I became the Lord of the Eternal World in Tokyo.

It was so desolate that it seemed like a forbidden zone for life.

Moreover, the spiritual energy around this factory was even lower than that in the present world before the wave arrived; this was the first time Uesugi Tetsu had ever seen such a situation in the ordinary world.

This indicates that the location of this core factory is extremely remote.

But that's how it should be; with nothing within a radius of tens of kilometers, the plan's secrecy is greatly guaranteed.

Uesugi Tetsuya, who had landed in front of the black cube, approached and quietly observed the hundreds of dried-up magical runes that had appeared on it.

He believed that if the core factory hadn't been abandoned for so long, he certainly wouldn't have seen the huge black cube when he passed by.

Because the patterns on the surface are incredibly complex, it's clear that they were drawn by a master, and he estimated that even a typical great Onmyoji might not be able to understand them.

Uesugi Tetsuya didn't understand either.

However, he memorized a portion of it first, intending to compare it back in the present world.

After finishing his notes, Uesugi Tetsu began circling around looking for the shrine that should have been there.

When opening the map, the first thing to do is to light up the shrine.

Without a respawn point, conquering the new map would be incredibly difficult.

About a minute later, Uesugi Tetsuya, who was lucky, pulled the small shrine out of the soil and used his qi to dust off the thick dust on it.

The shrine emitted a faint light, and a notification popped up.

[You have activated the shrine in the abandoned core factory, Kiryudo III.]

[Current area unlocked: Abandoned Core Factory - Keldo III (2-4 stars)]

[Note 1: This is a special area with no main quests. Please explore on your own.]

[Note 2: There is at least one item of Epic quality in the current area.]

[Note 3: Committing serious acts of sabotage on the Karuta III will attract the attention of the factory owners.]

It's normal for special areas opened by ultra-epic maps to have some unique rules.

Uesugi Tetsu dug another small pit and buried the shrine inside, making it blend into the environment.

Then, I began to carefully read the pop-up prompts.

First, Note 2 states that there may be more than one Epic item in the factory.

Won Ma.

Uesugi Tetsu's eyes brightened slightly, but he immediately frowned again.

—We can't damage the factory, otherwise we'll attract the factory owner's attention and become a dead end.

That basically means you can't do anything on the map... So what do you do if you encounter a monster?

This is still a map with two to four stars, and there should be quite a few demons stronger than myself in it.

How to do this?

Unable to come up with a solution immediately, Uesugi Tetsu shook his head, deciding to first examine the map to see what was going on.

Without thinking further, Uesugi Tetsu flew toward the small door he had discovered earlier when measuring the distance to the factory.

—This gate is over ten meters wide and several tens of meters high, but compared to the factory, it can only be considered a small gate.

He had only taken a few steps inside when Uesugi Tetsu found himself tripping over something in the darkness.

He subconsciously looked down and noticed a white notification pop up.

[The Remains of the Master Blacksmith Sequence - Type II]

What the hell?

Even corpses can now trigger notifications?

This is the first time.

Before Uesugi Tetsu could figure it out, a round, white ball of light emerged from above the head of the two-meter-tall remains.

You have discovered the "Broken Memory Orb of the Great Blacksmith Sequence Type II".

[Read?]

Upon encountering the new prompt, Uesugi Tetsuya did not act rashly.

He first turned the remains over and found that apart from being tall and strong, they were not much different from ordinary people in appearance.

It looks very real, and it feels very real to the touch.

But inside, it is made up of machinery, gears, mechanisms, and techniques.

—Unlike the current bio-mechanical mechs, it seems that the factory owners' methods of building robots have undergone significant changes.

After exploring for a while without making any breakthroughs, Uesugi Tetsuya turned his attention to the factory.

Where the outside sunlight couldn't reach, there was only thick, sticky blackness, which even Uesugi Tetsu's interpretive eye couldn't penetrate.

Danger often comes from the unknown.

"Well……"

After thinking for a moment, Uesugi Tetsuya focused his attention on the white sphere of light.

[Read?]

"Read."

The thought flashed through his mind, and Uesugi Tetsuya's vision changed instantly.

……

Fragmented memories and images flashed by.

Thousands of blacksmiths marched in unison along the passageways onto the enormous wooden ship.

Soon, wooden boats filled with countless blacksmiths and other trades set sail, breaking through the waves and heading into the depths of the boundless ocean.

Uesugi Tetsu recognized it; it was the Deep Sea.

