Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 309 The Savage Flame and the Savage Will

Chapter 308

In the mysterious study, Rosen copied all the contents of the fragments from Austin's Eternal History into his own Eternal History.

At the very end of the last page of the eternal history book, a clue left by Austen is recorded.

This time, the clues didn't point to cities near Monument City, but directly to Thousand Mountain City, the westernmost city on the Eastern Island continent.

This already spans the entire East Island continent, and it's no surprise that Austin is preparing to head to the Central Continent.

The entire Lost Kingdom is centered on the central continent, surrounded by islands in eight different directions.

If we're talking about the eight island continents, historians who come to the Land of Lost Souls can still send back a little bit of historical information before they die.

No historians have sent back any information about the mysterious central continent.

Rosen had no intention of lingering in the cities along the way, nor did he possess the intense curiosity of other historians. As long as he obtained the Sequence 5 Miracle Treasure that Austin carried with him, the secrets hidden in the Lost Kingdom were of no importance to him.

Two months later, Rosen crossed the East Island continent and arrived at the Thousand Mountains.

There are a thousand coastal mountains here, constantly battered by tsunamis. Each tsunami leaves behind a large amount of seafood at the foot of the mountains. Therefore, the city of Qianshan, which was built by carving into the mountains, can support tens of millions of people with just this seafood.

Rosen arrived at the highest mountain peak and gazed across the sea at the distant central continent.

Because the main world is flat and the sky is round, you can easily see very distant places if there is no obstruction at the sea level.

Furthermore, since the Land of Lost Souls was not shrouded in ashes, the central continent could be seen across the sea from the Eastern Island.

Rosen silently slipped into the heart of one of the mountains and began searching for clues left by Austin.

The tsunami receded just yesterday, and almost all the residents of Qianshan City went down the mountain to collect seafood.

Those that must be eaten as soon as possible will be eaten as soon as possible, and those that can be processed and preserved will be transported to the factory as soon as possible.

Everyone was busy and bustling about, leaving only the elderly and children inside the mountain.

Rosen walked around the mountainside, and his biggest impression compared to Hundred Flowers City was that it had gone from civilized to backward.

Although both are located on the Eastern Island continent, the technology of Hundred Flowers City surpasses that of this place by a thousand or even ten thousand times.

This is clearly abnormal. In fact, along the way from Monument City to Thousand Mountain City, although he had never been to many cities, it did not prevent Rosen from discovering one thing: starting from the easternmost part of the East Island, the closer to the west the central continent, the fewer cities there were.

Moreover, the technological level of the cities along the way is relatively backward the closer they are to the central mainland.

This is clearly abnormal. The only technological product in the entire Thousand Mountains City is a seafood processing plant. The residents here are unaware that Hundred Flowers City has a virtual network and mechanical puppets. They don't even know that there are other cities outside of Thousand Mountains City.

Rosen also discovered something unusual about Thousand Mountain City; the entire city was completely devoid of any sense of the power of civilization's destiny.

Every civilization has its own flame, and every principality or state has its own flame.

The power of all the flames of civilization should encompass the entire civilization. The closer to the center of civilization, the stronger the power of the civilization's fortune; the farther away from the center, the weaker the power of civilization's fortune within the town.

However, Rosen discovered that the Kingdom of Lost Souls seemed to have turned upside down.

From Hundred Flowers City to Thousand Mountains City, the closer a city is to the central continent, the weaker its civilizational fortune becomes. By the time you reach Thousand Mountains City, there is no civilizational fortune at all. Coupled with its unusually backward level of technology, there must be a great secret behind these anomalies.

Rosen continued his exploration of Thousand Mountain City, but soon he stopped and retreated into a mysterious study.

As time went on, he found that danger was beginning to loom over him.

Opening the Void Album, Rosen began to draw a precognitive picture.

Since he didn't have time to search for clues, he tried to obtain them directly through precognitive means.

Soon it was known that the painting was finished, and that it depicted fragments of Austen's eternal history.

Rosen took out the tattered page from the desk in the mysterious study, grabbed it, and stretched his hand out through the Window of the World.

In the void, wisps of light converged, merging with the fragments of the Eternal History Book to generate new content.

