Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 145 Mechanical Mounts and the Blood of the Demon God
Chapter 144

"These appear to be words written in blood?"

Rosen frowned as he looked at the dense red text on the mechanical mount.
[Don't say you know me, don't look for me. Come save me when you become a demigod. There are coordinates for a spirit realm inside the mechanical mount. This is the most sincere reward I can offer. Finally, a reminder: do not use this mechanical mount in the Dungeon Kingdom.]

After reading the fine print, Rosen immediately realized that Faris was really in trouble.

Having successfully crafted a Sequence 3 mechanical mount, Faris has become a Sequence 4 mechanical inventor.

Such a status is in no way inferior to that of demigods in other sequences.

However, Faris has clearly been captured, and it won't be easy to get this mechanical mount over.

Rosen knew his place; his relationship with Faris wasn't that good.

Judging from Faris's final reminder, it seems that the person who captured him knew about the existence of this mechanical mount.

So it's possible that person knew Faris was going to give away a Sequence 3 mechanical mount.

However, it's unclear who it's intended for, so as long as it's not used in the Dungeon Kingdom, there's no danger.

As for the person who captured Faris, the reason why he allowed him to send away the mechanical mount is probably because he and Faris signed a contract under the witness of the Contract God. If Faris violates the contract, he will be eliminated by the Contract God.

The person who captured Faris wanted Faris alive; a dead Faris would lose its greatest value.

That's why Faris was given the opportunity to send away the mechanical mount and then secretly leave these words behind.

Faris's failure to send a distress message to the Dungeon Kingdom's authorities implies that the capture of Faris likely belongs to the Dungeon Kingdom. The only person he can think of who could do this silently in the Adventure Kingdom is the King.

Rosen sighed, recalling the journey from the Crimson Shadow Principality to the Blue Whale Kingdom, and then to the Dungeon Kingdom.

The rulers of these countries were all wicked men.

This may not be a coincidence, but rather a common occurrence.

As Rosen met more Sequence 6 nobles at the ball, he clearly noticed something.

Many nobles are very dissatisfied with the World Government.

Because nobles are required to go to the front lines when they reach a certain age, and the casualty rate is quite high, not every noble is willing to die on the front lines for human civilization. The vast majority of nobles are forced to leave their families and go to the front lines.

As the World Government has grown stronger over the past 20,000 years, its internal structure seems to be gradually becoming less stable.

Rosen quickly recognized the mechanical mount as his master; however, he could only activate the attributes of a Sequence 7 mechanical mount, which was only Sequence 3.

【Primal Essence - Feathered Serpent Mechanical Mount: Extraordinary Treasure】

[Level: Sequence 7 (Sequence 3)]

【Attributes: Possesses three auxiliary transformations: Quetzalcoatl Chariot, Quetzalcoatl Ship, and Quetzalcoatl Fighter】

【Source Trait 1: Riding - Can perfectly ride all mounts, and can stack attributes with mounts】

【Source Material Trait 2: Divine Charge - Instantly increases maximum speed by three (six) times】

【Source Trait 3: Aura of Devotion - Increases the defense of allies within the aura's coverage area by three (six) times】

【Elemental Trait 4: Divine Shield - Deploys a divine shield that ignores all damage from beings below the demigod level】

【Source Trait 5: Divine Judgment - Increases the Paladin's next attack damage by three (six) times】

[Source Trait 6: Resurrection - Paladins can resurrect beings that have been dead for no more than three minutes]

[Divine Trait: Spiritual Stealth - Mechanical mounts can spiritually traverse freely between the spiritual and material worlds]

After reviewing the attributes, Rosen immediately realized that he owed Faris a considerable favor.

When creating this mechanical mount, he actually fused it with the extraordinary essence of a Sequence 4 Paladin.

Then, it retains a full six Paladin skills, including the core ability of riding in the Paladin sequence, as well as the extremely rare skill of resurrection, which many Paladins cannot master.

Now, when he rides this mechanical mount, he can disguise himself as a knight.

