Chapter 161: Promotion to Time Hunter and Castle Conspiracy   Chapter 160

 Without exception, all kobolds are good at mining, and Dragonborn kobolds are only stronger at digging.

  Under the frantic digging of two Sequence 5 Dragonborn Warriors, the four Dragonborn Kobolds gradually went deep into the desert hundreds of miles deep, and finally arrived at the underground world buried deep under the desert.

  There were flames burning everywhere, but these flames were abnormal green and grayish white.

  Looking around, there were corpses everywhere and countless undead lives with soul fire burning.

  Even when facing skeleton soldiers that had no sequence level at all, the four Dragonborn Gnolls carefully dodged and dared not to harm them.

  Obviously, he was worried that the noise he made would accidentally alarm the high-sequence undead in this underground world.

  It was just a distance of a thousand miles, but the four Sequence 5s walked very carefully for several days.

  Then they came to an abandoned mine in a corner of the underground world. There were also many undead here, but these undead lives seemed to be formed after the death of the Dragonborn Kobolds. For some reason, these undead did not attack the living Dragonborn Kobolds.

  During the days of traveling, Rosen had quietly sneaked into the eggshell.

  Then he reopened the door inside the eggshell and successfully opened a window facing outwards on the outside of the eggshell.

  Rosen didn't even need to find a way to see through the waist bag containing the eggshell, the dragonborn warlock had already taken out the eggshell tremblingly.

  "Master, the tribe was destroyed by humans..."

  The dragonborn warlock knelt trembling in front of a ghost dragon.

  Judging from their behavior, the dragon blood in their bodies should have come from this ghost dragon when he was alive.

  The ghost dragon looked at the fairy dragon ball and sensed it carefully. It did indeed have the scent of human left.

  Although he knew that it was not the fault of these dragonborn gnolls, the ghost dragon still angrily gave each of their dogs a painful curse. Seeing the four dragonborn gnolls rolling on the ground in pain, he temporarily suppressed his hatred and anger towards humans.

  After the ghost dragon punished several minions, it took the fairy dragon ball from the dragonborn warlock.

  Soon all the dragon source corns were picked and thrown into the mouth to be refined with soul fire. Then the fairy dragon balls were placed on a magic circle that gathered spiritual energy, and then he left the dragon's nest with a few dragon-born dog-headed men.

  Judging from where the ghost dragon was going, it was clearly heading to the surface desert to deal with the invaders.

  Rosen waited for half an hour before coming out of the mysterious study.

  The dragonborn kobold was not killed, but a fairy dragon eggshell was delivered to the door.

  He put the eggshell into the scavenging space without hesitation, and dug out the several dragon crystals embedded on the magic circle.

  Dragon crystal is a special spiritual crystal and one of the rare and recoverable spiritual crystals.

  Most spiritual crystals will decay into ashes once their spiritual energy is exhausted, but dragon crystals can absorb free spiritual energy and quickly restore the spiritual energy stored inside. What's even more precious is that the spiritual energy released by dragon crystals contains special properties.

  Rosen continued to search the ghost dragon's nest, and finally obtained a dragon corpse sealed by a magic circle.

  This dragon corpse is only Sequence 3, but it is very well preserved and even has a faint heartbeat.

  If nothing unexpected happens, this should be the corpse of the Ghost Dragon. The Ghost Dragon wanted to use the Dragon Source Corn to revive himself.

  Finally, Rosen collected some extraordinary materials with undead attributes. When he was about to dig three feet into the ground, his sixth sense suddenly detected that danger was approaching. He immediately mounted his mechanical mount without hesitation, activated the Void Shadow Escape, and quietly left the ghost dragon's lair.

  After a while, the ghost dragon returned to its lair and madly killed four dragonborn kobolds.

  At this time, Rosen was already counting the harvest hundreds of miles away.

  [Fairy Dragon Ball: Miracle Treasure (Damaged)]

  [Level: Sequence 6 (Sequence 3)]

  [Miracle attribute: Consume extraordinary materials to recruit a miracle fairy dragon]

  [Miracle Features: Dragon's Nest, Dragon's Sleep, Dragon's Tomb, Elemental Immunity, Elemental Orb, Void Phase, Unique in Heaven and Earth, Eternal Immortality]

  Rosen studied for a long time before he figured out the true value of the Fairy Dragon Balls.

  Fairy Dragon Ball, why is it called Dragon Ball? Because this thing is essentially the last unhatched dragon egg of the fairy dragon clan.

