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Chapter 127 Sequence 7: The Painter (9,000 words, please subscribe)
Chapter 126

Seeing that his divine territory was completely surrounded, Rosen immediately prepared to release a second bait.

More than five years have passed since he synthesized the Ash Bee. Over these years, he has never stopped purchasing beehives contaminated by ash. After five years of synthesis, an Ash Bee Queen that had never been born before has been born in the beehive.

The hive now contains several hundred ordinary ash bees, and the number is still increasing.

This still includes some Ash Bees that he has already fed Death Strike with Gluttony.

At that moment, the self-portrait clone left on the hired supernatural ship quietly released an Ash Bee.

Soon the Ash Bee was discovered, and dozens of extraordinary beings fought over it, turning into a chaotic melee.

However, more Ash Bees soon appeared, which directly caused the vast majority of human superhumans to give up capturing Rainbow Jellyfish.

As a Sequence 9 Extraordinary Lifeform, the Ash Bee's individual value is comparable to that of the Rainbow Jellyfish.

Instead of searching high and low for rainbow jellyfish, it's better to compete for the already discovered ash bees.

Rosen released five Ash Bees as bait, which lured away almost all the human superhumans except the painter.

The remaining few painters, even if they could still steal the rainbow jellyfish, would accept it.

A few hours later, the moment the Rainbow Jellyfish entered the Divine Realm, it was devoured in one gulp by the Gluttonous Slime released by Rosen.

Rosen directly transformed the Gluttonous Slime into spiritual energy and infused it into the Divine Brush, maximizing the enhancement materials.

Now that everything is ready, he is able to advance to Sequence 7 in the best possible condition.

……

Rosen carefully put away the magic pen, preparing to break through to Sequence 7 in the Divine Realm.

He took one last look at the Mind Canvas; the enhanced characteristic born at LV3 was Mind Projection.

Through this characteristic, he can better project his spiritual paintings onto the spiritual level of other beings.

In addition, the effect of the painter's outward expression of spirituality will be greatly enhanced.

At this moment, Rosen's spirituality was projected into the spirit world, and the speed was more than twice as fast due to the mental projection.

The moment the spirit descended into the spirit world, it had already arrived before the ancient tree of the artist sequence.

Golden leaves gently drifted down, locking onto the ancient tree in Rosen's spiritual realm, which he had transformed into. Then, they merged with the divine brush that embodied his extraordinary painterly essence, beginning to elevate his painterly sequence to sequence 7.

Spiritual possession, master of light and darkness, divine inspiration, gallery of the void, album of the void, self-portrait...

All six innate skills automatically leveled up at this moment.

However, what Rosen values ​​most is the innate skill born from Sequence 7.

[Hidden within the painting: Able to hide and move freely within the space depicted in the painting]

Rosen almost lost control of his emotions, because the ability to hide paintings was not an innate skill that should be born in Sequence 7.

As far as he knew, many painters could only acquire the skill of conceiving paintings at sequence 6.

Like the Master of Light and Darkness, the Hidden Painting is also a special passive innate skill.

No matter how much the painter's sequence improves, this type of innate skill cannot generate special characteristics.

At most, as the painter's sequence level increases, the attributes of these passive skills will be enhanced to some extent.

On the surface, this seems to be a waste of the automatic upgrades of innate skills.

Actually, that's not the case. The earlier you acquire this type of passive innate skill, the higher the potential for future enhancement effects.

Specifically, regarding hidden paintings, if a painter only masters hidden paintings at Sequence 6, then at most the painter can hide his body in a Sequence 6 spiritual painting. However, if his hidden paintings reach Sequence 6, he can at least hide in a Sequence 5 spiritual painting and move freely through space.

However, in order to use the ability to conceal paintings, the spiritual painting must first have space within the painting.

Rosen immediately looked at the other innate skills and indeed discovered the spatial characteristics that led to the creation of the hidden painting.

【The Void Album: Extraordinary Objects】

[Level: Sequence 7]

[Attribute: The Void Album can hold all of the artist's spiritual paintings and allows all spiritual paintings to be reused]

[Exceptional Trait: Affinity Enhancement - High affinity with the Void Gallery can significantly improve the attributes of self-portraits]

[Extraordinary Characteristic: Spatial Art – Ability to integrate spatial attributes into spiritual paintings]

With the characteristic of spatial painting, Rosen was able to create space in spiritual paintings based on the background.

The pseudo-spiritual realm of the Blazing Shadow Royal City Painters Association is essentially a combination and application of spatial painting and hidden painting.

This means that Rosen could access the pseudo-spiritual paintings ahead of time.

Rosen took out a piece of drawing paper and, in a flash, summoned a magic brush.

