Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 341 The Cave Dragon and the Mutation of the Dragon-Binding Rope
Chapter 340

Rosen abandoned his plan to relocate the Dwarf Kingdom to the Ancient God Realm.

Only after truly understanding the Dwarf Kingdom did he realize that its depth and resources far exceeded his expectations.

First, dwarves have a high fertility rate. Second, their extraordinary aptitude is neither high nor low, but their talent related to forging is extremely high. Finally, dwarves have very low desires and have almost no bad habits except for drinking and forging.

These conditions destined the dwarf civilization to have very little internal friction and relatively little internal power struggles.

After the dwarves broke away from the giants, although they could not stand among the powerful races of the main world without a true god, the strength of the Earth Dwarf King was enough to allow the dwarf kingdom to protect itself. Ordinary three or five true gods would have to risk their lives to take over the dwarf kingdom.

If Rosen hadn't stolen the Kingslayer Forging Hammer, and if the Earth Dwarf King hadn't chased them out of the Dwarf Kingdom to reclaim the treasure...

Killing the Earth Dwarf King would be more than ten times more difficult.

However, there are no "what ifs" in life. The Earth Dwarf King was too confident in his defense and vitality, too confident that he would not die, which is why he ultimately failed, and the entire dwarf kingdom fell into Rosen's hands.

After the Dwarf Kingdom separated from the Giants, it became relatively isolated, but that did not mean it had no external communication.

Extraordinary artifacts forged by the Dwarf Kingdom are bestsellers in various alien civilizations outside of the World Government.

Therefore, ordinary true gods usually only have one true god extraordinary artifact, but the Earth Dwarf King has six. With the resources he has treasured, it is not difficult to forge a few more true god extraordinary artifacts. The entire dwarf kingdom is like a golden goose.

The key to the dwarven kingdom's creation of terrifying wealth lies in its ability to track mineral veins in the underground world.

The Ancient God Realm could not provide endless mineral resources, so the Dwarf Kingdom was rendered useless after migrating there.

Maintaining the status quo in the Dwarf Kingdom is the most beneficial decision for Rosen.

The Earth Furnace, a forging furnace of extraordinary and divine quality.

It can directly communicate with the core of the dwarf kingdom and mobilize the core heat of the entire dwarf kingdom.

Under Rosen's orders, the Earth Dwarf King, who had only recently recovered from his injuries, began a new forging process.

Rosen couldn't wait to upgrade his Dragon God's Wrath to a True God's Extraordinary Artifact.

However, even the most skilled cook cannot cook without rice. To upgrade Dragon God's Wrath to the True God level, it would be best to hunt down a Dragon God as an enhancement material. Two Dragon Gods from the Dragon Realm are definitely not an option, so the only remaining choice is the Holy Light Dragon God.

However, hunting down the Holy Light Dragon God is no easy task.

Rosen relied on the Ten Directions Annihilation to defeat the Light Angel True God, and his method of defeating the Earth Dwarf King was somewhat opportunistic. The Holy Light Dragon God is backed by the entire World Government, and if he cannot be defeated in a short time, he will be hunted down by a group of True Gods, or even Great True Gods.

Moreover, once you make a mistake, there is absolutely no chance of seizing a second opportunity.

"Actually, I don't necessarily have to fight alone."

Rosen thought of using the power of the two dragon gods.

The Dragon Clan and the Holy Light Dragon God are now mortal enemies, and no one wants to get rid of the Holy Light Dragon God more than the Dragon God of the Dragon Realm.

Historically, two dragon gods from the Dragon Realm once attacked and killed the Holy Light Dragon God.

However, they were all forced back by the World Government's true gods who came to their rescue. But this time, with him, it will definitely not be difficult to hunt down the Holy Light Dragon God. As long as he promises the two dragon gods enough benefits, it will not be difficult to obtain the Holy Light Dragon God's corpse after the battle.

However, just to be on the safe side, Rosen decided to restore the Dragon Binding Rope to sequence 0 first.

Hunting dragon gods is a waste; hunting dragon-like creatures is more appropriate.

Rosen originally planned to use the prophetic painting to find prey, but the Earth Dwarf King gave him a surprise.

In the underground world, there is a place with a large number of Sequence 0 dragon creatures.

Strictly speaking, the surface of the main world is roughly divided into three regions.

The core area is almost entirely occupied by the World Government.

After being developed by successive dominant civilizations, the supernatural resources on the surface of the core area are relatively scarce, but the environment is very safe and suitable for the reproduction and survival of ordinary life. The expansion of the population is conducive to the collection of faith and the growth of the civilization's fortune.

