Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 308 The Land of Lost Souls and the Forbidden Testament

Chapter 307

In the Glorious Palace, Jason Thompson, the director of the Glorious Kingdom's intelligence agency, sat cautiously.

Upon seeing Rosen appear, Jason immediately stood up nervously.

Jason knew all too well how the previous director died. This time, he brought no good news. What if Rosen vented his dissatisfaction on him and secretly made him half-dead?
"Don't be so nervous, tell me about the specifics of global recruitment."

Rosen said casually after sitting down.

"The Glorious Kingdom needs to provide conscription equivalent to one million spiritual strength."

Jason said, becoming increasingly nervous.

"one million?"

Rosen frowned, which startled Jason so much that he stood up again.

The spiritual strength of Sequence 9 units is generally nine points, which means that at least 110,000 Sequence 9 extraordinary units need to be sent to the front line. This number is not small, especially since the World Government requires territorial units as its source of troops.

Seeing Jason so frightened he couldn't speak, Farah had no choice but to explain on Jason's behalf.

A full 110,000 units of Sequence 9, equivalent to 20,000 units of Sequence 4.

Rosen can bring out his troops, but he also needs to mobilize almost all the troops in his territory.

If he is already facing such difficulties, it is certainly impossible for the kings of other kingdoms to send such a strong fighting force to the front lines all at once.

Therefore, the king needs to further recruit these one million units with spiritual strength from all the divine lords in the kingdom and distribute them among them. The recruitment strength of these one million units is higher than that of ordinary kingdoms, but not by much.

After all, the Glorious Kingdom is called a kingdom, but in reality, its territory lies somewhere between a kingdom and an empire.

The number of newly emerging nobles in the kingdom has been considerable in recent years, so this conscription quota is not intended to make things difficult for the glorious kingdom.

Of course, Rosen could not assign all of the conscription quota to the nobles of the Glorious Kingdom.

Because in ordinary divine territories, it is difficult to cultivate high-level troops.

If all the troops sent to the front lines are low-level units, they will inevitably become cannon fodder without any support. Very few will return alive, and even the merits earned in killing enemies in the war may be stolen by others because the units are scattered and difficult to count.

Therefore, as king, he must dispatch at least 10% of the high-ranking troops, and at least one hero to command these troops.

Although casualties were still unavoidable, at least the merits they made were something no one dared to tarnish.

After a moment of contemplation, Rosen decided on the type of troops to be dispatched this time.

As a Sequence 1 hero, the Scourge Apostle commands fifty Sequence 2 heroes, one thousand Sequence 3 Shadow Fiends, one thousand Sequence 3 Metal Slimes, and finally ten thousand Sequence 4 War Treants.

The territorial troops that Rosen dispatched, when converted to divine strength, amounted to at least 700,000.

The remaining 300,000 can be easily raised by conscripting people within the kingdom.

His decision to be so generous was not only because this war was started by him, but also because he had strong combat power and had gained many merits on the battlefield. With the Abyss's terrifying ability to produce troops, he might be able to seize the opportunity to promote the kingdom to an empire.

The kingdom recruited soldiers in just a few days, but it took half a month to wait for the World Government's troop transport ships.

Many people may not understand why troop transport ships are used to send troops to the front lines.
Wouldn't it be more convenient to use teleportation arrays directly? You could simply place troops in the divine territory and then teleport a divine lord there. No matter how you look at it, it would be more convenient, faster, and cheaper than using troop transport ships. However, the World Government still insists on using troop transport ships.

The reason is actually quite simple: teleportation arrays are too unreliable during wartime.

All long-distance teleportation essentially involves compressing the spatial distance between two points. However, the more this distance is compressed, the more difficult it becomes. Usually, compression stops at a certain point because the cost and difficulty of further compression increase exponentially.

Therefore, long-distance teleportation arrays will always pass through a spatial channel when teleporting.

Since it's a passage, there must be a middle section.

During wartime, enemy deities who control space often prefer to explore spatial passages, intercept them, and then destroy the teleportation arrays on both sides. Therefore, during wartime, primitive troop transport ships are still the most practical and have the highest margin for error.

