Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 1 Time Travel and the Sequence of Ancient Trees

Chapter 1

Ash Sea, Redstone City on the eastern coast of the Blazing Shadow Principality.

Rosen stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the second floor of the villa, sipping his hot coffee and looking out at the gray, blizzard-like landscape.

Two days have passed since he woke up and found himself in this villa.

When he woke up, he was lying in a cold basement corner wearing pajamas. In front of him was a mysterious magic circle that flashed continuously with golden and silver lightning. Floating in the lightning was the corpse of a boy who looked exactly like him when he was young. The scene at the time terrified him.

Before he could even react, the boy's corpse had already dissolved into gold and silver lightning bolts in front of him and entered his body.

Rosen not only obtained the spirit of the boy's corpse that was about to dissipate after failing to change his class, but also the boy's memories of the previous eighteen years. In the end, he not only rejuvenated and returned to the age of eighteen, but also successfully awakened extraordinary spirituality and stepped into the extraordinary realm.

That's not all; his transmigration also brought him a cheat code from his previous life.

Before he transmigrated, he was a small-time cartoonist who made a living by drawing various comics.

Not long ago, a wealthy boss who liked Hunter x Hunter saw his excellent drawing skills and personally invited him to his villa. After complaining about Togashi for several hours, the boss firmly believed that he would never see Hunter x Hunter finish in his lifetime.

So the boss invited him to stay and, as requested by the boss, to create a clone of the sequel to Hunter x Hunter.

With free meals and lodging and extra pay, isn't that much better than drawing in a book?

After moving in, Lawson spent more than half a month in the boss's study, reading comics and watching anime to find out the setting.

As a result, not only did he travel through time, but he also brought his boss's luxurious study with him.

Now, this study is deep within his soul. After just nine seconds of loading, he can enter the study in his true form. He can bring things from outside into the study, but he can't take anything out of the study, not even a single piece of paper. To this day, he still doesn't know what the purpose of this cheat is.

Rosen put down his warm coffee cup, left the cozy bedroom, and returned to the cold, quiet basement.

In two days, he successfully integrated the memories of young Rosen.

The boy, Rosen, not only looked exactly like him, but even shared the same name, Rosen.

Rosen was born into an aristocratic family, and his family still retained the hereditary title of nobleman. However, the decline of his family and the early death of his parents left Rosen without support at a young age, forcing him to rely on his wealth and aristocratic status to live off the charity of various men.

It has to be said that Rosen Jr. is very successful at living off his girlfriend.

Before he had even been eating for two years, he had already accumulated all the resources needed to prepare the awakening ceremony for his extraordinary spiritual awakening.

Logically, this awakening shouldn't have failed, but Little Rosen did indeed fail at the final step.

Rosen wondered if the reason for his failure was his time travel.
In the end, he dismissed this guess and instead focused his suspicions on the purchased job-change materials.

Some people want Little Rosen to fail in his awakening, while others want him to die during the awakening ceremony.

As for who the murderer is, there are simply too many possible suspects.

While being a kept man may seem appealing, it can also easily offend people.

Although Little Rosen chooses beautiful, wealthy women who are strong and powerful, he can't hide it from the victims who have been cuckolded. No one will openly confront Little Rosen, but there are too many victims who secretly hope he will disappear.

After Rosen arrived in the basement, he placed his hand on the wall, and nine seconds later a door appeared on the wall.

Pushing open the door to the study and closing it, the door on the basement wall instantly disappeared.

Regardless of anything else, this cheat code can at least serve as a safe haven.

Having successfully integrated Rosen's memories, Rosen is no longer unfamiliar with the strange world he has traveled to.

The Principality of Blazing Shadows is subordinate to the World Government, and at its most glorious moment, it ranked in the lower middle of the tens of thousands of member states of the World Government.

It is just the Chiying Duchy, but its area is no less than half of China in my previous life.

This vast world has given birth to countless brilliant civilizations over the centuries.

Twenty thousand years ago, powerful human beings from various countries fought against the gods. After finally defeating five gods, they united the nations and established a world government.

From then on, human civilization transitioned from the Age of Gods to the Golden Age. The World Government abolished all the old paths to transcendence and established nine extraordinary sequences that led directly from mortals to the realm of gods. From then on, human civilization began to usher in a golden age.

These nine extraordinary sequences are: nobleman, artist, scientist, gourmet, wizard, knight, hunter, assassin, and doctor.

Among them, the noble sequence ranks first, belonging to the undisputed strongest extraordinary sequence of human civilization.

Because nobles represent the bloodline of humanity, the glory of human civilization, and supreme human power, the extraordinary sequence formed by the intertwining of bloodline, glory, and power gives human noble lords unimaginable mysterious power.

Although Rosen Jr. was a hereditary lord, he was still only a low-ranking nobleman.

Even if one successfully awakens their spirituality and masters the extraordinary power belonging to the noble sequence, further advancement is extremely difficult. Among the nine sequences, the noble sequence is recognized as the easiest yet most difficult extraordinary sequence to advance.

Fortunately, even the lowest-ranking noble transcendental sequence has the right to concurrently hold a second transcendental sequence. As for ordinary people who are not nobles, they can only switch to one of the five transcendental sequences other than noble, artist, scientist, and gourmet. Only nobles can concurrently hold the artist, scientist, and gourmet transcendental sequences, which originate from human civilization.

