Nightmare’s Call

The fifth Darkspirit Cavern.

Lin Sheng followed the Sin Dragon Matriarch into dragonbone maw.

Within the large maw was another winding passageway. The two walked in tow for a good ten-odd minutes before reaching the new location.

Over there were many scattered bones of all sizes, at times yellow gemstones could be seen on the ground radiating a gentle glow.

But aside from this, what attracted Lin Sheng’s attention was the series of massive sarcophagi placed side by side.

“Welcome to the Dragon’s Barrow.” The Sin Dragon Matriarch turned around and smiled at him.

“Dragon’s Barrow?” Lin Sheng looked at those giant, ten-meter-long sarcophagi. “That means the dragons are sleeping inside?”

“Naturally, but it is not their bodies that are in slumber, rather, their will.” The Sin Dragon Matriarch smiled as she answered.

“I had stumbled upon this place by accident, and I have no intention of disturbing the slumbering wills.” Lin Sheng said calmly.

He could sense the soul aura from the sarcophagi and could sense that this place had a great deal to do with dragonkind.

“You need not panic…” She smiled again, “Being to enter this place is an opportunity for you. If you could gain the recognition of the Dragon Elders, then you will gain a chance to break through your mortal limits.”

“Breakthrough my mortal limits?” Lin Sheng was taken aback, “Is it like, breaking through the limits of my body?”

“Yes, by breaking through your mortal limits will you elevate yourself to a level that no other races could even reach.” The Sin Dragon Matriarch said calmly.

“Then, does this mean that all of dragonkind has the right to be tested?” Lin Sheng asked again.

“Yes, every dragonkin will be given one chance to receive the Baptism of the Dragon’s Barrow,” the Matriach said again. “Of course, in order to evaluate our descendent kinsmen, the Dragon’s Barrow has different levels of grading rewards.”

“An assessment huh?” Lin Sheng now understood. At the beginning, he had actually suspected that he might had ran into trouble in the Darkspirit Cavern.

But now, he could sense a steady imposing aura being radiated from the sarcophagi around him.

“Then, I wish you luck.” The Sin Dragon Matriarch retreated away and stood aside.

Lin Sheng faced the huge sarcophagi alone, there were thirteen in total, and each seemed to bear some sort of special meaning.

Time slowly passed.

*Shaaa!*

Suddenly, a transparent blue light blasted out from the gap of the sarcophagi.

The blue light transformed into an ethereal half-dragon, half-light mist being.

“Question: Your ideals.”

Lin Sheng’s expression remained unchanged, as he looked up at the ethereal blue dragon. Even when the latter was just a spirit being, it was way larget than him.

“My ideals? To ensure the safety of my family within the darkening world.” Lin Sheng answered frankly.

*Hah!*

A second dragon shadow shot out from the sarcophagus.

This time around, it was a bright red dragon soul, with a sharp spur on its back.

“Question: Your limits.”

Lin Sheng froze for a moment.

“My limits…” After demurring for a moment, he shook his head, “I have no limits.”

This question was not your usual trick question, but Lin Sheng answered truthfully, so he outright ignored what the red dragon shadow actually meant.

And the dragon simply just frowned.

Soon, a third shadow appeared, a pure white ice dragon with crystalline wings.

A series of simple, or tricky questions came out from the dragons’ mouth.

And Lin Sheng answered all of them calmly. While his answer may not please everyone, at least his attitude did not invite any scorn.

Over time, the questions the dragon souls asked gradually required him to think carefully before answering.

“Question: If you were to kill a being important to you, who will you choose?”

An old gray-brown dragon calmly answered his question.

“A being important to me?” Lin Sheng could not help but think of his family.

“I will kill the person who made me kill someone.” Lin Sheng answered calmly.

“Question: Doing whatever you want, and an insatiable desire are very similar, how do you distinguish and control the two?” A slender, purple long-necked dragon, asked as it quietly flapped its transparent wings.

“The key is restraint.”

“Question: Power brings forth destruction, but also protection, do you think there should be a higher being with the power to suppress everything?”

“I’m sorry, I’ve yet to meet a higher being before.”

“Question: What is a bloodline?”

“The continuation of my kind, the mark of history and destiny.”

“Question: What is duty?”

“An obligation that you have to shoulder.”

“Question: What is kingship?”

Lin Sheng suddenly paused and looked at the dragon soul that appeared before him.

There were many dragon souls around him, but this dragon soul gave him a very familiar feeling.

As this was an old Crag Dragon with sagging yellowish skin.

Its eyes looked on calmly at Lin Sheng as it awaited his answer.

“Kingship… but I’m no king. I cannot answer this question.” Lin Sheng refused to answer.

“If you are no king, then where did your Monarch Crystal came from?” The old dragon said with deep intent.

Lin Sheng suddenly recalled that piece of dragon crystal that had appeared on him out of nowhere.

“That is a gift from an elder.” He answered.

The old dragon shook its head lightly.

“Use it, it shall be your hope.”

“What do you mean?” Lin Sheng frowned slightly.

A smile appeared on the old dragon’s face.

“Your destiny is linked to a being that had perished in the currents of fate.”

“That predestined shtick?” Lin Sheng frowned. “I never believed in fate.”

“No… there was never a predestined fate, for every one of us, we are creating our own destiny every single moment,” the old dragon answered.

“It is just that, while you are creating your own destiny, you are also creating more existing destinies, that will bring forth everything new, and that is also your duty.”

Lin Sheng hated this type of nonsensical drivel the most.

What fate, what duty, what pre-arranged destiny, if that was the case, we can all just stop working hard, and just lay at home for things to complete by itself.”

“I will do what I want to do, no one will be the master of me!” His gaze was piercing, as he spat out word by word.

“You will go, that is your fate. It cannot be changed as this is a predestined path,” The old dragon shook its head. “Unless… you had over the Monarch Crystal to the dragons…”

*Bash!!*

Lin Sheng suddenly slammed his palm into the chest of the old dragon as a surge of chaotic souls rushed into its body.

“You seem to know everything, but how about now? Do you know that you are going to die soon?” He approached with deadly intent. The old dragon did not expect Lin Sheng to suddenly lash out, and its pure soul was most afraid of these chaotic souls, and the moment it was caught by Lin Sheng, it started shuddering violently.

“Let it go!”

“Insolent bipedal bug, let Bronzewing go!”

“Insolence! Stop it!”

The originally quiet dragon souls roused in a furor. This was not what they had arranged!