Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 188 Ancient God Sequence and the Origin of Life

Dragon Chapter 187

"Sequence 5 Stone Golem".

Rosen commanded the Storm Thunderbirds to release the Storm Vortex, which immediately drew away the billowing black smoke that stretched for miles around.

A towering stone figure, thousands of meters tall, sat in the lava, cradling a tattered airship. Lava continued to flow from its body, pouring into the airship. Finally, it tore the airship apart with its bare hands and pulled out a red stone the size of a human head, covered in cracks.

"The core of the Stone Golem?"

Once Rosen recognized it, he immediately understood why the airship was being chased by the stone men.

The core of this stone golem must have been someone of high status in life, which is why it has attracted the stone golem's relentless pursuit.

As far as he knew, the core of the stone man was not considered valuable.

The Dragon King's Wrath transforms into a sniper rifle, and the Time Scope locks onto the Stone Golem, sending the bullet into the future with a futuristic silencer.

Two seconds later, the bullet struck the stone golem, instantly imprisoning its supernatural abilities.

The second shot pierced the stone golem's left abdomen, where its core was hidden.

It's very difficult to kill a stone golem without destroying its core.

The anti-magic bullets imprison extraordinary power, and the most difficult place to imprison anti-magic power is definitely the core.

The stone golem crashed to the ground, its cracked core being swept away by the storm thunderbird's whirlwind and landed on its back.

After careful observation, Rosen understood why the airship had taken such a risk.

Because this is not a Stone Golem core at all, it just looks like one. In fact, it is a Stone Golem unit nest. No wonder the superhumans on the airship would take the risk, as the value of a Sequence 6 Gundam unit building is exceptionally high.

However, this thing was useless to him; he looked down on the Stone Golem unit.

However, in the Divine Weapon Sky City, many local divine realm lords should want this item, because the stone golems are very suitable for mining in the volcanic environment, which can generate a continuous stream of wealth.

This good thing started off right away, and Rosen's mood improved a lot.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and Storm Thunderbird, carrying Rosen, finally arrived at Divine Weapon Sky City after traversing tens of thousands of miles.

Along the way, he encountered a large number of airships, which were either hunting stone men or salvaging minerals from lava.

Before Rosen even got close to the Divine Weapon Sky City, a golden beam of light had already fallen on him.

This seemed to be some kind of inspection method. After the inspection, the golden beam directly guided the Storm Thunderbird to land at one of the ports on the edge of the Divine Weapon Sky City. These air ports had a large number of airships taking off and landing.

The Storm Thunderbird landed at the nearest port, shrinking to the size of a palm and landing on Rosen's shoulder.

Temperatures outside the port reach thousands of degrees Celsius, but inside the port they are less than thirty degrees Celsius.

The high temperature was kept out of the air, and a middle-aged man carrying a red crystal plate jogged over from a short distance away.

"Respected sir, as you are an extraordinary being from elsewhere, it is your first time visiting the Divine Weapon Sky City, so you need to register briefly."

The middle-aged man spoke with utmost respect.

Rosen nodded and extended his right hand, which was adorned with a heraldic ring.

The red crystal plate in the middle-aged man's hand had a rotating crystal eye in the upper left corner that emitted red light and scanned the emblem ring. The basic information about the Rosen family and their titles immediately appeared on the red crystal plate.

The middle-aged man's hands trembled when he saw the words "hereditary duke," and after hesitating for a moment, he took out a smaller red crystal plate.

"Your Grace, this is the network login device for Divine Weapon Sky City. The map of Divine Weapon Sky City is downloaded on it."

The middle-aged man carefully handed it to Rosen.

"You are very smart."

Rosen took the red crystal plate and casually handed him a thousand spiritual crystals.

The middle-aged man happily accepted the spiritual crystal, carefully put it into the inside pocket of his clothes, and quietly left.

Rosen quickly figured out how to use the red crystal board. It was similar to a tablet computer, allowing users to log into the virtual network of Divine Weapon Sky City and access all sorts of unclassified information. Once outside the Divine Weapon Kingdom, it was practically useless.

It's still useful, though, at least it saves him from wandering around in an unfamiliar place.