As for the scarcity of resources, the dominant civilizations throughout history have all plundered resources from other regions.

During the period of World Government rule, resources mainly came from the spirit world.

As for why he almost abandoned the underground world, Rosen doesn't understand why.
The central area, located outside the core area, has a harsh environment that is not very suitable for ordinary life to thrive. The resources are better than those in the central area, but not by much. All of these factors limit the alien races that occupy the central area from developing their respective civilizations to a high level.

Finally, there's the outer ring area. As the main world expands, the outer ring area also continues to grow.

The new world is rich in resources, but the environment is also extremely harsh. Ordinary supernatural beings cannot survive in the outer ring area. Although humans and alien races have been fighting for many years in the border areas, those wars are actually small-scale skirmishes used for training.

The real battlegrounds of the main world civilizations are mostly concentrated in the outer ring areas where they compete for resources.

Before the establishment of the World Government, the underground world was also a key area of ​​contention among various civilizations.

However, for some reason, in the last 20,000 years, apart from those civilizations and races that were originally unable to leave the underground and that insisted on staying in the underground world, the civilizations on the surface almost never ventured into the underground world, let alone competed for its resources.

One of the key reasons why the Dwarf Kingdom has been able to make so much money in recent years is the reduction in competition.

Because of his relentless pursuit of mineral veins, the Earth Dwarf King has a deep understanding of the underground world.

Within a mineral vein rich in precious resources, the dwarf kingdom once encountered a group of cave dragons.

Despite the strength of the dwarf kingdom, they were ultimately forced to retreat.

Overall, the Dwarf Kingdom was much stronger, but the loss of the extinction of the Cave Dragon was too heavy and not worth the effort. Moreover, the Cave Dragon had no intelligence and could not weigh the pros and cons to back down. In the end, the Dwarf Kingdom had no choice but to give up that mine.

Rosen carefully investigated the situation of the Cave Dragon, and he may have discovered the reason why the various races abandoned the underground world.

Because those underground dragons were somewhat similar to the Dark Sun Familiar of the Old World.

Although it lacks the dark corruption ability of the Dark Sun's Familiar, its ability to control darkness and devour light is too similar.

Rosen suspected that the underworld also had dark areas similar to the Tower of Babel that connected the two worlds.

To find out for sure, just go and see for yourself if you find the Cave Dragon.

Two months later, Rosen left the dwarf kingdom and came alone to the underground world where the cave dragon resided.

This underground world is only a few thousand miles in circumference. Such a small space is simply not enough to give birth to many extraordinary life forms, let alone support so many cave dragons. Even if the cave dragons only eat energy, energy cannot be created out of thin air.

Rosen soon spotted a cave dragon, which looked like an earthworm but was covered in dragon scales.

It has dragon blood in its body and was probably once a member of a certain dragon race in the main world.

The Dragon-Binding Rope emerged silently from the darkness, grabbed a Sequence 1 Crypt Dragon, dragged it into the darkness, and disappeared.

All dragons possess bloodline inheritance memories. The only difference is that the bloodline inheritance memories of pure-blooded dragons are explicit, while those of sub-dragons and dragon family members are implicit. Furthermore, the former have complete bloodline inheritance memories, while the latter have incomplete ones.

Rosen relied on the laws of life and flesh and blood, and on the world gene pool of the ancient god sequence.

They quickly extracted the original bloodline of the Cave Dragon and then gradually unearthed the inherited memories hidden within it.

These cave dragons are indeed sub-dragons, their ancestors being the Earth Demon Dragons, which had never appeared in the history of the dragon race in the dragon realm. The strongest Earth Demon Dragon once reached the level of a true god, and all of these cave dragons are descendants of the Earth Demon Dragon's bloodline.

However, the original appearance of the Cave Dragon was not like it is now.

Rosen continued his dissection and research on the Earth Dragon. With the help of the source star core sealing the divine status of the Light Angel God, and relying on the extraordinary power of a Sequence 0 doctor, he quickly uncovered all the secrets hidden on the Earth Dragon.

The Cave Dragon is indeed related to the Dark Sun, but the Dark Sun power within it does not possess the ability to corrupt.

Moreover, it even has a slight restraint on pure dark sun power.

Without much thought, Rosen had already guessed a possibility. The new world was a world that parasitized the corpse of the old world and continued to grow. However, judging from the size of the two worlds, the new world's foundation was actually less than half that of the old world, and most of the remaining old world had already been corrupted by the Dark Sun.