  When the fairy dragons were exterminated, this last dragon egg turned into a miraculous treasure.

  There is no broken part on the surface of the complete Fairy Dragon Ball eggshell, and there is even a Fairy Dragon embryo inside, which can recruit a Sequence 3 miracle creature Fairy Dragon, but the Fairy Dragon Ball eventually suffered a fatal blow and its power weakened.

  However, since it has the characteristic of eternal immortality, it is only a matter of time before the Fairy Dragon Ball recovers.

  It has not recovered in 20,000 years, entirely because the Ghost Dragon prevented the Fairy Dragon Ball from repairing itself.

  Since fairy dragons are hostile to undead life, recruiting them is also troublesome for ghost dragons.

  It would be better to stop the restoration and then transform the Fairy Dragon Pearl into farmland suitable for growing Dragon Source Corn.

  Those dragon-born gnolls living in the desert on the surface are probably the fertilizer needed for the growth of dragon-origin corn.

  Rosen took out a large number of spiritual crystals with the attribute of time and put all of them and several dragon crystals into the eggshell.

  Then all the remaining dragon-born kobolds were sent to the divine territory and imprisoned to be tamed slowly. Finally, the farmland formed by the flesh and blood of the dragon-born kobolds and the five dragon-origin corns planted on it were temporarily transplanted out.

  Rosen sent the Fairy Dragon Ball into the Time Tower and activated the five-fold time acceleration to speed up the self-repair of the Fairy Dragon Ball.

  At this stage, the properties and characteristics of the Fairy Dragon Ball cannot be used.

  Only after restoration will the true value of this treasure be revealed.

  Rosen has decided to tame the fairy dragon as a pet when he reaches Sequence 6, and transform it into a messenger from the spirit world.

  As for the Storm Thunderbird, let's keep it for now and talk about it later!

  Rosen was busy running around, collecting extraordinary materials needed to recruit fairy dragons from various channels.

  He was even reluctant to leave the spirit world, and was busy in the Thunder Empire for more than half a month before he collected all the extraordinary materials.

  Finally, just two days after he prepared the recruitment materials, the Fairy Dragon Ball had completed its initial repair.

  The damaged parts on the surface of the eggshell have been restored to their original state, and the Fairy Dragon Ball now looks like a round and flawless emerald gem.

  Rosen sent the recruitment materials into the Fairy Dragon Ball and then activated the Miracle Property Dragon Nest.

  All the extraordinary materials were gradually melted by the fairy dragon balls, and finally formed a fairy dragon embryo. This embryo grew very fast. In reality, in less than two days, it had grown into a sequence 6 fairy dragon.

  The Dragon's Nest feature is used to breed and recruit fairy dragons, and the Dragon's Sleep feature allows fairy dragons to recover quickly.

  The characteristics of the dragon tomb allow the fairy dragon to be reborn in it after death. At the same time, the dragon tomb can also generate a small dragon tomb space inside the eggshell, in which some extraordinary materials that accompany the growth of the dragon clan can be planted and some extraordinary materials that accompany the birth of the dragon clan can be born.

  Five precious dragon-origin corns, which are absolutely suitable to be planted in the Dragon Tomb.

  Next are elemental immunity and elemental orb. These two miracle characteristics: the former can make the Fairy Dragon Ball immune to basic elemental damage of the same level. The rarer the elemental damage, the lower the immunity level. As for the elemental orb, it can automatically store, release and enhance elemental skills.

  Therefore, the Fairy Dragon Ball is a miracle treasure, not a miracle troop building.

  The last miracle characteristic is the void phase, which is the most core and only miracle characteristic of the Fairy Dragon Ball.

  As long as the spatial coordinates are left, the Void Phase can instantly carry the Fairy Dragon Ball through.

  The ghost dragon was so afraid of the fairy dragon that he left the fairy dragon pearl alone and did not dare to repair it. It could be said that he was buying the box and returning the pearl.

  Rosen did not awaken the fairy dragon immediately, and the newborn fairy dragon did not inherit the fairy dragon's wisdom.

  He just happened to fall into a deep sleep through Longmian, and while in sleep he absorbed and integrated the inheritance left in his blood by the fairy dragon clan.

  I don't know if it's because of refining the Fairy Dragon Ball, but Rosen clearly felt that his spiritual growth was accelerating.

  The Fairy Dragon Ball is now at Sequence 6, and the void phase can leave four spatial coordinates.

