Nightmare's Call

No matter how many times Lin Sheng went in and out of the dream, he still could not describe the feeling of detachment when he enters the dream.

His soul seemed to be able to return to his body at any moment yet it too felt like it was floating about and flying around.

It was a rather bizarre sensation.

Lin Sheng enjoyed this sort of loss of consciousness but at the same time, he could also sense the contradictory nature of it.

*Tick tock, tick tock...*

By the time he realized it, he once again heard the ticking of the clock.

All around him was a sea of murky white light, with no outline of anything, nor was he able to tell where he was.

“Has the place changed again?” Lin Sheng frowned. The moment he stepped out of the Darkspirit cavern he had the feeling that his dream might run into abnormalities.

After all, he was already in another dimension when he was at the Darkspirit cavern. So he did not sleep at all there.

He persisted all the way until he returned to reality before sleeping normally to recharge himself.

Even with all of the precautions, the thing he worried the most had still happened. The dream had shifted again, and he was no longer where he was earlier.

“Then... where is this place?”

Lin Sheng tried to raise his hand up. His hand was still there at least, and he could see the marks on it.

He then took a step forward.

Everything was hazy in the white light.

Lin Sheng sped up and ran towards a direction.

*Bam! Bam! Bam!

His heavy footsteps reverberated all across the white space, yet there was still no response from anything around him.

He continued to run for who knows how long.

And finally he saw a door in the distance.

It was a door that he knew every well.

That’s...

That was...

That was...

Panpan Security Door!

*Pfft.*

Lin Sheng stopped and looked on speechlessly at the door.

While his home back on Earth had this security door installed, he was in the dream now, and suddenly seeing this was just too jarring, no?

“Ah screw it, anything can happen in the dream.”

Lin Sheng looked around. He no longer wanted to waste time wandering about. So he walked to the security door and held his hand out as he gently pulled it.

*Clack.*

The door opened.

Lin Sheng pulled the door open wide, and inside it was a sea of red light, a very familiar red light.

It was his home back in Xilin!

Across the door was the living room. The television had already been smashed to pieces, as it lay limply on the TV cabinet.

The floor was a total mess as if it was struck hard by a giant monster claw. Much of the wooden boards were ripped straight out of the floor, and splinters and wood stubbles visible from within.

The sofa too was in a miserable shape as white cotton too were exposed like a torn down jacket.

Lin Sheng turned around, and looked behind him; it was still a sea of white light behind him.

He paused for a moment, before taking a resolute step forward into his familiar home.

*Creaaaak...*

The security door slowly closed behind him.

Lin Sheng walked to the center of the hall, and the red light from outside shone in and lit the entire house red.

“I’m back here again?”

Lin Sheng seemed to grasp onto something now.

This seemed to be a transit stop, a place where his consciousness will appear when the dream is temporarily stopped.

He circled around the hall as he checked around, and after he was sure there were no hiding monsters, he went on to search the other rooms.

The windows of the bedroom and study were open, and the moment Lin Sheng stepped into the study, he saw a blurry figure laying at his desk, seemingly pretending to be asleep.

The red light from the outside fell upon the figure and made it look even darker.

“Who is that?” Lin Sheng heightened his vigilance.

The dream was unlike reality, and the chances of him running into all sorts of monsters were there.

Be it Tenko Kasumi, or the various powerful leader-classes, Lin Sheng had no idea what sort of level of monstrosities will come in here, so he had to be careful.

He then heard a voice.

The figure in front of the table slowly rose, as it raised its head and looked at Lin Sheng.

It did not speak, and simply just look at Lin Sheng calmly without moving.

“Hmmm?” Lin Sheng took a few steps forward and noticed that the figure seemed to be following his movement and took a couple of steps forward.

He then took two steps back, and the figure did the same.

“No means of communication?” Lin Sheng frowned.

“Let me ask again, who are you?” Lin Sheng switched to Deviltongue, and then Ancient Rehn.

The blurry black figure and its equally blurry face had no expressions on it, and simply just looked blankly at Lin Sheng.

“Screw it.” Lin Sheng simply opened his palm as a white orb of holy light blasted out from his palm, and a white refulgence instantly illuminated the room.

The black figure screamed and quickly turned into thick smoke before darting towards the window. But before it could even reach the window, the smoke was quickly reduced before disappearing altogether.

“That weak?” Lin Sheng frowned as he walked over and examined the figure’s residue.

There was nothing. All that was left was just a bit of gray dust. Not even a shred of soul.

He shook his head in disappointment and quickly walked over to close the window, before checking the room and closed its windows as well.

He checked through both bedrooms, the kitchen, and the bathroom.

Finally, he cleansed the entire place with holy light, and this assured him that there was nothing wrong with the house.

After closing all of the windows, Lin Sheng simply left a bit of holy power all over the place. This was to prevent new monsters from sneaking in.

Once he was done with that, he returned to the living room and looked at the broken television as he started to wonder how to secure this place, and make it into a portable lodging in the dream, or a safe house of sorts.

“I need to first get to the bottom of how did I end up back here. How did this come about.”

Lin Sheng recalled the important elements every time he came back to this place. He would always return here every time a dream ends.

There was once when he recklessly went out of the house and stumbled into another dream, and wasted the time he could have used to rest here.

After a short rest, Lin Sheng started to use his holy power to create new Sacred Grounds.

This was the culmination of his Crag Dragon blood and holy power fusing together.

If he was successful in creating a Sacred Ground in the dream, that meant that he would have a very powerful self-protection ability in the dream.

Storing all of that confidential information and knowledge there was probably much safer than in reality.

Unfortunately, he could not create Sacred Grounds here, as holy powers could not stay long here.

Although it must be said that he had just used the soil inside the flowerpot. Not sure if that actually affected anything.

“Maybe I could create a Library of Dreams here or something.” Lin Sheng had some ideas.

Perhaps he could bring all those knowledge that he could not bring out of the dream, like the Deviltongue tomes and place them here, and view them when needed.

Entering the dream this time around though, nothing seemed to have happened.

After failing to create the Sacred Ground, Lin Sheng quietly trained his dark powers and waited until the dream ended before waking up.

By the time he woke up, it was already eight over in Miga.

He woke up and washed up before going to the Sanctum branch to have a meal, before exchanging ideas with top-level officials to formulate some important plans.

With Tenko Kasumi absent, he was held the most authority in Henriqcal.

As for Baine University, most of the people there were already members of the Sanctum clergy and believers. So there was no need to keep anything apart.