Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 390 The Black Iron Kingdom and Forbidden Black Iron Life

Chapter 389

In the Holy Grail Empire, a virtual projection sand table is displayed in the main hall of the Holy Grail Castle.

There are a total of fifteen kingdoms surrounding the Holy Grail Empire.

Nine kingdoms have now been completely destroyed, and six kingdoms remain unresolved.

Among them, the kings of the Sky Kingdom, the Iron Kingdom, the Silver Kingdom, and the Gold Kingdom were suspected of being parasitized and replaced by an entity claiming to be GM, so these four kingdoms had to remain until the end, leaving only the Beast Kingdom and the Dark Night Kingdom.

The territory of the Beast Kingdom is very small, limited only to the backs of various giant beasts.

However, this also made the Beast Kingdom a mobile kingdom, allowing it to easily roam the wilderness between different kingdoms.

The Dark Kingdom is even more unique, as the entire kingdom only appears during the night.

After careful investigation by the All-Knowing Eye, it was discovered that the Dark Night Kingdom exists within the shadows cast by sunlight on the Moonlight Lake. Among all the kingdoms, the Dark Night Kingdom is the most exclusive, having absolutely no contact with any other kingdoms.

After careful consideration, Rosen decided against personally destroying the two kingdoms.

Because, relatively speaking, he was more interested in GM.

Therefore, the Dark Night Kingdom can be dealt with slowly by the Apostle of Calamity and the Grim Reaper's clone. As long as the real king with the identity of an emperor does not break into the Dark Night Kingdom, the Dark Night King will not wake up. It is enough for the Apostle of Calamity to conquer it slowly.

As for the Beast Kingdom, leave it to the Necromancer Queen and the Dark Sun Slime; if it can't be resolved immediately, then resolve it slowly.

Rosen transferred the Omniscient Eye to the Black Iron Kingdom, and the Void Realm Eye Technique immediately projected a three-dimensional image of the Black Iron Kingdom onto the virtual sandbox.

The entire Black Iron Kingdom was completely shrouded in black smog, making it almost impossible for sunlight to reach the ground.

All the cities were shrouded in a barrier, filtering out the smog that covered the entire kingdom.

However, maintaining a permanently established energy barrier requires considerable energy consumption.

Therefore, the outermost barrier of the city cannot completely filter out smog; only the inner city barrier can completely filter out smog.

The lifespan of the lower class living in the outer city is less than one-fifth that of the lower class in the Golden Lion Kingdom.

The huge difference is not only due to the highly toxic nature of the smog, but also because the Black Iron Kingdom has never achieved universal transcendence.

In the world of Kings, it's easy to advance to the Extraordinary class because the regeneration rate of Extraordinary resources at the lower levels is astonishing.

The Black Iron Kingdom isn't incapable of making everyone extraordinary; rather, it treats ordinary people as mere consumables.

The chances of getting pregnant after changing to a superhuman class will decrease, which is not conducive to the special needs of the Black Iron Kingdom.

Because they don't treat ordinary people as human beings at all, the Black Iron Kingdom can forget about having any popular support.

Normally, this would affect the continuation of civilization and lead to the decline of a kingdom.

Historically, almost all kingdoms that did not cherish and exploited the people, even if they experienced a short period of glory, would eventually suffer a backlash and decline. However, the civilization of the Black Iron Kingdom did not decline after reaching its peak; instead, it grew stronger and more prosperous.

Rosen still doesn't know exactly why this is happening.

He has already sent some Eternal Avatars in to infiltrate and explore the secrets hidden in the Black Iron Kingdom from other angles.

The spiritual paintings created by the Hand of God, combined with the Omniscient Eye, have greatly amplified the effects of the Omniscient Eye.

However, the capital city of the Black Iron Kingdom was still able to escape the gaze of the Omniscient Eye.

From this perspective, the Black Iron Kingdom is far more important than the Sky Kingdom.

The Silver Kingdom and the Gold Kingdom are even more powerful than the Iron Kingdom.

The steam-powered airships leading to the Black Iron City emit billowing smoke from their steam boilers, continuously creating new smog.

Rosen had seen steam civilizations; there was quite a bit of steam technology in the Chaotic Seas.

Thanks to the special power of steam, this ancient technological system has not been completely eliminated.

After all, there's a saying that the ultimate goal of science is to boil water.

However, even though the steam technology in the Chaotic Seas is far inferior to that of the Black Iron Kingdom, the steam technology in the Chaotic Seas can still achieve zero pollution. Filtering pollution is not a difficult task. The Black Iron Kingdom gives Rosen the feeling that it deliberately enhances pollution.

Inside the aristocratic cabin of the steam-powered airship, Rosen gazed through the window at the Black Iron City, which was faintly visible through the smog.

He is not the original self now, but a divine consciousness possessing an eternal avatar, which then assimilates and replaces a baron's heir.

He personally went to the Black Iron City to investigate, hoping to find the answer he was looking for.

Once you pass through the outer city's barrier, the smog thins to the point of being almost invisible.

