Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 169 The Cat God's Relics and the Painter's Death Verdict

Chapter 168

The cat god's clone surveyed the gallery maze, but found no paintings on either side of the maze.

As I pondered how to break through the Void Gallery, the labyrinth floor began to spawn a dense array of traps.

These traps include spatial confinement and time slowing, effectively reducing Cat God's speed to even slower than Rosen's.

The moment Rosen teleported to the Cat God's clone, he activated his innate skill of human model.

The medium used was a bit of powder scraped off from a fake cat god statue before the gray rats were sacrificed.

He had just casually collected various media featuring human models, never expecting that he would actually be able to use them.

The cat god's clone was instantly frozen by the human model, and Rosen then projected the ash curtain onto the cat god's clone's divinity.

Confined by the human mannequin, the cat god's clone was utterly powerless against the ash curtain.

At this moment, Rosen also released the human model from its powerful control over the cat god's clone.

A Bloody Revolver of Sequence 6 appeared in his left hand, the weapon held by the vice-captain of the Black Shark. In his right hand, he held the Dragon King's Wrath, which had transformed into a pistol. The moment the Cat God's clone fired two guns in rapid succession, he also fired two guns in rapid succession.

Cat God's clone has a fast firing rate, but Rosen's firing rate is just as fast.

Extraordinary bullets kept colliding in the air, and no one could penetrate the barrage of bullets between them.

If viewed from a third-person perspective, it would be apparent that Rosen's shooting skills are almost identical to those of the Cat God's clone.

The reason is simple: Lawson is replicating the shooting skills of the cat god's clone.

When used alone, the human mannequin is indeed the epitome of extreme control.

However, many skills can be combined. By using a human model and a mental canvas, one can perceive the enemy's physical state through the human model and reflect the enemy's spiritual changes through the mental canvas, thus attempting to imitate the opponent on both physical and spiritual levels.

This isn't very effective in actual combat, but it's extremely efficient for learning from your opponent's techniques.

As time went on, Rosen's high-speed shooting skills improved more and more.

However, he became increasingly embarrassed because the cat god's clone kept destroying the surrounding traps. Without spatial confinement and time slowing, the cat god's clone's reaction speed far surpassed Rosen's.

At this point, Rosen stopped simply imitating and began to try to integrate shooting techniques into his own skills.

He possesses the Void Spear Dance, which allows for near-infinite instantaneous movement.

Instead of directly confronting the cat god's clone with gunfire, he constantly teleported around it, firing a shot and then teleporting once. Combined with his Void Shadow Escape technique, he actually managed to suppress the cat god's clone, forcing it to constantly dodge.

However, the advantage did not last long, as the cat god's clone suddenly increased its reaction speed by more than double.

It turns out that as the traps were continuously destroyed, the cat god's clone should have recovered its reaction speed even faster.

However, each time it recovers 2%, but in reality, the performance is deliberately suppressed and only recovers 1%.

Then, by accumulating small gains, he gradually concealed his true reaction speed, and finally unleashed his full power to catch Rosen off guard.

Rosen's Eye of Time had actually seen it in advance, so he decided to use it against him.

Because of the instantaneous burst of reaction speed and firing rate, several bullets fired by the Cat God clone passed through the barrage and hit Rosen.

However, at the same time, Rosen's bullet also hit the cat god's clone.

In an instant, a thousand years of lifespan were lost, and the impact on lifespan would even affect the Cat God himself.

Although the cat god has a very long lifespan, it has lived for over 20,000 years.

The remaining lifespan was already not much, and now that it has suddenly been reduced by a thousand years, it made the cat god's clone furious.

Moreover, the memory of the battle just a second ago suddenly turned into a distant memory from a thousand years ago.

This directly caused the cat god's clone to become confused, leading to a misjudgment and being taken advantage of by the spatial trap to be transferred to the Gluttony Furnace.

No matter how much the cat god's clone struggled, it could not destroy the Gluttony Furnace.

The Gluttony Furnace is not as strong as the Gluttony Stomach, but it has the same Sequence 4 defense strength as the Void Safe House.

