Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 302

Chapter 301 Abyss Apostles and the Abyss World Tree

The Abyss of Blood and Flesh flows downstream from its source at an ever-increasing speed.

At the beginning, it was about the speed of sound, but the speed of the Abyss Blood River's flow increased, and in the end, the movement speed of the Flesh Abyss even approached the speed of light.

As we all know, the greater the mass of an object, the more difficult it is to accelerate.

Therefore, in a world accelerated to near-light speed, a head-on collision would be enough to severely damage the true god blocking the way.

To intercept the Blood Abyss, you wouldn't even dream of it without three or five true gods.

However, the true forms of the Abyss Lords will not leave their respective Abyss planes unless they are forced into a desperate situation.

In this situation, only the clones can be deployed for interception.

The True God Abyss Monarch is alright; even after his divine avatar leaves the Abyss plane, he can still maintain the power of Sequence 0.

The Abyss Monarch was in an awkward position, as his divine avatar was left with only the power of Sequence 1 after leaving the Abyss Plane.

Fortunately, the Abyss Blood River and the Abyss Plane are both located in the Abyss World. Since the divine avatar is not strong enough, it can still use the divine avatar as a location to open the Abyss Gate, and then let the main body take action from within the Abyss Plane through the Abyss Gate.

Although the transfer of power will be somewhat reduced, the combined efforts of nearly a hundred Abyss Lords are enough to easily stop the Flesh and Blood Abyss.

The best place to force them to stop is undoubtedly the ninety-ninth level of the abyss.

Because the movement of the Flesh and Blood Abyss through the Abyss Blood River is essentially a process of transformation from the embryonic form of the world to a complete world. Moreover, when the Flesh and Blood Abyss is driven to the brink of despair, it will continuously draw more energy from the source of the Abyss Blood River and transform it into the origin of the world.

Therefore, in the past, the Abyss Lords would stop the Blood and Flesh Abyss at the 99th floor of the Abyss.

However, this time, all the Abyss Lords hesitated about whether to take action ahead of schedule.

Because they discovered that the Abyss of Flesh and Blood was withering away prematurely.

The withering of the world signifies the loss of its origin. The fact that they haven't stopped the Flesh and Blood Abyss from extracting its origin indicates that some entity within the Flesh and Blood Abyss is drawing upon the world's origin. If they don't take action soon, the world's origin within the Flesh and Blood Abyss may be completely destroyed.

There are more than one possible explanation for the sudden loss of the world's origin.

It is possible that the Abyss Demons of the original species were born from the Abyss of Flesh and Blood. These Abyss Demons, which are conceived by directly consuming the source of the Abyss plane, are born as Sequence 0 gods and are born as Abyss Lords of the Abyss of Flesh and Blood. Several true god Abyss Lords were once original species Abyss Demons.

Such a native species with amazing potential is of course most valuable when captured alive.

Taking advantage of the rebirth of the original species, directly parasitize the divine essence and refine it into an avatar. In the future, the avatar may grow stronger than the original.

The problem is that there can only be one native species, while it's difficult to distribute among the 99 Abyss Lords.

If this is the only possibility, many Abyss Lords would rather destroy the indivisible original species.

After all, once these clones formed by the original species grow up, there could be two true gods in one abyss plane.

There is a first-level abyss that has already made the other abyss lords uneasy.

Nobody wants a second one to appear, so the original species must die.

However, there are other possibilities. If what absorbs the world's origin is a treasure born from the world itself, then the treasure born must be extremely precious and must be the most suitable treasure for the Abyss Lord to wield. It would be a pity to destroy it directly.

Living creatures are difficult to distribute, but treasures have many ways to be distributed.

By joining forces to apply a seal, all Abyss Lords can use this treasure together.

Anyone who needs it can borrow the treasure.

Therefore, if the origin of the world is generating treasures, forcibly breaking through the flesh and blood abyss will inevitably lead to the treasures being underdeveloped and damaged.

This result is such a pity.

Of course, it's also possible that a true god could infiltrate the abyss of flesh and blood to steal the origin of the world.

However, inside the abyss, which true god would be so tired of living as to dare to do such a thing?

The origin of the world is not something that can be taken away so easily; even the ninety-nine Abyss Lords had to go through a great deal of trouble.

Those abyssal demons who died in the abyss of flesh and blood did not fight for a share of the world's origin.

