Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 166 The History Buried in Ashes and the Master-Servant Relationship
Chapter 165

"Let's not do anything reckless for now..."

Rosen shook his head after weighing the options.

It's better to wait until we're stronger before exploring this Sequence 3 Spirit Realm deep within the island.

Two months passed in the blink of an eye, and Rosen had successfully taken control of Clement's spiritual self.

Rosen released Clement from the painting, and he immediately bowed to Rosen with the utmost respect, like a loyal servant.

After instructing Clement to continue his pirate career, Rosen rode the Feathered Serpent warship back to the Duchy of Blazing Shadow.

The rest of the route went smoothly. After approaching the island where the Principality of Blazing Shadow was located, he circled around and went directly to Blackrock Harbor. He had escaped from here by steam train years ago, and now that he was revisiting the place, he wondered if he would see any familiar faces.

The largest tavern near the port is still run by the same familiar owner.

Rosen went up to the second floor of the tavern, ready to buy information about the Black Shark pirate ship with practiced ease.

However, after waiting for a while, the tavern owner still hadn't delivered the information.

Rosen immediately realized that the tavern owner probably had some connection with the Black Shark.

He separated the Hunter God Demon Eye from his right eye and vanished into the shadows of the void, arriving directly at the tavern owner's lounge.

With his mind-reading ability, Rosen quickly understood what was going on.

Captain Black Shark was a Sequence 7 in his early years, but his spirituality was damaged and he fell to Sequence 8.

Later, in the Spirit Realm of the Dead Forest, he successfully healed his spirituality by offering sacrifices to the statue of the Cat God. In the years since, Captain Black Shark has not been idle, but has rapidly grown to Sequence 6.

They even subdued several pirate ships, forming a small Black Shark Pirate Crew.

In the small city of Blackrock Harbor, the Black Shark Pirates are already the most powerful force.

The tavern owner, naturally, dared not offend them, so he had already notified the Black Shark Pirates that someone was buying their information.

At this moment, members of the Black Shark Pirates have come to capture him.

Rosen shook his head, leaving Gray Rat behind to prepare to leave Blackrock Harbor.

The Black Shark is not currently docked at the port, and it is unknown when it will return to Blackstone Harbor.

With Gray Rat's methods, wiping out the Black Shark Pirate Crew would be no difficult task.

Rosen kept flashing through the void, and soon he had left Blackrock Harbor and headed towards the Ashes Zone that he once feared.

Ash Life forms are less numerous in populated areas and more numerous in sparsely populated areas.

If it weren't for the fact that Ashbringers almost never leave the Ash-covered area, small places like Blackrock Harbor would be impossible to survive in.

Rosen summoned 37 Ash Bee Queens, which scattered into the surrounding mist.

Today, the Ash Queen Bee has been born in the Ash Hive.

Neither the Ash Queen Bee nor the Ash King Bee possesses the characteristics of being unique in the world and eternally indestructible.

Clearly, neither of these two existences is the first of its kind.

Rosen attempted to revert the dual bloodlines of the Ash Bee Queen to their ancestral form, but the Ash Bee Queen did not become a new life form. Instead, it was upgraded from Sequence 8 to Sequence 7. As long as it does not encounter the Beast King, there are no Ash life forms below Sequence 4 that the Sequence 7 Ash Bee Queen cannot kill.

Even Rosen, surrounded by ashes, had his senses almost completely suppressed.

However, the Ash Queen Bee thrives in the ashes, after all, this kind of life is an extraordinary life born from ashes.

Since Rosen had nothing better to do, he summoned a pile of firewood and began to gather the surrounding ashes.

The ashes that shroud human civilization are exactly the same as the ashes brought about by the backlash of the flames of civilization.

But why did the ashes that shrouded human civilization spread across the human world?

For Rosen, who knew the true nature of Ashes, the curse of a fallen god was nothing more than a joke.

The firewood pile quickly absorbed all the ashes within a 380-meter radius. However, not a single piece of firewood appeared on the firewood pile, even though he expanded the area and collected ashes from several miles around, and the amount of firewood formed increased, but none of them were intact.

Rosen continued collecting, and finally, after collecting ashes from hundreds of miles around, he finally saw a complete piece of firewood emerge.

