Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 153 Devouring the Dragon King and Fighting to the Death with the Giant Beast

Chapter 152

In the mysterious study, Rosen's spiritual perception permeated the scavenging space as he began to tally his spoils.

The time-attribute spiritual crystals piled up like a small mountain were all top-grade, and if converted into low-grade spiritual crystals, they would amount to hundreds of millions of units.

Moreover, top-grade spiritual crystals all contain the divinity of time, and this batch of spiritual crystals is actually worth tens of billions.

The number is much smaller than expected; the accumulation of the Bronze Dragon over 19,000 years should not be this small.

Therefore, it is very likely that these are just the spiritual crystals left over from the bronze dragon's meal.

The bronze dragon gathers spiritual energy to restore its strength, and what it can digest will naturally not be left to rot in the Time Tower.

It was only due to the limitations of the Spirit Realm level and the seal of the Thunder Empire that these spiritual crystals were saved and stored at the bottom of the Time Tower.

Rosen tossed some of the spiritual crystals into Gluttony's Stomach, then stored the rest away.

These are all hard-to-obtain strategic resources. It would be a waste to spend them as ordinary spiritual crystals. The best way to use them is to keep them and combine them with spatial spiritual crystals to create spiritual landscape paintings.

Rosen's spirit sank into the virtual world of his left eye, where a library, displayed in a fraction of a second, was being replicated.

The library contains all the books he has been able to collect so far.

After selecting books related to the time factor, Rosen began to read them seriously.

After reading each book, your proficiency in creating time traps will increase.

Rosen had only read the book for half a month, and had already raised his skill to the critical point of LV2.

At this moment, his gluttonous stomach had already digested the superior spiritual crystal containing the time divinity of the bronze dragon.

After this power was integrated into the skill, the Time Trap Creation Technique was immediately upgraded to LV3.

Rosen continued reading, using the Glory Sage to convert knowledge into skill proficiency.

It took two months to raise my proficiency to LV3 (perfect).

Rosen couldn't wait to stuff the Dragon Blood Bottle into the Gluttonous Beast's mouth, sending the Bronze Dragon's blood clone into its stomach.

This clone can briefly unleash the power of a Sequence 5 King Beast, but once it falls into Gluttony's stomach, it can only be forcibly digested.

As the digested power merged into the hunter's extraordinary essence, the Time Trap Creation Technique was successfully upgraded to LV4.

Time Trap Creation Technique LV4 (1/400)

[Attribute: Can be used to create trap runes from almost all time-based skills below Sequence 5]

[Enhanced Feature: Multiple Trap Fusion - Able to combine with other types of trap runes for optimal effect]

[Enhanced Feature: Time Loop - The trap can form its own time loop]

Rosen immediately set up a time dust trap, and the results were surprisingly good.

Time dust adhering to a target will cause time to accelerate, and time dust burning will also cause time to accelerate.

However, this is only a Sequence 9 skill, and the simple Time Dust Trap is actually not very useful.

Rosen always merges other traps and then uses Time Dust to accelerate the activation speed of the traps.

However, with the time loop feature, even if the time dust inside the trap burns out, it can be instantly regenerated and reignited through the time loop, but the previous time acceleration effect will not disappear.

This means that as long as the time loop continues, the time dust inside the trap will have an increasingly greater impact on time.

In theory, with the infinite cycle of time dust, a moment within a time trap could be as short as ten thousand years.

Of course, theory is theory. In reality, maintaining a time loop requires spiritual energy. The more times a time loop is maintained, the more spiritual energy is consumed. Even with a gluttonous stomach that can quickly restore spiritual energy, Rosen cannot sustain too many time loops.

With his time trap creation technique fully enhanced, Rosen had achieved his primary objective in coming to the Time Dragon's Nest.

However, he was not satisfied with leaving like that; he wanted to try to hunt down a bronze dragon.

Rosen grabbed the network cable from the main god's computer, went to the window, opened it, and extended the bent cable out of the window. The cable touched the Time Tower on the side of the window, and the divinity contained in this extraordinary artifact was immediately and continuously drained away by the cable.

The bronze dragon in the middle layer of the Time Tower was instantly awakened. With accelerated movement, it instantly arrived at the bottom and breathed a dragon's breath at the network cable.

The network cable withstood the bronze dragon's breath, but was swept away by the shockwave and detached from the tower.

Rosen was about to retract the network cable and change direction to steal the tower when the cable suddenly froze and became immobile. It turned out that the Bronze Dragon had used Time Stop, and the cable had no chance to touch the tower.

