Chapter 157 Intelligence Bureau and Transformation of Strength

  Chapter 156

  "Today's stage play is Death Gamble."

  Ford sneered and explained, "Next, I will have a one-on-one blackjack game with you. The stakes are your life and mine. Only the winner can walk off the stage alive. I know the script and the order of all the cards. How can you beat me in the game?"

  Rosen tried to use his extraordinary abilities, but found that even his divinity could not be used.

  On this stage, the extraordinary abilities of both parties were sealed simultaneously.

  If nothing unexpected happens, they may not even be able to hurt each other.

  The playwright on the other side knows the script, so he naturally has an absolute advantage.

  The Sequence 5 Playwright is indeed terrifying, but such a strong ability shouldn't have only advantages and no disadvantages.

  If it can be performed casually, how can other sequences be played?

  Rosen was thinking about how to deal with the playwright opposite him, and a gambling table had risen between the two of them.

  "Now let me explain the detailed rules..."

  Ford smiled confidently, "There is no dealer in this blackjack game. There is only an automatic card dealing machine. Three cards are dealt in each round. Two cards are visible and one is hidden. If you exceed 21 points, you lose. If both players have less than 21 points, the one with the higher score wins. If the same score is a draw, it's a draw.

  Each guaranteed bet is one chip, and the maximum increase per round is three chips.

  If someone raises the bet and the opponent calls, he will open his cards directly. If you refuse to call, you will lose if you lose one chip.

  The rules are very simple. Now I will show you my chips and I will be the banker first..."

  As soon as Ford finished speaking, Rosen immediately saw a pile of chips appear on the table to his left.

  He only has 34 chips, which corresponds exactly to his spiritual strength.

  Looking at the other side, there are 61 chips in total.

  The rules are very simple, but the playwright knows that the size of all cards has an absolute advantage.

  The automatic card-dealing machine on the gambling table instantly dealt two visible cards and one hidden card to Rosen and Ford respectively.

  Ford's up cards are 5 and 9, and Rosen's up cards are A and 7.

  Ford's points are 14, and Rosen's points are 8 and 18, because an Ace can be either 1 or 11.

  Rosen turned over a corner of his hidden card. The J of Hearts represented 10 points, which meant that the total points of his three cards must be 18 points. If the A was counted as 11 points, then he would have 28 points and would lose directly.

  As long as Ford's hidden card is greater than 5 and less than 8, he will win the first round.

  It is impossible to win a bet like this unless you cheat.

  Rosen began to try out his various abilities, and soon discovered that Ford's stage could not seal the divine power he possessed.

  If you think about it carefully, it's not surprising. If the skills of Sequence 5 can easily seal the divine power of Sequence 3, then the playwright will become a demigod killer. Since he can use the power of divine power, his chances of winning are very high.

  Rosen did not overturn the table directly, because destroying the script would definitely result in punishment.

  He simply activated the Eye of Time and saw the results after a few seconds.

  "I raise three chips and open the cards..."

  Rosen threw three chips into the middle of the table and revealed his hidden cards.

  Ford gave up the call and lost a guaranteed chip. His hidden card was 3, and the highest point was only 17 points.

  But it doesn't matter, his cards will definitely be bigger than Rosen's in the next round.

  However, this time Rosen had no intention of raising the bet and actually conceded defeat before Ford raised the bet.

  In the next bet, Rosen would raise the bet immediately if his cards were bigger than Ford's, and would admit defeat immediately if his cards were smaller than Ford's.

  The gambling game lasted for half an hour, and Rosen actually won a few chips.

  Ford had already seen that Rosen could actually know the points of both parties' cards in advance.

  This means that raising the hidden card has become a joke, and the gambling between the two parties has become pure luck.

  But Ford still has the advantage because he has more chips than Rosen.

  However, as time went on, Ford found himself with fewer and fewer chips.

  He can decide the rules of the fateful stage play, but he cannot influence the automatic card dealing machine. Now his chips are getting fewer and fewer, which means that Rosen's luck is far beyond his. When the last chip disappears, Ford's spirituality is completely extinguished and he loses his life.

  Spirituality is the bargaining chip. Losing all the chips is equivalent to losing all spirituality.

  With this kind of damage, even the God's Territory cannot revive the God's Territory Lord who has lost all spirituality.

