Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 391 Shortcuts to Civilization and the Demise of Nations and Extinction

Chapter 390

"I think I made a mistake in my analysis..."

As Rosen was pondering how to deal with the Black Iron androids, another possibility suddenly occurred to him.

According to his observation, this true Black Iron Royal City, hidden in another dimension, contains approximately one hundred million Black Iron androids.

Such an army grows stronger with each meal it consumes during its conquests of the kingdom, easily producing tens of millions of Sequence 1 units.

Such a force is indeed terrifying, but it could also easily become the common enemy of various kingdoms and empires.

The hastily acquired Sequence 1 is a shoddy product; it's only a matter of time before they are all wiped out in the face of the great true god.

Therefore, the royal family spent 23,000 years accumulating so many Iron androids, and their purpose was probably not to use them as cannon fodder on the battlefield. These Iron androids likely had other uses.

Because a group of Black Iron androids went missing from the orphanage, the True Black Iron Royal City outside has begun to be sealed off.

The royal guards searched the city continuously, and even two princes came to search for the intruders themselves.

If we can capture a prince alive, we should be able to obtain a lot of clues.

……

Prince Freyne walked through the orphanage, enveloped by a god-level magical time reversal spell.

The results were not as good as expected; the intruders who broke into the orphanage did not leave a single trace.

The only clue we can deduce is that the intruders entered through the outer city's spatial portal, following the Black Iron semi-finished products, and perfectly evaded all inspection methods along the way before finally arriving here and capturing some of the Black Iron androids.

It's unlikely to be any other nearby kingdom, because almost all of those kingdoms have recently fallen.

Only the Holy Grail Kingdom remains, and that terrifying Holy Grail King has finally set his sights on the Iron Kingdom.

However, the Black Iron Kingdom is not like those other kingdoms. The monster sitting on that throne is no longer their father. They just have no ability to resist that monster. Perhaps they can eliminate that monster with the help of the Holy Grail King.

“If you can hear me, I think we can talk.”

After driving away all the Black Iron androids, the second prince, Freyne, whispered among himself throughout the orphanage.

Upon hearing this through the Window to the World, Rosen, who was about to take action, changed his mind.

The left eye's illusory realm pupil technique locked onto the prince outside, and had begun to forcibly pull the prince's divine consciousness into the virtual world.

Prince Freyne instinctively wanted to resist, but at the last moment he cooperated and allowed a sliver of his divine consciousness to be drawn away.

As long as it's not all divine consciousness, even if a mere trace of divine consciousness is destroyed, it won't have a serious impact.

Rosen constructed the Holy Grail Castle in the virtual world and sat on the throne, watching the second prince, Freyne, appear in the hall.

"Prince Freyne of the Black Iron Kingdom is honored to meet the great King of the Holy Grail."

Prince Freyne greeted him with humility.

"You know that the Black Iron King is no longer your father?"

Rosen asked in surprise.

"Nothing can be hidden from you. I want to ask for your help to kill that monster..."

As Frain spoke, he gritted his teeth, his deep-seated hatred finally becoming uncontrollable.
Perhaps realizing that this was the only opportunity he had waited for 23,000 years, Fred told everything he knew.

In the earliest days, the Black Iron Kingdom was not like it is now.

Although they also use the remains of superhumans to create black iron, they do not treat ordinary people as less than human.

Until one day, Freyne, along with her brother and two sisters, noticed that their father was becoming increasingly strange. However, at that time, they did not consider the possibility that the Black Iron King might be replaced, because if the king were to fall, the very flame of civilization would be shaken.

By the time they realized something was wrong, they had already arrived in the King's Continent.

During the war, they discovered that the Black Iron King had been replaced by a monster.

I wanted to resist then and there, even if I couldn't resist, I could run away.

However, let alone resisting, they couldn't even escape and were captured alive by the Black Iron King.

They even planted unknown control methods within their divine essence, forcing them to obediently carry out the various commands left behind by the Black Iron King before he fell into slumber. If it weren't for the technology developed over the years to suppress these control methods, they wouldn't even be able to reveal the Black Iron King's secrets.

The purpose of the Black Iron Homunculus is definitely not to become a soldier.

