Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 164 Sequence 6: The Painter and the Deep-Sea Pirates

Chapter 163

It took Rosen three months in real time and fifteen months in the Time Tower to put down the magic pen.

On the drawing paper in front of him, a brand new Void Prison has now appeared.

He didn't copy the Void God Prison Spirit Realm because he felt that such a prison was too small.

The Void Prison he depicted only contained the prison itself, without the individual one-cubic-meter cells within it.

Instead, there are countless nightmare shackles hanging from the top of the Void Prison, and various terrifying, automatically operating torture instruments below the Void Prison. No matter who is imprisoned in the Void Prison, they can only wish for death but cannot live.

【Void Prison: Spiritual Realm Paintings】

[Level: Sequence 6 (Evolves following the Torchbearer sequence)]

[Area: Within a radius of ten li]

[Prisoner: 3000]

[Special Products: Fanatical Followers, Extraordinary Source Material, Skill Crystals, and other extraordinary materials]

When Rosen painted this picture, he incorporated all the extraordinary resources dropped by the prisoners hunted during the 36 resets of the Void Prison into the painting. Ultimately, through the eternal transmission of the flame, he resurrected the three thousand prisoners who had died in the painting.

Although they lost a huge amount of wealth, they gained three thousand ready-made Sequence 6 prisoners in return.

Rosen was confident he could convert these three thousand prisoners into fanatical believers.

Believers' faith in God can be categorized into shallow believers, true believers, fanatical believers, and saints.

There are four levels of faith, and the level of faith that each level brings to the deity is vastly different.

Fanatical believers are not as good as fanatics, but they are much better than true believers.

Therefore, the Void Ruler of the Church of the Void once suppressed the Thunder God of the Church of Thunder.

However, the followers of the Void Ruler are too fanatical, so they easily make enemies everywhere.

Rosen had made up his mind that the fanatical believers born in the Void Prison must never escape his sight.

The moment the Void Prison Spirit Realm painting was completed, Rosen's spiritual strength increased from 37 to 38 points.

The painter's sequence, suppressed to its limit, instantly rose from sequence 7 to sequence 6 at this moment.

[Spiritual Attachment LV4: 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]

[Enhanced Properties: Enhanced Attachment - Enables spirituality to be attached to the spiritual and material realms]

Rosen was overjoyed when he saw the enhanced adhesion properties.

Normally, this is a characteristic that only a Sequence 4 painter with spiritual attachment can possess.

Without this characteristic, painters would paint on actual canvas.

Even with a canvas for his soul, he can only paint on it.

However, with the enhanced attachment, and in conjunction with the Mind Canvas, Rosen can pull the spirituality of other beings into the Mind Canvas, and then paint directly on that being's spirituality, arbitrarily and permanently altering it.

Painting directly on the spiritual consciousness level of others is a skill typically possessed only by high-sequence painters.

Rosen looked at the stroke of genius again, and this innate skill had also been upgraded to LV4.

His physique is stronger, his painting talent is stronger, and his natal divine brush has been upgraded from sequence 7 to sequence 6.

However, the magic pen did not develop any new features; its overall attributes were simply enhanced.

As the sequence level increases, all the innate skills extra generated by the Divine Stroke are also strengthened.

Those without skill levels received overall enhancements. As for the two innate skills with levels, Void Gallery and Void Album, they were all qualified to be upgraded from Sequence 7 to Sequence 6.

However, upgrading directly like this will likely result in minimal changes to the attributes after the upgrade.

Ultimately, the Void Gallery is architecture, and the Void Album is a supernatural object; without the investment of extraordinary resources, it will only be a castle in the air.

Therefore, after consideration, Rosen incorporated the Void God Prison Spirit Realm paintings into the Void Gallery.

Not satisfied with that, he also incorporated the corpse of a Sequence 3 Storm Thunderbird into it.

Finally, gritting his teeth, Rosen also incorporated the Magic Altar into the Void Gallery.

This time, the Void Gallery finally ate its fill and began a perfect evolution that lasted for several days.

