Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 182

Chapter 181 Hero Altar and Temple Ruins
Rosen warmly saw off the Wood Elf Queen before eagerly slipping into the mysterious study.

He took out the Miracle Pocket and threw the seed in his hand into it.

The detailed assessment results came out quickly, confirming that his previous spiritual perception was correct.

This seed is the prototype of the Hero Altar, a unique extraordinary building of the Wood Elf race. Moreover, it is a Hero Altar that can become a Wonder, and it is also a very rare Wonder with growth characteristics, which can grow from Sequence 6 to Sequence 3.

The Lord of the Divine Realm can bestow titles upon heroes, but heroes are not exclusive to the Lord of the Divine Realm.

Each intelligent race has a special hero sequence. The birth of a hero requires three conditions: strong personal combat power, strong personal leadership ability, and most importantly, recognition from the flame of civilization.

The first two are relatively easy to deal with, but gaining the approval of the "Civilization Torch" is extremely difficult.

Each race has very few ways to reliably generate hero sequences.

The Abyss Lord of the Abyss and the God Realm Lord of Humanity are, strictly speaking, special hero units.

However, not all intelligent races can carve out divine territories like humans, or become abyss lords under the favor of the abyss's will like abyssal demons. Therefore, many intelligent races eventually developed extraordinary structures such as hero altars.

The Hero Altar can directly bestow titles upon heroes and also allow heroes to be resurrected after death.

As the Lord of the Divine Realm, Rosen can bestow titles upon heroes, but he can only bestow one title at most at present. With this Wood Elf Hero Altar, he can bestow titles upon two heroes. Moreover, this Hero Altar is a Wonder with a unique Wonder property.

Rosen arrived in the Divine Realm and carefully planted the seeds in his hand in the garden of Ash Castle.

Then, tens of millions of spiritual crystals were piled on the ground, allowing the seeds that took root and sprouted to absorb the spiritual crystals and grow continuously. Eventually, a miniature version of the ancient tree of life, only five meters tall, grew out of the trees. The branches and leaves then wove together a spherical space containing a terrifying life force.

Rosen immediately bound the Hero Altar with his Noble Transcendent Source Essence, refining it into the second territory building of Sequence 6.

In fact, miracle buildings can function without refining. However, without refining, heroes conferred by the Hero Altar cannot be fully recognized by the territory. Therefore, the Tower of Time and the Magic Altar do not need to be integrated into the divine territory, but the Hero Altar must be fully integrated.

[Hero Altar: A Wonder Building]

[Level: Sequence 6 (Sequence 3)]

[Miracle Attribute: Can bestow a Heroic title upon a Wood Elf.]

[Miracle Traits: Unit Transformation, Uniqueness, Eternal Immortality]

All miracle artifacts have more attributes as their level increases, but the Hero Altar only has one core attribute: troop conversion.

All that is needed is to provide the Wood Elf race with various extraordinary sequence potions, and the Hero Altar can transform ordinary Wood Elves into troops, whose value to the Lord of the Divine Realm far exceeds that of ordinary extraordinary beings.

In Rosen's divine realm, slimes, crypt demons, ashes, and knight squires are all types of troops.

Kuroro and his companions took potions to change their class to Hunter or similar ranks. They were merely extraordinary beings. Although their strength far surpassed that of other soldiers of the same level in conventional comparisons, a hundred Kuroros would definitely not be able to defeat a hundred Crypt Demons.

As a type of soldier, they can bear the extraordinary abilities of lords and heroes.

Rosen imbued a soldier with some of his extraordinary abilities, making it easy for this soldier to easily defeat Kuroro, who was of the same level.

Therefore, high-sequence troop buildings are the extraordinary buildings that the lords of the divine realm dream of.

Therefore, the first-order unit buildings are even qualified to become the most prized possessions of the human race.

The Wood Elf race has three extraordinary sequences: Forest Guardian, Forest Mage, and Forest Watcher, which correspond to the human sequences of Hunter, Wizard, and Assassin, respectively. Of course, at the same level, the former is much inferior to the latter.

