Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 6 Running away from home
Chapter 6

"It seems we have to go out and explore."

Rosen got up and went to the window of the mysterious study.

He gently drew back the curtains and saw the real basement through the window.

He opened a door in the basement wall to enter the mysterious study, and the only way out was through the basement.

In the blink of an eye, he had been missing for so many days. The villa had been searched again and again by people sent by Rosen's lover. In the past few days, through the study window that could see the outside, he also discovered that more than once people had entered the basement to look for his whereabouts.

However, these people have found nothing after so many days, so their search efforts have been greatly reduced.

Of course, the possibility of a shift from overt to covert operations cannot be ruled out, but for the time being, these are not things he needs to consider.

His concern was how to send out the 148,320 keys.
Although these static paintings, which contain hidden spirituality, will immediately become ethereal and merge into the body of an ordinary person as soon as they hold them in their hands, at least an interaction between the ordinary person and the static painting is required.

Even if he ran all over the street to deliver them one by one, it would take forever to deliver 148,320 keys.

To get it out as quickly as possible, we must resort to extraordinary measures.

……

Five days later, Rosen pushed open the door to the mysterious study and returned to the basement.

He immediately went to the corner of the wall, pulled out the dagger hidden in the leather sheath on his thigh, and began to tap it rhythmically.

With a snap, a hole appeared out of nowhere in the corner of the basement.

Rosen's ancestors were knights with considerable cultivation, reaching Sequence 6 before becoming hereditary nobles and acquiring their fortune. This hidden passage in the basement not only contains the family treasury but also a secret passage leading to the city's sewers.

However, the treasury no longer contained many treasures, with only some books passed down through the nobility remaining.

After Rosen entered the secret passage, the entrance to the basement disappeared into thin air.

He quickly traversed the secret passage, which was several dozen meters long, and arrived at a secret room of about ten square meters. He took away all the books in the room. Before that, Little Rosen had not yet awakened his spirituality, and perhaps there was something hidden in these books that could only be seen by those with spirituality.

Even disregarding that possibility, these books could still fetch a considerable amount of money if sold.

After everything was taken away, Rosen used his spiritual vision to make sure nothing was left behind.

They continued through the secret passage, finally passing through a wall and entering the city's sewers.

Wearing a mask he had prepared beforehand, Rosen followed the route in Little Rosen's memory and quickly arrived at the outer city of Redstone City under the illumination of a flashlight. He then found a manhole cover, opened it, and crawled out of the sewer. Before leaving, he went into the mysterious study to change his clothes.

Otherwise, the smell of the sewers would be noticeable wherever you go.

It was the middle of the night, and there were hardly any people on the streets of the outer city.

Rosen came to a secluded alley and took out a one-foot-sized drawing board from his large trench coat. On it was a drawing of an agricultural drone. It was a spiritual painting that he had barely completed after five days of consuming ten units of spiritual energy.

As spirituality was activated, an agricultural drone, with a simple modification, emerged from the painting.

Rosen attached a box containing still paintings to a drone. Using his spirituality instead of remote control, the agricultural drone quickly took off and began to fly rapidly around the outer city under his control, while still paintings fell from the sky.

Spirituality is the sublimation of the soul and consciousness, and still paintings that embody spirituality have an amazing attraction for ordinary people.

If an ordinary person can't resist picking one up, they will immediately be bound to a key and gain access to the virtual spirit realm. Of course, with such a wide distribution, many static paintings will inevitably fall into the hands of ordinary people, and may even be detected by the extraordinary sequences in the city. If it weren't for the mysterious study that could shield him from the detection of the virtual spirit realm, he wouldn't dare to be so reckless.

The only downside is that this wave will only allow a maximum of tens of thousands of people to bind to the virtual realm.

However, nothing in this world is ever perfect. He has no money or power now, and this is the best way to send out static paintings in a short period of time. It will definitely cause quite a stir in Redstone City at first, but the virtual spiritual realm does not harm people, so it should not cause too much turmoil.

On the contrary, people discovered that virtual spiritual realms could harmlessly stimulate the spirituality of ordinary people.

In the end, those unclaimed static paintings will become treasures that ordinary people will fight over.

Even if someone investigates thoroughly, suspicion will be directed at painters of Sequence 6 and above. It's highly unlikely that suspicion would fall on him, a mere Sequence 9 newcomer. Of course, to be on the safe side, he can no longer rely on selling paintings for a living from now on.

Because those high-level professional ranks can easily distinguish whether two paintings were painted by the same person.

Those habits in drawing techniques that you yourself are unaware of are not difficult to detect under the perception of higher sequences.

Of course, this doesn't mean that all future paintings will be shameful. No one knows a painter's paintings better than the painter themselves. As the sequence level increases, it's not difficult for a painter to hide those easily recognizable habits in their painting skills.

Twelve minutes later, the agricultural drone disappeared silently into the night.

Through experimentation, Rosen discovered that one unit of spirituality allows the inanimate object materialized from a spiritual painting to exist for twelve seconds, while ten units of spirituality increase the existence time of the inanimate object to twelve minutes, which corresponds exactly to his spirituality growth limit of Sequence 9.

If the two are truly equal, it means that his spiritual paintings of the same level will exist for an extra second and a minute.

This period of time may seem short, but it can easily mislead the enemy during combat.

The enemy had calculated precisely that his spiritual painting would dissipate after eleven minutes, but the creation that should have dissipated actually managed to last an extra minute. This extra minute would undoubtedly bring a significant advantage, and might even become the key to reversing life and death between the two sides.

During the twelve minutes that the agricultural drone was distributing the keys, Rosen didn't just sit idly by.

After awakening his spirituality, the painter sequence did not focus on strengthening his physique. However, with the awakening of his bloodline and the cleansing of his spirituality, his physique is now at least several times stronger than that of an ordinary person. It is not difficult for him to climb over walls, knock out the homeowner, leave some silver coins, and take away food and water.

He took only ordinary food that lacked spiritual properties, and the value of the copper coins was compensated by the silver coins.

In this situation, unless someone is mentally ill, there's basically no need to worry about spreading it around.

Actually, it wouldn't matter if word got out, because Rosen had already entered the Mysterious Study near the edge of Redstone City.

With this batch of food and water collected, he won't have to worry about going hungry for at least half a month.

Back in the mysterious study, Rosen, who had been tense for most of the night, relaxed and prepared to take a shower.

The boss's luxurious study had a separate bathroom. After washing up properly, Rosen could no longer smell the sewer. He relaxed on the massage chair, which cost tens of thousands of dollars. Instead of going to sleep, Rosen turned on the main computer to observe the virtual world of Saw 1.

Although most people stay home at night, there are always a few who don't rest.

At this moment, the virtual spirit realm opened through the player has a list of names on the left. These are all unlucky souls who were wandering the streets, attracted by the spirit on the key, picked it up, and then had their consciousness pulled into the virtual spirit realm after resting at home.

Virtual spiritual realms can stimulate latent spirituality, which is fortunate for many ordinary people who yearn for the extraordinary.

However, for ordinary people who never thought of becoming extraordinary, every night when they go to sleep, their minds are pulled into the world of Saw and subjected to all kinds of torment from pain and fear. These people are undoubtedly unlucky souls who have no control over their own lives.

(End of this chapter)