Rosen tried it out in the Divine Realm territory; the mechanical mounts had a total of four different forms.

Its original form was a bionic feathered serpent god made of metal, which was best suited for aerial combat.

Then, the tank mode is suitable for traveling on land, the fighter jet mode is suitable for traveling in the air, and the warship mode is suitable for traveling in the deep sea. The three auxiliary modes cover all three modes, including land, sea, and air, so you can solve all the problems of going to the sky and going to the sea on your own.

Having successfully mastered the mechanical mount, Rosen also obtained the coordinates and detailed information of Faris's hidden spiritual realm.

He has no plans to go there for the time being, and it would be a bit suspicious for him to go out again right after returning.

Therefore, he decided to play it safe and study the time trap creation technique he had on hand.

For a normal hunter to master this skill, they must first have a very deep understanding of the power of time.

Fortunately, Rosen is also a painter, and creating paintings of spiritual realms requires incorporating a great deal of time and spiritual essence.

Therefore, through painting his spiritual landscapes, he has gained a profound understanding of time.

Furthermore, given the repeated time cycles within the Time Cycle Realm, he was not entirely ignorant of the power of time.

Therefore, with the help of his extensive knowledge and cultural authority, Rosen mastered the technique of creating time traps in just six months.

Although it's only LV1, once you get the basics down, it's much easier to improve later.

Because the Glory Sage skill can convert acquired time-related knowledge into proficiency in the corresponding skills.

Rosen tried to use the Source Hunting Belt to enhance the skill level of this skill, but this Source equipment, which used to enhance other hunter skills, could not improve the skill level of Time Trap Creation.

This also shows that the power of this skill is beyond common sense.

Having successfully mastered the trap runes for creating time traps, the next step is to imprint time-related skills.

However, time-based skills usually appear in high sequences, and LV1 trap runes cannot copy high-sequence time skills at all.

Rosen could only offer a high reward to find that kind of low-sequence time skill.

He had been considering whether to issue a bounty under the guise of Lynn Wells, the hunter.

However, considering that he bought the Time Trap Creation Technique at a noble trade fair, given his noble status as Rosen, it was not a good opportunity.

Suddenly switching to a hunter's identity for the bounty seems like a blatant attempt to conceal something.

As for why a noble painter would offer a bounty for a hunter's skills, that's actually quite easy to understand.

The feathered serpent mechanical mount created by Faris will allow him to master some of the skills of the Paladin sequence.

Many high-sequence painters try to acquire extraordinary artifacts with Trap Hunter sequence skills, and then use Trap Hunter traps to turn their Void Gallery into an impenetrable fortress.

Therefore, it is not particularly rare for painters to possess a few hunter skills after Sequence 6.

Rosen was lucky; he received good news after only half a month of offering a bounty.

In the underground world, there exists a Time Rainbow Flower, a parasitic plant that parasitizes the heads of rainbow butterflies to give birth to Time Rainbow Butterflies. These special butterflies possess a time-related skill called Time Dust.

Time dust can slow down time when it adheres to a target, and it can speed up time when it burns.

The Chrono Rainbow Butterfly is extremely rare, but a Sequence 7 gourmet named Delia has mastered its transformation ability.

After much effort and several twists and turns, Rosen finally found the address of the food critic, Delia.

Delia's place of residence was surprisingly ordinary. Despite being a Sequence 7 noble, she lived in a subsidiary spirit realm of the Adventure King City, which was specifically for ordinary people, and even rented a place in the local food street.

When Rosen found her, she was foraging for food in the food street like a hamster.

This world doesn't have technology or ruthless work; the difference in taste between foods is often proportional to their price.

Of course, there are a very few ingredients that are produced in large quantities, are inexpensive, and taste good. However, such ingredients are few in number, very cheap for extraordinary people, and not a luxury that ordinary people can easily afford to consume on a food street.

More importantly, ordinary ingredients lack spirituality, while the extraordinary staple foods of humankind are spiritual ingredients.

The food connoisseur has an unwavering passion for food, so logically it would be impossible for him to eat the soulless food in the snack street.