However, it was more than enough to trap the cat god's clone at Sequence 6. The terrifying spatial holy fire, combined with the digestive power of Gluttony, had already begun to forcibly decompose and digest the cat god's clone that had fallen into the Gluttony Furnace.

While the Cat God clone is indeed more powerful with the Hunter sequence, Rosen can easily deal with it using the Painter sequence.

If it weren't for learning the techniques, Lawson could easily kill any Sequence 6 character instantly by using a human model followed by Gluttony. Now that he's learned the techniques enough, it's time to send Cat God's clone on the road.

A few hours later, the cat god's clone was disintegrated, leaving only two trophy orbs that entered the scavenging space.

Rosen crushed the first one and found it to be a Sequence 6 Extraordinary Object, a lucky cat figurine.

This thing can actually improve one's fortune, which means that the true form of the Cat God may very well possess the power of a lucky cat.

Continue crushing the second orb to obtain a pair of Sequence 6 cat's eye stones.

Rosen examined it carefully and discovered that it was an exceptionally rare inlaid gemstone.

As the name suggests, this cat's eye stone is used for setting.

Through special techniques, this gemstone can be inlaid into other extraordinary artifacts to add enhanced attributes.

His two cat's eye stones can enhance his base reaction speed by 100% and his base movement speed by 100% respectively. Finally, when the two cat's eye stones are inlaid together in a supernatural artifact, he can also gain the supernatural skill Fatal Critical Strike.

The exact effects of this fatal critical strike are unknown until the gem is successfully socketed.

Although both the lucky cat and the cat's eye stone are good, Lawson felt they were not worthy of the Cat God's clone's power.

He even felt a little guilty for losing the gray rat's carcass.

Rosen habitually inventories his spoils in the secret study, as it allows him to easily access information using the main computer.

Just as he was about to leave the mysterious study, the network cable of the main god's computer suddenly extended towards the Void Gallery, then went straight into the Gluttony Furnace, and finally wrapped around a phantom and pulled it out of the Gluttony Furnace. The phantom looked like the cat god's clone that had already died.

The cat god's clone struggled frantically, but it was no match for the main god's computer's network cable.

A continuous stream of divinity was drawn from the network cable and then poured into the potion bottle.

Rosen quickly realized that the cat god's clone was not completely dead after all.

It's said that cats have nine lives, and the Cat God really does have that ability.

The avatar that descended to divinity was not as powerful as the original, but it also had two lives. The first life was transformed into spoils of war by the hunting divine authority, and the second life was in a special void ghost state, hiding in the Gluttony Furnace, but was eventually discovered by the main god computer.

Now that all the divinity has been infused into the potion bottle, it will become the core potion material for his future advancement to Sequence 5 Hunter.

Rosen put away the potion bottle, considering whether or not to destroy the Death Forest, this spiritual realm.

After thinking it over, he decided to just destroy it, which would just confirm one of his guesses.

Rosen released the Ash Bee Queen from the window and began to slaughter all the extraordinary life in the entire Spirit Realm. After killing them all, it also began to destroy the environment. The Scavenging Space continuously collected plants, and even soil and rocks were not spared.

They truly dug deep, squeezing the entire spiritual realm dry in a short time.

When the Spirit Realm restarted, Rosen also invested time-attribute spiritual crystals to accelerate the restart.

The result was that after less than ten restarts of the Spirit Realm, the Spirit Realm, which had been upgraded to Sequence 6, fell directly to Sequence 9. When the Spirit Realm finally collapsed, it was not burned to ashes by the backlash of the flame of civilization, but instead decomposed into a lot of spatial attribute spiritual crystals.

Both the Void Prison and the Death Forest were completely destroyed, but the Void Prison turned to ashes.

Because the Void Prison in history was truly destroyed in reality, while the Shadow Cat Jungle, which corresponds to the Death Forest in reality, still exists, only the spiritual realm formed from the historical traces that have disappeared in reality can turn to ashes after complete destruction.

Having determined how to obtain the ash, Rosen was able to target and destroy such spirit realms.

The harvested ashes can then be used to rekindle the flames of civilization, and also to strengthen Ash Castle.