  Rosen left a space coordinate in the underground world where the ghost dragon of the spirit world was located. With the help of this space coordinate, he could hunt unscrupulously in the spirit world, and even the ghost dragon was harassed by him several times.

  So much so that after a few months, he had accumulated two Sequence 7 Soul Gems.

  Even the spiritual strength has been increased to 36 points due to constant hunting.

  Early in the morning of that day, Rosen prepared to upgrade the territory buildings and then begin his advancement to Sequence 6.

  The first thing is to strengthen the Divine Beast Stable to Sequence 7, so that you don't have to worry about the gray rat escaping control after eating the golden apple.

  No new characteristics were born in the Divine Beast Pen. He looked down upon ordinary characteristics, and believed that good characteristics needed to accumulate more foundation before they could be born. Therefore, he forcibly suppressed the birth of new characteristics, so that a powerful characteristic would definitely be born when it reached Sequence 6.

  Then came the Alchemy Castle. Rosen had to buy a Sequence 8 Soul Gem and then strengthen it to Sequence 7 in one step.

  However, like the Solar Lighthouse, the Alchemy Castle also lacks a matching powerful soul.

  Since the Alchemy Castle is the core of the territory, Rosen chose to deeply integrate the spiritual sequence ancient tree with the Alchemy Castle, allowing his soul to become the soul of the Alchemy Castle, so that he could perfectly control the Alchemy Castle.

  The fusion process went smoothly, and the Alchemy Castle also demonstrated its powerful attributes and characteristics.

  But in this case, it is not appropriate to continue calling it Alchemy Castle.

  After carefully examining the building properties, Rosen decided to rename the Alchemy Castle to Ash Castle, which represents the embers of the flame.

  [Ashes Castle: Divine Building]

  [Level: Sequence 7]

  [Attached buildings: castle hall, tower, spirit world watchtower, steam power tower, elemental barrier tower, dungeon]

  [Divine Characteristics: Mechanical Spirit Life - Fusion Sequence Ancient Tree to obtain advanced mechanical spirit intelligence]

  [Divine Characteristics: Fire Ashes - Can destroy civilizations, collect fire ashes and strengthen the Ash Castle]

  After the territory building reinforcement was completed, Rosen took out the potion bottle and prepared to prepare the potion.

  Although at Sequence 6, potions could no longer be mass-produced.

  However, it was not difficult for Rosen to obtain the Sequence 6 hunter potion formula and potion materials.

  [600 grams of bronze dragon blood, 100 grams of the heart of a century-old ancient forest tree, 50 grams of dragon blood from any sequence 6 dragon, 5 grams of tooth powder from a bucktoothed giant bear, a bronze dragon's reverse scale...]

  There were nine kinds of extraordinary materials, and Rosen put them all into the potion bottle.

  You only need to know the potion formula, and the potion bottle can automatically prepare the potion of the most perfect quality.

  Starting from Sequence 6, the potion formula is actually no longer fixed, but needs to be adjusted according to the core material. The core material he uses is the extraordinary bloodline of the bronze dragon, so he specially invited a high-level pharmacist to customize a potion formula for him.

  The potion was quickly prepared, and this time the finished potion looked like a dragon crystal.

  Rosen poured the potion from the potion bottle directly into his mouth, and the potion instantly dissolved the Hunter Sequence Extraordinary Essence that flowed into his body. Rosen heard whispers in his ears, and hallucinations began to appear in front of his eyes.

  I thought this would be more uncomfortable than Sequence 7, but surprisingly it was easier.

  Without taking much damage, he had already spiritually ascended to become a Sequence 6 Hunter.

  In the process of spiritual sublimation, Rosen has understood what is going on.

  First of all, he had the blessing of the Dragon King, which came from the protection of a bronze dragon at the Dragon King level, and it complemented the power of the potion. Then he mastered the Miracle Flame, a miracle of Sequence 0.

  Even though the level of the Miracle Fire was too high, he was unable to refine the Miracle Fire.

  However, with passive protection, the threat posed to him by the whispers from the source of the potion would be reduced to a minimum.

  If it weren't for the fact that the source's whispers, in addition to the damage, also contained the power and knowledge of the hunter sequence.

  I'm afraid that the miracle flame can completely suppress the whispers, and those released now are specially reserved for the evolution of extraordinary source essence.

  [Time Hunter: Can deprive prey of time after hunting]

  Rosen felt the innate skills born from the extraordinary source, which was another special skill without skill levels.

