Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 179 Mechanical City and Dark Continent

Chapter 178

The moment Rosen finished teleporting, he immediately used Void Shadow Cloak to hide.

He arrived at a closed space of several hundred square meters, completely enclosed by metal without any doors.

There are some workbenches behind them, and a control console in front of them with dozens of light screens of various sizes.

Through these light screens, Rosen could see dozens of machine processing plants of various sizes.

This control panel seems to be able to remotely control these machining plants?
Rosen doesn't know the operating methods, but he can infiltrate the console program through the virtual world of his left eye.

He quickly gained access to the console, which contained a lot of research data about this spiritual realm left by Faris.

It turns out that where he is currently is the core of a Sequence 6 extraordinary construction machinery factory.

Provided enough materials are available, various Sequence 6 mechanical creations can be mass-produced here.

The alchemical dragon he once purchased was assembled and produced here.

However, this mechanical factory cannot be taken out of the Spirit Realm because there is still some control over it that is not under our control.

Mechanical City is a city of machines controlled by artificial intelligence.

Once belonging to a branch of a mechanical civilization, one day all the mechanical beings in the city went mad. The only remaining sane artificial intelligence initiated a protective program, killing all invaders who threatened the mechanical race and doing its utmost to enhance the combat power of the mechanical city.

In the end, the mechanical city was destroyed, and the history before its destruction formed this spiritual realm.

Rosen operated the controls in the core control room for a while, bringing up the external monitoring of the machine factory.

At this time, the mechanical city is divided into two parts: the sky and the ground.

The floating mechanical structures in the sky are well preserved, while the main body of the mechanical city on the ground is a complete ruin.

Because the crazed machine race is indiscriminately killing each other, the artificial intelligence cannot harm them. Therefore, the only option is to levitate all the important facilities into the air and then let the machine race build and kill each other on the ground.

When the last machine race dies, the artificial intelligence will also self-destruct according to its program.

Then the spiritual realm was reset again and again, and the mechanical city was destroyed again and again.

Even without any human superhuman intervention to weaken it, this spiritual realm of the mechanical city will naturally weaken and eventually be destroyed.

However, ever since Faris discovered this spiritual realm, he has been continuously investing in trying to gradually restore it to its original level.

Faris used some means to put the machine race, which had been fighting each other and had only a few survivors left, into a dormant state.

In this way, as long as artificial intelligence does not die, this spiritual realm will no longer be reset.

Then Faris used the lives of these machine race members as a threat to force the artificial intelligence to hand over control of the core mechanical factory to Faris. The artificial intelligence may seem to have done nothing all these years, but in fact it has been studying the reason why the machine race went mad.

Faris has also studied this reason, and his research is progressing far faster than that of artificial intelligence.

Back then, the strongest member of the Mechanical City had reached Sequence 2. This person wanted to become Sequence 1. The common method for all races was to rely on faith, but the Mechanical Race was one of the few races without faith.

Therefore, Sequence 2 researched a mind virus that wanted to enslave other machine races to believe in him.

The result was clearly a failure; all the mechanical beings in the mechanical city went mad.

The greatest value of this spiritual realm lies in two things: the mechanical technology of the mechanical race and this mechanical factory.

Knowledge is easy to copy. As the level of the Spirit Realm increases, one can obtain mechanical technology knowledge up to Sequence 2.

Mechanical creations can be produced through mechanical factories, but this Sequence 6 mechanical factory cannot be taken out of the Spirit Realm.

Since it cannot be taken away, its value to Rosen is very limited.

Unless he can find a way to completely take control of this spiritual realm.

There is essentially only one way to completely control this spiritual realm born from historical traces.

That is to find the historical traces of the spirit realm that are condensed into a carrier. This thing may be a stone, a tree, a book, a house, or a life. There is no fixed number or pattern.

Moreover, the carriers of historical traces are completely undetectable by any means.

Therefore, the usual approach is to eliminate all resistance within the spiritual realm, and then use spiritual power to search for and refine them one by one. If you are lucky enough to find a vessel that condenses historical traces, you can completely control the spiritual realm after successfully refining it.