Of course, there is also an extremely rare sequence among the Wood Elves, namely the Elf King sequence, which can only be changed by successive queens.

However, the Elf King obviously cannot be used as a unit; the only units that can be transformed at the Hero Altar are Forest Guardians, Forest Mages, and Forest Watchers.

Alicia is currently a forest mage, but she will become an elf king in the future, and perhaps a hero soon after.

Alicia's heart is now completely bound to him.

If you really want her to stay, she definitely will, but she will also be very sad.

If Alicia were allowed to leave with him, the Wood Elf Queen would surely worry about the safety of her beloved daughter.

Rosen's intuition told him that this was the reason why the Wood Elf Queen had entrusted him with this extremely precious Hero Altar.

Because the Altar of Heroes is an eternal and indestructible wonder, if Alicia's part of her spirit is placed in the Altar of Heroes, she will indirectly receive the eternal and indestructible protection of the wonder. Even the true god can only seal Alicia and cannot completely kill her.

Furthermore, changing her class to a hero can enhance Alicia's potential and significantly reduce the difficulty for her to reach Sequence 1 in the future.

That evening, the Wood Elf Queen secretly delivered 2,100 Wood Elves to Lawson who had not yet been promoted.

Also delivered were the potions needed for the job change, as well as the potion recipes for later use.

Through the Hero Altar, Rosen transformed one thousand Forest Guardians, one thousand Forest Mages, and one hundred Forest Watchers. Since Forest Watchers require proficiency in killing techniques, the number of Wood Elves who met the requirements for class transformation was very small.

After all unit conversions were completed, Rosen began to confer hero ranks upon Alicia through the Hero Altar.

The job change process went smoothly, and Rosen also gained his first hero.

Alicia: Wood Elf

[Age: 160 years old]

[Class: Sequence 5 Forest Mage, Sequence 6 Hero]

[Spirituality: 50 points]

[Command Power: 5000+5000]

[Talents: Sequence 3 Life Affinity, Sequence 4 Elemental Affinity]

[Skills: Life Sharing, Plant Control, Wood-based Magic, Life Magic...]

[Hero Skills: Hero Aura, Forest Fog, Hero Leadership, Hero Logistics]

Rosen was slightly taken aback after reading the attributes; Alicia's talent was much better than he had imagined.

Her innate Sequence 3 life affinity greatly increases her chances of gaining pseudo-divine authority over life and becoming a demigod.

A command strength of 5,000 means that you can command a maximum of 5,000 units of Sequence 9, or 2500 units of Sequence 8, or 1250 units of Sequence 7. The higher the unit's sequence level, the more command strength it requires.

Through the Hero Aura, Alicia can share some of her skills with the troops she commands.

Further development could even lead to the creation of war skills that heroes can only unleash based on their hero auras.

As for forest fog, it can form a special fog that obscures and interferes with the enemy's perception in areas with abundant vegetation, and then enhance the perception capabilities of all friendly units within the forest fog.

Then there's the Hero Leadership skill, which doubles Alicia's leadership ability.

Finally, the Hero Logistics skill can significantly reduce the spirit consumption of units and greatly improve their spirit recovery ability.

Each hero gains one skill at each of the four skill levels; all skills are special skills without skill levels.

With comprehensive enhancements, the individual combat power of the troops under their command can be increased several times over.

Since Alicia transformed into a hero, she has been leading 2100 wood elves to wreak havoc in various virtual realms.

Although the rank of a unit cannot be increased in a short period of time, its combat experience can be increased rapidly.

Rosen had some free time and spent his days immersed in the library of the Wood Elf royal family.

He discovered a lot of valuable information here. It turns out that the Holy Continent did not originally belong to giants, but to elves in earlier times. At that time, the Holy Continent did not have as many huge plants as it does now.

However, the giants later arrived on the Holy Continent, defeated the elves, and cut down the Mother Tree of Life.

Finally, the various powers of the Sequence 0 Mother Tree of Life were dispersed and integrated into the entire Holy Continent, which led to the birth of countless giant plants and beasts, and thus artificially created the environment most suitable for giants to live in.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, the alien realms of the Holy Continent include not only giants but also elves.

