Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 143 The Sun Jellyfish and the Mysterious Dragon Corpse

Chapter 142

When Rosen walked out of the studio, he felt as if he had come back to life.

It took him three whole months to complete 13 four-element bullets.

But this time it was really worth it; his strength has changed dramatically since three months ago.

If I were to face Count Fritz again, I wouldn't need the virus contained in the poor man's rose, I wouldn't need to use the mysterious study to avoid Count Fritz's mutually destructive tactics, and I wouldn't need to rely on a bit of luck to kill Count Fritz.

With a single volley of nine elemental four-phase bullets, Count Fritz would have no chance of surviving.

Rosen had been painting day and night for three months, but he didn't miss those rich ladies at all.

Instead, they were already impatient to find a suitable prey to test their guns.

Slaughter and conquest are sometimes much more fun than sleeping.

Rosen spent half a day researching information at the Hunter's Guild and successfully identified a prey that interested him.

Not long after leaving the Adventurer's City, he released the alchemical dragon and disappeared from reality, vanishing into the spirit world.

The Underground Kingdom did not build a city in the Spirit Realm, but it occupied many resource-rich areas in the Spirit Realm to build outposts.

One of the veins that produces spiritual crystals was discovered a few days ago by the outpost there.

Every night, a little sun rushes into the mine to steal the spiritual crystals.

The extraordinary soldiers stationed at the outpost were no match for the enemy in several attacks, and had no choice but to ask the Adventure King City for help.

The Underground Kingdom is an underground world, but entering the Spirit Realm from here is not the underground world.

It was originally a huge island. Twenty thousand years ago, the Dungeon Kingdom was not underground, but on the surface of a huge island. However, when the World Government sealed the Demon God, it sank the entire island to a depth deeper than the seabed.

The spirit world retains traces of history from 20,000 years ago, and there is no ashes here; you can directly see the blue sky and white clouds.

Compared to the real world, the spirit world often looks more like the normal world.

Because the spirit world is primarily spiritual with matter as a secondary element, even if the environment is damaged, it will quickly return to its original state.

In reality, time changes everything and we can't go back to the past. The beautiful giant island from 20,000 years ago has now become a dark underground kingdom.

Rosen rode the alchemical dragon at great speed, covering tens of thousands of miles in less than half an hour.

He had arrived at the edge of the giant island, where there was a cliff with a drop of several hundred meters. The mine for spiritual crystals was located on the cliff face. The reason for not digging from top to bottom was mainly to make it easier to wash away the slag.

The mine outpost is essentially a spirit watchtower that can be moved at any time.

If an insurmountable spirit life is discovered, the spirit watchtower and the miners at the mine will immediately relocate.

This time it wasn't that serious yet, and the Sequence 7 Warcraft Knight stationed at the watchtower was happy to receive Rosen.

Rosen waited at the watchtower from day to night, and sure enough, he saw a small sun appear in the sea.

The Hunter's Eye instantly magnified thirty times. The Master of Light and Shadow made the Hunter's Eye ignore the light shining around the target and directly see the true face of this spirit life deep within the light.

"It really is a sun jellyfish..."

Rosen happily stopped what he was doing, because he was ready to capture the sun jellyfish alive.

Therefore, we cannot take action today; we must prepare to capture them alive tomorrow.

The sun jellyfish rushed into a mine and consumed a large amount of spiritual crystals, then returned to the sea and disappeared just before dawn.

At the bottom of the cliff, on the sea surface, Rosen anchored the coordinates of the spirit realm and moved the divine territory there.

Then, beneath the magnificent lighthouse, he piled up the last millions of spiritual crystals he had left, which he was reluctant to spend.

Then he began to set up spatial traps, each of which was layered with a freezing trap.

Having made preparations, Rosen began waiting for his prey to take the bait that night.

However, before nightfall, several Sequence 6s had already arrived at the outpost.

Rosen was not surprised by this. Sun jellyfish are rare species that are almost extinct in reality. A small sun rising from the sea would surely make people think that a sun jellyfish has appeared here.

However, these people had to prepare to hunt sun jellyfish before setting off, so they arrived half a day later than him.

Fair competition, the winner will be determined by their own abilities.

Scattered along the beach, the Sequence 6 fish, arriving soon after, had already baited their hooks and were ready to wait for nightfall.

Someone even approached Rosen, trying to persuade him to join forces to capture the sun jellyfish.

