I Will Teach You How to Hunt Gods

Chapter 725 - 24: Sequence Origins

It is contradictory, yet it can embrace all things.

Yun You widened her eyes; she recognized this force, a power capable of creating all possibilities.

The Power of Sequence of the Apprentice Death God.

The elder became the first Apprentice Death God of this era.

Perhaps also the last... complete Death God.

Vast... infinite...

An unimaginable force surged within him, yet it was not merely destructive; it encompassed creation, annihilation, thought, perception, emotion... a synthesis of all human mental possibilities.

Yun You was certain that this force was stronger than any Death God she had ever seen.

Even the so-called "Tier Seven True God" could not possibly compare.

The two weren’t even on the same level.

But as they say, disaster and fortune are interdependent...

This power was too colossal, enough to reshape stars and rewrite rules, yet the bearer was merely an old mortal body, and what would happen afterward was already anticipated.

The old scholar could feel it; he had little time left, he could distinctly sense every cell in his body wailing, each inch of his skin and muscle disintegrating, shattered by the immense Soul Power.

At the same time, he felt it too.

He felt the tortured moans of the planet beneath him, sensed the Dyson Sphere’s greedy extraction from the star, perceived the apathy of elites in skyscrapers, heard the desperate cries from the depths of Nest City.

He sensed this civilization, caught in a technological estrangement... in a dying loop, wailing in its death throes.

The elder felt he must do something.

So, at the last moment of life, the Death God, bearing all Soul Power of humanity, raised his hand.

No glamorous moves, no complex spells or Sequence Skills.

He simply waved his hand lightly over a civilization he bore mixed feelings for, yet it held all hope and despair.

"Reset everything."

His soul spoke gently.

And then, as if his words became reality, an irresistible will swept across the Solar System.

In an instant, the majestic metal structure of the Dyson Sphere began to crumble and dissipate, piece by piece, from the edge of the sun, reverting to its most primitive metal.

The gigantic orbital cities surrounding the planets shattered like eggs crushed by invisible giant hands, turning into cosmic dust in soundless explosions.

The hive-like Nest Cities on Mars and Venus collapsed like sandcastles swept by a hurricane...

Even the mega-corporations attempted to resist, deploying their interstellar fleets to maintain their reign, however...

It was to no avail.

Three minutes.

Just three minutes.

All resistance vanished.

The elder single-handedly defeated the entire world.

He knew now that civilization was beyond salvation.

The only way to change it in such a short time was to reshape the entire world, giving ordinary people the chance to compete against the elite, making it possible to rewrite the order of the world.

Thus, a golden era, shining yet decayed to the extreme, was erased by his hand.

And when the last moment arrived, the power of the Death God dissipated as his physical body was completely extinguished.

The Solar System lay in ruins.

Humanity was not extinct, but civilization was forcibly reverted to modern standards, leaving survivors bewildered atop ruins their ancestors could never have imagined, akin to newborn infants facing a ravaged, unfamiliar world.

However, contrary to Yun You’s expectations, the vast Soul Power of the Death God did not fade with him.

At the moment his body collapsed, the immense force that embodied all of humanity’s soul, exploded like a supernova.

But it fragmented, then reassembled.

It split into eleven forces in total.

Ten of them relatively stable, embodying different traits, representing the extremes of human Soul Power.

They were like seeds of life, vanishing into the void, hidden within the rules of the newborn world.

Yun You realized.

They are what countless people sought after, revered, and feared...

The Ten Death God Sequences.

Among them, six common sequences.

Sequence One, mastering Affinity with Nature - [Shaman].

Sequence Two, controlling anger and slaughter - [Mad Dog].

Sequence Three, manipulating world order - [Tuner].

Sequence Four, inclined to help others, with an extreme thirst for research - [Doctor].

Sequence Five, aspiring to protect, with a guardian’s ambition, yearning for honor - [Guard].

Sequence Six, desiring progress, with a penchant for mechanical metal - [Cyber Wanderer].

And... the remaining four rare sequences.

Sequence Seven, exploring the unknown, attempting mastery over the unknown, madman - [Stargazer].

Sequence Eight, wishing to merge themselves and the world into one, turning into void - [Invisible].

Sequence Nine, yearning to save everything in the world, bearing the sins of all things - [Saint].

And the last Sequence X.

That is Sequence Ten.

Wishing to control All Things in the Universe, making heaven and earth bow down at their feet as the king.

LORD Sequence - Monarch.

...

Ten kinds of sequences, both power and path.

It is the beacon left by the elder for humanity, guiding people to re-understand themselves, ascend once more.

The elder believed that humans endowed with these ten sequences would eventually overcome the tragic fate of the past, evolving into higher beings.

"This is... the [First Generation King]."

A slightly regretful voice echoed in Yun You’s ears.

Yun You paused, uncertain who was speaking to her.

But it was certain that the owner of the voice admired the old man greatly, thus wanted to tell Yun You his name.

The First Generation King.

However, the forces fractured by the First Generation King were not all flawless.

Yun You clearly saw that after the First Generation King’s death, eleven forces appeared.

Sequences account for ten types.

Then the last one must be...

Yun You lowered her head, gazing at the world below.

She quickly found that trace of force.

It’s not a sequence, but a portent that humans cannot grasp under normal circumstances.

It bears the accumulation of all extreme emotions at the end of the golden era of human civilization.

Endless greed, distorted desire, profound despair, overwhelming anger, cold numbness...

All negative emotions converged into this eleventh force.

It is the Death Domain.

The power of Death Domain accompanied the ten Death God Sequences as they descended upon the world.

It constantly emitted pollution and distortion, tempting living beings into decadence, eroding the structure of reality.

And soon, Yun You saw the impact of the Death Domain’s power explosion on the newborn human society.

Twisted monsters crawled out from the shadows of the human heart and the physical ruins.

Originally stable regions were polluted by the Death Domain into lifeless dead zones.

Surviving humans slaughtered each other in fear and suspicion, fighting over scarce resources.

Yet this mutual slaughter led to new Death Domains being born.

The appearance of Death Domains compressed humanity’s living space, further reducing food and resources.

The reduction in resources forced people to start infighting, snatching what little food there was from their peers.

The infighting then led to the further expansion of Death Domains.

Thus, an almost unbreakable death loop was born.

Hence... chaos became the main theme of the new era.

Humans gradually forgot the glorious achievements of past civilizations, once a child’s toy or a graduating project like the Mecha, now became miracles utterly impossible to activate.

Humanity even forgot they once had a glorious past, forgot their footprints once stepped across the Solar System, having to hide in caves as their ancestors did hundreds of thousands of years ago, living a primitive life of eating raw meat and drinking blood.

At this moment, the erstwhile civilization completely ceased to exist.