Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 193 The Painter's Transformation and the Shattering of Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 192

Rosen looked at the painting in front of him with great anticipation. He named the painting "Horror Paradise".

After being upgraded to Sequence 6, the painting not only developed mysterious properties, but also transformed into a spirit realm painting.

So he was very curious about what was so special about this painting.

【Horror Paradise: Mysterious and Spiritual Artwork】

[Level: Sequence 6]

[Area: Within a radius of one hundred li]

[Mysterious Scenes: Haunted House, Mirror Maze, Eerie Circus, Pirate Ship, Soul Carousel, Time-Traveling Ferris Wheel, Human Bumper Cars, Hanging Trampoline, Tumbling Slide...]

[Strange Trait: 1 point]

After examining it closely, Rosen discovered that this painting of the Spirit Realm was only a semi-finished product.

He needs to select a horror game attraction within the horror park and then activate it using some of the existing eerie features.

Rosen casually activated the haunted house, and the painting in the spirit realm immediately changed.

In the painting, all the other scary amusement park rides have turned gray, except for the haunted house ride, which is still lit up.

After Rosen's spirit entered the haunted house, he immediately felt that he could use the eerie characteristics he had integrated into it to set a mysterious rule for the haunted house. This mysterious rule could only take effect within the painting and within the haunted house itself in the virtual horror amusement park.

The mysterious rules can be set arbitrarily, no matter how outrageous they are.

However, the strength of the mysterious rules depends on the strength of the painting of the haunted paradise.

After much deliberation, Rosen began to set the eerie rules of the haunted house—all damage received inside the haunted house would be synchronously transferred to the user.

First, it's important to know that while Horror Paradise does exist in reality, it only exists in the virtual world.

From the very beginning, the process of leading people into the horror park involved logging their consciousness into the virtual world.

Therefore, strictly speaking, horror parks can only contain the spiritual consciousness of intelligent life.

Rosen arrives at the Spirit Realm of Hunter x Hunter and then interrogates a death row inmate from the cell where Nen users are imprisoned.

He impersonated the spirit of the death row inmate, then began to paint a portrait of him, eventually even infusing it with the spirit he was impersonating that outwardly resembled the inmate. The death row inmate in the painting immediately came to life.

Rosen threw the death row inmate he had drawn into the haunted house, then looked expectantly at the actual death row inmate opposite him.

After a while, the death row inmate he drew was in a haunted house, and the monsters he drew ate his brains.

The moment the brain was eaten, the death row inmate opposite Rosen suddenly had his skull ripped open and his brain disappeared.

The injuries suffered by the death row inmate in the haunted house, as depicted in the drawing, were all simultaneously transmitted to the death row inmate's physical body.

This is just one mysterious rule. If more mysterious rules continue to be generated, the haunted house will eventually become stronger and stronger, turning into a forbidden zone for the living that can easily trap and kill extraordinary beings.

Once the mysterious paintings of the Torchbearer mature, they will definitely surpass the terrifying paintings that are usually only mastered by Sequence 3 painters.

Rosen continued to explore the uses of Horror Park and soon discovered that the Ash Curtain could be integrated with Horror Park.

Then the ash curtain invades the spirituality of others, directly pulling their spiritual consciousness into the horror paradise as well.

This gave Rosen the idea that he wanted other artists to help him improve the horror park.

His Ash Curtain replicated the uniqueness of the universe, thus establishing a master-slave relationship with the mental canvases of 356,910 painters. The reason his Ash Curtain leveled up so easily was by stealing the power of these mental canvases.

Since Horror Paradise can be integrated into the canvas of the mind, can Horror Paradise be shared with other canvases of the mind?

This is equivalent to giving all the Mind Canvases a special attack ability, and he can also use other painters who have mastered the Mind Canvases to help him cultivate and expand Horror Paradise. Otherwise, how long would it take for Horror Paradise to grow on his own?
Rosen left the Void Gallery in his seat, then entered the Void Gallery and then the Mysterious Study.

