Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 156 Past Lives, Present Lives, and the Stage of Destiny

Chapter 155

In the painting, Rosen used a golden sandy beach as a backdrop.

Rosen lay on a beach chair, facing Delia with an extremely complicated expression.

The deadly threat of having her spirit forcibly extracted from her soul caused Delia to instinctively break free from the role.

All the memories and self that were sealed away before getting into character quickly return to oneself the moment one leaves the role.

However, the extra spirituality she possessed was only during periods of immersion in the role, when she acted out a false love for Rosen. This false love had permeated every corner of her spirituality, to the point that she hated Rosen to the bone while simultaneously loving him to the point of madness.

As if she were suffering from a split personality, Delia felt that her spirituality had been forcibly divided in two.

In the end, Delia, filled with hatred, was imprisoned in the painting, while Delia, who deeply loved Rosen, stepped out of the painting.

"Tell me about your background, who are you?"

Rosen stepped forward and asked.

"I really am Delia, the Delia you know is a fake..."

Delia said guiltily.

Rosen talked with Delia for a long time before he finally understood what had happened.

It turns out that Delia was an actress in her previous life. Delia's biological father, Vitore, was the younger brother of the current king of the underground kingdom. Although he did not inherit the throne, he was born with the non-hereditary title of count.

Vitoré was highly talented, even reaching Sequence 3 before his brother, who was to inherit the throne.

Vittorie once had a beautiful love affair, which eventually resulted in Delia, the fruit of that love.

Delia's mother was a wizard who was very interested in the demon god sealed in the dungeon kingdom.

However, she underestimated the power of the demon god. Due to her in-depth research, she was bewitched by the demon god and consumed his blood.

Delia's birth took her mother's life, and she herself was weak and sickly from a young age because she could not withstand the power of the demon god. She lived to the age of fifteen but was about to lose her life because she could not withstand the backlash of the demon god's power.

Vittoré has already lost his wife, and he doesn't want to lose his beloved daughter as well.

So he used a very rare and powerful skill from the actor's lineage to extract Delia's spirituality and soul, and then injected it into the body of Delia's mother in this life, ultimately living out her second life through the miracle of life's birth.

However, the terrifying power of the demon god's bloodline is beyond imagination, and even if Delia were to be reborn, it would be difficult for her to live a healthy life.

At this time, Vittorie discovered the truth about his wife's death. It turned out that his good brother was jealous of him and secretly helped the demon bewitch his wife. Hatred and despair drove Vittorie completely insane.

Vittorie begins plotting to release the demon god, gradually manipulating and influencing his good brother through the power of the actor.

As for why he scared Delia away, and why the Delia whom Rosen had met before did not know about her past life memories.

That's because his memories of his past life were always sealed. Vittorie dared not break the seal because he knew that what he was doing was a dead end. He didn't want to implicate Delia after his death. Only Delia, who didn't know the truth, could live well.

Delia wasn't entirely clear on the specifics of what Vittoria had done in secret.

All she knew was that some time after Vittorie's death, her memories of her past life awakened, and the demon power that she should have inherited was gone. After much deduction, she suspected Rosen, which led to Delia's framing.

However, she was only a Sequence 7 actress, and normally she was not qualified to frame him.

However, for some unknown reason, a mysterious force approached Delia.

A mysterious force murdered Duke Amos's heir and then gave the master tape of the spirit realm to Delia.

Delia wanted to use Duke Amos's power to push him into a corner, thereby forcing out the hidden forces behind him.

Unexpectedly, the evidence painstakingly planted suddenly lost its effectiveness.

Delia realized that her attempt to frame him had failed, and she had already planned to find another opportunity to deal with him.

For some reason, he inexplicably ran up to Rosen and forcibly pulled him into the role.

Upon learning this, Rosen immediately understood that Delia must have been temporarily manipulated by a mysterious force.

Otherwise, Delia wouldn't have gone all in, risking her own life to drag him into the scheme, before figuring out who was behind him. Clearly, Delia was being used as a pawn this time, but it's unclear who the mysterious force is.