Of course, there is a limitation: humans can only refine and solidify the historical traces of humanity into a carrier.

The paper that carries the paintings of the spiritual realm is essentially a man-made carrier of historical traces.

Rosen is not a member of the machine race, and he has no way to make the artificial intelligence and the insane machine race give up the fight.

If he could control this spiritual realm, Faris wouldn't have left the mechanical factory there.

Therefore, there is only one solution left: to relocate this spiritual realm.

Faris did not move this spiritual realm back to the Adventure King City, most likely because he used it as a fallback plan for his family.

Rosen logged into the deep web of the spirit world and quickly purchased extraordinary artifacts specifically designed for relocating spirit realms.

Half an hour later, a messenger from the spirit world delivered a spatial teleportation array the size of a palm.

Rosen manipulated several mechanical puppets from the mechanical factory, carrying a spatial traction teleportation array to the core of the entire spiritual realm. After activation, the spatial traction teleportation array expanded to a diameter of tens of meters, and then, under his control, dragged the spiritual realm little by little.

Rosen sent his self-portrait clone out of the Spirit Realm, and then expanded his divine territory outside.

Driven by the spatial traction teleportation array, the mechanical city of Lingjing was gradually pulled into the divine realm.

From now on, those who enter this spiritual realm will be bound to the divine territory.

However, there is a price to pay for doing this. Pulling the Spirit Realm to the Divine Realm territory is essentially the Divine Realm's internal space enveloping another space. So when the Spirit Realm instinctively absorbs spiritual energy, it will definitely absorb the spiritual energy from within the Divine Realm territory.

Therefore, the divine realm can only support a limited number of spiritual realms, roughly one more for each sequence level.

Therefore, a Sequence 6 divine territory should ideally not contain more than four spirit realms, and the level of the spirit realms should ideally not exceed Sequence 6. Of course, if they are artificial spirit realms such as spirit realm paintings, then the number that can be contained can be increased by up to double.

The Spirit Realm has been moved back, but Rosen is still not very satisfied.

Because within the Spirit Realm, he could only control the mechanical factory, and was unable to unleash the true value of the Spirit Realm.

Rosen thought of the God Computer, wondering if its ability to hack into networks could take down artificial intelligence.

He opened the secret study in the control center of the machine factory and pulled the network cable out of the window.

He was about to connect the network cable to the network port, but before he could connect, the computer gave him a second option.

After the entire human world map of Hunter x Hunter's Spirit Realm was lit up, the map of the Dark Continent can now be lit up as well.

Moreover, unlike maps in the human world, they require complete control of a human spiritual realm to activate.

The map of the Dark Continent can only be illuminated by the alien spirit realms that cannot be fully controlled.

He can now integrate the entire Mechanical City Spirit Realm into the Hunter x Hunter Spirit Realm, thereby illuminating the map of the Dark Continent. At that time, the Mechanical City will also be integrated into the Dark Continent and become part of it.

Rosen opened the main computer and launched Hunter x Hunter: Spirit Realm. A map of the Dark Continent immediately appeared on the screen.

The area to be lit is not selectable; which part of the map is lit is completely random.

The moment Rosen chose to light up the map, the main computer released a seven-colored radiance that enveloped the entire mechanical city via the network cable.

In just a short time, the mechanical city had merged into the dark continent, illuminating approximately one-thousandth of the map.

If another thousand or so alien spirit realms were added, the Hunter x Hunter spirit realms would be able to fully illuminate all the maps and become a complete spirit realm.

The newly lit map did not give Lawson a new identity, nor did it provide him with a god-like perspective.

In this spiritual realm that he didn't fully control, he could only obtain basic teleportation permissions after the map was lit up.

However, that was enough. Rosen immediately ordered Kurapika to select a group of scientific research talents. Once these people were stationed in the mechanical factory, it would be able to continuously produce all kinds of mechanical supernatural artifacts.

While they are still selecting research talent, artificial intelligence has already sought help from the machine factory.

