Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 178 Time Drawing and Human Role Play
Chapter 177

The Abyss Battlefield City 9 has no specific city name, only a number.

Because during the most brutal period of the Abyss Battlefield, cities on both sides near the Abyss Battlefield were recorded as having been breached.

These cities, located near the battlefield, have been destroyed so many times that they have gradually been reduced to mere numbers.

The moment Rosen removed his disguise and stepped into City 9, he felt completely relaxed.

After months of fighting, he killed hundreds of Sequence 6 demons and several Sequence 5 demons. He was chased by several Sequence 4 demons while trying to take a shortcut across the Sequence 4 war zone. He was in a sorry state. If it weren't for his powerful Void Blink, he wouldn't have been able to return so easily.

Almost all frontline cities are directly managed by the World Government.

Rosen inquired about the location of the quartermaster and went directly there to show off his emblem ring.

He waited for a long time, but the new Star Emblem did not appear.

Instead, he was interrogated by the World Government's intelligence agency and subjected to a special investigation.

In the quartermaster's reception room, Rosen sipped his red tea and looked at the three judges sitting opposite him. As far as he knew, the judges were a special position in the intelligence agency, mainly responsible for investigating and eliminating humans who colluded with alien races.

The judges have appeared to investigate him, and it seems that the intelligence agency demigod he betrayed is dead.

"Do you gentlemen have any questions?"

Rosen asked calmly.

The three judges took out a kerosene lamp with a large, gourd-shaped body and a toad-like mouth, and lit it, which produced a green flame.

"Next, please tell us in detail about your experience on the 99th floor of the abyss."

The judge in the middle took out a notebook and then spoke.

Rosen put down his teacup and recounted his experience after being teleported to the abyss without hesitation.

This included disguising himself as an Abyss Demon to hunt Abyss Demons, contacting the World Government through the Spirit World Web to accept a mission, then using a treasure to wash away his own spiritual aura from the Star Crest, and purchasing millions of human slaves in Phantom City.

There's nothing to hide about these things. The only thing Rosen is hiding is that he changed the spiritual energy hidden within the Star Emblem.

"Routine investigation complete. This is your new Star Crest."

The judge looked at the ever-green light, closed his notebook, took out a box, and pushed it in front of Rosen.

Rosen opened the box, took out the new Star Emblem, and after spiritually refining it, got up and left.

After watching Rosen leave, the three judges packed up their things and prepared to leave as well.

However, even the youngest judge couldn't help but ask the question that had been bothering him.

"Captain, is he really okay?"

"In our line of work, the first thing we need to learn is to assess the situation, not to pursue the truth."

The captain smiled and explained, "Have you ever thought about what kind of methods it would take to cross the two realms and obtain the spiritual aura of a demigod if Rosen really switched the spiritual energy within the Star Emblem?"

The young judge fell silent; it was indeed a difficult question to answer.

The branch chief of the intelligence bureau, who was in charge of intelligence on the 99th floor of the abyss, wanted to take the opportunity to kill Rosen and steal the merits that belonged to Rosen.

From any perspective, the branch director was the one who violated the rules first.

Rosen, a being on the 99th floor of the Abyss, knew who wanted to harm him simply through the Spirit World Network, and then launched a counter-trap. To be able to do this, even the weakest person would probably be a Sequence 1 within the World Government.

On the surface, Rosen seems to have no background or backing, but how did he become a hereditary duke with nothing to his name?
The more Rosen's background remains undiscovered, the more it suggests that his background is unfathomable.

Continuing the investigation will only cause trouble for yourself in the end.

Rosen won't be in too much trouble, since no matter what, it was the Abyss Monarch who killed the branch chief. Rosen was just going with the flow. If things really escalated, it would be their intelligence agency that would lose face.

Especially when it comes to things like murdering a hereditary duke and embezzling merits, once it blows up, whoever gets involved will be in trouble.

In other civilizations and among other races, those who rule over civilizations and races are all true gods.