The factory owners dispatched countless wooden ships from the deep sea to reach their destination, bypassing numerous surveillance and eyes and ears.

The master blacksmith, who disembarked from one of the few wooden ships that arrived sporadically, began to build the Karuta III Factory.

After the factory was completed, the master blacksmith began working day and night forging iron.

Repeatedly, repeatedly, the same part was hammered.

Over an extremely long period of time, all the skills the master blacksmith remembered became useless.

He was just like a screw, constantly swinging the hammer down at the same angle and with the same force.

For no apparent reason, mechanical creations that were not normally capable of feeling emotions began to experience sadness and anger.

There seems to be a huge gap in the middle of my memory.

In short, what Uesugi Tetsu ultimately felt was a sense of satisfaction and happiness.

"Would you like to come in and have a game, sir?"

Before he could recover from the many images brought to him by the memory orb, Uesugi Tetsuya blinked and saw bright lights and people coming and going.

Before them, a woman wearing a fox mask and a loose-fitting kimono was tugging at her sleeve and asking in a coquettish voice.

Uesugi Tetsuya, who was in a daze, turned his head.

Then, they discovered that the previously completely dark and unknown Karuta III Factory had been transformed into a bustling and unfamiliar market!

Confused and bewildered, Uesugi Tetsu raised his eyes.

【Hanatsuki Workshop】

Three ancient-style characters hung on a large plaque.

Uesugi Tetsuya, who had been to Edo Castle, could immediately recognize that it was undoubtedly an architectural style from the Edo period.

No, what happened?

Crossed again?

Last time we went back to the Sengoku period, this time we're going back to the Edo period, right?

He merely glanced at the memory orb of the corpse at the entrance of the map, and the Heavenly Laws were overturned?

Uesugi Tetsu opened the map list, only to find that the [Core Factory - Karuta III] had not changed.

The most fundamental fact remains unchanged.

He blinked, sizing up the fox-faced woman with full breasts and rosy cheeks in front of him, and then he saw the bustling crowd coming and going in the flower card shop.

In other words.

This is still the Karuta III Factory.

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"Don't play."

The fox-faced woman asked again, "Would you like to come in and have a game, sir?"

"Don't play."

Not quite right.

If you are still inside the factory, then the scene before you is very likely an illusion, and related to the memory orb you just touched.

If you go along with the desires of this illusion, you may very well become truly trapped within it and unable to engage in genuine exploration.

Actually, the quickest way is to use the soul imprint to control this ordinary-looking fox-faced woman.

But thinking that taking action might damage the factory and attract attention, Uesugi Tetsuya, who didn't even know whether the woman in front of him was part of the factory, shook his head without asking what she was playing.

Undeterred by Uesugi Tetsu's head-shaking, the fox-masked woman asked a third time.

"Would you like to come in and have a game, sir?"

Uesugi Tetsuya shook his head decisively: "No."

After being rejected for the third time, Uesugi Tetsu could clearly sense that something had changed.

The fox-faced woman looked up and stared at him silently.

After a long while, it opened with a rustling sound.

"Since you're not going to play, please leave."

As soon as he finished speaking, everything went black before Uesugi Tetsu's eyes.

In a daze, he opened his eyes again and found that his vision had changed to the familiar ceiling of his home.

died.

He died because of a single sentence uttered by that defenseless fox-faced woman.

Uesugi Tetsuya, realizing what was happening, paused slightly and revealed a subtle expression.

"Xiao Jia, did you feel anything just now?"

After getting off the Tokoyo train, Uesugi Tetsuya wore Kaga Kiyomitsu on his waist.

Since Xiao Jia hadn't spoken up beforehand and seemed to be pondering something, Uesugi Tetsu didn't bother it much.

"I sensed that you, Master, are dead..."

Kaga Kiyomitsu shuddered twice and said in a wronged voice, "Master, how could you be so useless? You died for no reason."

It gave us quite a fright; we thought we'd be living with a knife from now on.

"Little Jia, don't be afraid, don't be afraid..."

Uesugi Tetsu patted the hilt of his sword.

He had just offered a few words of comfort when he remembered that he was the one who had asked about Kaga Kiyomitsu's situation.

How did the situation reverse?

Feeling Kaga Kiyomitsu's waist become pleasant again because of his comfort, Uesugi Tetsu was speechless.

—Is it really too much to ask children to pay attention to these trivial details?