Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 207 The Holy Elf King and the True and False Sacrifice
Chapter 206

In the Lord's Castle of the Divine Realm, nine seats have already been arranged around the long table.

The one sitting in the main seat now is not the owner of the lord's castle, but Damon Touré, a Sequence 4 divine-born archaeologist.

As for the remaining eight people, apart from Rosen and the Wood Elf Queen, they were all Sequence 3 archaeologists.

Moreover, all of these people were led by Damon Touré, because his father was the director of the World Government's Archaeological Institute.

This was the first time Rosen had ever witnessed what it meant to use one's power to intimidate others, even after so long in his cultivation journey.

"This is the intelligence we've gathered so far!"

The lord of the castle, Mal Watson, took out two document bags and had his butler deliver them to Rosen and the Wood Elf Queen.

Rosen opened the file bag and examined it carefully; the information was far more detailed than what could be found on the deep web of the spirit world.

This elven kingdom belongs to the Holy Elf King of Sequence 0.

The Holy Elves, whose entire race numbers no more than one hundred.

So they didn't even constitute a civilization to ignite the flame of civilization, but the Holy Elves are by no means weak. The weakest of the entire race are all Sequence 3, there are more than ten Sequence 1s, and even two Sequence 0s. There is even one true god who surpasses Sequence 0.

However, these sacred spirits, with their profound heritage, vanished silently from history.

Later generations speculated that the true gods of the giant race joined forces to launch a surprise attack and annihilate the holy elves. After all, the holy elves possessed extremely powerful resurrection techniques. If the true gods of the holy elves and other elf true gods joined forces, their sustained combat power would not be as simple as one plus one.

In war, the healer is killed first; this applies to both games and real life.

However, according to the research of these archaeologists, the sacred elves were actually wiped out by other elves.

They even produced an investigation and analysis report on why this happened.

At that time, the Elf race occupied the Holy Continent and was about to face its second calamity of ten thousand years.

Therefore, the elven civilization of the Holy Continent intentionally split up to avoid the calamity of ten thousand years.

However, there is only one Mother Tree of Life, and avoiding the calamity of ten thousand years is not as simple as splitting up civilizations. It requires the fall of a true god. All calamities of civilizations, whether or not they are overcome, require the fall of a true god. Without the fall of a true god, the calamity will not pass.

In this situation, the other true gods of the Elven pantheon chose to sacrifice the lineage of the Holy Elves.

Because the Holy Elves are the fewest in number, and their pride is so great that it is unbearable for the other elves.

Therefore, before the war between the giants and the elves began, the Holy Elves had already been wiped out by their own people.

If the elves hadn't wiped out the Holy Elves, the outcome of the war between the giants and the elves might have been completely different.

Because the Holy Elves were destroyed by their own people, the Holy Elves hated the other elven races the most before they died.

Although the Holy Elves are few in number, they also need faith.

What if you don't have enough followers to provide faith? The answer is, of course, to subdue other elves and convert them into your followers.

In a sense, this also caused dissatisfaction among other elven gods towards the holy elves.

According to the investigation, the Holy Elf King, because he hated the other Elf Gods but was powerless against them, frantically sacrificed all the Elf believers of different races in his own kingdom before his death.

Moreover, this is a sacrificial curse, and the ultimate target of the curse is the Ancient Tree of Life.

Therefore, no living corpses or signs of battle could be seen in the entire divine kingdom, because the Holy Elf King had already sacrificed everything, including himself, before the final battle could take place in his own divine kingdom, turning everything into a curse against the Ancient Tree of Life.

Therefore, this divine kingdom, on the surface, appears to be nothing more than an empty shell.

However, according to archaeologists' investigations, the Holy Elf King used a Sequence 1 Miracle Treasure to set up the sacrificial ritual. Otherwise, with the Holy Elf King's Sequence 0 strength, he would not have been able to curse the Ancient Tree of Life, which was at the level of a true god.

The purpose of this archaeological research institute is to break the curse and obtain that Sequence 1 miracle artifact.