Rosen sealed Delia's true form within the painting, and the self-portrait that incorporated half of her spirituality also fell into slumber.

Rosen took out the divine Tarot card, the Knight of Cups, and then the master tape of the spirit realm used to frame him.

The Holy Grail Knight's ability to find strangers from afar whose destinies are intertwined with his own.

This master tape of the spiritual realm originated from a mysterious force, which then wanted to frame him.

The connection of fates is already fulfilled with this medium.

He had never met the mysterious force and did not know who it was, so the condition of being a stranger was also met.

Rosen's only worry now is that the Holy Grail Knight is just a replica of Sequence 7.

If the mysterious force's scheme against him this time involves someone of too high a rank, the Holy Grail Knight's divination of fate is likely to fail.

Within Rosen's spiritual flame, a distorted image appeared in a blur.

If it were an ordinary person, they would be dumbfounded to see a divination result that looks like it's been pixelated.

However, thanks to Rosen's drawing skills, he managed to restore the distorted and blurry image to a clear one after adjustments.

To his surprise, the people from the mysterious force were actually very close to him.

Rosen has recently been taking Delia on a trip around Mysterious Island, and they usually stay in hotels.

Today was no exception; the mysterious forces were actually in the room directly below him.

That's really audacious, or rather, they don't take him seriously at all?
Rosen did not act rashly, but instead amplified his extraordinary hearing to its maximum of five times.

However, nothing could be heard; soundproofing had been carefully implemented downstairs.

Rosen closed his eyes to perceive the dream, but no one downstairs was asleep or dreaming.

Forcibly pulling someone into a dream can easily alert them.

Rosen activated his Void Realm Eye Technique, unleashing a small-scale Void Realm that enveloped the room.

This involves integrating the power of the virtual world into reality, but this time it's not about creating a life bar from one's own information.

Rosen's spiritual consciousness, aided by the power of the virtual realm, began to invade the virtual world.

Of course, he couldn't completely hack into the Thunder Empire's virtual world, but if it was just a small local area network within the hotel, he could easily hack into the virtual world login device that was equipped in every room of this top-notch hotel.

Rosen secretly saw three men downstairs through the login device in the downstairs guest room.

The bespectacled man was holding a script of destiny, the one with a pipe in his mouth seemed to be a doctor, and the last short man, judging from his clothes, should be an assassin. Apart from the playwright who was busy, the other two were watching movies to pass the time.

Playwrights can indeed manipulate actors, but actors can also fool playwrights in return.

This playwright can render Delia powerless, so he must be at least a Sequence 5 playwright.

Furthermore, the fact that the doctor and assassin can act so casually clearly indicates that their level is no lower than Sequence 5.

Otherwise, why would the playwright be busy while the other two leisurely watch the movie?

"Fuck...another black hole of fate has appeared..."

Ford looked at the script of fate in his hand and couldn't help but curse.

Playwrights can weave scripts of destiny and influence certain aspects of fate, but they are not gods of destiny, and their core essence is not destiny but creation.

Therefore, various mistakes often occur when writing the script of destiny.

For example, if the main character in the script is supposed to eat rice, but the main character hates rice, and you insist on changing it to bread, that's the smallest mistake.

These kinds of mistakes are insignificant and do not affect the main storyline.

However, sometimes, the script of fate makes the protagonist, who likes women, like men, or makes the protagonist face danger. These kinds of operations go against the protagonist's survival instinct and can easily make the protagonist feel strong resistance.

Often at this point, a significant portion of the script will be rendered useless, creating a black hole of fate from which the playwright has no control over the plot.

To erase the black hole of fate, a more plausible storyline must be rewritten.

Seeing this, Rosen knew that his time was running out.

Once the playwright writes a new plot, and the new plot keeps revealing black holes of fate, you'll immediately realize that the protagonist has already jumped off the stage.

Rosen drew the Dragon King's Wrath, his gaze fixed on the area directly below through the time-scope.

Activating the Future Silencer, the power of the Dragon King's Roar Bullet is compressed into a Time Element Quadruple Bullet.
With the bullet chambered, Rosen began stacking various buffs.

