Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 240 Historical Mysteries and the Realm of Time

Chapter 239

The Glory Foundation, through data transmission, allowed Rosen to quietly leave the chaotic city.

The reason they chose to come here instead of returning to Paradise Island was that Daisy herself captured Luke Cruise.

With the help of the Glory Foundation's high-level extraordinary plants and Paradise Pharmaceuticals' high-quality potions, Daisy has advanced to Sequence 3 in recent years, growing faster than Lawson. With the help of many directors, it will not be difficult for Daisy to take down Luke Cruise.

Rosen personally painted a portrait of Luke Cruise and then permanently sealed Luke Cruise in the painting.

Not only can the portrait borrow Luke Cruise's power to make the summoned fakes more realistic.

At the same time, Rosen also incorporated a subtle, mind-controlling effect into this painting.

Finally, he also altered history and changed Luke Cruise's past memories, making it only a matter of time before he completely enslaved Luke Cruise.

After so many years of preparation, everything is ready, and it's time to head to the General Association of Historians.

Unlike painters who are always on the Eternal Continent, historians are always in the depths of the Spirit Realm, in a secret realm exclusively for historians.

The Eternal Continent is too vast. Although it is also located deep within the Spirit Realm, there are too many enemies around it, making it unsuitable for historians to explore history. Therefore, historians always build a special secret realm, which refers to a secret spiritual realm.

No one knows the exact coordinates of the historical secret realm, because historians enter it through a special reverse summoning.

After Rosen applied under the name of Suley, he quickly received a letter of approval from the General Association of Historians.

He immediately left the chaotic sea and appeared on the Dragon God Continent, entering the Spirit Realm.

The reason for choosing the Dragon God Continent is simple: it has some secret spatial passages leading to the Dragon Realm.

This was a backup plan left by the dragons, which he discovered accidentally while stealing ancient artifacts from the dragons using the Hunter's Eye.

Rosen has now handed over this passage to the World Government under the identity of Sulei.

The merits he earned directly granted him a hereditary dukedom.

Because by possessing such a passage, humans will have a huge advantage in future wars against dragons.

Rosen waited three days before the messenger from the Historians' Association finally arrived.

Like a raven, the spirit messenger carefully examined the consent letter in Rosen's hand, meticulously verified Rosen's identity, and even used the projection of a miraculous artifact to confirm that there were no tracking marks on him before landing on Rosen's shoulder to send a signal.

Almost instantly, the spatial displacement that appeared out of nowhere carried Rosen and the spirit messenger away from their original spot.

After the teleportation ended, they found themselves inside a huge and terrifying museum.

The entire historical secret realm has essentially become part of the Sequence 1 History Museum.

Preserving the existence of this history museum is the first sequence 0 for historians.

Standing at the edge of the secret realm, one can already see the ancient trees of the historical sequence, some of which are withered and overgrown, reaching a height of a hundred miles in the center of the secret realm.

No wonder, all the great historians dream of taking down archaeologists.

Rosen looked up again, but instead of a rooftop, he saw rolling white clouds. Countless eternal history books were flying among the clouds. These were the eternal history books sent here by historians who had fallen throughout the ages, unless they died accidentally.

Because of the personal histories in the book, historians, even if they die, may be resurrected as the spirits of the historical book.

The entire secret realm is enormous, spanning at least 100,000 li in circumference.

This vast secret realm is filled with bookshelves and display stands for exhibits. It's hard to imagine how much ancient history historians must have mastered and how many historical artifacts they must have collected. This place must be paradise for historians.

However, getting here isn't that easy; only those in Sequence 3 are eligible to apply.

The entire Association of Historians probably has no more than 500 historians. The rest are all assistants to historians. Each person can bring at least 100 and at most an unlimited number of assistants. All assistants need to undergo rigorous training and vetting.

Rosen already knew all of this clearly through the Hunter God's Demon Eye.

However, he pretended not to know anything and, with the introduction and guidance of the spirit messenger, he passed through some permanent portals and arrived in front of the Ancient Tree of History. The entire Ancient Tree of History was hollow inside, and all the historians' residences were located in the space inside the tree.

This space inside the tree is known to historians as the "historical tree hole."

The moment Rosen entered the History Tree Hole, led by the spirit messenger, he received a warm welcome in the hall.

"You must be Su Lei. Tell me about the history of the dragon race..."

"How much do you know about the battle between the two dragons 26,000 years ago...?"

"..."

"Welcome to the Historians' Association. Don't mind them, they're just too obsessed with history..."

Finally, after driving away the other historians, the person who helped Rosen out of the predicament gave Rosen a warm hug.

However, beneath the surface of enthusiasm, Rosen felt that he was being secretly probed during the embrace. Fortunately, his disguise was not perfect, but it was close enough that the Grand Master Wendy Burgundy did not notice anything unusual.

Of course, Wendy embracing Lawson was merely a divine avatar of Sequence 1; if the real Wendy had appeared in person, she might have noticed the anomaly.

However, this is almost impossible, as all the deities have their own things to do.

To find the time, you need to plan your schedule well in advance.

With Wendy's presence intimidating them, the other historians dared not pursue Rosen any further.

