Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 170 Ancient God Sacrificial Artifacts and Territory Sieges

Chapter 169

"A mysterious bell?"

Rosen took out all the miscellaneous items that his self-portrait clone had brought back from the scavenging space.

There was indeed a bell inside, but he didn't sense any spirituality in it, so he treated it as junk.

If I hadn't seen the memories of the old Redstone Viscount, I would have missed this treasure.

Rosen picked up the bell, covered the bottom of it with his hand without leaving any gaps, and then gently shook the bell.

His spiritual strength, which was already at 39 points, instantly increased by 9 points to reach 48 points.

Moreover, the enhanced spirituality was completely normal, as if these nine points of spirituality had always belonged to him.

Rosen stopped shaking the bell, and the enhanced nine points of spirituality vanished instantly.

Rosen looked at the bell in his hand with a solemn expression; this thing was definitely an extraordinary treasure.

The reason is simple: this thing can greatly increase the chances of the extraordinary sequence being promoted to the next sequence.

Looking at the extraordinary world, there are actually many ways to temporarily enhance one's spiritual strength.

The ability to temporarily increase the spiritual strength of a Sequence 9 to that of a Sequence 1 is something that has happened before in history.

However, these methods of enhancing spiritual strength all rely on external forces to enhance spirituality.

Spirituality, as the core of life, is like one core wrapped around another.

However, the spiritual enhancement from this bell is equivalent to making the original core much larger, which is equivalent to expanding the original core's upper limit. His spirituality has now been directly enhanced to 48 points. If he takes a Sequence 5 Hunter's Potion, he can even directly advance to Sequence 5.

Of course, if the bell stops ringing at this point, his spiritual strength will drop back to Sequence 6.

Therefore, if this bell is used at the limit of each sequence, it means that the bottleneck of sequence promotion can be ignored.

Rosen had never even heard of such a thing.

Rosen then conducted various appraisals, and both the God Computer and the Miracle Pocket concluded that it was just an ordinary bronze bell, which meant that the true nature of this thing was definitely extraordinary.

According to the old Redstone Viscount's memory, this bell once belonged to the Howard family.

Like the Bloodline Compass, this bell is also a family heirloom of the Howard family.

It seems the Howard family is hiding other secrets.

The entire civilization of the God of Fire was destroyed, but the Howard family was the only ones who survived.

This is incomprehensible in itself. Rosen used to think that the God of Fire saved the Howard family, but now it seems that the Howard family itself is very special, so they are regarded as tools to rekindle the flame of civilization.

Over the next few days, Rosen studied the bell using various methods.

Finding nothing, he became somewhat annoyed and dripped a drop of blood onto the mysterious bell.

Even the legendary blood test failed, so he had to temporarily give up on finding out the true nature of the bell.

However, something unexpected happened: the mysterious bell actually absorbed his blood.

Rosen felt the information transmitted from the mysterious bell and it took him a long time to process it before he came to his senses.

"It really is a blood oath..."

Rosen smiled wryly.

This mysterious bell is neither an extraordinary object nor a miraculous treasure.

Instead, it is something called an Ancient God Sacrificial Artifact. The bell's enhancement of spirituality is merely a passive effect. When the true power of this Ancient God Sacrificial Artifact is unleashed, it can suppress the destiny of a race's civilization and even gradually awaken the dormant bloodline of the Ancient God.

When it comes to ancient gods, Rosen immediately thinks of the ancient god civilization, one of the three great civilizations of the Nine Tribulations.

If this ancient god artifact is indeed a product of the ancient god civilization, and his blood can activate it, it means that the Howard family may be descendants of the ancient god civilization, possessing the bloodline of a dormant ancient god.

Rosen pressed the ancient god artifact against his heart, and the artifact, after becoming ethereal, entered his heart and remained there.

His blood continuously washed over the ancient god's sacrificial artifacts, and the washed blood even contained a faint golden glow.

Rosen's heart raced slightly; he had truly struck gold this time.

He had a feeling that the ancient god's sacrificial artifacts might be no less powerful than the main god's computer.

……

Several days later, the Painters' Association of Blazing Shadow Royal City.

