Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 189 Territory Remodeling and Ancient God Worship
Chapter 188

In Ash Castle of the Divine Realm, Rosen stood before the Sequence Tree, lost in thought.

He decided to use the Ancient God sequence to enhance and change the first sequence, which was the Noble sequence he controlled.

Indeed, the aristocratic hierarchy is very strong, but human civilization is too dependent on the World Government.

If the World Government collapses, the Noble Rank will suffer a fatal blow.

This is probably why all noble ranks also have to serve as secondary ranks.

This is why the core of the noble hierarchy is the development of divine territories.

Even if the World Government collapses one day, as long as the Divine Realm still exists, it will only make it more difficult to develop the Divine Realm. It will not cause the noble hierarchy to be completely abolished due to the collapse of the World Government.

However, since the noble sequence has hidden dangers, and he has mastered the source of all sequences, he can transform into the ancient god sequence of the world.

Therefore, making certain changes to the noble hierarchy could be a way to strengthen advantages and eliminate disadvantages.

The first thing Rosen planned to strengthen was the troop buildings in his territory.

Rosen arrived at the demon's lair, which looked like an evil tombstone.

Beneath the tombstone lies a burial mound, from which the underground demons are conceived.

Having been the lord of the divine realm for so many years, he has learned a great deal about various kinds of information regarding the construction of his territory.

Initially, there were no territorial buildings. Later, the World Government used the power of the noble hierarchy to modify some of the rules within the human world.

Territory buildings were introduced after that, and nobles had a chance to obtain extraordinary buildings by hunting extraordinary beings.

Furthermore, hunting spirit beings may even yield soul gems that are specifically designed to enhance extraordinary structures.

However, the chance of obtaining territory buildings by hunting extraordinary beings is very low. Most extraordinary buildings are man-made. For example, his Void Gallery is an extraordinary building created by an architect.

Of all extraordinary buildings, troop-type buildings are generally considered to be the most difficult to construct.

To create a unit building, it is necessary to fully analyze all the life gene maps of that unit.

That's not enough; this will only result in cloned plant units that are all show and no substance.

Next, it is necessary to master the power of creation, or the power of the soul. Only in this way can the power of the power be integrated into the military building, and then spiritual energy be consumed to create artificial souls. Only with artificial souls can one control the body and become a living, complete life.

Even so, the unit type has a drawback: it is difficult to upgrade the unit type.

A Sequence 7 demon lair produces Sequence 7 crypt demons that are unlikely to grow to Sequence 6.

Furthermore, the strongest unit building that the World Government can produce can only reach Sequence 4 at most.

Because the limit of artificial soul technology is Sequence 4, units and buildings that exceed Sequence 4 can only hunt demigods and rely on drops. This is why the World Government has spent a huge amount of money to change the rules of the world using unknown means.

Rosen possesses access to the world's gene bank, and he knows the genetic map of certain extraordinary life forms with sequence 0.

All he needs to do now is select the Abyss Demon genetic map of Sequence 6 and then copy it from the World Gene Bank to the Demon's Lair.

The units produced at that time will immediately be upgraded from Sequence 7 to Sequence 6.

However, the units produced in this way are only Sequence 6 units in appearance, while their souls are still artificial souls of Sequence 7.

Moreover, these are artificial souls unique to the Crypt Demons. Without resolving this issue, the idea of ​​autonomously strengthening troop buildings is nothing but a pipe dream.

Although the Ancient God Sequence primarily strengthens life genes, it does not mean that it does not involve the soul.

Regarding the two generations of ancient gods, the ancient god civilization actually has this kind of understanding.

The ancient gods of the past were primarily material with spiritual aspects as secondary, so after their deaths they left behind a world gene pool primarily composed of life genes.

However, the new generation of ancient gods born from the corpses of the previous generation of ancient gods is essentially formed from the soul of the previous generation of ancient gods, with spirit as the main element and life genes as the secondary element. There is even a theory that the two generations of ancient gods are actually the same great life.

However, the previous generation of ancient gods reached the pinnacle of physical existence, so they abandoned their bodies to live a second life and follow the path of the soul.

