Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 310 Taboos, Secrets, and Historical Cameras
Chapter 309

"I think I might know the secret of the Land of Lost Souls."

Rosen opened the hidden brass book and tried to record his conjectures on it.

The Hidden Brass Book can only record secrets, secrets that cannot exist in the world and cannot be known by others, secrets containing powerful curses. This means that if certain things do not meet these conditions, they cannot be recorded in the Hidden Brass Book.

Therefore, in some cases, a hidden brass book can determine whether something is hidden enough.

Rosen looked at the secrets recorded in the book and confirmed that his guess was correct.

In fact, we can see this from the Old World: the true god of the World Government, and the great true god who must exist behind it, along with many other true gods of different races, are on the surface divided into various groups and fighting endlessly for their own interests, but in reality, they have a cooperative relationship with each other.

When it comes to their own interests, even the most powerful gods will not hold back; you will die if necessary.

However, when it comes to the common interests of all the gods, such as sealing the world's will or escaping from the main world, the true gods of all races stand on the same front and cooperate closely.

However, even when there are shared interests, the true gods of each race still have their own selfish desires.

This is similar to the Doomsday Ark of yesteryear. Because tickets were limited, not all true gods could board the ship, and only one god was lucky enough to get on. Therefore, in addition to the joint plan of all the gods, the true gods of each race must have prepared their own backup plans in private.

The World Government cultivates the flames of barbarity only to counter the flames of civilization.

Rosen initially thought that the World Government was preparing to cultivate the Savage Fire as a weapon to deal with alien civilizations.

But then I thought about it again. The Barbarian Fire, which everyone hates, is not enough to deal with a few alien civilizations if there are too few of it. Instead, it will attract the collective targeting of other alien civilizations. If there are too many of it, even if the size of the Lost Kingdom is expanded a hundred times, it will not be enough.

So he thought of another possibility: could the Savage Fire be used to weaken itself?

Use the barbaric flame cultivated by the Land of Lost Souls to weaken the World Government's flame of civilization on a one-to-one basis.

It sounds ridiculous that the world government values ​​the flame of civilization so much, and has enacted so many laws that restrict the extraordinary and target ordinary people, as well as so many strategies that are beneficial to the growth of the flame of civilization, all in order to promote the growth of human civilization.

In this situation, would a world government be so foolish as to cultivate barbaric civilizations that would weaken its own civilizations?
Doing this under normal circumstances would be utterly brainless, but what about during special times?

Rosen learned from the Hidden Brass Book that civilizations face a calamity once every ten thousand years, the intensity of which is equal to the intensity of the civilization's flame. The stronger the civilization, the stronger the calamity. Theoretically, weakening the civilization's flame could also weaken the calamity that descends upon the main world.

Then, the intensity of the civilizational catastrophe that the world government suffers from will be controlled within its own tolerance range.

In this way, it would be extremely easy for them to cleverly become a sixth-level civilization.

Having learned a great deal about history, Rosen had long realized that the civilizational catastrophes the world government was enduring were far too severe.

The world government has just survived the second catastrophe of civilization, yet a true god has already fallen.

This is actually quite incredible, because the overall strength of the World Government is not weak among the dominant civilizations in history. The calamities of other dominant civilizations usually only occur when the true gods fall at the third or higher level.

The World Government predicted two cataclysmic events in advance, and a true god had already fallen.

If this continues, the difficulty will likely skyrocket to the sixth tribulation by the time the civilization reaches the fourth tribulation stage. Keep in mind that the sixth tribulation already meets the conditions for the birth of a great true god, which shows just how powerful the World Government is.

Even if a god is powerful enough to appear as a true god, it shouldn't have brought about such a great catastrophe for civilization.

This obviously abnormal situation could be because the World Government was involved in sealing the World Will, or because the main world had taken into account the great true god behind the World Government, which is why the Savage Flame was born.

Of course, the existence of the Lost Kingdom is certainly not just for the purpose of producing the flame of barbarism.

Those extremely evil second personalities sent to the spirit world are also one of the values ​​of the Lost Kingdom.