However, he politely declined them all. He was capable of enjoying it all by himself, so why should he share half of the sun jellyfish?

The daytime passed quickly, and in the dead of night, only the sound of the tide and the howling of the sea breeze remained on the beach.

The sun, which suddenly rose from the sea, did not immediately approach the shore and enter the mine.

The sun jellyfish isn't very intelligent; its current hesitation is simply because there's too much bait.

It wanted to eat every bait, but after hesitating for a moment, it flew towards Rosen's divine territory.

To enhance the bait, Rosen also took out his treasured high-grade spiritual crystal.

As the Sun Jellyfish approached his divine territory, several Sequence 6s lying in ambush nearby became restless.

As long as the Sun Jellyfish doesn't enter Rosen's divine territory, taking action now wouldn't be considered a complete breakdown of relations.

Even if we don't have a chance to capture it alive, killing the sun jellyfish is better than getting nothing at all.

Whether you capture it alive or kill it, the first step in dealing with the sun jellyfish is to prevent it from escaping.

When faced with mortal danger, the sun jellyfish will transform into light element.

Although it doesn't reach the speed of light, even a regular Sequence 4 couldn't intercept the escaping solar jellyfish.

Therefore, it is necessary to prevent the transformation of light into elements, or at least to suppress it.

Rosen didn't immediately launch a capture operation in the Divine Realm last night because he hadn't prepared such a method.

Now that those with these abilities have made their move, within just a few breaths, the light elements within a radius of dozens of miles have been completely dispersed, and even the space within that radius of dozens of miles has been imprisoned, the elements suppressed, and the spirituality severely disrupted.

The sun jellyfish has sensed the danger and wants to leave but is reluctant to give up the bait ahead.

Seeing that the time was right, Rosen activated the Feathered Serpent transformation in the lighthouse keeper's room inside the Brilliant Lighthouse.

However, it wasn't his real self or a clone of his self-portrait that transformed; rather, it was the Brilliant Lighthouse that transformed.

The transformation of mechanical spirits can bring territory buildings to life and allow the lord of the divine realm to unleash their own abilities through the territory buildings.

At this moment, Rosen used the Feathered Serpent God transformation, and the Brilliant Lighthouse also transformed into the Feathered Serpent God, which was dozens of feet long.

The giant feathered serpent god flapped its wings and flew towards the Turritopsis dohrnii, unfolding a magnificent barrier to protect itself.

Despite several Sequence 6 jellyfish chasing and intercepting it from behind, it was unstoppable as it swooped down toward the sun jellyfish that was floating tens of meters above the sea.

At this moment, the Sun Jellyfish tried to turn and escape, but the giant feathered serpent god opened its mouth, revealing the barrel of its god-slaying crossbow.

Because the Godslayer Crossbow had to be adapted to the size of the Brilliant Lighthouse, it was no longer a gun but a giant cannon.

A giant, one-meter-long sealed elemental four-phase bullet was launched instantly, accelerating to more than ten times the speed of sound, approaching the speed of the solar jellyfish.

The sun jellyfish, which failed to transform into light elements, suddenly heated up and formed a fireball that incinerated everything.

The elemental four-phase bullet ignited the moment it approached, but the sealed elements inside had already undergone two fissions and two fusions.

Sealed elements lack the high temperature and continuous burning of flames, but they possess instantaneous suppression and sustained confinement.

The sealed elements released by the final fission instantly caused the Sun Jellyfish to lose control of the light element.

Although the seal had begun to break after two seconds, the Sun Jellyfish could not immediately regain control of the light element because the sealing element was still in effect. It would take at least ten seconds to fully recover to its peak condition.

The magnificent barrier completely blocked the damage from behind, and the giant feathered serpent god stepped forward and bit the sun jellyfish.

Then they turned and rushed back to their territory, which directly forced several Sequence 6s to join forces.

However, the Brilliant Lighthouse of Sequence 8 can unleash a Brilliant Barrier that can block damage from Sequence 6 for at least one minute.

Just as the glorious lighthouse was about to return to the divine realm, a Sequence 6 noble in the darkness finally got his chance.

The divine territory he had moved to in advance was now filled with thunderclouds, as the Thundercloud Tower within it released its pent-up energy.

Thunderclouds appeared out of nowhere directly above the Brilliant Lighthouse, and bolts of lightning struck down. These lightning bolts struck the Brilliant Barrier but did not penetrate it. However, the lightning did not disappear; instead, it formed a serpent-like electric snake that coiled around the giant feathered serpent god.