[The Magic Brush: A Divine Wonder]

[Level: Sequence 7]

[Attributes: Greatly enhances the attributes of spiritual paintings, greatly increases painting speed, can be freely transformed into any paintbrush, slightly enhances the effects of spiritual pigments, and everything painted within the divine realm will exist permanently.]

[Divine Skill: Drawing a Circle as a Prison - Using a divine brush to define an area, everything within that area is considered to fall into the painting]

[Enhanced Feature: Mind Rendering - Your magic pen will possess the ability to render at the level of the mind]

[Enhanced Feature: Spiritual Rendering - Endows spiritual paintings with a stronger sense of life]

Although he knew that rainbow jellyfish were a treasure for painters, Rosen did not expect the effect to be so good.

A normal Magic Pen upgrade to Sequence 7 will at most upgrade rendering to Mind Rendering.

Once an enhanced characteristic is acquired, a second characteristic will not appear.

Now not only do we have it, but it's also a similar type of enhanced feature.

With spiritual enhancement, Rosen can now bring the life in his paintings to life without using spiritual energy.

It is not a false life like that of a beast, but a life with true spirituality.

If spiritual rendering is further transformed into divine rendering, then it is the true creation of life.

Before Rosen put pen to paper, he took one last look at the LV3 spiritual possession.

[Spiritual Attachment LV3: Able to freely attach spiritual power to physical matter using extraordinary source matter]

[Enhanced Properties: Enhanced Harmony - Can temporarily harmonize spirituality into any attribute, and can fuse spirituality of different attributes]

As expected, the spiritual possession did not disappoint him.

Although painters can freely create spiritual paintings, there are some things that are difficult to avoid.

For example, you can draw a water element, or you can draw a fire element, but you can't draw a life form that combines water and fire.

However, with the enhanced harmony feature, elemental life forms with both water and fire attributes can be created at will under the painter's brush.

Rosen's magic brush fell, sketching and drawing until he quickly created a cave on a cliff. Then he drew an eagle's nest, and finally a falcon with two-colored pupils.

The falcon is the key element; it's not as simple as just depicting its superficial magnificence.

Instead, he painted it layer by layer. The innermost layer was the feathers on the back of the falcon, followed by the skin, flesh, and skeleton of the falcon, then the internal organs of the falcon, and finally the skin, flesh, skeleton, and feathers on the front of the falcon.

If you magnify the image to 80 centimeters in thickness, you'll find that the falcon in the painting is actually a flattened three-dimensional relief.

This is only the surface; when Rosen painted this falcon, he also used spiritual rendering and enhanced harmony.

The former endows the falcon with a soul, while the latter grants it two extraordinary powers: light and darkness.

Light is superhuman vision, darkness is shadow evasion.

After finishing the painting of the falcon with two extraordinary abilities, Rosen began to incorporate the spirituality of spatial attributes into the cave in the painting.

Thus, this Sequence 7 spiritual painting, which took two full days to complete, was finally born.

Rosen placed the painting into the skeleton frame and disappeared the moment he walked toward the frame, reappearing in the cave within the painting. However, if someone were standing outside the painting at that moment, they would not be able to see a person standing inside the cave.

This is the hidden painting, which allows one to come and go freely within the painting at any time.

Although the cave we were in wasn't particularly spacious, it was indeed a real living space.

Rosen reached out and beckoned, and the falcon he had drawn landed on his arm, its bright eyes nuzzling his hand with its head.

When you reach out and touch it, it's warm and you can't tell it's a life form that's been drawn.

Rosen released the falcon and left the cave, then stood in front of the picture frame and activated the acquired skill, Glory Blood Seal.

【Glory Blood Seal LV3: Condenses noble bloodline to imprint a crest on a spiritual painting, thereby attaching a crest lock to the spiritual painting, increasing the compatibility between the spiritual painting and the divine territory, and increasing the character's attributes by 30%】

[Enhanced Feature: Emblem Branding will have enhanced sealing effects]

With the heraldic lock branded into the painting, no one but him can use it now.

Rosen continued to create spiritual paintings, but what followed were all kinds of portraits.

Stephanie, Kuroro, Nobunaga, Feitan, Uvogin, Machi, Pakunoda, Franklin, Phinks, Peeling Fly, Shadow, Shizuku—he plans to draw all the people in his territory who have been promoted to the Extraordinary Sequence.

Two days later, Rosen finished his first portrait, which depicted Kuroro sitting under the cross in a dark church.

Rosen instantly walked into the church in the painting, and Kuroro looked at him with some confusion.

This made Rosen realize that although the magic brush could imbue the paintings with a stronger spirituality, it was fine for animals, but for human figures, who lacked memory support, they were still somewhat lacking in the ability to communicate normally with people.

