Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 268 Hurricane Cannibal Island and Promotion Sequence 3 Vengeance Hunter
Chapter 267

On the vast ocean shrouded in endless ash, the Wrath of the Dragon God steadily advanced through the sky, ignoring the effects of the hurricane.

It took at least tens of thousands of miles to cross the hurricane belt before finally reaching a windless area that was only a few dozen miles in circumference.

All hurricanes that approach this area disappear without a trace.

Rosen teleported onto the head of the Dragon God's Wrath, looking down at Hurricane Island not far away.

The world government is unaware that a tiny island, less than twenty miles in circumference, is hidden here.

This island is strange. Hurricanes dissipate when they approach, but the rain is unaffected. As a result, the torrential rains brought by hurricanes cover the entire hurricane island year-round, and it is shrouded in torrential rain and dark clouds all year round.

Despite this environment, many people still manage to survive tenaciously.

There is no shortage of fresh water here; the torrential rains have brought an inexhaustible supply.

There is no shortage of food here. The extraordinary sea creatures that were thrown to the island by the hurricane are mostly half-dead. They can avoid starving by simply picking up what is available. What is truly lacking here is a living space where humans can shelter from the rain and reproduce.

Rosen spent more than a decade searching for the island.

Dozens of pirate captains died in the hurricane, all of whom were knights he had painstakingly trained in the Ancient God Realm. Fortunately, his hard work paid off, and he finally found Hurricane Island, the homeland of the Hunter God.

Hunter God disliked Hurricane Island because he didn't have any good memories there.

However, after becoming a true god, he still returned here and left behind a spiritual realm.

Therefore, there is no trace of human habitation on the island anymore, and the original inhabitants have all moved to the interior of the Spirit Realm.

Rosen withdrew the Dragon God's Wrath and directly unleashed his World Domain, enveloping the entire Hurricane Island.

All rainwater is kept out, because the island has no soil but only smooth, pitted rocks after being washed away by torrential rain.

You can still vaguely see traces of human excavation in some places.

In front of a rock that looked like a mushroom, Rosen walked under the umbrella. The terrain here was high and the rain could not flood this place. He saw a stone door at the position of the rock, which was like the handle of the umbrella. It could not be opened from the outside; it could only be pushed open from the inside.

Rosen instantly blended into the shadows and slipped through the crack in the stone door.

The entire Hurricane Island is actually a massive wind-iron boulder, a superb material of Sequence 6 quality.

Following the steps behind the stone gate, he soon arrived at the underground world deep within Hurricane Island.

He saw some abandoned farmland and glowing moss growing on the rocks.

The surrounding rock walls are filled with caves, which must have been the former dwellings of the island's inhabitants.

But now it's all empty; there hasn't been any trace of living people here for at least several thousand years.

Rosen sensed the spatial fluctuations and went into the largest stone cave.

This cave is like a small temple. Deep inside the cave is a statue of the Hunter God. However, the statue is now covered with cracks. Under the statue is a Void Pufferfish that is still breathing and looks somewhat like an angry pufferfish.

Like the Void Blue Whale, this Void Pufferfish possesses its own internal world.

However, the world inside the Void Blue Whale is more like the real world, while the world inside the Void Pufferfish is more like the spiritual realm. The rules in the Void Pufferfish are not as perfect and stable as those in the real world, but the size of the spiritual realm inside the Void Pufferfish is far greater than that of the Void Blue Whale.

Rosen cautiously approached the Void Pufferfish, a Sequence 1 extraordinary life form.

It was once the pet of the Hunter God. Later, when a better option came along, the Void Pufferfish, which was only Sequence 2 at the time, was released from its bond with the Hunter God and left here. Now, many years have passed and the Hunter God has fallen, but the Void Pufferfish has instead grown to Sequence 1.

Rosen took out a feather and gently brushed it against the belly of the Void Pufferfish.

The little thing comfortably opened its mouth wide, gulped down Rosen, and continued to sleep soundly.

Rosen was swallowed into the belly of the Void Pufferfish and, in the blink of an eye, landed on a not-so-high mountain.

The surrounding area is an endless range of mountains, and within these mountains lies a valley spanning hundreds of miles.

At this time, the valley was filled with ruins, and there were still some skeletons whose spirit had not dissipated and which had not completely decayed.

Rosen spread his World Domain, enveloping the entire valley. Everything he saw in the valley seemed to be flowing backwards in time. Of course, it wasn't a true reversal of time, but rather a way of seeing past events through the lens of a historian.

