Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 161 Advancement as a Time Hunter and the Castle Conspiracy

Chapter 160

Kobolds are all skilled at mining, and Dragonborn kobolds are no less adept at digging.

With the frantic digging of two Sequence 5 Dragonborn warriors, the four Dragonborn kobolds gradually ventured hundreds of miles beneath the desert, eventually reaching the underground world buried deep beneath the desert.

Everywhere there were burning flames, but these flames were an abnormal green and grayish-white.

As far as the eye could see, there were corpses everywhere, and countless undead lives burning with soul fire.

Even when facing skeletons that didn't even have a sequence level, the four dragonborn kobolds carefully avoided them, not daring to harm them.

Clearly, they were worried that the noise they made while taking action might inadvertently alert the high-sequence undead of this underground world.

Despite the short distance of a thousand miles, the four Sequence 5s traveled cautiously for several days.

They arrived at an abandoned mine in a corner of the underground world. There were many undead here, but these undead seemed to be formed from the dead dragonborn kobolds. For some reason, these undead did not attack living dragonborn kobolds.

During the past few days of travel, Rosen had quietly sneaked inside the eggshell.

Then, they reopened the door from inside the eggshell and successfully opened an outward-facing window on the outside of the eggshell.

Without Rosen even needing to try and see through the pouch containing the eggshell, the dragonborn warlock had already trembled as he took out the eggshell.

"Master, the tribe has been destroyed by humans..."

The dragonborn warlock knelt trembling before a ghostly dragon.

Judging from their behavior, the dragon blood in their bodies should have originated from this ghost dragon in its previous life.

The Ghost Dragon looked at the Fairy Dragon Ball and carefully sensed that it indeed contained the scent of humans.

Although he knew it wasn't the fault of the dragonborn kobolds, the ghost dragon was still furious and gave each of them a painful curse. Only after seeing the four dragonborn kobolds writhing on the ground in pain did he temporarily suppress his hatred and anger towards humans.

After punishing his minions, the Ghost Dragon took the Fairy Dragon Orb from the Dragonborn Warlock.

Soon all the Dragon Source Corn inside was harvested, and then all of it was put into their mouths and refined with Soul Fire. After that, the Fairy Dragon Pearl was placed on a magic circle that gathered spiritual energy, and then they left the Dragon Nest with several Dragonborn kobolds.

Judging from the direction the Ghost Dragon went, it was clearly heading to the surface desert to deal with the invaders.

Rosen waited for half an hour before emerging from the mysterious study.

They didn't kill the dragonborn kobold, but a fairy dragon eggshell was delivered to their doorstep.

Without hesitation, he put the eggshell into his scavenging space and also dug out the dragon crystals embedded in the magic circle.

Dragon crystal is a special type of spiritual crystal, and one of the rare, recoverable spiritual crystals.

Most spiritual crystals decay and turn to ash once their spiritual energy is exhausted, but dragon crystals can absorb free spiritual energy and quickly restore the spiritual energy stored inside. What's even more precious is that the spiritual energy released by dragon crystals contains special attributes.

Rosen continued searching the Ghost Dragon's lair and finally found a dragon corpse sealed by a magic circle.

This dragon carcass is only Sequence 3, but it is very well preserved and even has a faint heartbeat.

This should be the corpse of the Ghost Dragon before its death. The Ghost Dragon wanted to use Dragon Source Corn to revive itself.

Rosen eventually gathered some extraordinary materials with undead attributes. Just as he was about to dig deep, his sixth sense suddenly detected that danger was imminent. Without hesitation, he mounted his mechanical mount, activated Void Shadow Escape, and quietly left the Ghost Dragon's lair.

Moments later, the ghost dragon returned to its lair and brutally slaughtered four dragonborn kobolds.

Meanwhile, Rosen was already hundreds of miles away, tallying his harvest.

Andromeda Dragon Ball: Miracle Treasure (Damaged)

[Level: Sequence 6 (Sequence 3)]

[Miracle Attribute: Consuming extraordinary materials can recruit a Miracle Fairy Dragon]

[Miracle Traits: Dragon's Nest, Dragon's Rest, Dragon's Tomb, Elemental Immunity, Elemental Orb, Void Phase, Uniqueness, Eternal Life]

Rosen studied it for a long time before he finally understood the true value of the Fairy Dragon Balls.