"Sequence 8 attack territory building".

Realizing the enemy's strength, Rosen did not hesitate to use the Brilliant Lighthouse to perform Shadow Cloak.

The Brilliant Lighthouse instantly teleported back to the Divine Realm, causing Thundercloud and Thunder Serpent to lose their original targets.

With such strong energy interference, it would be very difficult to move a behemoth like the Brilliant Lighthouse through space.

At least LV5 Shadowmeld is required to teleport back to the Divine Realm with the Radiant Beacon.

Rosen's success lay in his pre-planning of spatial traps.

Spatial traps can spatially transfer beings that fall into them, and they can also transfer beings that have marked their spatial coordinates from the outside to the inside of the trap. It took dozens of LV4 spatial traps stacked together to spatially transfer the Brilliant Lighthouse in one fell swoop.

In the darkness, several failed Sequence 6s couldn't help but curse, but they didn't leave yet.

Besides transforming into light elements, the sun jellyfish has another method when driven to a desperate situation.

If that person can't restrain them, they might still have a chance to kill the sun jellyfish.

At this moment, after the Brilliant Lighthouse fell into the spatial trap, it immediately spat out the fiercely resisting Sun Jellyfish.

Dozens of freezing traps were triggered, and the sun jellyfish was frozen for several seconds.

At this moment, the God-Slaying Crossbow was fully prepared to severely damage the Sun Jellyfish.

A total of eight ice element quadrilateral bullets hit the solar jellyfish at a distance of less than 100 meters.

Endless frost spread outwards, eventually freezing the sun jellyfish inside an iceberg several hundred meters in diameter.

Driven to the brink of despair, the sun jellyfish unleashed its solar bomb without hesitation.

The iceberg, hundreds of meters high, was instantly incinerated by the high temperature, and the size of the sun jellyfish also changed from ten meters in diameter to one meter in diameter. This was a self-destructive injury caused by converting its body into light element. The eight ice element quadrilateral bullets could no longer freeze it.

Having successfully escaped the frozen sun jellyfish, it transformed into a light elemental and attempted to flee the divine realm.

However, at this moment, Rosen unleashed four abilities simultaneously. His extraordinary five senses deprived the Sun Jellyfish of its sight; life forms become more sensitive to mental perception when they lose their sight.

Rosen then used the Mind Canvas to project a mental painting depicting various nightmares into the consciousness of the Sun Jellyfish.

He continued to exercise Freddy's nightmare control, drawing the spirit of the sun jellyfish into the nightmare within the painting.

Finally, the mental prison characteristic of the painting technique is used to imprison the spirit of the Sun Jellyfish within the painting.

Without the spiritual control over its body, the sun jellyfish fell from the sky and crashed to the ground, losing its ability to resist.

If the sun jellyfish hadn't been forced into a corner and unleashed its solar bomb, its spirituality wouldn't have been severely depleted.

Rosen was thus unable to imprison the Sequence 6 spirit within the painting. This time, he seemingly captured the Sequence 6 Sun Jellyfish with ease, but in reality, he had exhausted all means that could be effective against the Sun Jellyfish.

At this moment, Quetzalcoatl, still in his glorious transformation form, stepped forward and bit the Sun Jellyfish, swallowing it whole.

Then, using the power of gluttony, it forcibly breaks down the body of the sun jellyfish and merges it into the magnificent lighthouse.

Rosen gradually released the spirituality of the sun jellyfish, allowing it to flow freely.

At this moment, part of the Sun Jellyfish's soul had already been transformed and fused with by the Radiant Lighthouse through Gluttony and the Mechanical Spirit. Its spirit, freed from imprisonment, was like a rootless source, and could only unwillingly enter the Radiant Lighthouse and merge into it.

Several hours later, the Sun Jellyfish had a new body, and the Brilliant Lighthouse had a soul, becoming a complete mechanical spirit.

【Magnificent Lighthouse: A Divine Structure】

[Level: Sequence 8]

[Attribute: light]

[Form: Lighthouse, Sun Jellyfish]

[Skills: Light Elementalization, Solar Bomb, Sun Ray, Brilliant Beam, Brilliant Barrier]

[Divine Trait: Mechanical Spirit Life - Gaining Mechanical Spirit Intelligence by fusing with Mechanical Spirit Alloy]

[Mythical Trait: Spirit Realm Anchor Point - Enables the divine realm to anchor two spatial coordinates in the spirit realm]

Having successfully fused with the Sun Jellyfish, the Brilliant Lighthouse's properties have undergone a dramatic transformation.

