Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 134 Territory War

Chapter 133

On the surface of the spirit world, Count Fritz looked down at the script of fate in his hand with lingering fear.

He glanced through the document and saw that only fifteen of his 49 carefully trained civilian soldiers had survived.

In the instant danger struck, his Fate Perception skill made him instinctively sense that he was going to die.

He instantly vanished into the spirit realm, and the five civilian soldiers who possessed spatial abilities escaped safely.

As for the remaining ten, they joined forces to unleash a combined defensive skill and survived the explosion.

However, they were mostly half-dead, and if they weren't rescued soon, they would die from the high temperature and lack of oxygen.

Count Fritz took out a magic scroll and cast a Sequence 6 fire elemental barrier on himself.

Only then did he cautiously leave the spirit world, preparing to rescue the ten civilian soldiers who were not yet completely dead.

Count Fritz saw that a Sequence 8 knight was severely burned all over his body. After expanding the elemental barrier to envelop his subjects, he immediately took out a life potion and poured it down the knight's throat.

However, at this very moment, Count Fritz's sense of destiny once again detected a deadly danger.

While the ability to sense fate can detect danger, it is ultimately not the same as the ability to predict the past and future.

The prerequisite for perceiving danger is that the greater the danger, the clearer the perception.

The explosion of the poor man's rose could instantly leave Count Fritz half-dead on the spot.

Therefore, the sense of destiny gave a warning a second in advance when danger was about to arrive.

However, the virus following the poor man's rose is different. Although this virus poses a greater threat to living beings than an explosion, it is not instantly fatal. By the time the perception of fate issues a warning, the virus has already begun to damage the body.

So even knowing he was in mortal danger, Count Fritz had no time to avoid it.

Count Fritz covered his mouth and nose with his hand; blood was flowing from all seven orifices.

He could clearly feel his cells being damaged and his vitality rapidly fading away.

It wasn't a simple bomb; it also contained a virus that could destroy living cells.

Count Fritz, no longer concerned with rescuing his people, took out a Sequence 6 universal antidote and immediately swallowed it.

The rate of life loss has slowed down, but this can only suppress the virus and cannot completely eliminate it.

Count Fritz dared not approach the infected citizens and unhesitatingly took out a remote return scroll to teleport. However, Rosen arrived at this moment and tore apart a Sequence 6 spatial interference scroll.

Seeing that the teleportation had failed, Count Fritz did not hesitate to prepare to enter the spirit world and then leave from it.

However, at that moment, Rosen released a projection of the divine realm, enveloping Count Fritz.

Due to interference from the divine realm, Count Fritz was unable to force his way into the spirit world.

He immediately activated a Sequence 6 speed-up scroll, and after his speed increased several times, he prepared to run back to the Adventurer's City as fast as possible.

He could even continue teleporting away from or into the spirit world simply by shaking off Rosen midway.

However, Count Fritz stopped because his spiritual senses detected that Rosen had set up a sniper cannon.

Count Fritz dared not gamble on whether Rosen could launch a second attack like that.

If he continues to run, he will only become a sitting duck.

This time, we won't be able to enter the spirit world. Even if we withstand the explosion, we'll still come into contact with more viruses later.

Count Fritz didn't want to gamble with his life, so he chose to turn around and kill Rosen first.

The universal antidote can suppress the virus in the body for half an hour. As long as Rosen is killed during this period, no one will stop him from returning to the city for help. He doesn't believe that Rosen would dare to use that kind of virus bomb in close combat.

Count Fritz turned and attacked Rosen, but Rosen turned and ran without hesitation.

This further convinced Count Fritz that his decision was correct; however, as he continued his pursuit, he entered the area covered by a spatial trap.

Rosen knew, of course, that the explosion of the Rose would at most leave Count Fritz in a sorry state.

Therefore, he took advantage of people's psychology, which is that people are often unwilling to take risks when they have the upper hand.

Given that Sequence 6 is against Sequence 7, Count Fritz is likely to turn the tables and kill his opponent if he cannot escape.

Therefore, his entire retreat route was riddled with spatial traps.

Count Fritz, caught in the trap, was instantly teleported to the gallery maze, finding himself in a predicament.

Count Fritz was well aware of the dangers of the Void Gallery, and he immediately took out his treasured artifact, the Flame Demon Horn.

This is a one-time extraordinary artifact of Sequence 5; sacrificing one's own spiritual limit can summon a fire demon.

Count Fritz sacrificed 5 points of his spiritual lower limit, leaving him with only 35 points of spiritual strength, barely maintaining his Sequence 6 level. These 5 points of spiritual lower limit summoned two peak Sequence 6 Flame Demons, which boiled the seawater in the Gallery Maze.