However, the air outside the city still had a heavy smell of smoke and dust, and even more so, a stench like that of a burnt corpse.

After disembarking from the steam-powered airship, Rosen displayed his noble coat of arms and gained entry into the inner city.

The outer city is full of factories and chimneys, but the inner city is completely free of them. The steam-powered machinery on the roads does not pollute the environment at all. The inner and outer cities are completely different worlds. Compared to the outer city, the air in the inner city is sweet.

Rosen hailed a steam carriage and quickly arrived at the House of Nobles.

He was impersonating Bryce Fox, the heir to a fallen baron. Now, only Bryce remained of the family, and he had come to the Black Iron City to inherit the title.

Rosen, a mere baron without a fief, easily inherited the title of baron.

Although they were close to the bottom of the nobility, all nobles had various privileges exclusive to them.

Settle in the inner city of all cities, including the Black Iron City.

Rosen stayed at the Nightingale Inn, a hotel with close ties to the outer city.

The nobles of the King's Continent do not have as many restrictions as the nobles of the World Government.

Because the Kingdom of Kings did not abolish slavery, the Nightingale Inn secretly served as a black glove for the inner city nobles to capture slaves.

If any family in the outer city has a beautiful daughter or a handsome son, they will soon become missing persons in the outer city, and then a nobleman in the inner city will have a few more slaves. So no one knows the outer city better than these black gloves.

Rosen had been at the Nightingale Hotel for less than a night, and most of the staff, except for the guests, had already been replaced.

He had considered replacing everyone with an eternal clone, but he simply couldn't handle the work that some people in the hotel were doing.

Fortunately, these people are all pitiful and not important, so they don't necessarily need to be replaced.

The Nightingale Inn's slave-catching team had many informants in the outer city, and Rosen quietly gathered the clues he needed.

Many clues that weren't obviously hidden have been gathered in just a few days.

Because of common sense, Rosen already knew this by spying on other cities.

In the Black Iron Kingdom, everyone who dies is cremated instead of buried. This is because there has been an ancient custom that death is like a lamp going out. Therefore, the relatives of the deceased do not care about the body. The kingdom is responsible for collecting the body and sending it directly to boil water.

In these respects, the outer city of the royal city is no different from the outer city of other cities.

However, in other aspects, the situation in the royal city is somewhat unique.

Because the corpses of all the extraordinary beings in the entire kingdom would be transported to the royal city for cremation.

Then, in the factory outside the city, a special metal called black iron was created.

In the normal sense, "black iron" simply refers to a black metal formed by the fusion of iron and carbon.

The black iron of the Black Iron Kingdom is similar, except that the iron required for fusion is iron imbued with divinity, the carbon is the corpse carbon of extraordinary beings, and finally, it is fused with the extraordinary source matter of extraordinary beings, ultimately generating the black iron unique to the Black Iron Kingdom.

The production of black iron is very high, after all, the number of superhumans who die every day in the Black Iron Kingdom is not small.

However, not even a single gram of black iron was found outside. Only the royal city could manufacture black iron, and all the black iron produced would be collected by the royal family and then used to fuse with other metals to create black iron alloys. These black iron alloys were then used to manufacture various steam-powered machines.

The value of black iron alloy varies depending on its quality, but generally speaking, black iron and black gold below Sequence 3 are not expensive. However, the source black iron is something that even a duke would face certain death if he dared to steal.

After buying some black iron alloy, Rosen used the Eternal Root in the Mysterious Study to return to his origins.

The result was unexpected; there was no iron inside the black iron alloy at all.

On the surface, black iron alloy appears to be an alloy of black iron and other metals. In reality, black iron only participated in the manufacturing of black iron alloy and did not truly integrate into it. Therefore, what one gains by returning to the source is only a small amount of special energy derived from black iron.

Omniscient Magic Eye Analysis...

Analysis of the main god's computer...

Analysis of the Primal Potions Master...

Analysis of bio-alchemy...

I attempted to analyze all forms of alchemy, including soul alchemy...

Rosen finally discovered the specific function of the special energy originating from the black iron.

Black iron has life; it is not a metal but a living thing.

The subjects truly ruled by the Black Iron King were not human beings at all, but rather Black Iron, a special artificial life form.

It's no wonder that the Black Iron Kingdom, which treats people so disrespectfully, has seen its national fortunes rise steadily without declining.

Since humans are merely the raw material for creating black iron, most black iron life forms are hidden in the royal city.

In the southern part of the outer city, Rosen is embedded like a ghost in a factory that manufactures black iron.

However, he soon discovered that these factories were nothing more than a facade.

These factories are merely entrances to a certain space.

Rosen identified a transport worker who was delivering semi-finished black iron and anchored the portal to the mysterious study to this person.

It wasn't until almost morning the next day that the transporter took the semi-finished black iron to the mysterious space.

Each transport worker can transport at most a palm-sized piece of black iron semi-finished product that is heavily sealed.

