Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 125 The Queen of the Holy Grail (10,000 words, please subscribe)
Chapter 124

Rosen released Nightmare Slime from the shadows, then used Divine Split to create 23 clones.

The 23 Nightmare Slimes scattered and dispelled their Shadow Cloak, immediately being attacked by the vampires lying in ambush nearby.

After Rosen used the Hunter's Eye to pinpoint the location of these vampires, he manipulated these divine clones to use Shadow Cloak to teleport close to them. The moment he touched the vampires, they were instantly transformed into Nightmare Marks.

With these nightmare marks, these vampires will have a hard time seeing Rosen next.

Shadow Cloak, which already has a strong ability to conceal itself, is now so powerful that it is difficult for anyone other than a Sequence 6 user to detect it.

After Rosen arrived at the barrier, he activated Death Strike to compress spirituality.

The Godslayer Crossbow entered rapid-fire mode, each bolt carrying ash-piercing armor. Upon hitting the barriers, the barriers visibly weakened rapidly, which made Rosen breathe a sigh of relief.

While Ash Armor Break is powerful, it can only completely break through the target's defense if the target's spiritual strength is weaker than his.

If the target's spirituality is higher than Rosen's, the effect of Ash Armor Break will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, if the vampire who sets up the barrier is a Sequence 6, the effect of Ash Armor Break will be greatly reduced, almost to nothing.

The ability to effectively and quickly destroy barriers clearly indicates that the highest-ranking vampire who set up the barriers is sequence 7.

This means that not only can Farah not get close to Sirai's house, but vampires above Sequence 7 probably can't get close either.

This must be a rule left behind by Siré himself, specifically designed to prevent Farah from accessing that painting.

The dozens of layers of barriers were destroyed in a matter of seconds, and Rosen seized the opportunity to use Shadow Teleportation to sneak into Sirai's house.

In Xirei's bedroom, a painting of vampire glory hangs on the wall.

The painting depicts the entire city of Chaohu, as well as the vampire castle shrouded in shadow in the lake.

Finally, there's the castle terrace, with Farah displaying a pair of bat wings behind her.

Rosen stepped forward and infused the painting with his spiritual energy, only to be surprised to find that the painting was already ownerless.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that Xi Lei himself has indeed perished outside.

However, even if this painting of the Spirit Realm is unclaimed, Rosen is temporarily unable to refine this Gundam Sequence 4 Spirit Realm painting.

However, he can add the painting to the Void Gallery, but in doing so, the Simmons family's spiritual realm will be gone.

Although Susan had a good relationship with him, it was inevitable that she would fall out with him.

However, Rosen still intends to take the painting. Once he successfully strengthens his bloodline with the help of the vampire's secret treasure, he will give this spiritual painting to Susan. After she obtains this spiritual painting, the Simmons family may really disappear.

On the terrace of the vampire castle, Farah gazed at her familiar yet unfamiliar home in the distance and sighed.

She had done all she could, but who could have imagined that a Sequence 8 could escape from a Sequence 4 and, under the guard of dozens of Sequence 7 vampires, break through the barrier and reach the Spirit Realm painting in such a short time?

Even if she possesses the immense power of Sequence 4, what's the point if she can't leave the vampire castle?

Perhaps this is the best option. The painter has mastered the Spirit Realm painting, and after he reaches Sequence 4, she might have a chance to break free from the Spirit Realm painting and gain freedom. This is why she did not do her best to stop him.

Otherwise, even if she were confined to the vampire castle, she could still send out high-sequence extraordinary artifacts.

If we really try our best to stop them, that person might not be able to get close to the painting in the spirit realm.

Subconsciously, Farah admits that she longs for freedom.

Even though she longed for freedom, her pride would not make her bow down to those weak and insignificant beings she looked down upon.

From the moment that human escaped from her grasp, she had actually been looking forward to it.

Rosen was still pondering how to get his hands on the vampire treasure from Farah.

However, upon hearing a sudden sound, he looked out from the Shire house and saw only a scarlet Holy Grail floating in the air.

Rosen released a Nightmare Slime, which then swallowed the Holy Grail after getting close.

Inside the mysterious study, the Holy Grail that had just been swallowed had transformed into a scarlet card.

【Source, Divinity, Queen of Cups: The Fallen Tarot】

[Level: Sequence 3]

[Attribute: The Queen of Cups can bestow divine water attribute]

[Divine Power 1: Focus - Significantly enhances one's concentration]

[Divine Authority 2: Charisma - Possessing the charm to bewitch even the gods]

[Divine Authority 3: Loyalty - The ability to more easily gain the loyalty of others through charisma]

[Divine Authority 4: Intuition - The Ability to Possess Divine Intuition]

[Divine Power 5: Dreams - Achieving Dreams Through Strong Self-Confidence]

[True God's Authority 6: The Fallen Holy Grail - It can extract the blood of fallen gods, and after consumption, it can strengthen one's own original bloodline at the cost of a lower spiritual threshold]

As Rosen looked at the card's attributes, his heart raced uncontrollably.