After reading the document, Rosen was somewhat skeptical of its contents.

If it were simply a matter of obtaining a Sequence 1 Miracle Treasure, the director of the Archaeological Institute, Damon Toure, the father of the Sequence 0, would personally intervene and shatter the entire divine kingdom, making it not difficult to acquire that Sequence 1 Miracle Treasure.

Therefore, finding the miraculous treasure is not the key; breaking the curse placed in this divine kingdom is the key.

Rosen instantly logged into the God Network and the Spirit World Deep Web, and then searched for all recent information related to elves.

It was soon discovered that in recent years, several human factions that mainly sold elven slaves had been forced to switch to capturing other races for various reasons, and the elves had also stopped selling human slaves.

Rosen suddenly realized a possibility: the World Government and the Elves had reached some kind of cooperation.

The fact that neither side treats the other as a slave can be understood as goodwill during the cooperation period.

Judging from the current situation, the archaeological institute's goal is undoubtedly to lift the curse on the Tree of Life. In fact, the fact that the elven race has not completely disappeared shows that although the Mother Tree of Life is dead, it is not completely dead.

It is possible for dead trees to sprout new buds, or for tree seeds to be planted and grow into new mother trees.

However, with this curse in place, the reborn Mother Tree of Life clearly could not withstand the curse hidden in this divine kingdom.

This is why the World Government actually agreed to the absurd application from the Archaeological Institute, which was willing to force the entire Wood Elf race to their deaths. Compared to the tiny Wood Elf Kingdom, the cooperation between the World Government and the Elf race was clearly more important.

To break this curse, at least a million elves would need to be sacrificed.

"One million, this time only one million wood elves are needed."

Damon Toure stared at the Wood Elf Queen with an unquestionable gaze and said, "I left you 90,000 Wood Elves. You should know what to say when you go back. If any negative news comes out, the remaining 90,000 Wood Elves will have no reason to exist."

"I reject."

Rosen said calmly.

"What gives you the right to refuse?"

Damon smiled with pity.

"Because the Wood Elf Kingdom no longer exists, the Wood Elves are no longer a vassal state of the World Government."

Rosen said calmly.

"What do you mean?"

Damon sensed something was wrong and questioned him in a deep voice.

"I have transformed the Wood Elf race into my own spiritual landscape paintings."

Rosen explained, "So now the Wood Elf race is my private property. The World Government has no right to seize the private property of a hereditary duke. Unless it involves a war of genocide, your mobilization order is just a piece of paper if I don't give my approval."

"You're trying to frame me. It was clearly the Wood Elf Queen who refined that spiritual painting."

As Damon spoke, he looked at Mal Watson, the owner of the lord's castle.

The Sequence 4 archaeologists who went to the Wood Elf Kingdom did witness Rosen integrating the Tree of Life and the Wood Elves into the Spirit Realm Painting. However, the key question is who the Spirit Realm Painting belongs to. If Rosen had wanted to refine it at that time, those archaeologists would have stopped him on the spot.

However, Rosen ultimately handed the Spirit Realm painting over to the Wood Elf Queen, which is why the archaeologists did not stop him.

Don't underestimate this seemingly minor difference in ownership. The former represents that the Wood Elves have become Rosen's private property, while the latter represents that the Wood Elves and the Wood Elf Queen are still subordinate to humans. If what Rosen said is true, then were those archaeologists simply fooled to their faces?

But judging from the Wood Elf Queen's fleeting surprise, it seems quite possible that Rosen is lying.
"Prove it to me."

Damon said with a gloomy face.

Rosen reached out and summoned the painting from the Wood Elf Queen's sea of ​​consciousness into his hand.

With a flick of his wrist, he unfurled the scroll, releasing his spiritual power from the painting.

Indeed, it was the Wood Elf Queen who first refined this painting.

However, if he wants to refine it, he will definitely be blocked by those Sequence 4 archaeologists.

The key to his ability to seize control of the painting without the Wood Elf Queen noticing was that after the painting was completed, all humans in the Sky Garden except for the Wood Elves were expelled.