Rosen put away the spatial spiritual crystal, intending to keep it to create spiritual paintings.

Having activated the Miracle Property Void Phase of the Fairy Dragon Balls, he has already locked onto the spatial coordinates of the Principality of Blazing Shadow and teleported back.

Rosen and his self-portrait clone went their separate ways. Rosen painted in the Void Studio, while his self-portrait clone hunted Ash Life outside with his magical pet and secondary pet. While Rosen persevered in the Painter sequence, his clone was also steadily improving his Hunter sequence skill level.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye, and Rosen gained more and more merits from hunting Ash Life.

All the original Sequence 7 spiritual paintings in the Void Album and Void Gallery were discarded and given to the people of the territory. He then repainted a large number of Sequence 6 spiritual paintings. If it weren't for the good news from the Temple of the Main God, he might have been painting for several years without stopping.

On this day, Rosen was drawing when the Main God computer notified him that the bounty on the Main God Network had been decided.

Someone is selling a painting that contains the painter's extremely rare skills through the main temple.

The skills of a regular painter at Sequence 6 are readily available in the human world; money can buy quite a few of them.

However, Rosen was too picky. He wanted a Sequence 6 cursed painter skill. If the requirements were relaxed to Sequence 5, it wouldn't be difficult to obtain, but Sequence 6 cursed painter skills are very rare, and he didn't value the potential of easily obtainable skills.

So after offering a bounty for more than half a year, Rosen finally received good news.

Rosen spent a full 10,000 God Coins to buy a Sequence 6 spiritual painting through the God Temple.

Despite its low grade, the artist of this painting is quite remarkable.

This is one of a set of nine Sequence 6 spiritual paintings created by the deceased Sequence 1 painter, Helati Borges, while he was in Sequence 1. Legend has it that this spiritual painting was created by Helati specifically for his students.

However, his student was killed by a foreign god, so Helati spent two hundred years completing a painting.

Through the painting "Hailati's Revenge," Hailati, skilled in curse painting, successfully killed the alien deity.

Then, at the cost of her life, Hailati painted a painting depicting a spiritual realm.

Legend has it that in that Gundam Sequence 1 painting, Helati and his student reunited within the artwork. Rosen hung the framed painting on the wall, carefully admiring Helati's work.

The painting is titled "The Hunt of Death." It depicts a figure wearing a cloak and holding a scythe, with a series of panicked and disheveled figures fleeing at his feet. Upon closer inspection, these figures can be discerned to include both humans and other races.

Rosen tried to infuse his spirituality into the painting, and he instantly felt his spirituality enter a figure within the painting.

He turned around and immediately saw Death, who seemed like a giant to him, swinging his scythe down at him.

Rosen instantly felt his spirit being pulled out of his human form, and then his spirit was annihilated by the Grim Reaper in the painting.

However, in the next instant, the spirit that had just been killed reappeared in another figure.

However, in the blink of an eye, Rosen was once again killed by Death's Grip.

He then found himself trapped in a cycle of death. He discovered that if he turned around, he would be instantly killed, but if he didn't turn around, he could only run away like a headless fly. No matter which direction he fled in the darkness under the Grim Reaper's feet, he would eventually be trapped in a maze and return to the Grim Reaper's feet.

Faced with the endless cycle of death, Rosen gradually discovered that his spirituality was weakening.

If this continues, the little bit of spirit he infused into his paintings will be completely lost.

Rosen watched helplessly as a sliver of spirituality was extinguished. He had to eat golden apples for several days to restore the abnormally low upper limit of his spirituality. This time, he infused two more points of spirituality and even converted the spirituality into the divinity of Quetzalcoatl ahead of time.

The feathered serpent gods who grow to the level of demigods will all wield divine power over life and death.

The bloodline of Quetzalcoatl naturally contains two powers.

The bloodline of the feathered serpent god, now fused with the self-portrait clone, has also been upgraded to sequence 6 along with the painter's sequence.

However, the Feathered Serpent God bloodline has yet to develop any new abilities. This time, he can take advantage of the Grim Reaper in this painting to give it a good jolt. If he can truly unleash a pseudo-divine power over death, it will be much easier for him to master the curse skills contained in the painting.

