Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 293 The Golden Pharaoh and the Secrets of the Ancient Gods

Chapter 292

Rosen was about to take a closer look at the body of the great true god when he suddenly noticed that the body's eyelids twitched.

He instantly felt an unprecedented terror and immediately dispersed the projection of the Hunter God's Demon Eye.

Then, while he was in the mysterious study, he clearly felt his memories fading away.

Rosen immediately took out the hidden brass book and recorded everything he had just seen in words and pictures.

The feeling of forgetting vanished instantly, and he would only lose that memory again if he closed the hidden brass book.

It was only because of the mysterious study that he didn't lose his memory instantly, allowing him a buffer period.

The Hunter Pioneer didn't have that privilege, so he has no memory of exploring beyond the outskirts of the Old World.

Rosen activated the Ancient God's Eye to peer into the secrets of the Old World, attempting to uncover its hidden mysteries based on existing clues.

The result was that the divine essence required for permanent consumption even exceeded his limit of 91 points.

This means that his Sequence 3 strength is far from sufficient to know the secrets of the Old World.

Rosen closed the Hidden Brass Book, ceasing his thoughts on the middle and inner layers of the Old World.

Having finally acquired a miraculous treasure like the Ash Emblem, instead of thinking about things beyond his own capabilities, he should first seize all the easily obtainable benefits on the outskirts of the Old Continent. Once his strength increases, he will eventually traverse the entire Old Continent.

The Eye of Ash allows vision to be unaffected by ash, but it cannot detect fragments of the spirit world.

So after much consideration, Rosen decided to go deep into the desert to take a look.

According to the hunter pioneer's memories, the fragment of the spirit world he was desperately trying to escape to was in the center of the desert.

However, even the hunter pioneers don't know exactly what it looks like inside.

Because he had sent his tamed magical pets to explore the spirit realm fragment in the center of the desert several times, and none of the pets returned with any messages before they died, the hunter pioneer realized how dangerous the spirit realm fragment was, so he fled there to seek a glimmer of hope.

Rosen released thousands of Sequence 4 Abyssal Shadow Fiends from the Divine Realm, dispersing them towards the outer reaches of the Old Continent.

The Old World only allows ten thousand demigods to explore, and there must be a reason why he doesn't know it.

Therefore, the territorial units of Sequence 3 can fight within the Divine Realm territory, but they must never leave the Divine Realm territory.

Therefore, only Sequence 4 Abyssal Shadowfiends could be released. In the Old World where demigods were everywhere, Sequence 4 Abyssal Shadowfiends could not survive independently. In the past, only a few were released to explore, and large-scale deployments were never carried out.

But things are different now; Rosen is no longer afraid of being covered by ashes.

He can remotely control the Sequence 4 Shadowfiends from a god-like perspective, dispersing them to the outskirts of the Old World to avoid dangers along the way while searching for treasure. Although it is impossible to have zero casualties, the gains will definitely outweigh the losses.

Rosen handed over command to the Magic Eye AI before venturing deeper into the desert with peace of mind.

Although there is no ash covering the desert, there are sandstorms that blot out the sky.

Sandstorms are natural disasters, and the Disaster Apostles are most adept at controlling them.

Surrounded by sandstorms, Rosen easily avoided the various dangers hidden beneath the desert. Finally, in the center of the desert, he indeed sensed the aura of the spirit world. His prepared Yinglong clone released its divine perception and escaped into the fragment of the spirit world.

The moment Rosen arrived in the spirit world, he could no longer sense the state of his original self.

However, the connection between the two parties was re-established in the next instant.

This is because the main body used the Hunter God's Eye and then reconnected with Yinglong's clone through the Hunter God's Eye's observation.

In this way, even if Yinglong's clone dies in the fragments of the spirit world, it can at least transmit information to its main body.

Rosen surveyed his surroundings, which were surrounded by an endless expanse of golden desert.

The desert is literally called the Golden Desert. It is not made of sand and gravel, but of gold. Under the sunlight, the entire desert reflects a golden glow, and a pyramid can be seen faintly in the depths of the desert.

"I feel like I've seen a record of this kind of environment somewhere before..."

Rosen's true form immediately opened the Eternal History Book outside to search for relevant entries.