Soon Rosen saw that thousands of people who had migrated from Hurricane Island were thriving and multiplying here.

At first, everything was fine, but as the population grew and some people became hunters, the power gap between extraordinary professionals and ordinary people gradually caused a dramatic change in their originally equal status.

The last two Sequence 3 hunters engaged in a fierce battle, which ultimately resulted in the deaths of everyone caught in the crossfire.

Despite the harsh environment of Hurricane Island, the ancestors of these people have survived for countless millennia.

As a result, the spiritual realm they arrived at, which was like paradise, was destroyed in less than a thousand years.

Anyone would think that the Hunter God was too kind to these people from his hometown.

Not only did they leave the Void Pufferfish here, but they also left behind a potion powerful enough to create a demigod hunter.

The reason is simple: the bloodline of the people on Hurricane Island is extraordinary. Otherwise, two Sequence 3 hunters would not have been born in just a thousand years. You must know that among the 30 billion people in the Ancient God Realm, those with Sequence 3 qualifications are definitely no more than two hands' worth.

At its peak, Hurricane Island only had a population of a few million, yet it was able to produce two demigods.

Not to mention, the Hunter God was also born on Hurricane Island.

Over a thousand years, the population grew from a few hundred to several million. This was not because the Spirit Realm could not support a larger population, but because the fertility rate of humans on Hurricane Island was much lower than that of normal humans, resulting in a very slow population growth rate.

Rosen discovered the secret hidden on Hurricane Island only after delving into the memories of the Hunter God.

Although humanity has repeatedly become the dominant species in the main world, there have also been times when humanity has fallen on hard times.

Whenever human civilization is overthrown, the true gods behind it will certainly not fare well either. Severe injury is the norm, and some will even perish. In such times, the true gods of humanity are powerless to protect all of humanity, and various alien races will seize the opportunity to enslave and control humanity.

Some true gods who have a grudge against humanity might even seize an opportunity to try to destroy humanity.

The method of destruction is simple: killing cannot destroy the human race.

Because there is still a human god, protecting the last pure-blooded human race.

Therefore, the best way to destroy the human race is to find a way to pollute and strengthen the human race's bloodline.

By merging human bloodlines with those of other races, strengthening the human bloodline, and then reducing fertility, the human population growth rate would slow down, making it much more difficult for humanity to regain its dominant status.

The current human race is not actually that pure in terms of bloodline, and is getting further and further away from primitive humans.

One of the factors contributing to the creation of the noble lineage was the use of extraordinary source matter to remove the bloodline of other races from the body.

This way, one can not only obtain the power of alien bloodlines, but also purify one's own human bloodline.

Hurricane Island is a laboratory left behind by a true god; it's a laboratory that studies cannibalism.

Throw countless humans into the hurricane, letting their flesh and blood turn into mincemeat, letting their souls and spirits be torn apart by the hurricane and wail incessantly, letting these dead humans hate themselves for being human, and then leave one human on the hurricane island.

The people of Hurricane Island drank not rainwater, but the blood of their own kind.

They didn't eat the meat of extraordinary sea beasts, but rather the minced meat of their own kind.

With the guidance of the true god, the humans on Hurricane Island gradually turned into cannibals who hated humanity.

Later, the true god who created the Hurricane Island laboratory fell. Countless years passed, and no one knew that a cannibal tribe still stubbornly lived there. Moreover, over the endless years, the original human flesh and remnants in the hurricane were also gone.

The cannibals on Hurricane Island were forced to change their diet.

Over countless years, the cannibals' appetite for humans gradually became a recessive gene in their bodies. On the surface, these cannibals' descendants were no different from normal humans; the only difference was the latent, contaminated recessive gene.

The hunter god discovered that his ancestors were cannibals when he became a god.

At that time, the hunter god discovered that he had an uncontrollable appetite for humans.

Fortunately, the Hunter God controlled his appetite and returned to Hurricane Island to look for possible solutions. As a result, he actually found the relic left by the original God, which was the Hunter Map, a miracle treasure of God-level.

That was a miraculous treasure formed after the death of a true god who once perished in the waters of Hurricane Island.

Possessing the Hunter's Map, one can acquire everything about a human, including their talents and abilities, simply by hunting them down.

Even the authority over rules and laws could be stripped away, but the Hunter God still managed to control himself. He never used the Hunter Map to become stronger until his death, upholding the bottom line of being human. Back then, it could be said that with just a single thought, the Hunter God could have become a protagonist of a cannibalistic world, and not only would he not have died, but he might have even had the chance to become a great god.