He immediately lit the firewood with the pile of kindling, and then used the ashes as a curtain to illuminate his remaining light.

In the light, Rosen saw a forest, a cabin in the woods, and an old hunter preparing his prey.

Yu Guangzhong recorded too little history; there's nothing of value in it at all.

However, watching the hunter's prayer after processing his prey, he suddenly felt a strong sense of familiarity.

Rosen immediately used his spiritual consciousness to enter a special library in the virtual world. It was a copy of the books from the city library of the Kingdom of Fire Gods. He found a book on the religious system of the Kingdom of Fire Gods and quickly found the answer he wanted.

He was not mistaken; the old hunter was indeed a follower of the true god of the flame.

Rosen continued collecting firewood, and a few days later he found another complete piece of firewood.

The last glimmer of light, reflecting the ashes of civilization through a curtain of ash, was rekindled, and this time, surprisingly, people were seen as well.

However, it was no longer in the woods, but in a fully automated farm that looked to be very technologically advanced.

Judging from the architectural style, it is completely different from the style of the Kingdom of the Fire God.

On some of the machines on the farm, Rosen saw a completely unfamiliar script.

However, there are also people on this farm, at least humanoid beings.

Looking at the world as a whole, human civilization is quite unique.

If other civilizations are destroyed, then they are truly destroyed; the only hope for survival lies in the spirit world.

However, human civilization seems to have been destroyed and risen many times.

By collecting the ashes, Rosen discovered that the ashes shrouding the Duchy of Blazing Shadow originated from at least two different civilizations.

Rosen used to think that the Kingdom of the Fire God was just a humanoid life form, or a branch of humanity.

But now it seems that the Ash Kingdom might actually be a human civilization, albeit a destroyed one.

If that's really the case, the ashes that shroud human civilization are very likely the ashes left behind by the human civilizations that have been destroyed throughout history. However, as far as he knows, the ashes originated from the flames of civilization, and the flames of civilization originated from the Kingdom of Flame.

Could human civilizations that perished before the Kingdom of Fire and Gods also turn to ashes?
Or is it that the flame of civilization already existed, and the Kingdom of Flame only discovered it rather than created it?

Rosen suddenly had a doubt: were these ashes originating from human civilization really harmful to the human race?
While the ashes certainly posed various threats to humanity, they also served as a deterrent to other races.

Human civilization is a deep and complex place. Rosen pondered for a long time, keeping the secret he had discovered today to himself.

The Ash Bee Queen slaughtered in the mist, leaving rivers of blood, and Rosen also discovered that his merits were constantly increasing through the Ancient Tree of Noble Rank.

With nothing else to do, Rosen drove the Feathered Serpent Chariot toward Redstone City.

They traveled along the way, stopping occasionally to shoot down Ash Lifeforms, and it took less than half an hour to reach Redstone City.

Rosen looked at the city, which was both familiar and unfamiliar to him. Little Rosen's memories of the city were very familiar, but his memories of the city were very unfamiliar because he had been forced to hide in the mysterious study during his limited experience in Redstone City.

Back in the Duchy of Blazing Shadows, he hadn't realized that many things were amiss.

But as he gained more experience and knowledge, he realized that something was definitely wrong with Redstone City.

His divine territory is definitely not as simple as an ordinary divine territory.

Strictly speaking, his divine domain is merely an appendage of the noble skill, the Glory Treasury.

This is a special skill crystal born from the hidden space of the hunter's Sequence 8 extraordinary ability, combined with the damaged noble Sequence 7 extraordinary source material inside the Sequence 7 Bloodline Compass, under the power of the hunting god authority.

The birth process seems normal, but can a divine realm really be born from these?
It was obvious that the bloodline compass of sequence 7 was very abnormal.

Unlike other civilization sequences that can leave behind extraordinary essence, when a noble sequence dies, the extraordinary essence of the noble sequence directly returns to the ancient tree of the spirit world. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to intercept it and make it into a bloodline compass.

The mere Redstone Viscount family should not possess such a thing.

Rosen walked down the street; he knew far too many people on the outskirts of Redstone City.