This is not a counterfeit tarot deck like the Knights of Cups, but a genuine Queen of Cups tarot deck from the Holy Grail series that has been contaminated.

Perhaps this Fallen Tarot card is the most valuable part of this spiritual painting.

Rosen now fully understood that Farah had gone easy on him.

It's likely that the memories he extracted about the paintings of the spirit realm from Farah's sliver of spirituality were deliberately leaked to him by Farah.

The reason is simple: Farah wants him to have access to the Spirit Realm paintings, but he doesn't want them to fall into the hands of unqualified people.

So they only told us the location of the painting in the spirit realm, but didn't say how many guards were outside.

If he has the ability to break in, then he deserves Farah's approval.

If he fails, he will have to leave this spiritual realm empty-handed.

Now that he has succeeded, Farah presents him with the Fallen Tarot card as a sign of sincerity.

Although he had the tarot cards in his hand, Rosen was completely unable to use them.

After thinking for a moment, Rosen left the Sirée family with the tarot cards and swaggered towards the vampire castle.

As for the Void Gallery, it remained, still struggling to collect the original paintings from the Spirit Realm.

In the banquet hall of the vampire castle, Farah snatched the Holy Grail Queen back from Rosen with a single gesture.

The moment it was activated, a crown appeared on Farah's head, and a scarlet Holy Grail appeared in her hand.

The crimson light flickered continuously in the cup, quickly condensing into a full cup of Fallen God's Blood. Then, the Fallen God's Blood was compressed into a gem-like crystal and sent to Rosen, showing his sincerity.

"Want to hear my story?"

Farah put away the Holy Grail and said sadly.

"I am very interested."

Rosen nodded after putting away the Fallen God's Blood Crystal.

Over the next few hours, Rosen gradually learned the whole story that had happened to Farah.

The story begins with Farah being captured by vampires and transformed into a new vampire.

However, no one knows that Farah found the Holy Grail Queen, a demigod artifact card, when she was a child. Moreover, she was naturally compatible with it and could control the power of the Holy Grail Queen without refining it. Therefore, after becoming a vampire, Farah retained her human self.

Therefore, Siré, who was searching for Farah, did not encounter any danger. On the contrary, under Farah's protection, he gradually took control of Chaohu City.

However, people's hearts are fickle, especially after they gain power.

The once rock-solid family ties were eventually eroded and weathered by power and desire.

Siri joined the newly established World Government, became a nobleman, and obtained the extraordinary bloodline of the vampires.

However, Syre was not satisfied; he wanted the Queen of the Grail.

Farah was able to retain her human self thanks to the protection of the Queen of the Grail.

By doing this, Xirei was essentially wiping out Farah, who was human.

He knew that Farah would not hand over the Holy Grail Queen, so he commissioned a Sequence 4 painter to create a painting of the spirit realm of Chaohu City. He then tricked Farah into coming in and imprisoned her in the vampire castle, and the two siblings became completely estranged from then on.

In the end, before he could obtain the Holy Grail Queen, he tragically died at the hands of an alien god.

Farah's feelings toward her brother, Shire, were complicated.

She is able to maintain her human self by relying on the memories of the human era that the Queen of the Grail is anchored in.

The one who raised Farah from childhood and was willing to risk his life to search for her deep into the vampire castle, and the one who gradually turned to the dark side and did not hesitate to personally strip Farah of her human self—both of the two Shire are ultimately the same person.

Farah hates Shire for imprisoning her for 20,000 years, but she can't forget Shire, who was both her brother and father to her.

So whenever someone enters this spiritual realm, Farah silently watches as one foreign nobleman after another plays the role of Siré.

If you play your part well, you'll be given a cup of fallen god's blood and leave alive.

If you don't act well, it's naturally difficult to leave alive.

Of course, neither of these outcomes is absolute. Farah's mood and the background of the person who came also determine whether he lives or dies.

Although trapped in the vampire castle, Farah could easily learn about the situation in the Blue Whale Kingdom thanks to the vampires' control over memories. She was also worried about attracting the demigods of the Blue Whale Kingdom and being stripped of the Holy Grail Queen title.

Rosen happened to arrive just as Farah was in a bad mood, because the last person to come in was Susan's deceased husband.