  If Ford had known this would be the outcome, he would never have touched a dead-end play like gambling.

  The moment Ford died, three more light balls appeared in Rosen's scavenging space.

  Originally, he had no intention of killing the playwright, and was intent on capturing him alive if possible.

  Unexpectedly, the playwright brought his own death upon himself.

  Rosen has several miraculous treasures and even keeps hundreds of miraculous life ash bees in captivity.

  Since there is no way to limit theocracy, it would be suicidal for the playwright to compete with him in luck.

  Although the playwright died, the assassin and the doctor were captured alive.

  Rosen continued to cause them harm and weaken their spirituality.

  When their spirits are too weak to resist the prison of the mind canvas, their weak spirits will be pulled into the prison to torture their memories.

  It turns out that the playwright's name is Ford Amos, the illegitimate son of the Duke of Amos.

  The person killed this time was the heir of Duke Amos and his half-brother. The secondary plan was the title of Duke Amos, and the main plan was of course the power of the devil.

  Although Ford was an illegitimate child, Duke Amos was actually very nice to him.

  Otherwise, he would not have obtained the title of non-hereditary earl before awakening his spirituality, and would not have had such a smooth journey as a playwright. However, human greed is insatiable, and Ford secretly joined the World Government's Intelligence Bureau.

  After the devil was executed, the divine power and divinity disappeared.

  According to the normal plot, Delia should have hidden herself under a false name after obtaining the power of the devil.

  However, Delia did not obtain the power of the demon god, and suspected that he had obtained the power.

  So Delia did not stay away, but continued to investigate him through various channels.

  As Vittore's adopted daughter, she naturally came within the scope of the Intelligence Bureau's investigation.

  The Intelligence Bureau followed Delia and eventually led the investigation to him.

  However, he was already a hereditary duke, not someone that Ford, a captain of an intelligence agency, was qualified to capture.

  As for reporting, Ford couldn't bear to part with the Demon's legacy.

  So Ford even took the initiative to delete his own investigation records and prepared to act secretly with two confidants.

  By the way, he framed someone else and got the duke title he had always dreamed of.

  As for why it was a frame-up, it was because Ford also suspected that there was a big boss behind him.

  Otherwise, how could he become a hereditary duke from a hereditary lord in such a short period of time?

  If he couldn't get the Demon God's legacy, Ford thought it would be a good thing to be the heir of Duke Amos.

  As a result, Ford never expected that three Sequence 5s would die at the hands of a Sequence 7.

  Since Ford had deleted the investigation records, Rosen was somewhat relieved.

  The devil's divinity has been completely devoured by the Lord God's computer, and there is nothing he can do even if the World Government asks him to hand it over.

  Rosen used the Dragon King's Wrath and shot the doctor and assassin in the head one by one.

  The spirit still wants to struggle, but in the end it is erased by the canvas of the mind.

  Both of them were transformed into trophy balls. Killing enemies at a higher level would make it easier to activate the power of the Hunting Divine Authority.

  Rosen crushed the light balls dropped by the assassin and the doctor, and was disappointed to find that there was nothing good in them.

  Being willing to be a subordinate even though he is already at Sequence 5 actually means that his level is average.

  If his level is average, why can he become Sequence 5?

  There are two reasons. First, an average level does not mean that one's talent for cultivation is also average.

  Secondly, having average talent for cultivation does not mean that one's understanding is also average.

  To put it simply, he is very talented in spiritual growth, but poor in learning skills, so he only has the level of Sequence 5, and his extraordinary skills are not as good as some Sequence 6.

  There are countless cases like this of academic imbalance in the entire human world.

  There are also some who have neither talent for cultivation nor talent for learning, but their sequence level is not low.

  This kind of extraordinary people usually use abnormal means to improve their sequence level.

  Theoretically, a portion of Sequence 5 Supernatural Essence contained more than 90% of the power of a Sequence 5. If an ordinary person completely absorbed this Supernatural Essence, then he or she could advance to Sequence 9 without the need for potions, and could directly obtain the upper limit of Sequence 5's cultivation potential.

  But doing so is very dangerous, as the mortality rate of ordinary people fusing high-sequence extraordinary essence is extremely high.