Ms. Fam, who had successfully advanced to Sequence 6, looked at Rosen, who was also Sequence 6, with great emotion.

Back then, one was a sequence 7 and the other a sequence 9, but now they're both sequence 6.

The next time they meet, she might have to look up to Rosen.

Rosen was actually a little surprised to meet Ms. Fam this time.

Because newly promoted Sequence 6 painters usually travel to surrounding countries to broaden their horizons.

Unexpectedly, Ms. Fam stayed in the Blazing Shadow Royal City and became the new president of the Painters' Association.

"My full name is Fam Blazing Shadow."

Ms. Fam's formal self-introduction dispelled Rosen's doubts.

"I see. But I still suggest you visit the Thunder Empire."

Rosen said sincerely.

"I'll go in a few years. A Sequence 6 painter can't advance any further in the Duchy of Blazing Shadow."

Ms. Fam nodded in agreement.

For the rest of the day, Rosen spent exchanging their insights on the painters' sequence with Ms. Fam.

He also showed Ms. Fam his paintings of various natural wonders through an ash curtain.

Finally, he explained his purpose: to complete two paintings of spiritual landscapes at the painters' association.

One of them will be reserved for the painters' association, while the other will be given to the Alonso family, who migrated from the underground kingdom.

Marquis Alonso invested in Rosen, which enabled him to obtain the heart of a Sequence 4 Heart Eater to enhance his drawing skills.

When the Demon God Incident in the Dungeon Kingdom broke out, it caused enormous damage to the entire Adventure Kingdom.

Marquis Alonso died tragically that day, and in the end, he chose to move his entire family to the Duchy of Blazing Shadow.

Rosen had originally planned to go to the Underground Kingdom to settle this favor, but unexpectedly he received news of the Alonso family in the Blazing Shadow Royal City. He decided to paint another painting of the Spirit Realm to repay the favor.

The materials for the paintings of spiritual realms created for the painters' association are naturally provided by the painters' association.

With the help of the Time Tower, Rosen completed his first painting in just two weeks in reality.

This painting depicts a shipyard in the Kingdom of Blazing Shadow that was once destroyed by extraordinary sea beasts. The shipwrights who died many years ago have all been resurrected by Hualongdianjing by capturing historical traces from the depths of the spirit world.

This painting of the spiritual realm can reliably produce extraordinary ships of Sequence 9.

However, when the painting was finished, Rosen's expression was not very good.

Because he discovered that the shipyard in the painting was not destroyed by the supernatural sea monster at all.

Instead, it was destroyed by a pirate ship disguised as a supernatural sea beast, or even possibly by the Blazing Shadow Clan themselves.

The Blazing Shadow family did this so that they could recreate the shipyard in the future through the Spirit Realm paintings.

The shipyard originally belonged to a marquis family in the Blazing Shadow Kingdom. Now, with this move by the Blazing Shadow family, the shipyard has been transformed into their own family heirloom spiritual realm. There are probably many similar operations.

Although Ms. Fam seemed unaware, he did not intend to have much contact with her in the future.

Because he and the Chiying family were bound to clash sooner or later.

Rosen continued painting his second painting of a spiritual realm. This time, he painted a completely original spiritual realm painting without any life or historical traces. The painting depicted a spiritual crystal mine that could continuously produce spiritual crystals.

This painting of a spiritual realm is worth far more than the heart of the Heart Eater.

If Marquis Alonso were still alive, he wouldn't have repaid this favor so quickly.

Among the nobles he had met, the Marquis Alonso had left a very good impression on him.

However, since the Marquis Alonso is dead, and the remaining members of the Alonso family have not had much contact with him, there is no point in continuing to owe him this favor. It would be better to pay it off cleanly and be free of debt.

Half a month later, Rosen delivered the painting of the Spirit Realm to the Alonso family.

Although he worked hard for five months under the five-fold time acceleration, Rosen also gained two points of creative power.

He now possesses four points of creative power, enabling him to create four real lives.

For painters, the creative power they have painstakingly accumulated is their most precious treasure.