Rosen believes this research makes a lot of sense. Just look at the current main world: it's dominated by physical matter and spirituality. The current sequence system, which is entirely based on spirituality, may not be so perfect.

However, the major version of the present era is spirituality. While both reach Sequence 0, the difficulty of being primarily spiritual is 1, while the difficulty of being primarily life gene-based might be 10.

Therefore, it cannot be said that the current spiritual sequence system is wrong; it is simply a difference between starting with the easy and then moving to the difficult, or starting with the difficult and then moving to the easy.

After logging into the deep web of the spirit world, Rosen ordered a batch of spiritual crystals containing impurities.

Spirituality is the essence of the soul. Even impure spiritual crystals are, in fact, the complete soul of an extraordinary life.

Alchemists create puppets by using complete souls that retain their own consciousness most of the time.

Lawson purchased a full ten thousand Souls that reached Sequence 6 quality.

After obtaining the souls, Rosen suspended them one by one on the shackles of the Void Prison.

Then, each person uses a drop of blood to write a special spiritual rune on the forehead of their soul. This is the method used by the ancient gods to modify souls and create servants. Through this spiritual rune, the soul can be reshaped at will.

It took Rosen more than half a month to finish transforming all the souls.

During this period, the entirely new genetic map of life has also been successfully integrated into the demon's lair.

They are still demons, but not cave demons. The more than a thousand Sequence 7 cave demons in the territory that cannot evolve are now less and less effective in setting up traps. These cave demons have now been sent to the Dark Continent to mine.

As soon as the first modified soul was sent into the demon's lair, a Shadow Fiend quickly crawled out of it.

Shadow Fiend is one of the top three most talented assassin races among the Abyss Demons. They are born to lurk in the shadows and are adept at controlling darkness and shadows. However, what makes Shadow Fiend most powerful is their terrifying ability to possess and steal bodies.

As modified souls are sent into the demon's lair, more and more Sequence 6 Shadow Demon units are born.

The reason why the cooldown period for building units is so long is that artificial souls are very slow to be produced.

Although Rosen uses modified souls, which requires him to do it himself and to buy ready-made Sequence 6 souls, the advantage is that the speed of creating Shadow Fiend units becomes very fast, basically one Shadow Fiend unit can be created every ten minutes.

It would take at least 70 days to transform all 10,000 modified souls into Shadow Demon units.

Rosen actually wanted to make more, but he was short of money.

Purchasing souls is an expense, and replenishing blood after a drop of blood is also an expense. Of course, the biggest expense is the materials needed to create the body of a Sequence 6 Shadow Fiend. In order to achieve a certain purpose, he also purchased Shadow Ore worth hundreds of billions.

This is a supernatural material of Sequence 2 rank, the essence of the world that can only be preserved in the collapsed Shadow World.

With the help of the Shadow Stone, one can create a Shadow World spanning tens of thousands of miles.

The immense source of shadow contained within is so vast that even a Sequence 3 demigod would have difficulty digesting it.

So he broke down the Shadow Stone into ten thousand parts and then integrated them into each Shadow Demon unit.

In this way, each Shadow Fiend gains a small, portable Shadow Vision.

When ten thousand Shadow Demon units gather together, they can merge their small Shadow Worlds into one huge Shadow World. Basically, even a Sequence 3 demigod would not be able to get out easily if he were pulled into this Shadow World.

Rosen's goal was simple: to use the Shadow World to hunt down those enormous supernatural beings.

Since the Void Gallery is only suitable for trapping and killing small extraordinary life forms, using it to trap those huge behemoths would undoubtedly be a waste of effort.

Finally, through its racial traits, Shadow Fiend can also hunt and devour each other to achieve further growth.

Theoretically, if 10,000 Shadow Fiend units die and only one remains, there is a high probability that a Sequence 3 Shadow Fiend will be born.

Therefore, whether considering current combat power or future potential, Shadow Fiend is far superior to Crypt Fiend.

Taking advantage of the 70 days that the Demon Nest automatically produced Shadow Demon units, Rosen began to continue modifying the Slime Nest.