  However, there are always people who are unwilling to be ordinary, so the real nobles will collect high-sequence extraordinary source essences as much as possible, and then find a large number of ordinary people to refine these extraordinary source essences, and finally spend many years to cultivate a group of extraordinary followers.

  Rosen collected the doctor's and the assassin's extraordinary essence, preparing to save it for later giving to the fearless subjects to refine.

  Although under the training of the virtual spiritual realm, all the people in the territory have awakened their spirituality.

  However, only a very small number of people have the potential to reach Sequence 5, and the opportunities to raise the potential ceiling to Sequence 5 are rare.

  Rosen expectedly crushed the light ball dropped by Ford, and three sequence 5 treasures appeared before his eyes.

  They are a sealed divine territory, a skill crystal and a special extraordinary building.

  The divine territory is of course Ford's divine territory, and it will be destroyed in no more than an hour after the seal is lifted.

  How much he can loot in this hour depends on his own ability.

  Then there is the skill crystal, which is a sequence 5 skill crystal destiny mark. After the transformation of hunting, it has been transformed into a hunter sequence skill crystal. All prey locked by the destiny mark will suffer continuous damage from the destiny mark.

  This is not needed for the time being, as Rosen is still at least a few years away from Sequence 5.

  He took out the last extraordinary building, which was the stage of Ford's destiny that had unfolded before.

  [Destiny Stage: Extraordinary Architecture]

  [Level: Sequence 5]

  [Attributes: The Destiny Stage can carry the Destiny Script and transform it into a performance stage in various forms]

  [Fate Script: Fate Casino, Fate Escape, Fate Puppet Show, Fate Musical, Fate Magic] Rosen studied for a long time before he figured out what was going on with this extraordinary building.

  The Destiny Stage is similar to the Void Gallery, an extremely rare and extraordinary building for playwrights.

  Ford is a rare example of someone who can control his destiny at Sequence 5.

  The Destiny Stage integrates different destiny scripts and can generate corresponding rule scenes on the stage.

  For example, in the Destiny Casino, both parties imprison their spirituality, and then set up a gambling game with the spirituality as the bargaining chip.

  For example, in Destiny Escape, you can set up an escape room to seal the enemy's power and trap them inside.

  The puppet show of fate can manipulate the enemy like a puppet.

  The Destiny Stage is very powerful, but there are also prerequisites for using the Destiny Stage.

  First of all, it requires the corresponding extraordinary skills of the Fate stage play, and secondly, it requires preparation time. After all, ten minutes on stage takes ten years of hard work off stage. If you force the enemy onto the stage without any preparation, you will not be able to bring out the true power of the Fate stage at all.

  If Ford was given a few days to prepare, he would be pulled into the stage script of Destiny Casino.

  Then Ford can set up a more complicated gamble and cut off the enemy's survival path to the greatest extent possible.

  "Every high-sequence noble should not be underestimated."

  Rosen put the stage of destiny into the scavenging space.

  After the transformation of hunting, the Destiny Stage has integrated Ford's extraordinary essence, so there is no need for the prerequisite skill of Destiny Stage Play. This extraordinary building can be used at will after being integrated into the territory. It's a pity that its quality is as high as Sequence 5 and cannot be mastered for the time being.

  At the edge of the divine territory, Rosen lifted the seal on Ford's divine territory.

  The palm-sized sealed divine territory expanded and appeared at the edge of his divine territory.

  After the spatial barriers at the borders of the two territories came into contact, they quickly assimilated and connected together.

  Rosen, with the brilliant lighthouse that had transformed into a sun jellyfish, forcibly broke into Ford's divine territory.

  Because Ford's spirituality was wiped out by the stage of fate, the ancient sequence tree in the core of the divine territory has also been destroyed.

  As a result, all the extraordinary buildings in the territory were paralyzed, and now only the people in the territory can move.

  Those subjects who were loyal to Ford rushed up madly to kill Rosen when they saw him appear.

  However, all the extraordinary beings, whose highest level was Sequence 6, were killed one by one by the glow beams and sunlight rays of the Brilliant Lighthouse.

  "Anyone who wants to live has one hour to line up and enter my divine territory."

  Rosen's voice spread throughout Ford's divine territory.

  Those subjects who did not want to die immediately lined up to register with their families.

