Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 140 Drawing the Spirit Realm Painting

Chapter 139

Early that morning, Lawson waited for yet another personal trainer at the hotel entrance.

Upon discovering that Rosen was only Sequence 7, Viscount Abb's attitude became noticeably more enthusiastic.

Back at the hotel, Rosen followed Viscount Abel into his Void Gallery.

This was the first time Lawson had entered someone else's Void Gallery. It wasn't a moving maze-type gallery, but rather the simplest nested doll type. The way to expand a Void Gallery was to wrap a new Void Gallery inside it.

On the walls on both sides of the gallery, Rosen saw a series of spiritual paintings that possessed the characteristics of spatial art.

All of these paintings depicted alien life forms. He followed Viscount Aib into a spatial painting depicting slimes.

From the outside, the painting depicts a slime sleeping in a cave.

The cave was empty, as if there was nothing there except slimes.

However, upon entering the space depicted in the painting, one discovers that deep within the cave lies a prison where slimes are held captive.

In a normal spatial painting, the space within the painting is exactly as it appears on the surface.

However, abilities such as painting within a painting, pasting paintings, or drawing techniques can conceal the true appearance of parts of the space within a painting, making it difficult for people to guard against, and at the same time, they can give spiritual paintings a stronger power.

Rosen knew how to master the art of drawing, so the mental canvas projected and materialized into a chair and easel.

Then, after setting up the human skin drawing paper, he took the magic brush disguised as an ordinary supernatural artifact and began to draw the slime in the prison.

Rosen doesn't know drawing techniques, but he's very familiar with basic drawing skills.

The painting technique is actually a high-end form of realistic painting.

The drawings are even more detailed than high-definition photographs, and you can't tell the difference when they're placed next to a real slime.

For painters who have mastered self-portraiture, mastering LV1 drawing techniques is not difficult at all.

Rosen's hands created afterimages, and the pen tip even split into several parts under his spiritual control. When drawing intricate parts, he could use the split pen tip to draw simultaneously. This was a result of gradually trying to multitask after mastering multitasking.

Rosen quickly completed the spiritual painting, but Viscount Abu shook his head and tore it up immediately.

He began to take out the extraordinary materials he had prepared and earnestly taught Rosen how to mix the paints himself.

True painting skills not only perfectly replicate the appearance, but also perfectly capture the essence of the reference object.

Spiritual paintings possess a unique charm, bringing the subjects to life.

However, this charm actually comes from the painter's own spirituality; it is the painter's infusion of his own spirituality into the painting.

The art of painting requires not only incorporating one's own spirituality but also further integrating the spirituality and essence of the other person.

However, unless the target is the painter's puppet, how could it possibly cooperate and integrate into his spirituality?

Even if the target is very obedient, and the target is not a painter, it is almost impossible to integrate one's own spirituality into a spiritual painting without any conflict with the painter's spirituality.

At such times, the painter needs to master the art of painting based on a spiritual connection.

It requires combining one's own spirituality with specially formulated pigments to perfectly simulate the spirituality of the target.

Only in this way can the unique charm of the target model be perfectly replicated in the painting.

It is at this point that the terrifying aspect of these spiritual paintings is revealed.

Rosen possessed the canvas of the mind, so he could easily grasp the spirit of the slime in the cell.

Then, under Viscount Aib's guidance, he successfully mixed the right pigment.

By attaching his spirituality to and harmonizing his own, he successfully used paint to capture the spiritual essence of a slime.

Viscount Aib nodded in satisfaction this time, somewhat shocked by Rosen's speed of mastery.

Rosen carefully perceived this spiritual painting and clearly sensed that it was completely different from previous spiritual paintings.

Through the slime in the painting, he could truly feel the slime's condition inside the cell.

He could clearly sense whether the body was comfortable, happy or uncomfortable, hungry or not through his drawings. This was equivalent to a constant, all-around monitoring of the slime.

Rosen sensed the extraordinary source energy and indeed had successfully mastered the LV1 drawing technique.

Viscount Aib accelerated the teaching pace, taking Rosen to a different target model to refine his drawing skills.

In just one month, Rosen actually raised his drawing skill to LV3.

This is a monstrous learning ability brought about by the canvas of the mind, extensive knowledge, and cultural theocracy. While I wouldn't say that his intelligence has reached the level of a genius, in terms of learning ability, Rosen is in no way inferior to the most outstanding geniuses of the human race.

