Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 70 Strengthening Nen Abilities

Chapter 70

Rosen absorbed his transformed spirituality into his heart and immediately sensed the change in the extraordinary essence that had turned into a black card.

His Nen ability has been upgraded from LV1 to LV2.

[Nen Ability LV2: Able to manipulate one's own life force (ki), combining spirituality to generate and control Nen ki]

【Special Ability: Grants Nen the Darkness and Nightmare attributes】

Rosen gave it a quick test, and the special abilities he gained from this qualitative leap in his Nen power were exceptionally powerful.

Nen itself can be imbued with attributes such as ice and fire through transformation. However, Nen cannot be transformed at will. The difficulty of imbuing Nen with other properties while imbuing it with attributes will increase continuously.

However, now there is no need for additional training; the transformed Nen ability directly gains two more innate attributes.

With a thought, Rosen used Shadow Escape. It was also LV2 Shadow Escape. This time, not only was his stealth ability greatly enhanced, but the consumption was also reduced a lot. In fact, there was no limit to the number of times he could teleport, which was originally limited to two.

As long as his Nen is deep enough, he can teleport multiple times in the shadows in a short period of time without any problem.

After learning about the changes in Nen abilities, Rosen turned his attention to the new innate abilities gained by Sequence 8 pet hunters.

[Nightmare Shackles LV2: Can manipulate spirituality to transform into Nightmare Shackles]

【Characteristic: Nightmare Shackles possesses a certain sealing attribute】

It took Rosen quite a while to figure out what this seemingly simple innate ability was all about.

To put it simply, Nightmare Shackles is a special pet leash. Once this leash links him to the Nightmare Slime, they can share all powers except for skills, including the life force and spirituality he desires most.

Humans are not born with physical strength as an advantage, but Rosen's Nen ability is precisely based on the vitality brought about by physical enhancement.

While a large life force cannot determine the quality of Nen, it can significantly increase the quantity of Nen.

Rosen only needs to share the Nightmare Slime's life force through the Nightmare Shackles, and once the Nightmare Slime returns to Sequence 8, his total Nen will immediately increase by more than ten times. At that time, the damage of any shot from the Godslayer Crossbow will increase several times.

The basic attributes of Nightmare Shackles are easy to understand, but it took Rosen a long time to figure out the special ability.

The Nightmare Shackles enhance shared abilities when tied to your own pet, but if tied to someone else, it will produce two special effects: first, it forces the target into a deep sleep with nightmares, and second, it seals the target's supernatural powers.

For the time being, this is Rosen's first method of capturing supernatural beings alive.

As expected, his innate abilities did not disappoint him; growing along with the sequence level was naturally the most suitable for him.

Rosen summoned the Godslayer Crossbow, a Nen ability he had actively developed.

At Sequence 9, because he had too high expectations and little experience, the Godslayer Crossbow did not show any particular advantage. However, now his Nen ability has reached LV2, and his total Nen energy can be increased many times over with the help of Nightmare Shackles.

With the current conditions, he has been able to truly develop the power of the God-Slaying Crossbow.

Initially, Rosen thought it was impressive that the bullets he fired could track enemies.

After all, bullets that can curve in movies are incredibly exciting to watch.

But the more he learned about the Hunter Sequence, the more he realized that the automatic bullet tracking was completely unnecessary.

Because your straight-line attacks are dodged by the enemy, why can't your enemy dodge your attacks when they change direction and slow down?

The hunter isn't going to be facing ordinary people who stand there as targets; the ideas he got from the movie Wanted are not suitable for the hunter.

A true hunter needs to achieve a burst of speed to kill his prey.

If we can't kill them, we'll make a strategic retreat and try again.

Hunters and assassins are actually quite similar. While hunters aren't as good at stealth as assassins, their assassination skills are just as formidable. The difference is that assassins stealthily approach their targets and unleash a devastating attack, while hunters lock onto their targets from a distance and kill them instantly. Truly powerful hunters never engage in melee combat and never give anyone a chance to approach their safe zone.

