Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 247 Demi-human Battlefield and Flesh and Blood Wall

Chapter 246

Led by Hannes, Rosen visited the currently deserted Shadow of the Abyss.

This void destroyer is very special. Its actual size is 30 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide. Its internal space has been expanded to accommodate up to 500,000 people. It also has an attached spiritual realm inside that can meet all logistical needs.

With such a massive hull, it is actually not suitable to be a void destroyer.

Because the firepower and defense of the Void Destroyer have limits, its small size and agility are its advantages.

The advantage of being large in size is something that only a void mothership can demonstrate.

However, the Shadow of the Abyss is different; it possesses a very unique characteristic: Dimensional Shadow Escape.

Through this interdimensional shadow escape, the Abyss Shadow can hide in its own shadow and then manipulate the size of the external shadow from within, reducing it to a mere ten meters in length.

If that's all there is to it, it doesn't seem that impressive.

After all, there are too many ways to escape into the shadows. Another feature of the Otherworld Shadow Escape is that it can add all attributes to the shadow.

Rosen can also hide in his own shadow, and he can also manipulate his shadow to fight.

However, he cannot share his power with the shadow, but the Abyss Shadow can. Therefore, the Abyss Shadow's massive size is not a weakness, but rather allows it to carry stronger firepower and power, and it hardly needs to consider agility and defense.

As for why it wasn't simply upgraded to a Void Cruiser, it's because the core of the Otherworldly Shadowcraft only consists of Sequence 3.

The Void Cruiser is already at Sequence 2, and the core of the Abyss Shadow cannot support the Dimensional Shadow Escape at the Sequence 2 level.

The more Rosen looked, the clearer it became: he figured he probably couldn't save his 100,000 Shadow Demons.

He wants to retire, but his 100,000 Shadow Demons can't retire either.

Of course, the regional military headquarters wouldn't resort to force or extortion. They would most likely offer him conditions he couldn't refuse and buy his 100,000 Abyss Shadow Demons. Of course, it would be even better if he wanted to stay, as the regional military headquarters could save on expenses.

As Rosen familiarized himself with the Shadow of the Abyss, Hannes also began leading 200,000 logistics personnel to the Shadow of the Abyss.

After only a few days of adjustment, the regional military headquarters had already issued tasks.

The Shadow of the Abyss needs to infiltrate behind the demi-human defenses and find an opportunity to destroy one of the void wormholes controlled by the demi-humans.

That concludes the mission details, but Rosen obtained more information through the God-Slaying Computer and the Hunter's Eye.

There are many void wormholes in the Demi-human Front, but the one that the Shadow of the Abyss was ordered to destroy this time is the most special.

This is because this void wormhole is about to be responsible for transporting a special resource called Creation Star Tear. This special resource cannot be stored in any other dimension, and even the wormhole it passes through must be specially modified. In a short period of time, the demi-human faction cannot modify a second special wormhole.

"Tears of Creation..."

Rosen now understood why the regional military command had been so eager to rush things.

Logically speaking, they've only been broken in for a few days, so they're not properly broken in at all.

If it's a tear of creation, then it makes sense.

It's likely that the previous commander of the Abyss Shadow Fleet died in battle after failing to destroy this special wormhole.

Creation Star Tears are a special condensation of the laws of creation. They are extraordinary resources of the true god level that can only be born on life stars that naturally give birth to intelligent life. If the laws of creation within them are reversed, Creation Star Tears can become an extremely terrifying bomb of destruction.

However, although there are many stars in the depths of the main world's sky, very few stars naturally give birth to intelligent life; almost all of them have been incorporated into the divine kingdoms of the ancient true gods.

The demi-human true god has no ability to occupy such a star; it must have been traded from some ancient alien true god.

By sending such a massive destructive bomb to the front lines, the demi-humans clearly intend to wipe out the entire regional military command. In the end, this will inevitably attract the intervention of the true gods on the human side. According to the treaty previously signed by both sides, gods and true gods are not allowed to appear on the battlefield.

If humanity breaks the treaty, it will pay a huge price for breach of contract.

For at least the next hundred years, this battlefield will shift from an offensive to a defensive posture.

Therefore, whether or not the Tear of Creation can be prevented from being transported to the front line is the key to victory or defeat in the next hundred years. The Shadow of the Abyss failed last time, and this time the mission will definitely involve more than just the Shadow of the Abyss. If nothing unexpected happens, the Shadow of the Abyss will be a surprise force of the regional military command.

