Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 187 Death Scorpion and the Kingdom of Divine Weapons

Chapter 186

In the desolate mountains of the Divine Tree Empire, countless Sky-reaching Grasses grow.

Apart from the Sky-reaching Grass, no other plants can be seen in the Barren Mountains.

Rosen stared in astonishment at the towering Tongtian Grass, which stretched for tens of thousands of miles and whose single blade of grass could blot out the sky.

These Sky-reaching Grasses grow extremely fast, their roots taking hold on the barren mountains.

A mountain with a single, towering grass, and within that single grass lies a miniature world.

Countless giant birds and beasts live in the upper part of the Tongtian Grass, which is not covered with ashes.

Rosen soared into the air, rising ten thousand miles high, and soon spotted a giant beast, the Fire Cloud Sparrow.

This behemoth isn't very large, with a wingspan of only a few hundred meters, but it can transform into a colossal creature with a wingspan of tens of thousands of meters by transforming into a fire elemental. Once it reaches adulthood, its level is as high as Sequence 5, and there is even a considerable probability that it will eventually grow to Sequence 3.

The flamingos that were the mounts of Capac's knights and squires possessed a faint trace of the extraordinary bloodline of the Fire Lark.

Instead of hunting the Firebird directly, Rosen looked warily at the ashes below.

In this desolate mountain range, only the area below ten thousand miles is covered in ash, while above ten thousand miles, only the Sky-Reaching Grass shows no trace of ash. This means that if a deity has its eye on this place, it can cross the void at any time to pose a threat to them.

Of course, the world is so big, the chances of a deity suddenly setting its sights on this place are no less than winning the lottery.

However, Rosen's luck isn't high right now. Although the Moore family gave him a good boost, his luck is still not at its peak, so being cautious is definitely the right thing to do, especially since selling the Beast King Arena might offend someone who's fishing behind the scenes.

However, he shouldn't be that unlucky, especially since he had already disguised himself when he arrived.

Dressed in full hunter's attire, Rosen approached the Firebird on his Storm Thunderbird.

The moment the distance closed to 300 miles, Dragon King's Wrath in sniper rifle form had already locked onto Fire Cloud Sparrow.

Rosen sniped with one hand because he held a twin dagger in his left hand.

In this way, the Twin Daggers' attribute of doubling skill damage will take effect.

The time-tracking scope locked on, and the bullet fired from the future silencer appeared three seconds later, striking the Firebird.

With the help of Xiaolongnu's fantasy weapon, the anti-magic bullet instantly struck the Fire Sparrow's head.

More dragon-language magic bullets struck Firebird, but the Ash Armor Break, enhanced with double skill damage, failed to take effect due to Firebird's elemental transformation. Its most powerful armor-piercing attribute only caused Firebird to suffer some true damage from its Miracle trait.

The firebird, suddenly attacked, instinctively tries to find its attacker.

However, at this moment, Rosen had already used the Void Flash to hide in the Firebird's blind spot.

Rosen's Dragon King's Wrath fired with the precision of a machine gun, unleashing hundreds of dragon language spells over three minutes, ultimately killing the Fire Cloud Sparrow with true damage. This was partly due to the Fire Cloud Sparrow's strong defense, but also because the damage output was insufficient.

Skill stacking can maximize damage, but skills cannot be stacked arbitrarily.

Excluding incompatible skills, the more skills you combine and use, the more spiritual energy you consume.

Rosen has already incorporated all the skills that can be fused into Dragon King's Wrath, but he still feels it's not enough. Therefore, Sequence 5 must master several powerful attack skills that can complement each other. As for increasing damage right now, he can only rely on external forces.

When he hunted down the cat god's clone, he obtained a pair of extremely rare Sequence 6 cat's eye stones.

Simply embedding it into the Dragon King's Wrath would be enough to greatly enhance his strength.

He also consulted alchemists who were capable of inlaying, but ordinary inlaying would be too wasteful.

Rosen wanted the highest standard of perfect inlay, but even the Divine Wood Empire couldn't find an alchemist of that caliber.

However, under the guidance of the Wood Elf Queen, he learned that the Divine Weapon Kingdom of the Holy Continent would surely satisfy him.

