Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 300 The Myriad Races Auction and the Tragedy of the God of Commerce

Chapter 299

"Big event..."

Rosen stood at the edge of the magnificent palace, gazing down at the thriving royal city, lost in thought.

From Daisy, he learned of a major event that was about to happen in the Abyss.

To discuss this important matter, we must first discuss the composition of the abyss.

The entire Abyss World is composed of 99 Abyss Planes, and the Abyss Blood River runs through all 99 planes.

However, the original Abyss was said to have only nine planes.

With each awakening of the will of the abyss over endless years, an additional plane is added to the abyss.

However, after the number of layers in the Abyss Plane reached 99, the Abyss Will fell into a continuous slumber and never truly awakened again.

Rosen is now certain that the Abyss Will is the true god of the Ancient God sequence of the Ancient God civilization.

And unsurprisingly, the Abyss Will is among the top-tier among the great true gods.

Although the number of layers in the Abyss dimension stops at 99, the Abyss has not stopped growing in the last 100,000 years.

Every ten thousand years, the abyss will actually give birth to the hundredth abyss plane.

However, this layer of the abyss world could not accommodate it, so it had to be destroyed and merged into the other 99 layers of the abyss.

Each time a new plane is born, the ninety-nine Abyss Lords divide the new plane among themselves.

The more they share, the more benefits the Abyss Plane controlled by the Abyss Monarch will naturally receive.

No one wanted to distribute it equally, after all, the Abyss Lords varied greatly in strength.

The strong are among the top gods, while the weak are merely ordinary deities.

However, even an Abyss Monarch with the strength of an ordinary deity can unleash power no less than that of a true god within the Abyss Plane under his control. The blessing that the Abyss Plane bestows upon the Abyss Monarch is generally acknowledged to far exceed the blessing that the God Kingdom bestows upon a deity.

Therefore, even those Abyss Lords of the True God level dare not bully Abyss Lords of the God level.

Because as long as they stay hidden in their own abyssal plane and don't go out, the best outcome for the True God Abyss Monarch to come is that both sides will suffer heavy losses.

Due to unequal distribution of benefits, the 99 Abyss Lords have fought a civil war more than once.

The division of the hundredth plane is directly related to the growth of the Abyss Plane and the growth of the Abyss Monarch's strength.

Therefore, the birth of each new dimension is the fuse for civil war in the abyss.

Later, seeing that each civil war resulted in mutual destruction and that the true gods of various races took advantage of the chaos after each civil war, the Abyss Monarch, no matter how warlike he was, dared not continue the civil war. Therefore, there has been no large-scale civil war in the Abyss for the last tens of thousands of years.

However, the struggle for interests still continues, only the scale of the conflict has been controlled.

All Abyss Lords were forbidden from setting foot on the newly formed Hundredth Plane from that time onward.

To gain a larger share of the new dimension, the only option is to send their abyssal demons into the new dimension to determine the victor.

The deaths were only among the Abyss Demons under their command; for the Abyss Lord, this loss was entirely within their acceptable range.

To put it bluntly, sending his Abyss Demons to fight to the death can reduce the threat to the Abyss Lord.

Because the Abyss Lord is not the Iron Throne, all the native Abyss demons of each layer of the Abyss are theoretically qualified to challenge the Abyss Lord and take his place. During the challenge, the Abyss Lord will temporarily lose control of the Abyss plane.

There are at least dozens of recorded instances of rulers in history who were overthrown by their subordinates.

The newly formed world of the 100th layer of the abyss is rich in resources, making it an ideal source of nourishment for the World Tree's growth.

If Rosen can infiltrate the new dimension and get a share of the profits, the growth of the World Tree will definitely increase significantly.

However, doing so is dangerous; it's like competing with the Abyss Lord for food.

Rosen wasn't afraid of the Abyss Monarch; if he couldn't beat him, he could run away. What he was worried about was the Abyss Will. No matter how the Abyss Monarch divided the new plane, the flesh would remain inside the Abyss. If he took the World Tree to snatch the food, what if the Abyss Will awakened?
However, if this opportunity is missed, the World Tree will likely find it difficult to accelerate its growth in the short term.

"I will definitely go, but I will do so as an Abyss Demon."

