Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 192 The Mother Tree of Life and Sequence 5 Painters
Chapter 191

Rosen followed Devon to the spirit realm corresponding to the Kingdom of Divine Weapons, and then found a deserted area of ​​a thousand miles in circumference on the mountain.

He couldn't wait to transform Dragon King's Wrath into its sniper form, but Devon immediately shook his head upon seeing this.

Rosen understood what he meant and controlled the Dragon King's Wrath to grow ever larger.

The original Dragon King's Wrath sniper rifle was about 1.5 meters long, but now it has expanded to 50 meters and become a sniper cannon.

The muzzle diameter is close to one meter, which is the limit of the Dragon King's Wrath.

However, in this form, Rosen certainly cannot shoot while holding a weapon.

So Rosen activated the Volcanic Dragon Mimicry, and the futuristic silencer at the muzzle became the mouth of the Volcanic Dragon, the wings that grew from the side became the gun mount, and finally the gun body became the body of the Volcanic Dragon.

Rosen was instantly sucked into the gun and placed in a closed tactical firing space.

Rosen closed his eyes, his spirit merging with the Dragon King's Wrath, becoming one with the weapon.

Devon appeared a hundred miles away, and a hundred shells were fired in quick succession at Devon, who neither dodged nor flinched.

All damage was blocked, enough kill points were accumulated, and the special skill "Fatal Critical Strike" was activated.

The Dragon King's Wrath's magazine began to release violent flames like a volcanic eruption. These flames were compressed several times through the magazine and the barrel, finally forming a shell with a diameter of nearly one meter.

With the silencer of the future, the shell will disappear silently after leaving the barrel.

Three seconds later, it hit Devon, who was a hundred miles away. The shell disintegrated instantly, releasing all the dragon breath inside like a volcanic eruption. Accompanied by a loud dragon roar that resounded for thousands of miles, the dragon breath flames expanded into a fireball with a radius of ten miles in less than a thousandth of a second.

The extremely high temperature, reaching hundreds of millions of degrees, lasted for a full five minutes before it went out of control and exploded.

Immediately afterwards, the area within a radius of a thousand miles turned into a raging sea of ​​fire, with temperatures reaching hundreds of thousands of degrees, if not hundreds of millions.

When Rosen saw Devon again, he had become extremely disheveled.

Even visible burns were visible on his body, clearly indicating that Devon had done his best, but still couldn't escape the damage range of the Dragon King's Roar.

However, the Dragon King's Roar, a giant sniper cannon-like weapon, has a cooldown time of up to one day.

It seems we're still a long way from hunting demigods, but at least we can already threaten them.

"In the future, unless you are killing someone or in a no-man's land, do not fire at full power indiscriminately."

Devon, while treating his injuries, offered a reminder with lingering fear.

Rosen nodded and talked to Devon in detail about his experience of taking the Dragon King's Roar Bomb.

Firstly, the future silencer will eliminate the intermediate flight time of the bullet, making it difficult to dodge once locked on.

Secondly, the power of the bronze dragon's breath contained in the Dragon King's Roar Bullet makes the subsequent combination of the volcanic dragon's roar and breath without delay. Unless one can escape ten miles away within a thousandth of a second, one will have to endure the burning of the dragon's breath at hundreds of millions of degrees for up to five minutes.

In fact, escaping ten miles in a fraction of a second is not difficult; the key is that the dragon's roar can intimidate spirits.

Devon was completely lost in thought for a full second, and under these circumstances, a mere ten miles became an insurmountable obstacle.

However, in Devon's opinion, the Dragon King Roar also has weaknesses: its wide-area damage is terrifying, but its single-target damage is not top-notch.

Rosen outwardly agreed with this assessment but inwardly completely disagreed.

Because he doesn't just master a few hunter skills, he's a part-time complete hunter.

He didn't use Ash Armor Break, nor did he use Fate Mark, Void Gun Dance, Time Hunter, or Nen abilities. If he had used all of these, Devon would have been in far more serious condition than just a minor injury.

Rosen withdrew the Dragon King's Wrath, transformed into a pistol, and inserted it into the holster of his Death Belt.

