Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 129 The Seven Deadly Sins: Greed (8,000 words, please subscribe)

Chapter 128

"Just how many fraudsters are there?"

Rosen frowned after sneaking up from behind and shooting down another Sequence 8 Deception Demon.

Since he entered the den of fraud, he has killed more than a dozen fraudulent demons disguised as cat people in a short period of time.

But we didn't see a single real cat-man; instead, we saw a constant stream of deceitful demons.

This number is only enough for him. Could any other Sequence 8 adventurer group really solve this dungeon?

Rosen released his self-portrait clone, along with all his main and secondary magical pets. Finally, he even summoned the figures from some of the paintings in the Void Gallery, and began a thorough cleanup of the fraud den.

However, half an hour later, Rosen stared into deep thought as he looked at the hundreds of corpses of the deceitful demons.

Something's not right, but he doesn't know what's wrong.

Just as he was racking his brains trying to figure it out, Rosen suddenly felt a persistent, sharp pain in his back and heart.

Rosen looked down and could feel a hand gripping his heart.

The next instant, his heart was ripped out of the laceration on his back, and the blood vessels connecting his heart to other organs were torn off, causing blood to gush out of his body like a high-pressure fountain.

Immediately afterwards, the self-portrait clone appeared in front of Rosen, grabbed his heart and bit it down.

Rosen's vision blurred, and he lost control of his body, collapsing to the ground and taking his last breath.

The self-portrait clone looked mockingly at Rosen's corpse, yet another pitiful wretch who died with his eyes wide open.

After devouring the heart in a few bites, the self-portrait clone prepared to hunt down the cats.

However, at that moment, the self-portrait clone suddenly felt a sharp pain in its heart.

This pain even caused him to abandon his deceptive pretense and reveal his true, deceitful demonic nature.

Rosen's body rose from the ground, his body surging with spiritual energy like raging flames.

The Angel's Blessing card was activated. An angelic spirit beast appeared behind him and blew a breath at him.

Rosen's spiritual energy was instantly reduced by half, but the flesh and bones on his back grew back intact. Even his heart, which had been removed, regenerated under the healing of the angelic spirit beast. The blood scattered around him was also purified and flowed back into his body at this moment.

"I almost really died..."

Rosen looked at the tormented, deceitful demon with lingering fear.

He was now certain that this den of fraud was definitely not a Sequence 8 dungeon.

He possesses a mental canvas, a powerful amplification of spiritual perception from the Scavenging Space, and even Freddy's ability to control nightmares.

These all provide exceptional resistance to spiritual harm on a mental level.

However, from the moment he entered this underground city, his senses and even his memories had been deceived.

He never realized until his death that everything he saw was an illusion.

Whether it's the dead demon of deception, or the summoned self-portrait clones and magical creatures, they are all fake.

Even his memories have been somewhat obscured.

So much so that for more than half an hour after entering the dungeon, he hadn't used his ability to sense nightmares to locate friend from foe, nor had he used the power of the spiritual painting on the adventurer's badge to locate the cat people; he had forgotten all of these methods.

A demon capable of such deception must be at least a Sequence 6 intelligent demon.

The countless dungeons of the Dungeon Kingdom constantly spawn various extraordinary life forms, primarily legendary demons, but these demons rarely develop intelligence.

Because it is not a demon born naturally, but a demon created out of thin air by humans by extracting the power of the demon god.

It now appears that the underground city of Fraud's Den has long since spiraled out of control.

The danger level is still Sequence 8, which means that the adventure groups that came in before were probably all fooled by the Deceitful Demon.

Then the Deceitful Demon deliberately let adventure groups go one by one, always concealing the true level of the Deceitful Lair.

If it weren't for the deceitful demon eating his heart, Rosen might have been resurrected a second time in the divine realm.

His heart is the place where life force is most vigorous, and it is also the place where the Gluttonous Beast resides.

The Gluttonous Beast digests its food and then infuses nutrients into its entire body through its heart.

The Deceitful Demon devoured his heart, which was tantamount to swallowing the Gluttonous Beast whole.

Just like Sun Wukong entering Princess Iron Fan's stomach, the weakness of most living beings lies in their brain and heart. Obviously, the Deception Demon is no exception, which is why the Deception Demon was severely injured, giving Rosen a chance to regain his senses.

This time, Rosen actually summoned the Nightmare Slime, which rushed forward and swallowed the Deception Demon.

Working together from the inside and outside, they devoured the Gluttonous Beast from the inside out.

Rosen successfully located all the catmen using the adventurer's badge, and even extended his spiritual perception directly through the inner space of the spiritual painting, seeing the Sequence 9 catmen constantly killing the Sequence 9 Deceitful Demon.