With the same qualifications and the same level, the four extraordinary sequences exclusive to nobles completely outperform the five extraordinary sequences originating from gods.

For ordinary people to catch up with nobles, they must become nobles themselves and obtain a noble status.

However, at this point, they were no longer qualified to master the three extraordinary categories of artist, scientist, and gourmet.

Rosen emptied his consciousness and instantly sensed his soul and a golden flame within it.

Two days prior, due to the fusion of memories, his soul was very unstable, and the golden flames manifested from the spirituality born within his soul were also exceptionally violent, making it impossible for him to control his spirituality.

It wasn't until half an hour ago, when Little Rosen's memories were completely integrated, that his spiritual flame finally stabilized.

Extraordinary spirituality originates from the soul and consciousness of intelligent beings.

Humans communicate with the spirit world through awakening rituals, and through the spirit world, they communicate with human civilization, thereby allowing the soul and self-awareness to combine with the power of human civilization, ultimately awakening the unique and extraordinary spirituality of each individual.

This golden flame is not a physical entity; his current extraordinary spirituality is merely an illusion, far from reaching the level of a physical entity.

The appearance of the extraordinary spiritual phantom basically determines the inclination of the extraordinary person's talent.

There are roughly five types of spiritual phantoms: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Fire is more suitable for artists and gourmets, metal is more suitable for scientists and knights, water is more suitable for wizards and doctors, wood is more suitable for hunters and assassins, and earth has no particular inclination but also no particular talent.

Rosen's spiritual phantom takes the form of flames, making him best suited to be an artist and a gourmet.

He focused his consciousness on the spiritual phantom, instantly using his own spirituality to enter the legendary spirit world.

Legend has it that the spirit world is the source of all the extraordinary, but also the source of all disasters. No one knows exactly where the spirit world is, but all extraordinary individuals can sense it after they develop spirituality. There are even legends that high-level extraordinary individuals can enter the spirit world in their true form.

After Rosen's consciousness followed his spirit into the spirit world, a projection of his true form appeared in a golden sea of ​​fire.

At the far end of the world stands a golden, towering tree, its trunk reaching to the sky and the earth, making it impossible to discern its exact height.

Rosen glanced at it, and some basic information had already formed in his mind.

The giant golden tree before us has many names: the Golden Ancient Tree, the Ancient Tree of Civilization, and the Sequence Ancient Tree, all referring to the Golden Giant Tree.

This is the source of all the noble and extraordinary sequences that the World Government has created by gathering the power of human civilization through unknown means.

The number of branches on the Golden Tree corresponds to the number of nobles in human civilization under the World Government's jurisdiction.

The number of leaves on a branch is equal to the number of members in that family.

Rosen almost instantly and instinctively locked onto a tender branch corresponding to his hereditary lordship. He saw that there were only two leaves on it. Just as he was wondering if little Rosen had any living relatives, the two leaves simultaneously emitted a golden light that flashed in the void and merged into his spirituality.

[Bloodline Glory: Noble Rank 9 Professional Authority]

[Attribute: Bloodline Glory can grant humans a higher growth rate in spirituality, allow noble bloodlines to master the three major civilization sequences, and enable them to enjoy the corresponding honor and power in any country under the World Government]

Rosen sensed the changes in his spirituality and quickly became familiar with the changes that the glory of his bloodline brought him.

The so-called higher growth rate means that after humans awaken and sublimate their spirituality through the awakening ceremony, if the initial spirituality is quantified, the result is no different, it is always one point. When one's spirituality grows to ten points, one can reach the peak in sequence 9 of the extraordinary sequence. When the spirituality breaks through to eleven points, one can enter sequence 8.

However, Bloodline Glory can raise the spiritual limit of Sequence 9 to 11 points, which is one more than a normal sequence.

As one progresses through the ranks, the benefits of bloodline honor increase, making it the most basic and crucial professional right that all nobles must possess.

The professional powers corresponding to the higher noble titles are simply powers at the level of strength, rather than the basic growth and amplification that affect the extraordinary sequence throughout one's life like bloodline glory.

Therefore, becoming a noble is very important; countless ordinary extraordinary individuals aspire to become nobles because they value this bloodline honor.

"However, something seems off about the glory of my bloodline?"

Rosen carefully sensed the changes in his own spirituality, his heart filled with surprise and uncertainty.

Normally, the glory of bloodline increases the spiritual limit by one point, but his bloodline glory seems to have increased the limit by two points?
Recalling the two leaves he sensed glowing simultaneously, he came up with a reasonable guess.

Could it be that one leaf corresponds to him, and the other to Little Rosen? His awakening of spirituality was entirely due to the mysterious study in his soul during the transmigration, which absorbed Little Rosen's failing spirituality, which was about to dissipate, into his own soul, thus allowing him to sublimate his own spirituality.

Therefore, the Golden Tree may have regarded him as two individuals, thus granting him double the glory of his bloodline.

The Noble Transcendent Sequence has only this one professional authority and no other additional abilities.

Rosen controlled his spirituality to leave the spirit world, returned to the mysterious study, and then re-entered the spirit world.

This time, what he saw was not the same golden ancient tree as before, but three golden ancient trees and five silver ancient trees side by side, corresponding to the remaining eight extraordinary sequences. At the same level, with the same growth and the same performance, the golden sequence was definitely stronger than the silver sequence.

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