[Void Gallery: Divine Architecture]

[Level: Sequence 6]

[Defense Strength: Sequence 4]

[Defense Level: Sequence 5]

[Attack Power: Sequence 5]

[Functional Buildings: Magic Altar, Void Studio, Void Prison, Wind and Thunder Forge, Void Safe House, Gallery Maze]

[Exceptional Traits: Bone Frame, Human Skin Canvas, Gluttony Furnace, Sea God's Blessing, Void Gate]

All basic attributes have been upgraded by one level, and three more functional buildings have been added.

The Void Gallery now features an endless spatial mist both inside and outside, and can send intruders trapped in the gallery's maze into the Void Prison. Due to the fusion with the Sequence 3 Storm Thunderbird, the original extraordinary characteristic Thunder Element Furnace has evolved into the extraordinary building Wind and Thunder Furnace.

In the blink of an eye, a storm and thunder began to sweep through the gallery maze.

The destructive power of the gallery maze has been elevated to a whole new level.

Finally, the original Blood Furnace characteristics were also fused with the Gluttony God Authority and evolved into the Gluttony Furnace.

Combined with the spatial sacred fire of the magic altar, the Gluttony Furnace's digestive capacity temporarily surpasses that of his Gluttonous Stomach.

The final Void Gate is the truly new and extraordinary characteristic that emerges after this evolution.

This feature allows for the construction of near-permanent spatial portals. The main body of the Void Gate is certainly in the Void Gallery, but the auxiliary spatial portals can be placed in the divine realm, or even deep within the spirit world.

Rosen plans to continue upgrading the Void Album, and the main material for the upgrade is the leaves of the Golden Apple Tree.

Then, as supplementary materials, were the skins of thousands of extraordinary beings he had collected.

These leaves and bark were used to make drawing paper, which was then incorporated into the Void Album to replace the original human skin drawing paper.

Finally, through the art of talisman drawing, he incorporated all the spiritual runes he had mastered into it.

After several busy days, the Void Album has been perfectly upgraded.

【The Void Album: Extraordinary Objects】

[Level: Sequence 6]

[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 - Significantly increases the attributes of the self-portrait]

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

[Special Characteristic: Sealing Painting - Capable of sealing away parts of real objects to form a unique sealing painting]

Photographers can capture real things and then seal them into a spiritual master tape.

The artist's spiritual paintings also require the incorporation of real-world elements into the painting process.

According to Rosen's understanding, this sealing painting characteristic should be a weakening ability mastered by high-sequence painters.

There is a school of painters who believe that mere painting is always just a poor imitation.

If this school wants to paint a portrait, they will choose to seal the real person into the painting and integrate them into the painting. Then, they will directly copy the painting on this person to give the person in the painting a more powerful force.

For example, you can seal a four-armed Naga and then add two more arms to it through drawing, turning it into a six-armed Naga.

Because it is a secondary painting creation based on real life, it is even possible to create new species based on real life.

Rosen tried it out, but his Void Album couldn't seal away all real things at will.

The real things that can be sealed are the extraordinary beings corresponding to the drawings that were previously incorporated into them.

If you want to seal a new extraordinary life form, you need to peel off the skin of this extraordinary life form and make it into a painting. Then, you need to integrate the painting into the Void Painting Book so that the sealing painting's properties can be effective against this extraordinary life form.

Therefore, to realize the value of the sealing painting's unique characteristics, it is necessary to continuously incorporate more special paper.

Having enhanced all the innate skills that could be strengthened, Rosen looked at the innate skills born from the painter's advancement to Sequence 6.

[Nude Model: The ability to forcibly lock a life into becoming your nude model through a medium]

The moment Rosen learned of this innate skill, he understood how to proceed with his Sequence 6 painter path.

The medium for a human model can be flesh and blood, or nails and hair. Anything on the body can be used as a medium. Of course, the flesh and blood of the target life is much better than a hair.

If it's just hair, almost no one in Sequence 6 can refuse to be a human model.

If it's flesh and blood or even spirit, Rosen can even force a Sequence 5 to become his human model.