The difficulty of this modification is much lower than that of the Demon's Lair.

Because the life gene map he intends to incorporate is of the same origin as the existing slime soldiers.

The modification process took only five days, and the first brand-new slime unit was quickly created.

The original slime soldiers looked soft, smooth, and bouncy, like rubber toys.

However, the newly formed slime soldiers are still smooth and soft, but their elasticity is reduced because their entire bodies are composed of liquid metal. This is a very rare metal slime, which has the talent of absorbing metal to gain metal properties.

[Slime Nest: Divine Unit Building]

[Level: Sequence 6]

[Attribute: Can consume resources to produce one slime of maximum sequence 6 once a week]

[Enhanced Feature: Metal Variant - Slimes produced are automatically transformed into Metal Slimes]

If this unit's lair were put up for auction, it could fetch at least hundreds of billions of spiritual crystals.

However, Rosen certainly wouldn't dare to sell it, because if he bought it back, it would definitely be for researching the life gene map of the metal slime. At that time, it would be easy to detect that the troop buildings had been artificially modified, and even his hereditary duke status wouldn't be able to protect his safety.

So it's fine for personal use, but if you want to sell it for profit, you should at least wait until he becomes a demigod.

He has mastered the entire genetic map of the metal slime, from sequence 9 to sequence 2.

However, since artificial souls were unavailable, Rosen could only continue to offer bounties for low-sequence slime nests and then use the synthesis function of the Hunter's Eye to upgrade the slime nests. With his overpriced purchases, the slime nests had been synthesized and upgraded to Sequence 6.

However, its production speed cannot match that of the Demon Nest, because the Slime Nest relies on its own artificial souls to produce units.

Therefore, it takes at least a week to create a Sequence 6 metal slime.

Fortunately, the thousands of Sequence 7 slimes that had been accumulated could be recycled to produce a hundred Sequence 6 metal slimes. While waiting for the recycling process to take a few days, Rosen ordered a large amount of recycled metal.

This is widely recognized as the most suitable metal for fusing with metal slimes, because regenerated metal possesses two characteristics: super-fast regeneration and super-strong defense. If it weren't for the difficulty in shaping regenerated metal, the price of this extraordinary metal would be astronomical.

Because they are difficult to shape, they are rare but not very valuable.

However, if a metal slime is fused with regenerated metal, it can retain its positive metal properties while also maintaining its powerful transformation and shaping capabilities. Basically, a Sequence 6 metal slime can hold out against a Sequence 4 slime until its spirituality is exhausted before it dies.

Moreover, even after death, the body can be preserved intact.

Rosen also considered whether to modify the soul to increase the production of metal slimes.

However, after careful consideration, I gave up. Sequence 6 souls are easy to buy, but what about Sequence 3 and Sequence 1 souls?

Purchasing a soul of this caliber is probably even more difficult than creating a soul of the same caliber artificially.

Because the stronger an opponent is, the harder it is to capture them alive and preserve their complete soul.

Anyway, Sequence 9 slime nests are cheap, and apart from being relatively rare, they have no other problems. By slowly collecting them and combining them in pairs, it won't be difficult for him to synthesize a Sequence 3 slime nest in the future.

Both the Demon Nest and the Slime Nest, the two unit buildings, have been upgraded to Sequence 6.

The next Ash Hive cannot be modified or enhanced using the power of the World Gene Bank.

However, the Ash Beehive is not far from reaching Sequence 6. He has been synthesizing beehives every day for the past few years, and now he is very close to synthesizing Sequence 6. At most, he can synthesize a Sequence 6 Ash Beehive in a few months.

So Rosen temporarily shut down and began to think about how to transform the skills of the Ancient God sequence into skills of the Noble sequence.

Skills in any noble rank are extremely valuable, so nobles usually bind skill slots to extraordinary buildings in pairs.

Rosen also tried to use the main god's computer to modify other sequence skills into noble sequence skills.

The Void Scavenging and Divine Beast Pen skills were originally hunter skills that were transformed into noble skills.

However, it was later discovered that this transformation had both advantages and disadvantages.