Rosen realized that the semi-finished black iron was absorbing the spiritual essence of the transport workers. Therefore, all of these transport workers were consumables and no more than one could be transported at a time. It was only because the semi-finished black iron absorbed the spiritual essence so intensely that it caused the transport workers to die suddenly, causing panic.

Rosen followed the transporter through the portal and saw a large, dark iron hall.

All the transport workers returned along the same route. After the last one left, pure black figures appeared in the Black Iron Hall. These people were completely unafraid of the absorption of spiritual essence by the semi-finished black iron products. They carried all the semi-finished black iron products out and transported them away.

Rosen anchored the portal to the unfinished black iron structure and then saw the true face of the mysterious world outside the black iron hall.

This is a small world spanning several thousand miles, or rather, it's not a world at all.

The entire world has no blue sky and white clouds because the sky is made of black iron, and the sun, moon, and other stars are also made of black iron. Inside this world encased in black iron, everything is made of black iron.

Rosen saw that at the very center of the world stood the real Black Iron City.

However, the inhabitants of the city are not humans, but black iron life forms that appear to be just like humans.

After the semi-finished black iron was transported to the real Black Iron Royal City, it was placed inside a special furnace. Inside the furnace, a mysterious black flame burned. After absorbing the black iron flame inside the furnace, the semi-finished black iron turned into iron eggs.

All the iron eggs were sent to the orphanage, and Rosen soon saw one of the iron eggs crack open.

Then a black iron baby crawled out of it, and the eggshell automatically softened and turned into a close-fitting outfit.

This is the Black Iron life form, but I don't know what's so special about it.

"I feel like I've seen this kind of birth somewhere before?"

Rosen took out the Eternal History Book and the Hidden Brass Book and began a detailed search for relevant history.

History is so vast that it is almost impossible for anyone to know all of it.

Because time keeps moving forward, the amount of new history is endless.

Aside from those that interested him, Rosen only skimmed through the rest and got a general understanding.

While this might lead to a broad but shallow knowledge base, you can refer to information whenever needed without having to memorize it by rote.

"So these are artificial humans..."

Rosen frowned as he flipped through the historical data he had found.

Artificial humans are humans that did not evolve naturally.

In the world where the ancient gods transformed into all things, all intelligent life originated from the World Tree and from primitive humans.

Angels and demons, goblins and gnomes, all alien races trace their ancestry back to humans.

The origins of alien races can generally be traced back to the true god.

For example, among the angel race, there was once a superhuman who mastered the connection to light. After becoming a true god, he guided some humans to merge with his bloodline based on his current form, eventually growing wings and gradually evolving into the angel race.

There are many advantages to doing this; firstly, it allows one to monopolize the faith.

Then they become a new race, capable of generating new civilizations independently of the human race.

Unless they are genuine gods with ulterior motives, they all have the ability to guide some humans to evolve into new alien races.

However, no matter when, there will always be some people who want to take shortcuts.

If angels are evolved from humans, then androids are artificial humans created by imitating humans and undergoing unnatural evolution.

Artificial humans are devoid of humanity; they are monsters devoid of human nature from the moment they are born.

Ironically, androids and humans can have children, but the children born are also androids.

Therefore, artificial humans would pollute the human bloodline and were directly destroyed by the combined forces of the true gods of various races back then.

Even the technology for creating all artificial humans was destroyed at that time.

It now appears that the technology for creating artificial humans has been hidden away. The Black Iron Kingdom is essentially a special artificial human kingdom. It's just unknown what special value artificial humans have that would make the Black Iron King completely abandon his human subjects.

The best way to find out the answer is to capture some Iron Homunculi.

Since the Black Iron King was fast asleep, he wasn't worried about alerting him.

Rosen instantly used the Window of the World to take photos, turning all the Black Iron androids in the orphanage into pictures and making them disappear. While the Black Iron Royal City quickly discovered the problem and imposed martial law, the alchemists of the Glorious Kingdom had already begun researching the Black Iron androids.

Research has found that the Iron Homunculus has two life forms: the Iron form and the normal human form.

In Black Iron form, the entire body becomes metallic black iron, while in Human form, the body transforms into a fleshy form.

Furthermore, it was discovered that although the Black Iron Homunculus's spirituality does not grow on its own, it can plunder the life essence and spiritual essence of humans by eating them. Therefore, the Homunculus is a kind of artificial monster that feeds on humans.

Provided there is enough food, these Iron androids can grow to Sequence 1 in a short time.

This is faster than leveling up by killing monsters in the King's Continent. The Black Iron King is probably just waiting to awaken so that he can release all the Black Iron androids to prey on humans from all countries, and then become stronger and stronger as he eats, becoming the final winner of the King's Game.

This is understandable, as the true gods of each race did not leave any way out for the androids back then.

Normally, even natural enemies of a race would not completely exterminate their rivals.

By giving other races a way out today, we ourselves will have a way out in the future.

As long as the races created by the true god are not completely wiped out, the true god theoretically still has a chance to be resurrected.

(End of this chapter)