First, we found the best hotel in the area, and then quickly boarded an electric bus following the map's navigation.

On the way, Lawson saw a landmark shopping mall covering tens of square kilometers and got out of the car to go in and take a look.

The entire shopping mall is like a small city, with one underground floor and three floors above ground.

Each floor has a ceiling height of about 500 meters. Lawson quickly downloaded the mall's structural diagram using the red crystal panel.

The underground area is a black market, while the surface layer contains various ordinary civilian goods.

The second floor sells all kinds of extraordinary materials, and the third floor sells all kinds of extraordinary finished products.

Lawson went directly to the third floor through a constantly open portal at the mall entrance.

From a distance, there were steampunk-style mechs, airships of all sizes, and all sorts of technological spiritual weapons. The sheer variety was overwhelming, and he felt he wouldn't be able to explore the entire floor in less than half a month.

Lawson has been reborn for many years and is very familiar with the technological system of the present era.

In this era, civilian technological products are relatively sophisticated, but those used by the extraordinary series are relatively simple.

Because the more sophisticated something is, the easier it is to be damaged or interfered with; the simpler it is, the more robust it is.

Of course, it's not absolute. If all the materials used in a precision technology product were high-grade extraordinary materials, then it would be possible to create a precision technological extraordinary artifact. However, the cost-effectiveness would be too low, so it could never be popularized.

Rosen glanced around and quickly spotted the very familiar nuclear weapons.

A nuclear bomb with a yield of ten million tons and an effective kill radius of 15 kilometers is only worth 10,000 spiritual crystals, and it sits in a corner gathering dust with no one buying it.

Because conventional nuclear weapons can only produce limited destructive power in the surface space of the real world.

A single Void Shadowstep could stand unharmed at the center of a nuclear blast.

However, those nuclear weapons with spatial attribute spiritual fission and fusion are basically equal in yield to spiritual crystals.

The two differ in price by a factor of a thousand, the difference being whether or not the materials used to manufacture nuclear bombs are extraordinary.

Rosen continued to wander around aimlessly, seemingly relaxed but actually extremely busy.

For a painter like him, directly purchasing these extraordinary technological products is not the best option.

By scanning the virtual world with the left eye and taking pictures with the God-Hunting Demon Eye with the right eye, the extraordinary technology seen is simultaneously materialized in the virtual world. Then, this is used as a reference to draw in the painting. This is the most suitable method for painters.

However, after watching for several days, Rosen still discovered an extraordinary technological product that captivated him.

The Bloodline Awakening Chamber can perfectly clone the user's blood and then continuously stimulate the blood to accelerate the awakening of the extraordinary bloodline genes within it.

Even if it's only a Sequence 6 item, buying just one would require one billion spiritual crystals.

Without hesitation, Lawson ordered one and then took the electric bus to the hotel to wait for delivery.

After the bloodline awakening pod was delivered to the hotel room, Rosen immediately took it to the mysterious study and lay down inside.

He could clearly feel that the Bloodline Awakening Chamber was cloning and replicating his ordinary blood, then continuously injecting it into his body, and fusing magical potions that helped awaken his bloodline into this blood.

Conservatively speaking, it will take at most three months for his ancient god bloodline to be awakened and the process will end.

During this time, I searched through various channels for an alchemist who could perfectly create a hole in the Dragon King's Wrath.

Rosen has issued bounties for all professional guilds in Divine Weapon Sky City.

Many people accepted the bounty, and the Divine Weapon Sky City was not lacking in high-sequence alchemists, but there were very few source-quality equipment like the Dragon King's Wrath. So after several days of searching, they finally found the best option.

Early that morning, Rosen's spiritual control brought his self-portrait avatar to one of the largest wizard towers in the city.

Devon Gaines, the master of the Wizard Tower and a Sequence 3 demigod, was waiting for Rosen at the door.

"Is it really a source material equipment dropped by a bronze dragon?"

Devon couldn't help but ask as he led Rosen to the alchemy workshop.

"of course."

Rosen summoned the Dragon King's Wrath and handed it to Devon.

Devon immediately cast a group teleportation spell, bringing Rosen to the alchemy workshop.

