Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 69 Advanced Sequence 8 (Please continue reading)

Chapter 69

Plop! Plop!
Several gray slimes squeaked softly as they charged toward the Nightmare Slime.

However, while their courage is commendable, their performance was rather poor.

Nightmare Slime merely bound its spiritual energy to its body surface, yet it had already smashed several other slimes to pieces, splashing poisonous water everywhere. These slimes truly deserved their title as the weakest Sequence 9.

Nightmare Slime rampaged through the crowd, killing all the slimes that stood in its way.

However, apart from one slime that instantly turned into a ball of light and disappeared, the remaining fragmented slimes split into several baby slimes. The simplest way to prevent slimes from splitting and regenerating is to completely destroy their bodies.

Rosen casually took out a ball of light from his scavenging space; it was a hunting spoil automatically picked up by the Void Scavenging skill.

The result was indeed very meager; apart from a single unit of spiritual crystal, there was nothing else.

Although the rewards from killing a large number of slimes are considerable, the slimes in the Void Valley bear the important task of cleaning up the trash.

If someone recklessly tries to obtain some spiritual treasures, they might have the ability to make money but not the life to spend it.

The Nightmare Slime's rampage successfully attracted the attention of a sleeping slime in the swamp.

Suddenly, a jet of poisonous water erupted from the water next to the Nightmare Slime, and a black slime several times larger than the Nightmare Slime, shot up along the jet and crashed down on the Nightmare Slime.

The Nightmare Slime was instantly struck and sank into the poisonous water, while the Black Slime floated on the surface, curled up in pain, tears streaming down its face.

Relying on a single, overwhelming attack, the Dark Slime has become rampant in this swamp.

Other slimes were either crushed to pieces or, after being flattened, realized the difference and obediently followed orders.

However, this trick failed this time; the little black creature that it had pressed down on was too tough.

The Nightmare Slime innocently surfaced. It had only compressed its spiritual energy to protect its body, never expecting the backlash would make the black slime cry. It immediately jumped at the black slime, carrying it on its head and rolling it toward the mysterious study where Rosen was hiding.

Rosen was defeated by the weakness of the black slime. The Sequence 8 slime was made to cry by the Sequence 9 slime?

It's a miracle that this thing didn't go extinct, and it's an even bigger miracle that the Nightmare Slime almost became a demigod. Perhaps even miracles can't explain it, there must have been human factors involved. It's just that it ultimately failed to transform and was thus thrown into the black market for recycling.

Rosen stood by the window, watching the black slime that had been driven outside. He drew his gun, aimed, and unleashed a volley of Death Shots.

The black slime, under deadly attack, repeatedly tried to escape, but was blocked by the Nightmare Slime. Finally, the Godslayer Crossbow destroyed all its split parts, and it transformed into a ball of light that appeared in the Scavenging Space.

Rosen closed the window, took out the orb of light, crushed it, and obtained a piece of darkened spiritual crystal.

Don't be fooled by how ordinary these things are; they are the very ingredients he needs for his potions.

Rosen placed the potion ingredients on the coffee table and carefully picked up the Sequence 8 Hunter Potion Instruction Manual.

[One gram of solid saliva from a hundred-year-old Thunder Eagle is dissolved in five hundred grams of Misty Flower Dew. The temperature of the reagent bottle is lowered to minus fifteen degrees Celsius. Five grams of blood powder from a Lava Lizard are added. Then, within three seconds, all of one's spirituality is injected. Using this spirituality, the potion ingredients are rotated counterclockwise five times. Then, within two seconds, nine grams of cartilage from a boneless snake are added...]

There are a total of eight auxiliary potion ingredients, and the instructions on how to prepare the potions are explained in detail.

Rosen followed the instructions strictly and fused the eight potion ingredients in less than a minute before adding the blackened spiritual crystal, the final ingredient, into the reagent bottle. The nine ingredients reacted and quickly fused into a black liquid.

It looks as viscous as oil, completely different from the finished potion product that is like a Sequence 9 crystal.

Rosen raised the vial and drank the potion inside in one gulp. The viscous liquid flowed down his throat and into his body, penetrating every crevice of his heart and beginning to merge with his Hunter Sequence Extraordinary Essence in card form.

The transformation of the extraordinary essence was completed quickly, and the card turned from gold to black, releasing immense spiritual power.

Rosen's spiritual potential instantly broke through the limit, increasing from twelve points to thirteen points.

His physical body was strengthened once again, and his spirituality began to undergo its first qualitative change at this time.

However, unlike when he took a Sequence 9 potion, he had no adverse reactions. Now, Rosen's consciousness was hazy, and he kept seeing blurry double images and hearing murmured words.

He didn't know how much time had passed before the double images in his eyes and the murmurs in his ears gradually disappeared.

During this time, he felt as if he were standing naked on the edge of a cliff in a blizzard. Taking one step forward would mean certain death. Fortunately, there was a way out behind him that allowed him to slowly move away from the edge of the cliff while braving the blizzard.

Rosen had no time to spare for the group of covetous men he was lying in ambush; instead, he went straight to sleep and slept for a whole day.

After waking up, he began to seriously understand the changes in himself.

The least changed thing is his physique. His physique strength is only a few times that of an ordinary person. At most, he can easily lift a weight of 16,000 kilograms. In fact, most extraordinary human beings do not attach much importance to strengthening their physique.

When Rosen first learned of this, he was quite surprised that the humans in this world were so unbalanced in their specialties.

Always put spirituality first; physical health is merely a byproduct of spiritual transformation.

As for methods to strengthen the body, they are not recognized by the mainstream of humanity in this world.

After learning the specific reasons, Rosen realized that the choices made by his predecessors were correct.

Humanity's greatest advantage has never been its physical strength, but rather its powerful intelligence and remarkable reproductive ability.

If you push your physique to the limit, this situation can easily occur.

A human demigod of Sequence 3 can tear the sky and the earth apart with a mere gesture. What kind of other half could withstand such power? It's likely that even a hug would rip the other half to shreds.

Even if a demigod perfectly controls his own power, what difference is there between that and carefully taking care of a tofu doll?
As for two demigods getting together, let's not even talk about how difficult it is to get a man and a woman together. At the level of demigods, they are all self-centered. If they like each other, everything is fine. If they don't like each other, who can force them to be together?
Therefore, to cultivate one's physique and become a demigod, one must first lose the reproductive ability that humans are so proud of.

There are many races that reproduce more efficiently than humans, but the individual potential of these races is far less than that of humans.

Many races have individual potential far exceeding that of humans, but their reproductive capacity is far inferior to that of humans.

Humans possess both quantity and quality in this regard, so for the sake of reproduction, humans do not focus on physical strength, because physical strength would drive the continuous evolution of the life essence of themselves and their offspring, and such evolution has both great advantages and disadvantages.

For example, if two demigods who cultivate physical strength unite, their offspring will be born with a Sequence 6 physique.

However, their reproductive capacity will be greatly reduced, and it may take two body-cultivating demigods thousands of years to produce one offspring.

The stronger the life essence, the lower the reproductive capacity; this is an inviolable fundamental rule of this world.

Therefore, humanity has almost abandoned physical strength and instead focused on developing intelligence and controlling spirituality to the extreme.

Spirituality is an omnipotent power that can merge with all things to amplify its power. Even the most neglected physical body can be temporarily strengthened by spirituality, allowing a person of the extraordinary sequence to unleash a destructive force capable of tearing the earth apart with a single kick.

This explains why the extraordinary human sequence in this world not only doesn't emphasize physical strength but also suppresses the development of physical cultivation.

(End of this chapter)