Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 46 Territorial Structure and Mysterious Storybook
Chapter 46

Rosen continuously cleansed the Alchemy Castle with his own spirituality, and soon refined this Sequence 9 extraordinary artifact.

Walk a hundred meters away from the ancient tree in the sequence and activate the alchemy castle with a thought.

The palm-sized alchemical castle grew larger and larger in the wind after being released.

At the bottom is a huge circular metal base, on which the castle's foundation is supported by heavy load-bearing columns.

Above the foundation are a three-story castle hall and living quarters, a six-story castle tower, a steam-powered tower that keeps the alchemy castle running, and even a defensive tower that can deploy elemental barriers.

Finally, because the castle's foundation rests on load-bearing pillars, strictly speaking, the entire castle is in a semi-floating state.

Once the base at the bottom starts to rotate, the entire castle can also rotate in mid-air.

As for the Ancient Tree of Sequence, it has been shrouded in the Alchemy Castle and hidden within the castle.

Rosen took out the control center of the Alchemy Castle, which was actually a palm-sized, scaled-down model.

By controlling this model, he can control the entire alchemical castle.

Rosen chose this type of alchemical castle, with its foundation partially floating and capable of rotation, primarily to guard against spirit beings that could appear at any time.

He also considered building alchemical walls around the base.

In this way, the space directly beneath the castle foundation and between the base can be used to cultivate medicinal fields for growing precious magical herbs.

Even if spirit beings attack, with the protection of the city walls and the castle's elemental barrier, the medicinal fields between the base and the foundation will not be destroyed by spirit beings. As for the ordinary farmland outside the city walls, even if it is destroyed, the loss will not be significant.

If the Alchemy Castle is equipped with defensive weapons in the future, the rotating Alchemy Castle will also be able to achieve its maximum attack range.

The Lord of the Divine Realm is omnipotent within the Divine Realm, and altering the terrain is merely a matter of a thought.

Rosen began to reshape the entire divine territory like clay. First, the area of ​​the territory was limited by its own spiritual strength and could not be expanded further, but the effective area could be expanded by raising the terrain.

Therefore, under his modifications, the land directly beneath the Alchemy Castle began to rise continuously.

Eventually, it became a towering mountain peak, with terraced fields surrounding it from top to bottom.

Then, inside the mountain, a large number of caves were created that could be inhabited after simple modifications.

These caves all have passageways inside. If there are future leaders, and in the event of an attack by spirit beings, the leaders living here can use the passageways inside the mountains to go to the castle for refuge, thus minimizing the loss of the territory.

After the territory was completely remodeled, the entire divine domain was now reduced to a mountain with a diameter of 1,500 meters.

As the divine realm expands, plains surrounding the mountains will emerge at the foot of the mountains.

With a thought, Rosen teleported to the castle hall. The hall was a full twenty meters high and at least several tens of meters in diameter. In the very center of the hall grew the Sequence Tree. Unless the Alchemy Castle was completely destroyed, the Alchemy Castle would continue to protect the Sequence Tree.

Rosen quickly arrived at the second floor of the castle hall by following the stairs on both sides.

This is a normal space, but the ceiling height is about five meters, which is enough to make it very comfortable to live in.

Rosen checked and found that the two-story building above the castle hall had fifty bedrooms of various sizes.

The larger rooms are over 100 square meters, while the smaller ones are only 10 square meters. There are also indoor swimming pools, indoor game rooms, indoor gyms, and other rooms with different functions. In the end, he even found a hidden secret room.

This secret chamber is built to a very high standard; its purpose is for spirit creatures to hide inside and escape after breaching the alchemy castle.

Although the Alchemy Castle has been breached and the Ancient Tree of Sequence is likely to be destroyed, the Lord of the Divine Realm will inevitably suffer severe damage as well. However, as long as he is alive, there is always a chance to turn things around. This secret chamber is the Lord of the Divine Realm's last resort.

The alchemy castle is complete, but there's only one person inside.