The transformation skill consumes divinity, and both skills generate divinity-based buildings.

However, upgrading buildings can only be done using Soul Gems.

While Ash Castle can be upgraded and strengthened by architects, Void Scavenging can only rely on Soul Gems.

Soul gems are inherently difficult to obtain, so it's best not to convert too many skills into them.

The skill Rosen needs is probably something like the Glory Sage, which doesn't have a skill level but whose effects automatically increase with the sequence level. The Glory Sage's ability to convert knowledge into skill proficiency greatly reduces the difficulty of upgrading skill levels.

After a month of research, Rosen successfully found a skill in the Ancient God sequence that was suitable for a Sequence 6 noble.

When he attempted to integrate the spiritual runes that constituted this skill into the noble's extraordinary essence, the main god computer immediately released a large amount of accumulated divinity into his body, thereby causing the skill to perfectly fuse with the noble sequence.

[Ancient God Sacrifice Techniques: Each sequence level can sacrifice treasures containing the authority of rules, granting the world corresponding world characteristics.]

All divine territories possess unique characteristics, and these characteristics are difficult to obtain.

Normally, only Sequence 3 will gain new territory traits.

Rosen's divine territory now includes the Divine Lord, the Treasure Trove of Glory, the Divine Imitation, the Fountain of Life, the Sequence Seed, and the Perception of Fate.

Compared to other Sequence 6 divine territories, the territorial characteristics he possesses are already quite extraordinary.

The Divine Realm Lord is a basic territory characteristic that everyone possesses. The Glory Treasury allows him to protect his own bloodline, enabling his noble bloodline to grow slowly, thereby reducing the difficulty of his future advancement in the noble sequence. The Glory Treasury can even capture ownerless items from the spirit world.

However, after all these years, he has not seen the Glory Treasury capture anything from the spirit world.

As for Divine Realm Imitation, it allows one to imitate the characteristics of a territory from other divine realms.

The problem is, where is he going to find a demigod to imitate the characteristics of the territory?
The Fountain of Life is somewhat useful, allowing life forms in the divine realm to slowly open their vital pores.

The earliest inhabitants of the Divine Realm have now mastered Nen abilities to varying degrees.

Next is the Sequence Secret Seed, which can transform a sequence into a special unit that does not require troop buildings, but relies on the people taking potions to change their class. Currently, more than a thousand cat people in the territory have changed their class to Shadowcat, but the lack of heroes has affected their value.

Finally, the perception of fate—this was the loot that Rosen obtained from destroying the divine realm for the first time.

So far, after destroying several divine territories, only this one territory trait has been obtained.

Based on Rosen's in-depth research on the Lords of the Divine Realm over the years, each territory characteristic represents the prototype of a rule of authority. Therefore, the more territory characteristics one acquires, the greater the potential of the Divine Realm territory, and the stronger the power displayed in the same sequence.

The Ancient God Sacrifice skill is equivalent to sacrificing treasures to artificially add territorial characteristics.

The first thing Rosen considered was to sacrifice the original decree and integrate it into his divine domain.

His divine domain is Sequence 6, giving him the opportunity to acquire four domain traits.

It's just unknown how many characteristics of the original laws the divine realm can inherit.

After weighing the pros and cons, Rosen took out the Primal Decree and began to perform the Ancient God Sacrifice.

Indeed, the original laws had amazing potential, but he was not a jurist and could not fully realize their value.

However, if the original law's characteristics become territorial characteristics, then the benefits to his divine domain would be immense.

Rosen enveloped the primordial decree with the golden blood of the ancient god, and then began to communicate with the supreme ancient god spiritually, communicating with the dormant world consciousness of the main world, and thus using the power of the ancient god to complete the ancient god ritual.

As time passed, the original decrees dissolved silently in the nine-colored light.

Rosen's divine territory eventually gained four new territory characteristics without anyone noticing.

[Rules Evolution, Legal Order, Corruption, and the Enduring Nature of the System]

Aside from the uniqueness of heaven and earth, which was impossible to obtain, the remaining three traits were integrated into the divine domain. Even the original decree's attribute was transformed into the rule evolution trait, thus acquiring four new domain traits at once.

