Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 304 The Desert of Death and the Secret History of the Elves

Chapter 303

On the edge of the Death Desert, there are mobile towns of all sizes scattered throughout.

These towns are responsible for receiving extraordinary individuals who come to the Death Desert in search of treasure.

Here you can rent various models of mechanical puppets and then remotely control them to enter the outer perimeter of the Death Desert to search for treasure.

Because they judge success by luck rather than ability, these towns are popular with low-level superhumans and gamblers.

After arriving in Emerald Valley, Rosen waited for the town's teleportation array to open.

The Desert of Death is filled with death curses. Anyone below the level of a demigod who enters the Desert of Death will not only lose their lifespan rapidly, but may also be instantly stripped of their lifespan by a random instant death curse. Therefore, those below the level of a demigod can only remotely control mechanical puppets to explore the outer edge of the desert.

Although demigods can venture deep into the desert, they can also use their domain to negate instant death effects and greatly slow down the loss of their lifespan.

However, deep in the desert, one may still encounter dangers such as quicksand monsters and dead ancient trees.

The Desert of Death appears to be 100,000 square miles from the outside, but once inside, it is found to be a million square miles in diameter.

Not only has the area increased a hundredfold, but the space itself is also somewhat special.

If you descend from a great height into the heart of the desert, you will inevitably end up on the edge of a deathly desert.

If you venture deep into the desert from its edge, traveling at speeds exceeding the speed of sound, you'll eventually find yourself back at the desert's edge.

If you try to jump through space, you'll be randomly thrown to some unknown location.

Even through the spirit world, it is impossible to directly penetrate the Desert of Death.

Therefore, to venture deep into the Death Desert, one could initially only proceed slowly at subsonic speeds.

However, in such a vast, deadly desert spanning millions of miles, it would be too difficult to penetrate deep into the desert at a speed below the speed of sound.

The anomalies in the Death Desert spatial dimension originate from the realm of the True God of the Mother Tree of Life.

Although the Mother Tree of Life has fallen, the Realm of the True God has been preserved by merging with nature.

This power that prevents outsiders from easily venturing into the desert is, according to research, the final protection the Mother Tree of Life offers to the Elven race.

The Elven race was able to retreat back then thanks to this spatial protection.

Therefore, in the heart of the desert, there is actually a hidden teleportation array that is not affected by the domain of the true god's laws.

After the human god discovered this teleportation array, he modified it and connected it to various mobile towns in the surrounding area.

This way, there's no need to travel far; you can directly take the teleportation array to the core of the desert.

A few days later, the town of Emerald Valley, which had been moving around the Death Desert, came to a stop.

The area on the outskirts of the desert where we stopped some time ago has already had almost all the valuable resources extracted.

Now we've arrived in a new area, where countless bizarre mechanical golems have rushed from the town into the desert.

The teleportation array in Emerald Valley Town also began to connect with the teleportation array in Oasis City in the center of the desert to create a teleportation channel.

It would take a day for the teleportation channel to be stable, so Rosen summoned a golden mummy pharaoh.

The Sequence 2 Pharaoh's body turned into golden quicksand, drifting away with the wind from Emerald Valley Town to explore the Death Desert. Once he could no longer see any mechanical golems nearby, the Pharaoh immediately summoned hundreds of Sequence 4 golden mummies and scattered them apart.

Rosen needs to verify whether the Sequence 4 golden mummy can withstand the death curse.

If they can withstand the death curse, the golden mummy can thrive in an environment like the Death Desert.

If a being is below demigod level, even a golden mummy cannot escape the curse of death.

Then he can only send troops that have reached the demigod level within his territory, which would reduce exploration efficiency by more than a hundred times.

Several hours later, Rosen, sensing that none of the golden mummies were dead, ordered them to return.

However, on the way back, the golden mummy pharaoh sent back a message.

On the edge of the desert, the ruins of an elven city, buried deep within the desert, were discovered.

Seeing that the teleportation channel would remain stable for at least half a day, Rosen immediately decided to go and check it out himself.

The violent tornadoes continuously swept away sand and dust from an area of ​​several miles around.

The ruins of an ancient city, buried hundreds of miles deep beneath the desert, are gradually reappearing as the sand and dust are swept away.

Rosen opened the Book of Eternity, and his understanding of the Elven civilization became clearer.

The human brain can only store a limited number of memories, which is why ordinary people are prone to forgetfulness.