However, in the human world, the highest authority of the world government belongs to all hereditary nobles. Even the great true god is only the largest hereditary noble and cannot rule humanity outside of the hereditary noble group.

It takes skill to do something without being discovered.

If you fail to accomplish your goal and are discovered and killed, then consider yourself unlucky and don't drag others down with you.

……

This outcome was exactly what Rosen had anticipated.

If he makes a scene, the intelligence agency will have to compensate him.

However, continuing to cause trouble would not do him any good. The death of a branch chief would not offend many people, but if the intelligence bureau as a whole lost face, it would offend many more people. Moreover, if someone were to expose the Star Emblem he had offered, the Abyss Lord's wrath would be difficult to bear.

While on the way, Rosen was distracted and logged into the Spirit Realm Deep Web using the Star Emblem. Sure enough, his noble account received even more merit points.

The judge's routine investigation was merely a way of showing him that they should stop here and not offend each other.

After checking into a random hotel, Rosen logged onto the Spirit World Deep Web and eagerly went to the World Government's Merit Shop.

To incentivize extraordinary individuals to earn merit, the World Government has established merit shops in various cities on the front lines and in the capitals of various countries. However, the largest and most abundant merit shop is the one in the Spirit Realm Deep Web.

The sheer variety of treasures was dazzling, even making Lawson a little overwhelmed.

He resisted the urge to change anything and instead opened the Miracle Vault attached to the Merit Mall.

The word "miracle" says it all; you can exchange for miracle treasures here.

However, you can only admire the Miracle Treasures with merit points; you need special privileges to exchange for them.

Rosen checked and found that his Sequence 6 redemption privilege was indeed still valid.

He immediately searched for the treasure he had long coveted, then chose to exchange it, and waited for the spirit messenger to deliver it to his door.

He originally planned to transform Xiaolongnu into a messenger from the spirit world, but who could have imagined that she could transform into human form.

It seems he needs to find another way, but fortunately, he doesn't necessarily need a messenger from the spirit world right now.

Half an hour later, the Miracle Treasury's exclusive spirit messenger delivered a package.

Rosen unpacked the package, opened a flat wooden box, and took out a sketch that was only a foot in size.

The painting depicts a clock face, with a severed finger at the base of the dial moving the dial.

With the strength increased to Sequence 6, the time acceleration in the Beginning Spirit Realm could no longer take effect.

Whenever he needed to accelerate time, he would use the Time Tower to accelerate time by a limited factor of five.

But once you're used to refined grains, how can you swallow coarse bran?

Rosen had also considered looking for other ways to accelerate time, but external methods would eventually fall behind the sequence levels, and then he would have to find new ways to accelerate time. So he wondered if there was a way to solve the problem once and for all.

He actually found it later; what he wanted was in this painting.

This painting not only contains a miraculous treasure, but also a special skill crystal of the painter's Sequence 6.

It is somewhat similar to the paintings that passed on skills before, but the skills contained in this painting are the painter's skills that are born naturally.

Rosen infused his spirituality into the painting, and the clock and the fingers manipulating it disappeared.

The entire painting spontaneously combusted instantly, burning to ashes that fell to the ground.

There are miraculous lives, miraculous treasures, miraculous skills, miraculous characteristics, and also conceptual miracles in the world.

Miraculous life and miraculous treasures both have specific carriers, which is why they are unique in the world and eternally indestructible.

However, the Miracle Skill is different; the vessel for his Miracle Skill, Time Shooter, is himself.

If he dies, the Time Shooter skill crystal will definitely drop from him. Only this skill crystal has the characteristics of being eternal and unique in the world. The same applies to the Miracle attribute.

As for the strongest conceptual miracle, it can be simply understood as the eternal and indestructible sole authority and rule of heaven and earth.

Therefore, the concept of a miracle is the most powerful miracle, but it could also be the weakest.