If the new world does nothing, what will happen after the Dark Sun has completely corrupted the old world?
It's obvious without even thinking that they'll follow the trail to contaminate the new world.

With the old world possessing twice the resources of the new world, the new world will likely also be unable to escape the pollution of the dark sun.

Therefore, the New World cannot sit idly by and wait for its demise; these cave dragons may very well be the product of experiments.

Rosen speculated that the new world might already be trying to devour the dark sun power of the old world, and the location was in the underground world. Therefore, the danger level of the underground world was no longer what it used to be, which is why the various races on the surface had abandoned the underground world.

Looking out through the Window to the World, more and more underground dragons are emerging from the underground space.

Besides the hundreds of Sequence 1 Crypt Dragons, there were also more than a dozen Sequence 0 Crypt Dragons, and two Crypt Dragons of True God level. If the Earth Dwarf King had encountered two True God Crypt Dragons back then, the Dwarf Kingdom would probably have been doomed.

The Earth Dwarf King, who could easily kill a true god, was once forced back by a dozen or so Sequence 0 Crypt Dragons.

The reason is that the abilities of the Cave Dragon are too overpowered.

Rosen opened the window, and Dragon God's Wrath locked onto a Sequence 0 Crypt Dragon and fired a shot.

The extraordinary bullet pierced through the miniature wormhole created by the Eye of the Void and struck the Cave Dragon. The surrounding flesh withered instantly, all life force drained away by the extraordinary bullet. However, in the blink of an eye, the withered flesh had recovered completely.

All minor injuries heal instantly, and his vitality is not much worse than that of the Earth Dwarf King.

Five shots of extraordinary bullets rang out, and the cave dragon's body was broken in half at the waist.

However, in the next instant, the two-sectioned cave dragons each grew half of their bodies to form two independent individuals, and each independent individual was sequence 0. If the two cave dragons were to be severely injured at this time, they would become four after being injured.

The Earth Dwarf King was unaware of this back then, and was almost surrounded and killed by hundreds of Sequence 0 Crypt Dragons.

The only way to completely eliminate the Cave Dragon is to reduce it to ashes, preventing it from splitting.

Rosen directly cast the Original Artwork Sealing Technique through the window. Having mastered the laws of space and time, he could easily seal objects from a distance.

Therefore, there was no need to worry at all, as the two True God Cave Dragons had pinpointed the exact location of the mysterious study.

In less than two hours, all the cave dragons below sequence 0 had been sealed into card paintings.

As the Dragon Binding Rope continued to devour the cave dragons, their souls were divided and consumed by the ten thousand dragon souls within the rope, strengthening its spirituality. Their flesh and blood became materials for the rope to repair itself. Quantitative change led to qualitative change, and the rope was repaired to sequence 0 solely through sheer quantity.

Rosen switched to using the Dragon Binding Rope to capture the Sequence 0 Crypt Dragon. Once entangled, all Crypt Dragons would lose their ability to resist.

However, before the Dragon-Binding Rope could drag the Cave Dragon back to the Divine Realm, the other Cave Dragons had already attacked their kin who were bound by the Dragon-Binding Rope. The dark beams of light spewed from their trumpet-shaped mouths were all absorbed by the one Cave Dragon that was bound.

The cave dragon, which was originally at Sequence 0, was directly transformed into a true god.

If Rosen hadn't retracted the Dragon-Binding Rope in time, it might have snapped at the hands of the underground dragon.

There are currently three True God Cave Dragons outside. Continue using the Dragon Binding Rope to capture them. A fourth or fifth Cave Dragon may appear outside. This should be the limit, because the Cave Dragons that spewed out dark beams have become very weak.

Clearly, releasing a dark beam that strengthens its own kind is a considerable burden for the Crypt Dragon.

The Dragon Binding Rope has been repaired to Sequence 0, which is sufficient to deal with the Holy Light Dragon God.

However, leaving like this is somewhat unwilling.

Rosen returned to the medical laboratory he had built inside the Flesh and Blood World Fruit to continue his research on the cave dragon he had dissected.

This thing can't be without weaknesses, and its splitting and regeneration can't be without a price.

After a period of research, Rosen made a new discovery.

The genes of the Crypt Dragon possess the ability to split and replicate. This splitting and replication is not unlimited. First, splitting and regeneration consume life force. However, the Crypt Dragon's recovery ability is extremely terrifying, so its life force is replenished as soon as it is depleted.

As for how vitality is restored, it is through the dark power within the body.