Those streams of light are Austen's divinity remaining in different timelines. Only fragments of the Eternal History Book could converge from different timelines. This must be the power of some kind of miraculous skill that Austen possessed; otherwise, it would be impossible to do such a thing.

After Rosen retrieved the torn page, he began to examine the newly added content.

According to the surviving pages, Austin went directly to Thousand Mountains after leaving Monument City.

Here, Austin discovers that the entire Lost Kingdom is attempting to transform the flame of civilization into the flame of savagery.

The words "Savage Fire" are visibly disappearing from the pages of the Eternal History Book.

Rosen immediately opened the Secret Brass Book. It contained too many secrets to read all of them, and even if he did, he would forget them all once he closed the book.

After opening the Hidden Brass Book, he quickly found information about the Savage Fire.

All things in the world are interconnected and mutually restraining; this is the fundamental rule governing all things in the world.

If something doesn't have a counteracting aspect, then sooner or later it will break free of control and destroy everything.

The same applies to the development of civilizations; the more powerful a civilization is, the greater its demands on the world.

Therefore, the more powerful a civilization is, the greater the threat it poses to the world.

Thus, the Savage Flame was born. This Savage Flame is naturally the nemesis of the Civilization Flame, possessing the terrifying effect of causing civilization to degenerate. Because the threat of the Savage Flame is too great, this power was sealed by the gods from the very beginning of its discovery.

The flames of civilization and the flames of barbarism are two sides of the same coin, and there is a relationship of mutual transformation between the two.

Legend has it that the earliest sparks of civilization were transformed from the sparks of barbarism.

If a primitive, savage civilization continues to develop and eventually gives birth to a powerful, intelligent civilization, the flame of savagery will transform into the flame of civilization. Conversely, if an intelligent civilization reveres savagery, it may regress back to the flame of savagery.

The closer the Land of Lost Souls is to the outer reaches, the more civilized it becomes; the closer it is to the central continent, the more backward it becomes.

These anomalies will cause the flame of civilization in the Land of Lost Souls to degenerate into a flame of barbarism.

Ultimately, it won't just be a simple collapse of civilization. The intelligence of the citizens of the Lost Kingdom will be greatly reduced, eventually turning them into primitive barbarians. Trillions of humans will degenerate into barbarians, which could even cause the world government's flame of civilization to collapse.

Rosen continued examining the fragments of the Eternal History Book, and Austin left behind a coordinate on the edge of the central continent.

It also explains that if Austin's fatal warning is discovered in the subsequent clues, then one must immediately return and leave the Lost Kingdom, because leaving a fatal warning means that, in Austin's view, continuing on would mean certain death.

Rosen calculated the coordinates left by Austin; he now needed to cross the ocean to reach the central continent.

Leaving the mysterious study, he quietly slipped into the sea and began to traverse this vast ocean, which spans millions of miles in a straight line.

Rosen's movement method is unique. He unfolds his world domain and then spreads it forward. When the domain is spherical, its coverage is the smallest. When it is tubular, it can easily extend to several times the limit of divine perception.

As long as instantaneous movement within the domain is guaranteed, it will not interfere with the external space.

This is a very safe way to travel, unless a true god happens to appear on the road and discover his world domain, but that is almost impossible. After all, a true god wouldn't be so idle as to use his divine perception to monitor the entire Lost Kingdom in real time.

A few days later, Rosen crossed the sea and arrived at the central continent.

He quickly found the coordinates left by Austin on the cliff edge, so he no longer needed to actively search for them.

This means that Austen's mindset has completely changed. In the City of Flowers, Austen was very confident, so he left clues to test those who came after him. But the further he went, the more desperate Austen became, and he lost interest in playing puzzle games with his juniors.

Or perhaps, wisps of divinity converge from different timelines onto the fragments of the eternal history book.

After Austin arrived in the Central Continent, he returned to this coordinate more than once to update the clues he had left behind.

Austin spent many years investigating the Central Continent, and he was shocked to discover that countless savage primitive tribes existed there.

Unlike the humans of the Eastern Island, they possess normal human intelligence but do not possess any extraordinary abilities.

The primitive tribes in the Central Continent have low intelligence, but they possess extremely powerful supernatural abilities.

Even a random human tribe of a thousand people has a demigod in charge.

