Lord: Sequence Master

"Sharon Reddy, a woman..."

Rosen closed the folder in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Sharon was a Sequence 4 Farmer trained by the Glory Foundation. On the surface, she appeared highly valued by the directors of the Glory Foundation.

When the Glory Foundation accumulated enough credit points, it wouldn't be difficult for Sharon to become the new director of the Glory Gene Foundation.

To ensure her safety, the Glory Foundation had even assigned a Sequence 3 powerhouse to protect her—a detail Rosen had long known through the Godhunter's Eye.

What he hadn't known, however, was that Sharon also possessed two Sequence 3 extraordinary artifacts for self-protection.

After all, the Godhunter's Magic Eyes could only reveal what was visible on the surface and not the secrets hidden deep within Sharon.

If he had acted rashly without this information, the attempt to capture Sharon would have undoubtedly ended in failure.

"How did you get such confidential information?" Rosen asked curiously, holding Lucia in his arms.

"A director of the Glory Foundation betrayed Sharon's information…" Lucia explained calmly.

After her detailed explanation, Rosen quickly pieced together the bigger picture.

There was a clear reason why the Glory Foundation was considered the weakest of the three major corporations.

The directors of Titan Heavy Industries and Paradise Pharmaceuticals had all earned their positions through capability and contribution.

However, many directors of the Glory Foundation had inherited their titles through family bloodlines, passed down from generation to generation.

Despite Sharon's exceptional abilities as a Sequence 4 Farmer, she had been deliberately held back from a director position for decades.

Logically, every director should have been trying to win her favor.

Yet, the opposite was true. Sharon had been privately cultivated by a specific director and was publicly known to be this director's lover.

Naturally, the other directors, who were hostile to her patron, couldn't stand by and watch his power grow further.

Their fears weren't entirely unfounded. To become chairman of the Glory Foundation, one had to be a Sequence 3 Farmer.

Given Sharon's immense talent, there was a legitimate concern that she might one day advance to Sequence 3, threatening their interests and consolidating power under her patron.

Look at Paradise Pharmaceuticals. No director there dared to question any decision made by Rosen.

If Sharon became chairman, the same scenario could play out in the Glory Foundation.

Lucia had keenly observed these internal power struggles and leveraged them. She secretly made contact with one of the opposing directors and managed to obtain this critical intelligence.

Although the chances of this information being false were slim, the possibility of a trap couldn't be ruled out.

To verify its accuracy, Rosen used the Godhunter's Magic Eyes to monitor both the director who had leaked the information and Sharon herself.

After half a month of surveillance without discovering any irregularities, Rosen began preparing to capture Sharon.

The Glory Gene Foundation occupied the largest island in the Chaos Sea, an island transformed into a massive agricultural fortress.

The foundation spanned ten thousand miles in radius, with an astonishing fifty-meter-tall farming complex that reached one hundred floors high.

If not for the countless enchantment spells that reduced weight and increased structural strength, such an enormous structure would have collapsed under its own weight, sinking the entire island.

Despite its vast size, the farm's food production was barely enough to sustain the Chaos Sea's population.

The crops grown there were all Sequence 9 extraordinary grains. Even with the enhancement abilities of Farmer Sequences, the yield per mu was barely one kilogram of grain.

This limitation wasn't due to poor farming techniques but rather the spiritual intensity of the natural environment. Even with the aid of low-level formations, this was the maximum achievable yield.

If spiritual crystals and high-level formations were used to artificially increase spiritual concentration in small areas, yields could theoretically reach 10,000 kilograms per mu.

However, the cost of spiritual crystals far outweighed the value of the resulting grain.

In most regions, ordinary people could survive on non-extraordinary crops.

Even within the empire, not every commoner had access to extraordinary food.

But the Chaos Sea was an exception.

The workers here had to endure exposure to special steam emissions unique to the region. Ordinary food couldn't counteract the erosion caused by these emissions.

Without consuming extraordinary food, workers' bodies would rapidly deteriorate, leading to population decline and a significant blow to the three major corporations' operations.

In short, ensuring the steady cultivation of extraordinary crops wasn't just an economic necessity—it was a matter of survival and dominance.

In short, there was nothing perfect in the world; if one gained something, they had to lose something.