Instead, they are used to raise pigs. Newborn Black Iron androids are of low level, and they can grow quickly by feeding them human feed. Once the Black Iron androids' extraordinary level is raised to Sequence 1, they are slaughtered to harvest higher quality Black Iron.

All of this high-quality black iron became fuel for the flame of civilization.

Rosen anchored the space around Freyne and then witnessed the flames of civilization of the Black Iron Kingdom.

The pure black flames of civilization burn continuously, consuming black iron.

This was not a pure flame of civilization. Rosen's flame of miracles, even through the Window of the World, was eager to devour this flame of civilization that was several meters tall. However, before figuring out what was going on, he was not comfortable letting the flame of miracles eat things indiscriminately.

After absorbing a large amount of black iron, Frain used a bottle made of black iron to absorb a tiny bit of the flame of civilization.

This tiny flame will fuse with some special materials to form the special flame needed to manufacture semi-finished black iron products. Because it is a consumable, it needs to be constantly collected and replaced. However, this time Rosen will keep a small amount for research.

Once he got his hands on the tiny flame, the size of a soybean, Rosen immediately began to examine it carefully.

With the Miracle Flame and the All-Knowing Magic Eye at their disposal, the research process was surprisingly simple and smooth.

Rosen then realized that he had made a mistake from the very beginning.

Iron, silver, and gold likely refer to more than just metals.

These three terms often refer to civilization.

The Black Iron Civilization, Silver Civilization, and Gold Civilization are different eras of the same civilization, and can all be described as Black Iron, Silver, and Gold. Of course, ordinary civilizations are not qualified to be divided in this way; only civilizations at least at the Fifth Tribulation level or above are qualified to divide eras.

Rosen has come into contact with many sources of civilization, and the sources of civilization from different civilizations are vastly different.

The Angel Civilization of Paradise Mountain has existed for tens of thousands of years, but even when the World Government was first established, the strength of its civilization's flame far exceeded that of the Angel Civilization. This is because the World Government is the current dominant civilization.

However, despite being a dominant civilization, the World Government's civilization is not even qualified to carry the shoes of the Ancient Gods.

Because the ancient god civilization was a ten-kalpa civilization, while the world government was only a two-kalpa civilization.

If there is such a huge gap between dominant civilizations, then what about just three human kingdoms?

However, through some unknown means, the Black Iron Kingdom transformed the core element of its civilization, black iron, into fuel, gradually giving its civilization's flame special black iron properties—a characteristic that only the dominant civilizations that survived the five cataclysms could obtain.

If one day, the three kingdoms of Black Iron, Silver, and Gold merge into an empire.

Then, the flames of civilization containing the characteristics of the three civilizations merge with each other, and the resulting flame of civilization may bring about unimaginable changes.

Of course, these are just analyses. For Rosen, the Black Iron Civilization's Flame is a very suitable resource for the Eternal Flame Origin.

The Miracle Flame is the source of the Eternal Flame, and it now needs the Civilization Flame to heal itself.

Ordinary civilization flames, though numerous, lack quality and are of little use. However, if the civilization flames of the three kingdoms of Black Iron, Silver, and Gold could be merged into one, it might greatly advance the repair of the Eternal Flame Source Seed's wounds.

Only by giving up something can you gain something. Rosen took out a flame composed of the eternal source of fire.

Then, through the eternal source, this flame is transformed into a seed.

Finally, the seed was given to Frain, who secretly mixed it into the black iron fuel of the Black Iron Civilization.

Meanwhile, Rosen's other two eternal clones have also infiltrated the Silver Kingdom and the Gold Kingdom.

As expected, the three kingdoms were all pretty much the same. He also caused some trouble in the Silver Kingdom and then turned one of the princes against him.

Meanwhile, in the Golden Kingdom, the prince investigating the matter actually refused. Knowing full well that the king was an imposter and didn't seem particularly loyal, it meant the prince had a very poor relationship with his father—so poor that he had no desire to avenge him or seize the opportunity to set things right.

Fortunately, Rosen already knew the secret behind it, so he used the mysterious study to find the fuel storage location.

Although it wasn't as smooth as the previous two, in the end nothing bad happened.

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye, and the fuel for the seeds planted in the Golden Kingdom was finally sent to be burned.

At this point, all three seeds have been integrated into the flame of civilization.

