Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 11 The Cause of Rosen's Death
Chapter 11

Rose Castle, Lady Stephanie Rose wakes up from a nightmare, her body drenched in sweat and clinging to her skin.

Before she could even react, countless chainsaw wounds appeared out of nowhere all over her body.

Stephanie's head rolled off the bed. Still not completely unconscious, she watched helplessly as her body was torn to pieces. At that moment, her soul and spirit were taken away by the virtual spiritual realm, leaving only blood and mutilated remains on the bedroom floor.

In the mysterious study, Rosen turned off the player, closed his eyes, and carefully examined little Rosen's memories.

Although he inherited Little Rosen's memories, he only had a general understanding of them and didn't know the specific details. Fortunately, Little Rosen's memories were stored in his soul through some unknown means, allowing him to review them carefully when needed.

Based on Stephanie's account, Rosen realized that the matter in Redstone City was not over yet.

Stephanie's main reason for harming Robertson was jealousy and resentment.

Stephanie had neither spiritual awakening nor children, so seizing the hereditary lordship of young Rosen meant nothing to her.

The one who truly wanted to seize the hereditary title of Young Rosen was not Stephanie, but her twin sister Sani, who had married into the city lord's mansion. Stephanie was merely taking the blame for Sani.

The Redstone Viscount has two sons, but the title of viscount can only be passed down to one person per generation.

Sani's husband was the youngest son, born a few months later. Naturally, he also came of age and awakened his spirituality a few months later. As a result, he was not eligible for the title of Viscount Redstone. It would have been fine if the two brothers had a good relationship, but they were not from the same father and had a very bad relationship.

In this situation, once the eldest son formally inherits the title, neither Sani nor her husband will have an easy time.

So the Sani family needs a new noble title, but noble titles are not easy to obtain.

The Sani family doesn't have the ability to become a Sequence 6 and receive a noble title.

That's why they set their sights on young Rosen. Of course, the Sani family still wanted to save face, so they pinned all the blame on Stephanie. Little Rosen didn't even know that it was Sani, not Stephanie, who was on good terms with him.

Under pressure from the city lord's mansion, Stephanie, who became a wealthy merchant through the city lord's mansion, could not refuse.

However, as time went on, her resentment grew deeper and deeper, and she finally couldn't help but find someone to replace the core materials of Little Rosen's awakening ritual.

Now that Rosen has disappeared, there are actually two groups of people searching for him.

The first wave consisted of those who had found their way home; they were all people Stephanie had sent.

As for the second wave of Sequence 9 hunters, they were hired by Sani at great expense. For this purpose, Sani even secretly borrowed a Sequence 7 extraordinary artifact, the Bloodline Compass, from the treasury of Viscount Redstone. As long as the Bloodline Compass is dealt with, the hunters' pursuit can be escaped.

"It seems all we need to do is deal with that hunter."

Rosen put away Little Rosen's memories and began to think of a solution.

Even though they are both Sequence 9, their strength can vary drastically.

Sani hired Bennett, a hunter who was once a Sequence 8 criminal hunter, at great expense.

However, something happened later that damaged its extraordinary source material, causing it to fall back to sequence 9.

It should be noted that only Sequence 3 can sustain damage to extraordinary source material. For Bennett, a mere Sequence 8, to survive being injured in the face of such an existence is already an incredible feat. It is unknown whether the entire Blazing Shadow Principality even has any Sequence 3 individuals at present.

Although Bennett's extraordinary essence was damaged, fortunately, her spirituality did not completely fall to Sequence 9.

This means that if Bennett goes all out, he could very well unleash the combat power of a Sequence 8 in a short period of time.

How can Rosen, a painter whose profession only begins to rise at Sequence 6, deal with Bennett, who specializes in combat?

The only solution Rosen could think of was to find a way to switch to the Hunter class.

Sequence 9 potion ingredients aren't actually that rare. The World Government has long been cultivating these kinds of potion ingredients artificially, and they can be easily bought as long as you have money. The problem is that he doesn't have any money right now, and he didn't plan to loot Stephanie's body after he killed her.

Because once Rosen sets foot at the scene of Stephanie's death, he has no way to erase the traces of his presence.