After sending all his troops away, Rosen prepared to set off to find the miracle treasure of Sequence 5.

The World Government's attention is currently focused on the Abyss Battlefield, which makes it easier for him to go there and find that miraculous treasure. You should know that that place is a restricted area designated by the World Government, and it is the highest level restricted area that only true gods are allowed to set foot in.

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The human world, the mysterious sea.

This is a sea area with extremely scarce extraordinary resources, and it is not suitable for human beings to live an extraordinary life.

However, the true god of the World Government moved nine giant continents, each capable of supporting trillions of people, and forcibly transformed the Lost Sea into the most densely populated area of ​​the World Government, making it a place where the extraordinary sequence almost disappeared.

The Lost Kingdom, comprised of trillions of people across nine continents, has rightfully become the largest empire in human history.

The emperor of the Lost Kingdom is even rotated among human true gods.

The Lost Kingdom, East Island, is a giant continent located due east of the nine islands.

Rosen disguised himself as an ordinary person and secretly infiltrated the East Island through data transmission.

This mysterious empire, mentioned only in fragments, is about to unveil its secrets before him.

In fact, historians are not unaware of the secrets of the Lost Kingdom, but the secrets of the Lost Kingdom are taboo in themselves. Therefore, all the results of the historians' secret research are recorded in the Hidden Brass Book, and only the most superficial basic information remains in the secret realm of history.

Dongdao Flower City is famous for its perfumes and all kinds of flower-related products.

As Rosen walked through the city, his first impression was that something was wrong.

Everyone in Hundred Flowers City is polite, friendly, kind, hardworking, healthy, and positive. The people living in Hundred Flowers City do not possess any of the negative aspects of human nature that are essential to humanity. The city is filled with all the positive truths, goodness, and beauty of humanity.

However, the nature of normal humans has always been complex and ever-changing, with good and evil coexisting.

True truth, goodness, and beauty can only be found through brainwashing.

This is what alien races like to do most. For example, the humans that the Abyss Monarch raises in the Abyss Plane like to discard all the goodness and beauty of humanity and leave only the evil and negative aspects. On the other hand, the Angel race likes to retain the goodness and beauty of humanity and completely erase the evil aspects of humanity.

When Rosen arrived in Hundred Flowers City, he thought he had come to the paradise of the angels.

Everything in the universe has its own way of balancing, and the balance between good and evil is morality.

Absolute good and absolute evil both violate the instinct of human life.

Imagine that you killed someone's child in front of them, slept with their wife, and possessed an extreme sense of truth, goodness, and beauty, making them abandon their hatred and wholeheartedly persuade you to be kind. You can imagine how terrifying such absolute goodness is.

Therefore, everyone in Hundred Flowers City appears normal, but in reality, they have all been brainwashed and controlled. This kind of control is something that the World Government explicitly forbids, because brainwashed humans are not recognized by the flame of human civilization, and may even weaken the flame of human civilization and become a malignant tumor.

Therefore, even human demigods are not allowed to distort the believers' will when absorbing faith.

Previously, Rosen only dared to make slight adjustments to the good and evil of believers when using the Ancient God Realm and the Demon Seed to tamper with them. These adjustments were only made to those troublemakers and would not completely alter the believers' self-will. However, in the Land of Lost Souls, there are no taboos. Under the rule of the True God, hundreds of trillions of ordinary people have been brainwashed and manipulated.

Rosen observed carefully for several days, and sure enough, the hidden truth of Hundred Flowers City was exactly the same as recorded in the Secret Brass Book.

If all that remains for an ordinary person is truth, goodness, and beauty, then where has the darkness hidden in human nature gone?

The answer is that it was sealed deep within the spirit, and then an absolutely evil second personality was generated.

When life comes to an end, the second personality will be separated by a magic circle that runs throughout the city before death, and then sent to the spirit world one by one.

Therefore, the hundreds of trillions of people in the Land of Lost Souls are actually just tools used to produce an endless collection of human evil thoughts.

Rosen saw these things through the hidden brass book and found it somewhat hard to believe.