Devon sent Rosen out of the Kingdom of Divine Weapons in the Spirit Realm before reluctantly bidding farewell to Dragon King's Wrath and returning to the Wizard Tower to heal his wounds.

Following the treasure map's guidance, Rosen traveled directly from the spirit world to the location of the remnants of the Mother Tree of Life at top speed.

Two weeks later, Rosen finally arrived at the coordinates marked on the treasure map.

However, upon arriving at the location, there was no trace of the remains of the Mother Tree of Life.

But it's obvious that if it were so easy to find on the surface, how could it have taken tens of thousands of years for him to come looking for it?
Rosen took out the Miracle Pocket again, activated its treasure-hunting feature, and searched at close range.

However, even with the enhancement of the treasure-hunting feature through equivalent exchange, the results still cannot provide a more detailed positioning.

Rosen could only search for it himself. The place where the remains of the Mother Tree of Life were located must have something special about it. Either the plants were growing exceptionally well, or it was sealed away to prevent it from affecting the environment.

In short, he would search for any place with anomalies, even if it meant traveling three thousand miles underground.

Rosen dispatched all the cave demons, along with hundreds of millions of rats.

I thought I would make some progress, but after several days of work, I still haven't found a single clue.

However, Rosen noticed something unusual around him: the nature fairies had been unusually quiet these past few days.
Ever since this little thing made a contract with Alicia, it felt like it had a powerful backer and would play pranks from time to time. After being disciplined by him a few times, it finally behaved itself and changed to making faces and muttering under its breath.

When Rosen had nothing to do, he often amused himself by talking about nature fairies.

So as long as the fairy didn't go too far, he let her be.

However, the nature fairies have been a bit too quiet these past few days.

Rosen immediately realized that the little guy probably had discovered something but just didn't want to tell him.

"It seems there are no remains of the Mother Tree of Life here. Let's go!"

Rosen said disappointedly after retrieving all the crypt demons.

The nature fairy became anxious when she saw that Rosen was really leaving.

She already knew that the big bad guy was searching for the remains of the Mother Tree of Life in preparation for painting a special spiritual landscape. At the very least, he would paint the Ancient Tree of War, and it was even possible that he would paint the Ancient Tree of Life. Alicia and she would be the ones to benefit the most from that.

She was still sulking, so she wanted the big bad guy to look for her more.

"How can I leave now?" So he flew to Alicia's ear and told her about his discoveries over the past few days.

Alicia angrily grabbed the nature fairy who was trying to dodge and gently gave it a flick on the forehead.

"She has discovered it."

Alicia handed the nature fairy to Rosen.

"Be honest!"

Rosen put the nature fairy to his mouth and opened his mouth wide.

"I'll talk...I'll talk, please don't eat me..."

The nature fairy screamed as she recalled her nightmarish experience.

A few minutes later, Rosen arrived at a valley.

The valley is filled with strange rocks and has no soil, so no plants grow here.

This is somewhat unusual, so he came to take a look himself a couple of days ago.

The stone turned out to be just an ordinary stone, and no abnormalities were found underground.

Rosen came to a rock that was as tall as a person; there were countless such rocks throughout the valley.

It shares the Storm Thunderbird's skills, and with a wave of its hand, it creates a storm vortex that envelops the rocks.

As the storm vortex polished the stone layer by layer, layers of stone powder began to fall off the surface.

The last piece of crystal-clear wood, nearly a cubic meter in size, was brought back to light amidst the fallen stone dust.

Rosen immediately realized that this was the remains of the Mother Tree of Life.

Moreover, it's not just surface debris; it appears to be the heartwood of a tree, and it possesses vigorous vitality. That's why it can conceal itself like a divine object, sealing itself to preserve the life essence within without leaking out or being lost.

Rosen eagerly put it away, then looked at the nature fairy with anticipation.

The nature fairy stood with her hands on her hips and her head held high, looking like she was very powerful and that everyone should try to please her.

However, Rosen wasn't buying it. When he grabbed the nature fairy and put it to her lips, she immediately cowered.

With the guidance of the nature fairies, Rosen collected some remnants of the Mother Tree of Life from some stones.