The headquarters of the Glory Gene Society grew extraordinary grains of low value. As for the high-level extraordinary grains, they were all planted on different islands. Relying on the special environment of the Chaos Sea for 20,000 years, the Glory Foundation had cultivated a large number of unique extraordinary grains that required special steam to grow and mature.

The highest level was Sequence 3, and it required a Sequence 4 farmer to successfully grow it in a special environment. The planting location was kept extremely secret, and people could only travel to each location through portals.

That's why Rosen was a little suspicious whether there was any problem with the information Lucia had obtained.

Until that day, Rosen became completely sure that the information was true. Under the surveillance of the God Hunter's Eye, Sharon left the headquarters of the Glory Foundation alone, without her Sequence 3 bodyguard. After passing through a highly confidential portal, she arrived at an island that did not exist on the Chaos Sea map.

This was the best time to capture her. Rosen wasn't sure he could capture Sharon at the headquarters of the Glory Gene Society.

There was no internet on the island, so it was impossible to transmit data there. Fortunately, they were prepared, as the director had already sold out the location of the island.

Rosen passed through the teleportation point arranged by Lucia in advance, stepped onto the teleportation array, and appeared above the empty sea. There was no trace of the island on the misty surface of the water.

The island wasn't on the sea surface but deep underwater.

Rosen instantly transformed into Quetzalcoatl, diving deeper and deeper into the foggy sea composed of water vapor. He descended thousands of miles beneath the waves before encountering a very special dark red steam. This steam writhed and expanded as if it had a life of its own.

Rosen covered it with the power of Lazy Foot and located Sharon with the God Hunter's Eye.

After passing through the space barrier inside the dark red steam, he arrived at a small island with a radius of over 100 meters. The foundation of the entire island was made of a special kind of rock, densely packed with spiritual runes forming various ritual formations. These formations absorbed unknown types of special steam from the deep sea, gathered them outside, and then purified them before sending them into the island.

Eventually, a special golden-red steam formed, creating a thin mist that clung to the surface of the island. In the middle of these golden-red mists stood a flower that resembled a rose burning with blazing flames.

"Flame Queen Flower, Sequence 3 Steam Plant..." Rosen looked at the flower and felt a little moved.

Eating the Flame Queen Flower could greatly increase resistance to fire elements, significantly enhance fire element damage, and even offer a chance to master the power of fire elements. Additionally, it could bypass drug resistance, grant a thousand years of life, and increase the chance of breaking through from Sequence 4 to Sequence 3.

If Sharon were to grow the Flame Queen Flower, she might actually become a Sequence 3 farmer in the end.

The void shadow world silently enveloped Sharon, and the Nightmare Shackles, integrated with the Fairy Dragon Ball, remained hidden. The moment they emerged from the shadow beneath Sharon's feet, they wrapped tightly around her ankle. At the same time, the Fairy Dragon Ball's Forbidden Magic Ball imprisoned Sharon's spirituality.

However, at the critical moment, Sharon's two Sequence 3 extraordinary artifacts activated.

The first artifact was the Void Exile Bracelet, capable of instantly transforming her into a quantum state Void Exile and teleporting her away.

The second was the Badge of Glory, which consumed her luck and transformed it into defense.

Two extraordinary items with incredible life-saving effects activated simultaneously. If Rosen hadn't known in advance about Sharon's trump cards, capturing her alive would have been nearly impossible.

But since he was prepared, he naturally had a way to counter them.

The first issue was Void Exile. Rosen had set up dozens of time-rewinding traps within the void shadow world covering Sharon. After reaching Sequence 5, many skills at that level involved time .

He collected the time-rewinding skill crystals through the main temple and easily copied the skill with the help of the trap runes from the time trap-making technique. Although each trap was only Sequence 5, dozens of them were enough to hold Sharon.

Faced with Sharon's failed escape, Rosen's self-portrait clone fired a shot in the void shadow world. This shot required a critical hit to break through all the defenses of the Badge of Glory in one strike. The damage was immense—after penetrating the Honor Badge, it would most likely kill Sharon, who had little combat ability, instantly.

However, the damage wasn't enough to penetrate the Badge of Glory's defense. Instead, the Honor Badge sent a distress signal to the Honor Foundation. The directors of the Honor Foundation, using the Badge of Glory's positioning capabilities, would send someone over for rescue within three seconds at most. Therefore, the damage had to be precise—not too high to avoid killing Sharon, and not too low to ensure the badge's defense was broken just enough.