Now that he saw it with his own eyes, he felt a sense of fear and instinctively wanted to turn around and leave the Land of Lost Souls. Because such a massive amount of human malice had been injected into the Spirit Realm without causing the slightest ripple, this was a power that even a true god could not control. Therefore, he suspected that the Land of Lost Souls might be connected to a great true god standing behind the World Government.

Only a great and true God could make a world government willing to damage the flame of human civilization.

Rosen himself retreated into a mysterious study, deciding to travel outside from now on as a bronze dragon avatar.

As for Yinglong's clone returning to the Glorious Kingdom, if something happens to the Bronze Dragon clone, Yinglong's clone will open the door to the Mysterious Study in the Glorious Palace, changing the spatial anchor of the Mysterious Study in the Land of Lost Souls. This way, even if the Great True God wanted to keep him, it wouldn't be so easy.

After making all the preparations, Rosen piloted the bronze dragon clone to embark on his journey.

Historians love to uncover the secrets of history, and they certainly wouldn't turn a blind eye to mysterious countries.

Therefore, the number of demigod historians who died in the Land of Lost Souls is too many to count on two hands.

The world government's suppression of high-ranking historians and support of archaeologists was sparked by the Lost Kingdom.

Of all the historians who died in the Land of Lost Souls, the most brilliant was Austin Richard, a Sequence 3 historian. He created three skills at Sequence 3, and without exception, they all transformed into Miracle Skills.

If Austin hadn't perished in the Land of the Lost, Wendy would never have become a deity.

Austin's first stop in the Land of the Lost was Flower City. He must have known that coming to the Land of the Lost was very risky, so he would most likely have left some clues. However, with the passage of time, no one can say for sure whether these clues will be preserved.

Rosen searched for a month, but found no clues whatsoever.

Either Austen didn't leave any clues, or the clues have been worn away by time.

After all, Baihua City has been renovated many times, basically every few hundred years it needs to be renovated again.

Although Rosen possesses the power over time, he can only see the past, which is a few hundred years ago at most.

Unless one possesses the professional authority of ancient scholars to unearth historical traces from history, it is impossible to travel to a more distant time to know what happened in the past, or one must go to the spirit world, which must have preserved the City of Flowers from Austin's time.

However, Rosen doesn't want to venture into the spirit realm of the Lost Kingdom for the time being.

Any clues left behind will be erased over time.

Austin must have known this, so he would have taken this into account when leaving clues.

So what else has been able to survive the long passage of history?
Rosen continued his search in Hundred Flowers City, examining everything, big and small.

He finally found it; the clue had been right in front of him all along.

People die, but their bloodline is passed down to future generations.

All you need to do is choose a large family, seal the clues in the family’s bloodline, and as this family continues to intermarry and multiply in Hundred Flowers City, after tens of thousands of years of intermarriage, everyone in Hundred Flowers City will inevitably inherit this bloodline.

Rosen repeatedly sneaked into ordinary homes throughout the city late at night, easily collecting blood samples from many people.

Then, through the laws of flesh and blood, we can uncover the hidden clues within these bloodlines and genes.

Sure enough, he had found the right target. Austin left two clues. The first was a coordinate that pointed to the next clue, and it also indicated that each clue would be hidden more secretly. If he was not able to find it, he should escape from the Land of Lost Souls as soon as possible.

Only by following the clues can one be qualified to follow in Austen's footsteps and explore the secrets of the Lost Kingdom.

Another clue points to the legacy Austin left behind in his hometown.

Austin was clearly a very proud man. Even knowing that he would most likely die if he came to the Land of the Lost, he still insisted on coming. He was so proud that he did not pass on the legacy he left behind to his people, because ordinary people were not qualified to receive his legacy.

Only historians who, like him, came to the Land of Lost Souls are qualified to receive his legacy.

Following the clues, Rosen left Flower City and arrived at Monument City.

This city has the feel of an ancient historical city, and the whole city is full of ordinary people who study history. However, the history that these people study is the history of the sages of the Eastern Island of the Lost Kingdom.

After reading about the historical deeds of these sages, Rosen felt nothing but endless madness.