The Grey Rat's Bloodlust Amplifies Damage, Quetzalcoatl's Morning Star Divine Authority Grants Bullets a Higher Rate of Fire and a Harder Projectile Body, the Mechanical Mount Activates Divine Judgment to Increase Damage by Three Times, and finally, the Hunter's Death Strike is Ready to Unleash.

Rosen pulled the trigger, and the Time Element Quadruple Bullet disappeared after passing through the barrel and the Future Suppressor.

A few seconds later, a bullet will appear in the future and hit the playwright downstairs.

But that's not enough; at most, it will severely damage the playwright.

Rosen continued firing bullets, launching three Space Element Quadruple Bullets into the future one after another through the Future Silencer.

These three bullets are all projections of the canvas of the mind, which are then transformed into bullets through the artist's magazine. However, the painting that transforms into bullets is not a one-sided painting, but a two-sided painting that depicts the fusion trap on the other side.

Although the four bullets were fired at different times, thanks to the adjustment of the future silencer, they hit the enemy at the same instant. So, as Rosen silently counted down the seconds in his mind, the hunt was about to begin.

The instant the countdown ended, Rosen vanished into the shadows and teleported downstairs.

The instant he teleported into the room, four bullets struck three targets simultaneously.

The doctor and the assassin, their passively activated defensive artifacts blocked the bullets.

But then the bullets transformed into paintings, and traps appeared within the paintings, imprisoning them.

Both traps are dual elemental traps of frost and lightning, superimposed with a spatial confinement trap, and then superimposed with a time dust trap. With these three traps stacked, even two Sequence 5s would need several seconds to figure it out.

At this moment, the playwright had already been hit by the Dragon King's Roar Bullet.

The moment he was hit, the playwright had already used all his defensive skills to the best of his ability.

However, the defensive skill, which should have lasted for a few seconds at the shortest and a few minutes at the longest, instantly reached its end and disappeared under the impact of the Dragon King's Roar Bullet's Time Dragon Breath. It took a solid hit from the Space Element Quadruple Bullet.

This spatial trap is not a spatial confinement, but a spatial transfer that locks the Void Gallery.

With the accelerated flow of time dust, it was only a blink of an eye before the playwright was transported to the Void Gallery.

Rosen instantly unleashed the Gray Rat's Head-Covering Scurry, bursting at ten times the speed. Combined with the speed boost from Shadow Cloak in the shadows, he achieved an instantaneous speed burst of almost twenty times, stabbing the air in the corner of the room with the Dragon Fang Dagger in his hand.

At this moment, the assassin escaped the spatial trap and used the spatial blink of the assassin sequence to reach a corner of the room.

However, the instant he appeared in the spatial flash, a sharp dagger pierced through his Sequence 5 armor and went straight to his heart. Moreover, the dagger contained a terrifying power that interfered with spirituality, temporarily sealing the assassin's spiritual control over his body.

A doctor who had also escaped the trap not far away was now throwing five scalpels from his hand.

These scalpels flew through the air at supersonic speeds, like living things. One of them landed on the assassin, while the remaining four scalpels all stabbed at Rosen. In the instant they were within a meter of each other, the scalpels disappeared and reappeared right in front of Rosen's skin.

These scalpels can even travel short distances through space; once they get close enough, their attack range becomes zero.

If Rosen were to use Shadow Messenger to teleport at that moment, he could avoid the doctor's scalpel.

However, the assassin will also escape. There is a Sequence 5 doctor by his side. Not to mention his heart being shattered by the Dragon Fang Dagger, even if his head is cut off, he can be reattached instantly. It will be difficult to deal with these two Sequence 5s then.

Therefore, Rosen instantly activated the Void Realm, solidifying his life force into a health bar.

His heart, brain, spine, and kidneys were all injected with deadly poison by a scalpel inserted into his body in an instant.

However, three water clones generated by the Dragon Fang Daggers also appeared beside Rosen. The projections of the three Dragon Fang Daggers simultaneously pierced into the assassin's body. The assassin, whose spirituality was imprisoned by the golden divinity fused with the God of Greed, could only barely try to avoid vital points from the damage.