Rosen stared at the Godslayer Crossbow in his hand for a long time before finally deciding how to modify this Nen ability.

First, the gun body gains the ability to transform into a long-range sniper mode and a close-range crossbow mode. The sniper mode is essentially an extension of the barrel with a silencer, ultimately maximizing long-range range and lethality.

From then on, use the sniper rifle mode for long-range engagements and switch to the crossbow mode for medium to short-range engagements.

Changing the form is easy; what's truly difficult is strengthening the capabilities.

Rosen first disabled the automatic target acquisition function, then enhanced the bullet caliber, the bullet concealment ability, and the Nen that the bullet could compress. But that wasn't enough; he also planned to set up a constraint and oath specifically for the God-Slaying Crossbow.

Constraints and vows are special methods for enhancing Nen abilities.

Make rules, swear an oath in your heart, and then abide by the rules. The stronger the rules you make, the stronger the enhancement to your Nen ability.

However, if one violates the constraints they set for themselves, they may lose their Nen ability at best, or die at worst.

Restrictions cannot be imposed arbitrarily; all rules must be things that one can actually do.

Rosen quickly set three restrictions to limit his Nen abilities.

The God-Slaying Crossbow can fire a maximum of nine bullets per day. If a bullet misses an enemy, the user will suffer the same damage. If a bullet kills an enemy, the user's total Nen energy will immediately decrease by 99% for each enemy killed. These three restrictive rules are increasingly stringent.

Nine bullets can only kill a maximum of nine scattered targets.

The reason Rosen dared to set this rule is that he could transfer the damage he suffered to the Nightmare Slime through the Nightmare Shackles. So, in effect, he transferred the constraints he had to bear.

After finally defeating the enemy, the total Nen energy is reduced by 99%, which is the same principle as the previous restriction.

He had lost 99% of his own Nen, but he still had a huge amount of Nen shared from the Nightmare Slime.

The three consecutive restrictions that are exceptionally harsh on normal Nen users have brought obvious changes to the Godslayer Crossbow. At this time, the base damage of each bullet fired by the Godslayer Crossbow has increased by 30%.

While it may seem far less effective than a double damage increase from Death Strike, it's important to note that this increase applies to base damage.

With the added boost from Death Strike, that's equivalent to a 60% increase in damage.

The more ways there are to enhance damage in the future, the greater the value of this 30% base damage will become.

The gun form enhancement has temporarily ended, and Rosen has switched to enhancing the crossbow form.

His requirements for guns were that they could kill with a single shot from a long distance, and for crossbows, they required a high rate of fire to keep the enemy occupied.

Therefore, he increased the firing rate of the God-Slaying Crossbow and reduced the difficulty of manufacturing the crossbow bolts.

Finally, Rosen began to modify the God-Slaying Eye, which is the true core of the God-Slaying Crossbow. Now, with his LV2 Nen ability, he can give the God-Slaying Eye some powerful eye techniques that he truly desires.

Initially, Rosen considered using his Nen ability to create the Sharingan.

The greatest value of this eye technique lies in its ability to grant him a learning speed boost.

Rosen knew very well that, aside from any advantage he had, he wasn't a genius.

Therefore, he needs external assistance. What he values ​​most about the Sharingan is not the eye techniques, but the ability to perceive and copy, which allows him to better learn from other extraordinary sequences.

He is currently at Sequence 8, and he can still invite skill instructors from the Hunter Guild to guide him.

But when he becomes Sequence 6, or even Sequence 3 in the future, who will he learn from then on?
They can only rely on self-study; the path after all the extraordinary sequences must be walked by themselves.

However, Rosen was well aware that he had no advantage in academics, so he had considered the Sharingan. But times had changed, and he now had better options, so the Sharingan that he had once longed for could only be ruled out.

(End of this chapter)