It's even possible that the extremely evil personality and the savage flame are merely byproducts, and that the ancient city in the central continent holds the true secret of the Lost Kingdom—a secret that absolutely no outsider is allowed to know except for the true god.

On this day, Rosen prepared himself and came to the World Tree.

The World Tree's growth and its control over the world's authority have reached 63% during this period.

However, the rate of increase in growth will slow down later on.

Because the Abyss Vice-Lord Anatol sealed the Greed Curse inside the World Tree trunk with multiple layers of seals, once the curse's miraculous characteristic of life and death cycle was formed, only destroying the cursed painting could destroy this Greed Curse.

However, the fact that it cannot be destroyed does not mean that it cannot be sealed. The Greed Curse itself is not a highly lethal forbidden curse.

Therefore, after a period of research, Anatole placed multiple seals on the curse of greed. Although it could not completely prevent the greedy plundering of the world's origin, it had greatly reduced the rate of loss.

It would be virtually impossible to make the World Tree grow to 70% using the Greed Curse in less than a hundred years.

Rosen connected with the power of the World Tree Miracle Sequence and began to integrate the miracle treasures left by Austin into the extraordinary essence of the Miracle Sequence.

[Historical Cameras: A Series of Miracles]

[Level: Sequence 5]

[Miracle Attribute: The historical camera can travel through time to capture past history, and may even capture a brief history of the future]

[Miracle Trait: History Replay]

This historical camera directly led to historians and photographers never speaking to each other again.

This miraculous artifact is so precious that it is extremely valuable to both historians and photographers.

Therefore, countless open and covert struggles took place in the struggle for the historical recorder.

After being integrated into the Wonders sequence, the history camera, which could only record the past, now has a chance to record the future. Although the future that can be recorded is limited by the brief history, it can still play an unimaginable role when combined with the Wonders' historical replay feature.

Actually, looking solely at its miracle attributes, the Historical Camera is not a unique treasure.

It's not that important to photographers, at least; they're not that interested in photographing the past.

Similarly, while it is quite valuable to historians, it is actually only a Sequence 5 Miracle Treasure. Even if a deity who holds the power of history uses it, at most it can only film history from a few hundred years ago. Historians have many ways to know history from a few hundred years ago.

The key to what truly drives historians and photographers to such lengths lies in the miraculous nature of history being recreated.

This miraculous property allows it to be integrated into videotapes, and then, by consuming spiritual energy, transform the videotapes into a spiritual master tape.

Creating a master tape of a spiritual realm requires a considerable investment of time and effort from the photographer.

Furthermore, not all videotapes can be converted into master tapes for the Spirit Realm; there are also specific requirements for the content being filmed.

However, the replay of history completely ignores these points; as long as spiritual energy is consumed, the master tape of the spiritual realm can be generated.

It can be said that with historical cameras, there is an endless stream of spiritual realms.

Rosen conjured a steampunk-style camera in his hand, which flickered in the void to the highest point of the magnificent palace, overlooking the entire magnificent royal city. At the same time, he stretched the camera lens to begin his first photography session.

Through the camera lens, Rosen saw the ubiquitous writhing flesh and blood.

This was before the establishment of the Glorious Kingdom, when the entire continent was still polluted by the power of the Mother of Flesh and Blood.

Data transmission brought Rosen to Redstone City in the Blazing Shadow Principality.

The camera lens keeps zooming in, and time within the lens begins to reverse continuously.

He was eager to see how he had come to be.
He also wanted to try to film the master tape of the Spirit Realm.

Rosen possesses the power of time and also has some knowledge of the laws of the world. Time is one of the core components of the laws of the world, so his control over the power of time is extremely strong. In addition, he has the bloodline of the bronze dragon, the power of the historian, and the ancient tree of the archaeological sequence obtained from Qinon.

With all these forces combined, he could film history up to a thousand years ago. As the camera zoomed in on the day of Rosen's death, and Rosen appeared out of nowhere in the frame, the historical camera suddenly exploded. Had Rosen not dodged in time by teleporting away, he would have been disfigured on the spot.

