Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 64 The Incomplete Noble Bloodline

Chapter 64

In the desolate jungle, Rosen moved swiftly through the shadows of withered trees.

In the past, when he used Shadow Cloak, he simply hid in the shadows.

What he displayed was only the basic power of Shadow Cloak, far below the level expected of a qualified hunter.

However, after rigorous training from three skill mentors, he now knows basic techniques such as how to evade prey's senses, how to track prey, how to better conceal his body using limited shadows, and how to hide his footsteps.

However, since it's only the basics, it's certainly not enough to upgrade Shadowmeld to LV2.

The essence of Shadow Cloak is the power of shadow. To upgrade Shadow Cloak to LV2, one needs to master even stronger shadow power.

Rosen purchased a lot of shadow-attribute spiritual crystals for this purpose. It was only then that he learned that spiritual crystals also have different attributes. There are two sources of spiritual crystals: the spiritual essence of extraordinary beings after death, or they are extracted from spiritual matter.

Most spirits have attributes; for example, the spirit crystals dropped by Shadowcats contain hidden shadow attributes.

However, this spiritual crystal cannot be used to enhance the Shadow Escape skill, because it contains the remnants of the Shadow Cat's spiritual will. Rashly using this spiritual crystal to enhance the Shadow Escape skill will cause him to be tainted with some of the Shadow Cat's instinctive habits.

For example, cats like to lick their butts, and Rosen shudders at the thought of doing the same thing.

Therefore, he purchased spiritual crystals extracted from spiritual minerals. The shadow attribute spirituality in them was pure and harmless, and of course, the price was very high. He purchased one thousand units of shadow attribute spiritual crystals, which cost him a full ten thousand units of ordinary spiritual crystals.

However, the benefits are obvious: his Shadow Cloak has absorbed the spiritual energy of shadows and leveled up to LV2.

In addition to Shadow Cloak, Lawson's Extraordinary Senses have also been upgraded to LV2.

There are no shortcuts to this skill; the only way to improve it is to enhance your own perception.

The extraordinary five senses can freely transform the five senses. For example, they can superimpose the five senses onto hearing to enhance it five times. If this state is maintained for a long time, even if the perception transfer of the extraordinary five senses is removed, their hearing will still receive some permanent enhancement.

Therefore, improving this skill mainly relies on continuous application.

Rosen has a large amount of spiritual crystals that can quickly replenish his energy, which allows him to train his extraordinary five senses like crazy.

Therefore, his skill level improved very smoothly. Under the guidance of three skill mentors, he even successfully mastered how to track prey using his five senses and how to rely on his five senses for early warning and combat experience.

However, Lawson's most satisfying gain this time was the characteristics brought by the Extraordinary Five Senses LV2.

[Transcendent Senses LV2: This ability maximizes a hunter's basic five senses, enhances their perception of spirituality, allows the hunter to freely increase or decrease their own and a single enemy's five senses, and significantly reduces the negative effects on their own five senses.]

[Special Feature: Sixth Sense - As your five senses are enhanced, you will gradually master the sixth sense]

Rosen hasn't mastered the sixth sense yet; his Level 2 extraordinary five senses are clearly still lacking.

However, he felt that he was already standing at the door. At most, when he reached the level of LV3 of the Extraordinary Five Senses, he would definitely be able to master the Sixth Sense and thus gain one of the special abilities such as manipulating elements, foreseeing the future, crushing and controlling atoms, flying and escaping, telekinesis, mind reading, illusion, mind control, intuition, etc.

Rosen mastered Shadow Cloak and Extraordinary Senses quite smoothly, but Death Strike was a bit more difficult for him.

The essence of a death blow is the compression of spirituality; the only way to improve is to strengthen one's control over one's own spirituality.

There are absolutely no shortcuts; you can only rely on diligent study and practice to become proficient.

Rosen traversed the jungle, constantly using his extraordinary five senses to find the targets assigned by his skills mentor.

He quickly saw a cross mark on a leaf, and immediately raised the God-Slaying Crossbow in his hand and fired a shot. This shot did not fire a special bullet transformed from a spiritual painting, but rather an ordinary bullet formed from his own spiritual energy.

After the bullet struck the cross mark, it instantly pierced through the leaves before dissipating into nothingness.

Disappointed, Rosen searched for his next target. Piercing the leaves meant failure. Only when the bullets from the Godslayer Crossbow could no longer penetrate the leaves would it signify that his control over the spiritual realm had reached a new level. Several hours later, Rosen looked at the unscathed leaves before him, overjoyed.

After more than ten days of arduous training, he finally achieved a level of proficiency where his bullets couldn't even break a leaf.

Rosen sensed the hunter's extraordinary essence within his heart, and sure enough, Death Strike had also been upgraded to LV2.

He has now upgraded all his acquired skills to LV2, and it seems it's time to accumulate spirituality and sprint towards Sequence 8.

After leaving the Hunter's Guild, Rosen switched back to his original identity and returned to the Artist's Guild.

He did not intend to leave the mysterious study or stop painting spiritual pictures until midnight.

During his first month of seclusion painting, Lawson successfully raised his spirituality from 10 to 11 points.

Over the next two months, his spiritual progress, which had barely reached 11 points, grew to the maximum of 11 points before stopping.

With just one more step, he can reach the state of spiritual perfection at 12 points.

However, Rosen felt that he would never be able to take that final step in a few years.

Because no matter how many spiritual paintings he creates now, his spiritual intensity remains stagnant and shows no improvement whatsoever.

In a normal noble hierarchy, the maximum spirituality for rank 9 is 11 points.

However, he unexpectedly received double the bloodline glory, miraculously raising his upper limit to 12 points.

This is clearly an abnormal and unconventional thing to do. Since it is abnormal, perhaps some unknown price must be paid to break the norm.

After careful consideration, Rosen decided to adopt a two-pronged approach.

First, he would offer a bounty at the Scientists' Guild. Of course, he couldn't offer a bounty on how to break through 11 points of spirituality to 12 points; he could offer a bounty on how to increase 10 points of spirituality to 11 points. Perhaps this approach could provide him with some clues.

Then Rosen arrived at the Grand Library of the Blazing Shadow Kingdom, which houses all publicly available books from the Blazing Shadow Principality.

Among them are certainly many books that touch upon spirituality, and perhaps he can find the answers in them.

Bounties yield the first results; it's not only the noble class that can raise the spiritual cap to 11 points.

Because the noble sequence is exclusive to humans, many powerful alien races can raise their spirituality to 11 points without relying on the noble sequence.

Even strictly speaking, the human aristocratic hierarchy is an achievement derived from imitating powerful alien races.

Rosen immediately remembered that there was a bloodline section in his attributes, and the word "empty" was marked after the bloodline.

He then consulted some materials related to nobility in the Great Library and finally understood why he could not raise his spirituality to 12 points: his noble lineage was flawed. He had noble blood, but it was incomplete.

Noble bloodlines are born noble, but the question is, what makes noble bloodlines noble?
Because all nobles possess a bloodline of extraordinary life.

The more powerful a noble family is, the stronger its compatible extraordinary bloodline is.

In fact, many human beings with extraordinary sequences fuse with the bloodlines of extraordinary life forms in pursuit of power.

However, when ordinary sequences are fused with the bloodlines of extraordinary life forms, the fusion process will pollute one's own human bloodline.

However, the noble sequence is different; the extraordinary life bloodline fused with nobles will not have these side effects.

Because nobles do not integrate their extraordinary bloodline into their bodies, nor do they integrate it into their human genes. Instead, it is fused into the extraordinary essence that the noble sequence condenses in their blood.

(End of this chapter)