Rosen made up his mind to use the Necromancer Queen's parasitism and assimilation techniques to merge into the body of the Scourge Apostle.

There are very few people in the main world who can recognize the identity of the Sequence 1 Shadow Fiend.

However, with 99 Abyss Lords, choosing which Abyss Lord to join requires careful consideration.

It can't be too strong. If the Abyss Monarch is too strong, he won't lack Sequence 1 combat power under his command and won't recruit unfamiliar Sequence 1s.

A weak Abyss Lord can hardly provide much assistance.

After much deliberation, Rosen realized that the Phantom Lord was the most suitable candidate.

After carefully searching for information about the Abyss Monarch, he discovered that the Abyss Monarch trusted his own descendants the most.

In major events like vying for a new dimension, the teams are managed by their own descendants.

After entering the new plane, Rosen planned to take advantage of the chaos and wait for the right moment to strike. He didn't intend to overturn the table as soon as he entered and then be besieged by countless abyssal demons. However, he wanted to move freely, so choosing the Phantom Monarch was the perfect choice.

Unlike other Abyss Lords, the Phantom Lord does not care about the Abyss plane in which he resides.

Other Abyss Lords have used every means to expand the Abyss planes they control.

In contrast, the Phantom Monarch's Abyss 69th level was the worst developed among the 99 Abyss planes.

They don't even care about new planes. They sell the qualification to enter a new plane every time. Lone abyssal demons who are unwilling to serve the abyssal lord often buy the qualification to enter a new plane from the Phantom Lord.

This is why Daisy's second personality could easily obtain information about the new dimension.

Rosen returned to the 69th level of the Abyss, where Phantom City had returned to its former prosperity and decadence.

However, he could clearly sense that Phantom City's secret defenses had become much more stringent.

There are still a few months until the new dimension appears, and the sale of access to the new dimension will take place in the last few days.

However, to qualify, one needs to spend a sufficient amount of divine crystals in the Phantom City.

This is one of the ways the Phantom Lord amasses wealth. Rosen had circled Phantom City several times and had already purchased a large number of succubi to send to the Ancient God Realm. That very night, an Abyss Succubus delivered an invitation to the inn where he was staying.

The invitation was incredibly cheap; the material was simply a piece of demon skin that had been peeled off.

The dignified ruler of the abyss is far too greedy and stingy.

Rosen was almost certain that the Phantom Lord wanted to escape the Abyss and was trying to master laws such as trade and wealth.

The Abyss Lord is indeed high above, but even the weakest among them can wield power equivalent to a true god.

However, the Abyss Monarchs are also subject to the Abyss World, and can only hide in their respective planes to rule and dominate. If their true bodies leave the Abyss World, they will surely die if they are discovered by the true gods of various races. Over the long years, there have been quite a few Abyss Monarchs who have broken away from the Abyss and established their own divine kingdoms.

The Phantom Monarch was unwilling to strengthen the Abyss Level 69, and even deliberately weakened it.

This clearly indicates that he doesn't intend to be a proper Abyss Lord anymore. With the Phantom Lord's terrifying network of connections, if he could truly master the laws of wealth and trade, he might be able to become a true god after leaving the Abyss World.

Several months have passed in the blink of an eye, and more and more high-level abyssal demons have come to Phantom City during this period.

Early that morning, the invitation that Rosen had placed on the hotel room table suddenly began to slowly burn.

The burning flames formed a portal, and passing through this portal, one arrived at the slave auction venue in Phantom City.

He was in a private room, which was more luxurious than anyone could have imagined.

The auction venue has obviously undergone a complete renovation, so how could the greedy and stingy Phantom Monarch be willing to spend money on these private boxes?

Full of doubt, Rosen sat down on the sofa made of unicorn fur and picked up the auction catalog from the table next to him.

He turned to the first page, glanced at it, and gasped.

The auction item on the first page was a succubus of divine lineage, who had grown to Sequence 1 under the Phantom Monarch. Although the Phantom Monarch's descendants were scattered throughout the 69th layer of the Abyss, and although the Phantom Monarch sold his descendants as slaves in the main world, those descendants who were sold were not actually of divine lineage, because they did not inherit the Abyss Monarch bloodline of the Phantom Monarch.

