Chapter 573: Sequence Crystal, the Value of the Scarlet Shepherd Keeps Rising!
“Xu Lang, thanks for saving me this time.” The Demon Box Master was deep in thought when the Infinite Purgatory floor lord spoke, showing no sense of formality.
Xu Lang turned to look at the Gluttony Demon and said, “No need to worry about it. I sent you there partly to test the Starving Corpse Building.”
For the first time, he experienced the feeling of playing chess—with a dormitory building as his opponent.
Only this kind of opponent was worth his serious attention.
“Attacking other buildings is this dangerous. No wonder even an old building like Taleblade Building takes so long to prepare for an expedition, requiring nearly half the floor leaders to vote in favor and petition the dormitory building,” Xu Lang thought to himself.
Behind player expeditions lay the driving force of the dormitory building.
Whether it was a solo raid or a collective expedition, players would consult the dormitory building beforehand.
Without a task from the building, players didn’t have the guts to attack other dorms.
And Xu Lang’s current move counted as a private action.
He guessed that if he actually asked, Mad King Building would issue a corresponding task.
But right now, the father and son were in a cold war.
They weren’t in the mood to talk.
Besides, if he did ask and Mad King Building showed no reaction, that would be way too embarrassing.
From the data he’d collected so far, it was clear that if a player expedition was not approved by the dormitory building, players would put on some shows with livestock offerings to please the building. This method worked but wasn’t always effective.
Worth mentioning, these were all high-level knowledge he’d overheard from the last Golden Dawn gathering when someone asked the Lord of Dawn.
“Got it.” The Gluttony Demon shot Xu Lang an unexpected glance.
He’d thought Xu Lang was going to ramble on again, but this openness was far more magnanimous than he’d imagined.
“Something’s coming out.” Xu Lang withdrew his Scarlet Herding Chains. The head of the chains brought back a golden crystal.
Besides that, a perfectly intact black human skin remained in place.
Xu Lang deliberately left that skin untouched.
The Scarlet Herding Chains inevitably caused some wear and tear when extracting value from prey. If the Black Gluttony Demon were completely squeezed dry, it would be a loss that outweighed the gain.
After all, the eunuch brothers had barely recovered a sixth of their precious parts. Kicking them into the river right after would be utterly inhumane.
Seeing that Xu Lang intended to leave the black human skin for him, the Gluttony Demon didn’t stand on ceremony. With a delicate flick of his fingers, he picked up the black skin and tossed it into his mouth.
Chewing for a moment, the Gluttony Demon’s throat bobbed, and a look of satisfaction spread across his face.
A surge of black mist rose from his body, forming a layer of strange black patterns on his skin.
“Xu Lang, I need a day to sleep.” The Gluttony Demon, full from his meal, wanted to rest.
This level of primordial completion was the easiest to make a lifeform feel satiated, like someone who hadn’t slept for three years suddenly able to drop off at will.
“Okay.” Xu Lang didn’t turn around, his gaze fixed on the golden crystal before him, lost in thought.
It was the first time he’d seen such pure Sequence power.
[Nightmare Eye · Vajra Guardian Sequence Crystal: A crystal condensing all the Sequence power of Sequence C-40. Soul-binding or ingestion completes initiation.]
One crystal satisfied all the initiation conditions!
The last Sequence Holder bound by the Scarlet Herding Chains only yielded an Annalist of Years.
But this time, it squeezed out the entire Sequence!
The value of the Scarlet Shepherd was still rising!
“The status of Vajra Guardian is lower than Annalist of Years. Besides, my Sequence had just been upgraded not long ago, so this is the result!”
“A full drop!”
Xu Lang held the crystal in his hand, his eyes blazing.
As everyone knew, Sequence Holders were extremely rare in the Blood Mist World, the rarest of the rare. But the probability of Sequence Holders appearing among Dorm Survival Game players wasn’t low.
“If I fuse a large number of low-tier Sequences, can I create a Sequence of the same magnitude as Nightmare?”
At this moment, Xu Lang’s ambition expanded like never before, more thrilling than opposing the Starving Corpse Building.
He had never forgotten that his foundation, the Nightmare Lord, was also a Sequence, just with an unknown number.
The Scarlet Herding Chains inevitably caused some loss when extracting value from prey. If the Black Gluttony Demon were completely squeezed dry, it would be a loss that outweighed the gain.
Letting out a slow breath, Xu Lang quickly calmed down.
In his mind, he already had three core points for his path of Sequence collection.
One: Hunt Sequence Holders, collect large amounts of Sequence crystals, and quickly elevate the Scarlet Shepherd to the Awakening stage to expand the hunting range. At the Awakening level, the Scarlet Herding Chains might be able to squeeze out Sequence crystals from Holders of the same rank!
Two: To avoid becoming a stepping stone for others, stolen Sequence crystals must be used promptly!
Three: The Scarlet Shepherd Sequence cannot be changed; the Scarlet Herding Chains are the foundation!
“This way, I have to become a Dual-Sequence Holder!”
Xu Lang recalled many rumors of Dual-Sequence Holders going mad.
No, they weren’t rumors—they were facts!
The probability of a Dual-Sequence Holder losing control was several times higher than that of a regular Sequence Holder!
Unless the compatibility between the two Sequences was extremely high, losing control was inevitable!
Actually, there was another way for Xu Lang to utilize the Sequence crystal: letting his Tenants take the initiation.
But… Xu Lang really wasn’t that generous yet!
Sequences were also extremely precious to him, not cabbages.
Scattering resources would be stupid.
Whatever top-tier resource appeared in Demon King Castle, the first user would definitely be Xu Lang. To improve personal strength, centralization was a must.
And Sequence collection was the grand policy among grand policies, even more important than boosting individual power.
“Mad King Building is so useless. It doesn’t have a single item that natively suppresses Sequence loss of control!”
Xu Lang had been looking for a highly targeted “Sequence Suppression Item” to upgrade. There were plenty of half-baked ones, but almost none that met his requirements.
This made him suspect Mad King Building was messing with him.
Maybe players with such items had all been filtered out by Mad King Building.
Another possibility was that such items were simply scarce in nature.
If they were so easy to get, White Crow wouldn’t be using his Annalist of Years ability to slowly erase the risks of his own advancement.
Xu Lang’s thoughts churned as he pulled out an agate pendant. This agate could force three minutes of calm and triple soul resilience.
It seemed useless on the surface, but in the eyes of a Sequence Holder, it was actually a decent Sequence Suppression Item.
He held back again and again, but still managed to restrain himself.
His old habit of being stingy with Nightmare Coins had flared up again.
“It’s just a Vajra Guardian Sequence. At best, it’ll massively boost my combat ability. Not much use!”
If the agate pendant couldn’t unlock what he wanted, the Nightmare Coins would be wasted.
A C-rank Sequence wasn’t weak. If it conflicted with the Scarlet Shepherd, he really couldn’t guarantee he could suppress it.
If the agate pendant’s path was correct, even at level one, Xu Lang would stuff it full with Nightmare Coins. But unfortunately, it wasn’t, carrying extremely high uncertainty.
Only someone completely destitute would gamble everything.
Before leaving the Gluttony Purgatory, Xu Lang took out the Sequence crystal for another look, then carefully sealed it in a box.
To be honest, the best move was to use it. Otherwise, there was no safe place to keep it.
If someone actually stole it, he would reasonably suspect he was some kind of stepping stone in a third-rate plot.