The Fairy Dragon Balls are called Dragon Balls because they are essentially the last unhatched dragon egg of the Fairy Dragon clan.

When the Fairy Dragons were wiped out, this last dragon egg became a miraculous treasure.

The complete Fairy Dragon Ball eggshell had no broken pieces, and inside there was even a Fairy Dragon embryo, capable of recruiting a Sequence 3 miracle creature, the Fairy Dragon. However, the Fairy Dragon Ball ultimately suffered a fatal blow, and its power diminished.

However, given its immortal nature, it's only a matter of time before the Fairy Dragon Balls are restored.

It hasn't recovered in 20,000 years, entirely because the Ghost Dragon prevented the Fairy Dragon Balls from repairing themselves.

Because Fairy Dragons are hostile to undead life forms, recruiting them would also be troublesome for Ghost Dragons.

It would be better to stop the repairs and then transform Fairy Dragon Ball into farmland suitable for Dragon Source Corn.

Those dragon-born kobolds living in the surface desert are probably the fertilizer needed for the growth of Dragon Source Corn.

Rosen took out a large number of time-attribute spiritual crystals and sent them, along with several dragon crystals, into the eggshell.

Then, all the remaining dragonborn kobolds were sent to the divine realm to be imprisoned and slowly tamed. Finally, the farmland formed from the flesh and blood of the dragonborn kobolds, along with the five dragon-origin corn plants grown on it, were temporarily transplanted out.

Rosen sent the Fairy Dragon Balls into the Time Tower, activating a five-fold time acceleration to speed up the Fairy Dragon Balls' self-repair.

At this stage, the attributes and characteristics of Fairy Dragon Balls are unusable.

The true value of this treasure will only be revealed after it has been restored.

Rosen has decided that he will capture the Fairy Dragon as a pet at Sequence 6 and transform it into a Spirit Messenger.

As for the Storm Thunderbird, let's keep it for now and deal with it later!

Rosen busied himself collecting the extraordinary materials needed to recruit the Fairy Dragon from various sources.

He even left the Spirit Realm with reluctance, spending more than half a month in the Thunder Empire to collect all the extraordinary materials.

Finally, just two days after he prepared the recruitment materials, Fairy Dragon Ball had completed its initial repairs.

The damaged parts on the eggshell have been completely repaired, and the Fairy Dragon Ball now looks like a perfectly round and flawless jade pearl.

Rosen sends the recruitment materials into the Fairy Dragon Ball, then activates the Miracle Trait Dragon Nest.

All the extraordinary materials were gradually melted by the Fairy Dragon Balls, eventually forming a Fairy Dragon embryo. This embryo grew very quickly, and in reality, it had grown into a Sequence 6 Fairy Dragon in less than two days.

The Dragon Nest ability is used to breed and recruit Fairy Dragons, while the Dragon Sleep ability allows Fairy Dragons to recover quickly.

The Dragon Tomb feature allows Fairy Dragons to be reborn within it after death. Additionally, the Dragon Tomb can generate a small Dragon Tomb space inside the eggshell, where extraordinary materials that accompany the growth of the dragon race can be planted, and extraordinary materials that accompany the birth of the dragon race can be created.

Five precious Longyuan corn plants are perfectly suited for planting in Longmu.

Next are Elemental Immunity and Elemental Orb. The former allows Fairy Dragon Balls to be immune to basic elemental damage of the same level, with the degree of immunity decreasing for rarer elemental damage. As for Elemental Orb, it can automatically store, release, and enhance elemental skills.

Therefore, the Fairy Dragon Balls are the Miracle Treasures, not the Miracle Units or Buildings.

The last miracle ability is Void Phase, which is the core and only miracle ability in Fairy Dragon Ball.

As long as spatial coordinates are left, the Void Phase can instantly travel there with the Fairy Dragon Balls.

The Ghost Dragon was so afraid of the Fairy Dragon that it dared not repair the Fairy Dragon Balls, which can be described as buying the box and returning the pearl.

Rosen did not immediately awaken the Fairy Dragon, and the newborn Fairy Dragon did not inherit the Fairy Dragon's wisdom.

He fell into a deep sleep through the Dragon's Sleep, and in this slumber, he absorbed and fused with the inheritance left in his bloodline by the Fairy Dragon Clan.

Whether it was because he had refined the Fairy Dragon Ball or not, Rosen clearly felt that his spiritual growth was accelerating.