Moreover, traveling to the Kingdom of Divine Weapons only requires a detour of tens of thousands of miles. Now that he felt that the Dragon King's Wrath could no longer bring an absolute advantage in damage, he was already eager to go to the Kingdom of Divine Weapons.

Two months later, Rosen's gun felled the hundredth behemoth.

The moment the behemoth died, the cross mark on the back of its hand turned scarlet again.

The surrounding space began to distort and fold, and a colossal creature was being transferred from other dimensions. This must be the Beast King, which had materialized directly from the Spirit Realm into reality under the rules of the World Government.

After Rosen created some distance, a small beast king, no more than a few meters long, soon appeared several miles ahead.

It was a completely transparent white scorpion with wings on its back. He quickly searched his mind for the information he had read.

"Death Scorpion..."

Rosen was slightly startled.

As far as he knew, the Death Scorpion was an extraordinary life form with extremely fast speed, superb stealth ability, and terrifying venom. Becoming a Beast King would definitely enhance these abilities again. Although it was only Sequence 6, its threat level might even reach Sequence 4.

For a beast king of this level, aren't those geniuses who hunt a hundred giant beasts to challenge the beast king just throwing their lives away?

Rosen considered one possibility: strictly speaking, he seemed to have hunted down two hundred giant beasts.

Then, if the previous giant beast escaped without being hunted, could it be that the two superpositions resulted in the appearance of the Beast King-level Death Scorpion?

The Death Scorpion vanished silently from Rosen's sight; even his sixth sense couldn't detect a trace of it.

However, after being on guard for half an hour, the Death Scorpion still did not attack.

Only then did Rosen truly understand why the Death Scorpion, a mere Sequence 6 creature, was listed as an extremely dangerous life form in the book.

Because the Death Scorpion not only possesses all the qualities of a super assassin, but also the powerful intelligence that belongs to an assassin.

Death Scorpion must have realized that he was not the real person but a clone of his self-portrait.

So even though there were many opportunities to ambush him, Death Scorpion patiently refrained from doing so. It's likely that even if his true form didn't appear for ten days or half a month, Death Scorpion could remain hidden and lurking nearby.

Rosen hides in the Void Gallery, switching places with his self-portrait clone.

The main body appeared less than two seconds before a scorpion tail silently and slowly approached from behind.

Rosen's senses were completely oblivious to the danger behind him.

However, the self-portrait clone looking back in the Void Gallery saw a murderous intent coming from behind.

Just as the Death Scorpion's tail was about to pierce his head, Rosen used a teleportation technique to create distance.

The Death Scorpion vanished instantly, disappearing back into hiding.

Rosen was having a headache. Getting rid of the Death Scorpion was easy for him, but to kill it, he first needed to find it to launch a counterattack. It seemed that he would need to invest heavily in bait to make the hunt a success.

Just as he was thinking about what bait to use, he kept flashing in the void to create distance.

However, the moment his void teleportation ended, the scorpion tail, as if it had been waiting there all along, silently pierced through Rosen's head. In that instant, he was so frightened that he almost lost his soul, and only managed to slap the scorpion tail on instinct.

The hunting mark of the miraculous treasure, the Cat's Paw Pendant, silently landed on the tail of the Death Scorpion.

However, the next instant, the Death Scorpion severed its own tail and disappeared silently once again.

Rosen pulled the scorpion tail that was piercing his skull, and the immense life force within his body began to regenerate flesh, bones, and brain. However, the invisible and colorless venom within the scorpion tail began to dissolve his brain.

If he continues like this, he's doomed. His only option is to be reborn in the realm of the gods.

However, this Death Scorpion might be able to chase him all the way to his divine territory.
The fact that he could be so decisive, realizing that the assassin might have tampered with his tail, and immediately abandoning it, shows that the Death Scorpion's intelligence is more terrifying than he imagined. Even that demigod assassin is not as professional as the Death Scorpion.

Rosen swung his sword and chopped off the head, but a new head immediately grew back on the neck.

The head in his hand dissolved into a transparent liquid, which he casually sent into the Gluttony Furnace of the Void Gallery.

It would be easier for the Death Scorpion to regenerate its tail than it could to regenerate a human head.

So the Death Scorpion didn't take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack, probably because it didn't expect that its head wouldn't be a fatal blow.