Rosen directly communicated with the divine realm and then summoned Pakunoda and Kuroro.

"Paknota, copy Kuroro's battle memories for him."

Rosen pointed to the drawing of Kuroro and said.

Pakunoda immediately drew her psychic pistol and then reached out to grab Chrollo to extract his battle-related memories.

Finally, he condensed his memories into a bullet, aimed at the drawn Kuroro, and fired the bullet into his head.

Kuroro, who had been staring blankly at the painting, immediately became alert after absorbing these memories.

The two Kuroro looked at each other, and Kuroro felt fear as he looked at his identical self.

Since being taken out of Meteor City by the lord and seeing the real world, he has spent the last five years working hard to improve his strength in various spiritual realms. Not long ago, he finally managed to reach Sequence 8. In his opinion, the gap between himself and the lord is gradually narrowing.

He had been tempted by the idea of ​​overthrowing the lord and seizing the divine territory more than once.

"You two should try fighting."

"Rosen commanded."

Without the slightest hesitation, Kuroro conjured the Ultimate Thief's Nen, a materialized book that could steal extraordinary abilities, in his left hand, while his right hand instantly condensed a Nen gun and fired an elemental shot imbued with potent poison.

Faced with a familiar attack pattern, Kuroro instantly shrunk to the size of a thumb to dodge the bullets.

Then, facing the giant-like imitation, Kuroro simultaneously unleashed elemental shooting and barrage shooting, with countless millet-sized elemental bullets blocking all of Kuroro's dodging space.

However, at the crucial moment, Chrollo also used his ability to steal images to create three phantom clones that were far apart.

The two Kuroro exchanged blows, each familiar with the other's abilities, and each had their own offensive and defensive strategies.

However, Kuroro found himself increasingly frustrated as the fight progressed. Although they possessed the same abilities, the imposter on the other side completely overwhelmed him in terms of both physical attributes and spiritual energy. It was only because the imposter was not proficient in using his abilities that he was not able to suppress him.

However, as the battle continued, Kuroro realized that he would soon lose.

The fact that the genuine product lost to the counterfeit was something that the proud Kuroro found hard to accept.

As expected, after half an hour of fighting, the portrait Kuroro, with his superior physical abilities, used his defensive Nen to withstand Kuroro's attack, and then traded blows, shattering Kuroro's arm with a single shot to decide the outcome.

"Not bad, keep up the good work."

After Rosen slapped Kuroro, he summoned the Angelic Beast, which rebuilt Kuroro's lost arm in a few seconds.

For the next few months, Rosen painted portraits at a rate of one every two days.

Rosen painted more than one self-portrait for every citizen who reached Sequence 8.

Then he also drew some extraordinary beings. These beings, after becoming familiar with their own power, all crushed Sequence 8 beings without exception, but were much weaker when facing Sequence 7 beings, since they were just spiritual paintings of Sequence 7 beings, not extraordinary beings of Sequence 7 beings.

However, if the quality is not good enough, quantity will make up for it. One painting every two days, that's 180 paintings a year.

A full 180 fearless Sequence 8s, what kind of Sequence 7 can't kill them?
This is the most terrifying aspect of the painter sequence: well-prepared painters excel at gang warfare tactics.

Moreover, the spiritual paintings of Sequence 7 are not just about quantity without quality.

However, to achieve higher quality, better painting materials and a longer painting time are required.

If one paints a picture every three years, and by the standards of a self-portrait, then the resulting spiritual artwork is absolutely no less than any Silver Sequence 7 painting.

Of the dozens of spiritual paintings, Rosen kept the portraits and gave away the rest.

I gave each of my lovers from the past two years a painting that seemed to possess extraordinary life.

Through these paintings, Rosen can freely move within the spaces depicted in them, truly becoming a master of utilizing the time he spends with several lovers in one night. At the same time, he can also use the spiritual paintings to move freely when encountering danger.

After drawing for two months straight, Rosen, who was exhausted, took a good break.

They finally recovered and prepared to continue breaking through the Hunter sequence.

However, to advance in the Hunter Rank, the crucial core ingredient for potions is still missing.

Having truly witnessed the power of the Painter sequence in the past two months, Rosen no longer values ​​the Hunter sequence as much.

In his view, the Hunter sequence only needs to be enhanced by the Painter sequence.

Therefore, the abilities of future Hunter sequences should be developed towards passive and supportive roles.

Therefore, for the Sequence 7 Hunter promotion, Rosen is preparing to advance from the Pet Hunter branch to the Trap Hunter branch.

At that time, traps can be set not only in the Void Gallery, but also on the edge of the divine territory, and even inside the spiritual paintings. If someone enters the space inside the painting, they will be met with endless traps.

(End of this chapter)