Rosen cannot guarantee that he will have the same self-control as Hunter God in the future.

Honestly, if he had the chance to hunt down Qinon now, could he resist using the Hunter's Map to strip Qinon of his power? Qinon was his mortal enemy, and it would be too easy to convince himself to take the power of his mortal enemy.

But once you seize Qinong's power, can you really control yourself from hunting other people?

Just look at the protagonists in those cannibalistic novels; the worst, most ruthless, most vicious, and most cruel character in the entire story is the protagonist.

But the Hunter map is just too tempting, and Rosen can't guarantee he'll be able to resist it in the future.

So he decided to start now and gradually change the concept of the Hunter's Wonders in the Hunter Map.

Just like the reins of a knight, the earliest riding skills could be used to ride animals such as horses and cattle. Later, it extended to branches of knights such as dragon knights and giant beast knights. In this era, vehicles, ships, airplanes and even alien races can be ridden by riding skills.

Therefore, the word "knight" can have different meanings in different eras.

The Miracle Ability cannot be changed by the Hunter, but the Human Scope can be changed. Just like the Dragon Blood Bottle, if your name contains the word "dragon," you will be countered by the Dragon Blood Bottle. Similarly, the Human Scope can be understood as meaning that if you are human, then you are human.

Rosen was confident in doing so because the most crucial factor was that all life originated from primitive humans.

For primitive humans, contemporary humans and all other races are essentially all descendants of primitive humans.

Rosen happens to possess the bloodline of primitive humans, so as long as he treats these primitive human descendants as human beings, and with the extremely special Hunter branch sequence controlled by the Hunter God, he may be able to make anyone who is human a human.

Following the memories of the Hunter God, Rosen soon arrived at an unnamed mountain.

There is a waterfall on the mountain, and a deep pool below. What he is looking for is at the bottom of the pool.

Dragon Language Magic - Ice Age!
The area within a radius of hundreds of miles was instantly transformed into a world of ice and snow, and the deep pool at the foot of the mountain was completely frozen.

However, Rosen was not satisfied. He slowly compressed the ice elements within a hundred miles into the deep pool, causing the temperature inside the pool to drop lower and lower until it finally reached absolute zero. All matter and energy except for spirituality disappeared.

Without the constraints of material energy, the spirituality within the deep pool began to converge.

Ultimately, all spirituality converges into a single drop of liquid shimmering with seven-colored light.

This is the essence, the brain marrow left behind by the true God.

This true god harbored resentment towards humanity while alive, and this resentment remained deeply rooted in his divine essence even after his death.

When the Hunter God discovered this drop of divine essence, he also discovered the Hunter Map.

However, in the end, they only took the hunter's map and not the drop of divine essence.

Because the Hunter God had developed a terrifying Hunter Sequence branch, and this drop of divine essence was the core ingredient of the potion, if the Hunter God hadn't already become a god, he would most likely have been tempted to become a Vengeance Hunter.

This class isn't as terrifying as the Hunter map, but it still possesses the power to counter the Human race.

Therefore, the essence was eventually sealed away by the hunter god, remaining in this deep pool where it never sees the light of day.

Rosen took out the prepared extraordinary materials and began to use the potion bottle to prepare the Sequence 3 Vengeance Hunter potion.

[A spirit harboring rage towards an enemy, a spirit harboring murderous intent towards an enemy, a spirit harboring despair towards an enemy, a spirit harboring fear towards an enemy, a spirit harboring indomitable spirit towards an enemy...]

"Finally, add this drop of divine essence, and the potion will be born..."

Rosen carefully held the potion bottle and soon saw a tiny person, about the size of a thumb, emerge from it.

He opened the bottle and swallowed the little man inside in one gulp.

At that moment, the Hunter Sequence's extraordinary essence began to absorb faith and transform into Sequence 3.

Having already experienced the rise from noble to demigod, the transformation of the hunter sequence can be described as a natural progression without any obstacles.

However, Rosen was hearing terrifying, insane babbling in his ears.

The ancient sacred bell within his sea of ​​consciousness rang silently. Under the power of the miracle characteristic, the ancient divine voice, Rosen not only understood the previously incomprehensible murmurs, but also heard them more clearly and without missing a single detail.

The essence of all this mad ravings lies in the hatred of the master of the divine marrow for humanity.