With countless deaths, with each instance of spirituality being extinguished in the painting.

Rosen gradually discovered that his spiritual affinity for death was growing stronger.

There are two simplest ways to master the power of death: killing and being killed. Killing primarily enhances the ability to grant others the power of death, while being killed involves personally experiencing death and gradually becoming more and more intimate with it.

When this affinity reached its limit, Rosen found that the spirituality he had infused into the painting was appearing in Death's body.

At this moment, he went from being killed by the Grim Reaper to possessing the Grim Reaper and hunting down the various races of life beneath his feet.

This time, Rosen's spirituality was not gradually eroded by the Grim Reaper, but with each repeated slaughter of the various races beneath his feet, countless resentments of death began to entangle his spirituality, causing it to gradually become distorted and corrupted.

In the end, his spirituality was completely corrupted by resentment. The last bit of spirituality Rosen possessed within Death transformed him into a madman who knew only how to kill.

Finally, when there was nothing left to kill, all the lives of the various races beneath their feet could not be resurrected.

Rosen committed suicide by wielding the Grim Reaper's scythe, and he had to infuse the Grim Reaper in the painting with a bit of spirituality once again.

The result was another cycle. More than two months later, the spirituality that Rosen had infused into the painting was able to gain a powerful affinity with death, while also being forcibly honed to the point that it could withstand the erosion of countless deathly resentments.

At this point, the knowledge about curse skills left behind by Helati in the painting finally came to light.

Rosen then realized that the painting contained a curse-type painter skill called Death Judgment.

He needs to use his own soul as a canvas, and countless resentments of death as paint, then paint the Grim Reaper's scythe and cloak on the surface of his soul before he can create the painter's skill, Death Judgment, within the painter's extraordinary essence.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness, Rosen's soul manifested.

He used his spirituality to wield the divine brush, using the spirit that had been withdrawn from the body of the Grim Reaper in Hailati's painting and the resentment of death on it as paint, and began to use his painting skills to copy Hailati's Grim Reaper cloak on the surface of his soul.

This Grim Reaper cloak requires meticulous attention to every single thread, each thread representing the resentment of a dying life.

Then these threads need to be woven into cloth, in which various hidden spiritual runes must be woven. Finally, the cloth woven from the resentment threads must be cut into the Death Cloak. It would take several months to draw a complete Death Cloak.

Rosen had no choice but to come inside the Time Tower and use five times the time acceleration to complete the drawing as quickly as possible.

A few months later, after finishing the Grim Reaper's cloak, he began to draw the Grim Reaper's scythe.

Having gained experience in drawing the Grim Reaper's cloak, it only took less than two months to draw the Grim Reaper's scythe this time.

The moment the Grim Reaper's scythe was created, Rosen mastered the painter's skill, Death Judgment.

[Death Verdict: (0/∞)]

[Attribute: Creates a cloak and scythe of death that can freely traverse the target's sea of ​​consciousness using spiritual paintings]

[Divine Trait: Death's Blessing - Your spirituality will be immune to death-related curses below Sequence 3]

Rosen discovered that as long as his soul was cloaked in the Grim Reaper's Cloak, he would be immune to death-related curses.

If he takes it off, he can choose to materialize it into reality and then wear it on either the original body or a self-portrait clone.

After donning the cloak of death, he gained the ability to freely travel between any spiritual painting and the sea of ​​consciousness.

Rosen couldn't wait to take out his drawing paper and begin to draw a portrait of the old Redstone Viscount based on Kaden's memory.

In just half a day, he had successfully used his drawing skills to depict the spirit of the old Red Stone Viscount.

This is the medium of the death sentence. Rosen manipulated a self-portrait clone draped in the cloak of death to enter the painting. The cloak of death kept shrinking and took the self-portrait clone into the sea of ​​consciousness between the eyebrows of the old Redstone Viscount in the painting.

At that moment, Viscount Redstone, who was far away on the border of the human world and was working hard to create a human, suddenly shuddered.

He instinctively sensed danger, but didn't know where it came from.

Just then, he noticed a figure shrouded in a cloak suddenly appear in his mind's eye.