  He casually released a sequence 7 nine-headed monster from the divine beast pen. After the Dragon King's Wrath activated the Ashes Armor Breaking skill, he shot it completely through the defense and with the added true damage, he killed it instantly.

  Rosen could clearly feel that some kind of time force entered his body after the death of the Hydra.

  But he has not yet figured out what this time power is used for.

  Because as far as he knew, the Time Hunter feature had never been born.

  Rosen took out the Time Shooter skill crystal and refined it without hesitation.

  Time Hunter and Time Shooter, these two skills also originated from the Bronze Dragon and may produce a chain reaction.

  [Time Shooter: Miracle Skill]

  [Passive attribute: All skills can carry the power of time]

  [Active attribute: After activation, all skill damage can consume time power to kill the prey's time]

  [Miracle Property: Time Dragon Crystal - can absorb and store the power of time]

  The time power that originally surrounded the extraordinary source of energy in Rosen's body suddenly merged into the time dragon crystal that condensed out of thin air in his soul.

  He released another nine-headed monster, and this time the suppressed damage activated the active attributes of the Time Shooter.

  A mental bullet containing a weak mental energy, carrying the power of time, hit the nine-headed monster.

  Rosen instantly felt that the remaining three hundred years of lifespan of this Sequence 7 Nine-Headed Monster were instantly wasted by more than a hundred years, and the time power stored in his Time Dragon Crystal was also gone.

  This made him instantly realize the terrifying power of the Time Shooter's miraculous skill.

  Skills can actually become miracles, and the active attributes are so terrifying.

  If the time power stored in the Time Dragon Crystal is enough, could a random shot be enough to wipe out the entire lifespan of the Hydra.

  Rosen then made various attempts and roughly figured out the upper limit of the Time Shooter's active ability.

  If a being has a hundred years left to live, after killing it, the Time Hunter can deprive it of ten years of time and store it in the Time Dragon Crystal.

  The upper limit of the storage of Time Dragon Crystal depends on his lifespan, and his lifespan is currently 10,000 years.

  A normal Sequence 6 usually lives for a thousand years. Because he has the extraordinary bloodline of the Demon God and the golden apple, he can live for ten thousand years, so the Time Dragon Crystal can store the power of time for a maximum of ten thousand years.

  If the Time Archer completely consumes the power of 10,000 years of time, he can instantly kill off 1,000 years of his prey's lifespan.

  Of course, this only applies to Sequence 6. If you discount it by half for Sequence 5, it can only consume 500 years of life. If you discount it by half again for Sequence 4, it can only consume 250 years of life. It doesn't seem to be particularly powerful.

  After all, Rosen can easily kill ordinary Sequence 6 prey head-on, so there is no need to waste it like this.

  The truly terrifying thing about the Time Shooter is that, in addition to wasting the lifespan, it can also affect the spiritual synchronization of its prey.

  For example, if a dragon-born kobold has a hundred years of his lifespan wasted, his memory will suddenly experience a hundred-year gap, and the memory of yesterday's events in his mind will seem to have become memories from a hundred years ago.

  Imagine you are in the middle of a fight and your enemy is about to unleash some powerful damaging ability.

  As a result, in the blink of an eye, the battle that took place a second ago became a distant memory from a hundred years ago.

  The disruption to the rhythm of the battle would be devastating and could produce an extremely powerful skill interruption effect.

  Even multiple memory gaps after being attacked multiple times may cause serious confusion in the prey's memory.

  Furthermore, for those Sequence 3s whose lifespans are already short, instantly losing 125 years of lifespan can even result in an instant kill.

  Therefore, the terrifying power of the miracle skill is obvious at a glance. This will be Rosen's strongest killer weapon when facing strong enemies.

  However, this also means that in the future the Divine Beast Pen will have to keep a large number of long-lived extraordinary lives in captivity at all times.

  Otherwise, if you encounter a strong enemy in a one-on-one battle, the time power stored in the Time Dragon Crystal may not be enough to consume it.

  …

  Thunder Capital, Rosen was teleported to the capital of the Thunder Empire through the wizard tower.

  The main reason he came here this time was to trade a skill crystal with someone.

  He has a sequence 6 Beastmaster skill crystal on hand, which is the delivery of the Sea Dragon Beastmaster.

  He had originally planned to master it at Sequence 6, but the three Sequence 8 pet skills were combined to form the Wrath of the Beastmaster. There was not much point in learning another Beastmaster skill, so he planned to exchange it for a rare hunter skill of equal value.