Then he reached out and grabbed Rosen's right hand, and raised his leg to deliver a knee strike to Rosen's third leg.

A doctor cuts off a kidney, an assassin cuts off a leg so that the person will be childless.

Rosen couldn't calm down. He activated the Storm Pursuit ability of the Hunting Boots, and with the Dragon Fang Dagger that was stuck in the assassin's heart, he suddenly thrust it diagonally upwards into the assassin's neck. Then, a water shield appeared out of thin air to block the knee strike.

The Sea God's Remnant Ring was of too high a level, making it difficult for Rosen to wield most of its abilities.

However, this treasure can absorb faith. The faith provided by the Blade Rat Shark kept in the divine beast pen allows him to consume the power of faith to exert a bit of the power of the Sea God's divine authority.

Through the divine authority of the sea god, Rosen learned many skills possessed by the Frost Naga.

Although his mastery of it is not deep, he can easily block a knee strike with his Water Release technique.

Under the frenzied stabbing and cutting of the four dragon tooth daggers, the assassin, whose spirituality was suppressed by the greedy divine power and who was unable to effectively unleash his skills to counterattack, was actually beheaded by Rosen, who then took advantage of his weakness to film and upload the footage to the virtual world.

At this point, only one doctor remained in the room.

Rosen completely ignored the scalpel that was damaging his body and turned to look into the doctor's eyes.

The canvas of the mind is instantly projected, filling the room with endless, colorful light.

This is a natural wonder that Rosen painted on the canvas of the mind, a colorful radiance born in the darkness. When this natural wonder is born, it has the effect of interfering with all spiritual perception.

Having lost spiritual perception and sight, one can only rely on hearing and intuition.

Therefore, Rosen also simultaneously used his extraordinary five senses to shut down the doctor's hearing. Of course, due to the large difference in the sequence levels between the two, the interference of the extraordinary five senses on the hearing would not exceed two seconds.

Rosen conjured the Dragon King's Wrath in his hand, which transformed into a pistol and unleashed a rapid-fire burst.

To maximize damage, the God-Slaying Crossbow limits the firing of Nen bullets to nine per day due to the constraints of Nen ability.

However, the God-Slaying Crossbow is now integrated with the Dragon King's Wrath, which is a physical, extraordinary artifact that can fire as many physical bullets as it wants.

Rosen is not short of money now; his artist magazines are already full of various Sequence 7 extraordinary bullets.

At this moment, the rapid-fire bullets were Sequence 7 acid bullets. The rapid-fire barrage was blocked by a layer of blood mist the moment it approached the Doctor Sequence. However, all the bullets enhanced by Death Strike had the armor-piercing effect of Ash Penetration.

As Rosen fired rapidly from the front, his three water clones had already reached behind the doctor.

Just as the doctor was about to be surrounded and attacked, he stomped his foot, smashing the floorboards and falling to a guest room on the next floor of the hotel.

However, all of this was foreseen by Rosen's Eye of Time. A self-portrait clone was already waiting on the floor below the guest room, having preemptively set up an astonishing number of traps in the trap space.

The doctor, who had fallen into the trap, was immediately transported to the Void Gallery by dozens of overlapping spatial traps.

Rosen then began to clean up the scene, leaving behind a spiritual purification bomb before returning to his room.

The spiritual purification bomb exploded instantly, purifying all traces of spirituality on the battlefield.

Although Rosen was sniping the playwright from his room, the future silencer allows the bullet to appear in the future and hit the opponent directly. Strictly speaking, it also has a spatial effect, so the bullet appears directly downstairs without even penetrating the floor.

Of course, the aftermath of the fight downstairs still caused the ceiling to crack inch by inch, turning the building into a dangerous structure.

The entire hotel was in chaos, and Sequence 8, responsible for ensuring the hotel's security, was terrified and sweating profusely.

The slight spiritual pressure emanating from the previous battle made him tremble.