At that moment, the initial enthusiasm vanished. Devon, his face filled with fervor, used various methods to examine the attributes of the Dragon King's Wrath, as well as the specific structure and hidden spiritual runes of this equipment. This research lasted for a full month before he finally stopped.

After Rosen obtained Devon's permission, he also spent a month studying at the alchemy workshop.

All of this stemmed from Devon's research into spiritual runes, which significantly improved his skills in figure drawing.

"I am absolutely confident that I can upgrade Dragon King's Wrath to Sequence 4."

Devon carefully put down the Dragon King's Wrath and said seriously, "However, this is not enough to maximize the potential of this source material equipment. I checked the detailed information of the Thunder Empire's Time Dragon Nest, and the enhancement potential of this extraordinary artifact can reach at least Sequence 3."

What conditions are required to upgrade to Sequence 3?

Rosen frowned.

"Upgrading it directly to Sequence 3 would render this extraordinary artifact useless."

Devon shook his head and explained, "Although the Bronze Dragon is powerful, it is not a Beast King. All Beast Kings of all sequence levels will undergo special changes in their spirituality. These changes allow the source equipment that originates from the Beast King to gain evolutionary potential."

What I mean is that you need to use the Wrath of the Dragon King to personally hunt down a Sequence 5 Dragon Beast King.

Then, using materials from the Sequence 5 Dragon Beast King, the Dragon King's Wrath will be upgraded to Sequence 4. This will give the Dragon King's Wrath evolution potential, guaranteeing it will evolve to Sequence 3 at the very least, and if its power is sufficient, evolving to Sequence 2 is not impossible.

"A dragon beast king of sequence 5, that's not easy to find."

Rosen frowned.

"That's your problem. I don't want to ruin this extraordinary artifact."

Devon spoke, then levitated the Dragon King's Wrath in the air and pushed it toward Rosen. Clearly unable to find the materials for the Sequence 5 Dragon Beast King, Devon would rather break the contract than enhance the Dragon King's Wrath.

It's clear that Devon has an unwavering commitment to his work.

After returning to the hotel, Rosen immediately searched for all information related to the Dragon Beast King.

Whether it's the real world, the spirit world, or even the spirit realm, we won't let any relevant clues slip by.

With a hefty reward offered, he actually found a valuable clue.

On the volcano where the Kingdom of Divine Weapons is located, there is a legendary dragon beast king.

However, the level is not just Sequence 5, but at least Sequence 4.

Logically, once the Beast King is discovered, it should immediately trigger a frenzy among the human warriors who will surround and kill him.

The reason this dragon beast king became a legend is that it is extremely intelligent and always hides deep in the volcano directly below the Divine Weapon Sky City. If you want to hunt this beast king there, you can forget about it without the strength of Sequence 3.

However, it is not convenient for Sequence 3 to hunt Sequence 4 Beast Kings.

This involves the laws of the World Government, which state that demigods cannot arbitrarily hunt down superhuman beings below the demigod level.

Because of sequence 4 and sequence 3, a huge qualitative change will occur between the two sequences.

Hunting a single Sequence 3 extraordinary being is far more difficult than hunting a hundred Sequence 4 extraordinary beings.

However, the latter's cumulative benefits exceed those of the former.

Without any restraint, all Sequence 3 demigods will choose to hunt Sequence 4s that are not difficult to hunt. As a result, Sequence 4s in the human faction will not be able to compete with demigods, and it will be difficult for Sequence 4s to obtain resources if they want to become demigods.

Therefore, unless a supernatural being threatens the safety of a large number of humans, a demigod can hunt down supernatural beings below the demigod level.

When this law was first enacted, there were even demigods looking for and exploiting loopholes.

They deliberately lure extraordinary beings close to human cities, then hunt down Sequence 4 extraordinary beings in the name of salvation.

However, such a thing might be acceptable once or twice, but if it happens repeatedly, it becomes impossible to explain.

There were even incidents where things went wrong, resulting in numerous human casualties, and those demigods were made an example of and died a terrible death.

Later, even when demigods hunted down superhuman beings below the demigod level, they almost always did it secretly.

Moreover, once discovered, it would be enough to make even the demigod's pants unwearable.