Under Wendy's guidance, Rosen quickly became familiar with the entire history tree hole.

Here, all abilities related to history will be greatly enhanced. Only historians can live in the History Tree Hole, while assistants and ordinary people live in various subordinate spirit realms.

Rosen doesn't have any assistants yet; he needs to select some from among his followers for training and assessment.

Ultimately, these assistants will become his helpers in his research on history.

Furthermore, this place contains at least 60% of the existing history of the main world. However, to access this history, one must pay a price: one must contribute a new, unrecorded history in exchange for accessing one hundred other histories of equal value.

You reap a hundredfold reward for every one effort you make; this is reasonable from any perspective.

Rosen spent half a month compiling and submitting the dragon history recorded in his Eternal History Book.

Then, immediately, I redeemed all research permissions for the Lost History.

Lost history is history that has no interpretation. Access to this type of history is inherently limited, which always encourages historians to study it. Therefore, the incomplete history of the dragon race that Rosen submitted is enough to grant access to all lost histories, with plenty of access remaining.

Scattered among the ruins were mud figures, resembling children playing house.

On the surface, it looks like a group of children building houses and sculpting clay figures out of mud.

But strangely enough, destroying these clay figures will inevitably result in equal damage and backlash.

Even within the collapsed mud buildings, there are some special, spiritually imbued, unknown written symbols.

Rosen sat on the edge of the ruins, completely covering them with his divinity.

His noble lineage of ancient scholar's professional authority already granted him access to all lost historical texts and information; now, with the addition of the historian's lineage of historical analysis and reading, his ability to interpret lost historical texts has been further enhanced.

"Clay People Civilization," is how Rosen named this civilization.

A drop of blood from the great true God fell into the soil and stained it red.

A human boy accidentally discovered that this soil was perfect for making clay figures, so he made it his secret garden and created many clay buildings and figures here.

These clay figures came to life because of the power of the blood of the great true God.

The excited little boy taught the clay figures basic knowledge about humankind.

The clay figure was simple-minded, but as the boy grew up, he gradually stopped liking the clay figure and began to think that playing with mud was childish and dirty. He started to enslave the clay figure and use its ability to burrow underground to obtain wealth.

With wealth and power, the grown-up boy even began secretly capturing clay figures for research.

He wanted to know why these clay figures came into being.

The clay people gradually discovered the truth about the disappearance of their people. Their anger led them to tear apart the grown-up boy and merge his flesh and soul into the bodies of all the clay people. From then on, the clay people gained freedom and gradually developed the clay people civilization.

At its peak, the clay figurine civilization produced a deity.

Then, for unknown reasons, the clay god disappeared, and the clay civilization was gradually destroyed by an unseen enemy. Finally, all the clay figures returned to their original birthplace, where they cast a curse and fell into an eternal slumber. If the clay god reappears within ten thousand years, these clay figures will awaken and be resurrected.

However, 80,000 years have passed, and all the clay figures have died in a deep slumber.

Having analyzed the situation to this extent, Rosen needs to make a decision.

Should we consume 100 million high-grade spiritual crystals to try and extract historical imprints from these clay figures?

He only has a one in a thousand chance of success. It's not that you can succeed once in a thousand attempts. If you're unlucky, you might not even get that one in a thousand chance even after a hundred thousand attempts.

Without hesitation, Rosen continuously poured in divinity, and his gluttonous stomach frantically digested the spiritual crystals to restore the depleted divinity.

As expected, he failed, but he also received some good news.

Having gained access to the power of historians, the power of ancient scholars has also been enhanced. While the consumption of resources has not decreased, the success rate has increased to one percent, finally giving him a chance to obtain historical imprints.

In his second attempt to analyze the historical imprints, Rosen no longer held back.

Through the Holy Sword of Royal Power, Rosen solidified the divine power of fortune in certain areas.

By using the Lucky Love Lock to fulfill one's wishes, one can consume luck to further enhance their fortune.

Finally, the success rate is further increased through equivalent exchanges using the Miracle Pocket.

Despite multiple attempts to improve the system, Rosen failed twice more before finally succeeding in deciphering the historical imprint on the third attempt.

He has three uses for this thing.

With this as the core, we can create a spiritual realm of clay figurine civilization, or crush historical imprints to obtain a piece of divine blood containing the blood of a great true god, the clay left over from when that little boy made the clay figurine.

The last use is to complement the casting of Time Lord class powers.

Rosen chose the last option without hesitation. While soil capable of creating life was indeed precious, it was of little use to him.

He spent decades coming to the Historians' Guild, all for the sake of truly mastering the power of the Time Lord.

The moment Rosen integrated the historical imprint into the noble's extraordinary essence and activated the Time Lord's professional power, he and the divine realm vanished instantly. When he came to his senses, he was already standing not far from the intact Mudman Ancestral Land.

Inside those simple buildings, one could see clay figures frolicking happily.

The strongest of the mud figures is at least Sequence 2 in strength, yet it looks no different from the other carefree mud figures.

This innocent and playful nature seems to be rooted in the instincts of these clay figures.

Rosen looked around and saw that everything within a hundred meters was shrouded in thick white fog.