The Fairy Dragon Balls are now Sequence 6, and the Void Phase can leave four spatial coordinates.

Rosen left a spatial coordinate in the underground world where the Ghost Dragon of the Spirit Realm was located. With the help of this spatial coordinate, he could hunt in the Spirit Realm without restraint, and even the Ghost Dragon was harassed by him several times.

As a result, over the course of several months, he had accumulated two Sequence 7 Soul Gems.

Even his spiritual strength has increased to 36 points due to continuous hunting.

Early that morning, Rosen prepared to upgrade the buildings in his territory and then begin advancing to Sequence 6.

First, the Divine Beast Pen is upgraded to Sequence 7, so there's no need to worry about the gray rats consuming the Golden Apples getting out of control.

No new traits were born in the Divine Beast Pen. He looked down on ordinary traits, and good traits required more accumulation before they could be born. So he forcibly suppressed the birth of new traits, so that a powerful trait would definitely be born when the 6th sequence arrived.

Then came the Alchemy Castle, where Rosen had to buy a Sequence 8 Soul Gem and upgrade it to Sequence 7 in one go.

However, like the Sun Beacon, the Alchemy Castle also lacks a powerful soul to match it.

Since the Alchemy Castle is the core of the territory, Rosen chose to deeply fuse the spiritualized Sequence Tree with the Alchemy Castle, making his soul the soul of the Alchemy Castle, so that he could perfectly control the Alchemy Castle.

The fusion process went smoothly, and the Alchemy Castle demonstrated its powerful attributes and characteristics.

However, it's not appropriate to continue calling it Alchemy Castle.

After carefully examining the building's attributes, Rosen decided to rename the Alchemy Castle to Ash Castle, representing the embers of a dying flame.
Ash Castle: A Divine Building

[Level: Sequence 7]

[Auxiliary Buildings: Castle Hall, Tower, Spirit Realm Watchtower, Steam Power Tower, Elemental Barrier Tower, Dungeon]

[Divine Trait: Mechanical Spirit Life - Gains advanced mechanical spirit intelligence through fusion with the Ancient Tree sequence]

[Divine Trait: Ashes of the Flame - Capable of destroying civilizations; collecting Ashes of the Flame strengthens Ash Castle]

After completing the reinforcement of the territory's buildings, Rosen took out his potion bottle to prepare a potion.

Although by Sequence 6, potions could no longer be mass-produced.

However, obtaining the Sequence 6 hunter potion recipe and potion ingredients was not difficult for Rosen at all.

[600 grams of bronze dragon blood, 100 grams of the heartwood of a century-old forest tree, 50 grams of dragon blood from any Sequence 6 dragon, 5 grams of tooth powder from a buck-toothed giant bear, one reverse scale from a bronze dragon...]

Rosen collected all nine extraordinary ingredients into the potion bottle.

All you need to know is the potion recipe, and the potion bottle can automatically concoct the perfect potion.

Starting from Sequence 6, the potion recipe is no longer fixed, but needs to be adjusted according to the core ingredients. The core ingredient he used was the extraordinary bloodline of the bronze dragon, so he specially invited a high-level apothecary to create a custom potion recipe for him.

The potion was quickly prepared, and this time the finished product looked like a dragon crystal.

Rosen poured the potion from the potion bottle directly into his mouth. The potion instantly dissolved and surged into his body, absorbing the Hunter Sequence Extraordinary Essence. Mutterings echoed in Rosen's ears, and hallucinations began to appear before his eyes.

I thought this time would be more painful than Sequence 7, but it turned out to be even more painful than expected.

Despite not suffering much harm, he has already undergone a spiritual ascension and become a Sequence 6 hunter.

During his spiritual ascension, Rosen understood what was happening.

First, he has the blessing of the Dragon King, which comes from the protection of a bronze dragon of the Dragon King level, and it complements the power of the potion. Then, he has mastered the Miracle Flame, a miracle of the Sequence 0 level.

Even though the Miracle Flame was of such a high level that he was unable to refine it.

However, thanks to his passive protection, the threat posed by the whispers from the source of the potion to him is minimized.

If it weren't for the fact that the source's murmurs, besides causing harm, also contained the power and knowledge of the Hunter Sequence, it would be a different story.

It's likely that the Miracle Flame can completely suppress the delirium, and what's being released now is specifically reserved for the evolution of extraordinary source matter.