Without interference from outsiders, he directly helped the Wood Elves, who had restored their racial purity, ignite the flame of civilization.

Then, through the Miracle Flame, he refined the Civilization Flame, and by persuading the Ancient Tree of Life, he quietly refined the entire Spirit Realm painting. Now, all the Wood Elves belong to him, and Damon must obtain his consent to recruit them.

Damon's face darkened completely; he had gone a bit too far with this archaeological incident.

Many people are watching him. If he does well, it's okay if he goes a little too far, but if he goes too far and still doesn't do well, or even gets outmaneuvered by a Sequence 5, his competitors will definitely spread the word and make him a laughing stock.

If Damon originally wanted to subdue Rosen, now he only wants to make Rosen wish he were dead.

"I need one million Wood Elves, name your price!"

After weighing the pros and cons, Damon suppressed his anger and said...

Rosen turned to look at the Wood Elf Queen, who was nervously staring at him, and gave Damon a mocking smile.

"let's go!"

Rosen stood up and pulled the Wood Elf Queen toward the outside of the Lord's Castle Hall.

"I'm waiting to see how you die."

Damon shouted angrily at Rosen's retreating figure.

Through the Void Phase, Rosen brought the Wood Elf Queen back to the Holy Continent.

The Wood Elf Queen kept her head down, knowing that things wouldn't end so easily.

Indeed, human nobles are qualified to subdue members of subordinate races.

However, a small number goes unchecked, but a large number requires not only the consent of the subordinate races themselves, but also a payment of merit to the World Government. This is because it is the World Government that conquers the subordinate races, and giving human nobles the opportunity to subdue them is already a reward.

Rosen's direct subjugation of the entire Wood Elf Kingdom means he owes the World Government an astonishing amount of merit.

If he fails to repay his merits within a certain period, he will inevitably lose his hereditary dukedom. "Don't worry, I'm confident that I can resolve this problem now that I've done this."

Rosen's confident smile put the Wood Elf Queen at ease.

After appeasing the Wood Elf Queen, Rosen applied to the World Government's Noble Council through the Spirit Realm Deep Web to subjugate the entire Wood Elf race as an vassal.

The council of nobles would not refuse such an application, because the matter of a lord of the divine realm subjugating other races as subjects is sacred and inviolable.

However, the list of merits provided by the Noble Council, along with the deadline for repaying those merits, made Rosen somewhat alarmed.

Rosen sent the Wood Elf Queen back to the Sky Garden to appease the Wood Elves, while he himself disappeared into the Mysterious Study.

Damon has caused him so much trouble, he certainly can't just let it go like this.

Even if he can't kill Damon for the time being, he'll make sure Damon suffers the consequences.

Rosen took out his last remaining heartwood from the Mother Tree of Life and quickly painted a Sequence 6 painting of the Ancient Tree of Life. Although the Ancient Tree of Life in the painting was only Sequence 6, it was enough to nurture elven life.

He contacted a merchant in the Abyss who specialized in selling souls through the God Network.

Most of the souls needed to create Shadow Fiends were purchased through this merchant.

This time, he directly purchased five million souls, but the soul levels were not high, only Sequence 9. Moreover, all of these were the souls of Abyss Humans, who were no longer human but had been corrupted by the Abyss into Abyss species.

After obtaining the soul, Rosen began to modify the Ancient Tree of Life using the World Gene Bank.

The efficiency of creating dark elves was maximized, but the dark elves created were all empty shells without souls.

Rosen poured the souls of five million Abyss Humans into the Tree of Life, and then spared no effort to squeeze the Tree of Life's essence, consuming hundreds of millions of low-grade spirit crystals in just a few days, finally managing to clone and piece together five million Sequence 9 Dark Elves.

At this moment, Rosen, posing as a member of the Abyss Clan's Great Fortune, began contacting Damon through the Main God Network.

As a descendant of gods, Damon is naturally a person of great fortune.

