Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 177 Millions of Slaves and the Power of the True God

Chapter 176

Phantom City, the slave market.

Because the 99th layer of the abyss is the gateway to the abyss plane, the trade here is more prosperous than one can imagine.

The invasion of the 99th layer of the Abyss was not limited to the human world; other alien races also had conflicts with the Abyss. It is no exaggeration to say that the demons of the Abyss were enemies of the entire world. If it were not for the protection of the will of the Abyss, the Abyss plane would have been destroyed by the true gods of various races long ago.

Therefore, in this slave market, you can buy slaves of almost every race.

After walking around, Rosen saw many captured human slaves, slaves of various races, and even countless abyssal demons who had become slaves. As long as you have spiritual crystals, you can buy as many slaves as you want.

Of all these slaves, Rosen most wanted to buy human slaves.

The World Government prohibits the slave trade of humans, but the World Government's laws are worthless to the Abyss.

If someone can buy human slaves from the Abyss, according to the laws of the World Government, they will have the power of life and death over these people. However, if these people have offspring, they must be granted freedom.

Although Rosen now has tens of thousands of subjects, the more subjects the better.

He bought millions of human slaves in one go, and then immediately fed some of them to his pets.

It wasn't a real pet, of course; it was just a temporarily tamed abyssal unicorn.

After devouring tens of thousands of human slaves, the Abyss Unicorn still lingered, eyeing the remaining human slaves.

"Sweetie, it'll be all gone once you finish it all."

As Rosen spoke, he released a spatial mist, transferring the remaining human slaves into the spaces within the paintings and sealing them away.

The several abyssal demons who had been secretly observing Rosen stopped watching him.

Rosen knew that his advance preparations had paid off.

There must be a purpose for buying such a large number of human slaves in order to get away with it.

If the Abyss Unicorn didn't devour tens of thousands of people, it wouldn't be able to take this group of humans with it.

Of course, the tens of thousands who died were not completely dead. Their souls were sent into the Primal Dream by Rosen. Not only did the territory in reality need to be developed, but the Primal Dream of Little Dragon Girl also needed a sufficient population to build it up little by little.

Having dealt with millions of human slaves, Rosen began to set his sights on slaves of other races.

Inside one of the sealed cages, Rosen saw a prismatic crystal as tall as a person.

This crystal is pure black and has no luster, so you can't see anything inside. You can only vaguely sense the presence of life.

Upon seeing the crystal, Rosen instinctively felt his tongue drool with desire.

Since acquiring the Enchanting Tongue, he has found himself becoming increasingly vulnerable to beauty.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to resist eating Little Dragon Girl.

Rosen had no intention of suppressing his desires; in fact, this was a form of spiritual practice against the seven deadly sins for him.

However, none of the bewitching tongues could elicit an irresistible urge from Li Shiqing, Xiaolongnu, the succubi he had encountered in recent days, or the angel he had seen not long ago.

However, judging from the sign hanging outside, the price tag was a whopping 500 million spiritual crystals.

Keep in mind that he purchased millions of human slaves, yet the total cost was less than tens of millions of spiritual crystals.

"What's the story behind this that makes it so expensive?"

Rosen asked the slave owner without changing his expression.

"It was unearthed from an abandoned ruin that had been abandoned for thousands of years. Inside should be a sealed Sequence 5."

The slave owner explained, "We don't know exactly what race is sealed inside, nor do we know if it fits the aesthetic of the Abyss Demons. However, the fact that this slave possesses a seal that even a Sequence 3 slave would find difficult to see through makes him very valuable."

After a moment of contemplation, Rosen finally decided to take the slave.

However, he didn't have that many abyssal attribute spiritual crystals on hand. After some haggling with the slave owner, he ultimately paid off a lot of extraordinary materials collected from abyssal lifeforms, as well as a lot of scapegoats to complete the transaction.

Since the spiritual crystals from the human side cannot be used in large quantities, then let's use the spiritual crystals to exchange for substitute scarecrows.

This way, the slave owners wouldn't suspect his identity.