At the same time, they were also sacrifices, used to bear the backlash after the world's destruction.

This backlash may appear harmless on the surface, but in reality, it will cause the abyss to lose its favor and be rejected by the abyss.

After some discussion, the many Abyss Lords decided to first find out why the world's origin had been lost before deciding what to do. However, figuring out the situation inside the Flesh and Blood Abyss was not easy.

When the Flesh Abyss was intact, entering it wasn't too difficult.

Even when numerous Abyss Monarchs join forces, they can force the Flesh and Blood Abyss to forcibly condense the world's origin.

But when the Abyss of Flesh and Blood reached its dead end, the Abyss Lord dared not intervene casually.

Firstly, they feared the backlash from the world before its death would cause them to be rejected by the Abyss. Secondly, the flesh and blood world, driven to the brink of despair, was instinctively trying to protect itself. Now was the time when its power was most concentrated and its counterattack ability was strongest before its death, so it was not easy for the Abyss Lord to know the situation inside.

In the end, it was the Phantom Lord himself who stepped in and, through his connections, borrowed a special Sequence 0 Miracle Treasure.

Then, using the miraculous property of the artifact that allows it to see through the barriers of the world, it saw the section of tree root inside the world's primordial sea.

The other Abyss Lords were still wondering what that root-like thing was.
It doesn't look like a native abyssal demon, nor does it look like a treasure. Could it be a special plant nurtured by the flesh and blood abyss?

All the Abyss Lords were analyzing and speculating, but only the Abyss Vice Lord Anatol recognized the origin of the Roots.

Although this section of the root is a bit weak, he will not mistake it for the root of the World Tree.

Without any hesitation, Anatol took out a scarlet leaf.

The leaf was shattered, and instantly transformed into a red vortex that enveloped the abyss of flesh and blood.

Before the other Abyss Lords could react, the Flesh and Blood Abyss had already vanished into the Abyss Blood River in front of everyone.

Meanwhile, Anatol was surrounded by all the Abyss Lords.

With the unfolding of various skills that seal space, seal causality, and even seal time, even the true god himself might not be able to escape, let alone Anatol, a divine avatar of Sequence 0.

Although they managed to trap Anatol's divine avatar in time, all the Abyss Lords looked grim.

Is the Blood Abyss valuable? Of course it is, but there are limits to its value.

Offending three or five Abyss Lords and monopolizing the Flesh and Blood Abyss would tempt all Abyss Lords, but offending 98 Abyss Lords at the same time, unless one suddenly suffers a mental breakdown, means that the value contained in the Flesh and Blood Abyss is enough for Anatol to offend all the Abyss Lords to death.

Even the most miraculous treasures of a true god wouldn't be enough to drive Anatole to such madness.

Therefore, only a treasure that could be at the level of a great true god would make Anatol steal it right under the noses of all the Abyss Lords.

"Tell me! What is that thing...?"

"I'm giving you a chance to hand it over. You know the first level of the Abyss is powerful, but we're not weak either..."

"I wonder if the 98 Abyss Lords can uncover the true nature of the first layer of the Abyss..."

"If that doesn't work, just flatten the first level of the abyss. I've disliked the first level of the abyss for a long time..."

Despite the threat from numerous Abyss Lords, Anatol remained completely calm.

"Do you dare defy the will of the abyss?"

Anatol countered with a question.

All the Abyss Lords fell silent instantly, looking at Anatol with suspicion.

This made Anatol realize that he couldn't get these Abyss Lords to back down without proving something.

However, from this point on, these Abyss Lords will surely harbor ulterior motives.

Anatol walked towards the Abyss Blood River. After reaching the shore, the Abyss Blood River began to writhe as if it were alive, responding to his will. Upon seeing this, all the Abyss Lords turned around and left without saying a word, returning directly to their respective Abyss planes.

Anatol sighed. This was why the first layer of the Abyss had to be sealed off.

No one wants to be trampled on, especially a chaotic being like an abyssal demon.

The subservient overthrow the superior and the strong prey on the weak; this is the instinct of all abyssal demons.
All Abyss Lords fear the Abyss Will, but none will willingly become its loyal hounds.

Only a dormant Abyss Will is a good Abyss Will. An Abyss Monarch can barely accept an Abyss Will without intelligence, but once the Abyss Will gains intelligence, and someone can wield its power, this exceeds the Abyss Monarch's tolerance limit. This is because all Abyss Monarchs are well aware that the highest control over the Abyss plane lies with the Abyss Will.