At this moment, the affairs of the Wood Elf Kingdom have been ruined, and Damon is trying his best to salvage the situation. He originally wanted to recruit other subordinate elves, but somehow the news of the Wood Elf Kingdom's situation has spread, and many subordinate races have jointly protested to the World Government.

Under these circumstances, Damon's father was also unable to withstand the pressure and sign a new mobilization order.

As a result, Damon felt more frustrated than ever before these past few days.

The sudden transaction information from the Main God Network made Damon's first reaction questioning. He needed to acquire at least a million elves, so how could the Abyss Demons, a being of great fortune, know about this and his identity account on the Main God Network?
However, several more days passed, and Damon, having no other choice, finally couldn't resist contacting the slave traders in the Abyss.

The fact that the transaction was conducted through the main temple somewhat eased Damon's guard.

However, the quality of these elven slaves was very low, and after calculation, Damon reluctantly purchased 500 million Sequence 9 dark elves.

After completing the transaction through the Temple of the Gods, Damon immediately inspected the dark elves he had acquired.

Indeed, they are pure-blooded dark elves, and their spiritual and physical compatibility is also excellent.

The archaeological work, which had been stalled for almost a month, was immediately resumed at the fastest speed.

The ruins of the divine kingdom, the divine domain of Mar.

Five million dark elves in a coma were subjected to holy purification rituals by archaeologists. It took two months to complete all the holy purification rituals, even with the efforts of thousands of archaeologists ranging from Sequence 6 to Sequence 3.

After making all the preparations, Mal teleported five million dark elves out of the territory at the same time.

All the dark elves thrown out of the divine realm lost its protection and fell directly into the sacrificial curse ritual of the Holy Elf King within the ruins of the divine kingdom. Visibly, these dark elves turned into mummies, their bodies weathering into gray sand.

These gray sands seemed to contain the life and spirit of the dead dark elves.

So, like living things, they gathered into a gray sandstorm, which blew towards a dilapidated temple that appeared out of nowhere in the heart of the divine kingdom.

"Don't let us down."

Damon looked at Sequence 3 Asca and warned him.

Yaska was very unhappy; he was a Sequence 3, yet he was being bossed around by a Sequence 4.

But there's nothing we can do; Damon is a god-born being someone we can't mess with.

Aska took out a statue that shimmered with holy light, and soon the statue came to life in his hands. Under his control, the statue instantly grew larger, becoming a giant holy spirit that was twenty meters tall and had golden holy wings on its back.

Damon and the others didn't dare to waste a second and all hid under the Holy Elf's skirt armor.

Immediately afterwards, the holy elf took to the air and flew towards the dilapidated temple that appeared at the center of the divine kingdom ruins.

Under the protection of the holy spirits, Damon and the others were not affected by the sacrificial curse ritual.

Almost at the same moment Damon left, on the other side of the divine realm, far from Mar's divine territory, a small spatial vortex appeared silently, and a holy elf of normal human stature stepped out of this spatial vortex.

"The celestial prophecy was indeed correct."

Rosen looked at the magnificent, dilapidated temple at the center of the divine kingdom ruins, then flapped his wings and disappeared into the sacred light.

He possessed the world's gene bank, including the life gene map of the Mother Tree of Life, and naturally, he also had the life gene map of the sacred elves. Therefore, by adjusting the bloodline of the ancient gods and reshaping the life gene map, he truly became a sacred elf on a physical level.

As for the soul and spiritual realm, that depends on his ability to act.

Although if he encounters a high-level holy spirit, he will be instantly exposed as having a real body but a fake spirit.

However, since they are both counterfeit goods, comparing them side by side is always a challenge. Compared to the inferior imitations that Damon and others created using the statues of the Holy Elves, his authenticity far surpasses that of the others.

Using his innate ability to travel through light, a divine elf's natural talent, Rosen raced against time to get into the temple before Damon and the others.

As Damon and his companions headed toward the temple, a gray sandstorm formed by the sacrifice of five million dark elves loomed ahead.