The stationary lighthouse form deals more damage, but transforming into a sun jellyfish grants it super-fast mobility.

Furthermore, it has gained several new skills. Light Element Transformation can only be used in the Sun Jellyfish form. Sun Bomb has replaced Brilliant Glitter, gaining super strong close-range damage. Sun Ray is not as durable as Brilliant Beam, but it can fire dozens of rays at the same time.

The Brilliant Lighthouse alone is enough to hunt down some Sequence 6s on its own.

Rosen put away the divine domain, mounted the alchemical dragon, and prepared to leave.

The several Sequence 6s in the darkness could only watch helplessly as the alchemical dragon departed.

Rosen took a long detour and quietly slithered back into the nearshore waters where the sun jellyfish were found.

Having successfully integrated the soul of the Sun Jellyfish into the Brilliant Lighthouse, he also learned why the Sun Jellyfish attacked the mine.

It turns out that this former territory of the Sun Jellyfish was recently taken over by a Seadragon.

Even the other sun jellyfish was eaten by the sea dragon.

The Sun Jellyfish was eager for revenge, which is why it seized the spiritual crystals from the mine in hopes of quickly increasing its strength.

Rosen put away the Alchemy Dragon and released the Blade Rat Shark into the underwater pressure chamber.

The blade shark quickly reached the seabed and soon found a hole among the seabed reefs.

The opening is very small, only large enough for a creature less than one meter in diameter to pass through.

However, this downward-sloping cave is bottomless, and from here one can enter the underground world of the giant island and reach an underground lake.

Rosen was enveloped in a layer of spatial mist, then used Shadow Trick to teleport away from the underwater pressure chamber.

Isolated by the spatial fog, the water pressure on the seabed could not cause him any harm.

Rosen sheathed the Rat Shark and disappeared into the cave, following the flow of the seawater deeper and deeper into this cavern that was at least tens of miles long in a straight line.

The underwater cave is so long that its actual length would be several times longer due to its winding and tortuous nature.

Half an hour later, a fork appeared in front of Lawson.

At one of the forks, the seawater flows here like a small waterfall, cascading into the unknown world.

As for the other fork in the road, it leads to the underground lake.

Since there was plenty of time, Rosen was also very interested in where the seawater was going.

So he continued downstream. The seawater waterfall got hotter and hotter as he went down, and he could see thick white mist and faint red light. After quickly passing through the mist, the feathered serpent wings appeared on Rosen's back and he hovered.

The thickness of the Earth's crust is roughly proportional to the size of the world.

Blue Star is only about the size of the Principality of Blazing Shadow, and its crust is an astonishing thickness of tens of kilometers.

The Principality of Blazing Shadows appears as mere dust in the grand scheme of things, which demonstrates just how astonishingly thick the Earth's crust truly is.

A demigod of Sequence 1 once explored the thickness of the Earth's crust, but ultimately did not obtain a specific answer.

However, one thing is certain: there is absolutely no possibility of any magma layer existing more than a million miles above the Earth's surface.

Therefore, the red light below is definitely not magma. Rosen released the Hunter's Eye and kept getting closer to the source of the red light.

Through the Hunter God's Demon Eye, Rosen gradually saw a giant mushroom forest covering a radius of several miles at the bottom of the cave.

An unknown species of red mushroom, each cap measuring tens of meters in diameter.

Moreover, their entire bodies are engulfed in flames. When seawater falls, it is directly evaporated by these burning mushrooms. The salt is absorbed by the mushrooms, and the evaporated water vapor gathers into rainwater, eventually forming a small river that runs through the mushroom forest.

Rosen released the gray rat; he might recognize these mushrooms.

The gray rats shared the vision of the Hunter God's Eyes, and couldn't help but rub their eyes with their paws as they watched.

"Dragon Blood Mushroom? How is that possible?"

The gray mouse squeaked incredulously.

Upon hearing Gray Rat mention Dragon Blood Mushroom, Lawson instantly recalled records of this fungus's life cycle that he had once seen.

If a dragon's corpse is in a dark and damp environment, it may grow special dragon blood mushrooms as the body decomposes. If there are a large number of dragon blood mushrooms, it may be possible to extract the dragon's extraordinary bloodline from them.

However, the dragon blood mushroom recorded in the book has a cap that is at least the size of a washbasin and has a maximum diameter of no more than ten meters.