Those divine descendants who truly inherited the bloodline of the Abyss Monarch have always been the foundation upon which the Phantom Monarch ruled the 69th level of the Abyss.

Rosen continued flipping through the catalogue; all the auction items were Divine Offspring.

A total of seventeen divine descendants, ranging from the weakest Sequence 3 to the highest Sequence 1, were all put up for auction with a reserve price.

Furthermore, the detailed description on the auction item page specifically points out that these divine descendants possess a special extraordinary sequence that assists in reproduction, and have a high probability of helping true gods give birth to divine descendants, which further increases the value of these succubus divine descendants.

Rosen seemed to be deep in thought. With the division of this new dimension over, the Phantom Monarch might be about to leave the Abyss World.

There's even a high probability that they'll abandon the succubus race altogether, completely severing their connection to the Abyss world.

When things change, a new true god might appear in the main world.

Therefore, this time, the Phantom Monarch intends to completely sell off all his assets related to the Abyss.

In the center of the eerie auction hall, a tall human figure dressed in a tuxedo appeared out of thin air.

His sharp eyes gleamed with the shrewdness characteristic of a businessman, scanning the auction hall as if he could see through every guest in the private rooms.

"I am the God of Commerce, welcome to the Myriad Races Auction hosted by me..."

The human who called himself the God of Commerce announced loudly, "This is the second venue of the Myriad Races Auction. The Myriad Races Auction, which has a total of nine venues, is being held simultaneously in the main world. The Myriad Races Auction will officially begin in one hour."

Eight new auction catalogs appeared simultaneously on the table in the Lawson box.

He picked up one of the catalogs and started looking at it, quickly reading through all nine auction catalogs in total.

Auction House No. 2 in Phantom City is mainly responsible for auctioning slaves.

Then, Auction Hall No. 1 is mainly responsible for auctioning various rare treasures that are of great value to gods and true gods.

The remaining seven auction venues each auction different local specialties.

Some auction venues are in the Dragon Realm, some are even in Heaven, some are in the Mechanical Realm, and there is even an auction venue on the Eternal Continent. The nine auction venues are scattered across the nine strongest races in the main world.

For the past few months, Rosen has been busy gathering information about the 100th floor of the Abyss.

However, the intelligent life form with the Magic Eye did not relax its information collection from various networks, yet it failed to find any information about the Myriad Races Auction. This suggests that the Myriad Races Auction may not have been publicly revealed until today.

The Phantom Lord is also very good at keeping secrets; it seems he really wants to master the rules of business.

The God of Commerce on stage should be the Phantom Monarch's new identity in the future.

However, after searching through all nine auction catalogs, none of them listed the qualifications for entering the new Abyss dimension.

Could it be that it was left after the Myriad Races Auction ended? Soon, all nine venues of the Myriad Races Auction will be auctioning simultaneously, and you can bid on items from other auction venues in Auction Venue 2. The only requirement for entry is for Abyss Demons, so it wasn't included in the auction catalog?
Filled with doubt, the bronze dragon avatar in the mysterious study began to draw a prophetic picture.

Rosen dislikes drawing prophetic pictures frequently, as knowing the future all the time is often not a good thing.

He would only draw a prophetic picture if he sensed danger or wanted to know what would happen in the future.

Otherwise, if you rely on precognitive drawings for everything, big or small, you will not only lose the fun of the unknown, but you may even make mistakes in your predictions and get yourself into trouble. The future will only ever serve as a reference for key events.

Looking at the contents of the prophetic painting, Rosen suddenly regretted not having foreseen it sooner.

He originally thought that obtaining the qualification to enter the new plane through the Phantom Monarch was not only the safest option but also the least troublesome.

Contrary to expectations, this time the Phantom Monarch had no intention of selling entry qualifications.

Because all the qualifications to enter have already fallen into the hands of other Abyss Lords.

The Phantom Monarch was ready to completely break away from the Abyss and become the God of Commerce, so he had already sold off all the profits from the 69th floor of the Abyss and the new plane. In the prophetic painting, the Phantom Monarch successfully became the God of Commerce.

A god of wealth has been born in the main world, but a god of commerce has not yet been born.

To become a god of commerce and master the laws of commerce, one must first be able to organize large-scale transactions at the level of a true god.