The Hunter Sequence would easily suspect him, but he didn't want to take the risk before the virtual realm materialized. It seemed he could only stay in the mysterious study for a while longer, and go out to make money once the virtual realm materialized. ...

Two months have passed in the blink of an eye, and Rosen has been in this world for almost four months.

The mysterious study has remained anchored opposite Rose Castle these past few days and hasn't left.

When Rosen is not busy, he can see the beautiful rose garden across the street through the window.

Lawson got up very early before dawn today because, according to the materialization process of the virtual spirit realm, the virtual spirit realm Saw 1, which has absorbed the spirituality of more than 100,000 people for three months, was nearing the critical point of materialization yesterday.

After washing up, Rosen perked up and even indulged in a bowl of beef noodles that he had drawn himself.

He then sat down in front of the computer, opened the entertainment program, and clicked on the Saw 1 movie icon to enter the player.

The player has two interfaces: one for playing movies normally and another for a virtual spiritual realm.

Switching to the virtual spirit realm, the center shows a movie, while the left and right sides display lists of avatars and names. The left side lists the avatars and names of ordinary people who obtained the still-image key, while the right side lists the avatars and names of those executed by Jigsaw.

At this point, the avatars and names on the left are gradually fading and disappearing.

Although the static painting key can pull ordinary people into a virtual spiritual realm, the spirituality contained in a single static painting is very weak. The fact that it can last for three months before dissipating is already a testament to the virtual spiritual realm's forced maintenance.

Now that the virtual spiritual realm has become a physical entity, the static painting keys printed by the main god's computer will naturally disappear as well.

Rosen looked at the play button below the virtual spirit realm interface, and noticed an additional extract button next to it.

With just a light click of the mouse, golden lightning immediately spread from the inside of the main computer along the mouse cable to Rosen's body. This golden lightning directly entered his spiritual flame, instantly strengthening his spirituality, which had already reached four points, to five points.

Nearly four months later, Rosen had only managed to improve his spirituality a little by constantly creating spiritual paintings.

This is because it is easiest to improve at the beginning. However, now that the virtual spirit realm has materialized, it has directly improved his spirituality by a point. If seven more virtual spirit realms similar to those in Saw 1 are born, his spirituality will immediately reach the upper limit of his own Sequence 9, which is twelve points.

In addition to his spiritual growth, Rosen also learned about the changes that occurred after the virtual spiritual realm materialized from the golden lightning.

Since Saw 1 became a real spirit world, his control over this spirit world has been greatly reduced.

Even if he were the master of the spirit realm, he couldn't possibly re-enter the realm to artificially create a storyline and interrogate Stephanie.

Because the current spiritual realm is a semi-real world, no longer a movie or a virtual dream world, it can accommodate the real human body to enter, and the extraordinary sequence can obtain extraordinary resources from it.

Rosen now has two options: integrate this spirit realm into the spirit world, or use it to complete the Hunter x Hunter spirit realm.

If integrated into the spirit world, the Saw 1 spirit world can autonomously absorb the spiritual power of the spirit world.

As the master of the Spirit Realm, he can decide whether to open it to the public, and can regularly obtain all the extraordinary resources that all Spirit Realms have, as well as the extraordinary resource of Repentance Crystal unique to Saw.

If he chooses to complete the Hunter x Hunter Realm, he can choose to partially activate the Hunter x Hunter Realm.

Because the map of Hunter x Hunter is too large, the human world alone has a population of tens of billions, and the human world is just an island in a lake in the Dark Continent. The spiritual realm level corresponding to such a huge map is beyond Rosen's current understanding.

Since Hunter x Hunter is far from ending, this spirit realm also has no conclusion.

If a spiritual realm has no ending, then it is impossible to switch from the ending to the beginning to reset the cycle of the world.

In this situation, only by integrating with an external spirit realm can the full-time hunter's spirit realm be completed.

If we compare the Spirit Realm of Hunter x Hunter to an incomplete puzzle piece made up of many puzzle pieces, the Spirit Realm integrated into it can complete parts of the puzzle. Based on the size of the Spirit Realm in Saw, it can at most light up a part of the puzzle the size of a small town with tens of thousands of people.

As for what benefits you'll gain after activating it, you'll only know after you activate it.

(End of this chapter)