It is because of the various laws enacted by world governments that human civilization has been able to grow stronger over the past 20,000 years.

Because of the events at the Divine Tree Empire, Rosen has recently been studying the various laws of the World Government quite a bit.

The current turmoil in world governments stems from the fact that many powerful individuals desire more privileges, and some laws make them feel restricted and dissatisfied. Moreover, this group is growing, and in the long run, ordinary people will have fewer and fewer rights.

Human greed is insatiable; if we compare the World Government to an ancient nation on Earth...

Initially, power was centralized, but under the threat of foreign tribes, popular support shifted, and all parties were satisfied with the distribution of benefits.

However, as time went on, human civilization became stronger and stronger, the population grew, and more and more nobles were born. However, the expansion of human civilization was blocked by foreign races, and the newly born nobles could not get enough to eat, while the first batch of beneficiaries could not get enough to eat.

Gradually, people's hearts and minds drifted apart. Ordinary people didn't notice, simply because they couldn't feel the impact of high productivity.

However, in reality, the paths for ordinary people to improve themselves have become increasingly narrow.

The most obvious manifestation of this is that there are fewer and fewer extraordinary individuals who are originally ordinary people but have progressed from Sequence 7 to Sequence 6.

Rosen used to think the World Government's protection was good, but now he's feeling dissatisfied.

Because his interests were also harmed, without protection, he could hire a demigod to hunt down the beast king.

But then again, if there was no protection, would that beast king still be alive and it would be his turn?
Without the Dragon Blood Vial, Rosen wouldn't have dared to hope that he could defeat the Dragon Beast King, a Rank 4 Dragon. Even with the Dragon Blood Vial, a nemesis of dragons, defeating this Dragon Beast King would not be an easy task.

Rosen decided to investigate first, at least to find out the truth about that dragon beast king.

With a higher reward offered, a document was quickly purchased.

This information is very detailed. The faction that compiled this information must have also wanted to hunt down this dragon beast king, but ultimately failed and felt that they had no chance in the future, so they sold this information to recoup some losses.

"Sequence 4 Volcanic Blazing Dragon, Elemental Dragon..."

Rosen's face darkened. Did these elemental dragons have dragon blood?
Without dragon blood, the Dragon Blood Bottle is useless!
To normally hunt down a Sequence 4 Beast King, it would take at least ten Sequence 4 God Realm Lords.

If we take into account the geographical advantage of being deep inside the volcano, it would probably take more Sequence 4s to take it down.

The risks and rewards are severely mismatched, and the Volcanic Fire Dragon has stayed put and hasn't caused any trouble for humans. It's no wonder that even after thousands of years, the Volcanic Fire Dragon is still alive and well, living up to its legendary status.

There's no solution at the moment, so this matter has to be put on hold.

Left with no other choice, Rosen began to spend his days exploring the Divine Weapon Sky City.

During this period, he acquired a lot of knowledge that was outdated in the mechanical city.

At first, I thought it was worthless, but later I discovered that some of the knowledge was unique to the mechanical city, so it sold for a pretty good price.

Rosen also acquired a lot of new knowledge, accumulating enough foundation for the future upgrade of the mechanical factory.

After all, he wasn't a mechanical inventor and couldn't maximize the production value of the mechanical factory like Faris.

Three months had passed since the original body fell into slumber. On this day, Rosen returned to the mysterious study early in the morning.

The spiritual consciousness returned to the body and immediately realized that only a small amount of its bloodline remained, still golden-red. The remaining blood, after being awakened by the ancient god's sacrificial artifact and the bloodline awakening chamber, had turned into pure gold.

Half a day passed quickly, and the last trace of red in the blood disappeared in an instant.

Rosen clearly felt that the inherited memories hidden deep within his bloodline were beginning to awaken, and his spiritual strength directly increased to 48 points, even skipping the final accumulation period and growing directly to the perfect 48 points.

Two days later, Rosen had only just begun to digest the memories of his bloodline inheritance.

First, he learned the origin of the ancient god's bloodline.

The ancient god is the world itself. The main world where humans and other races live today is essentially a living ancient god.

The ancient god civilization was a civilization born from the corpse of an ancient god.