Susan's deceased husband looked very much like Shere, but his personality was exactly different from Shere's in his ordinary days; instead, it was the Shere who was later corrupted by power, greedy, and cunning. Therefore, even Rosen, who played the role very well, was implicated. Farah's submission this time was actually due to having no better choice.

Rosen is a painter who was attacked and killed by Farah but managed to escape. Knowing that the true nature of the Inherited Spirit Realm is the Spirit Realm Painting, it was only a matter of time before he completely took control of the Spirit Realm Painting.

Rather than having their life and death forcibly controlled in the end, it's better to join Rosen sooner.

Of course, Farah also had her own pride, so she dispatched dozens of Sequence 7 vampires as a last-ditch effort.

Now that the struggle has failed, I've decided to immediately have an honest showdown.

"Time will tell, and I hope we can treat each other with sincerity."

As he spoke, Rosen made a universally recognized gesture for counting money.

Farah, still reeling from the sadness of her memories, suddenly felt as if she had made a wrong choice.

But her future life and death are in the hands of the man in front of her, and it's too late to regret it now.

Farah led Rosen to the vampire castle's treasury. The treasures were not numerous; ninety-nine percent were spiritual crystals, and the rest were blood cores, which were equivalent to extraordinary source matter among the vampires. These blood cores were a special product of the spiritual realm depicted in the painting.

If Rosen is willing, he can also hunt vampires in Chaohu City to obtain some skill crystals and extraordinary artifacts.

As for the tens of millions of spiritual crystals, these are the accumulation of spiritual energy drawn from the spiritual realm by the paintings of the Spirit Realm over the past 20,000 years.

This is only because the vast majority of the spiritual crystals were used by Farah; otherwise, the amount over 20,000 years would be much more than this.

Rosen emptied the treasure vault without any hesitation before discussing the Spirit Realm painting with Farah.

Susan hadn't wronged him, and he felt too embarrassed to take away the painting.

In the end, Farah gave a suggestion: the Simmons family had few direct descendants and not many collateral descendants either. Farah could use a curse to sever the Simmons family bloodline, so that Susan could smoothly and completely inherit the Simmons family title.

Then, Farah can help Susan obtain the vampire bloodline.

If that's not enough, then promise to give Susan a Sequence 4 painting of the Spirit Realm in the future.

Of course, it ultimately depends on Susan's opinion. If Susan really disagrees, then they can wait until the Simmons family's title is inherited by a collateral branch, and then seize the Vampire Glory painting from the collateral branch.

With the bargaining chip secured, Farah sent Rosen's self-portrait clone out of the Spirit Realm.

Susan, who was still waiting quietly outside, nodded with emotion after hearing Rosen's explanation.

Not everyone who is faced with a Sequence 4 Spirit Realm painting can consider her thoughts and discuss them with her.

Susan had seen the dark side of many nobles, and she knew very well that the usual practice was to get rid of her and then steal the painting.

Rosenken compensated her even more, which she considered an unexpected surprise.

In the days that followed, Rosen's usurpation of the Simmons family's castle drew considerable hostility.

However, before the Simmons family's collateral branches could cause trouble for Rosen, they had already died one by one from the vampire curse.

Rosen and Susan were naturally the first suspects, but after investigating, the royal criminal hunters discovered that all the victims' vampire curses originated from the source of their own extraordinary vampire bloodline.

This means the killer is an ancestor of the Simmons family, and has absolutely no connection to Rosen and Susan.

With the suspicion cleared, Susan was now firmly secured in her title of Earl.

The only regret is that her descendants could only be reduced to hereditary viscounts after inheriting the title.

Don't underestimate the difference between just one rank; hereditary earls have divine territories, while hereditary viscounts do not.

However, this is already the best possible outcome; the only way to regain the hereditary earldom is for future generations to make their own efforts.

After Rosen consumed the Fallen God's Blood Crystal, his spiritual strength dropped from 23 points back to 20 points.

However, the gains were not small; the Nightmare Slime's extraordinary bloodline gained the qualification to advance further.

Once your spirituality returns to 23 points, you can easily rise to 24 points.

Normally this would take two years, but Rosen doesn't want to wait that long.

The easiest way to save time is to spend money on in-game purchases.

Of course, you can't just spend money on in-game purchases. Lawson's spiritual strength had already reached 23 points, but it has now dropped back to 20 points due to the Fallen God's Blood. Spending money to raise it to 23 points will not affect his spiritual foundation.

If you directly spend money to increase your spiritual strength without this prerequisite, it will inevitably affect your spiritual foundation.

Even the slightest influence will require ten or a hundred times the cost to make up for it once you reach the level of a demigod.