  Rosen accepted everyone who came and took them away. What's funny is that Ford's wife and children who were raised in the castle of the divine territory actually wanted to join his divine territory. I wonder what Ford would think if he knew about this.

  Rosen originally planned to wipe out the roots, but then he thought of another thing and decided to stay for the time being.

  The reason is simple. He and Duke Amos have become mortal enemies.

  The current Duke of Amos has three sons, but only one of them has a particularly good talent for cultivation.

  This one has been killed by Ford, and now Ford, the most talented of his illegitimate sons, has also been killed by him.

  Although Duke Amos has sons, their talents are too poor to become the duke's heir.

  In this case, Duke Amos's heir is usually chosen from among his grandchildren.

  But Duke Amos will definitely not give up. Sooner or later he will find out that Ford's death is related to him.

  Even if he told Duke Amos that his heir was killed by Ford, Duke Amos might not believe it, and even if he did, he might not let him go. After all, diverting hatred and anger towards others is a great way for many people to vent their pain.

  So Rosen decided to keep Ford's wife and children, which would be a good card to use against Duke Amos in the future.

  A few days later, Rosen saw the huge reward offered by Duke Amos on the virtual network.

  It seems that they can't find him for the time being. A few days have passed, and the world government's intelligence department hasn't come to cause trouble. It can be seen that Ford is still doing things very cleanly, but he failed because of this cheating guy.

  The external threat disappeared temporarily, and Rosen continued his vacation.

  But this time, he was no longer on vacation alone.

  In the Paradise Theater in Lanyi City, Rosen was able to get a top-notch box thanks to his status as a hereditary duke.

  The entire box seems to be inside a huge surround sound system. There is no need to worry about any noise coming from outside, nor to worry about the music in the box being too loud. In this box, you can enjoy the most perfect music of the Thunder Empire.

  All the performers at today's concert at the Paradise Theater were musicians above Sequence 6.

  The finale even featured musicians from Sequence 3, as well as an orchestra consisting of hundreds of musicians.

  Rosen lay on Stephanie's lap, letting her give him a head massage, while Machi gave him a foot massage on the other side. As for Xiaodi, she fed him fruit beside him. Among the three of them, one was mature, one was cold and one was cute, which made Rosen lose interest in listening to the concert.

  However, when the song sounded, he was still completely immersed in the music.

  The singing of high-sequence musicians can produce a powerful destructive effect, as well as a powerful auxiliary gain effect. After listening to this concert, if his spiritual strength does not increase by 35 points, he can smash the Heaven Theater.

  Because the box tickets are too expensive, if they dare to sell them at such a high price, then they must at least be worth the price.

  The entire concert lasted three hours, and at the moment it ended Rosen's spiritual strength had risen to 35 points.

  However, his gain was not the greatest, because part of the profit was shared with his three lovers.

  "I… I actually reached Sequence 9…"

  Stephanie excitedly lowered her head and left a bunch of lip marks on Rosen's face.

  She never dreamed that she would become a supernatural being one day, and would soon become Sequence 8 after upgrading to Sequence 9.

  Machi was also very happy because she had upgraded earlier and could be promoted to Sequence 7 at any time.

  The only one who didn't react was Xiaodi. Although she changed her job at the same time as Machi, there was still a slight age difference between them, so it would take her several more months to change to Sequence 7. However, this was already faster than all the citizens from Meteor Street except Machi during the same period.

  The concert was the second-to-last item on the vacation schedule; the first-to-last item was naturally spending a night entering the sage state.

  Early the next morning, Rosen came to the Divine Territory to upgrade his skill level.

  Now there is only one point left in spirituality away from the upper limit of 36 points, but the skill levels of each sequence are still far from enough.

  Rosen came to the Ash Hive and took out a new Ash Hive from inside the Lord's Computer.

  This was done recently, with the help of the God Hunter's Eye, he finally managed to synthesize the second Ash Hive.

  The two Ash Hives were instantly photographed and sealed by the Godhunter's Demon Eye in the right eye, and then synthesized and upgraded.

  The Ash Hive, which was originally at Sequence 9, has now been upgraded to Sequence 8.

  Half of the Ash Bees evolved from Sequence 9 to Sequence 8 this time, thus breaking the level cap of the Ash Bees.