Because authority also has strength and weakness, the kind of authority rule that would kill even a true god if they opened their eyes under the shroud of a conceptual miracle is undoubtedly a very powerful conceptual miracle, but the kind of authority rule that would make an ordinary person choke when drinking water is obviously very weak and has almost no destructive power.

The painting that burned to ashes in Rosen's hand was not a miracle, but a sealed object; the clock and fingers in the painting were the real miracles.

Moreover, it is both a conceptual miracle and a miracle skill.

No learning is required; one can directly master this miraculous skill simply through spiritual fusion.

[Time Simplified Drawing: Miracle Skill]

[Passive Attribute: All spiritual paintings created possess a time attribute]

[Active Attribute: When activated, allows you to freely adjust your own time flow while drawing]

[Miracle Trait: Time Thief - Your time is randomly stolen every day]

The miraculous properties of the time thief in the simplified time drawing are a special concept of miracle.

Under the influence of this special rule of authority, the painter who controls the time drawing will have time stolen from him every day, which is to say, his lifespan will be stolen. The minimum is one day, and the maximum is one year. The exact amount stolen is completely random.

Therefore, the miracle property of Time Thief is known to have only negative effects and no positive effects.

Without this miraculous trait, he would never have had the chance to master this skill.

There was once a demigod painter who mastered the Time Drawing technique, but due to its negative effects, he died after only a few hundred years. Naturally, no painter dared to refine this skill afterward, and the Time Drawing technique was eventually sent to the Treasure Vault of Miracles to become a collectible.

The reason Rosen dared to refine this skill that steals his lifespan every day is that he also possessed the miraculous skill Time Shooter.

The Miracle trait, Time Crystal, can currently store time for 10,000 years.

The little bit of time that the Time Thief steals each day can be replenished by simply shooting down a superhuman being.

Without worrying about the threat of the Time Thief to one's lifespan, the passive and active attributes of Time Drawing are already very powerful.

Rosen casually drew a picture of chicks eating rice, and after he finished drawing it, the time-based drawing was automatically assigned a time attribute.

Spatial attributes can give this painting a sense of space within it, but temporal attributes can make time flow within the painting. The chicks in the painting seem to be eating rice frantically, almost in fast-forward, and eventually grow into a large rooster. Rosen could also make the life within the painting come alive, but activity doesn't mean coming to life.

Because in terms of time, the lifespan depicted in the painting is constant and lacks the potential for growth.

Unless it is a painting created in a spiritual realm, or a painting imbued with the power of creation to give the life depicted a completely real life, no matter how realistic the life depicted is, it will not have the characteristic of growing over time.

But now with Time Drawing, his spiritual paintings will all have the potential for growth.

Rosen continued to activate his active attributes, and he could now freely adjust his own time flow.

Time slowed down, and all his movements became slow motion.

Time accelerated, and his entire being was based on real time; all his actions became fast-forwarded.

However, there are limitations to this adjustment of the flow of time. He can only adjust time when he is drawing, and the adjustment multiplier cannot exceed his own spiritual strength. When he is not drawing, the time drawing cannot take effect.

"From now on, it will only take a few days to paint an ordinary painting of a spirit realm."

Rosen was feeling pleased when he suddenly realized that a year had disappeared from the Time Dragon Crystal.

After a moment's hesitation, he selected Time Shooter and Time Drawing as his Sequence 6 innate skills.

In this way, as the sequence level increases, these two skills can be further enhanced.

With the timeline provided, Lawson decided to stay at the hotel permanently.

Crossing the Abyss Battlefield boosted his spiritual strength to 46 points. With 46 times the time acceleration, his efficiency in mastering spiritual runes through painting increased by 46 times. He could master the last skill of Sequence 6, Human Body Painting, in no more than half a year.

It's a pity that the time acceleration of the Time Tower cannot be stacked, otherwise the efficiency could be increased by five times.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye. After drawing the last spiritual rune, Rosen collapsed from exhaustion.

When I woke up again, two days had passed.

Rosen rubbed his temples with lingering fear; his spiritual strength had already increased to 47 points.