His divinity probed into it, only to be shattered almost instantly by the white mist.

However, he already knew what the white mist was: it was time, it was history.

At this moment, he and his divine realm traveled back to 80,000 years ago.

Historical imprints have sustained this small space, preventing it from being eroded or altered by time.

Through the power of the Time Lord, he transformed this small space into his own territory.

By anchoring this territory through historical imprints, he can travel from 80,000 years in the future to this territory 80,000 years ago at any time.

In this state, as long as the divine realm remains here, people 80,000 years from now would have to use a power strong enough to destroy this territory across 80,000 years to completely erase its spiritual essence.

If it's just about survival, the Time Lord's power is rather disappointing.

Rosen quickly realized that he could command the mud people in his territory. All the mud people regarded him as their father god and provided him with faith. This was not only because this place had become his territory, but also because his ancient god bloodline made these mud people feel an instinctive closeness.

If Rosen encounters a troublesome enemy, he can use the Divine Realm to lure the enemy here.

Then these clay figures will obey his orders and relentlessly attack all enemies.

Finally, if his power increases further, he might even break through the time fog surrounding his territory and truly enter the timeline of 80,000 years ago. Although he wouldn't be able to cause any impact, he could personally witness everything that happened 80,000 years ago.

However, to achieve this level, at least Sequence 2 is required.

Rosen looked at the mud figures gathered at his feet with satisfaction. The hundreds of millions of high-grade spiritual crystals he had spent were well worth it.

Not only can it revive lost civilizations, but it can also establish territories in past timelines.

With this territory, his mysterious study could be reasonably explained.

Why did Qinon keep targeting him? At first, it might have been because of Damon, because of his pride, that he wanted to kill him. But later, besides being wary of his potential, what remained was his greed for the treasures that even Sequence 0s couldn't find.

If Qinong cannot subdue him for a long time, he may become angry and spread rumors that Qinong possesses a great treasure.

At that time, the realm of time will become the best cover.

Rosen exited the Time Realm and returned to reality, his face darkening as he saw the ruins of the vanished Mudman civilization.

The ruins of the clay figurine civilization seem to have become materials for constructing a realm of time.

But how will he explain this to historians?

Rosen hardened his heart; if he couldn't explain it, he wouldn't.

For the time being, the disappearance of these ruins has not yet attracted the attention of other historians.

Because there are not many researchers studying lost history, and it is impossible to monitor every historian, historians often bring relevant artifacts back to the "historical tree hole" for further study.

So for the time being, no one would doubt that someone would discover that this clay figure ruin has disappeared.

At most, one might assume that historians have taken it back to the "history tree hole" for research.

However, one can only hide it for a time, not forever.

If a historian wants to study the clay figurine civilization and approaches him to propose a joint study, he won't be able to hide it anymore. So he might as well just go all out and be honest; maybe then nothing will happen.

Unanalyzed lost histories have little practical value when presented here.

If he could quickly analyze a large amount of lost history, then he believed that the higher-ups of the historians' association would not object to any losses that occurred during the analysis process. With this in mind, he immediately went to analyze other lost histories.

As various lost histories were deciphered, Rosen quickly discovered some commonalities.

All lost histories mention the birth of deities, but without exception, no true God was ever born.

The more Rosen studied, the more he felt that these lost histories were civilizations that had been eliminated by the world itself.

The inability to give birth to a true god indicates that a civilization has limited potential and no value in continuing to exist.

Of course, even if a civilization gives birth to a true god, many will still be eliminated.

When a true god falls, many civilizations perish along with him.

As Rosen analyzes more and more lost histories, he also uncovers more and more historical imprints.

He transformed a very small number of lost civilizations that caught his eye into time-bound territories. The rest he didn't want, he chose to crush their historical imprints, thus acquiring many precious treasures. After selling them through the main temple, he not only didn't lose money but actually made a lot of money analyzing the historical imprints.

However, as more and more lost civilizations disappeared, historians finally noticed something was wrong.

On this day, as Rosen was analyzing lost history, Wendy Bulgan quietly came over and sat down next to him.

Before Wendy Burgundy could question him, Rosen took out a series of historical books he had compiled about different lost civilizations.

Wendy flipped through the history books, her eyes growing brighter and brighter, looking at Lawson as if she were looking at a treasure.

If we consider the legacy of lost civilizations as raw jade, then the successfully deciphered history is the jade itself. This history can enhance the power of the ancient tree of historical sequences, strengthen the power of historical laws, and benefit all historians.

Although it looks like some of the rough stones are gone, it's nothing compared to the jadeite that was extracted.

Therefore, Wendy not only had no intention of making things difficult for Rosen, but instead mobilized the power of the Historians' Association to collect lost historical relics on a large scale in the human world, with the main goal of squeezing the value of Suley Watson to the limit.

There are no secrets that stay hidden forever, and historians are not all friendly.

Soon enough, the Archaeological Institute also began collecting relics from lost history, further escalating the conflict between historians and archaeologists. In the end, it was only after the World Government issued an order that the Archaeological Institute was forced to back down and hand over almost all of the relics from lost history.

(End of this chapter)