The eternal flame is the source of all civilizational flames, and actively integrating into the flames of the three civilizations is without any rejection.

However, the power of the Eternal Root was slow to take effect because of the fear of awakening the three kings.

However, a few months later, the flame of civilization in the three kingdoms began to take root, sprout, blossom, and bear fruit.

The flame of the Black Iron civilization took root, sprouted, and bore two fruits.

The first one contains the origin of civilization, while the second one is a special piece of black iron shaped like an apple.

Because both fruits originated from the Eternal Root, Rosen directly traversed the void to harvest all the fruits through the Root Source Seed.

At the same time, all four fruits of the civilization's growth in the Silver Kingdom and the Gold Kingdom were also harvested.

Rosen casually tossed the three Origin Fruits to the Miracle Flame, then picked up three apple-shaped pieces of black iron, silver, and gold. These three metals were of the quality of a Great True God and could be used to create three extraordinary artifacts of the corresponding level.

However, that's something to consider later. The flame of civilization has been stolen, and the three kings have begun to awaken.

Because they lost the flame of civilization, the power of the three kings suffered a backlash.

Without the blessing of civilization to shape the nation's destiny, coupled with the fact that the three kings were completely unpopular and two princes were rebelling at this time, the external support that could be gathered by the royal lineage was very limited.

The Iron King and the Silver King, after awakening, possessed at most the strength of True Gods.

Only in the Golden Kingdom, where there was no internal strife, was the awakened Golden King able to barely maintain the strength of a great true god.

Rosen entrusted the two kings, the Iron King and the Silver King, to his clones to deal with.

As for the Golden King, he personally led the mysterious study to devote all his efforts to the task.

Unlike the Iron Kingdom, which developed steam technology, the Golden Kingdom excelled at creating golden artifacts.

This is a special kind of extraordinary artifact. Because it is made of gold and the corpse of an extraordinary person, the gold artifact can inherit part of the extraordinary person's power and can also grow stronger by consuming other gold artifacts of the same type.

The highest-level golden treasures in the entire Golden Kingdom are the Golden Throne of the Golden King and the Golden Archer's Armor, which comes with its own weapon.

The Golden King slept inside the golden coffin, which was transformed and reassembled from the Golden Archer's Holy Armor. The shackles of the Ancient Gods bound the golden coffin, the Golden Divine Bull pulled it from the front, and the Miracle Stone Man pushed it from behind. Finally, before the King awoke, he managed to push the golden coffin into the portal.

The moment the portal closed, the mysterious study was completely sealed off, both inside and out.

As the golden coffin deformed and reformed, the Golden King, who had been repeatedly stimulated, finally awoke.

As the golden holy armor transformed into full-body armor, the Golden King instinctively wanted to create distance.

However, the mysterious study was only so big, and suppressed by the immortal world, it was impossible to expand the domain of laws and create distance within the domain space. Helpless, the Golden King could only draw his bow and shoot Rosen within a limited distance.

Fearing that the Golden King might harm the terrifying, the bathroom attached to the mysterious study was preserved this time.

Rosen teleported to the bathroom and closed the door, leaving the golden arrows to destroy the mysterious study.

As a result, the mysterious study was completely unharmed. The power accumulated by the golden arrow struck the door, and the damage spread but rebounded back into the mysterious study towards the Golden King, forcing the Golden King to continuously negate the damage he released.

At this moment, Rosen had already left the mysterious study and appeared in the Silver Kingdom.

Everything went very smoothly in the Black Iron Kingdom; Suwa had already been drawn into the chessboard before he even awoke.

I initially thought this was a miraculous treasure, but it turns out to be an even rarer miracle from the world.

Although it cannot compare to the Mysterious Study, it has no problem trapping the Black Iron King, who has fallen back to the strength of a true god.

The real trouble is with the Silver King, who was pulled into the Ancient God Realm.

However, at the last moment, the Silver King unexpectedly awoke ahead of schedule.

Black iron is black iron steam, gold is gold treasure, and silver is silver secret treasure.

Like the Gold Treasures, the Silver Treasures are special types of extraordinary artifacts. However, the Gold Treasures are better at enhancing offense and defense, while the Silver Treasures are better at enhancing and protecting the divine essence. Therefore, the Silver King's divine consciousness awakened much faster.