There were no obstacles in the way Rosen traveled to the temple.

So, at least half an hour early, Rosen entered the dilapidated yet magnificent temple ahead of everyone else.

It's grand in scale, but looks dilapidated.

It wasn't damaged by someone, nor was it decayed or dilapidated. It was more like the temples built with precious extraordinary resources had been deliberately demolished, with only the statue of the Holy Elf King in the center of the temple remaining intact.

The statue was kneeling on one knee, holding a silver-white oil lamp in both hands.

Rosen approached the statue and knelt on one knee before it as well.

Then a feather fell from its back wing, slicing open the wrist like a knife, and the flowing blood splattered on the statue. At that moment, the statue opened its eyes, and after seeing Rosen, it was clearly stunned, unable to believe what it was seeing.

How could there still be Holy Spirits alive? How could there be a Holy Spirit as weak as Sequence 5?

However, this is indeed a sacred elf, with no problems whatsoever with its body or bloodline.

The only problem is his soul, shrouded in a fog that prevents him from seeing clearly.

He is too weak now. All that remains in the statue is a little bit of divinity and divine personality. He is barely maintaining the last bit of divinity without collapsing, relying on the faith accumulated in the statue. He no longer has the strength to see through the true face of the soul and the spirit.

"What are your origins?"

The Holy Elf King couldn't help but ask.

"Humanity……"

Rosen said truthfully, “It’s just that my ancestors had the blood of the Holy Elves. Now, humans are the dominant civilization in the main world, and humans can accommodate the extraordinary bloodlines of other races. What I possess is the Holy Elf bloodline of my ancestors.”

"Human, then why..."

The Holy Elf King was halfway through his question when he suddenly looked up into the distance and seemed to understand something.

Those humans hiding inside the sacred elven statue, led by the divine offspring, are probably not part of the group before him. The little guy is concealing his soul not to deceive him, but to avoid being targeted by that divine offspring elder in the future.

No one could lie to him; this human before him seemed to truly possess the blood of a sacred elven descendant.

Could it be that some holy elf accidentally gave birth to a half-elf hybrid with a human?

During the Holy Elves' heyday, half-elves who were mixed with humans were considered a disgrace and would be executed.

But for now, this might be the only little guy who has inherited the bloodline of the sacred elves.

"Promise me one thing..."

The Holy Elf King sighed and said helplessly, "I can leave you the Sequence 1 Miracle Treasure, the Eternal Darkness Lamp, and I can also leave you my fragments of divinity. However, when you have the ability, I hope you can kill the Holy Sun God."

“I think I have no choice. The Holy Sun God will not let go of the holder of the eternally dark oil lamp.”

Rosen said seriously.

"It's good that you understand this."

As the Holy Elf King spoke, he handed the eternally dark oil lamp to Rosen. At the same time, a dazzling seven-colored crystal the size of a fingernail emerged from between his brows. Meanwhile, the statue began to decay and weather away little by little. Finally, he looked at the gray sandstorm approaching the temple, got up, and walked out of the temple.

Rosen put away the Eternal Dark Oil Lamp and the Godhood Fragment, and immediately used the teleportation ability of the Void Phase to escape.

No sooner had he left than the statue of the Holy Elf King approached the gray sandstorm.

The Holy Elf King reached out and grasped, and all the gray sandstorm condensed in his hand into a gray, eternally dark oil lamp. In the blink of an eye, the statue's body completely weathered into ashes, using its last strength to complete the final sacrificial curse with the help of these problematic offerings.

This sudden turn of events startled Damon and the others.

Normally, a hidden sacred purification ritual should suppress the sacrificial curse.

Then they awakened the remaining divinity of the Holy Elf King within the statue, controlled the divinity with the help of treasures, and then reversed the sacrificial ritual at the last moment to destroy it. Unexpectedly, before they even got close to the temple to awaken the statue, the Holy Elf King's divinity awakened on its own.

Moreover, he used his last strength to perform a sacrificial curse in person at the last moment.

(End of this chapter)