If they hadn't obtained prior information about the Badge of Glory, couldn't see the strength of Sharon's luck, or couldn't calculate her ultimate defense strength, breaking the shield with a single strike and capturing Sharon alive would have been impossible.

Both of her trump cards were wasted. Sharon was desperately tied up like a dumpling by the nightmare shackles and fell into a nightmare sleep.

Rosen withdrew the void shadow world and let it follow his self-portrait clone into the mysterious study. He then made a miracle wish to erase his own traces and finally used the void phase to teleport away. Just two seconds after he left, directors from the Honor Foundation arrived one after another.

With their experience and wisdom, it wasn't difficult to analyze that there must be a traitor behind Sharon's capture. However, Sharon's disappearance served the interests of most directors. Except for Sharon's lover, who was very angry, most of the other directors were perfunctory and unwilling to make any effort to find Sharon.

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Under the World Tree of the ancient god's true world, Rosen released Sharon from the void shadow world. First, he stripped away the Badge of Glory. This item was no ordinary extraordinary artifact; it could directly transform luck into terrifying defensive power, without any negative effects or restrictions on use. No wonder it became one of the three foundations of the Honor Foundation.

Rosen continued to remove the Void Exile Bracelet, planning to give it to Alicia later. Looking down at the ground, the mental canvas instantly projected a sofa. Rosen walked forward and sat on the sofa. The shackles of the Void God Prison dropped from the sky, locking Sharon's hands and feet, hanging her in a spread-eagle position. Combined with the nightmare shackles wrapped around her body, she couldn't resist, even if she had any hidden cards.

"Let's talk!" Rosen said, untangling the nightmare shackles wrapped around Sharon's head.

Sharon woke up from the nightmare, and her heart sank when she saw Rosen pretending to be disguised as someone else.

"Richard Phoenix, what do you want from me?" Sharon asked calmly, not rushing.

The information about the mysterious chairman of Paradise Pharmaceuticals was no longer a secret in the Honor Foundation. It was known that this person had colluded with an insider to capture her alive, drawn by her special identity as a Sequence 4 farmer.

Sharon was a smart person. She understood that threats were meaningless and that resistance would only bring humiliation. The only way to find a chance to escape and take revenge one day was by being obedient and demonstrating her value.

"You can do anything?" Rosen asked appreciatively.

"Anything." Sharon nodded without hesitation.

Rosen instantly removed all the restraints on Sharon and pushed her down onto the sofa. A few hours later, Sharon collapsed in Rosen's arms, no longer thinking about escaping. It wasn't that she had been subdued by sleep; she already knew that Richard was Rosen, and that she was in a world covered by the legendary World Tree. She knew there was no escape under the protection of the World Tree. Since she could not resist, she could only accept it and enjoy it.

Of course, the key to making her completely compromise was that Rosen agreed to let her take care of the World Tree.

For a farmer, the World Tree was undoubtedly the most valuable mythical and legendary extraordinary plant. If one could truly take good care of the World Tree, not to mention becoming a Sequence 3 farmer, it might not be impossible to become a Sequence 2, or even a Sequence 1 that only existed in legends. There was even a possibility of becoming a Sequence 0—something no one had ever reached. It might even lead to becoming the Goddess of Agriculture.

Now, let alone Rosen not letting her go, Sharon would never leave even if Rosen drove her away.

"We'll talk about taking care of the World Tree later..." Rosen pinched Sharon's small chin and said seriously, "Plant the Star Fruit Trees for me first. With the five times time acceleration of the Time Tower and the starlight from the World Tree, I want you to plant the Star Fruit in the shortest possible time."

"Yes, sir. But how are you going to reward me?" Sharon said as she looked up at Rosen with her eyes narrowed.

"I'm going to reward you in advance and feed you little goblin first." Rosen said as he teleported Sharon to the top of the World Tree, where they continued to sweat at the highest point in the world.

It was several hours later that Rosen finally entered the sage state.

It wasn't difficult to force Sharon to farm obediently, but who knew what she might do in a fit of rage one day? Therefore, it was better to cooperate with inducement. Turning her into a lover was an additional layer of insurance.

In the following days, Rosen truly witnessed how powerful Sequence 4 farmers were. A Sequence 9 farmer could double the growth rate of Sequence 9 extraordinary plants. At Sequence 8, it could amplify growth four times.