For example, there was a sage whose city was suffering from famine. His clansmen made up one-third of the city's population. The sage managed to persuade hundreds of thousands of his clansmen to make sacrifices, ultimately choosing to let all his clansmen starve to death so that the food could be left for the other starving people in the city.

This is the standard of a sage: being able to make a great sacrifice willingly for the survival of humankind.

When Austin arrived in Monument City and looked at these monuments that recorded the historical deeds of saints, he must have found it very ridiculous. To starve hundreds of thousands of his own people to benefit outsiders, was such a saint not a madman with a broken mind?

And what's even more ridiculous is that two-thirds of the starving people in the city would rather die than eat the food left by the sage family.

In the end, the entire city starved to death, with not a single person surviving, truly demonstrating the noble sentiment of sharing life and death in adversity.

However, as Rosen looked at these monuments to saints and sages, he discovered some hidden problems.

People starving to death only happens in times of low productivity.

Those with extraordinary abilities may not have enough to eat because spiritual ingredients are difficult to cultivate.

However, it is impossible for ordinary people to go hungry. Although the supernatural beings in the Land of Lost Souls are almost extinct, the technology here is not much behind that of the outside world. So how could there be a famine where the entire city starves to death?
Although the city of Monument has been renovated many times, the countless monuments in the Forest of Steles outside the city are well preserved.

Even if there is any damage, it will be repaired by Monument City.

Rosen searched the Forest of Steles for several days and finally found the second clue that Austin had hidden.

This clue is hidden in the monumental deeds of saints, one of whom is named Ryan Foster. He learned about this in the secret realm of history. Ryan Foster happens to be one of Austin's aliases, and the deeds of this saint are also very strange.

This sage named Ryan possesses extraordinary abilities, including the ability to transfer other people's illnesses onto himself.

In the end, Ryan saved countless lives, and after his death, those he saved also committed suicide out of guilt, following Ryan's example.

Moreover, unlike other sages who came from other cities on the East Island, Ryan was clearly a sage from Monument City. Therefore, Monument City even has a sage hall dedicated to Ryan's relics, and every year the people of Monument City go to the sage hall to worship.

After Rosen infiltrated the Hall of Sages, he finally found a fragment of an eternal history book.

After activating this page, Austin's suicide note appears on it.

Rosen was slightly taken aback; he had thought he would need to find many clues to finally locate Austin's whereabouts.

Surprisingly, Austin had already left a suicide note in only his second city.

Moreover, the suicide note begins by stating that only those who possess the Hidden Brass Book can live to read the rest of its contents.

Rosen immediately summoned the Hidden Brass Book and began to examine Austin's will.

It turns out that when Austin arrived at the Lost Kingdom's East Island, he was confident that he could use his abilities to delve into the Lost Kingdom and uncover the secrets that the World Government was trying so hard to hide. However, when he arrived at Monument City, Austin had already unexpectedly discovered some of the truth.

The spirit world is formed from the souls of ancient gods, while humans originated from primitive humans, who in turn originated from the World Tree.

However, the World Tree created primitive humans based on the ancient gods themselves.

Therefore, in essence, humans and ancient gods share the same origin.

In the Land of Lost Souls, human evil thoughts are transformed into a second personality, which is then trapped within the body for a lifetime before being sent to the spirit world. The purpose is likely to corrupt the soul of the ancient god, causing the sleeping ancient god to give birth to a second personality composed of evil thoughts.

Seeing this, Rosen could easily deduce the World Government's purpose.

Because the ancient gods were invincible, the desire was to separate their good and evil thoughts, splitting them into an ancient god with absolute good thoughts and an ancient god with absolute evil thoughts, so that the two ancient gods would be naturally incompatible and opposed to each other.

This is an absolute secret of the World Government, and even involves the great true God in the shadows.

Knowing this secret is not enough to escape the pursuit of the great true god.

So when Austen realized she knew a secret she shouldn't have known, and didn't know whether she would live or die if she continued, she left a will in advance. This doesn't mean that Austen died soon after leaving the will, but that every step she took afterward was fraught with danger.

(End of this chapter)