Rosen saw the distress signal transmitted by the artificial intelligence and discovered that two enormous creatures were approaching the mechanical city. One was a bear-like creature with a body covered in rot and a height of tens of meters, and the other was a headless giant with a height of hundreds of meters.

Clearly, these are native species of the Dark Continent, drawn to the suddenly appearing mechanical city.

Judging from the spiritual fluctuations, both monsters are Sequence 5 without exception.

They encountered a Sequence 5 superhuman being so easily, while the strongest Nen user in the human world was only equivalent to Sequence 7. No wonder that human explorers throughout history have been wiped out before they could even leave the shores of Lake Möbius.

Rosen pulled out the network cable again and connected it to the network port.

Whether he can fully control artificial intelligence will determine how much he will invest in the mechanical city.

The moment the network connection was established, the main computer easily cracked all the underlying code of the artificial intelligence, directly transforming it into an auxiliary intelligent mini-program. Through the main computer, it could control the entire mechanical city via this mini-program.

Now that he had taken control of the mechanical city, Rosen naturally wouldn't allow the two monsters to destroy it.

He teleported directly to the edge of the mechanical city and stood atop a tilted tower, looking down at the two approaching monsters.

Before they even got close enough to the mechanical city, they had already encountered the rotting bear and the headless giant.

The rotting giant bear was covered in wriggling worms, but instead of smelling rotten, it was filled with a sweet honey fragrance. A huge amount of Nen energy rose up like a volcanic eruption, and all the wriggling worms on its body absorbed the Nen energy and grew into bees.

However, these bees were the size of a fist, swarming and engulfing the headless giant. Faced with the attack of the rotting bear, the headless giant unleashed a surge of enhancement-type Nen even more intense than the rotting bear's. The giant club he held was wrapped in enhancement-type Nen, and with a single blow, its destructive power was comparable to a nuclear explosion, wiping out all the bees.

Rosen's vitality was already strong, but the Nen energy within him was far inferior to that of the two monsters.

Of course, if it really came down to a fight, he could easily take care of those two monsters.

Because the Nen abilities possessed by these two monsters don't seem particularly powerful, and their methods are quite limited. Although their destructive power is astonishing, the damage they inflict if they miss their target is zero, unless they are hiding other abilities.

As expected, Rosen soon discovered that things weren't so simple; the bees released by the rotting giant bear could self-destruct.

Moreover, the explosion releases a sweet, dizzying honey scent that is directly transmitted to the spirit. As long as one is within the range, even if one's whole body is enveloped in energy, one cannot resist it.

So in no time at all, the headless giant with its incredible destructive power had fallen to the ground.

The rotting giant bear crouched down and frantically tore at the headless giant's body. Just when it seemed the headless giant was about to be completely devoured, the headless giant, having lost one-fifth of its flesh, instinctively fought back despite being unconscious.

The rotting bear was flipped over and then smashed to pieces with a single blow.

The headless giant collapsed to the ground again, and his entire body began to regenerate and heal his injuries at an incredible speed.

As for the rotting giant bear that was smashed to pieces, wriggling worms crawled out from the fragments of its body. These worms turned into bees and reassembled, eventually forming a smaller rotting giant bear that was more than ten meters tall.

This time, the rotting giant bear didn't dare approach the headless giant, but instead turned its greedy gaze toward Rosen.

Through its special talent, it could sense the immense life force contained within that small body, a force that it coveted.

"It seems we can't reap the benefits."

Rosen drew Dragon King's Wrath from his hunting belt and then activated Little Dragon Girl's Fantasy Armament.

The power of the Miracle Fairy Dragon merged with the Wrath of the Dragon King, making this already explosive weapon even stronger.

Rosen used the time-tracking scope to lock onto the rotting bear's position one second later, and used the future silencer to send the bullet one second into the future.

A second later, the rotting giant bear, charging towards him at high speed, was instantly struck by an unavoidable bullet from the past.

This is not a supernatural bullet, nor a judgment bullet of spiritual transformation, nor a bullet drawn on paper.