The figure brandished a scythe, completely ignoring all spiritual defenses as it approached its Sequence Tree.

With just one slash, the Ancient Tree of Sequence was split in two.

The old red stone viscount, who constituted the spirit of the sequence ancient tree, was instantly captured by the scythe and lost all consciousness.

In reality, the old Redstone Viscount also lost his spirituality and his soul collapsed at this time, leaving him only with a vegetative state.

However, Rosen was not satisfied. Through the old Redstone Viscount's collapsing consciousness, he saw a landscape painting hanging on the wall in reality. He walked out of the painting directly, and then the Grim Reaper's scythe severed the old Redstone Viscount's head.

No blood flowed out; instead, the entire body instantly turned into a dried corpse and then scattered into powder.

Because all life force has been instantly drained by the Grim Reaper's scythe.

Rosen casually killed the old Redstone Viscount's new lover as well, then took everything in the villa with him. Finally, the ash curtain projected a sea of ​​fire that burned the villa to the ground, before he walked into the painting in the flames and returned to the portrait of the old Redstone Viscount in his own hands.

He so easily crossed billions of miles to kill the old Redstone Viscount, and even briefly descended to that reality through the medium of painting.

The skill "Death Judgment" is truly worthy of being a skill created by the Sequence 1 painter for his beloved student.

Rosen looked at Death Judgment again; the skill description had changed to (37/∞).
This corresponds exactly to the spirituality level of the old Redstone Viscount; it seems that the more spirituality one harvests, the stronger the skill becomes.

Rosen extracted the spirit of the Old Redstone Viscount from the Death Scythe and then incorporated it into the portrait of the Old Redstone Viscount.

The old Red Stone Viscount, who was already full of charm in the painting, suddenly came to life and looked around in a panic.

He quickly realized that he was already dead, and that his spirit was sealed in the painting so that he could not die even if he wanted to.

Rosen imprinted the Mind Canvas into the old Redstone Viscount's spirituality, and then used his Mind Control skill to take control of his spirituality.

Through the memories stored in his spirit, he finally figured out the secret hidden by the Redstone family.

Indeed, starting with the fifth Lord Howard, the Howard family was targeted by that deity.

Then, despite trying every possible method, they were unable to find the hidden Ash Kingdom.

In the end, the matter was temporarily shelved, and the Redstone family was subdued and began to monitor the Howard family for generations.

As for that bloodline compass, it turned out to be a treasure of the Howard family.

However, a certain generation of Redstone Viscount became greedy and eventually stole it through some means.

So, all things considered, the Redstone family is just a minor player.

However, that god chose the wrong side a few years ago and was killed by the World Government as a result.

Old Redstone Viscount didn't take it seriously at first, and even gave up monitoring young Rosen.

Until Bennett came to kill him with the Bloodline Compass, only to be killed in return, causing a great commotion in the city.

It was only then that the old Redstone Viscount rediscovered the last members of the Howard family, whom he had previously overlooked.

Having just awakened his spirituality, he was able to turn the tables and kill Bennett.

If it grows for a few years, is it possible for it to kill a Sequence 8?
The cautious and timid old Viscount Redstone grew increasingly uneasy, so he prepared to pack his things, relinquish his title, and head to the front lines.

While sorting through the family's treasures, he unexpectedly discovered a secret hidden in a mysterious bell.

This mysterious bell is entirely golden, and spiritual refinement of it yields no information.

However, it has a remarkable effect; after the bell is shaken, the sound continues, and it can temporarily increase the spiritual strength by 9 points.

The old Redstone Viscount became a Sequence 6 thanks to this treasure. If he had already possessed the strength of a Sequence 6, he might not have applied for the title inheritance and gone to the front lines. After all, in his view, the strength of a Sequence 6 was enough to deal with Little Rosen's revenge.

However, by this time the application had already been approved, and the old Redstone Viscount had no choice but to go to the front lines.

Then he spent money to bribe officials at the front lines, and finally settled down in a supply city at the front lines to prepare to level up a new character.

As a result, he was practicing on a secondary account when, unfortunately, he was attacked from afar.

(End of this chapter)