"Found him! The legendary Golden Pharaoh, the only true god of the extinct Pharaoh civilization..."

Rosen tried to leave the Golden Desert and return to the real desert, but as expected, it was easy to get in but impossible to get out.

Because the entire fragment of the spirit world has completely transformed into the divine kingdom of the Golden Pharaoh.

This is the kingdom of the true God; it's not so easy to force your way out.

Under the dazzling golden light, a group of mummies wrapped in golden shrouds emerged from the distant golden pyramid.

The leader of them was a deity, and the ten following him were all peak demigods.

"No hostility?"

Rosen's pupils contracted slightly.

If there's no hostility, why make such a big fuss? It can't be that they came up to greet him, can it?

Rosen was right; these golden mummies were indeed there to greet him.

After leaving the golden pyramid, the golden mummy immediately released a golden warship. After sailing the golden warship across the desert to Rosen, a golden staircase was lowered from one side of the ship and pushed to a short distance away.

"Honorable guest, the great Golden Pharaoh invites you to visit the Golden Palace."

The golden mummy deity extended a respectful invitation.

Without hesitation, Rosen boarded the golden warship. The worst outcome would be the loss of one of his clones.

In any case, as long as the spiritual painting remains intact, the paint-manifested clone can be easily resurrected even if it dies.

The Golden Pyramid is thousands of miles high, with a completely hollow interior in the center, where a golden scepter thousands of miles high is inserted. The interior of the pyramid is surrounded by layers of trapezoidal buildings, each layer being a city composed of countless tombs.

After the golden warship approached the golden scepter, it quickly ascended vertically to a position equivalent to the top of the tower.

There is a floating shrine here, guarded by golden mummies, but all the servants are normal humans. Led by the golden mummy deity, Rosen arrived at the main hall of the shrine and saw the golden pharaoh drinking and making merry.

The golden pharaoh waved his hand, and the musicians, dancers, and golden mummies who were on guard all withdrew.

Do you know why the spirit world came into being?

The Golden Pharaoh put down his wine cup and asked.

"The spiritual world of the ancient gods?"

Rosen answered uncertainly.

"To be precise, it's the consciousness sea of ​​the ancient gods..."

The Golden Pharaoh affirmed, "The main world is the embodiment of the ancient gods' bodies, the spirit world is the embodiment of the ancient gods' sea of ​​consciousness, and the deep sea of ​​the spirit world is the embodiment of the ancient gods' souls. You possess the sequence of ancient gods; guess what the spiritual essence of the ancient gods has transformed into?"

"The spiritual origin of the ancient gods, I really don't know that."

Rosen pondered for a moment and shook his head.

"You and I are the spiritual origin of the ancient gods."

The Golden Pharaoh gave Rosen a chilling answer that he could hardly believe.

"You and I" certainly refers to more than just him and the Golden Pharaoh.

According to the Golden Pharaoh, "you" and "I" should refer to all life in the main world.

If that's the case, wouldn't all life in the main world be merely avatars of the ancient god's spiritual origin?

"Don't overthink it..."

The Golden Pharaoh laughed loudly, “You and I are both ancient gods, but you are you and I am me. We have independent lives and independent selves. The vast majority of the spiritual essence of the ancient gods has been transformed into the spiritual essence of all living beings, and a small part has been transformed into the world will to maintain the stable operation of the main world.”

"Can that ancient god still be alive?"

Rosen asked the question that worried him the most.

"Of course!"

The Golden Pharaoh put away his smile and said seriously, "The last ancient god era ended because of the complete awakening of the ancient gods. When the world's will believes that the ancient gods need to awaken, it will bury all life in the main world and reunite the spiritual origin to reorganize the original consciousness of the ancient gods."

Faced with such a cataclysmic calamity, the true god had no room for resistance whatsoever.

Only the great and true God has three possibilities for escaping calamity.

One option is to create a completely independent world, such as the Dragon Realm or the Abyss World. However, this method also has its drawbacks. Although the spiritual essence can avoid being reclaimed by the ancient gods, the awakened ancient gods may not let go of a great true god who takes this path. The second path, of course, is to leave the main world and escape the world-destroying threat brought about by the awakening of the ancient gods.