[Time Hunter: Able to deprive prey of its time after the hunt ends]

Rosen sensed the innate skill born within his extraordinary source essence; this was yet another special skill without a skill level.

He casually released a Sequence 7 hydra from the Divine Beast Pen. After the Dragon King's Wrath activated the Ash Armor Break skill, a single shot completely broke through its defenses, and the true damage made it instantly dead.

Rosen could clearly sense that some kind of temporal power had entered his body after the Hydra died.

However, he hasn't yet figured out what the use of this power of time is.

As far as he knew, the Time Hunter trait had never been created.

Rosen took out the Time Shooter skill crystal and refined it without hesitation.

Time Hunter and Time Shooter, two skills that both originate from the Bronze Dragon, may create a synergy.

[Time Archer: Miracle Skill]

[Passive Attribute: All skills can absorb the power of time]

[Active Attribute: When activated, all skill damage will consume Time Power to wear down the prey.]

[Miracle Trait: Time Crystal - Ability to absorb and store the power of time]

The time power that originally surrounded Rosen's body, which was composed of extraordinary source matter, was instantly integrated into the Time Dragon Crystal that had spontaneously formed in his soul.

He unleashed another hydra, and this time the suppression damage activated the Time Archer's active attribute.

A Nen bullet containing a faint trace of Nen energy, carrying the power of time, struck the Hydra.

Rosen instantly felt that the remaining three hundred years or so of lifespan of this Sequence 7 Hydra had been consumed by more than a hundred years, and the time power stored inside his Time Dragon Crystal had also vanished.

This made him instantly realize how terrifying the Time Shooter miracle skill was.

Skills can actually be miraculous, and active attributes are so terrifying.

If the Time Crystal stores enough time power, could a single shot wipe out the Hydra's entire lifespan?

Rosen then made various attempts and roughly figured out the upper limit of the Time Shooter's active abilities.

If a life has only one hundred years left to live, the Time Hunter can steal ten years of time stored in the Time Dragon Crystal after killing it.

The storage limit of the Time Dragon Crystal depends on his lifespan, which is currently ten thousand years.

Normal Sequence 6 members typically live for a thousand years, but because of his extraordinary bloodline originating from the Demon God, coupled with the Golden Apple, he can live for ten thousand years. Therefore, the Time Dragon Crystal can store up to ten thousand years of time power.

If the Time Archer were to fully expend the power of 10,000 years, it could instantly diminish the lifespan of its prey by 1000 years.

Of course, this only applies to Sequence 6. If Sequence 5 is reduced by half, it will only reduce 500 years of lifespan. If Sequence 4 is reduced by half again, it will only reduce 250 years of lifespan. It doesn't seem to be particularly powerful.

After all, Rosen could easily kill ordinary Sequence 6 prey head-on, so there was no need to waste his time like this.

The truly terrifying aspect of the Time Archer, besides its ability to erode lifespan, is its ability to simultaneously affect the spirituality of its prey.

For example, if a dragonborn kobold loses a hundred years of his lifespan, his memory will instantly experience a hundred-year gap, and yesterday's events will seem to become memories from a hundred years ago.

Imagine you're in the middle of a battle, and the enemy is about to unleash a powerful damaging skill.

In the blink of an eye, the battle that took place a second ago became a distant memory from a hundred years ago.

That would be devastating to the rhythm of the battle, capable of producing extremely powerful skill interruption effects.

Even multiple attacks that create multiple memory gaps can lead to severe memory confusion in the prey.

Moreover, for those Sequence 3s whose lifespans are already short, losing 125 years of lifespan instantly can even have a killing effect.

Therefore, the terrifying nature of the Miracle Skill is obvious, and this will be Rosen's strongest trump card when facing powerful enemies.

However, this also means that in the future, the divine beast pen will need to house a large number of long-lived extraordinary beings at any time.

Otherwise, in a one-on-one battle against a powerful enemy, the time power stored in the Time Dragon Crystal might not be enough to sustain the fight.

……

In Thunder City, Rosen teleported to the capital of the Thunder Empire via the Wizard Tower.

He came here mainly to trade a skill crystal with someone.

He has a Sequence 6 Beastmaster Skill Crystal, which is a drop from the Sea Dragon Beastmaster.

He originally planned to master it at Sequence 6, but since the three Sequence 8 pet skills have merged to form Beastmaster's Wrath, learning another Beastmaster skill wouldn't make much sense. So he decided to exchange it for a rare hunter skill of equal value.