Even the divinity of the bronze dragon had enveloped the network cable, attempting to break into the mysterious study along it.

However, this was tantamount to walking into a trap. All the divinity that flooded into the network was completely devoured by the God Computer. Even if the Bronze Dragon realized something was wrong and immediately disconnected the divinity, the lost divinity could not be recovered even by using the Reversal of Time technique.

Completely exasperated, the bronze dragon could only reluctantly prepare to return to its lair to continue its slumber.

He had already made up his mind to keep at it with this human; this human couldn't stay in the Time Dragon's Nest forever.

However, just as the bronze dragon turned its back to Rosen and prepared to leave, Rosen activated the projection of the Sequence 0 Extraordinary Artifact, the Star Emblem.

His spiritual potential was amplified to 60 points, the limit of Sequence 5, in that instant.

Then Quetzalcoatl underwent a partial transformation, converting his spirituality into divinity.

Relying on his divine power of up to 60 points, he finally gained complete control over the spiritual energy transformed from the immense life force within his body.

The Gluttonous Stomach's ability to enhance life force through food consumption, coupled with the consumption of the Golden Apple of Sequence 2, has already surpassed that of the Nightmare Slime before eating the Golden Apple. In fact, its life force is so abundant that even its own spirituality cannot fully control it.

At this moment, all life force was transformed into spiritual energy, which was then poured into the God-Slaying Spear and Crossbow.

The Time Element Quadruple Bullet was launched instantly, aimed at the Bronze Dragon's buttocks, and fired through the window.

This shot's damage intensity has reached Sequence 5, and the Time Element Quadruple Bullet can even hit the enemy instantly.

However, the bullet remained suspended behind the bronze dragon because time stop covered it.

However, this time Rosen didn't fire in bursts, but rather unleashed a nine-round burst, pushing the limits of the God-Slaying Crossbow.

The second spatial element four-phase bullet teleported to the front of the bronze dragon and surprisingly changed direction to shoot at the bronze dragon's eye.

Then the third, fourth, and fifth bullets appeared in different directions around the bronze dragon and were frozen in time.

These bullets were fired less than a second apart, and it was not easy for the Sequence 5 Bronze Dragon to simultaneously freeze multiple elemental four-phase bullets in different directions.

Finally, the sixth bullet failed to stop, because this one was the Nightmare Element Quadruple Bullet.

The Bronze Dragon was already multitasking, and its divine consciousness, which was simultaneously focused on five elemental quadruple bullets, was instantly pulled into a nightmare by the Nightmare Elemental Quadruple Bullet. In that final moment, one of the three elemental quadruple bullets struck the Bronze Dragon's buttocks.

There is a time-stopping area behind the bronze dragon, and the three bullets should have been paused like the first one.

However, at the crucial moment, Rosen opened the trap space through the window and released the time trap that had been looped many times.

Then, by using the power of the time trap, the last three bullets are given multiple times the time acceleration.

Time freeze vs. time acceleration – whichever is stronger takes precedence.

Rosen sacrificed two Time Element Quadruple Bullets that accelerated time by more than ten times, successfully tearing apart the Bronze Dragon's time stop, creating an opportunity for the last Time Element Quadruple Bullet to hit the Bronze Dragon's rear end.

Before firing the last bullet, Rosen also activated the mechanical mount's Divine Judgment skill, which tripled the damage.

A bullet to a vulnerable spot can still deal enough damage, like a Sequence 5 bullet that can destroy a mountain in one shot.

Despite the Bronze Dragon's strong defense, its anus was still pierced by the Elemental Quadruple Bullet and penetrated deep into its liver.

At this moment, the Elemental Quadruple Bullet reversed into a spiritual painting. The spiritual painting of Sequence 7 was actually burned by the scorching heat of the bronze dragon's blood. However, before the space in the painting collapsed, the Dragon Blood Bottle fell out of the space in the painting.

The dragon blood was continuously drawn away by the Dragon Blood Bottle, and at this moment, the bronze dragon's divine consciousness had just emerged from the nightmare.

Chrysanthemum's injury was only minor, but the foreign object in her liver was drawing blood frantically.

No matter how time is reversed, the abnormal damage to the liver remains unaffected.

The bronze dragon realized that humans had implanted a treasure that could restrain dragons into its body. It instantly transformed from its western dragon form into human form, and then its sharp claws pierced through its upper abdomen, preparing to pull out its liver and the foreign object inside.