The other parts of the mad ramblings stem from the hatred of countless beings towards humanity, and even the hatred of humanity itself towards its own kind. This hatred permeates the main world and, under the influence of spirituality, forms an unknown and terrifying existence.

Rosen thought the mad ramblings would interfere with his job advancement, as many people had been driven mad by mad ramblings when they were promoted to demigods.

Failure to advance is the least of your worries; the worst consequence is that the extraordinary source material may undergo mutations, turning people into monsters.

This time, however, the mad ramblings did not attack Rosen's spirituality and extraordinary essence at all. Instead, they actively merged into the extraordinary essence, actively became a part of the extraordinary essence, and actively became the nourishment for the development of Sequence 3 innate skills.

After the mad ramblings disappeared, Rosen's divinity level had risen to 83 points.

Moreover, all the innate skills of the Hunter Sequence have been upgraded, and the innate skill of Sequence 3 has also been successfully created. As expected, it is the ability that Rosen wants most right now.

[Revenge and Judgment: You will wield the power of revenge and judgment. The greater the difference in strength between those you mark as enemies, the greater the damage you will inflict on them. After successfully hunting down your enemies, you will reap special spoils.]

"This is the strongest innate skill I've ever seen..."

Rosen said with absolute certainty.

The "enemy" mentioned in the skill description refers to hatred and human beings.

This can be considered a weakened version of the Hunter's Map's Miracle Feature. It's a branch class created by the Hunter God after researching the Hunter Map. Mastering the weakening ability first will greatly reduce the difficulty of changing the Hunter Map in the future.

Looking at other innate skills and special skills, Rosen realized that they were all about overall enhancement and rarely underwent any fundamental transformation.

Because the special skills themselves are ridiculously powerful, it is extremely difficult to make any fundamental changes.

Excluding special skills, the only innate skills he still possesses at the skill level are Nightmare Shackles and Nen ability.

The Nightmare Shackles at LV6 were created prematurely due to the advancement in the Noble Rank, which led to the early creation of Nightmare Authority.

This time, with the upgrade to LV7, Nightmare Shackles has undergone another qualitative transformation.

[Nightmare Shackles LV7: Can manipulate the authority of nightmares to transform divinity into nightmare shackles]

[Divine Authority Trait: Nightmare Shackles possess the power to seal divine authority]

[Divine Authority Trait: Nightmare Shackles possesses the power of plunder and can be inlaid with up to two Miracle Treasures to gain special effects]

Nightmares, seals, and plunder—he wields three kinds of power.

Among them, the ability to seal authority is also mastered in other skills. Mastering the same authority with multiple skills can greatly increase the priority of control over that authority. Mastering the same authority with multiple skills is not a bad thing, but rather a good thing that all demigods dream of.

However, what Rosen values ​​most is the plunder of authority. Originally, the Nightmare Shackles could only be inlaid with one Miracle Treasure, but now it can be inlaid with two Miracle Treasures, which is enough to give the Nightmare Shackles a qualitative transformation.

Rosen finally looked at his Nen ability, which, due to his primitive human bloodline, had long since reached LV7.

This time, the accumulated foundation directly upgraded Nen ability from LV7 to LV8.

[Nen Ability LV8: Able to manipulate one's own life essence (ki), combining divinity to generate and control Nen ki]

[Divine Authority Trait: Possesses a trace of the underlying rules of fusion, granting the ability to fuse energy with various laws]

[Divine Authority Trait: Possesses divine authority over life, and can permanently consume spiritual energy to strengthen one's soul and physique]

[Characteristics of Divine Authority: Possessing divine authority over creation and the seven deadly sins]

[Divine artifacts: God-Slaying Crossbow, Gluttonous Beast, God-Hunting Demon Eye, Golden Apple Tree, Demon Seed (Seven Deadly Sins Beast), Universal Printer]

Rosen sensed the Nen energy within his body; his Nen energy had undergone a qualitative change.

The origin of life is the origin of vitality. The energy formed by the origin of life is more than ten times stronger than ordinary energy. This level of energy, combined with the divine authority of life and the divine authority of creation, is already capable of creating a complete life form that can reproduce and thrive.

However, the most terrifying change was that he had grasped a trace of the underlying rules of fusion.

This is a terrifying power that transcends the laws of nature. At least within the main world, the most powerful force originates from the underlying rules of the ancient gods. He can use this trace of underlying rules to quickly grasp all the rules and authority he desires.

This also means that Rosen's global power will become increasingly stronger.

(End of this chapter)