Once someone becomes a nude model, their life will be manipulated like a puppet.

However, he cannot directly harm the human model. He can only draw the human model using his painting skills, and then use the curse-like skills he has mastered to create a deadly threat the moment the control effect on the human model is lifted.

The painter sequence is strong, but it relies more on the defensive counterattacks of the Void Gallery.

If the enemy is determined not to enter the Void Gallery and is determined to escape, it is actually very difficult for the painter to keep the opponent.

Therefore, by Sequence 5, painters usually possess terrifying curse skills or special skills that can forcibly pull enemies into the Void Gallery. Rosen has the Space Trap Creation Technique, so he only needs to master curse skills.

However, even Baal's great-uncle was only a Sequence 6 painter before his death.

Therefore, within the knowledge passed down, there is no powerful skill like a curse that a Sequence 6 could master.

Rosen has already posted bounties on both the Temple of the Gods and the Deep Web of the Spirit Realm. Of course, out of caution, the Deep Web of the Spirit Realm is offering a bounty for the Cursed Painter skill, while the Temple of the Gods is offering a bounty for all rare skills in the Painter sequence. Several days have passed, and still no one has accepted the bounty.

Rosen familiarized himself with his newfound power in Frost City, but two months passed without any results.

He wanted to upgrade his noble rank, but upgrading to rank 6 would present a problem.

All Sequence 6s should theoretically be sent to the front lines.

Those who remain in each country at Sequence 7 or higher either have made enough contributions on the front lines to be able to return, or they have hunted large numbers of Ash Lifeforms in the human world, because hunting Ash Lifeforms can also earn them merits.

If you don't want to choose either of these paths, then joining the World Government as an official can also avoid going to the front lines.

However, once you become an official, you can no longer be free; you must obey orders.

He doesn't want to go to the front lines yet; it's too dangerous for a Sequence 6 to go to the front lines.

Rosen didn't want to be commanded, so he had no choice but to hunt down Ash Life.

The ash covering the Thunder Empire is very thin, so very few ash life forms are born.

With wolves outnumbering meat, even Ash Life in the Thunder Empire is becoming a rare species.

After much deliberation, Rosen decided to return to the Duchy of Blazing Shadow.

There are some people to deal with, some things to handle, some grudges to settle, and the wealth of the gray rats to be acquired.

Rosen disappeared from reality and entered the divine realm, then began migrating into the divine realm through the mythical properties of the Brilliant Lighthouse's spirit anchor point.

Currently, the main territory of the Divine Realm is in the Thunder Empire, but there are Spirit Realm anchor points in both the Underground Kingdom and the Blue Whale Kingdom.

Rosen removed the spirit anchor from the dungeon kingdom and placed it in the Thunder Empire.

This way, even if he returns to the Blazing Shadow Duchy, he can always use the Spirit Realm Anchor to come to the Thunder Empire's Spirit Realm whenever needed. Then, he only needs to leave the Spirit Realm to return to the Thunder Empire in reality. Therefore, the Spirit Realm Anchor is indeed very useful.

The migration of the divine realm has ended, and it has now appeared in the spirit realm corresponding to the sea area where the Blue Whale Kingdom is located.

The spirit world here is no different from reality; it's all a vast, boundless ocean.

However, the Blue Whale Kingdom does not control this sea entirely; there are also the constantly regenerating spirit realms related to the Naga on the surface of the spirit world, as well as the ever-growing spirit life forms.

Rosen released his mechanical mount, which instantly transformed into the Quetzalcoatl warship, a weapon he had never used before.

The entire warship is only twenty meters long. The figurehead is the head of the feathered serpent god with a single horn. The hull is as if the feathered serpent god is split open from the back and then expanded. If needed, the scales can be closed to become a submarine.

The feathered serpent god's tail stands tall, forming a distinctive stern sail, a position where the ship would normally be prone to capsizing.

However, Quetzalcoatl's wings can be transformed into oars in front of the ship, and can also become sails when needed.

Overall, the warship transformed from the mechanical mounts looks quite decent.

Using the riding skills of his mechanical mount, Rosen easily piloted the Quetzalcoatl warship and set sail.