It took half a year to master more than three thousand spiritual runes.

Mastering human figure painting only requires two thousand spiritual runes, but the more you master, the better the results will be.

Rosen, with unwavering spirit, immersed himself in the extraordinary source matter and began to construct the special skill of human body painting using spiritual runes within it.

Half an hour later, he mastered figure drawing naturally.

[Human Body Painting: The ability to draw spiritual runes on the surface of the human body]

In the Void Prison, a demon from the abyss hangs before Rosen.

This is a Sequence 6 Abyssal Fire Demon, its entire body covered in flame-burning armor plates, so there's no question of it wearing clothes. Therefore, the armor plates on its body are the surface of this Abyssal Fire Demon's human body.

Rosen first sealed the flames on the surface of the Abyssal Flame Demon's body, and then began to paint on its surface.

First, a layer of pigment identical to human skin is applied. Then, using this pigment as a medium, spiritual runes are interwoven and drawn on the surface of the Abyssal Fire Demon. These spiritual runes constitute the disguise of the shapeshifting demon sequence's skills.

The moment the last stroke was made and the human figure painting was completed, the Abyssal Flame Demon's camouflage skill was activated.

Just moments ago she was three meters tall with a ferocious face, but in the blink of an eye she has disguised herself as a delicate and elegant lady.

The results of the human body painting are truly impressive; the cosmetic surgery skills are in no way inferior to those of highly qualified doctors.

Rosen then used the Abyss Demons as test subjects to hone his skills in drawing human figures.

Although there are no skill levels in body painting, mastering spiritual runes is just the foundation. It is easy to strengthen one's physique through body painting, but to master skills of other sequences, one needs to thoroughly analyze the spiritual runes that constitute such skills.

Simply mastering skills from other sequences can achieve similar effects with the Greedy Hand.

Moreover, the Greedy Hand can steal two skills, and the key is that if you don't want them anymore, you can steal new skills.

Not only can one master only one skill in figure painting, but it is also very difficult to switch skills once mastered.

However, figure drawing also has its advantages, namely that the skills mastered can be upgraded to a maximum of LV9.

Rosen took out the Source Material Equipment Actor Mask and analyzed the most core acting skills of the actor sequence bit by bit.

Incidentally, I also purchased a large amount of research material on role-playing skills through the deep network of the spirit world.

After two months of painstaking research, Rosen finally succeeded in deciphering all the spiritual runes that constituted the role-playing skill.

Rosen took out the original drawing paper of the self-portrait clone, enlarged it, and began to draw the human body on the original self-portrait clone.

Originally, the face of the self-portrait clone was his face, but as the human body painting was depicted, the face that belonged to him on the self-portrait clone gradually turned into a pale face without features.

Meanwhile, the acting skills of the actor sequence were successfully mastered by the self-portrait clone.

Because the self-portrait clone was contracted to be a pet, its abilities can be shared with Rosen.

Therefore, in that instant, Rosen also mastered the acting skills.

[Level 1 Role-Playing: Able to impersonate any living being]

Rosen nodded in satisfaction, not in a hurry to do human figure painting on the Nightmare Slime and other pets.

Each pet can have a chance to be painted on its own body.

This means that each pet can share one additional skill from another sequence with him/her.

However, having more skills isn't always better. Not to mention that analyzing skills from other sequences is time-consuming and laborious, upgrading skill levels is also not an easy task.

It's not too late to share new skills if there's a real need, because once a figure painting is completed, it's not easy to change it.

Role-playing is a special skill; the only way to improve its level is through role-playing.

Rosen sent his self-portrait clone into the God Game, allowing the clone to play various roles. With the help of the actor's mask, there was no difficulty in improving the acting skills to LV3.

In less than a week, he had successfully played dozens of roles in the virtual realm and leveled up to LV3.

Then, Rosen fused the extraordinary essence of the shapeshifter into his skill, successfully enhancing his role-playing skill to LV4.