The last resort, you know it without me telling you.

"Directly kill the world will of the main world?"

Rosen asked as an addendum.

"Of the three paths, only the second has a successful precedent..."

The Golden Pharaoh sighed, "The third path is actually the one that those great true gods who left the main world and survived tried to turn back and completely kill the ancient gods after becoming stronger outside. This path has been taken several times and all have failed."

"Then what is your purpose in telling me all this?"

Rosen asked directly.

"I want to invest in you..."

The Golden Pharaoh said sincerely, "I am a true god who has died once. Don't think that I was resurrected because of the spirit world. No matter how real the life in the spirit world is, its essence is still spirit. It is very difficult to completely transform into matter and perfectly integrate into the material world."

Moreover, the more powerful a being is, the harder it is for it to escape the spirit world after being resurrected there.

I can't even get very far from this fragment of the spirit world now; the only reality I can affect is the desert outside.

If this continues, and the war between the Great True God and the World Will reignites, I will only face the path of becoming cannon fodder for the World Will. The only way to escape this predicament is for the Great True God to intervene and protect me.

Do you believe I can become a great true god?

Rosen asked in surprise.

"Sequence 3 is already capable of hunting down that Hunter Pioneer, so don't be too modest."

The Golden Pharaoh exclaimed from the bottom of his heart.

"So how do you plan to invest in me?"

Rosen asked with a hint of disbelief.

"Give it your all."

The Golden Pharaoh said without hesitation.

Over the next few months, Rosen truly witnessed just how determined the Golden Pharaoh really was.

Two sequence 0s and one hundred sequence 1s of golden mummies are lined up and sent to him to be killed.

Rosen directly obtained two Sequence 2 Soul Gems and eight Sequence 3 Soul Gems, enough for him to upgrade all his territory buildings to Sequence 3 and still have one left. The only pity was that the two Sequence 0 Soul Gems did not leave behind any Miracle Treasures after they died.

The reason is very simple: these two sequences 0 are, strictly speaking, the subordinate gods of the Golden Pharaoh.

It can only maintain the power of Sequence 0 within the divine kingdom of the Golden Pharaoh. Outside the divine kingdom, it can only reach the Sequence 1 level at most, which is half a step beyond the limit.

In addition to the Soul Gem given away for free, the Golden Pharaoh also told Rosen all the secrets He knew about the true God and the Great God.

When he finally left, the Golden Pharaoh also gave Rosen a Sequence 2 Golden Mummy unit nest.

As for more treasures, the Golden Pharaoh had none left.

Because when He was resurrected in the fragments of the spirit world, He had nothing on Him. His legacy from his previous life had already been divided up by the true gods who killed Him back then. What He is now taking out is all the wealth He has painstakingly accumulated over the years.

The Golden Pharaoh watched Rosen leave, sighed regretfully, turned back to the Golden Palace, and prepared to fall into slumber.

If it were the real Rosen who entered, He would definitely try to capture Rosen alive.

However, what came was only an avatar, and He had foreseen whether He could capture the real Rosen alive through the avatar.

The result greatly disappointed Him, as He realized that He could not possibly arrive at an accurate conclusion through foresight.

Without absolute certainty of capturing Rosen alive, he had no choice but to take a path fraught with uncertainty.

I'm betting on Rosen's future with my own judgment, and I'm wagering through these days of contact that Rosen won't break his promise.

Rosen didn't truly relax until Yinglong's clone returned to the mysterious study.

Open the hidden brass book and record some of its secret contents.

As a true god who has lived for tens of thousands of years, the Golden Pharaoh has come into contact with too many secrets at the level of a true god.

However, even the Golden Pharaoh did not know what the corpse of that great true god in the Old World was all about.

Because the Golden Pharaoh had been dead for countless years, 20,000 years ago.

However, the Golden Pharaoh King did suggest a possibility: Great Gods are not invincible; a sufficient number of Gods could kill a Great God. But to preserve a Great God's complete body, the Great God would have to voluntarily leave behind the corpse.

According to the Golden Pharaoh, the Old World is the strongest stronghold of the world's will within the material world.

Therefore, it is possible that a great true god sacrificed his own body to seal off and suppress the world's will.