After sending Viscount Aib away, Rosen began offering bounties for capturing a large number of extraordinary beings alive.

After acquiring these extraordinary beings, he immediately used his painting skills to perfectly replicate their essence and then sealed them in a spatial painting.

Over the course of a few months, he had raised his drawing skills to LV4 at an incredible speed.

This was the second LV4 skill he mastered after becoming a Space Trap Creation Technique.

[Painting Skill LV4: With special pigments, one can create spiritual paintings that perfectly imitate and replicate the essence of the target.]

[Enhanced Feature: Draw Solid – Allows for the concealment of additional draw solid spaces within the drawing itself]

[Enhanced Trait: Mind Prison - Able to influence the spirituality of the life depicted in the painting through the Mind Prison]

When Rosen upgraded his drawing skill from LV3 to LV4, he used the heart of a Sequence 4 Heart Eater as the enhancement material.

He promised to paint a painting of a spiritual realm for someone in the future in order to successfully trade for this extremely rare material.

However, the enhanced drawing technique did not disappoint Rosen.

The prison depicted in the painting is actually the hidden prison in Viscount Aib's painting.

If you draw a goat-headed monster, and then capture it and lock it in a drawing prison.

The goat-headed monster drawn using the art of painting is second only to the painter's self-portrait in terms of realism.

More importantly, the drawn goat-headed monster perfectly captures the extraordinary abilities and all the memories of the real goat-headed monster.

Of course, drawing a prison is powerful, but only if you can capture the target alive and imprison them in the drawing.

Furthermore, you must ensure that the target does not starve to death inside the prison, and guarantee their basic survival needs.

Comparatively speaking, the enhanced ability, Mind Prison, is much more powerful.

Rosen looked at Kuroro in the picture frame in front of him, and then at Kuroro across from him, who seemed a little uneasy about being used as a model.

He activated the Mind Prison property, combining it with the Mind Canvas. Whatever Kuroro thought in his mind would appear on the Mind Canvas. He could even browse through all of Kuroro's memories through the Mind Canvas and then lock any part of those memories inside the Mind Prison.

He can also manipulate Kuroro's thoughts and consciousness through the Mind Canvas and the Mind Prison.

He manipulated the character Kuroro in the painting, making him believe he was a cat.

Kuroro, who was not far from him, immediately squatted down and licked his hand incessantly like a cat.

This is only the LV4 drawing skill. With more advanced features, higher-level drawing skills can even seal the target directly within the painting, ignoring almost all defensive cursed targets, or directly inflicting various types of damage on the target through the painting. There was once a painter who painted a demigod and then casually burned the painting.

As a result, the demigod, who was hundreds of thousands of miles away, was burned to ashes by ordinary flames.

All high-sequence painters are masters of manipulating curses.

Rosen decided to persevere and learn the final skill, the finishing touch.

However, the finishing touch is not a skill that can be mastered by painting at home. It requires going to the spirit world, perceiving the ubiquitous historical traces deep within the spirit world, and then capturing these historical traces and integrating them into a spiritual painting, just like adding the finishing touch to a dragon.

The Underground Kingdom consists of only one city, and ordinary people live in the hidden spiritual realm within the royal city.

In addition to a vast number of underground cities, the Dungeon Kingdom also boasts abundant underground mineral resources.

In areas with valuable mineral deposits, temporary mining towns would form.

When the mineral veins are depleted, the mining town will quickly disappear.

Tiemu Town was once a mining town.

However, unlike other mining towns, the people living in Tiemu Town are farmers, not miners.

Although this place contains the precious and extraordinary material red iron ore, the iron content in the ore is very low.

Ultimately, with no other option, the Dungeon Kingdom chose to plant large quantities of ironwood.

Relying on the ironwood's characteristic of absorbing iron elements during growth, the extraordinary metallic red iron here is absorbed into the ironwood.

Finally, burning the ironwood yields the precious, extraordinary metal, red iron.

Aside from this unique feature, Red Iron Town is also one of the few mining towns that did not end well.

The ironwood planted here, containing red iron, attracted a Sequence 4 Iron-Eating Earth Dragon from the underground world. The entire mining town was wiped out by the Iron-Eating Earth Dragon. Since there was not much red iron left, continuing to plant ironwood would be a losing proposition.

