Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 36 Cat God Blood Sacrifice

Chapter 36

"More than one hundred people."

Rosen frowned as he counted the merchant ship sailors being escorted in.

The vortex near him was just one of the teleportation points to enter the Spirit Realm.

There must be many similar teleportation points. If each teleportation point sends in a hundred merchant ship sailors, the Black Shark Pirates will have escorted over a thousand people to the Spirit Realm this time. After nine days, there is a high probability that none of these merchant ship sailors will survive.

Rosen quickly overturned his calculations; he was now certain that the merchant sailors wouldn't survive an hour.

Because the pirates responsible for escorting the merchant sailors were already forcing them to run into the dense forest.

If they didn't run, they would face the pirates' scimitars. Under the threat of death, these merchant sailors had no choice but to enter the dense forest. However, with their hands bound, these merchant sailors could not even climb trees. They could only huddle together, trembling, and look into the depths of the jungle.

When the pirates used their scimitars to drive away the merchant ship sailors, they slashed many of the slower sailors in the back.

The blood quickly attracted nearby supernatural creatures, and within minutes, hundreds of merchant ship sailors had all turned into corpses.

The blood that seeped into the fallen leaves gradually disappeared in Rosen's extraordinary sense of smell.

He used Shadow Cloak to approach a corpse and parted the fallen leaves, immediately seeing the writhing tree roots sucking blood. He then realized that in addition to supernatural creatures and Shadow Cats, the ubiquitous plants in the Death Forest could also suck human blood.

At that moment, a pirate walked into the jungle, and Rosen recognized him as Monte, one of the captains of the Black Shark.

Monte crushed a scroll, and a black light shield appeared around his body to block the attack from the supernatural creature. He quickly took out a crystal ball, infused it with spiritual energy, and soon released a hazy mist.

After the gray fog enveloped the corpses of the merchant sailors, human-shaped phantoms were pulled out from the remains.

Once all the humanoid phantoms merged into the crystal ball, Monte's energy shield had been torn apart. However, the gray mist enveloped Monte in time, and the supernatural creatures that had already pounced on him hesitated for a moment before turning away to continue enjoying the corpses scattered on the ground.

Although Rosen didn't know exactly what the crystal ball was, he could roughly figure out its function.

The blood of the merchant sailors was absorbed by the plants of the Death Forest, and their souls were captured by the crystal ball. The resulting gray mist could prevent Monte from being attacked by supernatural creatures, which meant that Monte could easily lead other pirates deep into the Death Forest.

Sure enough, all the pirates soon gathered around Monte, and under the protection of the gray fog, they continued to venture deeper into the Death Forest.

After considering it for a moment, Rosen followed behind and soon arrived at a depth he had never set foot in before.

He discovered that the pirates were looking for something, and at the same time, they were searching for and hunting Shadowcats. Monte had a cat-headed, human-bodied statue in his hand. When he held it, the nearby Shadowcats would swarm out like madmen, but then stop outside the gray fog and dare not charge.

However, the pirates, including Monte, paid no heed to this and directly used bombs similar to flashbangs to hunt down Shadowcat.

Shadowcats were constantly being killed by the explosions, but they would rather die than break through the gray fog or leave.

Monte collected all the dropped extraordinary essence, while distributing the rest of the loot to his pirate crew. Clearly, they needed the extraordinary essence that had fallen from Shadow Cat, but it was still unclear what they were looking for.

Rosen converted all his other senses into hearing, and he could hear the buzzing of mosquitoes hundreds of meters away clearly.

Gradually, Rosen realized what they were looking for: a special plant that looked like crystal. Monte didn't tell his pirates its specific name, only warning them that if they didn't find the plant, everyone would die.

Of course, they weren't searching aimlessly; that kind of plant tends to appear in places where shadow cats frequently roam. The nearby shadow cats were all drawn to it. Rosen converted his enhanced hearing into enhanced smell and followed the shadow cats' path, rushing ahead to find them. As he searched, he discovered the shadow cats' nests—tree holes hidden among the vines.