Where there are 10,000 people, there is a deity presiding over them. Human tribes with more than 10,000 people do not exist because barbarity and primitiveness inevitably lead to low productivity. More than 10,000 people is the upper limit that human tribes here can accommodate. When the population reaches 100,000, civilization will gradually emerge.

Every human tribe possesses a savage fire, and each savage fire exists independently. The entire Central Continent is essentially a factory for producing savage fires.

Austin eventually discovered that at the very center of the entire central continent lay a magnificent ancient city.

The human tribes of the Central Tobacco Continent do not allow intelligent people to exist. If any tribe discovers that someone's intelligence surpasses that of others, they will immediately exile that person to this ancient city. The entire ancient city is a no-go zone, and Austin's last stop was this ancient city.

Rosen continued reading, and the last page revealed two things.

Austin pleaded with him to leave the Land of Lost Wonders with the fragments of the Eternal History Book and return them to the Secret Realm of History.

Without the power of a true god, do not continue to explore that ancient city.

If you really can't resist exploring, you can send the fragments of the Eternal History Book to the Eternal Secret Realm and then come back.

As payment, Austin left behind the two treasures he possessed.

The treasure was buried in the sea, and Rosen turned back to the ocean and quickly found the place where Austin had buried the treasure.

However, there was nothing there; the treasure had already been taken away.

If it was taken by the true god who guards the Land of Lost Souls, then he should have left a trap here.

If the historian who came here was following in Austen's footsteps like him, then why didn't he take away the fragments of the Eternal History Book? Moreover, the clues to Thousand Mountain City and the Central Continent are all manifestations of Austen's divinity, and no one before him should have triggered the clues.

If they are neither true gods nor historians, then were they barbarians from the Central Continent who found this place and took the treasure?

Rosen quickly found the nearest barbarian tribe. The tribe had 10,000 people. The barbarians in the tribe were completely naked, and every barbarian had a flame brand on their heart.

These barbarians are physically very strong, but spiritually very weak.

However, this does not mean that spirituality is a weakness, because the barbarians in the tribe can activate the flame mark in their heart, and then their whole body will burn with savage fire. This savage fire has a strong resistance to spiritual power, and at the same time can enhance their physique to a terrifying degree.

Rosen quickly discovered the treasures left behind by Austin, as the two items were too conspicuous within the tribe.

The entire barbarian tribe had no houses or tools; everyone simply lived together in caves and hunted with their bare hands. Under these circumstances, two treasures that were clearly creations of civilization naturally stood out conspicuously within the tribe.

Rosen drew a prophetic picture showing that he would be discovered as soon as he approached the tribe.

Although he successfully obtained the treasure and even killed the tribal chief.

However, the painting then became blank. Clearly, forcibly infiltrating the tribe would likely have alarmed the true god guarding the Land of Lost Souls. Otherwise, the painting wouldn't have been blank. Only the laws of the true god could interfere with the power of the laws mobilized by the painting.

Rosen then considered another possibility: could he control a barbarian to steal the treasure?

I continued drawing the premonition picture, but the rest of the drawing remained blank.

Rosen realized that the problem most likely lay in the Savage Fire. Otherwise, it would be unlikely that the enslavement of an ordinary savage would be discovered by the true god. It was only possible that the Savage Fire had been triggered, thus attracting the attention of the true god who guarded the Land of Lost Souls.

Rosen then tried various methods, but none of them produced a good result.

This made him realize that it might not be possible to obtain the treasure silently.

Since that's the case, we might as well just take a hard line.

Once he gets his hands on the item and enters the mysterious study, he can instantly escape the Land of Lost Souls and return to the glorious royal city.

Since we're going to resort to force anyway, why not just seize the barbarian tribe's savage torch?

He tried, and the Miracle Flame could not control the Savage Flame, but the Miracle Flame had the instinct to devour the Savage Flame.

However, taking action may leave traces, and someone may be able to trace them back to him.

Therefore, even if they were to take action, they would have to completely sever all ties with the original owner.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Rosen decided not to intervene.

He planned to have the Mother Tree of Life take action. If the World Government wanted to hunt him down, they could go to the Mother Tree of Life. If they were so capable, they could find the Ancient God Realm. As long as he didn't take action, not a single clue would be left. At worst, he could secretly use the Sequence 5 Miracle Treasure left by Austin later.