Rosen reached out and beckoned, and the fragments of the historical camera reassembled.

Miracle treasures integrated into the miracle sequence, purely from the perspective of attributes, no longer possess the uniqueness of heaven and earth and the eternal indestructibility.

In reality, these two miraculous properties did not disappear, but were absorbed by the extraordinary source matter of the miraculous sequence.

Now that the extraordinary source material has fused with five miraculous treasures, the miraculous characteristic of eternal indestructibility can be said to have been stacked with five attributes, which is equivalent to a guaranteed five-fold increase in recovery ability. Therefore, the historical camera was quickly restored to its original state.

As expected, the filming failed; the Sequence 5 historical camera was not yet capable of capturing that period of history.

Because his time travel itself is also an untouchable taboo and secret.

Over the years, Rosen has tried to find demigods who are good at predicting the past and future to deduce his origins.

The result was either that the level of deduction was insufficient to apply to Little Rosen, or that the deduction to him resulted in an immediate backlash. At best, the deduction of his past memories was forgotten; at worst, his extraordinary source essence was damaged. It is conservatively estimated that his rebirth involves the taboos of the level of a great true god.

However, just because it's not working now doesn't mean that historical cameras won't work in the future.

Miracle Sequences are not as simple as just taking complete control of Miracle Treasures and adding some attributes to Miracles.

Miracle items of Sequence 9 are integrated into the Miracle Sequence. As the Miracle Sequence level increases, the power of the Miracle items of Sequence 9 will also increase accordingly. The Miracle Sequence is now Sequence 5, and Miracle items such as the Ancient Sacred Bell and the Hidden Brass Book have been upgraded to Sequence 5.

Rosen continued filming, eventually capturing a historical episode of young Rosen's parents disappearing.

If the videotape is converted into a master tape for the spirit world at this point, Rosen's dead parents will not come back to life.

This is the only drawback of historical cameras. They can capture the past and create master tapes of the past, but these master tapes are different from the real master tapes of painters. They are more like the fake master tapes taken by photographers.

So even if the master tape of the Spirit Realm is generated, the actors that appear in it are the same as the parents of Little Rosen and have the same memories.

Everything within the Spirit Realm is fake and man-made, which is arguably the only flaw of the historical camera.

That's normal, though. If it didn't have this flaw, wouldn't historical cameras be able to easily bring ancient people back to life on a large scale? In fact, painters are the best at bringing life back to life, while photographers are always best at recording reality and photographing fictional things.

Rosen handed the historical camera to the bronze dragon's clone and casually took out another treasure, the historical treasure chest.

The Historical Treasure Chest is also a Miracle Treasure, a Sequence 2 Miracle Treasure left by Austin.

This miraculous treasure can hide things in the past timeline of history. Even the true god cannot find what is hidden in the historical treasure chest. Only historians can open the historical treasure chest, and a special key is required to open it.

This key is a fragment of Austen's timeless history book; inside it are the master tapes of Austen's films depicting the spirit world.

These are all master tapes of the Spirit Realm, taken from the past history of the Central Continent. If these things were to be spread, they would be enough to become irrefutable evidence that the Kingdom of the Lost has enslaved trillions of people, and enough to completely shake the World Government's support among the human race.

Rosen opened the Royal Treasury and integrated the historical treasure chest into it.

As expected, the power of the Royal Treasury was strengthened. Although the Royal Treasury can seal and refine treasures, the strength of the seal is only Sequence 2. Treasures of higher levels may break free from the seal of the Royal Treasury.

Now, with the integration of historical treasure chests, the seal strength of the Royal Treasury has increased more than tenfold.

Having successfully digested Austin's belongings, Rosen set his sights on Austin's legacy.

That legacy might contain the miracle skills created by Austin himself. Miracle skills are eternal and immortal. Even if Austin died, the miracle skills would generate miracle skill crystals, which could form inside the corpse or in the legacy.

Through data transmission, Rosen secretly arrived in Austin's hometown, Red Sun Continent.

