Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 72 Triple Kill
Chapter 72

Rosen picked up his pen and sketched in the upper right corner of the drawing paper, quickly drawing a bullet that was entirely red and composed of three parts.

They consist of a hollow-point bullet and two cartridge cases, one at the front and one at the back.

Rosen then divided the drawing paper into three parts and began to draw the structural diagrams of the three parts of the red bullet.

Despite being only the size of an index finger, the bullet is incredibly complex, resembling a miniature rocket. It can accelerate twice from its initial velocity, ultimately increasing its maximum rate of fire to three times its initial velocity.

Besides the acceleration brought by the projectile's structure, the warhead is not so simple either.

The hollow part of the bullet, about the thickness of a needle, contains micro-carved alchemical runes. By simply embedding a spiritual crystal with spatial attributes, the red bullet can be endowed with a strong spatial penetration and armor-piercing ability.

Therefore, this extraordinary bullet belongs to the space armor-piercing bullet series of alchemical bullets.

However, such bullets were eventually phased out, as space-type armor-piercing bullets had a significant side effect after testing.

That is because the recoil is too strong, making it difficult to aim at the opponent even with the first shot.

Because the second acceleration of the space-type armor-piercing bullet does not occur during the bullet's flight, but rather within the barrel, the instantaneous two-stage impact can cause even a Sequence 8 hunter to lose control of their weapon.

Ultimately, bullets with lower rank can reach the sky, while those with higher rank have better options and don't need this one.

Therefore, space-based armor-piercing projectiles were phased out, and their manufacturing technology was no longer kept secret.

Rosen collected the technology for manufacturing space-piercing armor-piercing bullets, originally intending for the bullets fired by the God-Slaying Crossbow to be able to automatically track targets.

However, after carefully studying the bullet's parameters, he discovered that even automatic tracking could not control the bullet.

The God-Slaying Crossbow can control bullets to turn, essentially by using spiritual energy to distort the bullet's trajectory. However, the Space Armor-Piercing Bullet is too fast, and with his control over spiritual energy, he simply cannot manipulate the bullet to change direction at such a high speed.

However, after advancing to the Hunter Rank, Rosen discovered that he might be able to withstand the recoil of the Space Armor-Piercing Bullet.

If he relies on the Nightmare Shackles to share the Nen of the Nightmare Slime, then with his own spiritual Nen being ten times stronger, the stability of the Godslayer Crossbow will also increase many times over, and the recoil that was originally unbearable will not be a problem for him.

This is what is known as "miracles come from great force," relying on mental energy to enhance strength and then forcibly counteracting the recoil.

Rosen spent a good half hour drawing before finally producing a diagram of the extremely complex internal structure of the space-based armor-piercing projectile.

He immediately stuffed the painting into the artist's magazine, and then the magazine materialized the bullets in the painting into physical objects.

Finally, the bullet is loaded, ready for the final aim and firing.

Seeing that he had succeeded on the first try, he spent several more hours drawing five more space-based armor-piercing projectiles.

Rosen released the Hunter's Eye, which had been hidden, and looked out of the window toward the suspected hiding place.

Then, Rosen instantly conjured an invisible Nightmare Chain to bind himself to the Nightmare Slime. Combining the power of the Divine Beast Seal, the spiritual energy within the Nightmare Slime was instantly transmitted to him through the Nightmare Chain.

The spiritual energy wrapped around Rosen's hands was now glowing due to its high compression and condensation.

That's because the energy was compressed too much, to the point that the friction between the energy and the energy started to produce flashes of light.

Fortunately, he was in a secret study, so no matter how much noise he made, no one outside could see it.

The God-Slaying Crossbow instantly fired nine bolts, each bolt containing its own maximum amount of spiritual energy.

Nine crossbow bolts pierced through the window of the mysterious study, hitting the target directly and detonating the Nen energy within.

The damage was like the explosion of nine high-explosive grenades. The three people hiding in the swamp immediately realized that their hiding place had been discovered.

They each used their extraordinary defensive and evasive skills to block the damage. After rushing out of their hiding places at the bottom of the swamp, they immediately stood back to back to guard against attacks from unknown enemies.

The hunter among the three activated Eagle Eye and looked in the direction from which the crossbow bolts were coming.

If no one is seen, they could be invisible, or they could have quickly moved their firing position after the initial attack.

However, at that moment, the Sequence 8 hunter witnessed a scene that left him speechless.

He saw a red light appear out of thin air, and in the instant he saw it, it had already crossed hundreds of meters and arrived in front of him.

The instant he saw it, he had already activated all the extraordinary artifacts and skills that could protect him.

However, it wasn't until a sharp pain shot through his brow and his head was pierced that the instantaneous repulsive shield barely deployed.

"too fast……"

The Sequence 8 hunter lost consciousness with his last thoughts.

Two more red lights appeared one after another. At this moment, the Sequence 8 Beast Knight's lower body had transformed into a feline, while his upper body held a shield and a longsword. The spatial armor-piercing bullet was deflected the moment it hit the shield.

Although the shield wasn't penetrated, cracks appeared on its surface.

At this moment, the second space armor-piercing bullet followed closely behind, completely penetrating the shield and hitting the Warcraft Knight. However, the shield did block two shots. Although the second shot was not completely blocked, it still gave the Warcraft Knight a chance to deflect the shield and avoid the trajectory of the bullet.

The space-piercing armor-piercing projectile pierced the heart, leaving a hole the size of a bowl.

Fortunately, there was no headshot. The Warcraft Knight was completely unable to fight back at this point. His internal organs writhed like living things, severing the bloodline connection with his heart to lock in the blood. The bones near his heart contracted to temporarily protect the other internal organs.

The beast knight, barely clinging to life, charged forward on all fours and fled.

The last Sequence 8 witch, seeing this scene, helplessly crushed a short-distance teleportation scroll and instantly teleported away.

However, what awaited them was a long-range pursuit from behind. The Hunter's Eye locked onto the monster knight who had rushed out hundreds of meters and the witch who had teleported out thousands of meters. After providing the God-Slaying Crossbow with ballistic aiming assistance, it continued to fire space armor-piercing bullets.

The Warcraft Knight was hit in the neck and his head flew into the air, while the Witch's elemental shield was pierced directly and she was shot in the head.

Just as the two were shot dead, a flash of light struck the Hunter God's Eye from its location. It was an assassin who had stealthily moved behind the Hunter God's Eye, whose incredible stealth ability prevented the Hunter God's Eye from noticing.

However, this fatal blow struck the Hunter's Eye without causing any damage.

Since both the God-Slaying Crossbow and the God-Hunting Demon Eye are Nen artifacts materialized from Nen energy, capable of materializing into crossbows and also converting into Nen energy, the God-Hunting Demon Eye being destroyed in one strike only caused Rosen to lose some Nen energy.

At this moment, the area within a radius of several meters was completely covered by the light of blades, but the invisible assassin failed to hit anything.

Yunus, the Sequence 8 assassin, immediately realized that the enemy was likely launching an attack from another dimension.

Otherwise, if he had stealthily approached and launched a surprise attack immediately, the enemy would not have been able to completely evade all damage right under his nose.

Yunus turned to leave, and retreating was the best option for the hunter who had missed his chance to strike.

However, Yunus suddenly felt something under his feet. Looking down, he saw a black slime that had appeared under his feet. He kicked the slime away and disappeared, getting further and further away until a red light appeared behind him.

(End of this chapter)