Superhumans are much better, but they also have very long lifespans.

Therefore, even those with extraordinary abilities will gradually forget memories that are too distant from the past, especially those that are not important.

Historians read countless books, and even with various methods to expand the memory capacity of their brains, souls, and divine origins, there will eventually come a day when it is not enough. Therefore, those memories that are not very important will be recorded in the eternal history books and then actively forgotten.

However, whenever these memories are needed, they can be made clear in a short period of time.

Therefore, Rosen's memories of the elven civilization quickly came back to him, as clear as when he had just finished reading the relevant historical documents. He could easily identify that the city ruins below originated from the very rare cave elves.

This is a type of elf that lives underground and likes to dig holes; it is not born with the beautiful appearance of other elves.

Not only is she not good-looking, but she's also ugly. Not only is she short, but her facial features are also wrinkled.

Perhaps because they felt inferior, the cave elves lived underground as a whole, digging caves and building underground cities.

When the Holy Continent was conquered by giants, the cave elves had already become extinct in the main world.

If it weren't for human archaeologists unearthing some ruins of cave elves' cities, we wouldn't even know that cave elves existed, because the current elven civilization doesn't acknowledge that cave elves ever existed, and has even assassinated historians who studied cave elves for this reason.

Rosen leaped into a giant sand well, several kilometers in diameter and tens of kilometers deep, and fell vertically into the city ruins at the bottom.

The magic brush casually drew a circle in the air, and this circle has now become a small sun, scattering sunlight to illuminate the dark underground.

Rosen wandered around the city ruins; so much of it had decayed.

However, he still found some clues. First of all, this was not an ordinary city. Judging from the architectural style, it was the royal city of the cave elves. The problem was that the royal city should have the Tree of Life, but he did not see any trace of the Tree of Life in the ruins of the royal city.

Even if it was destroyed by giants, it should still leave some traces.

The complete absence of any trace indicates that there was no living ancient tree at all.

The problem is that the royal city doesn't have an ancient tree of life, so is it still a royal city of an elven civilization?
It is important to know that the Tree of Life is the root of the Elf race; without the Tree of Life, the Elf race will gradually perish.

Considering the current elven civilization's efforts to conceal cave elves, Rosen considered a possibility.

Could it be that the elven civilization at that time had already expelled the cave elves?

Only in this way can we explain why there are no ancient living trees here.

Rosen continued searching several times and finally found a mummified corpse.

Many tens of thousands of years have passed. Even if the corpses of those below the level of demigods turned into mummies in the desert, they would completely decompose into ash after tens of thousands of years. This mummified corpse looks quite intact, and it must have been at least a demigod when it was alive.

Judging from the size of this royal city, this mummified corpse might be the Cave Elf King.

Rosen examined it carefully and found a shattered spatial ring.

The storage space inside has collapsed, and the stored items have definitely been swept into the void turbulence.

Even if something survives the tearing of the spatial turbulence, who knows where it will be swept away by the spatial turbulence? Perhaps on the other side of the Death Desert, deep in the yellow sand, lies the thing that was originally stored in the spatial ring.

However, after examining the spatial ring closely, Rosen discovered the reason for the collapse of the internal space of the ring.

The spatial ring was hit by an arrow, and the external damage caused instability in the internal space.

Then, as the long years passed, the storage space inside completely collapsed.

Judging from the wound on the ring, the arrow that hit the spatial ring was probably a wooden arrow from the Elven race.

It should be noted that wooden arrows are relatively weak in terms of lethality among those of the same rank. Only the elves retain the habit of using wooden arrows, while other races must at least have arrowheads made of extraordinary metals. Therefore, the one who killed this cave elf king was an elven demigod.

It should be noted that the area of ​​the Death Desert is within the domain of the Laws of the Mother Tree of Life.

In such a place, the elven demigods killing each other is almost tantamount to betraying the elven race.

Rosen seemed to be deep in thought, realizing that even the Mother Tree of Life might no longer protect the cave elves.

Seeing that there was nothing of value left in the ruins, he was about to leave when he stopped.

Rosen returned to the mummified corpse and used his spiritual energy to materialize God's Palette, beginning to decompose the corpse.

He even infused a massive amount of time-attribute divine crystals, generating a special divine pigment.

Then, it expanded its world domain to cover the city ruins, cutting off the entire space where the ruins were located. Finally, it sealed this space into a dimensional canvas and began to paint a lifelike cave elf king with God's paint.