This was a real kill, so he was probably the only one who encountered the truly dangerous and deceitful demon.

Two hours later, the deceitful demon that had been struggling inside the nightmare slime died.

Another hour passed, and it was finally completely digested.

However, there was one thing that the Nightmare Slime struggled to digest for quite some time before painfully vomiting it up.

When Rosen got his hands on it, he discovered that it was a drop of blood that had condensed into a crystal.

He didn't recognize him, but the gray rat got excited and pounced on him.

"This is the blood of the demon god... no..."

The gray rat shook its head excitedly halfway through its sentence, "The blood of the Demon God couldn't be that weak. It must be that this Deceitful Demon likes to eat hearts and doesn't even spare its own kind. After eating too many Deceitful Demons, the power of the Demon God within its body accumulated little by little and underwent a qualitative change..."

Rosen understood; the monsters in the dungeon were ultimately transformations of the demon god's power.

These monsters are essentially from the same source.

Then this anomaly appeared, constantly eating the hearts of its own kind, causing a qualitative change in the power of the demon god within it.

In the end, not only did he gain wisdom and self-awareness, but even his own demonic bloodline merged with the power of the demon god, resulting in a bloodline reversion to its ancestral form.

This crystal formed from condensed blood is not qualified to be called the blood of a demon god.

However, they are qualified to be called extraordinary bloodlines of distant descendants of the demon god.

Moreover, it is a superhuman bloodline with a quality of Sequence 6 and a potential of at least demigod level.

Rosen carefully put away the extraordinary bloodline of the Deceitful Demon before beginning a thorough search of the entire Deceitful Lair.

Last time it was a lie, this time it's a real case of not letting a fraudster get away with it.

For an entire day, Rosen led his team to wipe out all the fraudulent demons.

As the last deceitful demon fell to the spear, a treasure chest materialized out of thin air in front of Rosen.

These dungeon treasure chests are considered a specialty of the dungeon kingdom.

When you kill monsters in the dungeon, some leave behind corpses, while others dissipate after death. Some of the dissipated monster corpses become seeds for the birth of new monsters in the dungeon, while the rest are transformed into loot in treasure chests.

It is said that when the Demon God was sealed away, the World Government had a Sequence 0 hunter who left behind the right to hunt the gods.

Therefore, dungeon chests can contain loot orbs that can only be obtained through hunting by hunters.

Rosen eagerly opened the treasure chest; this was practically his only haul for the day.

Perhaps it was because the leader of the Deception Demons liked to eat hearts that the power of the other Deception Demons converged on the leader, forming that extraordinary bloodline. That's why, despite the deaths of hundreds of Deception Demons, very few corpses remained. Now, all Rosen was hoping for good loot from the treasure chest. Upon opening it, he saw three orbs of light.

The familiar crushing revealed a skill crystal, ten spiritual crystals, and an extraordinary artifact.

The skill crystal is Sequence 6 Illusion Deception, a skill that allows the target to imagine and deceive themselves.

Rosen was influenced by this ability and thought he would encounter a deceitful demon disguised as a cat-man.

Then he really did keep encountering the Deceitful Demon, and finally his heart was ripped out by the Deceitful Demon, almost killing him.

Rosen was very interested in this skill because he could also master this illusion deception.

Skills from different extraordinary sequences can be transformed into each other.

The hunting ability of the Hunter Sequence allows you to convert the skills of different extraordinary beings into Hunter Skill Crystals.

Furthermore, the skill crystals obtained from these dungeon chests are all, without exception, free skill crystals that are not restricted to the extraordinary sequence.

Many human beings who transcend to come to the dungeon kingdom do so primarily to obtain Free Skill Crystals.

Rosen put away the skill crystal and the spiritual crystal at the same time.

Only then did he pick up the last extraordinary artifact, a pitch-black, lusterless crystal ball no bigger than a marble.

He can barely refine a Sequence 6 extraordinary artifact now that he's at Sequence 7.

The Orb of Deception: Extraordinary Item

[Level: Sequence 6]

[Attribute: The Orb of Deception contains the divine power of deception, which can greatly enhance the effects of deception-related skills.]

[Divine Ability: Self-Deception - The ability to deceive oneself, making the false appear true for a short period of time]

[Negative Effect: Using the Deception Orb outside of the Demon Sequence will gradually make it difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood]

Rosen was pleased with what he saw at the beginning, but he wasn't surprised by the negative consequences at the end.

The higher the level of the extraordinary artifact, the stricter the restrictions on the extraordinary sequence.

On the contrary, low-sequence extraordinary artifacts are not qualified to generate powerful negative attributes due to their weak power.