Furthermore, dragon blood mushrooms do not burn, do not absorb salt, and their caps cannot possibly cover an area of ​​tens of meters in radius.

From any perspective, these mushrooms cannot be dragon blood mushrooms.

Gray Mouse calmed down and began to explain without Rosen questioning him.

There are actually two types of dragon blood mushrooms. The first type grows on the rotting corpses of dragons after they die, while the second type grows on the rotting corpses of living dragons. The second type of dragon blood mushroom is much rarer and is worth many times more than the first type.

Under normal circumstances, why would a living dragon allow its body to rot?

Unless the dragon's body is still alive, but its dragon soul has been destroyed, turning it into a lifeless plant dragon.

This situation is extremely rare, and even the gray rat has only heard of it from rumors.

The underground mushroom forest spans several miles in circumference, which means that if there really is a plant dragon underground, the decaying parts of its body alone would cover an area of ​​several miles in circumference, and the true size of this plant dragon would be at least tens of kilometers.

A dragon of this size, conservatively estimated, would be at least Sequence 3.

Of course, now is not the time to be happy, because the mushroom forest below is very likely a mirage.

If that dragon died in reality, it's highly likely that what lies beneath is a mirage formed from historical traces from 20,000 years ago.

On the contrary, if the dragon ultimately died in the spirit realm, then this mushroom forest below might actually be real.

Rosen released a clone of his self-portrait, while the real Rosen vanished into the Void Gallery.

He flapped his feathered serpent wings and slowly descended, and when he approached a mushroom, the truth was instantly confirmed.

These dragon blood mushrooms were real, and the gray squirrel couldn't resist any longer and jumped down to start picking them.

However, when the gray squirrel couldn't resist taking a bite while picking mushrooms, it suddenly froze on the spot.

The gray squirrel took another bite, then angrily went to bite the dragon blood mushroom that hadn't been harvested yet.

He spat out the last mouthful, unable to believe such a thing could happen.

Rosen secretly communicated with the Nightmare Chains and, sensing the gray rat's thoughts, immediately understood what was happening.

It turns out that although these dragon blood mushrooms are real, their size and value are completely different. They are not the legendary high-quality second-class dragon blood mushrooms at all. The dragon blood they contain is so thin that even gray rats would not bother to eat them.

These seemingly strong but actually weak dragon blood mushrooms have a value that is vastly different from what was expected.

It was originally a treasure for refining the extraordinary bloodline of the dragon race; now its value is at most that it can be crushed and used as fertilizer.

How great is the expectation, how great is the disappointment.

Rosen's mood also plummeted, but using it to fertilize the land was better than getting nothing at all.

Moreover, if the dragon blood mushroom doesn't work, the plant dragon underneath might bring an unexpected surprise.

Rosen unearthed a large number of slimes, and the slimes covering the hillsides bit off the stems of the Dragon Blood Mushrooms. The scavenging space immediately collected the fallen Dragon Blood Mushrooms, and within half a day, the Dragon Blood Mushrooms within a radius of several miles had been completely harvested.

He continued to release the cave demons to dig, and then collected the soil containing dragon blood into his scavenging space.

After digging several hundred meters, Rosen finally discovered the plant dragon in the middle of the mushroom forest.

There was no demigod dragon race hundreds of miles long as imagined. Instead, there was only a young dragon, a dozen meters long and no more than Sequence 7. This young dragon had a rotten wound the size of a wheel on its back, from which rotten flesh and blood gushed out like a fountain.

With such a terrifying amount of blood spurting, it should have been enough for a few minutes to turn this young dragon into a dried-up corpse.

However, judging from the situation, it took at least 20,000 years for the rotting flesh inside the wound to spray out before those huge dragon blood mushrooms could grow. What kind of regenerative ability did they have to survive for 20,000 years without dying completely?
Rosen was puzzled when he noticed that the festering wound was gradually spreading.

Judging by the speed of this spread, the entire dragon's body will rot in another half day.

After much thought, Rosen came up with a possibility: the mushroom forest might have formed a symbiotic relationship with the young dragon.

Dragon Blood Mushroom absorbs rotten dragon blood and flesh, and then condenses it into pure dragon blood.

Then, the young dragon somehow managed to plunder clean dragon blood from the dragon blood mushrooms, which kept its injuries from worsening. This symbiotic cycle was disrupted after it had collected all the dragon blood mushrooms.

(End of this chapter)