Rosen obtained the prismatic crystal that sealed the unknown life form and immediately left the slave market to return to the inn.

In the Void Gallery, he carefully placed the spiritual crystal into the Gluttony Furnace.

With the combined effects of the Space Sacred Flame and the Gluttony Furnace, its digestive capacity has surpassed that of Lawson's Gluttonous Stomach.

So even if the seal reaches Sequence 3 level, it is still being peeled away little by little.

However, seeing that the seal was about to be completely broken, Rosen transferred the shrunken prismatic crystal to the Gluttonous Stomach.

The Gluttony Furnace has a stronger digestive capacity, but it is far less powerful than the Gluttony Stomach. As long as you don't reach Sequence 2, you can't escape the Gluttony Stomach. Soon, as the last seal was broken, an elf girl who was perfect from head to toe and didn't look like a real person appeared inside.

Rosen released the elven girl from her Gluttonous Stomach, carefully sensed her spirituality, and then tossed her into his Miracle Pocket.

Through the Miracle Pocket's appraisal, he learned about the origins of this elven girl.

Since she used the Miracle Pocket, it's obvious that this girl is a miracle treasure.

More accurately, it should be described as a miraculous treasure possessing life.

The Elf race is a very large race with many sub-races. One of these sub-races is the Fantasy Elf, who are born with the talent to materialize fantasy into reality. Of course, this talent has an upper limit, and it is almost impossible for a Fantasy Elf to advance to Sequence 3.

Therefore, even within the elven race, fantasy elves do not hold a high status and are not valued.

Finally, the Fantasy Elf was attacked by the Mechanical God. However, for some unknown reason, the Mechanical God did not destroy the Fantasy Elf, but instead used the Mechanical God's mechanical energy to corrupt the Fantasy Elf's Tree of Life.

All the fantastical spirits born from the Tree of Life eventually became mechanical life forms.

Unwilling to become mechanical beings, the fantastical spirits committed mass suicide around the ancient tree of life.

The Tree of Life also self-destructed at that moment, but before it was destroyed, it gathered its last strength to give birth to the last fantasy spirit, and then sealed this fantasy spirit away, in order to preserve a healthy and living fantasy spirit.

However, the power of the gods is immense; the power of the mechanical gods is directed against all fantasy spirits.

Therefore, after the Tree of Life and all the fantasy spirits self-destructed, mechanical psionic energy was gathered into the seal in an attempt to transform the last fantasy spirit into mechanical life. As a result, a miracle occurred during this process.

The last fantasy spirit not only transformed into a miraculous life form, but also into a miraculous treasure.

It's somewhat similar to Fairy Tale Dragon Ball, which is why it was able to be identified by Miracle Pocket.

As for why the Enchanting Tongue possessed such unprecedented allure, Rosen understood through the miraculous properties of the elven maiden.

Perhaps it was the desire of the Ancient Tree of Life and all the fantasy elves to continue their bloodline that led to the unique characteristic of this elf girl's birth: she was born with enhanced reproductive abilities, similar to the Ash Bee Queen, capable of giving birth to fantasy elves that were equivalent to Ash Bees.

Rosen examined the elven girl carefully and discovered that she was a half-machine, half-flesh life form.

Her entire skeleton is mechanical, and the rest is flesh and blood. After the seal is broken, she begins to absorb the bloodline inheritance of the Fantasy Elf race. When she awakens, she will be mentally mature just like Little Dragon Girl.

However, Lawson could not accurately determine the exact time he woke up.

For the next two months, Rosen changed his identity every day to purchase specialties from the Abyss.

In any case, we must earn back the money spent on buying slaves.

In addition, he is also creating new paintings of spiritual realms.

The divine territory alone is certainly not enough to house millions of people and an even greater number of descendants.

Moreover, solving the food and lodging problems of millions of people is no easy task.

In the end, Rosen used the main god's computer to log into the deep web of the spirit world and offered a reward for the architect and designer to work together to design a city plan.

Then, the main god offered a bounty, and through a human with great fortune, purchased the relevant extraordinary materials from the main god's temple.