Having resolved all the trivial matters in the Principality of Blazing Shadow, Rosen began frantically completing bounty missions at the Hunter's Guild.

The vast majority of humans are extraordinary and can abide by the laws of world governments and various countries.

Even though he disliked the Blazing Shadow family, they at least didn't dare to act recklessly in public.

However, some extraordinary beings break even the rules on the surface at will, and even contact cult members planted in the human world by alien gods in order to improve their strength, and then slaughter ordinary people to create terrorist incidents.

Rosen had no qualms about turning these wanted superhumans into nourishment for his death sentence.

In the end, he cleared all the bounties placed on the evil god cultists in the Blazing Shadow Kingdom.

Of course, while he was killing, Rosen didn't use his true identity to accept the mission, as he didn't want to get entangled with the evil god church of the Blazing Shadow Duchy.

Rosen felt increasingly exhilarated as he killed, and the power of Death's Judgment grew stronger and stronger.

On this day, he was drawing portraits based on the wanted posters when he suddenly stopped and began to sense his divine territory.

Just now, an early warning came from the Divine Realm.

[Divine Territory: Sequence 6]

[Territory Area: 7800 meters in radius] [Territory Powers: Bloodline Glory, Profound Knowledge, Bloodline Awakening, Ruler]

[Territory Characteristics: Divine Realm Lord, Glory Treasury, Divine Realm Imitation, Source of Life, Sequence Seed, Fate Perception]

【领地建筑：序列9神性拾荒空间、序列7神性兽栏、序列7辉煌灯塔、序列7灰烬城堡、序列7史莱姆巢穴、序列8灰烬蜂巢、序列7恶魔巢穴、序列5时光塔、序列9超凡民居1060个】

[Affiliated Spirit Realm: Ironwood Town]

[Contributor: 36921]

[Territory Units: Slimes, Ash Bees, Crypt Demons, etc.]

Today, his divine domain is vastly different from what it once was.

Not only are there 10,000 residents transferred from the Hunter x Hunter world, but also over 1,000 people from Ironwood Town and many cat people, plus the population that migrated from Count Fritz and Ford's divine territory, bringing the total to nearly 40,000 residents.

Years ago, Rosen knew that the divine realm would also face dangers in the spirit world.

Because the World Government has established rules that all divine territories must face a constant stream of invasions from spirit beings.

This is both a test for the Lord of the Divine Realm to eliminate the useless, and a way to provide resources to the Lord of the Divine Realm. Ultimately, it also reduces the spiritual life on the surface of the Spirit Realm.

However, over the years, his divine territory has remained as stable as Mount Tai and has not encountered any threats from spirit beings.

Based on his interactions with other nobles, he discovered that this was because he had grown up too quickly.

If we compare the surface of the spirit realm to the night, the divine realm to a lamp in the night, and the spirit realm's life to moths, then even if the moths discover the lamp and want to fly into the flame, a few moths actually dare not approach the divine realm at all.

Because spirit beings are not real moths after all; even those without intelligence have the instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm.

Therefore, moths usually gather gradually, and only when their numbers reach a certain level will they fly into the fire.

As a result, his divine territory grew too fast, directly exceeding the speed at which the moths gathered.

His cultivation level also improved rapidly. He finally managed to get the Sequence 7 moths to huddle together, but he had already reached Sequence 6.

Moreover, he often wanders around, and his divine territory follows him everywhere. As a result, some moths that manage to gather together can no longer find his divine territory before they can even launch a group attack.

He stayed in the Blazing Shadow Royal City for too long this time, so the Divine Realm territory finally received the long-awaited invasion.

Rosen disappeared from the hotel room and went to the Divine Realm to climb the Spirit Realm Watchtower.

Through his territorial destiny perception, he had already foreseen that more than ten thousand spirit beings would attack in two days.

The majority of them are sequence 9, there are thousands of sequence 8, hundreds of sequence 7, and more than ten sequence 6.

This number of spirit beings is definitely excessive for a Sequence 6 divine territory.

Rosen couldn't help but suspect that this was a consequence of his divine territory constantly avoiding war.

Otherwise, if each divine territory were to run around aimlessly with its own territory, wouldn't the rules set by the World Government become a joke?