Perhaps they've eaten too much good food and come here for a change of pace?

Rosen quickly understood why. This gourmet named Delia was definitely the human with the biggest appetite he had ever seen. She ate from one street corner to another, consuming more than ten tons of food. She probably ate herself out of house and home.

Delia's mouth stretched as wide as a rubber band to the size of a car wheel, and she stuffed a whole roasted pig into her mouth in one bite.

Both the stall owners and the diners on the food street seemed to have gotten used to Delia's presence.

Not only was she not surprised by how she ate, but the snack vendors also prepared huge portions of snacks for her.

Eating should be a happy thing, especially for gourmets.

However, this Delia seems to be numb, devoid of joy.

She was forcing herself to eat these soulless foods; eating had become a form of torture for her.

Delia swallowed the last bite of food, then turned and walked toward Rosen, scrutinizing him.

"You've followed me halfway down the street. Are you that nobleman who put a bounty on the Rainbow Butterfly of Time?"

Delia asked directly.

"Yes, it's nice to meet you."

Rosen nodded.

"What do you need me to do with the time-manipulating Rainbow Butterfly's time-manipulation abilities?"

Delia continued to ask.

"Help me imprint your time ability with trap runes."

Rosen explained his purpose.

"10 spiritual crystals."

Delia considered for a moment and then stated her conditions.

Rosen was slightly taken aback; it wasn't too expensive, it was too cheap.

As the saying goes, scarcity makes things valuable; even if she asked for a million, he wouldn't have any better options.

However, she only asked for 100,000, which was a rather strange price.

He is skilled in creating time traps, and anyone with a modicum of common sense knows that he is no ordinary person and is extremely wealthy.

Delia lives in very poor conditions among the superhumans, so why doesn't she take advantage of the situation to make a fortune?
Despite his doubts, Rosen couldn't find a better option.

The two parties agreed on a time, and Rosen went directly to Delia's house the next afternoon.

Delia unfolds the Void Kitchen of the Gourmet Sequence, an architecture somewhat similar to the Void Gallery.

However, it lacks the integrated offensive and defensive capabilities of the Void Gallery, resulting in a tenfold difference in production costs.

Inside the Void Kitchen, Delia had already prepared a mountain of spiritual delicacies.

Without saying a word, Delia transformed into a Time Rainbow Butterfly, and Rosen also condensed trap runes to begin imprinting skills.

Time dust drifted onto the trap runes, quickly failing to imprint them. After dozens of attempts, Delia deactivated her transformation, grabbed the spiritual food beside her, and began to devour it frantically.

Once the depleted spiritual energy and the spiritual energy consumed were replenished, Delia transformed into the Rainbow Butterfly of Time once more.

Rosen pondered Delia's eating habits, his mind not on the imprinting skill.

Delia's spiritual strength is at most 26 points. Logically, she only needs to eat less than one-tenth of the spiritual food to restore her depleted spiritual strength. She ate ten times the amount, which means that a lot of spiritual energy could not be effectively absorbed.

The way Delia ate gave him the feeling that she had mastered an uncontrollable ability to binge eat.

A few days later, Rosen successfully imprinted the Time Dust skill.

Rosen immediately attempted trap fusion, combining a time trap and a space trap.

Originally, spatial transfer required approximately one second of transfer time.

Now that time dust is inside the trap, the time for spatial transfer has been reduced from one second to one-tenth of a second.

This is equivalent to a tenfold increase in spatial transfer speed. Prey that could previously escape from a trap now faces a tenfold increase in difficulty to escape. This is why the Time Trap Creation Technique is worth 30 million spiritual crystals.

After finishing his business, Rosen looked at Delia and asked the question he had held back for days.

"Do you possess the ability to binge eat?"

"Rosen asked."

Delia's previously normal expression instantly changed, her eyes revealing undisguised fear and murderous intent.

A kitchen knife flashed into his hand in an instant, and with a swift movement, it slashed towards Rosen's throat.