Such an entity could easily turn the entire hotel into ruins. The battle was over after only destroying two guest rooms, and the hotel security believed that the two sides had most likely already left the hotel.

So no one suspected Lawson; instead, they proactively arranged for him to stay at other hotels.

After Rosen refused, he left the hotel and randomly entered the mysterious study through a side alley.

The only ones truly eliminated are the assassins; the playwright and the doctor are still wreaking havoc in the Void Gallery.

If this isn't resolved soon, these two will tear down the Void Gallery.

Rosen first dealt with the doctor. The Void Gallery, filled with seawater, kept freezing, forcing the doctor to repeatedly use a scalpel to cut through the ice and then store the cut ice blocks in his storage ring.

Rosen set up the Dragon King's Wrath directly in the studio and then aimed at a blank canvas and began firing in rapid succession.

Bullets entered the picture frame and disappeared, then emerged from the frames that seemed to grow out of thin air on the walls of the gallery, locking onto the doctor's evasive trajectory from any angle and direction, leaving him with almost no way to avoid them.

Despite the difference of two sequences, Rosen's damage can threaten a normal Sequence 5.

Because Dragon King's Wrath is a Sequence 5 Extraordinary Artifact, because the Paladin skill of the Mechanical Mount can amplify damage three times, because it uses divinity rather than spirituality, and because it is in the studio and does not need to defend, but only needs to attack with all its might.

The doctor's body was covered in more and more bullet wounds, and even though he could treat himself, he was nearing his end.

Finally, a Dragon King Roar Bullet ended the doctor's last defensive skill, instantly resetting the stable defense that had lasted for three minutes. He was then hit by a barrage of bullets that pierced his hands, feet, and vital organs, and fell to the ground.

Rosen teleported to the Void Gallery and immediately sealed the doctor with Nightmare Shackles.

Having dealt with the doctor, he immediately set his sights on the playwright.

This person is in much better condition than the doctor, after all, he is a playwright from one of the four great civilizations.

In terms of both wealth and methods, this playwright far surpasses the doctor.

Therefore, Rosen did not intend to quickly eliminate the playwright. Instead, he continuously sent traps through the Void Gallery, constantly ambushing the playwright through the space within the painting, and continuously sealing off the space to prevent him from hiding in the divine territory.

Although Sequence 5 individuals possess high spiritual strength and have numerous means to quickly restore their spirituality.

But Ford felt increasingly desperate. The Void Gallery was indeed powerful, but wouldn't a Sequence 7 painter expend spiritual energy to manipulate it? Where did Rosen get so much spiritual energy to wage such a long war of attrition?

As time went on, the alchemical golems around Ford suffered heavy casualties.

Realizing that there was no way out if things continued this way, Ford gritted his teeth and used a special skill he had mastered.

Playwrights excel at manipulating other people's fates behind the scenes, but are least adept at direct confrontation.

Even if Ford possesses domain-related skills and the ability to manipulate alchemical golems, these can only compensate for his disadvantages in direct combat. When faced with a truly powerful opponent and forced into a desperate situation, he must fight to the death.

If a playwright can treat others as characters, he can naturally treat himself as a character as well.

Ford tears a page from the script of destiny, then uses his spirituality to ignite that page and unleash his special abilities in the stage play of destiny.

Destiny Stage Play is an extension of Domain Skills, capable of materializing extraordinary architectural stages within the Domain and setting script rules on the stage.

As Ford stepped onto the stage of destiny, a Rosen materialized simultaneously on the opposite side of the screen, thanks to the script of fate.

This is not the real Rosen, but the real Rosen can sense that if he dies on stage, he will also suffer great harm. If the real Rosen does not take the stage to replace this materialized fake for a long time, the real Rosen will also suffer continuous harm.

Rosen teleported into the gallery maze, using Shadowstep to ascend the magnificent stage of destiny.

He knew the playwright's fate and stagecraft skills. To produce such a strong binding effect, it was clear that the playwright had also transformed himself into a character in the stage play. Only in this way could the power of the stage play be brought to such an extent.

(End of this chapter)