Although the number was a bit excessive, other divine realm lords would have had to ask for help.

However, Rosen was absolutely certain that he could annihilate all these spirit beings in his divine realm.

Although his divine territory already spans 7,800 meters in circumference, only the core mountain peaks, with a radius of 3,000 meters, are inhabited by his subjects. The remaining area is home to hundreds of Sequence 7 slimes and hundreds of Sequence 7 cave demons.

All the slimes live at the foot of the mountain, and the rest of the space is filled with traps set by the cave demons.

These traps alone mean that none of the spirit beings below Sequence 7 will survive.

For the next two days, the entire Divine Realm was fully prepared for war.

That night, the light of the magnificent lighthouse suddenly pierced through the spatial barrier at the edge of the territory.

Within a radius of several miles, spirit beings from all directions gathered.

These spirit beings were divided into five groups: to the east were a group of goblins, to the south a group of minotaurs, to the west a group of gray ratmen, to the north a variety of miscellaneous spirit beings, and finally, a group of ghost-faced bats hovered over the divine realm.

These spirit beings were almost all beings who had once lived on the land of the Blazing Shadow Kingdom.

After being wiped out by humans in the real world, the remaining spiritual beings were reborn in the spirit world.

Therefore, these spirit beings are filled with absolute hatred towards humans.

The radiance of the magnificent lighthouse spurred these spirit beings to attack the divine realm from five directions simultaneously.

The first to approach the spatial barrier were the ghost-faced bats. The intelligence of these extraordinary beings was once similar to that of a ten-year-old child. After becoming spirit beings, their intelligence would not exceed that of a three-year-old. Only a very few individuals would awaken a higher level of intelligence.

This swarm of masked bats was clearly commanded by highly intelligent individuals, which is why they managed to disperse and attack the spatial barrier.

Moreover, although the attack seemed fierce, it was actually somewhat restrained, clearly waiting for the spirit beings on the surface to come forward and draw their fire.

If it were any other lord of the divine realm, they would have already devised a plan to deal with the ground attack first.

After all, the fact that the leaders behind the five spirit realms are not united gives the divine realm a chance to defeat them one by one.

However, Rosen did the opposite and directly ordered the hunting of the Ghost-Faced Bats as a priority.

He was somewhat disappointed, as the spirit beings that attacked this time were not strong enough in his eyes.

Without increasing the difficulty, it won't serve its purpose of training extraordinary individuals within the territory.

At the foot of the mountain, nine Sequence 8 wizard towers almost simultaneously unleashed large-scale war magic into the sky.

These wizard towers were seized from the divine domains of Count Fritz and Ford. The owners of several wizard towers were wise enough to submit to him, while the rest who were not so sensible have disappeared. The wizard towers were then distributed to the first few wizards among the people to reach Sequence 8.

At this point, the nine Sequence 8 wizard towers were enough to block thousands of ghost-faced bats head-on.

However, in reality, only half of it was blocked. The remaining half, provoked, erupted with ferocity and, ignoring the command of the ghost-faced bat leader behind it, charged directly through the spatial barrier towards the high mountain in the center of the territory, which was filled with human presence.

At this moment, there were over a thousand human superhumans in the territory, all looking up at the ghost-faced bat with fierce expressions.

Knights mounted their mounts and took to the air, hunters began firing at the sky, and wizards without wizard towers also cast spells into the sky. Everyone knew that the more they killed, the greater the rewards they would receive after the battle.

Seeing the Ghost-Faced Bats being strangled one after another, Rosen immediately commanded the Storm Thunderbirds to take off.

Those two Sequence 6 masked bat leaders cannot be dealt with by the few Sequence 7s in their territory.

As the situation in the sky stabilized, the fighting around the territory began.

Knights without aerial mounts within the territory, along with assassins and cat people who had switched to the Shadow Cat sequence, all traversed the trap zone and fought alongside various spirit beings under the healer's buff.

Rosen did not send any reinforcements this time because those who have now invaded the Divine Realm territory are all Sequence 9.

The highly intelligent Sequence 6 commanders behind the intruders seem to be planning a war of attrition using cannon fodder.