However, the history of the elves being defeated by the giants is too long ago, too far removed from the birth of the spirit world. The spirit world can only capture very few historical traces, and therefore the spirit realms formed are also very rare.

Rosen repeatedly hacked into the spirit world's deep web through the main god's computer, and gradually discovered many secrets.

One crucial secret is that while the existing system of civilization's torches does indeed originate from the Kingdom of Torch, the Kingdom of Torch is not the creator of the torch, but merely its discoverer. It only pretends to be the creator of the torch in order to elevate itself.

Therefore, the flame of civilization was born very early on; the Kingdom of Flame simply discovered the flame and created a system to ignite the flame of civilization.

The carriers of historical traces stored in the spirit world are actually the embers of a fire captured by the spirit world.

If the embers of the elven civilization from tens of thousands of years ago on the Sacred Continent were also captured by the Spirit Realm, then a mirage related to the elven civilization should appear on the surface of the corresponding Spirit Realm on the Sacred Continent.

However, in the records of the Wood Elf Principality regarding the Spirit Realm, no mirages related to elven civilization have ever been found.

On the contrary, there are still a few spiritual realms related to the elven civilization that exist in the world.

There are two possibilities for this situation. The first is that the Holy Continent never had a glorious elven civilization at all, and the records of the Wood Elf Duchy are just false. The second possibility is that the Spirit Realm only captured a very small number of embers left after the elven civilization was destroyed.

The vast majority of embers are not deep within the spirit realm, so no mirages related to spirits appear on the surface of the spirit realm.

Rosen believes it is the second type because there are similar precedents.

There are no spiritual realms in the spirit world related to the Kingdom of the Fire God, because the embers of the Kingdom of the Fire God are now scattered throughout the human world, forming ashes that cover the human world. This situation directly results in the spirit world not having a single spiritual realm related to the Kingdom of the Fire God.

Rosen wanted to continue the investigation, but the hacking capabilities of the God Computer were insufficient.

Using the God's computer to hack into the deep web of the spirit world would consume his divinity, and the more encrypted the information, the longer the hacking would take. Obviously, the truth he wanted to investigate was also highly confidential in the deep web of the spirit world, and his current spiritual strength was insufficient to support the God's computer in completing the hacking.

However, Rosen did discover some clues.

These clues, combined with the documents of the Wood Elf Duchy, led Rosen to make some conjectures. He believed that the embers of elven civilization might still remain on the Holy Continent.

To verify whether your guess is correct, just do a simple check.

Rosen reached out and pressed his hand on the trunk of the Tree of Life, communicating with its spirit through his own.

The next instant, he was teleported by the Tree of Life to the roots of the Tree of Life.

The Tree of Life wasn't planted just anywhere. The location chosen by the Wood Elves was once the site where one of the Life Elf civilizations on the Sacred Continent planted the Tree of Life, a place that naturally gathers spiritual energy from hundreds of thousands of miles around.

Therefore, beneath the roots of the Tree of Life, remnants of a civilization of life spirits from tens of thousands of years ago are still preserved.

If the embers of the flame are indeed still on the Sacred Continent, then this ruin might be the place where the lost embers of the flame can be found.

With the help of the Tree of Life, Rosen was teleported directly into the ruins.

This is a temple with a diameter of over 100 meters. The entire temple is built using branches of the Mother Tree of Life. Although the Mother Tree of Life has lost all its vitality, the ancient tree of life still nourishes the temple with its life essence year after year.

If the dead tree sprouts new buds, the mother tree might have a chance to be reborn.

However, almost 20,000 years have passed, and the efforts of the ancient tree of life have been completely in vain.

Rosen walked inside the temple, carefully using the Miracle Flame and the pile of firewood to sense the embers of the embers.

Almost instantly, he made a discovery. He went directly to the place in the temple where the statue was enshrined and looked at it. This entire statue of the Elven God was made entirely of embers, but there seemed to be a special seal blocking it from the outside.

"May I take this statue with me?"

Rosen asked the Ancient Tree of Life through spiritual communication.