  Skills dropped by Sequence 6 Beastmasters are extremely rare, and skills of the same level that can match them are extremely rare.

  He was more or less surprised that someone could show off a skill that excited him this time.

  The Marquis of Reis's Palace is located on a floating island wrapped in a thundercloud.

  Being able to own a floating island in the Thunder Capital is already at the top level among hereditary marquises.

  When Rosen came out of the teleportation array of the wizard tower, Marquis Reis had already sent a butler to receive him.

  Rosen rode on Marquis Reis's alchemical carriage and came to the wizard tower just below the floating city. Through the short-distance teleportation array of the wizard tower, he soon arrived at the main gate of the castle on the floating island.

  Marquis Reis, who Rosen had only met on the virtual network, was already at the door to greet him in person.

  "Welcome, Count Rosen."

  Marquis Reiss walked forward and hugged Rosen enthusiastically, so enthusiastically that he almost wanted to turn around and leave.

  Because of his sixth sense and mind reading, he has already sensed the malice of Marquis Reis.

  Because his identity as a hereditary duke was too conspicuous, when he came into contact with Marquis Reis through the virtual network, he casually reported his identity as a count.

  Now it seems that Marquis Reis is planning to do a business with no capital investment.

  In the castle's living room, Marquis Reis had prepared a feast to entertain Rosen.

  Rosen calmly logged into the deep web of the spirit world through the main god's computer and commissioned the Assassin's Guild to investigate Marquis Reis.

  He wanted to confirm whether the skill crystal that Marquis Reiss proposed to trade existed.

  The Assassin's Guild quickly provided information that the items being traded were real.

  In this case, Rosen will not hesitate to take advantage of the situation.

  After a lot of polite words, Marquis Reis invited Rosen to stay overnight after the dinner.

  "I didn't expect you to come so soon..."

  Marquis Reiss explained apologetically, "The skill crystals used for the transaction are stored in the Imperial Bank. We will go to the Imperial Bank together tomorrow morning to complete the transaction there."

  "Thank you very much for the hospitality of Marquis Reis."

  Rosen put down the cutlery politely.

  Under the guidance of the butler, Rosen moved into the guest room, but the gray mouse had quietly hidden in the shadow of Marquis Reis.

  The moment his hunter sequence reached Sequence 6, Gray Rat had already been promoted from Sequence 7 to Sequence 6.

  At least before reaching Sequence 4, the Gray Rat recovered its strength very quickly.

  However, the difficulty of becoming Sequence 3 again has increased by more than ten times.

  Facing a Sequence 6 Gray Rat, with the help of their shared Void Shadow Escape, it was almost impossible for Marquis Reiss to notice that he was being closely monitored.

  Rosen and Gray Mouse shared a sense of perception and saw through the shadows that Marquis Reis was sitting in the study, hesitating.

  Marquis Reis sighed, and his hesitant look became firm.

  Now that you have decided to do it, you must do it thoroughly.

  A non-hereditary earl is still an earl. What if he tells his relatives and friends that they will come to his castle to conduct transactions, but the earl disappears without a trace? It will be difficult to explain if the news gets out. Only a thorough approach can eliminate the hidden danger.

  Marquis Reis sent out a messenger from the spirit world to deliver a letter to his beloved Marquise.

  The Marchioness, who was sitting at her dressing table, saw the messenger from the spiritual world appear, and she knew what her husband meant without even opening the envelope.

  She sighed, changed into her pajamas, and slowly walked towards the guest room where Rosen was.

  When Rosen saw the Marquise push the door open and nervously close it, she seemed to understand Marquis Reis's conspiracy.

  The Marquis of Reis entertained him warmly, but he had an affair with the Marquise.

  If this were exposed in public, the enraged Marquis Reis would be blameless even if he killed him.

  Marquis Reiss was willing to sacrifice so much just for a skill crystal?

  Rosen felt that it was not that simple. It seemed that he needed to get the truth from the Marquise.

  In the virtual studio, the self-portrait clone picked up the paintbrush and began to paint a guest room that was exactly the same as the real one.

  When the painting is finished, the real Rosen will be able to bring the Marchioness into the painting.

  The self-portrait clone in the empty studio just happened to appear in the real guest room.

  By that time, the Marquise would be nowhere to be found, alive or dead, and he would make Marquis Reis lose both his wife and his army.

  (End of this chapter)