Indeed, it has been proven that a war of attrition is very disadvantageous for human superhumans.

Because ordinary superhumans don't have the stomach to quickly restore their spirituality, the longer their spirituality is consumed in battle, the greater the consumption. In particular, invading spirit beings are fearless and ruthless. Human superhumans, unless forced into a desperate situation, will definitely prioritize self-preservation and use killing as a secondary objective.

This forces the humans participating in the war to become extraordinary, and they have to expend more spiritual energy to use defensive skills to protect themselves.

As time went on, thousands of Sequence 9 spirit beings all fell on the edge of their territory.

However, more than ten of the thousands of human superhumans were killed or wounded, and almost all the remaining Sequence 9s had exhausted their spirituality.

This is even with a doctor's team providing support and recovery, and various healing potions available.

In any war, casualties are inevitable.

Because no one knows whether they will be unlucky enough to be targeted by dozens of spirit beings.

In this situation, not to mention a Sequence 9 of the same level, even a Sequence 8 could die from the concentrated damage of a Sequence 9.

However, this battle still revealed many shortcomings: the knights' reinforcements were not timely enough, the assassins were too aggressive and went too deep into enemy territory, the doctors' rescue speed was not fast or accurate enough, and the wizards' spells sometimes even accidentally injured their own people.

In order to cultivate these extraordinary individuals among his subjects, Rosen sent them to virtual spiritual realms for practical combat training.

Therefore, they have experienced battles of various scales, and based solely on their combat experience, they should not have made such a mistake.

But it seems that the training is still insufficient.

During training, everyone knows they won't die, but in real life-or-death combat, they become hesitant and timid.

However, this is a common problem for all novices. After experiencing a few more major battles, they will surely become mature soldiers.

Within the territory, there are thousands of extraordinary beings, but at most no more than one hundred have the potential to surpass Sequence 7.

This was still a selection process by Rosen from tens of millions of people in the Shafik State of Hunter x Hunter's Realm. Only those who had the potential to surpass Sequence 7 were qualified to grow relatively freely, and the ultimate fate of the rest was to become professional soldiers.

With the cannon fodder exhausted, the elites of the various spirit realms began to appear.

Leading the charge were still Sequence 9s, but these Sequence 9s were all elites of the same level, and among them were hidden Sequence 8s and Sequence 7s. Except for a few hundred ghost-faced bats at the top, there were thousands of elites heading towards the divine territory from the other four directions.

"All Sequence 9 and Sequence 8 shall retreat to the mountain. Sequence 7 shall move freely."

Rosen's voice appeared in the extraordinary consciousness of all the people.

This is the power of the ruler's military authority, which can easily unite the spirituality of all his subjects in commanding battles.

This is not the full extent of military power; after being recognized as a hero, it can play an even greater role.

The majority of the citizens who received the order withdrew back to the mountain in an orderly manner, leaving only a very small number of Sequence 7s still fighting on the front line.

At this point, the Sequence 7 slimes and crypt demons began to move forward and disperse into the trap area.

The fastest-rushing gray ratmen from the west drove hundreds of thousands of wolfhound-sized rats to scatter across the periphery of the territory and into the trap.

The outermost fire traps were activated simultaneously, turning the entire outermost edge of the territory into a sea of ​​fire.

The smell of roasted meat and burning fur, along with the charred corpses of those who had been engulfed in flames and were charging madly toward the castle only to die halfway there, made the throats of many of the villagers who were secretly observing from the mountainside feel itchy.

Hundreds of thousands of rats fell into the second ring of traps, impaled one by one and hung in the radius, burning continuously.

At this moment, the spirit beings from the four directions surrounding the territory all converged on the location of the minotaur. Clearly, the power displayed by the territory exceeded the expectations of the commanders behind the spirit beings, so the strategy shifted from dividing forces to encircling and then to a concentrated breakthrough.

Rosen also moved the slimes and cave demons from other directions over, preparing to begin a head-on attack on these invaders.

P.S.: Wishing all high school graduates the best of luck on their exams in the coming days and hoping they achieve top scores!

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