Through the restoration of the mummified body, the original appearance of the mummified body was perfectly restored. After completing the painting, Rosen activated the spirit within the painting.

The cave spirit king, whose spirit has been revived and brought to life in the painting, recounts his experiences before his death in fits and starts.

As Rosen listened, he looked at the Cave Elf King in astonishment.

His analysis was correct; the cave spirits were indeed abandoned by the Mother Tree of Life.

Even the Tree of Life was taken away by other elves.

Without the Ancient Tree of Life, the Elven population would decline until extinction.

The cave elves, of course, refused to accept this, and as a result, they were wiped out by the elven race.

The surviving cave elves harbored only resentment towards their former kin and towards the Mother Tree of Life.

At this time, the giants approached the cave elves.

Some of the cave spirits transformed into cave giants, becoming the guides for the giant race to conquer the Holy Continent.

Some cave spirits dream of gaining the approval of the Mother Tree of Life.

The former lived very well, and there are still quite a few cave giants to this day.

The latter was in a much worse situation, because the cave giants led the way, causing heavy casualties among the elves. The elves initially only wanted to drive out the cave elves, but gradually turned to actively slaughtering them. This cave elf capital was destroyed by other elven demigods.

Rosen opened the Book of Eternity, where this history was already recorded.

His Eternal History Book is a miraculous treasure, a miraculous historical record. Even if the recorded history is incomplete, the historical record can fill in the gaps on its own. The more incomplete and secretive the history is, the more difficult it is to fill in the gaps.

However, he has other abilities that might allow him to obtain more valuable clues.

With 70% of his ancient god bloodline awakened, he obtained the Ancient God's True Eye and the unique pupil technique, Peeping the Secret.

As long as there is a clue, one can permanently consume divine essence to uncover the secret hidden behind the clue.

Ordinary secrets are certainly not worth using espionage for, but his intuition told him that secrets involving cave spirits were worth it.

Having permanently consumed three points of divine essence, Rosen saw the secret hidden within the mummified corpse.

This was no ordinary cave spirit king. In his previous life, he was a cave guardian and the last cave spirit to die, thus fulfilling the conditions for the birth of the Vengeful Guardian, and becoming the Vengeful Guardian after his death.

For the Vengeful Watchers, death is not the end, but only the beginning.

When the spirit world descended into reality, Rosen once saw the Vengeful Watchers.

This legendary profession of the elven race, even without a body, the soul will transform into a vengeful spirit, and according to the secrets he saw through voyeurism, the vengeful guardian formed after the death of this cave elven king is still alive.

After returning to Green Valley Town, Rosen looked towards the depths of the Death Desert with anticipation.

The Vengeful Watchers who have survived for so many years are most likely sealed away.

The Vengeful Watchers, seeking revenge, will inevitably head to the heartland of the Elves.

This means there is a high probability that it is sealed in the stronghold of the Elven race, where there is not only a greater chance of finding treasures left behind by the Elven race, but also a possibility of finding clues about the Demon Hunter. As long as there are clues, the secret can be pointed to the Demon Hunter.

However, before that, we need to use the Primal Oil Lamp to accelerate the restoration of the depleted upper limit of divine essence.

Half a day passed in the blink of an eye, and the teleportation array leading to Oasis City stabilized the teleportation channel.

After paying the teleportation fee, Rosen stepped onto the teleportation array along with several other demigods who had also arrived in Green Valley Town.

The transmission process was very unstable, and the transmission channel was practically on the verge of collapse.

This is after a day of stabilization, which shows how strong the interference of the Death Desert is in space.

If the teleportation array in Oasis City hadn't been built by the elves, it probably wouldn't be able to teleport to other teleportation arrays outside.

Stepping out of the teleportation array, Rosen surveyed Oasis City.

He was no stranger to Oasis City; he had read a historical biography of the Death Desert written by a historian.

Oasis City is located in the only oasis in the Death Desert. At night, all the plants in this oasis wither and die, but during the day they flourish again. Eating these plants during the day can replenish life force, while eating them at night will cause life force to be lost.

Many demigods who are nearing the end of their lifespan come to Oasis City to settle down and prolong their lives by relying on the plants here.

So even though Oasis City isn't very big, there are thousands of demigods living there.

If you include the demigods who came to search for treasure, the total population has already exceeded ten thousand.