They say curiosity killed the cat, but at this point, Rosen hadn't yet regretted his actions.

Nightmare Slimes may originate from the Dungeon Kingdom, and may even be related to the sealed demon god.

He was uneasy about not figuring out the clues he found with Delia.

I just didn't expect Delia to go straight for the kill.

Delia leaned against the kitchen counter, breathing heavily, the kitchen knife in her hand that had severed Rosen's head trembling slightly.

Rosen's face still bore the look of confusion and terror he had felt before his death.

Delia realized that she might have killed the wrong person, and that this Rosen might have learned about Gluttony from other sources.

But she dared not gamble; she did not want to die; she only wanted to live by doing everything she could.

Accepting Rosen's bounty this time was a decision made under the extreme of restraint and impulse.

Now, she definitely can't stay in the Adventure City. We can only gamble on whether she can sneak into another kingdom according to the original plan.

Delia threw Rosen's body into the Void Kitchen's cold storage and began packing her bags to leave the Dungeon Kingdom.

However, the moment she opened the door to leave home, Delia instantly appeared in a prison cell.

Through the cell bars, Delia saw Rosen, who should have died by her knife not long ago.

Delia's sword is very fast, and it also has a powerful slashing effect.

However, Rosen's mental projection was faster; he directly pulled Delia's spirituality into the spiritual canvas.

Delia transformed into the Time Rainbow Butterfly for an extended period, and her spirituality was almost completely depleted due to the use of Time Dust.

Only then was Rosen able to seize the opportunity and easily pull Delia's spirituality into the painted prison through the characteristics of the mind prison.

As for the cell in front of us, it is the prison of the Alchemy Castle.

With Delia's spirit sealed by the prison of the mind, this ordinary cell was more than enough to confine her.

"Let me see where your binge eating comes from."

Rosen activated the canvas of the mind, drawing a portion of Delia's spirituality into a painting.

This is an abstract painting from Sequence 7, titled "Memory".

This painting has a powerful hypnotic effect, capable of drawing viewers into memories.

Rosen painted this picture to capture the memories of certain beings in action.

As Delia's spirit enters the dream world, she begins to forget her current memories and returns to the starting point of her memories, back to the time when she was first born into this world, and then relives her past life in the dream.

After quickly reviewing Delia's memories, Rosen felt an unprecedented heaviness in his heart.

Delia actually mastered gluttony. Like Rosen, Delia was also born into a hereditary noble family and was orphaned.

Even worse off than him, Delia was adopted when she was very young.

However, the person who adopted her had ill intentions. On the surface, he treated her very well, but in reality, he was just using her as an experimental subject.

They quietly abolished her original extraordinary bloodline and then injected a drop of demon god blood into her body.

Delia would never have discovered the truth before her death, because her adoptive father was an actor who played Gundam Sequence 3.

He didn't want to give himself away, so how could Delia see through his acting skills?

She was able to discover her adoptive father's true colors entirely because he took the initiative to tell her the whole truth.

Then she was imprisoned until her adoptive father suddenly died one day.

Delia seized the opportunity and successfully escaped, but from then on lived in fear in the spirit realm attached to the Adventure King City.

Having learned about Delia's memories, Rosen couldn't help but have several questions.

Why did Delia's adoptive father take the initiative to tell her the truth?
Why did the actor in Sequence 3 suddenly die?
Was Delia's adoptive father really dead or just pretending to be dead?

Has something gone wrong with the seal the World Government used to seal the Demon God in the Dungeon Kingdom?
These questions weren't just on Rosen's mind; Delia had them too.

She simply didn't believe her adoptive father was dead and didn't dare to actually escape the underground kingdom.

He dared not do anything superfluous, to the point that even a Sequence 7 gourmet was so poor that he couldn't afford spiritual ingredients.

Delia lived on edge every day, constantly living in fear.

However, everyone has their limits, and Delia lived here for ten years without incident.

She began to doubt whether her adoptive father was really dead.
So Delia mustered up the courage to try to escape the dungeon kingdom, but leaving the dungeon kingdom required money.