After all, the fact that the Shadow of the Abyss was severely damaged and its fleet commander was killed in battle could not be kept from the demi-humans.

Therefore, the Abyss Shadow, appearing a second time near a special wormhole, was able to catch the demi-humans off guard.

While Rosen was conducting various analyses, Hannes brought him a miraculous treasure that the regional military headquarters had temporarily borrowed.

【Knight's Reins: A Miracle Treasure】

[Level: Sequence 9]

[Miracle Attribute: Can passively master the miracle skill Perfect Riding]

[Miracle Traits: Void Stables, Unique in Heaven and Earth, Eternal and Undying]

It's only a Sequence 9, but Rosen feels its value is no less than a Sequence 2.

The level of a Miracle Treasure is not everything; the key factors are its Miracle Attributes and Miracle Characteristics.

Moreover, the value of the same miraculous treasure is not static.

In the earliest days, knights were units that fought on horseback, and at most, they evolved into professions such as dragon knights and beast knights.

However, the World Government has drastically expanded the concept of the Knight.

The scope of horsemanship was thus expanded to include vehicles, ships, trains, and even alien races such as angels and succubi.

This directly led to a dramatic change in the value of the Knight's Reins, a miraculous artifact.

The original Void Stable ability, a miracle trait, would likely only allow you to carry and store one horse at a time.

But now, it is possible to instantly store a void warship.

This was the first time Rosen realized that while the level of a Miracle Treasure was important, there were other ways to enhance its power.

Actually, if you think about it carefully, he has done similar things before.

Infuse the Demonic Manifestation with the Seven Deadly Sins, causing the Sequence 3 Demonic Manifestation to unleash the power of Sequence 2.

However, the Demon God's Manifestation relies on the Miracle trait, Demon God's Feast, and is only temporarily enhanced.

However, this knight's reins possessed power far exceeding the sequence level due to the fundamental change in the knight sequence.

Rosen quickly refined the knight's reins, then bound them to the Shadow of the Abyss and its crew, taking them into the Void Stables.

He also tried out Perfect Riding, a special advanced skill of ordinary riding.

Knights rely on riding skills to share, merge, and superimpose their own power and that of their mount.

However, there are limitations on the size of mounts. Usually, a mount that is a few hundred meters long is the limit. If the mount is any larger, it will be unable to share, fuse, and stack all the power. Therefore, a mount is never better the bigger it is.

Perfect riding skills are not limited by the size of the mount, and secondly, they allow you to temporarily ride mounts that are not your own.

Ordinary riding skills are simply not enough to control the Shadow of the Abyss; only perfect riding skills can do so.

Having made all the preparations, Rosen left the planetary fortress alone.

Giving him the reins of a knight capable of containing the shadow of the abyss is not simply a matter of concealing the shadow of the abyss.

Although the military district headquarters did not say it explicitly, Rosen was certain that they knew he possessed powerful stealth abilities.

After all, he was given the rank of major general right away, and the Knight's Reins and the Shadow of the Abyss were handed to him.

How could the military district headquarters feel at ease without thoroughly investigating his background?

Rosen was almost certain that among the 200,000 logistics troops within the Shadow of the Abyss, there must be at least a Sequence 2 titled demigod hidden. This was both a measure to protect the Shadow of the Abyss at crucial moments and a way to guard against him.

As for why the hidden Sequence 2 didn't personally destroy the special wormhole, it still involves the treaty between the two sides.

Gods do not enter the battlefield; starting from Sequence 2, they do not enter the enemy's rear lines.

This is an important treaty for maintaining the scale of the war between the two sides. Without the constraints of these treaties, if the strong on both sides were to directly flank and launch a surprise attack, it is likely that few below the level of demigod would survive in the end, resulting in mutual destruction and a loss that outweighs the gains.

Unless it is a war of genocide, high-sequence forces will not arbitrarily attack low-sequence forces in conventional warfare.

When the odds are roughly equal, whether you lose or die depends on your own ability and you shouldn't complain.

But if the strong prey on the weak without any moral boundaries, it's clear they're determined to wipe out their race.

With the enhanced concealment provided by the wolf totem, Rosen moved through the shadows, constantly closing in on the demi-humans' defenses in the spirit world.

Because the spirit world only spread to the territory of the demi-humans a few years ago, the demi-humans' foundation in the spirit world is far inferior to that of experienced humans. Therefore, the defenses that the demi-humans set up in the spirit world are far less strong than those in the real world.