Through the evolution of the rules, Rosen clearly felt that all the territorial characteristics were growing at an accelerated pace.

Furthermore, the difficulty of breaking through to Sequence 3 within the territory and gaining control over the rules will be reduced due to the evolution of the rules.

As for the legal order, the judicial power of the rulers and subordinates of the divine realm lords and nobles has been greatly strengthened.

Originally, the judiciary needed to rely on other means to create truly meaningful laws imbued with extraordinary power within the divine realm.

However, the judicial power, combined with the legal order, is now able to pre-determine up to four extraordinary laws, from Sequence 9 to Sequence 6.

After much deliberation, Rosen formulated four legal orders.

The first rule is that betraying one's lord will result in punishment ranging from being imprisoned in the Void God Prison to being annihilated.

Secondly, all hostile outsiders will gradually be devoured by the gluttony rule.

Thirdly, the higher the loyalty of all subjects, the stronger the lord's rule.

Article 4: The more and stronger the troops in a territory, the stronger the lord's military authority.

The legal order is something that is subject to strict rules and constraints when it is established.

If he establishes a rule that outsiders must be eliminated, then that rule will never be effective.

Because if a Sequence 0 were to enter, how could his divine domain possibly possess the power to obliterate a Sequence 0?
All legal orders require strength as their foundation.

His subjects were completely under his control, so he could set the most severe punishment rule of annihilation.

As for outsiders, it's unrealistic to completely eliminate them, but they are gradually being devoured by the rules of gluttony. Combined with the power of gluttony that he holds, the difficulty of establishing this legal order is within the limits of his power.

As for the remaining two legal orders, they were simply for strengthening rule and military power.

The professional authority of the ruler granted him the power to govern, tax, judge, and militarily control his divine territory.

However, to fully utilize the power of these authority, the divine domain of Sequence 6 is still far from sufficient.

However, with the strengthening of the legal order, Rosen's spiritual growth rate can be directly affected by the divine territory through his ruling power. The more people he has, the more extraordinary beings he becomes, and the stronger the divine territory, the faster his spiritual growth rate.

Conversely, the stronger the ruling power, the faster the growth of the extraordinary sequence of the people will be.

Looking at military power, the power of military power will gradually be developed after the emergence of heroes.

However, with the strengthening of the legal order, Rosen can directly mobilize the extraordinary abilities possessed by all the territorial troops through military authority, such as all the sequence abilities of Shadow Fiend, Ash Bee, and Metal Slime. He can use them whenever needed through military authority.

Of course, the opportunity to do this is actually very rare, because using unfamiliar forces is less effective.

The true core power of military authority stems from the ability to permanently enhance the combat effectiveness of troops through war. This is equivalent to adding an extra percentage-based strength buff to the troops, with a minimum enhancement of 0% and theoretically no upper limit.

Rosen saw a story about a Sequence 3 demigod in a novel written by a novelist.

This demigod spent his entire life on the front lines, and his nature was to enjoy killing and war.

Although his talent was lacking and he was limited to Sequence 3, he had experienced too many wars and received too many military power bonuses, which allowed him to enhance the combat power of the troops in his territory by more than ten times. He even had a record of being trapped and killed by a Sequence 1 soldier when he was already in Sequence 3.

Rosen and others waited until the four legal orders were integrated into the divine realm, and began to explore the concepts of favoritism, corruption, and eternal immortality.

The "eternal" characteristic does not mean that his Miracle Territory is as eternal as his Miracle Treasure. His "eternal" is just a weakened version, which only gives his territory the ability to regenerate and rebuild in a short time after it is completely destroyed.

This feature becomes valuable when encountering a powerful enemy and having your territory destroyed.

Ultimately, he abused his power for personal gain, and Rosen was a little unsure about the nature of this territory.

This is the core and unique characteristic of the original law. Logically, after being transformed into a territorial characteristic, he should be fully aware of this characteristic. However, he can't even understand it, let alone master it.

His intuition told him that he was too weak to awaken the true power of his tendency to bend the law for personal gain.

(End of this chapter)