Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 68 Void Valley
Chapter 68

At the west gate of Ash City, Rosen selected and purchased a Wilderness Motorbike.

Steam power with the Fiery Shadow Ore as its core, with a top speed of 800 kilometers per hour.

This car is traveling at almost the speed of a commercial airliner.

However, this was just an ordinary steam-powered locomotive, not one of those extraordinary, ranked machines.

After Rosen rode his Wilderness Motorbike away from the West Gate, he would occasionally look back at Ash City.

From the inside, this steampunk-style futuristic magical city is more prosperous than modern society on Earth, but from the outside, it looks like a slumbering, decaying behemoth on the earth, with the entire Blazing Shadow Royal City protected by rusty high walls.

Ashes can contaminate all life, but have very little negative effect on inanimate objects.

Many buildings shrouded in ash, which would have decayed long ago, appear brand new under the ash.

The indelible rust on the guardian walls of the Blazing Shadow Royal City is all trace left by the ash creatures before their deaths.

Perhaps every few decades, perhaps every few centuries, the ashes that have shrouded human civilization will erupt in a great explosion.

The number of Ash Life will surge for at least several years.

Countless ash lives will form an ash tide that impacts all human settlements.

Humanity suffers considerable losses at this time of year.

Some say it's the resurgence of the will of a dead god, while others say it's the aftermath of a divine war stirred up by alien gods.

There are various claims, but none have been confirmed by the world government.

As they got further and further away from the Blazing Shadow Royal City, the terrain began to gradually slope down and the road conditions started to deteriorate.

Rosen didn't want to crash, so he chose to slow down the Wilderness Motorbike.

Even though his reflexes and physique were enough to ensure he was unharmed when the car overturned.

However, the motorcycle itself cannot withstand being abused. If it falls apart, he will have to travel on foot.

After traveling for five hours, Rosen arrived at the Void Valley, which was hundreds of miles away from the royal city.

This place is no ordinary place; it was once the capital of the Gray Rat People.

Ultimately, the final battle for genocide erupted here between the human demigods and the progenitors of the gray ratmen.

It transformed the plain into a bottomless sinkhole, and even distorted the space here to form a huge spiritual realm, a rare and special spiritual realm dominated by matter with an entrance that is open all year round.

The extraordinary resources within the Spirit Realm have now been exhausted, and the Spirit Realm has since become a dumping ground for the Blazing Shadow Kingdom.

All household waste and dangerous supernatural waste are transported here and dumped into the spiritual realm.

However, it's quite normal to accidentally throw trash outside the bin.

Over the course of 20,000 years, the original sinkhole has been filled with garbage.

This place has thus become a paradise for ash creatures, where all kinds of ash life forms, not exceeding Sequence 7, can be seen.

As for the Ash Creatures that reached Sequence 6, they had long been wiped out by the high-sequence beings of the Blazing Shadow Kingdom.

After all, the Principality of Blazing Shadow is an island nation surrounded by the sea, and it is not lacking in high-sequence supernatural life forms from the deep sea.

Therefore, no threat is allowed to emerge in its own hinterland.

The occasional emergence of new threats is nothing more than adding another dish to the menu for high-sequence humans.

Although its highest rank was only Sequence 7, it was enough to pose a fatal threat to someone like Lawson, who was Sequence 9. So Lawson put away his Wilderness Motorbike at a distance and began to cautiously stealthily use Shadow Cloak.

Shadow Cloaking was like a fish in water in the ash-shrouded land where sunlight was scarce. He could easily avoid the ash creatures along the way, and he didn't intend to waste time hunting them before finishing his business.

Rosen took out a map and looked for nearby landmarks.

The light became unusually dim under the shroud of ash, as if one were in a thin sandstorm.

However, even though there were visible ash particles all around, you couldn't touch any ash at all when you reached out.

Even when you breathe deeply, you won't inhale the ash that's everywhere.

There is a theory that the ashes of the normal world are merely projections of the real ashes.

You can see them in reality, but they are difficult to come into contact with in reality.

If you were to actually come into contact with ash in real life, you could easily become a new ash creature if you weren't strong enough.

As for the true ashes, they exist deep within the spirit world.

The visibility was so low that even with the help of the Hunter's Eye, Rosen could only see a few dozen meters away at most.

The further away from human settlements, the higher the concentration of ash indeed becomes.

Seeing that he couldn't find any clues, Rosen pulled out ten spiritual paintings to activate the mice depicted in them.

Then activate the Hunter's Eye and apply shared visual markers to the rats.

The ten mice scattered to search for the clues, while Rosen opened the mysterious study on the spot, ready to go in and wait for the result.

Soon, a rat brought good news: after crawling hundreds of meters, it discovered a lighthouse-like structure. There were many similar structures in the Ash Kingdom, and by using their numbers, one could pinpoint their exact location in the ashes.

Rosen took out the map again to check the location, and then stealthily moved towards the target location.

He avoided all the ash creatures he encountered along the way, and there was also a team of extraordinary beings secretly eyeing him. He wanted to get his potion's core ingredients before they did.

Two hours later, Rosen traveled dozens of miles to a swamp, a swamp teeming with poisonous water.

It contains a massive amount of radioactive waste, which should theoretically be disposed of in the spiritual realm of the Void Valley. The fact that it is left outside is either due to someone littering or the scavengers responsible for transporting the waste died here.

At this time, the swamp was full of slimes, which were the most abundant life forms in the Void Valley.

Moreover, without exception, these slimes are all extraordinary life forms, not ash creatures.

These tiny creatures are among the very few non-intelligent, yet completely immune to ash contamination, making them extraordinary life forms. Countless scientists have sent slimes into laboratories to study the reasons behind this.

Because slimes can eat and digest anything, the Principality of Blazing Shadow has raised many slimes here.

The total number has now exceeded one million, and Nightmare Slimes may have originally come from the Void Valley.

Rosen summoned a Nightmare Slime, preparing to deceive the enemy.

After being thrown into the poisonous swamp by Rosen, the bewildered Nightmare Slime developed two duck feet from its body like putty and began searching for Sequence 8 mutated slimes in the swamp. In less than half an hour, it had already made a haul.

Because there is a place where every time a Nightmare Slime gets close, it is driven away by some slimes.

Rosen immediately realized that this was where the prey was, and immediately ordered the Nightmare Slime to start luring the monster.

Upon receiving the order, the Nightmare Slime immediately charged towards the several gray slimes blocking its way and trying to drive it away.

(End of this chapter)