However, none of them were as big as the first one; the largest was at most the size of a fist, and the smallest was only the size of a grain of rice.

However, they eventually opened another stone, which was many times larger, and found a piece of bark inside that was several hundred square meters in size. Unfortunately, the vitality inside had been severely depleted, and despite its large size, it was actually less valuable than a heartwood the size of a fist.

Rosen finally estimated that these spiritual crystals were worth at least two to three trillion.

It's hard to imagine how valuable a complete Mother Tree of Life would be.

Having obtained the goods, Rosen seized the opportunity and decided to settle down temporarily in the valley.

He combined the bark with parts of the heartwood to create three special sheets of drawing paper.

Taking out the smallest piece, Rosen began to use the pigments he had mixed from the tree heart to paint the ancient war tree of the life-elves civilization that he had seen in the embers, except that he was no longer targeting a Sequence 6 but a Sequence 5 war tree.

After all, the last of the three noble skill slots in Sequence 6 has already been fused with Ancient God Priest Magic.

In fact, even the Life Elf tribe did not have a Sequence 5 Ancient Tree of War.

Because the territory buildings span two levels, the Sequence 5 Ancient of War already has a value that is no less than that of the Sequence 3.

However, Rosen possesses a life gene bank originating from the ancient gods, which includes the life gene map of the War Tree and even the Mother Tree of Life.

Therefore, with the 58-fold time acceleration of the time-simplified drawing, Rosen completed his first painting of the Spirit Realm in just six months.

【Ancient Tree of War: A Painting of a Spiritual Realm】

[Level: Sequence 5]

[Area: Within a radius of one thousand li]

[Population: One Ancient War Tree (Sequence 5)]

[Special Products: War Treant, Treant Priest, Little Elf]

Rosen delivered resources, and the Ancient Tree of War quickly produced three special unit types.

War Treants are about 100 meters tall. As long as they are rooted in the ground, they have super regenerative abilities. They can even condense stones with a diameter of more than ten meters and throw them tens of thousands of meters away. In the end, they also master special skills such as War Aura and War Stomp.

A single War Treant is powerful even at Sequence 5, and their combat strength increases exponentially with the number of them. Next is the Treant Priest, a purely support and healing unit.

Skilled at planting trees, cultivating plants, applying status effects, and healing various injuries.

Rosen finally looked at the little elves. These things were about the size of a fist and could parasitize plants to collect their excess life force. They would then transfer this life force to the Tree of Life or other plants that were not growing well to accelerate their growth.

All three types of troops are highly valuable, but their only drawback is that their production efficiency is too slow.

You can only recruit one War Treant once a year, one Treant Priest once every ten years, and a Wisp is a little better, recruiting one once a month.

Rosen was a little annoyed by the recruitment efficiency, but there might be other solutions.

As the saying goes, the body is easy to clone, but the soul is difficult to create.

War Treants are rare, but as far as he knows, there are quite a few ordinary Treants on the Holy Continent.

Sending ordinary treants into the War Tree will easily transform them into higher-level War Treants in a short time.

Rosen continued painting the second picture, this time depicting the Tree of Life, Sequence 5.

Even though he had time to sketch briefly this time, he spent two whole years painting in the valley.

However, the moment the painting was finished, Rosen's painter sequence naturally ascended to sequence 5, and his spiritual strength increased by two points. One point was the automatic increase due to the sequence upgrade, and the other point was the feedback from the two spiritual paintings.

【Ancient Tree of Life: A Painting of a Spiritual Realm】

[Level: Sequence 5]

[Area: Within a radius of one hundred li]

[Population: One Sequence 5 Ancient Tree of Life, One Miracle Life Fantasy Elf]

Specialties: Fantasy Spirits, Treants, Essence of Life, Spring Water of Life...

After entering the spiritual realm, Rosen arrived at the ancient tree of life, which was only a hundred meters tall.

A normal Sequence 5 Tree of Life couldn't be this small; the key is that this is the Tree of Life of a Fantasy Elf.

Rosen obtained a Sequence 5 Fantasy Spirit on the 99th floor of the Abyss. She is both a miraculous life form and a miraculous treasure. However, after so many years, the Fantasy Spirit is still asleep and shows no signs of waking up.