Having made up his mind, Rosen communicated with the ancient gods' true realm within the world domain.

The Mother Tree of Life quickly shrank to the size of a palm, leaving the World of Life and entering the World Realm.

The World Realm and the Window to the World overlapped, and the Mother Tree of Life was thrown out through the window.

The prepared Mother Tree of Life instantly unfolded a divine domain of life laws that enveloped the barbarian tribe. Although it had fallen to Sequence 0, the Mother Tree of Life controlled the laws of life, not the rules of life.

Even if this law of life is not recognized by the current main world, it does not prevent the law of life from exerting its full power within the realm of laws.

One by one, the barbarians were bound tightly with branches.

The tribe's strongest chieftain was grabbed by the right hand, which was made up of countless branches of the Mother Tree of Life. No matter how frantically he struggled, he could not break free all at once. Finally, the Mother Tree of Life stretched out its left hand, grabbed the Savage Fire, and began to retreat.

Unlike the flame of civilization, which has almost no physical form, the flame of barbarism is clearly a ball of fire.

When the Mother Tree of Life returned to the Rosen World Realm, its left hand, which was holding the Savage Flame, had already been carbonized by the terrifying high temperature.

Rosen brought the World Domain to the World Tree, where the Imaginary Dragon began to suppress the tribal chiefs with divine power.

At the same time, the clone in the glorious royal city began to open the door and change the spatial coordinates anchored in the mysterious study.

The moment the door to the magnificent palace opened, the mysterious study had already left the central continent.

Almost simultaneously, a true god, shrouded in flames, emerged from an ancient city on the central continent.

At the ruins of a barbarian tribe, the true god, engulfed in flames, picked up a piece of the Mother Tree leaf, which had been burned to ashes.

Almost that same day, the World Government launched a surprise attack on the Elven God without warning.

One-third of the entire Elf continent was destroyed after the war. The newly reborn Mother Tree of Life, taking advantage of its terrain, dragged a true god of the World Government down with it, resulting in their mutual destruction. Not long after, the Elf God retaliated by destroying a human empire near the border.

When Rosen received the news, he was still somewhat shaken.

He never expected that the World Government would be willing to sacrifice even a true god to pursue this matter to the end.

The newly cultivated Mother Tree of Life by the Elven race has perished. It is believed that the World Government has realized that it has hired the wrong person, so things will definitely not end here. It seems that the Mother Tree of Life can forget about leaving the Ancient God Realm in the future.

Beneath the World Tree, the Miracle Flame relentlessly devours the Savage Flame.

One of the unknowns in the Miracles trait is gradually being revealed as the Savage Flame disappears.

[The Flame of Miracles: The Rules of Miracles]

[Rank: Great True God]

[Miracle Attribute: The Miracle Flame can control the flame of civilization formed by the fortune of civilization]

[Miracle Traits: Balance of Fate, Sequence 1 Activation Unknown, Unknown, Savage Will, Unknown, Unique in Heaven and Earth, Eternal]

"Savage will?"

Rosen carefully sensed the properties of this illuminated miracle.

It turns out that the flame of barbarism is also the flame of civilization, and barbarism itself is a special kind of civilization system.

However, this civilization system is completely opposed to other civilization systems.

After the Miracle Flame ignites the Miracle Trait Savage Will, it can now also control the Savage Flame, degenerating the Civilization Flame into the Savage Flame, and at the same time, sublimating the Savage Flame into the Civilization Flame.

Activating the Miracle Trait Savage Will allows you to temporarily transform the Miracle Flame into Savage Flame at the cost of losing your sanity.

Rosen is now Sequence 2, and after activating his Savage Will, he can easily tear apart gods.

Of course, such great power comes at a price. Once he loses his mind, his intelligence becomes like that of a barbarian. This will only stop when he kills all those around him who are hostile to him. Therefore, this is a forbidden ability that he will not regain his senses until his enemies are dead.

He can only be permanently rid of the side effects of savagery if he becomes a true god in the future.

Finally, Savage Will also has a passive effect that makes him immune to damage targeting divinity at the True God level.

(End of this chapter)