It was at this time that she discovered the bounty, which led to the events of the past few days.

As a result, when he recognized her gluttonous talent this time, Delia's already tense nerves snapped instantly.

She instinctively went for the kill, and realizing that she had killed a nobleman, Delia prepared to risk her life and escape as planned.

Rosen is now very worried that if Delia's adoptive father is still alive, wouldn't he also be accidentally involved?

At this moment, there may already be more than one pair of eyes watching him from the shadows.

They say curiosity killed the cat, and this time he really got himself into big trouble.

Rosen quietly opened a mysterious study in the space within the painting, where the real Rosen hid and left behind a self-portrait clone.

Only then did he casually leave the space within the painting, pondering how to deal with Delia.

Rosen projected Delia's memories onto the Mind Canvas, then modified the memory after he asked about gluttony to show that he was curious about Delia's cooking skills and invited her to cook a delicious meal.

After successfully altering Delia's memories, a painting was left deep within her memory.

Rosen then sent Delia back to the Void Kitchen and lifted the mental prison's blockade on Delia's spirit.

Delia, having regained her spiritual awareness, had forgotten what had just happened.

After seeing Rosen off, Delia began packing her bags, preparing to escape.

Rosen went straight back to the hotel and did nothing else for the next few days.

She attended dances every day as usual, and occasionally met some painters to exchange painting techniques.

The fact that his Void Gallery contained time traps gradually spread through the mouths of the painters who visited it, which further brought more nobles and Rosen together, forming a superficial network of connections.

On this day, Rosen visited the last painter in the underground kingdom as planned.

"Are you ready to leave?"

Count Amro looked at Rosen with surprise.

"I've been out for a long time..."

Rosen smiled and said, "If it weren't for your Void Gallery that I lingered there, I would have already returned to the Blue Whale Kingdom by now. Once I get to know the painters there, I would probably be traveling around various countries for decades."

"That's what you said."

Count Amro looked at Rosen with envy.

He is a Sequence 6 painter, but he is certain that Rosen became a Sequence 5, and he might still be stuck in Sequence 6.

He traveled to various countries to gather inspiration and visited painters from different countries to exchange painting techniques.

He wanted to do these things too, but he didn't have enough spiritual resources to use in this area.

The Void Gallery costs money, the Divine Realm Territory costs money, and Sequence 6 is a very awkward level. You need to invest in everything. Basically, you can only start living a normal and carefree life after you get through Sequence 6 and reach Sequence 5.

Rosen bid farewell to Count Amuro and bought a train ticket back to the Blue Whale Kingdom in the spirit world that same day.

However, it will take at least two more days for the train to arrive at the station.

If any trouble comes knocking, they'll probably lose their temper in the last couple of days.

However, Rosen did not encounter any trouble until he left by car.

It was as if all the caution he had exercised for the previous two months had been meaningless; he had just been overthinking and scaring himself.

When Lawson got off at Blue Whale Royal City Station, he truly felt relieved.

However, the next moment, my heart jumped again.

He sensed that a painting that shouldn't be there had appeared in Blue Whale Kingdom.

That was a painting he left deep in Delia's memory, a static painting in the virtual spirit realm, mainly serving as an early warning in case of trouble. Even if someone discovered the key to the static painting deep in Delia's memory, they would not be able to lock it onto him because of the main god's computer.

He couldn't sense Delia's presence before because of the distance, but now he could clearly sense her presence in the Blue Whale Royal City.

It's clear that Delia, who escaped the underground kingdom, has come to the Blue Whale Kingdom.

Coincidences do exist everywhere, but too many coincidences cease to be coincidences.

Just as he needed the Time skill, Delia happened to appear; just as he mastered Gluttony, Delia also mastered Gluttony; just as he returned to the Blue Whale Kingdom, Delia also escaped to the Blue Whale Kingdom.

The world is so big, and the Blue Whale Kingdom is not far from the Underground Kingdom.

What a coincidence that Delia is here.

(End of this chapter)