While in the Wood Elf Kingdom, Rosen specifically consulted the Wood Elf Queen and the Ancient Tree of Life.

The reason is simple: the Ancient Tree of Life of the Fantasy Spirits no longer exists.

Without the ancient tree of life, even the spirits of the same origin will eventually perish.

So, taking advantage of this opportunity, Rosen spared no expense, even using up a large amount of the Mother Tree of Life's core, in order to draw the Ancient Tree of Life of the Fantasy Elf. This is because the World Gene Bank has a corresponding life gene map; otherwise, it would have been impossible to draw a real Ancient Tree of Life.

Rosen opened the Void Album, and at the end were several spatial paintings of self-portraits and clones.

There were many ancient trees sealed inside, and these ancient trees were at least ten thousand years old. If it weren't for the nature fairies, it would not be easy to find these ancient trees even on the Holy Continent. He casually unsealed ten ancient trees and planted them around the Tree of Life.

In a few years, these ancient trees will transform into tree people on their own.

When the time comes, they can be sent into the War Tree and directly transformed into War Tree People.

Conservative estimates suggest that this could triple the production of War Treants.

Seeing that the life force of the fantasy elf hanging in the tree was gradually becoming stronger, Rosen simply started painting his third picture under the tree.

However, five years have passed, and Rosen still hasn't finished the painting.

Moreover, the content of the painting looks extremely simple; it depicts a tree species the size of a mountain.

This is a species of the Mother Tree of Life, and Rosen spared no expense by using the largest piece of the Mother Tree of Life's heartwood to incorporate into the painting.

However, in the end, his ability was only to draw a tree species. This was only because he had experience drawing ancient trees of life and had the complete life gene map of the mother tree of life stored in the world gene bank. Otherwise, even a painter with Sequence 1 would not be able to draw this seed.

【Mother Tree of Life: A Spiritual Painting】

[Level: Sequence 1 (1%)]

[Area: One li in radius]

[Population: One Mother Tree Species]

Specialty products: None

After Rosen finished painting this picture, his spiritual strength not only didn't increase but actually decreased by a few points.

If I didn't eat golden apples every day, I would never be able to make up for the loss of spiritual strength.

However, the fact that this painting of the spiritual realm was rated as Sequence 1 was quite unexpected for him.

However, when he saw the 1% figure at the end, Rosen's face darkened.

He knows the situation best because it's his own painting.

This painting is a bottomless pit, requiring an endless supply of life essence to fill it. Only when it reaches 10% completion will the seeds of the Mother Tree of Life take root and sprout, and only then will the true value of this spiritual painting be realized.

Rosen didn't dare tell anyone that he had drawn the species of the Mother Tree of Life.

If word gets out, the elves will use every means to seize the painting, and even the true gods of the World Government will secretly try to take action against him. When the benefits become too great, all laws and rules will be trampled on by the strong.

Rosen finally breathed a sigh of relief and put the painting into his mysterious study.

Having lived in the valley for several years, it was still very difficult to bear even with people around me.

However, Rosen had no intention of returning to the Wood Elf Kingdom; instead, he planned to visit the Star Empire.

If the Kingdom of Divine Weapons is a paradise for scientists and wizards, then the Empire of Stars is a paradise for artists on the Holy Continent.

Basically, artists who reach Sequence 5 will go to the Star Empire to seek further opportunities.

Rosen has now reached Sequence 5 in the Painter Sequence and has also gained new innate skills.

However, it would be difficult to find a skill that he would be interested in.

In particular, his innate skills are very special, and finding matching acquired skills will be much more difficult.

[Mysterious Painting: Under special conditions, your Sequence 9 spiritual paintings will gain the Mysterious trait as they are upgraded.]

When Rosen first saw this innate ability, his first reaction was complete bewilderment.

He tried painting some Sequence 9 spiritual paintings, but didn't feel any change in them.
After searching the deep web of the spirit world for a long time, I still couldn't find any painters who had ever mastered this innate skill.

It was only then that Rosen realized a possibility: could it be related to his career change to become a torchbearer painter?