Near a small town, Rosen discovered a deeply hidden spiritual realm.

Within the Spirit Realm stands a castle that has existed for many years. Many of the mechanical golems responsible for automatic maintenance within the castle have broken down, and the castle itself is dilapidated. However, the library within the castle remains intact and is well cared for by the few remaining mechanical golems.

In the study next to the library, Rosen found the legacy left by Austin.

Besides the extremely valuable historical rare books in the study, there is also Austen's research on the sequence of historians.

These are undoubtedly treasures for the Bronze Dragon clone, maximizing the growth of its historian sequence.

In the end, there were indeed three Miracle Skills inherited, but only one became a Skill Crystal. The remaining two were just inherited data of weakened versions of Miracle Skills. Apparently, these two skills became Skill Crystals left in Austin's body after his death.

Rosen casually tossed the Miracle Skill to the Bronze Dragon clone, knowing that this skill would likely never be used outside again.

Because once discovered, the affairs of the Lost Kingdom will no longer be a secret.

After returning to the magnificent palace, Rosen continued to create his own skills day after day, year after year.

He clearly divided his time, focusing intently on studying and researching, and taking a proper rest when he was really tired. So although creating his own skills was difficult, he didn't feel it was too hard.

On this day, Rosen was tired as usual and prepared to take a good rest.

While enjoying spiritual delicacies, listening to musicians playing and singing, watching dancers perform, and with angels and succubus maids constantly feeding him, it would be difficult for him to break free and continue creating his own skills if his will was not strong enough.

Just as he was in a good mood, Rosen suddenly had a bad feeling.

A moment later, Rosen saw a nervous Jason Thompson again.

The intelligence chief was even more nervous than the last time they met, and this time it wasn't conscription, but rather a summons for him, the king. The reason for the summons was to take him deep into the Old World, but this time it wasn't a forced conscription, but rather an enticement.

The World Government needs a group of top-tier demigods to go deep into the Old World to complete a mission.

Regardless of whether the mission can be completed, simply agreeing will grant you access to exchange for one item from the World Government's Treasure Vault.

If the mission is completed, one can even become a permanent member of the Noble Council.

One of the Sequence 4 Miracle Treasures that Rosen had his eye on is currently lying in the World Government's Treasure Vault.

Furthermore, resident councilors wield considerable power within the World Government. While kingdom kings can also become members of the Noble Council, those councilors only possess the most basic voting rights, whereas resident councilors can truly control a portion of the Noble Council's power.

If it were anywhere else, Rosen would have agreed immediately.

However, he still doesn't know why he left the Old World. The fact that the World Government has to bleed so much blood indicates that something new has happened in the Old World. So, although this trip has great benefits, it is also very dangerous and he has to risk his life for it.

After careful consideration, Rosen decided to make the trip.

He would leave as soon as he sensed any deadly danger, determined to get his hands on the miraculous treasure first.

It would be great if he could get the position of permanent member of parliament, but it wouldn't be a big loss if he didn't.

After Rosen gave his approval, Jason happily reported it to the World Government.

His exchange privileges were granted quickly. This time, he could exchange all the miracle treasures in the Miracle Vault, provided he had enough merit points. He had almost spent all the merit points he had earned as a Cataclysmic Apostle over the past few years to successfully exchange for a Sequence 4 Destiny Coin.

The Miracle Sequence cannot be refined yet, and this Miracle Treasure also has terrifying side effects.

Therefore, Rosen did not refine it for the time being, but sealed the Destiny Coin inside the historical treasure chest of the Royal Treasury.

After settling things in the Glorious Kingdom, Rosen stepped onto the teleportation array and returned to the Old Camp.

At this time, there were not many people left in the old camp. All the ordinary demigods had been sent away. The weakest demigods he saw after leaving the teleportation array were titled demigods, and there were even forbidden sequences like him whose bodies and divinity had broken the limits.

It's worth noting that the Forbidden Sequence is practically a reserve of true gods, so it seems that a major upheaval has indeed occurred in the Old World.

(End of this chapter)