Sharon, being at Sequence 4, could increase the growth efficiency of Sequence 4 extraordinary plants by 64 times. Of course, she couldn't increase the efficiency to 64 times by planting the Sequence 3 Star Fruit Tree. It was more of a discount, with a maximum increase of 32 times. However, with the five-fold time acceleration from the Time Tower, the growth rate was increased by 160 times. The Star Fruit Tree that would normally take a thousand years to bear fruit only needed six years to do so.

This did not take into account the growth boost provided by the Ancient Tree of Life and the World Tree. So all in all, it would only take about a year for the Star Fruit Trees to mature.

This was no surprise, as high-sequence farmers were the most precious treasures among all major forces. If the other directors hadn't wanted to see her become the chairman, they would never have harmed such a talent.

The Glory Foundation was the weakest, and a key reason for this was that the founder of the Glory Foundation was a Sequence 1 farmer. After this person disappeared, the second chairman of the Glory Foundation was just a Sequence 3 farmer. From that point on, no new Sequence 3 farmers were born in the Glory Foundation.

Since all the directors had been occupied by other sequences, no one wanted to see a farmer riding on their head. The chain of contempt between extraordinary sequences had existed since ancient times, and extraordinary sequences such as farmers and fishermen had always been despised.

More than half a year later, Rosen harvested the first batch of Star Fruits, a total of nine. He ate one directly, and the sequence of Ancient Trees composed of his own spiritual origin immediately became active. It continuously released starlight integrated with spirituality to illuminate the entire sea of consciousness and began to expand his sea of consciousness little by little.

In recent years, whether it was painting or hunting, Rosen's spiritual strength had grown very little.

At first, he thought it was because he lacked enough innate luck. However, after mastering the Paradise Pharmaceuticals, his acquired luck had almost risen to Sequence 0. Eventually, through the miracle fire, his innate luck grew to Sequence 1, not to mention a batch of miracle treasure maps that were converted during this period.

However, even though his innate luck had reached Sequence 1, the efficiency of his spiritual strength growth still left him unsatisfied.

He was actually very fast at the same level, much faster than other Sequence 5 individuals who grew in spiritual strength over decades. But compared to the resources he controlled and consumed, his growth rate seemed abnormal.

Rosen finally underwent various tests at Paradise Pharmaceuticals and discovered the underlying issues.

When a transcendent reaches Sequence 4, they need to further strengthen their sea of consciousness while improving their spiritual strength. This is because when they reach Sequence 3, the divine domain must integrate rules and authority and truly transform into the prototype of the kingdom of God. If the sea of consciousness is not strong enough, it will be impossible to become Sequence 3, even if the spiritual strength meets the requirements.

And Rosen's sea of consciousness had unknowingly accumulated a lot of hidden injuries.

The reason was simple. Rosen was only Sequence 5, but due to the Ancient God Origin Realm skill, the size of his divine domain was almost a hundred times larger than that of other Sequence 5 divine domains. This alone was enough to overwhelm his sea of consciousness.

In addition, he often exploded, with the Star Emblem superimposed on the Ancient God Sacrifice. When he was Sequence 6, he had strengthened his spirituality to Sequence 3 many times. This process also placed a huge burden on his sea of consciousness. Although his sea of consciousness did not show any injuries on the surface, it was actually in very bad condition and began to suppress the growth of his spiritual strength instinctively.

That's why Rosen thought of the Star Fruit Tree and was eager to obtain the Star Fruit.

In addition to improving the efficiency of spiritual growth, the Star Fruit also had certain benefits for the growth of the sea of consciousness. Rosen could now consume nine pills a year. In a few years at most, his sea of consciousness would be strong enough to easily support the divine domain. By that time, with his efficiency in drawing spiritual realms and hunting extraordinary life, it would only take a few years for him to become a Sequence 4.

And these few years would be enough for him to improve all his skills to the limit of the current level.

Rosen didn't have many skills that needed upgrading. Several skills in the Painter Sequence and Hunter Sequence had already been upgraded to LV6. Of his acquired skills that were still at LV5, the only one left was his sixth sense.

In fact, it wasn't difficult to improve this skill. The difficult part was transforming the sixth sense into the seventh sense at LV6. So far, he had not found a transformation medium that satisfied him.

(End of chapter)