Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 30 Rebooting the Spirit Realm
Chapter 30

Rosen happily replaced the ordinary belt from his hunter's set and began to consider which hunter skill to upgrade.

After upgrading your skills, you need to wait at least one day before you can switch back.

He's currently hiding in the mysterious study and doesn't need to go out, so Death Strike, which increases damage, is obviously the first choice.

【Death Strike LV2: Can compress spirit, increasing the damage of the next attack by up to 210%, with subsequent damage gradually decreasing from 210% to 110%. Compressing spirit will consume up to double the amount of spirit.】

【Trait: Armor Penetration - 10% chance to deal 10% armor penetration damage】

The maximum damage and minimum damage were both increased by 10%, a change that left Rosen somewhat disappointed.

However, Rosen was very satisfied with the characteristics. Many times, you can't damage the enemy just by hitting them. Any extraordinary sequence will have survival skills and defensive skills. The armor-piercing characteristic of Death Strike can produce amazing effects against enemies with strong defense.

Rosen, holding the drawing paper and paints he had exchanged from Masadora, prepared to draw more flashbangs.

I hadn't been drawing for more than a few hours when suddenly a series of wails came from outside the window.

Rosen put down his paintbrush and went to the window, where he saw seven crosses stuck in front of his window, with seven hunters tied to them. At that moment, several Shadowcats were using pliers to remove the hunters' nails.

"They were all passengers from the same ship..."

Rosen frowned.

He fished with the fingers of the shadow cats, but the shadow cats turned around and fished with humans instead.

Only three days have passed, and seven hunters have already been captured alive by Shadowcat.

It's likely that the Black Shark wouldn't even need to kill anyone to cover it up; these Shadow Cats would be enough to wipe out all the passengers in the Spirit Realm.

Rosen didn't consider saving them. These captured hunters had their spirituality imprisoned. Even if he threw out a few flashbangs to shatter the crosses and ropes binding them, they couldn't escape without supernatural abilities.

As for bringing them back to the secret study, that was his biggest secret, and he wouldn't let anyone know it.

Rosen closed the window and locked it, which would block out even sound. If the lock was opened, sound could be heard, and sunlight could stream in. As for getting fresh air, the only option at present was through the air conditioner in the mysterious study.

Rosen had accumulated more and more flashbangs, but he was no longer confident in hunting down the shadow cat outside the window.

Because he had already discovered yesterday that a Sequence 7 Shadow Cat had come to the window.

His flashbangs would probably only make a Sequence 7 Shadowcat uncomfortable at most. The arrows with extremely compressed spiritual energy, plus the Death Strike, probably wouldn't be able to cause effective damage, or even kill a Sequence 8 Shadowcat. He wouldn't even have a chance to pick up the loot when facing a Sequence 7 Shadowcat.

This means that the hunt for the Shadow Cat has come to an abrupt end, and he can only wait for the Spirit Realm to close and be expelled.

Disappointed, Rosen could only focus his attention on improving his spirituality.

Every day, he either paints spiritual paintings or goes to the shooting range that Masadora made to practice the Death Strike. Any acquired skill needs to be improved by himself, and the most common way to improve is through practice.

After several days, Death Strike was still far from leveling up, but Rosen's Spirit had increased from six to seven points.

Although the painter sequence is pitifully weak at sequence 9, it has a real advantage in enhancing spirituality.

Unlike a simple hunter sequence where leveling up requires combat and hunting, and the prey hunted cannot be too weak, otherwise one's spirituality will be difficult to grow, and combat is dangerous and can result in injury.

On this day, the alarm clock on the main computer rang directly through the speakers in the study.

Rosen knew the countdown was about to begin; he would be expelled from the Spirit Realm in five minutes. He carefully held the spell card Drift in his hand, preparing to use it to return to Blackrock Harbor the instant he left the Spirit Realm.

However, five minutes later, Rosen remained in the mysterious study and did not leave.

He instantly realized a possibility: could it be that the Mysterious Study was too powerful, so much so that the Spirit Realm couldn't detect his trace and couldn't expel him when the Spirit Realm closed and restarted? This also meant that he was staying in the Spirit Realm through the Mysterious Study.

He needs to wait until the Spirit Realm opens again, then wait nine more days, and finally leave the Mysterious Study at the end of those nine days.

Only in this way can he leave the Spirit Realm, but the problem is that he will be attacked by the Shadow Cat as soon as he leaves the Mysterious Study.

"Is this the price we pay for using tricks to hunt down Shadowcats?"

Rosen shook his head and stood by the window, carefully observing the changes outside.

The hunter bound to the cross had his body possessed by the shadow cats that did not parasitize humans, so there was no one else alive in the entire spirit realm except for him.

As the spiritual realm began to restart, the crosses not far from the window disappeared one by one.

Secondly, the destroyed trees and plants gradually reappeared, and the shadow cats that were originally waiting outside also disappeared one after another.

The reboot of the Spirit Realm is like rewinding a movie and returning to the beginning.

However, some things cannot go back to the beginning and will change, such as the Shadow Cats that parasitize humans, the extraordinary creatures that were hunted, and the extraordinary plants that were collected. Restarting these things is not so simple.

For a dead entity to be revived, it requires the power of the Spirit Realm.

When the spiritual realm has sufficient spiritual energy, it will revive dead creatures; however, if the spiritual energy is insufficient, it will ignore them.

Then there are Shadow Cats, which evolved by parasitizing humans and improved their own strength. The reset of the Spirit Realm was to allow them to return to their optimal state. After parasitizing humans, Shadow Cats surpassed their optimal state, so they will not lose their second form after parasitizing humans due to the reset of the Spirit Realm.

However, the location will be reset; it will return to its original place after the spirit realm is reset.

Many extraordinary sequences, once they reach a certain level in developing their spiritual realm, will specifically find the reset and resurrection points of these extraordinary creatures. After the spiritual realm is reset, they will skip the exploration time and directly find their target prey to harvest resources.

So Rosen doesn't need to worry about Shadowcat guarding the corpse, although he can't go out for the time being.

Because the Spirit Realm reset is not over yet, going out now would likely result in being torn to shreds by the distorted time and space.

Rosen noticed that when the spirit realm reset, white mist would appear, and when the mist disappeared, the trees outside the window would start swaying their leaves again.

Realizing that the Spirit Realm reset was over, he immediately left the mysterious study and used Shadow Cloak to disappear into the shadows.

The dense forest was full of shadows, which doubled Rosen's speed. Moreover, he didn't need to avoid any extraordinary creatures he encountered along the way; he could simply walk quickly along the edge of the shadows. This allowed him to return to the shore in less than half an hour.

Without hesitation, Rosen jumped into the sea, staying close to the shadows on the shore and away from where he had jumped in.

He didn't know if this would shake off the Shadow Cat's pursuit, but he had no better option.

Rosen arrived at a cliff where the sun shone directly. The cliff face below was submerged in the sea, but the sunlight could still penetrate and illuminate a certain area underwater.

He reached underwater and pressed his hand against the stone wall, then opened the door and entered the mysterious study nine seconds later.

If the spirit realm opens and closes again, he can leave at the last moment and be repelled by the spirit realm while in the sunlight. The sunlight is so good here during the day that the shadow cat, a supernatural creature that hates sunlight, can only stay in very limited shade.

(End of this chapter)