After a long period of exploration, Rosen finally uncovered a bit of the secret of the mysterious paintings.

In the extraordinary world, strength is fundamental; without strength, you are nothing.

For a painter to gain great power, the most basic means is to materialize the figures in the painting, or to use a curse-like method similar to a death sentence, or to pull the enemy into the painting and trap them there to die.

One type of painting in particular is very popular among painters.

That is horror paintings, because horror paintings are more likely to evoke fear in people. If horror paintings are exhibited on a large scale, it is easy to obtain a lot of fear from ordinary people, thereby greatly enhancing the power of horror paintings.

The mysterious nature of the innate skill of Mysterious Painting is actually somewhat similar to an enhanced version of Horror Painting.

However, while horror paintings can be created freely by the artist, paintings containing eerie elements must actually exist.

For example, if you want to draw a vampire castle with mysterious characteristics, you can't just imagine it out of thin air. There must actually be an identical vampire castle in the world so that you can draw it realistically and give it a mysterious quality.

This real-life terrifying scene is the special condition for the birth of the mysterious characteristics.

Besides being well-fed and watered, humans also have spiritual needs. All residents of the divine realm can freely log into the virtual world of their respective territories. This virtual world was constructed by Rosen using the power of the virtual world, and it includes a huge amusement park.

It's a popular tourist destination for many locals, and the horror theme park within the amusement park is something that many people both love and fear.

Due to the nature of the virtual world, that horror park is actually equivalent to a real-world horror scene.

Moreover, over the years, it has absorbed the fear of millions of people within its territory.

On his way to the Star Empire, Rosen was already prepared to paint this horror paradise into a painting.

Then he wanted to see what was so special about this mysterious property.
Because they were traveling in the Quetzalcoatl fighter jet, while Alicia was the one piloting the mechanical mount.

So Rosen was able to paint steadily on the road, and with the acceleration of time drawing, he completed his spiritual painting, Horror Paradise, in just five days.

The whole painting looks eerie and terrifying, with countless amusement park rides resembling haunted houses.

This is just an ordinary Sequence 9 spiritual painting. However, the moment this painting was created, it was connected with the main body of the Horror Paradise in the virtual world, and continuously absorbed the negative emotions such as fear released by the people playing in the Horror Paradise in the virtual world.

As more and more negative emotions accumulated, the spiritual painting of Sequence 9 was upgraded to Sequence 8 on its own.

But that's all there is to it, because the horror park only has this many negative emotions.

Rosen immediately thought of the God of War game. His God of War game was a virtual realm composed of a large number of horror movies. Over the years, at least a third of the billions of people in the Hunter x Hunter world have logged into the God of War game.

Therefore, the amount of negative emotions accumulated in the God of War game far exceeds that in Horror Paradise.

Rosen tried it out, and his spiritual painting did indeed absorb the negative emotions accumulated within the God of War game.

However, in the end, he only managed to barely upgrade to Sequence 7, as if the need for negative emotions increased exponentially with each level of advancement.

Rosen pondered for a moment, then thought of another source of negative emotion.

He took out the embers of the fire, and the spiritual painting actually absorbed terrifying negative emotions from them. These negative emotions were likely left behind when the flames of civilization destroyed the entire civilization and all intelligent life died.

As Rosen sensed the spiritual paintings continuing to evolve, he immediately understood that this was the correct path for creating mystical paintings.

Indeed, this innate skill originated from the torchbearer painter.

Through mysterious painting, real-life horror scenes are depicted in the artwork. By absorbing the immense negative emotions within the embers of a fire, the spiritual artwork is continuously upgraded, ultimately acquiring so-called mysterious characteristics.

Soon, Rosen used up all the embers of the Flame God Kingdom and the embers of the Life Spirit.

Having lost the deeply hidden negative emotions, the embers of the flame seem to have undergone some kind of change.

Rosen was worried that it would affect the historical traces preserved in the embers, so he could only travel while using the miracle treasure, the Firewood Pile, to collect the ashes scattered across the Holy Continent. He managed to upgrade the Spiritual Painting from Sequence 7 to Sequence 6 before arriving at the Star Empire.

(End of this chapter)