He had seen many of them in the virtual spiritual realm, and his powerful spirituality allowed him to easily recall the faces of everyone from many years ago.

After passing through the outer city and entering the inner city, Rosen soon arrived at the villa that the Howard family once owned.

The villa is no longer there; it appears to have been destroyed and converted into a toilet.

Although Rosen didn't care about the villa where little Rosen had lived since he was a child, he was still furious when he saw this scene.

For the sake of his old flame Stephanie, and for the sake of Sani and Rosen's close relationship, he was originally prepared to give Sani a quick death, but now it seems that being unable to live or die might be more suitable for Sani.

Rosen looked up at the sky, and in an instant, a shooting star was projected from the ash curtain.

He turned and walked toward the city lord's mansion. Soon after, a meteor the size of a fist fell to the ground, turning the surrounding area of ​​a hundred meters into a sea of ​​fire.

The city lord's mansion wasn't very big, and Viscount Redstone's castle was also quite small.

Although small, it has all the essential parts, including dozens of servants of various kinds.

Rosen didn't find Sani and her husband, but he discovered that the Viscount of Redstone had been replaced by someone else, who should be the eldest son of the former Viscount of Redstone.

The newly appointed Viscount Redstone, who was busy with official duties, was completely unaware that someone had appeared in front of his desk.

Mind reading can only read current thoughts; to know past memories, the person being read needs to actively recall them.

Under his manipulation, Rosen's spiritual energy formed an arm that seemed to come alive, grabbing the New Redstone Viscount by the hair and lifting him up. In doing so, the Nightmare Shackles that spread from his hand sealed his spirituality.

Kaden Redstone stared in horror at the empty study before him, his spirituality vanishing from his body in the blink of an eye.

Rosen used the Ash Curtain to extract Kaden's spirituality from his mind, and quickly unearthed all of Kaden's memories from childhood to adulthood.

Kaden's brother Kerry, and Kerry's wife Sani, have now completely separated.

Kerry, who did not become a nobleman, is now taking Sani to another city to run a winery.

As for the old Redstone Viscount, he has already become Sequence 6 and stepped onto the front lines.

This is highly unusual. Kaden is just a Sequence 8 gourmet. He finally became the Sequence 6 Old Redstone Viscount. He should have stayed behind to hunt Ash Life and then helped his beloved eldest son expand the family.

Why did he suddenly rush to the front lines a few years ago? It gave people the feeling of fleeing in disarray. Rosen began to carefully search Kaden's memories, trying to understand the old Redstone Viscount through Kaden's memories.

Kaden was pampered from a young age, after all, he showed the aptitude to awaken spirituality from childhood.

However, on one occasion, Kaden was given a good lesson by the old Redstone Viscount.

One day, the mischievous Kaden accidentally entered a hidden chamber in the study while playing. There he saw a statue of a god, and Kaden got a good beating from Viscount Redstone.

Rosen understood something upon seeing the statue; it seemed that the old Redstone Viscount was a believer in the gods.

This deity is the one who killed Rosen's parents.

Even the successive Redstone Viscounts may have been spying on the Howard family.

However, since the deity had already fallen, little Rosen escaped unscathed. Viscount Redstone, who was unable to contact the deity, was probably terrified and therefore did nothing more to harm little Rosen.

However, the old Viscount Redstone never expected that his second son's wife, Sani, would set her sights on young Rosen.

To put it bluntly, young Rosen was too insignificant at the time, and the old Viscount Redstone didn't take him seriously at all.

Or rather, he dared not take it seriously. It was not a good thing for nobles to have faith in gods. The old Redstone Viscount must have realized that something had happened to the god he worshipped, so he dared not keep an eye on young Rosen any longer and could only try to get rid of the involvement by completely ignoring him.

Unexpectedly, he was tricked by Sani, and in the end, the old Redstone Viscount was so scared that he fled to the front line.
This is probably the most reasonable explanation; the Bloodline Compass might very well be something that the deity gave to the Redstone family.

But since they escaped, why didn't they take their two sons with them?

It's one thing to be lenient with the second son, Kerry, but the eldest son, Kaden, is clearly the apple of his eye.