However, when the dragon claws got close to the liver, they couldn't grasp it no matter what they did.

Because a thick layer of spatial fog appeared around the liver, this spatial fog enveloped some of the internal organs and caused them to turn upside down.

Having no other choice, the bronze dragon pulled out everything, including the internal organs around its liver and the mist that could distort space.

The bronze dragon instantly cast a time seal, sealing away all the internal organs it had pulled out.

The deadly crisis was over, but he was not in good condition.

In those few short seconds, more than half of his dragon blood was drained, and coupled with the damage caused by his self-harm, the bronze dragon Flada could clearly feel that his condition had weakened by more than 60%.

"Dragon Blood Bottle..."

The bronze dragon ripped its own internal organs apart, and upon seeing the Dragon Blood Bottle, it instantly recognized it as the nemesis of the dragon race.

As far as he knew, the power of the Dragon Blood Bottle was equivalent to the amount of dragon blood stored inside.

The fact that it could drain so much dragon blood from him in just a few seconds, and that the sequence level of the Dragon Blood Bottle couldn't exceed that of the Time Dragon Nest, means that it very likely contained the blood of a Sequence 6 King Beast, which is why it could inflict such terrifying damage on him.

However, even with the Dragon Blood Bottle, it's not enough to take his life.

Seeing that the Dragon Blood Vial had not completely defeated the Bronze Dragon, Rosen immediately prepared for a final desperate attempt.

His true form, his self-portrait clone, the three water clones split from the Dragon Blood Dagger, the Nightmare Slime, along with the Gray Rat and the Mechanical Mount, all simultaneously used Shadow Cloak to leave the Mysterious Study and besieged the Bronze Dragon from different directions.

The gray rat's fearful gaze constantly interfered with the bronze dragon's reactions.

The three water clones spread out a trap space and continuously threw traps.

The mechanical mounts unleashed a piety aura to enhance their defense, ready to cast Holy Shield to provide assistance at any moment. The self-portrait clone, wielding a dragon tooth dagger, charged forward in fearless melee combat, while Rosen himself did his utmost to seal the bronze dragon's spiritual consciousness using the Mind Canvas. Before the power of the Star Emblem faded, he was managing to barely suppress the bronze dragon.

However, the Star Emblem only lasts for nine seconds, and the Bronze Dragon's counterattack begins the moment the last second passes.

Time reversed, enveloping the three water clones, turning them back to the time before the clones appeared, when they were three puddles of water.

Then, a dragon spear instantly appeared in the bronze dragon's hand, and with a single shot, it accelerated time and blew Rosen's self-portrait clone's head off.

The bronze dragon charged straight at Rosen himself, but the surrounding space was already filled with traps.

All of them involved spatial transfer, but all of them failed to teleport after the Bronze Dragon reversed time.

Nightmare Slime charged forward, and despite being shot through the body, it did not die.

Even the Nightmare Slime's writhing body actually enveloped the Bronze Dragon's three-zhang-long dragon spear and forcibly devoured it.

However, the Bronze Dragon didn't care and continued to strike the Holy Shield spell cast by the mechanical mount with its dragon spear.

The Divine Shield, which could block all damage from beings below the level of demigods, collapsed after lasting for one second.

With no protection left in front of him, Rosen instantly activated the Time Dust Trap that had undergone multiple time loops.

Countless time dust particles adhered to the Bronze Dragon after the trap was activated, and the resulting time delay constantly interfered with the time around the Bronze Dragon. At this moment, the Nightmare Slime also exerted all its strength and forcefully pressed the front half of the Dragon Spear down and smashed it into the ground.

Rosen seized the opportunity, riding his mechanical mount and instantly unleashing Shadowmeld, Holy Charge, and a desperate dash.

Shadow Cloak doubles the speed, Divine Charge triples it, and Scurry Forward instantly increases the speed tenfold.

It boasts an instantaneous burst speed of 60 times, along with exceptionally strong defense while fleeing in panic.

Even so, the moment Rosen got close to the Bronze Dragon, his heart was pierced by the Bronze Dragon's left claw. However, Rosen seized the opportunity to take out the Sequence 4 artifact, Void Guardian, and put a Void Guardian barrier around the Bronze Dragon.

This is a one-time Sequence 4 extraordinary artifact that Rosen purchased at the cost of one thousand God's Gold Coins.
There are three reasons why it is so valuable: it can be easily activated even at low sequences, its defense is so strong that even a sequence 3 cannot break through it in a short time, and it also has an instant-cast effect.