Through the connections he'd built over the years, Lawson managed to buy several items he needed for in-game purchases.

First, it is a special type of painting pigment, with a grade of only Sequence 8, and the materials required to make it are as high as Sequence 6.

Painting with this pigment can dramatically increase one's spiritual growth rate in a short period of time.

Then came the high-quality nightmare; what Lawson bought was a nightmare originating from Sequence 4.

The more powerful the being, the better the quality of the nightmare.

The Blue Whale royal family imprisons a Sequence 4 alien race, with the purpose of raising them like pigs to continuously harvest resources.

Nightmares are certainly a resource, and the benefits of consuming a Sequence 4 nightmare are self-evident.

Finally, it was time for the hunt. Rosen, under another identity, bought some hunting licenses at a high price.

Powerful nobles often imprisoned and kept extraordinary beings from other races.

If you can extract all the value from someone while they're alive, you should naturally make the most of their value after they die.

At this point, hunting licenses will be sold at high prices.

Hunters who acquire the qualification are able to go and hunt down Sequence 6 prey whose power is strictly sealed.

Although this cheat-like hunting makes it difficult to activate the hunting divine right to obtain spoils.

However, the most basic benefits of hunting in enhancing spirituality will not be greatly affected.

With a three-pronged approach, Rosen has raised his spiritual strength back to 23 points in just two months.

However, the cost was three million spiritual crystals, which really meant spending money to buy time.

Not long after spending money, Lawson's spiritual strength naturally increased to 24 points along with the enhancement of his bloodline.

However, it will take at least another half month to reach perfection.

Last time, Rosen prioritized breaking through the Hunter sequence, but this time he plans to prioritize breaking through the Painter sequence.

The social status of a young painter at Sequence 7 is vastly different from that of a hunter at Sequence 7.

Becoming a painter first will provide better conditions for advancing in the hunter sequence.

However, the painter's sequence is still far from being fully upgraded, lacking the skill level required.

Whether it's the Void Gallery, the Void Album, or the Self-Portrait, Lawson is fully equipped at Sequence 8.

Moreover, both Void Gallery and Self-Portrait are innate skills that can be automatically upgraded to the corresponding LV3 Sequence 7 without any effort.

As for the Bloodstained Glory, the Canvas of the Mind, and the Divine Stroke, they are all currently at LV2.

The strength of the Glory Blood Seal depends on noble bloodline, so it can be upgraded to LV3 very quickly.

As for the stroke of genius, both are innate skills.

The Divine Brush is a bit special. If you can integrate enhancement materials into the Divine Brush, it can gain more powerful evolution attributes after the Sequence 7 innate skill automatically evolves. So you have to pay attention to this aspect.

As for the Mind Canvas, Rosen somewhat regrets turning it into an innate skill.

Level 1 Mind Canvas allows you to paint on the level of your own mind.

Level 2, capable of projecting the contents of the mental canvas into reality.

However, at LV3, the standard for the Mind Canvas is to project spiritual paintings into the minds of others.

Because it's so difficult, it takes many Sequence 7 painters to master the LV3 Mind Canvas.

The reason why Ms. Fam is considered to have a high probability of becoming Sequence 6 is mainly because she has already raised the Mind Canvas to LV4 in Sequence 7, and it took Ms. Fam several decades to achieve this level.

Since the Mind Canvas has become an innate skill, Rosen naturally doesn't need to painstakingly cultivate the Mind Canvas.

However, he also lost the opportunity to upgrade the Mind Canvas to LV3 ahead of schedule in Sequence 8.

The chance of gaining better innate skills is lost after the sequence level is upgraded.

This also made Rosen realize that sometimes acquired skills are not necessarily inferior to innate skills.

Taking shortcuts doesn't always bring all the benefits.

Therefore, Rosen spared no expense, spending millions of spiritual crystals to invite a Sequence 4 psychologist to sever the bond between the Divine Stroke and the Mind Canvas, and instead transfer the opportunity for innate skills to the Sequence 8 Void Book.

In this way, Sequence 9 will only have two innate skills: Divine Stroke and Spiritual Attachment.

Conversely, the Void Gallery, Void Album, and Self-Portrait of Sequence 8 all became innate skills capable of autonomous evolution.

In this way, he will no longer need to seek help from architects, find someone to help him upgrade the Void Album, or repeatedly draw self-portraits. This will free him from dependence on other sequences and allow him to upgrade the Mind Canvas to LV3.

However, according to Rosen's estimate, it would take him several years to upgrade his Mind Canvas to LV3.

The only way to make up for a difference of several years in the shortest amount of time is through the power of time acceleration or time looping.

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