While referring to the map in his hand, Rosen quietly approached the demi-human defense line in the shadows.

He already knew that the main world was generally flat, with a round sky and a square earth.

The edge of the world is constantly expanding. Overall, the main world is dominated by oceans, with land and islands as secondary features. Most places that can only accommodate one kingdom are islands, those that can accommodate an empire are landmasses, and those that can accommodate multiple empires are supercontinents. Supercontinents like the Holy Continent are few and far between in the entire human world.

The demi-humans also occupied a supercontinent called the Demi-human Continent, but only two-thirds of it.

The remaining third has already fallen into human hands.

The entire continent of demi-humans is an irregular oval shape, divided in two at about one-third of its length.

In the middle lies a narrow strip of land with a diameter of ten thousand miles, which is the battlefield between humans and demi-humans.

Then, five thousand miles behind the battlefield, this area is the rear defense line.

If either side were to cross the rear line first in reality, it would mean that a full-scale war of annihilation was about to begin.

Currently, both sides are exercising restraint in the actual war, since seizing territory must yield benefits to be worthwhile.

However, in the spirit world, the two sides were not so restrained.

Even if there is a huge battle in the spirit world, the spirit world will repair the damaged areas on its own.

Therefore, since the spirit world has spread throughout the main world, the scale of the war between the two sides in the spirit world has become larger and larger.

However, the power of demi-humans in the spirit world is limited, and they are no match for humans in this respect.

If things continue like this, a full-scale war is only a matter of time.

The demi-humans must have realized this as well, which is why they spared no expense to obtain the Tear of Creation in an attempt to change the course of the battle.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, so Rosen needs to cross the battlefield.

The war zone was littered with metal debris and bloody remains. Humanity's main force on the battlefield consisted of mass-produced mechanical puppets, while the demi-humans were ratmen and rabbitmen. These two types of demi-humans, who had fused with the bloodlines of other races, had the most terrifying reproductive abilities.

High-potential offspring will be kept and nurtured slowly, while those with poor potential will be forced to mature and then forcibly bred.

Once these women with poor fertility have lost their ability to reproduce, they will be reformed and sent to the front lines.

Basically, it can be said that the rat people and rabbit people in the demi-human continent lived a miserable life like the eighteenth level of hell.

On Rosen Road, it was even discovered that many rat-people and rabbit-people were losing their human characteristics.

On the contrary, the characteristics of different races are increasing. If this continues, the rat people and rabbit people of the demi-human continent may very well evolve from a demi-human race into a beastman race with animal heads and human bodies. Perhaps the beastmen are a race that evolved from demi-humans.

It took Rosen five days to cross the battlefield and approach the demi-human defense line, a Great Wall of flesh and blood made up of writhing flesh and blood.

On the Great Wall of Flesh and Blood, countless heads of rat-men and rabbit-men grew.

These demi-humans are trapped in a cycle of life and death, and because they have never received education, they have not even developed a sense of self. However, these rat-people and rabbit-people have been instilled with hatred for humans from the moment they are born.

Therefore, the entire Great Wall of Flesh and Blood is filled with boundless hatred for humanity.

Any human who gets too close will be immediately detected by the Great Wall of Flesh and Blood.

"Humanity's defense line is the mechanical Great Wall, while the demi-humans directly replicated a flesh and blood Great Wall."

Rosen shook his head, feeling a pang of pity as he looked at the countless rabbit-like people.

It's one thing for those frightening-looking rat-people to suffer such a fate, but it's a real shame that the cute-looking rabbit-people have also met this end. If the demi-humans continue to do this, the rabbit-people slaves may eventually disappear completely.

Rosen took out a map, on which there was a mark on the Great Wall of Flesh and Blood.

There are demi-human spies in this place who have defected to humans and will help him cross the Wall of Flesh and Blood.

However, he had a better option. He directly adjusted his own life gene map through the World Gene Bank and in the blink of an eye, he became a dragonman with a very high status among the demi-human race. Then, he swaggered towards the Great Wall of Flesh and Blood, carrying some human superhuman skulls.

The Ancient God Realm has a population of 30 billion, and with such a large population, there are all sorts of birds. As a result, the Void God Prison is never short of human death row inmates.

Rosen arrived at a gate of the Great Wall of Flesh and Blood and tossed a bag of skulls to the fox-man in charge of inspection.

