Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 73 Hunting Boots (Please continue reading)

Chapter 73

Rosen jumped out of the window, raised his Godslayer crossbow, and aimed it at the assassin who was hundreds of meters away and out of sight.

If the assassin doesn't show himself or get close, he really won't be able to find where the assassin is hiding.

But having gotten so close, they still dared to touch the Nightmare Slime's clone created through divine splitting.

Once the assassin is marked with the Nightmare Mark, there's no escape; no matter how they try to hide, they'll be like a light in the darkness.

Even because of the Nightmare Mark, the assassin will ignore him and the Nightmare Slime.

The spatial armor-piercing bullet instantly pierced the assassin's skull, and the assassin did not dodge or defend himself until his death.

This doesn't mean the assassin is inferior to the Warcraft Knight and the sorceress; rather, it's because the Nightmare Mark is so powerful that it not only makes the assassin completely ignore him and the Nightmare Slime, but also completely disregards his spatial armor-piercing bullets formed from his spiritual energy.

Rosen suddenly realized that he had underestimated the Nightmare Slime.

Hunter, assassin, wizard, and knight—this is a standard four-person squad.

Typically, a squad will not have two of the same sequence, because it would be difficult to distribute the loot needed for the same sequence.

The four Sequence 8s were already an elite squad, but they were all killed by Rosen with the God-Slaying Crossbow in a short period of time.

The joy of victory made Rosen a little giddy, but he quickly adjusted his mindset and calmed down.

He did win easily, but that doesn't give him the right to be arrogant.

Without the mysterious study, his first sneak attack wouldn't have been able to instantly kill the hunter.

If that monster knight had stayed instead of turning and running away, he could have at least used up one more space-piercing bullet, and might even have given the witch a chance to counterattack, instead of being picked off one by one along with the witch.

In the end, if he hadn't been hiding in the mysterious study, he might not have been able to block the assassin's fatal blow.

Although he possessed extraordinary five senses, his vision was negated by the enhanced stealth, and the assassin could completely erase the sound of his movement. Relying solely on his extraordinary five senses, he would have a hard time detecting the assassin.

In the end, if it weren't for the Nightmare Mark, Rosen wouldn't have been able to stop the assassin from escaping.

In this hunt, his strength accounted for 30%, luck for 20%, and the mysterious study for 50%.

So there's nothing to be proud of; Rosen believes he still has a lot of room for improvement.

Rosen put away the mysterious study and released the anchor. After thinking for a moment, he did not return directly to the Blazing Shadow Royal City.

Going back now wouldn't allow him to immediately advance to the painter's rank. His spirituality has just undergone a transformation and sublimation, and he hasn't fully grasped the changes in his spirituality yet. To undergo another transformation and sublimation immediately would do more harm than good to him.

Therefore, it would be better to hone one's skills in the Void Valley before returning to the Blazing Shadow Royal City to advance to the painter rank.

After the God-Slaying Spear and Crossbow became ethereal, they merged into Rosen's right arm, while the God-Hunting Demon Eye hovered around him, responsible for reconnaissance.

As for the Nightmare Slime, it had shrunk to the size of a fist and was perched on Rosen's shoulder.

Whether attacked from the front or behind, the Nightmare Slime is his last line of defense.

As he walked, Rosen suddenly realized that he seemed to have gotten too excited and forgot to count his spoils.

Rosen paused his thoughts and entered the scavenging space, where he saw a corpse and some orbs of light scattered in a corner.

The corpse was a hunter's corpse, and hunting abilities seemed to have a significantly lower chance of being effective on hunter sequences. So the headshot corpse was automatically picked up by the Void Scavenger and placed in the scavenging space intact. Rosen checked his entire set of equipment, and strictly speaking, it was not as good as the extraordinary artifacts he was wearing. Only one extraordinary artifact seemed decent.

This is a map about one foot in size, which, after being refined by spiritual energy, is called a hunting map.

This map can mark any life form within a radius of one kilometer, and it can automatically draw a topographic map of any place the holder has been to, as long as the terrain has been seen. It is a very good reconnaissance artifact.

Rosen casually put away the hunting map and continued to examine the remaining spoils.

They didn't find much of value on the corpse; there were only a few hundred units of spiritual crystals. It's clear that the hunter wasn't very wealthy, otherwise his net worth wouldn't be so low.

Rosen continued to examine the remaining orbs of light, finding within them the extraordinary essence of wizards and knights.

The hunters were slightly richer in spiritual crystals, but the rest of the extraordinary artifacts were about the same, nothing particularly valuable.

It seems this group isn't very wealthy, otherwise they wouldn't have resorted to such a desperate measure as robbing and killing him.

Rosen looked expectantly at the extraordinary artifact left behind by the assassin. Since the extraordinary essence could not be analyzed, it must have been integrated with the extraordinary artifact or skill crystal to form something good.

【Primal Essence: Hunting Boots: Extraordinary Artifact】

[Level: Sequence 8]

[Attribute: Greatly increases movement speed and significantly reduces the impact of high-speed movement on airflow]

[Source Ability 1: Enhanced Stealth - All stealth abilities are enhanced to a certain extent]

[Source Ability 2: Storm Pursuit - Consecutive hits on the target will generate a combo effect, greatly increasing the armor penetration effect]

[Equipment Requirements: Hunter Sequence 8]

After reviewing the attributes, Rosen looked thoughtfully at the other gains he had made this time.

As his understanding of the hunter sequence increased, he gained some basic knowledge of the secrets of hunting abilities.

After the Hunting Ability kills an enemy, once the loot orb drops, it seems that you will lose the enemy's corpse and all its equipment. However, in reality, all the value is converted into equivalent loot. As for where the missing corpse and extraordinary artifacts went, it is still unknown.

However, there is a theory that a hunter's hunting ability is a differentiation of hunting divine authority.

Rosen is now Sequence 8, and his hunting abilities have been enhanced.

Otherwise, killing four Sequence 8s would not be a kill of a higher level.

Logically speaking, the chance of getting a loot orb this time should not be high.

Now that three consecutive deaths have turned into loot, the odds are about the same as winning the lottery. Intuition tells Rosen that his hunting ability should be far superior to that of hunters of the same rank, and the problem may lie in the divinity he has mastered.

If the ability to hunt truly originates from the divine right to hunt, then exercising the power of that divine right must be inseparable from divinity.

Ordinary hunters have no access to divinity, but Rosen has already fused with divine power three times.

Although he had no control over those divine powers, it did not prevent them from lurking within him and having some influence on his hunting ability, which is why he kept getting loot orbs from killing prey of the same level.

Rosen donned his hunting boots and slipped into the shadows to find suitable prey at an even faster pace.

Half a day after Rosen left, several figures shrouded in cloaks appeared in the Poisonous Swamp. They easily captured almost all the slimes in the vicinity of the Poisonous Swamp, and similar things happened in various slime gathering places in the Void Valley.

(End of this chapter)