If Lawson activates the Void Guardian on himself, even though the Time Dragon Nest suppresses the power of the Void Guardian to Sequence 5.

It would take at least half an hour for the Bronze Dragon to break through the Void Guardian.

Rosen now locks the Void Guardian onto the Bronze Dragon. The Bronze Dragon will be trapped inside the Void Guardian for half an hour and won't be able to get out. The only weakness of the Void Guardian is that once activated, it cannot be canceled unless its energy is exhausted.

Since Void Guardians can only be activated at close range, Rosen had to find a way to get close to the Bronze Dragon.

However, he did not expect that the Eye of Time had already seen the bronze dragon's claws reaching for his heart, but despite his best efforts, he still could not dodge, so now he was about to die while trapping the bronze dragon.

Rosen activated the power of the Slothful Feet, which allows it to freely traverse the mental and material worlds below Sequence 2.

Therefore, the Void Guardian could not trap him, and he took a step back and passed through the Void Guardian.

Rosen quickly breathed his last, but this time he did not resurrect in the divine realm.

Because the mechanical mount had already locked onto his corpse and released a resurrection spell, as long as the time of death did not exceed three minutes, and as long as the body was not torn into pieces, combined with the healing of the angelic spirit beast, and the divine regeneration shared from the gray rat.

In just a moment, Rosen got up from the ground and was fully recovered.

However, at that moment, his Eye of Time suddenly saw him die again.

Rosen instantly vanished, teleporting back to the mysterious study.

The moment he disappeared, another bronze dragon appeared where he had vanished.

This bronze dragon was merely an avatar, and it remained hidden from beginning to end, never revealing itself.

Rosen immediately realized that he wasn't the only one with the Eye of Time who could see the future.

The bronze dragon also possessed similar power, so it secretly created a clone and hid it away.

As for why it can foresee the future, the Bronze Dragon itself is still trapped by the Void Guardian.

Because the Bronze Dragon's injuries were also quite severe, and as a Sequence 5 dragon, his ability to foresee the future was very limited.

Moreover, there are solutions for predicting time.

The simplest way is to have overwhelming power, so that even if you can foresee the future, you are powerless to change it.

The second method is to interfere with time, making the predicted future incomplete or even completely wrong.

The repeated use of the Time Dust Trap successfully disrupted the Bronze Dragon's ability to foresee the future.

He sensed danger and released his clones in advance to provide backup.

However, the specific danger was obscured by the time dust, which is why they were trapped by the Void Guardian.

As for the initial sneak attack from behind, why didn't the Bronze Dragon foresee that he would be severely injured by the Dragon Blood Bottle?

It was simply because he was in the mysterious study at the time, and the bronze dragon could not foresee the situation inside the mysterious study from the outside, which is why he was able to launch a sneak attack and severely injure him with the help of the Dragon Blood Bottle.

The Bronze Dragon's clone is currently guarding the outside; only by eliminating this clone can the Bronze Dragon be imprisoned using the Gluttonous Stomach.

Although the clone does not have the strength of a King Beast, it is still equivalent to a normal Sequence 5.

The King Beast of Sequence 5 is really too difficult to deal with.

No wonder the Thunder Empire gave up on continuing to kill the Bronze Dragon; it was simply too difficult and not worth the effort.

Rosen commanded the Brilliant Lighthouse to transform into a giant feathered serpent god within the divine realm. Without hesitation, he used Shadow Escape to teleport out of the mysterious study, and the instant the teleportation ended, he summoned the giant feathered serpent god to pounce on the bronze dragon's clone.

The Bronze Dragon's Time Eye saw the future a dozen seconds into the future and retreated without hesitation.

But he soon realized that he had nowhere to hide.

Although the interior of the Time Tower has expanded space, the height of the bottom layer is only a few hundred meters and the diameter is only a few thousand meters.

Within this limited area, spatial traps will soon be everywhere.

As long as the traps delay the Bronze Dragon's clones, they will be unable to stop the Quetzalcoatl's mutually destructive tactics.

Seeing the future can indeed help you avoid most dangers, but when danger is everywhere, predicting the future will be useless.

The bronze dragon's clone soon had nowhere to hide and was finally caught up by the giant feathered serpent god who kept teleporting in the shadows. Without hesitation, Rosen manipulated the Brilliant Beacon to unleash the Solar Bomb, which instantly transformed into a small sun that enveloped the bronze dragon's clone.