The streets of Oasis City are devoid of any supernatural beings below the level of demigods, but the buildings along the streets are filled with a large number of supernatural beings below the level of demigods, as well as ordinary beings. These buildings are actually divine territories, and each one is inhabited by the subjects of a demigod.

Those demigods who came here to retire were unwilling to sit around and do nothing, so they opened up their divine territories to do some business.

Rosen quickly found a shop run by a historian and went inside to gather more information about the Death Desert.

All the relevant information was clearly priced on the counter, and he bought it all without hesitation.

As long as the content is true, it can be used to fill in the gaps in the Eternal History regarding the Elven race.

As I was about to leave after the transaction was completed, a frail, dying old man suddenly appeared inside the store.

Rosen immediately recognized that this was a Sequence 3 historian whose life force was like a candle flame in the wind. He was truly on his last breath, and ordinary methods of prolonging his life were completely ineffective. He could only rely on the plants in the Oasis City during the day to keep him afloat.

"Historian Gavin Allen, begs the Glorious King for help..."

The dying old man bowed tremblingly.

"Gavin Allen?"

Rosen immediately realized the origin of the name.

The historical biography of the Death Desert that he read was revised by Gavin Allen.

However, as far as he knew, Gavin Allen should be quite young.
The World Government has only been established for 20,000 years, and there are actually not many demigods whose lifespan has come to an end. After all, even Sequence 3 can find many ways to extend their lifespan, and the vast majority of demigods die unnatural deaths.

"I've read your biography. How did you become like this?"

Rosen asked in surprise.

"That historical biography is an abridged version."

Gavin's emaciated old face revealed a smug smile.

"Aren't you afraid the Historians' Guild will come after you?"

Rosen said in surprise.

The main world is too vast, and there are far too many civilizations that have been born and destroyed.

Since the number of historians is limited, historians scattered around the world have a high degree of autonomy. Gavin should be a specialized historian who studies the history of the Death Desert and can receive a considerable amount of subsidies from the historical secrets.

He took the benefits and did the work, but deliberately deleted parts of the revised historical biographies.

If the people in the secret realm of history find out about this, Gavin will be severely injured, even if he doesn't die.

Rosen suddenly became curious as to why Gavin had confessed to him.

Then, the next morning, Rosen learned from Gavin the contents that the historical biography had concealed.

Gavin discovered a secret in Oasis City: the body of the Mother Tree of Life had been cut down, but its divine essence and divine nature had not fallen into the hands of the giants. Instead, they were sealed in Oasis City. Otherwise, the divine domain of laws that shrouds the Desert of Death would not still exist today.

This isn't really a big secret; quite a few members of the World Government know that the divine essence of the Mother Tree of Life is here.

However, knowing this is meaningless, as even the true god cannot take away the divine status of the Mother Tree of Life.

If the divine essence of the Mother Tree of Life were truly driven to the brink of destruction, the backlash from its self-destruction of its divine status would be enough to turn the entire Holy Continent into a dead land. Therefore, both the giants and the World Government allowed the divine essence of the Mother Tree of Life to remain dormant here.

For reasons unknown, the Elven race did not even consider breaking the slumber of the Mother Tree of Life's soul.

After thousands of years of research, Gavin discovered the secret hidden behind it.

It turns out that the Mother Tree of Life was under a terrible curse. If the curse was not lifted, there would only be death if it awoke. Therefore, the Mother Tree of Life sealed its divinity and divine consciousness, and the elves did not disturb it in any way.

The curse of the Desert of Death is not actually the curse of the Mother Tree of Life.

Instead, the Mother Tree of Life gradually peeled away the curse that entangled it during its slumber, merging it into the desert of death.

Gavin has studied this curse for thousands of years, even personally coming into contact with it, causing his own lifespan to rapidly decline until it was almost over. He is now on the verge of collapse and has been searching for a helper to lift the curse for years.

To break the curse, one needs at least Sequence 1 strength, but the Sequence level cannot exceed Sequence 3.

However, there are probably very few people in the entire main world who can cross two different combat levels.

Rosen is now quite well-known, and Gavin considers him the most suitable helper.

Over the years, Gavin had commissioned many demigods to come to Oasis City to try to contact him, but the Glorious Continent was too far from the Death Desert, and he had not been able to make contact with him until now. Today, when he suddenly saw him come to him in Oasis City, Gavin almost breathed his last with joy.

(End of this chapter)