The identity verification process for demi-humans is far less rigorous than that for humans. This is because the demi-human population is constantly being replaced on the battlefield, making it easy for them to leave. However, returning requires verification through both the Great Wall of Flesh and Blood and the human skull.

The former proves that it was not a human actor in disguise, and the latter proves that they were not hiding and wasting time on the battlefield.

It's not that the demi-humans don't want to be more strictly controlled, but they simply lack the resources and capabilities.

Because humans and demi-humans have completely different mindsets when they go to war, even though they are both on the battlefield.

Humans become extraordinary for merit and profit, while demi-humans become extraordinary because they are forced to come to the front lines to die.

Any subhuman with a normal mindset would feel a sense of kinship upon seeing the rabbits and rats on the Great Wall of Flesh and Blood.

If humans could tolerate demi-humans, demi-humans would never have fought to the death with humans.

Race wars show no mercy, because once humanity falls into a low point in history, its fate is no better than that of the minority.

In the struggle for survival of the fittest, there is no right or wrong, only strength and weakness in this extraordinary world.

Holding the merit currency distributed by the fox people, Rosen, disguised as a dragon, passed through the flesh and blood wall and arrived behind the demi-human defense line.

As long as they have merit currency, demi-humans and extraordinary beings can live very comfortably behind the defense line.

Once the money is gone, you can forget about having anything to eat.

Leaving the battlefield completely is also simple: just pay a sufficient amount of merit currency to leave.

Almost all races in the main world implement a policy of universal superhuman military service.

It's just that humanity is currently strong and doesn't need so many troops on the front lines, so it allows superhumans to hunt down Ash Life and Spirit Life in exchange for merit. If it really comes to a full-scale war, no superhuman can escape the fate of going to the front lines.

Because the ultimate purpose of war, besides competing for resources, is also to weed out some of the extraordinary through survival of the fittest.

The phrase "living is a waste of extraordinary resources" refers to those extraordinary beings who have died.

Rosen chose to infiltrate alone, not only because he was confident he wouldn't be discovered, but also because he didn't trust the spies planted by the district military headquarters.

If those demi-humans can betray their race, isn't it only natural that they would betray humanity as well?

Although the chances of betrayal are very low, he wouldn't gamble his life on whether a spy is good or bad.

However, without a spy to guide him, he had to find a way to approach the special wormhole on his own.

On the human side, the wormhole was directly protected inside a planetary fortress. Although the demi-humans had also developed mechanical technology, their main focus was on life science. Therefore, the special wormhole was located inside a Sequence 2 giant tortoise.

As Rosen was pondering which method to use to enter the giant tortoise's body, the Knight's Reins in his sea of ​​consciousness suddenly reacted.

Rosen sent his self-portrait clone into the Abyss Shadow of the Void Stables, while Hannes was anxiously releasing spiritual energy to bombard the Void Stables.

"Is it urgent?"

"Rosen asked."

"Why couldn't you contact the guide?"

Hannes asked urgently.

"I don't trust the person who guides me..."

Rosen said firmly, "I have already crossed the Great Wall of Flesh and Blood, and I am confident that I can enter the giant tortoise's body and approach the special wormhole. Since the Divisional Military Headquarters has chosen me, I hope we can trust each other. I will only give you one chance to operate the Abyss Shadow main cannon."

"I was just too nervous."

Hearing this, Hannes calmed down and said seriously, "I won't miss the opportunity you've fought for!"

When the consensus was reached within the Shadow of the Abyss, Rosen himself had already descended into the world inside the giant turtle's body through data transmission.

A towering gate of flesh and blood, containing a spatial wormhole with a diameter of one kilometer.

On his way here, Rosen had already confirmed through the Hunter's Eye that there was one Sequence 1 and five Sequence 2s.

Therefore, if the Shadow of the Abyss were to directly appear and launch an attack, it would be impossible to succeed and would only lead to certain death.

We still have to wait until a specific time, in coordination with other personnel from the regional military command, to have the opportunity to destroy the special wormhole.

What Rosen needs to do now is lie low and wait for the right opportunity.

More than half a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the agreed time is getting closer and closer.

Rosen, hiding in the Void Realm, picked up his divine brush and began to draw a time-predicting painting. Perhaps it was because the Creation Star Tear, a treasure containing true divine power, had failed to make any predictions in the time-predicting paintings he had drawn a few days ago.

With only one day left until tomorrow, the shorter the time, the more effective a predictive method will be.

So he decided to try again to see if he could get the result he wanted.

(End of this chapter)