Then the ashes sealed the body of the great true god, and the fragments of the spirit world in the old continent may very well have originated from the will of the world.

This is also what makes the Golden Pharaoh very uneasy. The world's will has the power to destroy all living beings in the main world. It is impossible to seal it forever with just the corpse of the great true god. The constantly appearing fragments of the spirit world are a manifestation of the leakage of the world's will's power.

The will of the world created fragments of the spirit world, and even beings like the Golden Pharaoh were resurrected.

The Golden Pharaoh deeply suspects that the world's will possesses the power to control His life, death, and even His actions.

If that day ever comes, the Golden Pharaoh may become a puppet of the world's will.

Because he had no choice in the matter, the Golden Pharaoh humbled himself so much, betting his future on a single Sequence 3.

Because apart from him, the Golden Pharaoh could not find a better investment target.

Rosen also gained something else during his months at the Golden Temple.

That was to truly witness the power of a true god. This was not even the Golden Pharaoh at his peak. The Golden Pharaoh was only at an intermediate level among true gods. After receiving guidance from the Golden Pharaoh, he had accumulated his foundation at Sequence 3 to its limit.

Therefore, he plans to find a suitable place to advance to Sequence 2 without relying on the Golden Sequence Ancient Tree.

According to the Golden Pharaoh's analysis, the nine ancient trees established by the World Government are indeed powerful, but if one relies too much on them, the connection between one's own extraordinary sequence and these nine ancient trees will become increasingly close.

Before Sequence 3, there was no other choice; after Sequence 3, it's best to find a way to be independent.

The painter sequence Rosen was not worried because he possessed the painting sequence ancient tree.

The nobility aspect is also manageable, because his divine domain has merged with the ancient god source realm of the ancient god sequence, he also holds the creation god power of Yinglong, and with the repeated destruction of all directions and return to the origin, the nobility sequence is the least of his worries.

Even if he were to advance to the noble rank, he could still continue to exploit the ancient trees of the noble rank.

After you've finished fleecing them, all you need to do is unleash the "Ten Directions Annihilation" spell, and all connections to the ancient trees in the noble sequence will be severed.

On the contrary, it's a bit difficult for the Hunter Sequence to sever its relationship with the Hunter Sequence Ancient Tree.

If it can be severed, it's best to sever it. If it's impossible to sever it, then try to usurp its position. As long as you become a true god of hunting and master the hunting laws, you can directly gain control of the hunter sequence ancient tree and naturally won't have to worry about the hidden dangers behind the sequence ancient tree.

They can even gain the power to command all hunters by relying on the Ancient Tree of the Hunter Sequence.

During the months that Rosen spent visiting the Golden Palace, more than half of the scattered Abyss Shadow Demons were killed or wounded.

However, the gains far outweighed the losses. He had already taken most of the easily obtainable benefits from the outskirts of the Old World, and the rest were all extremely dangerous and difficult to acquire. Since he no longer lacked resources, staying would be putting the cart before the horse.

However, before leaving, he planned to obtain the core materials for Hunter Sequence 2 potions in the Old World.

There are quite a few Hunter branches in Sequence 2 in the memories of the Hunter God.

Sequence 3 has changed to a Vengeance Hunter, while Sequence 2 Rosen, after careful consideration, is preparing to change to a Crime Hunter.

If criminal hunters are best at capturing criminals, then they are best at disrupting order.

Such an extraordinary sequence should, in theory, be rejected by world governments that uphold order.

However, humanity has many hostile races. Criminal hunters are not allowed to disrupt their own order, but they can disrupt the order of hostile civilizations. Every high-sequence criminal hunter is covered in the blood and tears of countless alien races.

Normal criminal hunters start from Sequence 9 and then gradually disrupt the order.

If Rosen wants to directly obtain the core ability of the Criminal Hunter, and even enhance it to the enhanced version of the Sequence 2 core ability, then the core material of the potion he uses should ideally be extraordinary material at the True God level, possessing the power to disrupt order.

Only potions made with this core configuration can minimize the impact of the Hunter Sequence Ancient Tree.

If he were to take the lead in the future, his hunter sequence wouldn't be too much of a constraint by the hunting laws.

(End of this chapter)