Rosen has no way to acquire servants and subjects for the time being, because even ordinary people in the Blazing Shadow Royal City can live quite well as long as they are willing to work. Unless they are forced into a desperate situation, how many normal people would be willing to become servants and subjects whose lives are not in their own hands?
With the Alchemy Castle now in place, the safety of the Divine Realm is no longer a concern.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the Alchemy Castle is only Sequence 9. The larger the alchemical product, the harder it is to upgrade its Sequence level, but the greater its power. In fact, this Alchemy Castle is enough to withstand the damage of a Sequence 7 for one or two hours. At least it doesn't need to be replaced until it reaches Sequence 7.

Rosen finally arrived at the tower behind the hall, which was a spirit world watchtower.

The alchemical castle that Rosen purchased was not actually standard equipment for the Divine Realm. It was too low-level. Normal Divine Realm lords were Sequence 6 and used alchemical castles of at least Sequence 7. His Sequence 9 alchemical castle was mainly used as a tent-like structure when Sequence 6 lords explored the Spirit Realm.

However, this tent is a bit more high-end, as it not only comes with its own elemental barrier but also with a spirit realm watchtower.

Through the telescope-like facilities inside the watchtower, Rosen's gaze penetrated the 900-meter radius of the divine territory for the first time, directly seeing the situation within the 8100-meter radius outside the divine territory.

After two hours of observation, Rosen discovered that his divine territory was situated in a wasteland.

No spirit creatures were detected within the observation range of the watchtower.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. A Sequence 9 divine territory is probably difficult to manage even in the beginner stage. After all, other divine lords face Sequence 6 spirit beings in the beginner stage, while he faces Sequence 9 spirit beings.

Rosen even had some doubts about whether there were any Sequence 9 spirit beings in the spirit world.
Otherwise, how could such a vast wasteland have been completely devoid of any spirit beings?

With no immediate concerns about the safety of the divine realm, Rosen began to focus on furnishing his new home.

The Alchemy Castle was fully furnished, so Rosen simply tidied up the bedroom and made the bed, while moving the collected books to the study. In the past, these books were piled up in the Mysterious Study, but the bookshelf space there was limited, so the collected books could only be piled up in the corner.

Rosen loves reading; books help him better understand this unfamiliar world.

However, he didn't collect many books. The vast majority were miscellaneous books passed down from Little Rosen's ancestors, and not many of them were valuable. The most valuable books in his study now were the reference books on common supernatural creatures and plants that he had purchased.

Hundreds of books are categorized and labeled for easy searching.

Rosen is a hard worker; it takes him half a day to finish his work on his own.

This tidying up of the study was originally a spur-of-the-moment decision, but it seems to have yielded some unexpected results.

Rosen took a book off the shelf; it was a very ordinary paper book.

From any perspective, it contains no spiritual power.

The book tells the story of a group of pirates adventuring on the high seas, and similar storybooks are countless in the Blazing Shadow Principality.

This book is not a unique copy; the back of the book shows the publication date and a considerable number of copies.

Judging from the book's publication date, it was likely purchased by Rosen's parents.

If that were all, the book wouldn't have been enough to catch Rosen's attention.

What really puzzled him was that the inner cover of the book was printed with the noble coat of arms of the Howard family.

It's important to know that noble coats of arms are not easily preserved; the fact that a noble coat of arms has been preserved indicates that this book is highly valued.

Rosen kept searching through his memories of his parents, and it seemed that his parents were indeed a bit strange.

The Howard family lost its ancestral spirit realm by the time of Rosen's parents.

Although it has declined, it still has some industries left.

Moreover, both of Rosen's parents awakened to spirituality; the former became a novelist, and the latter became a knight.

Earning gold coins wasn't difficult for two extraordinary sequences, so Rosen had a very wealthy childhood.

However, one day, Rosen's parents suddenly left and never appeared again.

Judging from the Golden Tree in the noble hierarchy, it's hard to say whether Rosen's mother saw the body, but Rosen's father is definitely dead.

So what exactly happened back then that made Rosen's parents abandon their only son and let him die outside?

If you're talking about enemies, then why isn't Little Rosen living a good life all these years?

In addition, Rosen's parents loved him very much, so when they suddenly left, they probably didn't intend to stay for too long, or even return on the same day. However, they encountered a danger beyond their capabilities, which is why they died silently outside.

As Rosen pondered this, he opened the storybook. This storybook, which had earned Rosen's father a noble crest, might not be so simple.

(End of this chapter)