Before the Death Scorpion's tail could regenerate, Rosen began frantically setting up traps around the area.

At the same time, all life force is transformed into spiritual energy, which is then attached to the body surface to form a hollow sphere. Finally, the hollow sphere is continuously enlarged and, through energy techniques, formed into a spherical space with the body as the center, allowing for all-around exploration without blind spots.

Of course, the price to pay for doing this is losing the defense of Nen.

However, the instantaneous burst damage of the Death Scorpion is too strong, so whether he has a Sequence 6 defensive method or not makes almost no difference.

A few minutes later, Rosen sensed that an alien life form had entered the area covered by the sphere formed by his spiritual energy. However, the moment he noticed it, the Death Scorpion appeared directly below him, extending its tail upwards.

Just as he and the Storm Thunderbird were about to be strung together like candied hawthorns, the time trap directly below Rosen activated.

In the instant that time dust froze, Rosen shot the tail of the Death Scorpion.

This bullet is made from Xiaolongnu's Mind Orb, which directly attacks the target's spirit, and its power also disperses and lies dormant within the target's consciousness. This is one of the methods Xiaolongnu has mastered to specifically target enemies with extremely high speeds.

However, the Mind Orb lost its target the next moment because the Death Scorpion marked by the Mind Orb dissipated.

This was clearly a clone, and the next instant, a scorpion tail entered the area covered by the energy circle.

The Death Scorpion first used its clone to determine Rosen's perception range, and then, outside of that range, it extended its tail thousands of meters away and instantly stabbed at Rosen's heart.

By the time Rosen reacted, the Death Scorpion's tail was already within reach.

However, after realizing that the Mind Orb had only marked a clone, he immediately activated the Dragon King's Wrath skill, Bullet Time, which greatly enhanced his perception. He managed to hit the target by a hair's breadth.

However, the next moment his heart was pierced, and the Death Scorpion's tail was severed once again.

However, this time he couldn't shake off the mark of the Mind Orb, because the Mind Orb had entered the soul of the Death Scorpion.

Unless the Death Scorpion precisely severs the soul, the mark on the Mind Orb cannot be dispelled in a short time.

Rosen immediately teleported into the void, creating distance before remotely locking onto and shooting the target at the unseen Death Scorpion.

Both sides can now accurately and steadily maintain their positions, and the battle has immediately escalated from stealthy probing to head-on assault. However, the Death Scorpion is simply too fast. It can aim perfectly when the bullet leaves the barrel, but the Death Scorpion will have already dodged by the time the bullet gets close.

Rosen tried using the time-tracking sight, but the time-tracking sight only works if the target is in sight.

At this point, Death Scorpion is completely invisible, and you can't see anything using only the Time Sight. Since the sight can't see the enemy, the Future Suppressor is naturally useless as well.

Rosen and Death Scorpion continued their chase until Death Scorpion dispelled the mark on the Mind Orb.

"The gap between the Hunter Rank and the Beastmaster is indeed very obvious when relying solely on the Hunter Rank."

Rosen sighed and activated the Ash Curtain, projecting a picture in all directions.

The painting depicts countless densely interwoven three-dimensional spider webs, and it is designed to target assassin-type enemies with a high degree of concealment.

Centered on Rosen, the area within a ten-mile radius was instantly covered with countless spider silks.

If a Death Scorpion gets within a ten-mile radius, it will immediately be caught by the dense spider webs surrounding it.

Rosen looked down at his heart, which had been pierced by a scorpion's tail not long ago.

The poison should have melted his heart, but his heart contained an ancient god artifact. The scorpion tail struck the artifact and bounced back. Although the poison remained, it was never able to completely dissolve his heart.

Over the years, the ancient god's sacrificial artifacts have been constantly tempering his bloodline.

By now, one-third of the blood in his body has turned gold.

Even though these ancient god bloodlines are not yet complete, they can still exert a powerful suppressive effect on the deadly poison of the flying scorpion. However, this poison is not simple either, lingering in the heart and constantly fighting against the ancient god bloodline.

Rosen discovered that the efficiency of the ancient god's bloodline revival increased dramatically during this confrontation.

Originally, it would have taken about twenty years for the ancient god's bloodline to fully awaken. However, with the continuous supply of deadly flying scorpions' venom, his blood would have turned completely golden in just a few years at most.