He immediately realized his mistake. The ship's sails were not driven by wind, but by light elements. Light element particles, ejected from the upright tail, traversed the sea like a beam of light, balanced by the two wings in front.

Rosen didn't understand why Faris's mechanical mounts had to have a warship form.

Because it has a fighter jet mode, it can move at supersonic speeds.

As for when it's necessary to dive underwater, the most primitive feathered serpent form is sufficient.

As his knowledge grew, Rosen came to understand why only knights could roam the seas.

Because the sky over the sea is completely different from the sky above islands and land.

Both islands and the mainland have large populations, and the flame of human civilization is very strong on both islands and the mainland.

However, the vast ocean is sparsely populated, and the flame of human civilization cannot fully illuminate it.

At this time, various extraordinary ships, or mobile nations like the Blue Whale Kingdom, will become beacons of civilization, and under their illumination, no alien race can escape the notice of the World Government when it appears on the sea.

Conversely, the sky has no lighthouses and is in the dark zone on the map of human territory.

All alien deities that infiltrate human territory to cause destruction descend from the sky above the sea.

Although they will be immediately discovered by the flames of civilization linked by a series of lighthouses, it is not so easy to catch them if they run fast enough.

Mechanical mounts can fly freely in the Thunder Empire, but it's best to travel on the sea.

Because alien deities could easily sneak up on blind spots in the sky, recklessly flying high over the sea would make one vulnerable to being spotted and easily shot down by them. That's why mechanical mounts have a warship form.

Strictly speaking, the warship form is far superior to the tank and fighter jet forms.

Although the Quetzalcoatl warship moved at the speed of light, Rosen used Void Shadow Escape while manipulating his mechanical mount.

So despite its high speed, it causes very little noise along the way.

However, while it might be able to deceive the senses of the ashes living in shallow waters, it would be quite difficult to deceive the pirates who make their living on the open sea.

Before the Blue Whale Kingdom had even covered half the distance to the Blazing Shadow Kingdom, the Quetzalcoatl warship's radar had already detected pirate ships blocking its path. In the vast ocean, this was clearly unlikely to be a coincidence, but rather a pirate ship specifically targeting this route.

"A pirate ship of Sequence 8 dares to appear in the deep sea to intercept ocean-going vessels?"

Rosen frowned as he saw the approaching pirate ship in the distance.

To put it bluntly, even a Sequence 8 pirate ship isn't qualified to survive at sea for an extended period.

So either there's a hidden island nearby, or this pirate ship is a high-sequence vessel disguised as a low-sequence one, or this pirate ship is just some kind of decoy, and there are other undiscovered pirate ships approaching in the shadows.

Rosen instantly activated Divine Charge, increasing his speed fourfold.

After reaching Sequence 6, the mechanical mount's level was also unrestricted and increased to Sequence 6.

Rosen continued to activate his "Scurrying Away with Head in Hands" ability, and with the acceleration from his constantly activated Void Shadow Escape, he unleashed a full eighty times his base speed. Like a phantom of light, he traversed dozens of nautical miles and smashed the pirate ship to pieces with the figurehead's horn.

All the crew members were killed instantly, and only the pirate captain was lucky enough to escape death with serious injuries.

However, before the person could fall into the sea after being blown into the air by the shockwave, Rosen, who had entered bullet time mode, had already glanced at him.

The instant Rosen saw the pirate captain, he was thrown off a nightmare shackle and bound hand and foot.

While his whole body was bound by chains, he was also put in a cangue around his neck.

Because the Quetzalcoatl warships were so fast, it was difficult for them to come down quickly.

So much so that the pirate captain was dragged behind the ship and experienced a terrifying sea drift at that moment.

By the time the Quetzalcoatl's warship slowed down, the pirate captain was already dragged along by the seawater at high speed, leaving him covered in blood and barely clinging to life.

Rosen dragged the pirate captain back to the ship, and the angelic beast quickly healed the pirate captain's flesh wounds.