If the will of the abyss possesses intelligence, then someone can exercise the authority of the will of the abyss.

As fellow demons of the abyss, no one knows better than the Lord of the Abyss how the will of the abyss will enslave them.

Therefore, almost all Abyss Lords prepare a way out to leave the Abyss World.

Now that people's hearts are scattered, the development of the Abyss World will be greatly affected.

However, Anatol had no choice; he couldn't let anyone know all the information about the World Tree's existence.

If those great true gods lurking in the main world knew that the World Tree was hidden in the Abyss, they would surely invade the Abyss world at any cost. The losses they would cause would be far more serious than if the Abyss Lord had harbored rebellious intentions.

On the first level of the abyss, Anatol himself arrived at the Abyss of Flesh and Blood with a scarlet leaf in his hand.

The Abyss of Flesh and Blood, which originally rejected all Abyss Lords, now actively pulled Anatol into it.

Rosen immediately sensed something was wrong and without hesitation retracted the roots of the World Tree into the Ancient God Realm.

Even the Apostles of Calamity were urgently recalled by him at this moment.

Although the reason why the Abyss Lord arrived so slowly is unknown, the World Tree has already absorbed eighty percent of the Abyss's essence, and combined with the World Tree's original growth rate, it can already grow a second World Fruit.

So for the next period of time, Rosen stayed in the mysterious study and didn't plan to go out.

Anatol could not find any trace of the World Tree's roots, so he could only point his suspicions at all the abyssal demons within the Abyss of Flesh and Blood.

Three thousand Sequence 1 Abyss Demons—even a true god would find it difficult to suppress them.

So from the beginning, Anatol was prepared to discuss things amicably.

As long as these Sequence 1 abyssal demons are willing to give up resistance and accept inspection, they can be released if the inspection is successful.

Of course, this is just a lie; once you've reached the first level of the abyss, there's only one way out: death.

However, things didn't go as Anatole had imagined.

He originally thought that these Sequence 1 abyssal demons would obediently accept the inspection when facing the true god.

As a result, all the abyssal demons, except for those in the first layer of the abyss, were as if they had swallowed gunpowder, and they even realized that they were in the first layer of the abyss, insisting that other abyssal lords be present before they would accept the inspection.

The problem is that other Abyss Lords couldn't possibly come over; the lie was exposed from the very beginning.

Then the three thousand abyssal demons realized that they had arrived at the first layer of the abyss. Anatol did not allow other abyssal lords to come. If the abyssal lords could not come, yet they had come to the first layer of the abyss, they knew that giving up would only lead to their death.

While there are many Abyssal Demons who are all muscle and brains, there are also quite a few who are clever and cunning.

Realizing that they would die if they did not resist, all the abyssal demons joined forces to attack the outside of the flesh and blood abyss.

Anatol had to stop all the Abyssal Demons that tried to escape, and at the same time, he dispatched Sequence 1 Abyssal Demon units from the first layer of the Abyss. The chaotic battle lasted for two whole months before the last batch of Abyssal Demons all died in the Abyss of Flesh and Blood.

Anatol also suffered heavy losses, with at least a thousand of his Sequence 1 units killed in action.

His main body wasn't seriously injured, but the Flesh Abyss was completely shattered and died. Before its death, the Flesh Abyss instinctively resented Anatol, which directly caused the Abyss world to begin to despise Anatol.

In fact, Anatole was not worried about the abyss's rejection left by the Abyss of Flesh and Blood, because He was an apostle of the will of the abyss.

As soon as the will of the abyss awakens, the abyss's instinctive aversion will be swept away instantly.

Anatol was worried about his incompetence, fearing the great will of the abyss would deem him useless. After all, such a huge sacrifice had been made, resulting in the complete annihilation of all life in the Flesh and Blood Abyss, leaving them utterly devastated, and ultimately failing to even catch a glimpse of the World Tree.

Anatol knew without a doubt that the awakened will of the abyss would consider him, the apostle, incompetent.

Unable to accept this outcome, he began frantically searching for any clues by any means necessary.

After finding nothing, Anatole even suspected that he had been tricked by the Phantom Lord.

The miraculous artifact that allowed him to see the roots of the World Tree was borrowed by the Phantom Lord. If the Phantom Lord tampered with it, then the World Tree roots he saw were just an illusion, which would make perfect sense.