In the empty studio, Rosen drew out everything in the city design plan without missing a single detail.

This is a forest city, composed of countless intertwined trees and vines.

Humans live in houses built on giant trees, with streets formed by vines and the trunks of these trees. These giant trees not only serve as buildings, but also grow staple foods such as flour and rice, as well as thousands of kinds of fruits.

Then, the ground between the giant trees was cultivated with vast vegetable gardens and numerous farms were built.

This forest city, with an area of ​​less than 100 square kilometers, is large enough to accommodate tens of millions of people.

Of course, Lawson doesn't raise pigs, so some factory-themed ethereal paintings will be added later.

In the future, we will live in the city's spiritual realm and go to the factory's spiritual realm when we work.

Rosen doesn't expect these people to earn spiritual crystals for him; it's enough that they can support themselves without him having to invest in them continuously.

What he values ​​is the benefit his people bring to the divine realm, and the faith they continuously provide.

Although the Hunter x Hunter Realm can provide billions of believers, these believers worship the main god, and their divine domains cannot directly benefit from their faith, while the faith of the people can directly strengthen the divine domains.

Unlike the gods of other races, the aristocratic divine domain lord belief system of human civilization is unusual in that it does not require a certain level of piety.

As long as the people recognize their lord, as long as their morale is high enough, and as long as their happiness level is high enough, all kinds of positive spiritual activities can be transformed into the faith that the lord of the divine realm needs, because this kind of faith can directly strengthen the flame of human civilization.

Therefore, in the human world, you can hardly see nobles with a villainous face.

The dark side of all nobles lies in places that ordinary people can never see.

Another month later, Rosen finally finished his "Spirit Realm Painting," a project he had painstakingly completed over nearly three months. [Forest City: Spirit Realm Painting]

[Level: Sequence 6]

[Area: Within a radius of 500 li]

[Population: 51,519 people]

Special products: population, timber, grains, vegetables, fruits, and meat.

With a place to settle down, Rosen relocated the millions of people still sealed in the space depicted in the painting to the forest city.

The resettlement of nearly seven million people would take at least a month to complete, even with all the manpower in the territory.

Rosen delegated all the miscellaneous tasks to Kurapika, who had experience managing the Holy City and could easily handle the job.

As for him, he finally had some free time and rested for two days before preparing to complete his mission.

Using the disguise and shapeshifting abilities of a shapeshifter, the self-portrait clone disguised himself as an abyssal serpent demon and arrived at an abandoned house in Phantom City. Inside the house, he found a piece of paper, a page torn from some kind of extraordinary book.

I've arrived at Phantom City. Where are the Star Emblems located?

After Rosen wrote a line on the paper, he received a reply almost immediately.

Wrap this in this paper and leave it where you are, then immediately use the Abyss Portal to travel 100,000 miles away from Phantom City.

Rosen took out the Star Emblem, which had been cleansed of his own spiritual aura and then merged with the spiritual aura of others. After wrapping it in the paper in his hand, he returned to the inn without hesitation and then left Phantom City with his original self.

Rosen didn't intend to stay and hide in the Mysterious Study because he wasn't sure if the Mysterious Study could stop Sequence 0.

Even if Sequence 0 poses no threat to the Mysterious Study, there's no chance he could take advantage of the chaos if he stayed.

Therefore, leaving as soon as possible is the safest option. However, he was still somewhat curious, so he teleported to a city thousands of miles away and left a self-portrait clone, while his main body used the void phase to teleport back to the first city he had entered.

Through the eyes of his self-portrait clone, Rosen silently awaited the impending clash of Sequence 0.

Less than two hours later, he witnessed a horrifying scene.

The sky directly above Phantom City was suddenly torn apart by a giant hand that was thousands of miles in diameter.

Through the torn sky, an invisible spiritual wave spread out in an instant, covering an area of ​​100,000 li.

Even standing behind the window of the mysterious study, Rosen felt as if his head was about to explode. He heard crazy babbling in his ears, his eyes began to bleed, and he even began to hallucinate the world he saw. The terrifying pressure made him lose control of his body.