Nightmare Shackles suspended the pirate ship in mid-air, with two iron hooks growing from the chains to pull up the pirate captain's eyelids. In his semi-conscious state, the pirate captain saw Rosen's eyes through his blurred vision.

Using his sixth sense to read minds, Rosen quickly understood what was going on.

His analysis was largely correct; there were indeed hidden islands nearby, and the Sequence 8 pirate captain was indeed bait. However, the pirate crew that was fishing had obviously caught a big fish that they couldn't handle, and the Void God Realm just happened to be short of new prisoners.

A void gallery the size of a fist appeared beside Rosen, its surface shrouded in spatial mist.

The skull-shaped Void Gallery swallowed the pirate captain whole, sending him to the Void Prison where he could neither live nor die.

Rosen conducted a wide-ranging scan of the virtual realm, then limited the scan to substances that lacked spirituality.

In an instant, the pirate ships hiding in the sea were discovered.

The feathered serpent warship flapped its wings and took off into the air. Rosen's gaze passed through the eyes of the feathered serpent at the bow and looked toward the sea.

The ash curtain projected a natural spectacle, and the sea for miles around instantly turned red and began to bubble.

This is the boiling phenomenon caused by water being boiled at high temperatures. Although the temperature may not seem strong to supernatural life, since it is a natural wonder, it is definitely not just a simple matter of seawater being boiled. The water vapor that is spreading has a terrifying viscosity.

Several pirate ships were seen in the sea, completely encased in water vapor and stuck in the seawater, unable to escape.

Rosen removed the Dragon Blood Bottle from the Nightmare Shackles and instead inlaid the Remnant Ring of the Sea God on it.

The Nightmare Shackles, infused with the power of the Sea God's Remnant Ring, instantly spread into the sea, consuming faith to manipulate the ocean through the Sea God's divine authority, encasing several pirate ships in a giant water prison and pulling them to the surface.

At this moment, the captains of the pirate ships were each doing their best to escape.

Some bombarded the water prison spell, while others deployed defensive barriers to ram it. However, these were all desperate struggles. Only one Sequence 6 pirate ship suddenly disappeared inside the water prison spell and teleported to the sea dozens of miles away to escape.

Rosen's eyes once again projected a natural wonder, but this time it was a thunderous waterspout.

Thunderbolts struck down from above, while seawater was swept up by a storm, forming a waterspout.

That's not all. Rosen also used the projection rendering of the Ash Curtain to imprint a spatial trap he had drawn on the Ash Curtain onto the hull of the pirate ship. The skill of this spatial trap imprint is spatial blockade.

Traps not only enhance the gallery labyrinth of the Void Gallery, but conversely, the Mind Canvas also enhances the traps of the Hunter Sequence.

Captain Asad of the Night Demon pirate ship realized that the space was blocked and that the pirate ship could not escape.

Even tearing the space teleportation scroll apart couldn't break the spatial blockade.

Left with no other option, Assad jumped into the sea and fled.

As for the Night Demon, it could no longer resist the pull of the waterspout and was quickly swept into the sky to experience the baptism of storm and thunder. If Rosen had not shown mercy and not wanted to destroy the Night Demon, this Sequence 6 pirate ship would have been dismembered by the natural wonder.

Rosen has mastered many natural wonders, but this thunderous water tornado is the strongest.

Because the Poseidon Ring comes with both the divine powers of storms and the Poseidon himself, and only requires faith to unleash a small portion of the true power of those divine powers.

Unlike the divine authority held by Quetzalcoatl, it has only been able to exert a tiny fraction of its power to this day.

Rosen watched Assad flee, his self-portrait clone already entering Assad's shadow.

According to his memories from reading the notes of the pirate captain in Sequence 8, Asad is not the most powerful in their pirate gang. He is only one of the two vice-captains of the pirate gang. There is also a captain in Sequence 5 and a vice-captain in Sequence 6 who have not yet appeared.

In their view, Assad's raid was enough to take down a Sequence 6 supernatural vessel.

Unfortunately, they were unlucky and ran into a brick wall this time.

P.S.: Happy Children's Day! Adults, have fun too!
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