The Tree of Life did not refuse, and Rosen immediately and without hesitation dismantled the statue.

It seems the Tree of Life doesn't care as long as the temple isn't demolished.

This is not surprising. The Mother Tree of Life gave birth to the Ancient Tree of Life and the first elves. Even the true gods of the elven race are nothing more than peers in the eyes of the Ancient Tree of Life. The Ancient Tree of Life has no intention of protecting the mere statues of its peers that have died.

Rosen brought the statue into the mysterious study, pulled the internet cable over it, and touched the statue.

He discovered that the seal on the surface of the statue contained powerful divine energy, while the main god computer was extremely restrained by divinity.

Sure enough, as soon as the network cable was connected, the main god computer began to continuously extract its divinity.

Some information was even extracted from divinity and displayed on the desktop of the main god's computer.

Rosen stared intently at the ancient tree of life, which had been reduced to ashes by the flames of civilization, and the elven civilization that had been born from this tree. Beside the burning tree of life stood a giant whose body was engulfed in the blazing flames of civilization.

This civilization of giants and other life forms was completely reduced to ashes, and only then were all the ashes collected and shaped into a statue.

They then placed the statue inside a temple built from the trunk of a Mother Tree of Life, and finally buried the temple deep underground, where it disappeared. Clearly, the giants had collected the embers of the elves' life force.

Moreover, there must be more than one similar temple and statue across the entire Holy Continent.

Rosen continued reading, and the main god's computer actually deciphered the purpose of sealing the embers of the flame.

Given the analytical capabilities of the main computer, it shouldn't be able to achieve this level of performance.

Unless the information that has been deciphered was originally stored within the divinity of the giant god and passed down through generations.

"So that's what happened."

Rosen smiled with delight after reading this information.

The flame of civilization of the giants was likely ignited using a method stolen from the Kingdom of the Flame God.

Then the giant civilization innovated and created a method to utilize the embers of a fire.

The embers of the fire possess the same eternal and indestructible nature as miracles, and the giants even believe that the embers of the fire are the most special kind of miracle.

At that time, the Spirit Realm had not yet been created, but the Giant Civilization had already discovered that the embers of the flame contained traces of history.

So they forged the embers of the fire into a statue of the Elven God, and then used the power of the Mother Tree of Life to continuously nourish the statue, attempting to transform it into a man-made miracle treasure. However, this technique clearly failed in the end.

If it were truly a mature technology, that giant god might not have left any relevant information within his divinity.

Although the technology failed, the embers, tempered by life force for tens of thousands of years, were not entirely unchanged.

Rosen discovered that the firewood transformed from these embers was somewhat special.

Compared to firewood transformed from ordinary embers, it's like the difference between wood and charcoal.

The latter is easier to burn, and once lit, it can reflect more of the afterglow of civilization.

Rosen threw the firewood into the fire and then miraculously lit it.

As the firewood ignited, Rosen looked down and watched the flames illuminate the ashes, revealing the lingering glow of civilization's ashes and the historical traces hidden within the embers—a piece of history recorded in the firelight.

Rosen saw another new ancient tree of life, and countless elves living beneath it.

They are not Wood Elves, but all of them are higher-ranking Life Spirits of Wood Elves.

Strictly speaking, Alicia is a life spirit with a bloodline that has reverted to its ancestral form; otherwise, she wouldn't have acquired the Sequence 3 Life Affinity talent.

With hundreds of thousands of life-giving elves, this is already a considerable branch of elven civilization.

However, all the elves were busy and tense, preparing for battle.

Finally, giants appeared in the traces of history. Tens of thousands of giants caused the earth to sink wherever they went, and each giant, even the shortest of them, was hundreds of meters tall. They carried mountains and hurled them at the ancient tree of life from afar.

The war between the life spirits and the giants lasted for three years, with both sides suffering heavy losses and still unable to determine a victor.

Finally, the time for the final battle arrived. A true god emerged from among the giants, his body engulfed in flames. At the same time, the Tree of Life came to life and took human form. This was a divine descent cast by the true god worshipped by the Life Spirits.