This thing is definitely unusable unless it's given to Sequence 6 and then hunted down.

Finally, through hunting abilities, this extraordinary artifact can be transformed into a hunter-exclusive extraordinary artifact.

However, there aren't that many Sequence 6s for him to kill, so this idea simply won't work.

Rosen thought for a moment, then went to the mysterious study and took out three items.

These are the Fantasy Deception Skill Crystal, the Deception Demon Extraordinary Bloodline, and the Deception Orb.

As expected, the main god computer immediately followed his wishes, the network cable entangled the three treasures, and extracted all the divine power from the extraordinary bloodline and the Deception Orb, injecting it little by little into the skill crystal to produce a qualitative change.

Rosen thought he would gain a divine skill, but the network cable of the main god's computer got tangled in the nightmare slime.

In the blink of an eye, the extraordinary bloodline within the Nightmare Slime began to boil.

A moment later, the Nightmare Slime had been forcibly promoted from Sequence 8 to Sequence 7.

Rosen's hunter rank is still rank 7. Normally, a pet's rank wouldn't exceed that of the hunter.

Somewhat worried, he checked the Nightmare Slime's attributes through the Nightmare Chains and immediately saw that a new talent had appeared.

[Greed LV3 - Able to forcibly possess all extraordinary elements below Sequence 3]

"Gluttony and greed..."

Rosen seemed to be deep in thought.

As far as he knew, gluttony and greed were both among the seven deadly sins.

The three things that the Nightmare Slime absorbed were precious, but not enough to give rise to such a powerful talent.

Therefore, there is only one possibility: Nightmare Slimes inherently possess the talent for greed.

It's just that the talent was originally latent, but it has now been activated prematurely by external forces.

Rosen realized once again that the extraordinary bloodline of the Nightmare Slime he had bought might not have come from a normal slime. It was more likely that someone had modified the extraordinary bloodline of the Nightmare Slime, but ultimately failed to advance to demigod.

The activation of gluttony, upon closer examination, is due to the awakening of Nen abilities and the slime's inherent gluttony.

The activation of greed stems from the power left behind by the demon of deception after its death.

Rosen even suspected that the high-sequence power within the Nightmare Slime originated from the Dungeon Kingdom.

Regardless of the truth, the Nightmare Slime's increased strength is a good thing.

Rosen's spirit entered the Nightmare Slime's body, taking control of the body and exploring the changes in its power.

I quickly figured out the changes in binge eating; once I became greedy, the food was digested much faster.

Through various attempts, Rosen roughly figured out the effect of greed.

The simplest application of forcibly possessing extraordinary elements is that extraordinary artifacts with extraordinary sequence restrictions can be forcibly possessed and used through greed, without worrying about the negative effects caused by the repulsion between different sequences.

Furthermore, greed can enhance abilities such as Void Scavenging and Hunting.

Whether it has any further uses remains to be explored in the future.

After the supernatural beings in the dungeon are cleared out, there will be a one-hour rest period.

This is a time for the adventure team to heal their wounds, and also a time to collect the bodies after the battle.

An hour passed in the blink of an eye, and Rosen led his group of cat-people away from the den of fraud and back to the underground world.

Although the first dungeon was an unexpected one, the final rewards were quite good.

Rosen immediately returned to the Adventurer's Royal City of the Dungeon Kingdom and explained the situation of the Fraud Nest to the Hunter's Guild.

Finally, they took out a small fragment of the deceitful demon leader's corpse and handed it over to the Hunter's Guild to verify its authenticity.

It was only then that Rosen realized that there were quite a few similar cases.

However, the vast majority of dungeon monsters that have developed intelligence and true life come from those high-sequence dungeons.

It is extremely rare for a Sequence 8 dungeon to give birth to a true Sequence 6 demon.

After the Hunter's Guild adjusted the raid level for the Deception Nest, Rosen earned more Adventure Team Points.

In the following days, Rosen successively conquered two Sequence 8 dungeons.

With the addition of the twenty Sequence 9 dungeons conquered by the five hundred subjects, the adventure team's level was finally raised to Sequence 7.

Rosen immediately applied for the qualification to conquer the Sequence 7 dungeon.

Troublesome dungeons like the Fraud Nest, where the risks outweigh the rewards, are rarely raided by adventure groups.

However, some dungeons with very high rewards are so popular that all adventure groups are vying to raid them.

With too many wolves and too little meat, there's naturally a need to queue.

Not only did Rosen not queue up, he even cut in line and was able to raid the chosen dungeon two days later.

This is a priority reward given by the Hunter's Guild for each adventure party's level increase.

(End of this chapter)