Lord of Mysteries: Starting as a Reader
Chapter 1076

The Mechanical Emperor

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My name is Liu Bo, and I've been transported to another world!

When I woke up, I found myself locked in an underground prison. Steel walls surrounded me, and apart from the occasional sound of metal being hammered, there was no movement at all.

From the memories I'd inherited, I knew this body was only twenty years old, yet it was already a Sequence 7 Appraiser. I could use my abilities to avoid the negative effects of Mystical Items and bring out their full potential. In Iron City, that was enough to qualify me as a Warrior, someone who had to leave the city on exploration missions from time to time.

I'd been thrown into this steel prison because my squad had provoked a terrifying monster. Most of the squad had been "cursed," and only a few had escaped. To identify the afflicted and prevent the "curse" from spreading, Iron City's leaders had decided to imprison and isolate the entire squad. Whoever survived would be in the clear.

The original owner of this body hadn't been among those few. He'd died, and I'd arrived.

I spent more than a month in prison before they released me, but people continued to watch me in secret. They didn't withdraw all the Watchers until six months later. Thanks to the advantage I called the Pure White Eye, I spotted them with ease.

Once I was free, I had to face a cruel reality... I'd been transported into the world of a novel I'd read in my previous life, and into one of its harshest places at that: the Forsaken Land of the Gods!

Iron City was a city-state the original novel had never mentioned. It stood on a belt of iron ore, and its population was small. After years of struggling to survive,

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