This was a method powerful enough to instantly take down a Sequence 6 opponent, and even the Bronze Dragon clone, which was only at the level of an ordinary Sequence 5, was seriously injured.

Rosen put away the glorious beacon that had triumphed and retired, and saw the bronze dragon clone with its eyes closed in the scorching flames.

If he hadn't closed his eyes, he would have already taken advantage of the situation to invade his spirituality with his mental canvas.

But don't worry, he still has many cards to play.

Rosen instantly transformed into Quetzalcoatl, simultaneously activating the Bloodline Awakening, a professional power he had gained from Noble Sequence 7.

According to the classification of extraordinary life forms, his transformed form, the Feathered Serpent God, is only equivalent to a Lord-level extraordinary being.

However, by activating bloodline awakening, forcibly awakening the power of the Feathered Serpent God's extraordinary bloodline, and forcibly awakening the demon god bloodline within the Nightmare Slime, the superposition of these two bloodlines allows him to unleash power equivalent to a Sequence 7 King Beast for a short period of time.

However, when facing ordinary extraordinary life forms, the King Beast is capable of surpassing two levels.

That's not all; Rosen also shared the gray rat's extraordinary skills.

With his head in his hands, Rosen scurried away at ten times the speed, instantly closing in on the bronze dragon clone. The moment Bloodlust was activated, Rosen bit down on the bronze dragon clone's shoulder, but the clone managed to dodge it with time acceleration.

Within a radius of a kilometer, a golden figure and a golden shadow chased each other, leaving behind countless afterimages.

As Rosen fled in panic, his speed steadily decreased, and he could no longer keep up with the bronze dragon clone whose time was accelerating.

So he began to pounce on the Bronze Dragon's main body, which was trapped by the Void Guardian, forcing the Bronze Dragon's clone to stop dodging and only able to stand in front of the Void Guardian and fight Rosen in a small-scale battle.

Since both sides could see the future, their battle looked somewhat comical.

Rosen unleashed a bloodthirsty, aggressive attack, biting out with each bite. Each time, the bronze dragon's clone dodged in advance. Rosen also anticipated and avoided the dragon's breath and the tearing claws that the bronze dragon's clone spewed.

Therefore, after fighting for a while, neither side actually touched the other.

Rosen understood that the bronze dragon clone was stalling for time, waiting for the void guardian to dissipate and the main body to escape.

So his upper and lower jaws began to separate. Snakes can swallow prey several times their own size, and Quetzalcoatl also had this talent. Originally, after his bloodline awakened, his body size increased and his head was already several meters wide, but his upper and lower jaws separated to more than ten meters.

Rosen bit into the Void Guardian, and the Void Guardian, which was tens of meters in diameter, shrank several times in an instant at his mouth.

This is a new ability born from Gluttony after the bloodline awakens. Gluttony is no longer just about digestion, but also has the ability to devour space. All food that gets close to the mouth can be shrunk several times, which, combined with the feathered serpent god's gaping maw, is enough to swallow the void whole.

The bronze dragon clone also realized that both sides had reached the final moment of life-or-death struggle.

He no longer maintained his human form, but instead revealed his true form as a dragon and crashed into Kuosen.

The bronze dragon clone bit Rosen's wing, attempting to pull him away from the Void Guardian to stop the devouring.

Ignoring everything, Rosen let one wing be torn off alive. He wrapped his tail around all his enhanced spiritual energy and unleashed a deadly strike at the head of the bronze dragon clone, instantly causing one of its eyes to burst.

Ignoring his injuries, the bronze dragon clone focused all his efforts on locking onto Rosen and using time slow.

Then, time accelerated itself, and it pounced again, biting Rosen's neck. A breath of time dragon fire was released, but the bronze dragon clone was also tightly wrapped by Rosen's feathered serpent body, almost breaking its neck.

In the end, Rosen's head was bitten off, and the neck of the bronze dragon's clone was twisted off.

However, Void Guardian was swallowed by Rosen at the last moment.

The Gluttony Stomach is not a physical organ that exists in the stomach, but rather an organ that exists in the soul. Therefore, it doesn't matter if the head and body are separated, as long as the conditions for gluttony to swallow food are met, the swallowed food can be sent directly into the Gluttony Stomach.

So Rosen, now only a head, actually devoured the Bronze Dragon itself, along with the Void Guardian, into his Gluttonous Stomach within his soul.

(End of this chapter)