He was considered to be in relatively good condition; almost every one of the abyssal demons in the city outside the mysterious study was beginning to undergo insane physical mutations.

They roared and writhed on the ground, their flesh swelling into spheres and beginning to reform, eventually reassembling into giant, patterned serpents that began to fight each other. Within a radius of ten thousand miles, very few remained intact.
Rosen's last sight was a terrifying one: a snake's head, thousands of miles in diameter, emerged from behind the torn sky.

When the snake's head opened its mouth, everything within a radius of 100,000 miles of Phantom City was sucked into the giant beast's mouth.

Rosen's head felt like it was about to explode. He managed to close the window with all his might before collapsing to the ground in agony.

Ten thousand miles away, although the abyss demons within the city had not mutated into giant serpents.

However, many demons from the abyss were also affected, collapsing to the ground and suffering deep-seated psychological trauma.

Rosen stumbled into a small alley, withdrew his self-portrait clone, reopened the mysterious study, and ate more than a dozen golden apples that he had materialized and stored in advance before he could completely purify the spiritual influence.

That giant snake we just saw must be the legendary pet raised by the true god of the hunter sequence.

It's just a Sequence 0 pet, yet it possesses such terrifying power.

The five stages of progress are: below demigod and demigod, demigod and titled demigod, titled demigod and Sequence 1, Sequence 1 and Sequence 0, and finally Sequence 0 and true god. Each of these stages represents a world of difference.

Rosen left the mysterious study and, like the other abyssal demons, staggered toward the abyssal portal.

At this moment, a long queue had formed at the abyss portals, and all the abyss demons were trying their best to escape as far away as possible. Although the giant serpent had swallowed everything within a radius of 100,000 miles of Phantom City and retreated, who knew if there would be a second time.

And even without a second attack, don't forget about the Abyss Monarch whose base was destroyed.

If we don't run away now, are we just waiting to suffer the wrath of the Abyss Lord?

Rosen had lost count of how many times he had teleported before finally arriving near the 99th floor of the Abyss and the front lines of the human world.

Here you can see a gigantic spatial rift stretching tens of millions of miles to the horizon, and you can vaguely sense the thick aura of blood and negativity emanating from it. That is the area where the space between the Abyss Plane and the human world intersects.

He can return to the human world by crossing this area; with his strength, he is capable of returning home safely.

Despite the countless lives buried on this battlefield, there are actually no extraordinary beings above Sequence 4 on this battlefield.

Anyone who becomes a Sequence 3 will no longer be able to remain on this battlefield.

War is for the sake of interests; a war without interests has no meaning whatsoever.

The Abyss is arrogant and makes enemies everywhere because the Abyss Blood River produces too many new Abyss Demons every year. Even if they kill each other, they cannot obtain enough resources to grow. Rather than fighting each other, they prefer to wage war against others and compete for resources in the process of killing.

Those who survive to become Sequence 3 and leave the battlefield are all elites; those who die on the battlefield are all trash.

Humans are not as cruel as the demons of the abyss, and they would not use Sequence 6 to Sequence 4 transcendents as cannon fodder. However, they also have the mentality of survival of the fittest. Moreover, even if humans do not want to fight, they cannot ignore the abyss's attack.

Rosen learned the truth about this confrontation from the intelligence agency by hacking into the spirit world's deep web through the main god's computer.

Does the mighty Abyss Monarch really care about some Sequence 6s in the Blazing Shadow Duchy?

It's obvious that this is impossible. The truth is that the group of Sequence 6 were conscripted by the World Government, but were captured alive by the Abyss Lord. This was tantamount to slapping the World Government in the face. If the World Government didn't come to their aid, their morale would collapse after this happened repeatedly.

However, if the World Government wants to rescue people from the Abyss Lord's lair, it will have to face the Abyss Lord lying in wait.

Therefore, the Abyss Lord was luring the World Government into providing aid, only to then kill the deities who attempted to rescue them.

The World Government was well aware of the Abyss Lord's intentions. At this time, they discovered that a hereditary duke was carrying the Star Crest and had just managed to escape the Abyss Lord's capture. The World Government then planned to turn the tables and launch a counterattack.