The bloodline of the ancient gods is actually the world's gene pool.

The genes of life contain infinite mysteries, and the genetic overlap between humans and pigs is guaranteed to be over 90%.

Many species share a high degree of genetic overlap with humans.

Therefore, regarding the origin of life, in ancient times some said that the ancestors of all life forms were the same species, while others said that when God created life, He used the same genetic template, and only after various fine-tunings were made, various life forms were born.

By now, the origin of species is no longer a secret.

The birth of life is only possible with the birth of the world, and life forms born in the same world have a high degree of overlap.

The so-called World Gene Bank is the inner world of the fallen ancient god, the gene bank of all species in the past.

As long as the ancient god civilization continues to awaken its bloodline and the world's gene pool, theoretically every individual in the ancient god civilization can freely transform into all the life forms that once existed within the body of a fallen ancient god.

The ancient gods may fall, but they will not die completely.

The current main world is actually a rebirth within the body of a fallen ancient god.

Moreover, the student surpasses the teacher, so the world gene pool not only contains the bloodline genes of all humans, but also the life genes of all races such as dragons, elves, demons, and angels.

Strictly speaking, one could even say that the origin of all intelligent life forms of flesh and blood today is humanity.

Regarding the destruction of the ancient god civilization, Rosen had some reasonable guesses in his mind.

First of all, it is certain that the earliest ancient god civilization developed from human civilization by obtaining some of the remains of the ancient gods of the previous generation.

As the world's gene pool continues to be awakened, some humans from the ancient god civilization became elves, some became demons, and some became angels. Then, the ancient god civilization may have split up for unknown reasons, resulting in the many intelligent races we have today.

Rosen has now awakened the bloodline of the ancient gods and obtained the world's gene pool, which means he can change his race again.

Of course, this is unnecessary, because humans are now the most intelligent species.

Therefore, the World Gene Bank is not of much value to him. Its only value lies in his ability to more easily control the power of the Seven Deadly Sins and Quetzalcoatl, but it will not bring about a fundamental transformation in his strength.

Rosen's greatest gain from the bloodline inheritance should be the Ancient God sequence mastered by the Ancient Gods.

It was only then that he realized that the first to discover the sequence was not the World Government, but the ancient god civilization.

What the World Government has truly accomplished is probably creating a potion system and more sequences based on the ancient god civilization.

Just like how the Kingdom of Fire created a complete system of civilization based on the foundation of civilization.

Unlike the existing sequences of various races and civilizations, which are primarily based on spirituality, the sequence of ancient gods is entirely based on genes. The focus is on honing one's body to become stronger and stronger, ultimately transforming into the world and giving birth to all things.

Rosen even suspects that some of the worlds we live in today are products of powerful beings from ancient god civilizations incarnated into their own worlds.

For example, the Abyss World and many of the main world's subsidiary worlds are very likely products of powerful beings from ancient god civilizations who transformed into their own worlds.

Rosen carefully studied the sequence of ancient gods and found that it was inevitable to eventually transform one's body into a world after cultivating to the end.

Because the ancient god sequence at the highest level of true god poses too great a threat to the main world, the main world will suppress this level of ancient god sequence. It will either leave the main world and the ancient god's inner world, or it will transform into a world and become an appendage of the main world.

Those who embody the ancient god sequence of the world may survive, but their spiritual self will fall into a deep sleep.

To regain consciousness, one must either destroy the world one has become, and then be reborn as a new self-spirit, or continue to grow after becoming a world one has become, gradually growing to the point where one is no longer afraid of the suppression of the main world, which can also awaken one's self-spirit.

If that's the case, then the Abyss Will should be the Ancient God sequence in the main world that is closest to the awakening of its own spirituality.

Rosen continued his in-depth study of the Ancient God Sequence and discovered that he did not need to master it.

He discovered that many noble sequences were similar to ancient god sequences.

Even when the divine realm reaches its limit of development, it is still a world in itself.

However, the Ancient God sequence is not without value. All things eventually lead to the same goal: rules and authority. Therefore, many skills of the Ancient God sequence can be transformed into skills of existing sequences, thereby making the three sequences he controls even more powerful.

(End of this chapter)