Instead, it's the skill bullet of the Miracle Fairy Dragon, a bullet fused with the Forbidden Magic Orb.

The rotting giant bear, struck by the bullet, had an invisible, seven-colored crystal sphere floating above its head. All of the rotting giant bear's extraordinary abilities were sealed in that instant, causing the released bees to turn back into larvae and fall to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, a second bullet struck the rotting giant bear.

This time it was the Dragon Language Magic Flame Vortex. The flame vortex, hundreds of meters in diameter, completely covered the rotting giant bear, and even the larvae that had been regressed by the magic-blocking orb were all swept up by the flame vortex and burned to ashes.

If it were originally several tens of meters tall, it would be a bit difficult to solve with a single dragon language spell.

But if it shrinks to only a dozen meters, how much Nen energy will be left in the body?
Having successfully hunted down the rotting giant bear, Rosen continued to target and fire at the headless giant.

He had already realized that the rotting giant bear was actually quite intelligent, but the headless giant was truly devoid of wisdom, possessing only instinctive destructive power and a powerful regenerative ability.

So killing the headless giant is a bit of a waste; it would be better to turn the headless giant into the guardian of the mechanical city.

The Forbidden Magic Orb seals away supernatural abilities, while the Mind Orb directly attacks the headless giant's spirituality.

Finally, the dream-entangled entity pulled the headless giant's weakened spirit into the primordial dream, then projected the ash curtain into the headless giant's spirit, beginning to manipulate the headless giant's memories in conjunction with mind control.

After working for half an hour, Rosen finally managed to reshape the headless giant's self-awareness into the form he desired.

However, this was not enough, so the machine factory began producing specialized equipment for the headless giant.

That giant club was made of some kind of wood and was very sturdy, but it had no other special features besides being sturdy.

Therefore, the machine factory directly used extraordinary metal to create a giant battle axe, which not only had special damage against spiritual beings, but also had the characteristics of crushing, heavy blows and automatic recovery. Throwing this axe was equivalent to a long-range nuclear explosion.

Knowing that the headless giant's defense was a weakness, Rosen also prepared a set of giant armor.

At this point, the headless giant truly possessed the combat power that a Sequence 5 extraordinary life form should have.

However, relying solely on the headless giants is not enough. Rosen also released several Sequence 6 Abyss Demons from the Void Prison who had been tortured into fanatical believers. After becoming fanatical believers, their minds were somewhat affected, so relying on them to guard the home was not enough.

Rosen didn't believe that there were no creatures stronger than the Rotting Giant Bear and the Headless Giant on the Dark Continent.

So, the wings of the feathered serpent god appeared behind him, and he soared into the sky, looking down at the mechanical city. A curtain of ash was projected down and enveloped the mechanical city, gradually forming layers of rocky mountains around it. Finally, the entire mechanical city was enveloped by a painted barren mountain.

Normal living beings wouldn't come to destroy a barren mountain, which greatly reduces the probability of the mechanical city being attacked.

Now that he knew the alien spirit realm could illuminate the dark continent, Rosen's interest in the alien spirit realm greatly increased.

But right now, he's more interested in seeing if there's anything good on the Dark Continent.

Rosen, with a godlike perspective, looked down at Lake Möbius and directly locked onto a newly added continent outside of the several continents of the human world.

This newly added continent is now inhabited by countless gray ratmen and rats.

This is the Gray Rat's Spirit Realm, and the changes that occurred after the map was lit up.

Rosen opened the Void Sketchbook and summoned the gray rat he had drawn to this continent.

In no time, the gray rat had gathered a large number of gray rat people and rats.

Rosen moved all the rats outside the mechanical city. Under the command of the gray rats, all the gray rats and rats scattered in all directions. Some were responsible for collecting soil, rocks and plant samples, while others were responsible for exploring the surrounding dangers.

Millions of rats and thousands of gray rat-men were sent out, and after half a day, less than one in ten returned alive.

The good news is that the Dark Continent is rich in resources; the bad news is that danger lurks everywhere, both in the sky and on the ground.