It is a primal power that transcends the laws of nature, extremely rare and of terrifyingly high quality. This primal power merely serves as a conduit, and should be able to directly absorb mysterious darkness and transform it into life force. Therefore, the body of the underground dragon can theoretically split infinitely.

However, while the physical body can divide infinitely, the divine essence cannot divide infinitely.

It can split up to nine times, and at most one cave dragon can become 256.

Moreover, the more it splits, the weaker the divine essence within a single cave dragon becomes, and the delay in controlling its body will occur. However, don't think about directly destroying the divine essence, because the cave dragon's divine essence is protected by its body.

The divine essence cannot be harmed unless the body is completely destroyed.

Rosen estimated that if he continued to capture Sequence 0 Cave Dragons and forced them to evolve, and if five True God Cave Dragons eventually appeared, then with each of them splitting nine times, he would have to face nearly 1,300 True Gods at the same time.

Even though these cave dragons possess physical strength, their divinity is weak and they are not very agile in controlling their bodies.

Rosen still wasn't sure he could leave alive; the Earth Dwarf King had really been lucky back then.

Rosen lay in wait without hesitation. He didn't believe that the True Gods of various races hadn't discovered these Cave Dragons. This place was probably a forbidden zone even for the Great True Gods. If it weren't for his Mysterious Study, he wouldn't have been able to capture a Cave Dragon of Sequence 1 at all.

Directly capturing it by force is definitely not an option, so he has to wait until the cave dragon is alone.

Having lost track of the enemy for an extended period, the cave dragons could not possibly remain clustered together for long.

If you wait patiently for a lone Cave Dragon, capturing a True God-level one might be difficult, but capturing a Sequence 0 one is not difficult at all. Without other Cave Dragons to help it evolve, capturing one alone is too easy.

It took half a year for the cave dragons to disperse from their grouped state.

Rosen followed the Sequence 0 Cave Dragon and launched a sneak attack, releasing the Ancient God's Shackles. The Dragon Binding Rope, strengthened by the Ancient God's Shackles, completely sealed the Cave Dragon's power. By the time the other Cave Dragons arrived, the Ancient God's Shackles had already returned to the Flesh and Blood World Fruit with their prey.

Further anatomical studies revealed a fundamental difference between the Sequence 0 Flesh Dragon and the Sequence 1 Flesh Dragon.

In addition to having a stronger ability to split and regenerate, it also possesses that special dark beam of light.

This dark beam is used to assist in transferring one's own essence to one's own kind, and to attack with the ability to incorporate all things into darkness, decompose and assimilate them. If the target of decomposition has a divine essence, the cave dragon can also use this to strengthen its own divine essence.

Then, the dragon scales on the surface of the cave dragon can absorb damage and convert it into its own life force.

After weighing his options, Rosen stripped the Crypt Dragon of its divine essence and began to use the miraculous properties of the miraculous skill Flesh and Blood Metamorphosis to fuse with the Crypt Dragon's body, just as he had fused with the Great True God's severed hand.

This time, however, it wasn't a fusion of the original body, but rather the splitting of a flesh and blood clone to coexist with it.

At first, everything went smoothly, and the flesh and blood clone inherited the splitting and regeneration ability of the cave dragon.

However, when the life force of the splitting process was insufficient, and it began to absorb dark power to transform into life force, Rosen's divine origin, which split and merged into his flesh and blood clone, lost all intelligence in a very short time due to contact with dark power.

Then the flesh and blood clone went out of control and could no longer transform back into human form, permanently turning into a cave dragon.

Darkness has an effect on wisdom, and Rosen thought of the curse left by the World Tree.

The dark power originating from the Dark Sun within the Cave Dragon is too dangerous. It is a power that he cannot currently control. Continuing to come into contact with it will only bring him trouble. If he had known it would be this dangerous, he would not have let the Dragon Binding Rope devour the Cave Dragon.

Rosen carefully examined the Dragon Binding Rope and, sure enough, it had developed a problem without his knowledge.

The ten thousand dragon souls inside the Dragon Binding Rope had all transformed into underground demon dragons.

If the imaginary dragon hadn't been hiding in a dream, it too would have been assimilated by the mysterious dark force at this moment.

Rosen immediately separated the imaginary dragon, thus saving his life.

However, the power of the Dragon Binding Rope has undergone a mutation. Now the Dragon Binding Rope has the ability to split, and it can split into up to 10,000 Dragon Binding Ropes. The more it splits, the weaker its power becomes. The Dragon Binding Rope can also transform into a Sequence 0 Cave Dragon.

(End of this chapter)