When disaster strikes, everyone flees for their lives, or are there other reasons?
Perhaps there is a possibility that the old Redstone Viscount loved only himself from beginning to end.

Leaving behind two sons, if they are both alive and well, means nothing happened.

If he dies, the old Redstone Viscount can be detected immediately through the Ancient Tree of Nobility.

Then we'll be able to confirm that something really happened, and the old Redstone Viscount will definitely continue to flee or even escape the human world.

Rosen opened the secret room in the study, only to find it completely empty.

"Are we going to send people to the front lines to arrest them?"

Rosen frowned.

The key question is whether the old Redstone Viscount is worth the trouble.

If not, then we can just use curses to kill them once we master the ability.

He had considered hiring assassins to go to the front lines to capture him, but if the front lines were to join the World Government's coalition, it wouldn't be easy to bring back the old Viscount Redstone. Moreover, if there were any secrets involved, he might not be able to trust the assassins he hired.

Rosen peeled the skin off Kaden's back and used it to make drawing paper, which he then incorporated into the Void Book.

Then, using drawing techniques, he perfectly captured the essence of Kaden on the drawing paper.

Then, they sealed Kaden into the painting, and finally brainwashed him by modifying his memories through the Mind Canvas.

There was no need to send a mere Sequence 8 to the Void Prison. With Mind Control and Mind Canvas, memory control and spirituality could be directly modified. Kaden, who had completely lost himself, continued to handle his official duties as if nothing had happened.

However, if the old Redstone Viscount couldn't resist showing himself, Rosen would definitely know immediately.

Less than half an hour after the self-portrait clone left, it returned. Kerry and Sani, who were in another city, had also been brainwashed and controlled, becoming puppets. When the old Redstone Viscount appeared, it would be the time when they could neither live nor die.

With things settled here, Rosen decided to go to the spirit world to retrieve the treasure hidden by the gray rat.

Driving the Quetzalcoatl chariot, I activated Spirit Realm Stealth and entered the surface of the Spirit Realm.

In the spirit realm of the Blazing Shadow Kingdom, the entire island was almost entirely covered in flames.

This scene likely depicts a period 25,000 years ago, before the creation of the Blazing Shadow Ore.

The ore with its astonishingly high combustion efficiency must have been a product of this sea of ​​fire.

Going back further to the time of the Kingdom of the Fire God, the island should still be covered with plants.

Perhaps it was the destruction of the ancient civilization that led to the entire island being engulfed in flames, burying all traces of civilization.

Rosen carefully sensed the surrounding flames—flames that had destroyed civilizations. To him, they felt as if the flames of civilization had been extinguished, burning away all traces of it. If that were the case, these flames might contain traces of the flames of civilization.

However, even with the help of the Miracle Flame, the source of all flames, he could not detect the slightest trace of the flame.

Instead, they sensed faint traces of divinity, suggesting that the entire island was destroyed by the power of the gods.

These shouldn't be secrets, but there's no need to publicize them.

Two hours later, Rosen drove the feathered serpent chariot wildly into a desolate mountain burning with flames.

The mountain's surface was melted into magma, but instead of flowing down the mountain, the magma flowed upstream, causing the mountain to grow larger and larger. Such a scenario, contrary to the laws of physics, is not uncommon in the spirit world.

Because the spirit world is primarily based on the mind, and the mind is most easily influenced by the thoughts of sentient beings.

Someone may have written a book about a mountain with magma flowing backwards, or someone may have dreamed of such a mountain. All sorts of spiritual activities originating from reality can have an impact on the spirit world.

The spirit world map corresponds to the real-world map. The further away from the gathering places of real life, the more absurd and outrageous the spirit world environment becomes.

So despite its strange appearance, this mountain is unlikely to attract the attention of those above Sequence 7.

Furthermore, given the limited number of extraordinary beings of Sequence 7 or above in the Blazing Shadow Principality, no one would likely notice this mountain.

Rosen put away his mechanical mount, then started from the foot of the mountain and jumped backwards towards the summit.

His powerful physique allowed him to ignore the burning flames, and his jumping speed increased rapidly.

In the end, it exceeded the speed of sound and finally jumped into a crater-like opening at the top of the mountain and disappeared.