Rosen looked at the mountain of specimens in front of him, among which were several pieces of spiritual crystals.

The world of Hunter x Hunter only has Nen abilities. It seems that after becoming a Spirit Realm, it became dominated by spirituality, just like all Spirit Realms, to the point that natural spiritual crystals were born on the Dark Continent.

There were too many specimens in front of me, and almost all of them were unknown.

To determine the specific function and value of these items, it is necessary to entrust the task to highly specialized materials scientists.

Rosen summoned more gray rats and mice to explore a wider area.

Only then did he take the first batch of specimens and prepare to find a materials scientist to assess their value.

Using the Void Phase teleportation, Rosen locked onto spatial coordinates and teleported to the vicinity of Thunder City.

This is truly worthy of being the core miracle ability of Fairy Dragon Ball. Even though the Dungeon Kingdom and the Thunder Empire are far apart, they still managed to complete the spatial teleportation in just a few seconds. He also issued a bounty mission for identifying materials through the professional guild.

That wasn't enough. As soon as the Void Phase's cooldown ended, Rosen teleported to City 9 on the front lines of the Abyss Battlefield.

Then the same bounty was posted here, so that after the two materials scientists give their evaluation results, they can compare them. If one of them gives a false evaluation result, it will be easy for him to see through it by comparing the two.

Two days later, Rosen received the test results.

The vast majority of the materials were of little value; only three were found to be truly valuable.

These are a spiritual crystal brimming with vitality, the honey-scented corpse oil of a rotting giant bear, and an unnamed fungus containing a rare element needed for a cursed potion.

Although in theory, all elements can be artificially synthesized.

The key is whether the cost of artificial synthesis exceeds that of natural collection. This rare element is the kind that is extremely expensive to synthesize. If a large number of this fungus can be found in the Dark Continent, it would not be difficult to earn tens of millions of spiritual crystals a year.

Forget about earning more; the market demand for that cursed potion is undeniable.

Based on the map made by the gray rat-man and the specimens, Rosen quickly found the collection point for that kind of fungus.

After disappearing into the shadows of the void, he ignored all dangers and quickly reached his destination.

Indeed, they encountered many Sequence 6 to Sequence 5 superhumans along the way. However, their relatively simple Nen abilities meant that these superhumans could not detect Rosen, who was hiding in the shadows of space. Since they could not detect him, they were unlikely to pose a threat.

Before Rosen lay a strange forest, the plants of which resembled willows.

However, there are no leaves, only willow branches, and the trunk has facial features made of tree knots. As the nostrils of the facial features breathe, the long willow-like hair sways with the rhythm of breathing. On the roots of these strange trees, a large number of mushrooms with shimmering purple caps grow.

"Get rich..."

Rosen excitedly walked into the woods, then reached out directly from the shadowy void to pick mushrooms.

He harvested all the mushrooms, and calculated that it would be enough for him to sell for decades.

Rosen then massively expanded the scope of his specimen collection, at the cost of hundreds of millions of rats dying tragically on the Dark Continent.

However, rats have a very high reproductive capacity. Theoretically, two rats can multiply into hundreds of millions in a few years. The only thing that limits the reproductive capacity of rats is food, and the gray rat people on that continent have cultivated a huge amount of fast-growing plants suitable for rats to eat.

Even if hundreds of billions of rats die in a short period of time, the Gray Rat People can make up for the shortfall within a month.

Rats began to invade a corner of the Dark Continent, and Rosen collected more and more specimens to be identified.

However, after working hard for more than half a month, the results were not as good as expected.

Those extraordinary materials that can be continuously collected can earn a few million spiritual crystals at most per year.

Rosen searched through a corner of the illuminated Dark Continent but couldn't find a second kind of mushroom, which yielded tens of millions of harvests a year. This made him realize that the appearance of that mushroom might not be accidental, but rather a reward-type resource that would inevitably be generated after the map was illuminated.

Fortunately, the past two weeks have not been in vain, and Rosen is no longer unfamiliar with the Dark Continent.

(End of this chapter)