Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 9 Lady Rose
Chapter 9

Shell Street in Redstone City is home to many wealthy merchants.

At 15 Shell Street, you can see the three-story miniature castle surrounded by roses of various colors from afar.

Rosen looked out of the window of the mysterious study toward Rose Castle, waiting for Stephanie Dora, the owner of Rose Castle, to appear on the terrace of the miniature castle. Stephanie was the most beautiful of all the wealthy women Rosen had dated, and also the one with the deepest background and the richest.

Rosen hadn't taken Rosen's romantic escapades seriously at first.

Even though Stephanie's people searched the whole city for little Rosen, Rosen didn't take it to heart.

First of all, Stephanie was definitely not the one who tampered with the materials and killed Robertson. After all, what Stephanie wanted was Robertson's hereditary title. Killing Robertson would have meant losing everything. So even if someone wanted to avenge Robertson, they couldn't find Stephanie to blame.

But Rosen didn't understand why Stephanie was able to pinpoint his location so accurately.

The last time he distributed the key to the still image, he brought a lot of food into the mysterious study.

But after a while, it was still completely eaten.

Rosen had to leave the mysterious study to get food, but this time he almost got caught by the hunters sent by Stephanie.

Rosen and Stephanie were close friends, and Stephanie could easily obtain Rosen's hair and nails.

Using these skills, the hunters, skilled in pursuit, could easily pinpoint Little Rosen's location.

However, Little Rosen had already vanished into thin air, and Rosen only obtained Little Rosen's memories. The hunters sent by Stephanie were still able to pinpoint his location accurately and appear at the place where he last disappeared within five minutes at the latest.

Rosen didn't know what medium the hunter used to track him, but he realized that leaving Redstone City wouldn't be so easy.

Although humanity slew five gods and established a world government, those gods also left behind an eternal curse before their deaths.

Since then, endless ashes have shrouded human civilization, and only gatherings of more than a thousand people can dispel them.

The ashes that filled the sky and earth, stretching between cities, led Rosen to give up without a second thought.

Putting aside the fact that he didn't know the way, even if he did, he wouldn't want to face those dangerous and unknown ash creatures.

Therefore, the only way to leave Redstone City is by train. However, the Mysterious Study cannot move with the train. When the train leaves, the Mysterious Study is left behind. This makes Rosen realize that the Mysterious Study seems to be anchored to space, rather than the physical object it was attached to when the door was opened.

Unable to evade the fare through the mysterious study, Rosen had no choice but to buy a ticket and leave through normal channels.

But no sooner had he gotten into the car than the hunter would catch up.

So if he wants to leave Redstone City, he needs to find out how the hunter tracked him.

Rosen had considered setting a trap to eliminate the Sequence 9 hunter, but Stephanie could hire one hunter, and naturally she could hire a second or third. So, the best option to get rid of the pursuit once and for all was to directly eliminate Lady Rose, Stephanie.

Although he was annoyed by being hunted these days, Rosen also made some new gains as a result.

Rosen had previously believed that the door to the mysterious study was the only way in and out of it.

But these days he has discovered that, in addition to the door, he can also leave the mysterious study through the window.

Moreover, once you enter or leave the mysterious study through the door, the door will close, and you will need to open the door again to enter the mysterious study.

However, the mysterious study won't close if you leave through the window, so jumping out of the window is actually more convenient than going through the front door?
With this new discovery, Rosen transformed into a mysterious thief and obtained a considerable amount of food.

He only needs to open the window and reach out his hand. As long as there is food near the window, he can bring it back to the mysterious study. Unlike a door that appears when it is opened, the window of the mysterious study is not visible from the outside when it is opened inward.

If it weren't for this new discovery, Rosen wouldn't have dared to plot against Stephanie. A spiritual painting flashed in Rosen's hand, depicting a rapidly spinning bullet.

He infused his spirituality into his spiritual paintings, using his own spirituality to resonate with the bullet in the painting and to lock onto the terrace of Rose Castle.

Soon Stephanie came to the terrace and looked down at her Rose Castle and the street outside the garden, which was Stephanie's favorite enjoyment every day.

However, just as Stephanie took a deep breath, a bullet suddenly appeared in a window across the street.

Hundreds of meters away, they were within two seconds of each other. Just as the bullet was about to pierce Stephanie's head, the necklace around Stephanie's neck suddenly flashed with spiritual light, unfolding a magical barrier that enveloped her entire body, easily blocking the deadly bullet.

Stephanie frowned as she watched the bullet, which had been imprisoned by a magical barrier, vanish into thin air.

She turned a ring on her left hand, and a semi-transparent ash assassin immediately appeared beside her. This was a summoned creature whose soul was corrupted by ash after the assassin's death, turning into an ash creature, and then captured and modified by the wizard sequence.

Although the Ash Assassin no longer has a physical body, his speed increases dramatically after becoming a spirit.

The distance of hundreds of meters was covered in seconds. His body passed directly through the wall and entered the building opposite Rose Castle. However, after searching around, he found nothing and could only return to Stephanie's side to await new orders.

"The painter sequence couldn't possibly run that fast."

Stephanie muttered softly.

Although she was limited by her talent and unable to awaken her spirituality, she had access to a lot of common knowledge about the extraordinary sequence through her wealth and her sister who had married the second son of the Redstone City Lord. Therefore, she concluded that the painter who had attacked her earlier had accomplices.

Stephanie turned and left the terrace, preparing to enter the safe house hidden inside the bedroom.

However, just as she pushed open the hidden door of the bookshelf, she felt that the side of the bookshelf felt strange.

Stephanie immediately examined the side of the bookshelf closely and discovered that there were pieces of paper pasted on the side of the bookshelf.

The surfaces of these papers are painted with the same colors as the bookshelf, so it's difficult to tell the difference at a glance when they're pasted on the bookshelf.

Clearly, someone nearby tampered with the bookshelf.

The attack that just happened on the terrace wasn't intended to kill her; it was just meant to make her feel threatened and prompt her to enter the safe house.

That way, if she pushes the side of the bookshelf to open the hidden door to the safe house, she will definitely come into contact with the piece of paper stuck to the side of the bookshelf.

Realizing she had been infected, Stephanie wasn't in a hurry to enter the safe house.

She continued to observe and noticed that one of the neatly arranged pieces of paper on the side of the bookshelf was missing. The missing piece was in the exact spot where she had touched the bookshelf when she pushed it. This sudden disappearance of the paper immediately reminded Stephanie of the news that had come from the outer city.

The news that a large number of ordinary people in the outer city were pulled into the spiritual realm could be kept from ordinary people, but not from the powerful and wealthy in the city.

It's common knowledge that there's a painter, possibly a Sequence 6, behind the scenes. So these days, the city's elites rarely go out, worried about provoking the painter. You know, the strongest city lord in Redstone City is only a viscount, and his corresponding extraordinary sequence is only Sequence 7.

To deal with a Sequence 6 noble painter, one must request assistance from the duchy.

But it's easy to guess that a Sequence 6 noble might come from a high-ranking noble family in the Blazing Shadow Kingdom.

So far, only a thousand ordinary people from the outer city have died in Redstone City. Those who died were either criminals or scum. None of the city's nobles have been in trouble so far. Under these circumstances, the city's nobles have tacitly agreed that it's better to avoid trouble.

According to Stephanie's information, the medium for entering that spiritual realm was a series of still images the size of cards.

Stephanie tore off a piece of paper with a dark expression, and sure enough, there was a still picture drawn on the other side of the paper.

(End of this chapter)