheng nodded.

The current Sanctum branch in Henricqal had recruited many Darksiders and formed a comprehensive hierarchy system. The main reason Lin Sheng could carry out research in such a nice and leisure manner was that he had delegated most of the tasks to the chief patrolmen.

After the chief patrolman left, Lin Sheng directed the red armored warrior to throw the two men into the quarantine cell while he returned to the research center.

He turned on the computer and logged into the citywide monitoring system. The top-down topographic map of Henricqal had some places flashing in red on the white background. But they disappeared after a while; they were the patrols solving cases in the field.

He could monitor the security situation of the entire Henricqal through the positioning device carried by the patrols.

“There isn’t any problem in the urban area. What about outside the city?” Lin Sheng moved the mouse cursor and randomly clicked an area outside the city on the map. As the map zoomed in, he saw at least two third of the area were flashing in red. Only a few areas remained white.

“Has the situation deteriorated so much?” Lin Sheng frowned.

The erosion of the Black Tide had brought out various monsters. There had been traffic disruptions between the cities in Miga for the last few days. Many unknown monsters had emerged in the expansive, desolate areas between the cities.

The Darksiders were too occupied and exhausted with the security situations in the city to worry about the outskirt areas.

“The worse part is communication with the nearby airport is down. The place could have fallen already.”

Without the airport, he could only take the sea route if he wanted to return to Xylond. But in time like this, the sea route posed a greater risk than land route.

He had received information from Baine University’s intel network that several maritime patrol ships were missing after being attacked.

“Forget it. The situation is getting more dangerous. I’d better activate the small Sanctum.” When the little Sanctum came online, the purifying force field would expand. This was the key reason for establishing a base.

Lin Sheng would make use of the spread of the purifying force field to sacrifice the offerings at the research center to open the Darkspirit Gate. If he were to open it in the downtown area, it would attract the Asterism’s attention.

“There is also the potion…” Lin Sheng had not forgotten the bottle of special potion he got.

A notification popped up on the computer screen. Someone was requesting for a communication connection. Lin Sheng allowed the request and soon, Cainphas’ voice came through.

“Master Seagal, the people from Suncrown have arrived, requesting to meet with you to discuss the potion.”

“Suncrown?” Lin Sheng knew it. When he got out with the potion, he did not kill everyone to tie up the loose end. He was using it to gain the maximum leverage for himself.

As precious as the potion was, it was not useful to him. Instead, he needed to be careful because the Sevenlocks Tower was after this thing.

“Who they send?” Lin Sheng asked because it had everything to do with Suncrown’s attitude towards the potion and the Sanctum.

“The dean of the Royal Yemei Academy, the head of the Miga Dark Energy Research Center, and a fellow of the Miga Supernatural Research Institute.” Cainphas told him a bunch of titles. “In layman terms: a Palatinate and two apex Six Wingers.”

Lin Sheng’s heart missed a beat, knowing these people were up to no good. He bet his two cents that the top officials in Miga would be eager to get their hands on the Holy Power. They knew it was so powerful and compatible with dark energy.

So the potion was just an excuse. Their real target could be the Holy Power.