In fact, Anatole knew very well that this was somewhat unfair to the Phantom Lord.

The world's origin in the Abyss of Flesh and Blood has indeed disappeared; something must be drawing upon that origin.

It was just that it was hidden too well, so well that he had no way to deal with it.

Therefore, the only way to get rid of the label of incompetence is to shift the blame onto the Phantom Lord.

Anatol, who was already prepared to shift the blame, had no idea that he had been spied on more than once.

Rosen moved a chair and sat in front of the Window of the World, witnessing firsthand all the changes that occurred in the Abyss of Flesh and Blood.

It's not hard to imagine that the matter must be related to the roots of the World Tree.

As expected, there are things related to the World Tree in the Abyss World, otherwise the Flesh and Blood Abyss, which is an incompletely grown and mutated World Fruit, would not have been born. Anatol has his eye on his World Tree, but isn't he also eyeing the World Tree hidden in the Abyss?

The Abyss of Flesh and Blood was eventually devoured by the first layer of the Abyss, and the window to the world before Rosen was no longer obstructed.

Having witnessed part of the true nature of the first layer of the abyss, he understood why it was sealed off from both inside and out.

There is a section of wooden stake that connects the sky and the earth in the entire plane, which is clearly a section of the World Tree.

Even though it has no crown or roots, the trunk is not dead, and some branches are still growing on it.

There were a full one hundred branches, and ninety-nine of them disappeared after probing into the void.

Rosen instantly understood that the ninety-nine layers of the Abyss were essentially ninety-nine world fruits.

The entire Abyss World is actually the world domain that unfolds from this section of tree trunk.

The Blood River of the Abyss is a product formed by the blood flowing from the heart of the ancient god merging with the sap of the World Tree.

Rosen could tell at a glance that this section of the World Tree trunk had been contaminated.

He suddenly felt a pang of sympathy for the Abyss Demons. The Abyss World probably created the Abyss Demon race to help the World Tree's trunk withstand this mysterious pollution. In essence, all Abyss Demons are pollution filters and purifiers, and domesticated lambs.

Rosen continued his observation and discovered a massive number of troop nests on the first level of the abyss.

There are nine unit nests for Sequence 1 units, and a total of ninety unit nests for lower sequences.

The total number corresponds exactly to the number of abyss layers. Obviously, these troop nests most likely originated from various abyss planes, but they were all intercepted by the first layer of the abyss. No wonder the first layer of the abyss does not allow any outsiders to enter.

Because once the news got out, it was enough to make all the races in the main world restless and unable to eat or sleep.

With up to nine Sequence 1 unit buildings, it would be unreasonable to have no hundreds of thousands of Sequence 1 Abyss Demons over countless years.

As for why, on the surface, there seem to be less than a thousand Sequence 1s in the first layer of the Abyss.

That's because the abyssal demons are living beings, and as long as they live, they will consume resources every single day.

Even a million Sequence 1s, squeezed dry by the Abyss World, couldn't sustain them.

Therefore, most Sequence 1 units are probably sealed away immediately after they are manufactured.

This minimizes resource consumption, allowing for the rapid production of countless troops during wartime.

Among the troops that were previously used to annihilate the Flesh Abyss, some were at the bottom of Sequence 1, while others were even stronger than normal Abyss Demons. Those at the bottom must be the ones that were sealed away, while the ones with amazing strength were the ones that were carefully cultivated and left behind.

After much deliberation, Rosen finally decided to keep the first layer of the Abyss a secret for the time being.

If this is spread now, the True God is not qualified to enter the first layer of the abyss. If it attracts the attention of the Great True God, it will be impossible for him to take advantage of the chaos and steal the power of the World Tree trunk. He cannot steal the base under the watchful eye of the Great True God.

Several months have passed in the blink of an eye, and the World Tree sapling of the Ancient God Realm has grown considerably.

The second World Fruit was finally born, and Rosen's control over the World Tree's authority reached 36%.

Even the sequence levels of the Ancient God Realm and the World Tree have been upgraded from Sequence 1 to Sequence 0.

However, this second World Fruit cannot specify the laws; upon its birth, it inherently generates an independent and complete set of flesh and blood laws.

The problem is that in the main world, the laws of flesh and blood already exist, and the Mother of Flesh and Blood is the controller of these laws.

Could it be that the claim of the uniqueness of a law is actually false?
(End of this chapter)