Finally, the place was completely abandoned and eventually forgotten by the world as the underground passages collapsed.

If Rosen hadn't consulted official records as a painter, he would have had a hard time finding this forgotten town.

According to the experience summarized by painters, the best way to perceive the past traces of the subject to be painted is to go to the places where those people and things disappeared and were destroyed, because it is easier to perceive the past traces there.

Instead of sharing the gray rat's power, Rosen had the gray rat carry him underground.

Although he can also use the ability to share pets and burrow underground, it's still not as fast as a gray rat underground.

Two days later, Rosen was dumbfounded as he looked at the completely buried Ironwood Town.

He tried to activate the Void Scan, but the Void Scan was not very effective here.

Because the soil underground contains tiny red iron particles, the town's buildings, constructed from local materials, also possess a subtle spiritual quality.

Therefore, relying on virtual boundary scanning, basically nothing can be scanned.

Rosen had no choice but to expand his divine territory and release the few dungeon demons he had recruited during this period.

Then command the Crypt Demon to dig out the Ironwood Town.

Ash Hive and Demon Nest, both unit buildings, have been transformed into divine buildings by Rosen.

Ash Nest now produces one Ash Bee per week, just like Slime Nest.

The time it takes for Demon Lairs to produce Crypt Demons hasn't decreased, but the chance of producing mutants has increased.

Crypt Demons are highly efficient at digging, and as long as the soil and rocks are not stuck to the ground, Void Scavenger can instantly collect these loose soil and rocks, and can even decompose and refine them into red iron.

Rosen, finding the work too slow, simply expanded the divine territory and dispatched all the people.

Several cat-people who had switched to the miner class finally found their place and played a significant role.

So in just a few days, the town of Tiemu, which had been buried underground, was unearthed.

All the buildings were constructed using rock and ironwood, so most of them have been well preserved for the past few centuries.

Only a portion of the buildings were likely destroyed by the Iron-Eating Earth Dragon.

Rosen unleashed his God-hunting Eye, surveying the entire town from a godlike perspective.

Then, sketch out a rough draft on the canvas of the mind, drawing the entire Ironwood Town exactly as it appears.

With the overall sketch in place, the next step is to work on the details of each building.

Rosen carefully observed each house, inside and out, and drew a separate picture of each one.

Since these paintings are not spiritual works, no spirituality needs to be infused into them when painting.

Therefore, with his fast hand speed, he can easily finish an ordinary painting in just a few seconds.

Even the collapsed and damaged buildings, Rosen carefully reassembled like building blocks and then recorded with drawings.

He spent several hours drawing the entire town.

Only after this point did Rosen set up the flower stand, which was ten feet in diameter, and begin painting the spiritual artwork of the Ironwood Town.

Using his drawing skills, Rosen depicted the entire town in meticulous detail.

He even drew the texture of the ironwood planks on an ordinary wooden house in a completely realistic way.

It took two months to complete the painting, and only then did a town exactly like the historical Tiemu town appear in the painting.

The scene is finished; the next step is to draw the most important person.

However, while buildings can be recreated, recreating people is not so simple.

Fortunately, this world has not only painters, but also photographers, and cameras—things that ordinary people can use.

Rosen pulled out a group photo from the archives; it was a large group photo of more than a thousand people in the small town of Temu.

There are many similar group photos in the human world; they are precious records left by our predecessors for future generations.

If any painters in the future want to create a painting depicting the spiritual realm of Tiemu Town, these materials left by predecessors will be of great value.

If our predecessors didn't even leave any records, it would be difficult to find traces of history deep in the spirit world.

Even after hundreds of years, the clothing and appearance of each person in this photograph can still be clearly seen.

Through years of painting portraits, Rosen has developed a profound understanding of people.

He began to observe carefully which houses in the town each person in the photo lived in.

Of course, it's impossible to see everything, but one person was wearing a hat, and the decayed remnants of the hat were found in a box in a house in the town. By comparing these, it's possible to determine where this person lived.

Once all the matching pairs were found, Rosen began adding characters to the Ironwood town in the painting.

For each person who is successfully paired up, a picture of that person is drawn in the corresponding room.

For those that couldn't be matched, he painted them on the streets or in the work of planting ironwood. In short, he painted them all without missing a single one. People are much harder to paint than buildings. It took Rosen three whole months to paint this one.

(End of this chapter)