However, the moment the two true gods appeared, the traces of history came to an abrupt end.

Clearly, the historical traces within the embers of the flame are not qualified to bear the true God.

Rosen took out his magic pen and touched the ash curtain, beginning to continuously infuse it with divine power.

According to estimates, to reignite the civilization of the Life Spirits and bring everything back to life in the world of the painting, at least hundreds of millions of divine essences would be needed, which would be equivalent to about 600 million units of high-grade spiritual crystals.

If converted to low-grade spiritual crystals, it would require at least 600 billion.

Rosen only has a few hundred million spiritual crystals. Even if he doesn't sell the miracle treasures and sells the regular extraordinary resources he has, he'll only have a few billion spiritual crystals at most. Even if he sells the time-attribute spiritual crystals as well, he'll only have a few tens of billions at most.

This means that it takes nine-tenths of the effort to revive the destroyed life spirit civilization.

Rosen shook his head. If the flame of civilization were truly rekindled, at least a Sequence 2 Spirit Realm painting could be obtained.

Although the investment is large, the subsequent output is absolutely worthwhile.

Because the Life Elf civilization has a Life Tree of Sequence 2, hundreds of thousands of Life Elves who can become its subjects, and even more than one demigod Life Elf. These are things that cannot be bought with hundreds of billions of spiritual crystals.

The guaranteed return is several times the initial investment, but he simply doesn't have that many spiritual crystals.

Years later, Rosen felt poor again.

If he were to sell some of the miraculous treasures, he might actually be able to collect these spiritual crystals.

The Resurrection Cross and the Remnant Ring of Poseidon from Sequence 3, and the Time Tower from Sequence 5, are all priceless.

Rosen is worried that even if the flame of civilization is ignited, and the power of the flame painter is successfully used to create a Sequence 2 spiritual painting.

However, with his Sequence 6 strength, he probably wouldn't be able to control the Sequence 2 Spirit Realm painting at all.

Only now did he realize that he had been somewhat arrogant lately.

Because of the amazing results he gained from illuminating a corner of the Dark Continent with mechanical cities, he was eager to find a thousand mechanical cities to completely illuminate the Dark Continent as soon as possible. However, he overlooked the fact that this was not something a Sequence 6 should be doing.

What if the entire Dark Continent is lit up? What if we obtain the Sequence 2 Spirit Realm Painting?
These are all external factors; the real key is to improve your own sequence level.

He hasn't even digested the extraordinary resources worth billions of spiritual crystals he has, yet he's already thinking about how to earn hundreds of billions.

Rosen shook his head, calmed down, and decided to get back to a more grounded approach.

Of course, the alien spirit realm is not abandoned; it's just that we're letting things take their natural course and no longer fixated on resolving it all in a short period.

With a change in mindset, Rosen quickly realized that he was blind to what was right under his nose and had not discovered that the Sky Garden was actually a haven for painters.

The natural scenery of the Wood Elf Kingdom was so beautiful, and the Wood Elves, both men and women, were exceptionally good-looking. Painters from many nearby countries considered the Wood Elf Kingdom a must-visit location for sketching, and the Sky Garden was thus favored by countless painters.

Therefore, the Artists' Guild in Sky Gardens has a giant gallery owned by the Wood Elf royal family.

Almost every painter who comes to gather inspiration leaves behind a few paintings when they leave. Although the vast majority are just low-sequence spiritual paintings, there are also some exquisite works that are at the sequence level 3 or higher.

Even if it is just a spiritual painting, it will undergo a qualitative change after reaching Sequence 3.

As soon as Rosen learned about the gallery, he couldn't wait to move in and planned to stay for a long time.

If he could fully comprehend the painter sequence knowledge contained in all the spiritual paintings here, he would probably be able to become a sequence 4 painter at the very least. As time passed, two years went by, and unknowingly, his three skills, Mind Canvas, Painting Technique and Glory Blood Seal, had all been upgraded to LV5.

The remaining special skills do not require painstaking upgrading; they will naturally be strengthened as the sequence level increases.

(End of this chapter)