This is where the problem arose: the shared divine consciousness of the three kings was pointing towards the game GM.

Even if weakened to the level of a true god, it is still possible to turn the tide by manipulating game permissions.

Therefore, Rosen himself immediately arrived at the Silver Royal City through the interdimensional gate. Seeing that the Silver King no longer had a body but only a soul, he unhesitatingly unfolded the miraculous painting, Horror Paradise, and then used the Painting World Descent to merge into the law domain he had unfolded.

The rules of the King's Game are very strict; even Rosen in the Sky Kingdom couldn't effectively resist them back then.

However, the rules of the game cannot be used arbitrarily; otherwise, the Sky King could simply use the rules to eliminate him.

Obviously, even if you gain some game privileges, you only get surface-level privileges, not deep-level privileges.

Although Horror Paradise is only at the True God level, it contains countless mysterious scenes and contains numerous mysterious rules created by painters using these scenes. As the master of Horror Paradise, Rosen combined all the mysterious rules to generate the most core mysterious rule.

That means that without his permission, you can enter the horror park but not leave.

There are only three ways to escape the horror park.

Rosen deliberately let himself go, using his supreme power to ignore the mysterious rules and fight his way out. He also had to abide by the mysterious rules and meet the conditions for leaving, because all mysterious rules require leaving a way out. The way out of the horror park is to pass through nine mysterious realms in a row.

The eerie rules of the horror park are quite unique: the narrower the path to survival, the less dangerous the eerie rules are.

The wider the path to survival, the more dangerous the unpredictable rules become.

In order to enhance the ability of the mysterious rules to trap enemies, Rosen deliberately left a very large escape route.

However, a problem arises: weak enemies can be easily trapped without any mysterious rules.

When a powerful enemy is trapped in a horror paradise, how can they obediently play through all sorts of eerie and terrifying scenes like a horror game? So even though the way out is right in front of them and it's easy to get out, the stronger the enemy, the less likely they are to obediently follow the rules and leave.

If they don't leave for a period of time, the second layer of power of the mysterious rules will be activated.

That is the terrifying assimilation ability. The longer an intruder stays in the horror park, the more they will gradually assimilate with it. Once completely assimilated, they will become a part of the horror park and will be unable to escape.

Rosen reclaimed the terrifying paradise that had descended upon the painting world, trapping the Silver King inside the painting.

Only then did he return to the mysterious study with the painting to continue dealing with the Golden King.

Like the King of the Chess Game, the Golden King also accumulated increasingly terrifying damage in the Mysterious Study. Eventually, like a frog slowly being boiled in water, he gradually pierced through the terrifying defenses of the Golden Archer's Holy Armor. Finally, he was beheaded by the Emperor's Holy Sword, and his consciousness was shattered to suppress his divine status.

Meanwhile, the Silver King was also trapped and died in the Horror Park, and it was only a matter of time before he was assimilated by the Horror Park.

Rosen then rushed to the Black Iron Kingdom, where several of his clones had already joined forces to defeat the Black Iron King on the chessboard.

All three kings were captured alive, and Rosen simply incorporated the Iron King and the Gold King into the horror park as well.

When the Horror Park was assimilating the Silver King, he discovered that the game privileges held by the Silver King were also being assimilated by the Horror Park little by little. This was because the Horror Park's mysterious rules also incorporated the Eternal Compatibility Source and the Eternal Game Source.

The eternal origins that Rosen possessed within his Eternal Godhead are gone because they can no longer threaten the Eternal Root Seed.

However, this does not mean that the Eternal Origin that was obtained was not retained. Whether it is the Ancient Tree of Origin or the many treasures it possesses, they all contain some Eternal Origin. This is why Horror Paradise is able to be compatible with and integrate the game permissions held by the Silver King.

However, the Eternal Game Origin is fine, since the Origin Seed is currently ownerless and there are no immediate concerns.

However, the eternally compatible source will eventually be separated from the horror paradise, otherwise it may be taken over by the World Tree in the future.

As the three kings are gradually assimilated by Horror Park, the game permissions combined with the Eternal Game Origin actually create a mysterious spiritual realm called Civilization Game within Horror Park. Through this spiritual realm, Rosen can gain a little bit of game permissions for the Kings Game.

(End of this chapter)