Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 10 Chainsaw Torture
Chapter 10

"Success..."

Rosen sat in front of the main computer, smiled as he looked at Stephanie, who was on the list.

Ever since he learned that Stephanie had hired hunters to capture him, and ever since he decided to deal with Stephanie, he had been thinking about how to get rid of her. Simply using the bullets he had drawn to threaten ordinary people was not a problem, but shooting Stephanie was absolutely impossible.

When Rosen and Stephanie played blindfolded games, they knew all too well how many self-defense witchcraft items she had.

Therefore, an active attack would not threaten Stephanie. However, witchcraft items are not without weaknesses. Although Stephanie is rich, she is ultimately just an ordinary person. At most, she can only use extraordinary items of Sequence 9. Anything beyond Sequence 9 would be unusable for her.

Even the finest items in the lowest-level Sequence 9 are not all-encompassing.

Those magical items that automatically activate to protect you only work when facing a fierce attack. If you rush towards Stephanie with a knife, the magical item will definitely block you. But if you slowly approach Stephanie with a knife, the magical item will only activate when the knife draws blood.

Rosen had taken this into consideration, which is why he had been waiting for an opportunity to send several still paintings to Rose Castle.

Using a drone created with spiritual inspiration, the still paintings were delivered into the bedrooms of Rose Castle while the servants were asleep.

The servants will be immediately drawn to the spirituality of the static painting and will actively seek it out.

Through this operation, Rosen pulled a maid from Rose Castle into a virtual spiritual realm. After interrogating, coercing, and bribing her, and even relying on his control over the virtual spiritual realm, he made her retain her memories after she woke up, successfully intimidating the maid into working for him.

Then things were simple: while cleaning, the still painting was delivered to Stephanie's bedroom.

Rosen had played some intense games with Stephanie in the safe house before, so he knew very well that Stephanie's first choice after being attacked on the terrace would definitely be to enter the safe house and then call the city lord's mansion for help.

As expected, Stephanie successfully obtained the key to the static painting that allowed her to enter the virtual spiritual realm.

……

Stephanie sat on the sofa with a gloomy face, making no attempt to ask her sister for help.

The city lord is only a Sequence 7, how could he possibly provoke a Sequence 6 for her sake?

According to statistics, the mortality rate of the spiritual realm that appears among ordinary people in the outer city is close to one percent.

Moreover, the deaths were concentrated in the first few days, and the mortality rate has recently dropped to zero.

Based on this calculation, her chances of entering and coming out alive are very high.

Stephanie was heavy-hearted, simply because even the highest chance of survival wasn't 100%.

Even if there's only a one in ten thousand chance of dying, what if she's one of them? Wouldn't she die a very unjust death?
Therefore, she must make more preparations for dealing with that spirit realm before nightfall.

Stephanie made several phone calls and quickly borrowed some extraordinary items from the city lord's mansion and several merchants.

They are all of low rank, at Sequence 9, and their function is either to protect the spirit or to resist curses.

In recent days, as the virtual spiritual realm absorbs more and more spiritual energy, the main god computer's control over the virtual spiritual realm has gradually deepened.

Now, Rosen can not only partially influence the development of the story in the virtual realm, but also see everything that ordinary people see when they are awake through the key. He can also see Stephanie's various actions that day through the player, which really calmed his tense heartbeat.

Actually, dealing with the static painting key that has entered her body isn't difficult for Stephanie. Most Sequence 8 keys and targeted Sequence 9 keys can easily destroy the static painting key.

Stephanie didn't consider having someone remove the Static Painting Key at all, mainly due to the unequal understanding between them. After all, in Stephanie's view, no one in Redstone City could crack the methods of the Painter Sequence 6, so she didn't even consider having someone remove the Static Painting Key.

……

At 10 p.m., Stephanie took a special sleeping pill and fell into a deep sleep.

This emergency-made sleeping pill can protect her spirituality while she sleeps, strengthen her potential spirituality in a short period of time, and forcibly wake her from her dreams immediately if her potential spirituality is damaged.

This was Stephanie's last resort, and she didn't want to have to resort to it at all.

After all, when facing a Sequence 6 painter, her methods made little difference to her.

The moment Stephanie fell into a deep sleep, her consciousness was drawn into a spiritual realm.

At the same time, Rosen's consciousness also entered Saw through the main computer. He was wearing a mask and holding a chainsaw. Looking at Stephanie, who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere and was hanging up, he started the chainsaw without hesitation and cut off her legs.

Stephanie screamed in agony as she begged the masked man in front of her to let her go.

However, just when Stephanie was in despair and felt that she was about to bleed to death, her lost legs reappeared intact, and she even recovered her condition. Only the pain and despair she had just endured remained.

“You are guilty. Detail all your sins and confess them one by one.”

Rosen looked up at Stephanie, who was hanging in mid-air, and said in an unquestionable voice through the voice changer.

Stephanie hesitated instinctively, but then she heard the masked man begin the countdown.

Moreover, the countdown got faster and faster, and the chainsaw started spinning again the moment it reached zero.

It was another ordeal worse than death. Although Stephanie, who had been pampered since childhood, was very smart, she really couldn't bear this kind of torment. Immediately after her injuries disappeared for the second time, she told the masked man about all the sins she had committed.

Rosen listened attentively, even asking questions about various details.

Through the virtual realm, he could sense whether Stephanie was telling the truth or lying. This was the power the virtual realm used to eliminate the drunkard John. Whenever Stephanie lied, he would immediately double her punishment, causing her to quickly reveal the information he wanted in her breakdown.

Human memory is always clearer for the most recent events, so Stephanie explained things from the most recent to the most distant.

The second sin he confessed to was the truth about how young Rosen was murdered, which Rosen wanted to know.

Rosen was genuinely surprised that Stephanie was the one who killed little Rosen.

He had assumed it would be another noblewoman, or perhaps the husband of another noblewoman, and never suspected Stephanie. After all, in his view, Stephanie was the one who least wanted anything to happen to young Rosen, as she wanted to obtain his hereditary title.

It turned out that the murderer was Stephanie, who had someone switch the core ritual materials for Rosen's spiritual awakening.

As for why Stephanie committed the murder, the truth is complicated and difficult to explain in a few words.

P.S.: Thank you everyone for reading, adding to your favorites, giving monthly tickets, and recommending. Please keep reading! It seems like in the last few months, I've been spending any amount of points on the latest chapter, and staying for 20 seconds counts as one "follow-up" rating. Now, without follow-ups and recommendations, it's a vicious cycle that's making it impossible for the new book to survive. I'm feeling better today; it's not serious. Thankfully, it seems it's just a cold, not the flu.

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