Skills dropped by the Sequence 6 Beastmaster are extremely rare and can be matched with other skills of the same level.

This time, someone was able to bring out a skill that impressed him, which surprised him somewhat.

The Marquis of Reis's mansion, a castle located on a floating island shrouded in thunderclouds.

Owning a floating island in Thunder City is already considered top-tier among hereditary marquises.

When Rosen emerged from the wizard tower's teleportation array, Marquis Reiss had already sent his butler to greet him.

Rosen rode in Marquis Reis's alchemy carriage to the wizard tower directly below the floating city. Using the short-distance teleportation array in the wizard tower, he quickly arrived at the main gate of the castle on the floating island.

Marquis Reiss, whom Rosen had only met virtually, was now personally greeting him at the door.

"Welcome, Earl Rosen."

Marquis Reiss warmly embraced Rosen, so warmly that Rosen almost wanted to turn around and leave.

Because of his sixth sense and mind-reading ability, he had already sensed the Marquis of Reiss's malice.

Because his hereditary duke status was too conspicuous, he casually mentioned his earl status when he contacted Marquis Reiss in the virtual network.

It now seems that Marquis Reiss is planning to make a profit without any initial investment.

In the castle's drawing room, Marquis Reiss had prepared a grand feast to entertain Rosen.

Without making a sound, Rosen logged into the Spirit Realm Deep Web through the main god's computer and commissioned the Assassin Guild to investigate Marquis Reis.

He needed to confirm whether the skill crystal that Marquis Reiss had proposed in the trade actually existed.

The Assassin's Guild quickly provided information confirming that the items in the transaction were genuine.

Since that's the case, Rosen didn't hesitate to double-cross him.

After exchanging a lot of polite pleasantries, Marquis Reiss invited Rosen to stay overnight after the dinner.

"I didn't expect you to arrive so quickly..."

Marquis Reiss explained apologetically, "The skill crystals used for the transaction are stored at the Imperial Bank. We'll go there together tomorrow morning to complete the transaction."

“Thank you very much for your hospitality, Marquis Reis.”

Rosen politely put down his cutlery.

Led by the butler, Rosen checked into a guest room, but the gray rat had already quietly slipped into the shadow of Marquis Reiss.

The moment his hunter sequence reached sequence 6, the gray rat had already advanced from sequence 7 to sequence 6.

At least until they reach Sequence 4, the gray rats recover their strength very quickly.

However, the difficulty of becoming a Sequence 3 again increases more than tenfold.

Faced with the Sequence 6 Gray Rat, Marquis Reiss had virtually no chance of discovering that he was being closely monitored, thanks to the shared Void Escape ability.

Rosen and the gray rat shared their senses and saw Marquis Reis sitting in his study, hesitant, through the shadows.

Marquis Reiss sighed, his hesitant gaze hardening.

Since we've decided to do it, we should go all the way.

Even a non-hereditary earl is still an earl. If someone tells their relatives and friends that they are going to his castle to make a deal, but then disappears without a trace, it will be difficult to explain if word gets out. Only by taking drastic measures can the potential danger be eliminated.

Marquis Reiss sent a messenger from the spirit world to deliver a letter to his beloved Marquis de Lacey.

The Marquis, who was standing in front of her dressing table, saw the spirit messenger appear and knew her husband's meaning without even opening the envelope.

She sighed, changed into her pajamas, and slowly walked towards the guest room where Rosen was.

When Rosen saw the Marchioness enter and nervously close the door, he seemed to understand Marquis Reis's conspiracy.

The Marquis of Reiss gave him a warm welcome, but he was having an affair with the Marquis's wife.

If this were exposed in public, even if the Marquis of Reiss killed him in a fit of rage, he would not have been wronged.

Marquis Reiss is so willing to spend money, just for a skill crystal?
Rosen sensed that things weren't that simple, and it seemed he needed to get the truth from the Marchioness.

In the virtual art studio, the self-portrait clone picked up a paintbrush and began to depict a guest room that was exactly the same as the one in reality.

Once the painting is finished, Rosen in real life will be able to bring the Marchioness into the painting.

The self-portrait clone from the Void Studio appeared in the real-world guest room.

When the Marquis's wife disappears without a trace, he will make the Marquis of Reis lose both his wife and his army.

(End of this chapter)