Two Balrogs, wielding fists dripping with lava, began wreaking havoc on the gallery labyrinth under Count Fritz's command.

Count Fritz, with the help of fate's scriptwriter, made himself and the Balrog the protagonist and supporting character, respectively, and used the gallery labyrinth as the backdrop of a stage play, to create a straight route for himself to reach the core of the gallery labyrinth.

Although the gallery maze is a moving maze, it has lost its ability to trap enemies at this moment.

Because Count Fritz doesn't go through the maze but directly demolishes the walls, he can reach the studio in a maximum of ten minutes.

It was only at this moment that Rosen truly realized that a Sequence 6 noble and a Sequence 6 crypt demon leader were completely different concepts.

He began to set up spatial traps in the middle of the straight-line distance between two points.

As soon as the two fire demons step into the spatial trap, they will be teleported out of the Void Gallery.

However, Count Fritz, being experienced, seemed to have anticipated this possibility.

So he directly blocked the fire elemental barrier and hid inside the mouth of a fire demon.

If the Balrog were to encounter a spatial trap and be teleported away, Count Fritz would also leave with it.

"With Count Fritz in its mouth, it seems we have no choice but to send away Balrog Number 2."

Rosen had no choice but to prioritize teleporting away the other fire demon.

However, just as the No. 2 Balrog stepped into the spatial trap and was about to teleport, the Gray Rat suddenly stopped Rosen.

"Space Transfer No. 1 Flame Demon".

The gray mouse cried out urgently.

Although Rosen didn't understand what it meant, he changed the object of the spatial transfer out of trust.

The No. 1 Flame Demon, which had Count Fritz in its mouth, was instantly teleported out of the spatial trap's range after entering it.

At this moment, Rosen looked outside the Void Gallery and found that the No. 1 Balrog had not spat out Count Fritz.

Rosen finally realized that he had almost fallen for Count Fritz's trick.

On the surface, it appears that Count Fritz hid inside the mouth of the No. 1 Balrog and advanced and retreated together.

But why would he do it so openly?
Count Fritz could easily use any means to conceal his senses and then randomly hide inside the mouth of a Balrog so that he wouldn't see him.

This made it impossible for him to figure out which of the Balrogs was hiding inside Count Fritz.

He dared not perform spatial teleportation casually, because he did not know if he might accidentally teleport away the fire demon where Count Fritz was hiding.

Count Fritz couldn't possibly have missed such a simple solution.

Therefore, there is only one truth: Count Fritz appeared to be hiding inside the mouth of the No. 1 Balrog. However, in reality, he had secretly transferred himself to the mouth of the No. 2 Balrog through some means.

If he had actually teleported away the second Balrog, Count Fritz would have already escaped.

Fortunately, the experienced Grey Rat saw through Count Fritz's scheme, which instead caused Count Fritz to lose a Balrog as an ally.

While inside the mouth of the No. 2 Balrog, Count Fritz looked at the script of destiny in his hand and almost crushed the fountain pen of destiny.

According to his script, Rosen shouldn't have seen through his plan.

Now that only one Balrog remains, the difficulty of reaching the core of the Gallery Maze has doubled.

After calculating the duration of the antidote's effectiveness, Count Fritz knew he was truly cornered.

Without hesitation, he burned his extraordinary bloodline of the Draco's Destiny, preparing for a final gamble.

The Draco's Destiny is a high-ranking demon capable of generating many strange and unusual abilities.

Relying on this bloodline and his own extraordinary talent as a playwright, the Devil of Fate was born with the special gift of gambling with his life.

Two targets are locked in by a script of fate, and then both sides bet their lives on it.

Because playwrights are extremely bad at direct combat, the ability to gamble with one's life is highly valued by Count Fritz.

He had faced danger several times, but each time he managed to turn the tide by risking his life.

[Fate Script: Gambling with Life]

[Main Characters: Count Fritz, Count Rosen]

[The stakes: Both of their lives]

[The method of the gamble: Both parties...]

Count Fritz had originally planned to write a story where both sides suffered equal damage to see who would die first, but his sense of fate warned him once again.

If he chooses this risky approach, he is very likely to lose.

[A life-or-death gamble: Both parties suffer equal spiritual harm; the one who dies first wins.]

Count Fritz added the word "spiritual" to his name. Even though Rosen possessed the means to quickly heal physical injuries, he could never possess the means to instantly heal spiritual injuries, because only demigods had the means to recover from spiritual injuries.

However, the damage to his spirituality was a double loss for Count Fritz, like killing a thousand enemies while losing eight hundred of his own.

However, he was confident of victory because the spiritual strength of a Sequence 6 could not possibly be inferior to that of a Sequence 7.