Rosen had originally planned to hunt the Death Scorpion, but now he has changed his mind and intends to capture it alive.

His Nightmare Shackles can be inlaid with a Miracle Treasure to gain a special effect.

After careful consideration, he embedded the Time Tower into the Nightmare Shackles.

Then the Nightmare Shackles began to extend continuously, eventually reaching tens of meters in length and spreading out around the area.

Rosen also activated the Star Emblem, and the Ancient God Artifact boosted his spiritual power to Sequence 3 within 9 seconds.

At this moment, his spiritual perception was finally able to capture the dead flying scorpion.

Rosen used Void Teleport to approach Death Scorpion, realizing that his stealth had failed and that the enemy's teleportation speed was no less than his own high-speed movement. Death Scorpion could no longer avoid the battle, and its wildness and ferocity were fully activated at this moment.

Death Scorpion no longer focused on stealthy assassination, but instead lunged at Rosen head-on for a brutal kill.

Its scorpion tail on its back was like an automatically retractable spear, and its two pincers created a dense afterimage that blocked all the bullets.

However, three seconds later, Rosen fired a time bullet hidden in the barrage.

The Death Scorpion's lifespan vanished by a thousand years in an instant, and the fierce battle just now became a distant memory from a thousand years ago.

Taking advantage of the Death Scorpion's momentary sluggishness, Rosen teleported to the side and unleashed Nightmare Shackles, which tightly bound the Death Scorpion. The power of the Time Tower also enveloped the Death Scorpion, freezing time.

Before the Death Scorpion could break free of its restraints, Rosen released the Void Gallery to swallow the Death Scorpion into the Void Prison.

The Death Scorpion, imprisoned by layers of confinement, begins its self-destruction the moment it breaks free from the standstill of time.

Seeing that the Death Scorpion was about to commit suicide, Rosen had no choice but to use the Time Tower to stop time again.

However, activating the Time Tower at full power is very taxing. As soon as he releases the time stop, the Death Scorpion immediately commits suicide. Although this thing has extremely high combat command ability, it is obviously inflexible in other aspects and there is absolutely no possibility of subduing it.

Left with no other choice, Rosen plunged the Dragon Fang Dagger into the body of the Death Scorpion.

After several hours of stalemate, the Death Scorpion finally suffered a spiritual breakdown and lost all signs of life.

The Dragon Fang Dagger absorbed the blood of the Death Flying Scorpion, and previously absorbed the blood of hundreds of Sequence 6 behemoths, finally completing an evolution thanks to the Beast King's bloodlust.

【Source Material Dragon Fang Dagger: An Extraordinary Artifact】

[Level: Sequence 5]

[Attribute: Wielding the Dragon Fang Dagger allows for complete underwater concealment, avoiding some of the Sequence 3's sensory abilities]

[Original Essence Characteristics: Beast King's Bloodlust, Sharpness, Water Clone]

The source quality characteristics were only enhanced overall, but the attributes underwent a qualitative transformation.
Previously, it could only avoid perception of sequences below 3, but now even some sequences 3 that are not good at perception cannot detect this concealment.

Don't underestimate the Dragon Fang Dagger just because it's only a Sequence 5 item; its value surpasses that of some Sequence 3 extraordinary artifacts.

Rosen put away the Dragon Fang Dagger and took out a trophy orb from his scavenging space.

If only one item dropped, it's highly likely that it was a source material item.

Sure enough, after crushing it, a belt appeared in his hand.

【Source Material Death Belt: Extraordinary Artifact】

[Level: Sequence 6]

[Attribute: Increases base damage by 40%, and generates an undying scorpion tail on the back, condensing life-corroding poison]

【Source Quality Trait 1: Death Perception - Able to sense the aura of death left behind after a killing】

【Source Quality Trait 2: Divine Speed ​​- Increases overall base speed by four times】

【Source Quality Trait 3: Aura Concealment - Ignores perception effects below Sequence 3】

【Source Trait 4: Death Harvest - Hunting Beast Kings can improve quality and obtain new Source Traits】

[Equipment Requirements: Hunter Sequence 6]

After reviewing the attributes, Rosen discovered something: both the Death Belt and the Dragon Fang Dagger possessed the ability to evolve.