  Rosen continued to shoot and synthesize, but this time he synthesized a slime nest.

  There were almost no nobles who cultivated this type of military building, so he bought three of them in the Thunder Empire.

  After two rounds of synthesis, the Slime Nest has been upgraded to Sequence 7.

  From now on, the initial level of slimes produced by the Slime Nest is Sequence 7.

  Rosen released several Sequence 8 Ash Bees from the Ash Hive, and a Gluttonous Beast appeared on his palm and swallowed it in one gulp.

  The miraculous armor-piercing power of the Ash Bee quickly upgrades the LV3 Death Blow to LV4.

  [Ashes Armor Break LV4: Passive increase of basic damage by 230%, ignoring material defenses with damage strength lower than the damage strength of the self]

  [Miracle Feature: True Damage - The damage caused by Ashes Armor Break cannot be cured by conventional means]

  Rosen thought that Death Strike would undergo an essential transformation at LV4, but he didn't expect that even the name of the skill would be changed.

  It should be because the power of the Ash Bee is too strong. Death Blow cannot perfectly integrate the power of Sequence 8 Ash Bee, so it is instead absorbed and fused by the power of the Ash Bee. Not only does Ash Armor Break become a passive ability, but it even gives birth to the miraculous characteristic of True Damage.

  Rosen continued to take out a Void Shadow Stone, which was a special treasure born in the Void Shadow Plane.

  The quality is as high as Sequence 5, which is the limit of treasures that Shadow Escape can fuse.

  [Void Shadow Escape LV4: Can instantly merge into the void shadow and can control the void shadow]

  [Enhanced Features: Dimensional Concealment - Greatly improves your own hiding ability]

  [Enhanced Features: Shadow Clone - Can transform void shadows into shadow clones]

  Rosen summoned the Gray Rat, then unilaterally severed the link to the Nightmare Shackles.

  Activating the Void Shadow Escape, he appeared in the shadow of the gray rat.

  No matter how the gray mouse's divine perception tried to sense its own shadow, it could not detect any trace of Rosen.

  The original Shadow Escape could blend into the shadow, but directly attacking the shadow where he was hiding could actually hurt him.

  But now he can unfold the void space in the shadow of the gray rat. Not only is his hiding ability stronger, but unless the gray rat uses skills that can penetrate space, he will not be able to hurt him who has merged into the void shadow.

  Not only that, he can also control the void shadow transformed by the gray rat's shadow.

  Rosen tried to control it, and the gray rat's shadow immediately came to life and pounced on the gray rat. The void shadow in this state was very weak, but when the gray rat's shadow turned into his shadow to form a shadow clone, he could use all the abilities he mastered.

  Of course, it is definitely not as good as the original one. The strength of the shadow clone depends on the strength of the gray mouse shadow.

  Rosen continued to try the teleportation ability and found that the teleportation consumption was reduced, but the teleportation speed was reduced.

  The original Shadow Escape, the teleportation process is to instantly appear from one shadow to another shadow.

  But now, Void Shadow Escape is to teleport from the space inside one shadow to the space inside another shadow. It takes a little time to enter and exit this space, which is equivalent to weakening the teleportation speed but improving the safety of teleportation.

  Finally, Rosen took out the fragment of the mysterious skull and ate it into his gluttonous stomach in order to strengthen his five extraordinary senses.

  [Sixth Sense LV4——Can passively greatly enhance intuition and insight]

  [Enhanced Characteristics: Extraordinary Five Senses - Passively strengthen your own basic five senses]

  [Enhanced Features: Mind Reading - Gain the ability to read the target's thoughts]

  Just like Death Blow, the Mysterious Skull has taken the initiative this time.

  Although the five basic senses cannot be transformed at will, the sixth sense's extraordinary intuition has been strengthened to the level that can truly predict danger.

  Moreover, with his enhanced insight and mind-reading ability, there are no secrets in front of him for those with spiritual strength lower than his.

  It took Rosen a while to adapt before he could master the free switch of his mind-reading ability.

  Reading thoughts is good, but with a keen sense of perception, it is easy to notice that someone is snooping into your thoughts.

  Therefore, unless you are in combat mode, this ability can easily lead to murderous intent if you casually read minds.

  (End of this chapter)