As the fateful script of gambling with one's life came to an end, Count Fritz committed suicide on the spot without hesitation.

He cut off his own head, dispelled the fire elemental barrier, and let himself be burned to death.

Count Fritz, who had died once, began to be reborn in the realm of the gods.

At the same time, Rosen's body was fine, but his spiritual threshold was instantly eroded, causing him to fall towards Sequence 8.

He had no idea what was happening, but he sensed that the second Balrog seemed to have suddenly lost control.

Under what circumstances would the Balrog suddenly lose control?

The most likely explanation is that Count Fritz died suddenly.

They rely on being reborn in the divine realm to escape the threat of the Rose Virus.

However, this approach is generally not very smart.

It is true that a lord of the divine realm can be reborn in the divine realm, but each rebirth lowers the minimum level of spirituality.

Moreover, during the rebirth period, the divine territory will be anchored in place and cannot be moved, and the divine lord can only rely on the divine territory to protect himself.

At this point, Rosen could easily enter the Spirit Realm through the Divine Domain and then directly attack Count Fritz's Divine Domain.

Count Fritz had already lost his elite troops, and his divine territory was in a weakened state.

In this situation, it would be crazy for Count Fritz to engage in a territorial war between two divine territories.
However, sensing the forced reduction in the lower limit of spirituality, Rosen somewhat understood what Count Fritz had done.
He seems to have somehow managed to harm his spirituality as well.

Without hesitation, Rosen opened the mysterious study and hid inside. He immediately felt the power that had been harming his spirituality disappear.

At the same time, he sent out a self-portrait clone to prepare for a territorial war with Count Fritz.

Rosen knew about territory wars, but only from books.

When the God Realm Lord is in the real world, the God Realm Territory exists simultaneously in the God Realm Lord's sea of ​​consciousness and the spirit world.

There is a primary and secondary relationship among them: the sea of ​​consciousness is primary, and the spiritual realm is secondary.

Wherever the Lord of the Divine Realm moves in reality, the Divine Realm territory moves with him.

However, if a lord of the divine realm is not in reality but enters the divine realm, the divine realm will leave the sea of ​​consciousness and enter the spirit world.

Even a lord of the divine realm cannot enter his own sea of ​​consciousness in his true form.

The principle behind this is the same as God's inability to create something He cannot lift.

If Count Fritz is currently resurrecting, his divine realm would certainly have separated from his sea of ​​consciousness and entered the spirit world.

Moreover, because he was resurrected in his territory, his divine domain was anchored in place and could not be moved.

Rosen manipulated his self-portrait clone into the divine realm, and then looked through the divine realm at the surface of the spirit world outside the realm.

Sure enough, he saw a patch of white mist not far away.

This is a spatial barrier that covers the divine realm. Breaking through this white mist will allow entry into Count Fritz's divine realm.

Rosen instantly anchored his divine domain to his self-portrait clone. As the self-portrait clone took a step forward, his divine domain would also take a step forward, ensuring that the divine domain and the self-portrait clone always moved forward and backward together.

Rosen walked a few hundred meters, and he was now very close to Count Fritz's divine territory.

The magnificent lighthouse at the edge of the territory instantly charged, locking onto Count Fritz's divine domain and emitting a continuous beam of brilliant light.

The white, mist-like spatial barrier began to tremble violently and was quickly pierced by the brilliant beam of light.

Rosen continued forward, and at this moment, the territories of the two divine realms began to meet.

Count Fritz's divine territory is not as developed as his. He has many more subjects than Fritz, but his territory only has three buildings: a castle, a wizard's tower located on the castle, and a troop nest that produces an unknown type of unit.

Faced with the continuous barrage of brilliant beams of light, the wizard presiding over the wizard tower began to fight back.

Protected by the elemental barrier erected by the castle, the Wizard Tower began unleashing a chain of lightning strikes to counterattack Rosen's divine territory.

Just as the buildings in both territories were exchanging blows, Rosen had already used Shadow Cloak to infiltrate Count Fritz's divine domain.

If Count Fritz were still alive, any unauthorized entry into his divine domain would be immediately detected.

However, Rosen remained hidden until he reached the elemental barrier, and no enemy subjects appeared to intercept him.

Rosen ignited a spatial holy fire in his hand, which immediately began to forcibly decompose the elemental barrier upon contact with it.

He quickly created a hole and immediately crawled inside, heading towards Count Fritz's castle.

If we can find Count Fritz, who is currently resurrecting, this territorial war can be ended sooner.

Otherwise, if it really comes down to a fight to the very end, he doesn't want to suffer heavy losses himself while killing a thousand enemies.

(End of this chapter)