One is a vampire evolution, and the other is a hunter of beast kings.

Rosen quickly refined the source material equipment, which, strictly speaking, was even more valuable than the Dragon Fang Dagger.

Given the value of base damage, he tried to extend a freely retractable scorpion tail from the back of the belt. This scorpion tail was exactly the same as the Death Scorpion's tail, possessing effects such as regeneration, retraction, armor penetration, and life-corroding poison.

In particular, the life-corroding toxin, when injected into the heart, can stimulate the ancient god's bloodline to accelerate its recovery.

And if anyone attacks him from behind again, they'll have to see if they can withstand an attack from the Undying Scorpion Tail.

Rosen continued to test a few more characteristics. Death perception could be combined with the sixth sense. He could clearly feel the aura of death on his body and judge what kind of life he had hunted in the past few days through this aura of death.

It could be as precise as the day, minute, and second, and these auras of death seemed to him like torches in the darkness.

No wonder, his concealment was completely ineffective against the Death Scorpion.

Rosen continued to sense the changes brought about by the speed, and he immediately realized that this was the most terrifying characteristic of the Death Scorpion.

Not only are the base movement speed and attack speed increased fourfold, but even the reaction speed and thinking speed are increased fourfold. This is definitely not a power that a normal Death Scorpion can master. If there are no surprises, this is the power that Death Scorpion has obtained as the Beast King.

The remaining aura is obscured, which is like a spear and a shield to the perception of death.

Having possessed this ability long ago, it wouldn't be so easy for Death Scorpion to find his trail.

Rosen glanced at the map, locked onto the route to the Divine Weapon Kingdom, and began to move forward.

Along the way, he familiarized himself with his increased power and finally arrived at the Kingdom of Divine Weapons after half a month.

……

Even before Rosen got close to the Kingdom of Divine Weapons, he could already see its entirety.

The massive volcano, spanning hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, is partially obscured by billowing smoke. At its foot flows a lava river that encircles the volcano, with lava continuously flowing down from the crater, turning the entire volcano a golden-red hue.

Rosen entered the Kingdom of Divine Weapons from the air and continued to approach the crater.

The entire Divine Weapon Kingdom has only one city, which is the Divine Weapon Sky City located on the crater of a volcano.

Normally, people travel to and from that city through teleportation arrays from various countries. However, the Shenmu Empire is currently in a closed state, so the teleportation arrays cannot be used. He can only try to climb the mountain himself, traversing 80,000 to 90,000 miles to reach the summit.

This mountain climbing trip is enough to make people clearly realize how insignificant humans are in the face of nature.

Unless it's sequence 0, it's hard to imagine how to combat such a volcano.

During his mountaineering journey, Rosen collected quite a few unique and extraordinary materials from the lava.

Miracle Pocket's treasure-hunting ability allows you to easily find countless unclaimed extraordinary materials.

It's no wonder that the Kingdom of Divine Weapons has become a holy land for scientists on the Divine Wood Continent.

This is not an empire, simply because it is not a place for titled demigods to rule.

If we're really comparing combat strength, the Divine Weapon Kingdom is probably far superior to the Divine Wood Empire.

Not long after Storm Thunderbirds began their ascent, Rosen spotted a teetering airship amidst billowing black smoke.

Judging from its level, it's only Sequence 6. It's being chased by some stone golems with bodies made of lava and emitting black smoke. These stone golems are constantly throwing lava balls at the airship, and it's no surprise that the airship will soon crash.

Rosen drew Dragon King's Wrath, and his Dragon Language Magic Shattering Spell killed the stone golems almost one by one.

The knight piloting the airship realized he had been rescued and, instead of stopping, ran even faster.

"People's hearts are no longer what they used to be."

Rosen shook his head. He didn't care about the thanks; he just wanted to find a local bigwig to get some information.

I didn't expect the person to just run away; that's a bit unethical.

As Rosen was preparing to continue his journey, his Death Sense suddenly detected the direction the airship had fled in. Several thousand meters away, he could smell the death aura of humans. Clearly, they hadn't gone far and had already encountered new danger, but this time no one could save them.

He followed the aura of death closer and, through the billowing black smoke, saw a stone figure a kilometer tall.

(End of this chapter)