Rosen searched all the tree holes, but in the end he only found a crystal-like vine.

It was no more than a foot long, had no roots, and looked like a transparent earthworm made of crystal. When he caught it, it would even burrow into the tree, but after he pulled it out of the tree, it immediately stiffened like a stone.

Rosen temporarily stored the items in the mysterious study and then went to find other pirate crews.

During this time, he saw the team personally led by Captain Black Shark, who had already avoided them in advance. In the end, he found a total of fifteen pirate teams in the nearby jungle, intercepted three pirate teams in advance, and obtained three strange crystal plants.

As for the remaining pirate crews, some found the crystal plant while others found nothing.

The Black Shark Pirate Crew roamed the Death Jungle with impunity for three days. Apart from the Shadow Cat leader, who was a Sequence 7, all the other Shadow Cats had been wiped out. On the morning of the fourth day, all the pirate crews began to gather at Captain Black Shark's location.

Rosen didn't dare get close, because he knew the Black Shark Pirates had Sequence 7 hunters.

Humans are far more dangerous than Shadowcats. Currently, Captain Blackshark and other pirates are in the open, and Rosen can only ensure his safety by hiding in the shadows. However, there is a high probability that the Sequence 7 hunter is also hiding in the shadows. If he is not careful, he could be shot dead by an arrow without even knowing where the enemy is.

Captain Black Shark led his pirate crew deeper into the Death Jungle, where gradually, the ruins of buildings began to appear.

Upon seeing the building ruins, Captain Black Shark immediately rushed into the rubble.

He even prevented other pirates from getting close, searching alone in the ruins. Soon, Captain Black Shark was overjoyed to find a cat-headed, human-bodied statue in the collapsed building, although this statue was dozens of times larger than the one held by the pirate crew.

Captain Black Shark ordered the surrounding trees that were blocking the sunlight to be cut down, so that the sunlight could shine on the ruins and onto the statue.

Visible to the naked eye, the statue burned with black, fiery shadows in the sunlight.

Captain Black Shark immediately and impatiently poured the extraordinary essence of Shadow Cat and the Hunter into the phantom of flames, then forcefully stabbed the crystal plant directly into his own heart. Afterwards, he reached out and pressed his hand on the statue, his entire body enveloped by the spreading phantom of flames.

Captain Black Shark was trembling and sweating profusely, clearly enduring intense pain.

Soon, Captain Black Shark's extraordinary source essence appeared between his eyebrows. After two sublimations, the extraordinary source essence had taken the shape of the Black Shark. However, the Black Shark composed of this extraordinary source essence was almost completely broken in the middle. Obviously, this was the foundation where Captain Black Shark was injured in the rumors.

At this moment, under the burning of the illusory flames, Captain Black Shark's damaged extraordinary essence was gradually repaired.

Finally, with no visible injuries, Captain Black Shark released the cat-headed human statue he had been holding and excitedly left. Clearly, the Black Shark Pirates had done so much for the ultimate goal of repairing Captain Black Shark's damaged extraordinary essence.

No sooner had Captain Black Shark and his men left than an invisible hunter appeared in front of the statue.

The hunter repeated Captain Blackshark's actions, except that instead of sending in the fiery phantom, he used a Sequence 8 or Sequence 9 Shadow Cat Extraordinary Source, but a Sequence 7 Shadow Cat Extraordinary Source. Clearly, the Shadow Cat leader had already died at the hands of this hunter a few days ago.

The hunter quickly released his own extraordinary essence, allowing it to be burned by the fiery phantom.

However, his extraordinary source essence was intact, and Rosen couldn't figure out what benefit this Sequence 7 hunter had gained.

As the hunter turned and disappeared into the jungle, Rosen stared thoughtfully at the cat-headed, human-bodied statue.

(End of this chapter)