However, the higher the level, the rarer both treasures and resources become.

Therefore, at the level of deities, it is basically a small-scale barter system.

No deity would exchange treasures for divine crystals with a commercial organization. Commercial organizations cannot collect enough items at the level of true gods to hold large-scale trading activities at the level of true gods, and therefore are not qualified to master the commercial laws at the level of true gods.

No wonder the Phantom Monarch amassed a fortune; he single-handedly collected a considerable number of True God-level auction items.

Then, leveraging his connections, he organized a multi-race auction. Since the Abyss Monarch wouldn't easily travel to other Abyss planes, those attending the auction were all Sequence 1s aiming for the new plane qualification. However, those attending other auction venues were probably gods and true gods.

It's true that Phantom God wants to become the God of Commerce, but the God of Commerce has encroached on Lawson's territory.

In fact, there are trading channels at the level of true gods in the main world.

The main temple is the largest trading channel in the main world.

However, the main temple has a handling fee. The treasures of gods and true gods are too valuable, and few gods are willing to pay this handling fee. Therefore, transactions usually take place offline after contact with the main temple.

Below the level of gods, the main temple is the preferred place for long-distance trade of treasures between various races in the main world.

Because of the main temple, Rosen has made a fortune over the years.

Without the Temple of the Main God, he could paint thousands of Sequence 3 angel portraits at a time. Where would he get the money and materials? He would be lucky to feed the World Tree with the resources he gets from treasure hunting. The Temple of the Main God is his greatest source of wealth.

Once the Phantom Monarch becomes the God of Commerce, he will inevitably gain control over inter-racial trade throughout the main world.

If the fees are lower than those of the Main God Temple, then who would still trade through the Main God Temple?

The Phantom Lord wants to become the God of Wealth, and Rosen won't interfere because he doesn't hinder his interests.

But whether he agrees to become a business tycoon depends on whether he agrees.

Almost instantly, all those with great fortune in the main world received the announcement from the Main God Network.

The announcement is divided into three parts. First, transactions at the Sequence 1 level and above conducted through the Temple of the Main God will be exempt from transaction fees. Second, transaction fees for transactions at the demigod level will be reduced. Finally, the Temple of the Main God and the Myriad Races Auction are mutually exclusive options.

Those who are observant immediately realized two things from this announcement.

The God Network and God Temple, which had been operating automatically without a master for countless years, have now unknowingly acquired a master.

Secondly, the existence behind the Main God Network is aimed at thwarting the Myriad Races Auction and preventing the birth of the God of Commerce.

Even if a god of commerce were to actually be born, at most it would only facilitate transactions between different races below the rank of deity.

If the Phantom Monarch had the ability to maintain long-term transactions at the divine level, it would no longer be an auction of all races, but a trade fair of all races. This is because there are not enough resources and treasures at the divine level, so they can only be auctioned and cannot be freely traded between the gods and true gods of various races.

However, the main temple allows gods of various races to trade conveniently without any fees.

In comparison, the Myriad Races Auction of the God of Commerce is far inferior.

At the very least, the god of commerce cannot exempt transaction fees, because business law does not allow for such unprofitable business to continue for an extended period.

Therefore, those gods and true gods who had no connection with the Phantom Monarch, those gods and true gods who had no idea about the Myriad Races Auction, almost without hesitation chose the Main God Network, and some even entered the Main God Hall to try trading.

The gods and true gods who had already entered the Myriad Races Auction were now leaving one after another.

When faced with only two choices, they would prefer to choose the main temple.

At this moment, the Phantom Monarch standing on the auction stage was unaware of what had happened. He only knew that the gods and true gods who had been invited to various auction venues to assist him in mastering the laws of commerce had left in large numbers without any reason.

With his terrifying connections, the Phantom Monarch quickly understood what had happened.

He was just one step away from mastering the laws of business and becoming a true god, but at the last moment, his path was cut off.

The Phantom Monarch wished he could tear the mastermind behind the God Network to shreds, but he was powerless against it. The God Network was an ancient entity originating from the level of the Great True God, and it was even possible that the one currently controlling the God Network was the Great True God himself.

The Phantom Lord could only swallow his anger and remain in the Abyss as its Lord.

(End of this chapter)