It is obvious that the Abyss Lord lost this covert confrontation, while the World Government won.

The World Government's actions earlier certainly weren't limited to that Sequence 0 giant serpent, because simply forcibly tearing space wouldn't require the use of the Star Emblem. The Abyss Lord never retaliated against the giant serpent, which means he was likely trapped by the Human True God using the Star Emblem.

Having witnessed the supreme power of the gods firsthand, Rosen felt a fire burning within him.

He also wanted to have that kind of strength, but he was still far from being a Sequence 6 expert.

Rosen stayed in a city near the Abyss Battlefield for a day before heading to the Abyss Battlefield without hesitation.

The human race still needs to register and be incorporated into various teams.

The Abyss Demons don't have those things. Abyss Demons are chaotic creatures without organization or discipline, so as long as an Abyss Demon is willing to step onto the Abyss Battlefield, they can step into the portal to enter the battlefield at any time.

Passing through the abyss portal, Rosen saw an endless wilderness.

Beneath my feet lay viscous, dark red blood plasma, and all around me stretched an endless expanse of strange, twisted, dark red trees.

In its early days, the Abyss Battlefield was actually a vast, desolate wasteland.

There used to be plants, but after several wars, all the plants were wiped out, leaving only the wasteland.

However, the Abyss later discovered that such a battlefield was too disadvantageous for the Abyss demons who were used to fighting alone.

So later, a certain abyss lord created a completely new plant life. This plant can grow rapidly by using the flesh and blood of abyss demons as nourishment. As long as the root system rooted at a depth of 10,000 meters underground is not completely destroyed, a new main stem can quickly grow even if the main stem on the surface is gone.

Since then, these Abyss Blood Trees have been found everywhere on the Abyss Battlefield.

These Abyssal Blood Trees not only altered the environment of the Abyssal battlefield, preventing large-scale human legionary operations from continuing, but they also continuously modified the surrounding environment, weakening humanity while benefiting the Abyssal demons.

Rosen never expected that, after all the twists and turns, he would end up on the front lines.

But since we're here, we can't let this trip be in vain.

He was worried about being targeted by powerful demons in the Abyss on the 99th floor, but now that he's in the Abyss Battlefield, where the strongest are only Sequence 4, he doesn't need to worry at all. He just needs to kill all the demons he sees.

Rosen mounted his mechanical mount and activated Void Shadow Escape, heading deeper into the abyss battlefield.

The Abyss Battlefield spans tens of millions of miles, with over one hundred million troops deployed by both humanity and the Abyss.

Only after experiencing the carnage of the Abyss Battlefield did Rosen realize that his understanding of it was still incomplete.

Although both sides deployed at least Sequence 6 units, there were actually quite a few units below Sequence 6 as well, because many Abyss Demons had Demon Familiars, and the human side also had Knight Squires and low-sequence auxiliary units.

Furthermore, the Abyss Battlefield has many areas, each specifically designed for different sequence levels.

Sequence 6 can travel to the combat zone of Sequence 4, but Sequence 4 usually does not travel to the combat zone of Sequence 6.

Although there are no explicit rules, this is basically a rule that is tacitly agreed upon by both parties.

After all, not everyone can fight beyond their level. It is common for a Sequence 4 to kill a Sequence 6 in an instant. If both sides are focused on hunting each other's lower-ranking enemies, then the effect of survival of the fittest will not be achieved, and it will only lead to a situation where both sides are injured.

This tacit understanding will not truly break down unless one side is certain of defeating the other.

This is a consensus between the Abyss and the human race. Even the Abyss Monarch of the 99th floor of the Abyss does not have the right to break the tacit agreement on his own.

However, this person is not without temper; he has issued a very high bounty for any human being who has achieved extraordinary feats.

As a result, more abyssal demons set foot on the abyssal battlefield, forcing humanity to continuously increase its troop strength.

This meant that it took Rosen a full six months to fight his way through the abyss battlefield and return to the human world.

(End of this chapter)