This is the method set up by the gray rat to enter the spiritual realm in the mountains; it's very difficult to get in if you don't know the method.

Mice are indeed quite talented at hiding things.

After falling into the volcano, Rosen found himself inside a castle.

The void teleported to the castle tower, from where one could see a city teeming with gray ratmen.

These gray rat people are all beings created by gray rats, and they all share a common belief in gray rats.

As long as this spiritual realm exists and as long as faith is not severed, it will not be easy for the gray rat to die completely.

Because this is the gray squirrel's last resort, it has hidden this place very well.

However, such a completely controlled spiritual realm cannot actually be placed in the spirit world for a long time.

Because naturally occurring spiritual realms are almost always primarily spiritual with material elements as secondary.

However, once a spiritual realm is completely controlled, or if it is a man-made spiritual realm, it will almost always become materialized.

This type of spiritual realm becomes primarily material with spirituality as a secondary element. Resetting the world in such a completely controlled spiritual realm is much more difficult than resetting a spiritual realm without a guide.

Moreover, if placed in the spirit world for a long time, it is very likely that it will revert to being primarily spiritual with secondary matter.

By then, even the spiritual realm that has been completely under control may spiral out of control.

If Rosen had arrived a decade or two later, this spiritual realm would have gradually slipped out of Gray Rat's control.

Rosen was preparing to share the gray rat's spirituality, and then put away the spiritual realm with the same source of spirituality.

However, at that moment, his sixth sense suddenly felt uneasy.

Rosen turned around and saw the gray rat that shouldn't have been there.

He ordered Gray Rat to wait for the Black Shark pirate crew at Blackrock Harbor, but Gray Rat appeared there at that moment.

Moreover, he managed to deceive the Nightmare Shackles, so much so that he didn't even realize that Gray Rat had left Blackrock Harbor.

It seems that all these years, Gray Rat has been waiting for the day he returns to the Duchy of Blazing Shadow.

Unbeknownst to him, he had lowered his guard against the gray rats.

Even though he was still on guard and used the Black Shark pirate crew as an excuse to send Gray Rat away, Gray Rat still found an opportunity to overthrow him. However, Gray Rat had been with him for many years, so was he really confident that he could turn the tables and take control?

"Your chances of winning are slim."

Rosen said with certainty.

"I know, but I didn't expect you to grow so fast, and your knowledge is becoming more and more profound..."

The gray rat squeaked, "I've realized my chances of winning are getting lower and lower, to the point where I have no choice but to take a gamble. If I don't act this time, I feel like I'll never have a chance to escape your enslavement."

"It seems that pets should be raised from a young age. We should listen carefully to the lessons learned from the experience of senior hunters."

Rosen sighed.

"It's too late to understand now."

The gray rat chuckled slyly, "Although my chances of winning are indeed not high, and you still keep your mysterious extradimensional abilities from me, this is my home turf. Whether I have a 10% chance of winning or a 90% chance, it doesn't matter as long as I win."

"You're right, the winner takes all."

Rosen nodded in agreement.

The gray rat instantly split into four divine clones. Theoretically, with 38 points of divine power, it can split into 38 divine clones. However, the more clones there are, the more dispersed the divine power becomes. Four divine clones can maximize the gray rat's power.

The main body, along with four divine clones, simultaneously unleashed Sequence 7 Fear Gaze and Sequence 6 Soul Shock.

After the two skills are combined, a five-fold attack is launched against Rosen's spirituality.

Even with the Dragon King's blessing and the ash curtain, nothing could stop all the damage.

More importantly, layers of barriers rose up within the castle, with the highest level, a Sequence 3 sealing barrier, landing on Rosen.

His abilities beyond divinity and miracles were almost entirely sealed away by this castle.

The four divine clones beside the gray rat scurried away, their speed increasing tenfold in an instant, closing in on Rosen. Their claws, imbued with plague, unleashed a bloodthirsty attack of Sequence 7 and a deadly backstab of Sequence 5, moving at supersonic speed behind Rosen and tearing him to pieces.

However, seeing Rosen turn into paint and dissipate, Gray Rat realized that he had only killed Rosen's self-portrait clone.

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