That wasn't enough. During the days he spent playing the role with his self-portrait clone, Rosen also continuously absorbed various actor-related knowledge through the Glory Sage skill, then transformed this knowledge into proficiency, and finally, with accumulated experience, easily raised his acting level to LV5.

[Playing as LV5 (1/500)]

[Attribute: Able to disguise itself as any living being]

[Enhanced Trait: Perfect Imitation - Gains the ability to perfectly imitate on a spiritual level]

[Enhanced Trait: Enhanced Transformation - Capable of refining the disguise down to the genetic level]

In the blink of an eye, Rosen had transformed into an abyssal demon.

Then there are the Abyssal Fire Demon, the Abyssal Serpent, and even the female Abyssal Succubus, all of which can perfectly transform.

With such powerful disguise and transformation capabilities, actors can discard their masks.

With his current ability to impersonate, if he were to disguise himself as a female abyssal succubus, he could theoretically give birth to baby succubi. This is the greatest benefit of enhanced transformation; this characteristic has brought the extraordinary source enhancement power of the shapeshifter to its limit.

Rosen's ability to move freely in and out of the 99th floor of the abyss is due to his disguise skills.

Now his ability to disguise himself has been significantly improved, which will make everything he does much easier in the future.

Moreover, through role-playing, he can subtly and permanently enhance his spirituality after a successful role-play.

The higher the level of the transcendental sequence, the more difficult it is to improve one's spirituality. Therefore, the more methods that can accelerate the growth of spiritual strength, the better.

Rosen hadn't left the hotel for more than half a year, and now that he had some free time, he couldn't hold back any longer.

After checking out of his hotel room, he began to consider where to go next.

The Abyss Battlefield is a great place; there are endless abyss demons to hunt here to the fullest extent.

However, the Abyss Battlefield is not a place to stay for long. Fighting in the Abyss Battlefield for a long time will pollute one's spirituality with the power of the abyss. Therefore, the human extraordinary beings on the Abyss Battlefield are rotated every year, and he will not gain much if he stays any longer.

Moreover, his spiritual strength is 47 points, but he only has one extraordinary building in the Noble Sequence 6.

So after a few days of relaxation, he'll probably have to search everywhere for territories, buildings, or noble skills that catch his eye.

……

After relaxing for a few days in City 9, Rosen had decided where to go next.

Faris gave him the coordinates of a spirit realm back then, but he never had time to go and check it out.

Since there's nothing I absolutely have to do right now, I might as well go check out the coordinates of the spirit realm that Faris gave me. Faris is a Sequence 5 mechanical inventor, so maybe that spirit realm will give him some surprises.

Using the void phase of the Fairy Dragon Balls, Rosen successfully teleported back to the Principality of Blazing Shadow.

Mount your mechanical mount and enter the spirit world. Set it to autopilot and head towards the dungeon kingdom.

A few days later, Rosen returned to the dungeon kingdom.

Without much effort, he had already located the spirit realm hidden by Faris using the accurate coordinates of the spirit realm.

According to the information left by Faris, this spiritual realm is related to a mechanical civilization that disappeared in history.

Because it is a spirit realm of an alien race, this kind of spirit realm should have been continuously weakened until it was destroyed.

However, Faris coveted the technology possessed by this mechanical civilization, so instead of weakening the spiritual realm, he continuously strengthened it, and now the original Sequence 7 spiritual realm has grown to Sequence 6.

If he gets caught, Faris won't be released for at least a few hundred years in prison.

But now that the person is dead, no one can hold them accountable for their crimes.

Following the method left by Faris, Rosen activated the entrance to this mechanical civilization's spiritual realm.

A metal door appeared out of thin air. The metal door was composed of countless high-speed rotating gears. At this moment, these gears rotated and opened to both sides in a fan shape, forming a mechanical teleportation door with a width of two meters.

After Rosen carefully stepped through the door, the mechanical portal closed again and disappeared.

(End of this chapter)