He switched the Ash Curtain back to the Mind Canvas and began sharing the Horror Paradise painting with all other painters below Sequence 4. Those at higher levels couldn't use Horror Paradise; only those below Sequence 4 could appreciate it.

However, sharing Horror Paradise with other mental canvases requires consuming Rosen's divinity.

With limited golden divinity and feathered serpent divinity, the number of people who can share the transmission is very limited.

Therefore, with the help of the God Computer, the God Church has developed very smoothly in the Hunter x Hunter world over the years. More than 90% of the nearly 10 billion people in the human world are believers of the God Church, and the continuous stream of faith has been transformed into divinity by the God Computer.

For three whole days, it almost exhausted the divinity that the main god computer had accumulated over the years.

This is how the horror theme park was successfully shared with 29 people through the Mind Canvas.

This number also shows that there are fewer than 60,000 painters among humans who are above Sequence 5.

There are probably fewer than 10,000 painters who have surpassed Sequence 4 to become demigods.

Moreover, the higher the level, the fewer people there are. The number of painters who have truly reached Sequence 1 can be counted on two hands after 20,000 years of accumulation.

Rosen could already imagine the sensation that had been caused in the world of painters over the past three days.

Indeed, as he suspected, the entire art world was in turmoil.

The terrifying paradise that inexplicably appeared in the Mind Canvas is equivalent to suddenly gaining a powerful curse skill.

Furthermore, Horror Park even produces game currency, which can be used to directly download spiritual paintings from the Horror Park store. Many painters have discovered that their spiritual paintings stored on the Mind Canvas have been copied to the store.

Some people are so afraid that they are willing to pay a huge price to abandon their mastery of the Mind Canvas skill.

However, many painters couldn't resist using the canvas of their souls to seek personal gain.

Since game currency can be used to download not only spiritual paintings, but also various related knowledge about the painter sequence, making good use of the Mind Canvas can significantly reduce the resources required for the painter sequence to grow.

In addition, the skill of Mind Canvas itself is valuable, so most painters are reluctant to lose it.

Regarding the changes in the canvas of the mind, countless painters have discussed three possibilities.

First, it was a painter's canvas of the soul, which, for some reason, transformed into a miraculous skill.

Therefore, it possesses the unique characteristic of being the only one in the universe, and thus has a master-servant relationship with other mental canvases.

The second possibility is that a Sequence 1 painter elevates the canvas of the mind to the level of true divine authority, and incorporates more true divine authority into it. In turn, the painter uses the power of divine authority to influence other canvases of the mind, with the aim of gaining further faith in the painter sequence.

The last possibility is that the sequence of painters itself underwent some uncontrolled change.

Regardless of the possibility, once a problem is identified, it must be addressed.

So after three days of collaborative research by a large number of high-sequence painters, they successfully found a way to avoid the risks.

Since the canvas of the mind may be subject to others, we should find a way to separate the canvas of the mind from others.

Instead of merging with the Mind Canvas, the true self integrates the Mind Canvas into the self-portrait clone.

In this way, even if the canvas of the mind malfunctions, at most it will only cause the self-portrait clone to die once.

From then on, the advantages of the Mind Canvas outweighed the disadvantages, and gradually more and more painters began to earn game currency.

There are three ways to obtain game currency: injecting high-quality spiritual crystals into the Horror Paradise, injecting negative emotions and other spiritual power into the Horror Paradise, and finally, pulling the spiritual consciousness of a life into the Horror Paradise and then cursing that life to leave its spiritual consciousness in the Horror Paradise.

After Rosen discovered that more and more painters were earning in-game currency, he even created a bounty forum through Horror Park.

All painters can post tasks here, and then use in-game currency as the trading system for the bounty forum.

Although you can only trade physical goods offline.

However, the trading of knowledge alone is enough for bounty forums to earn terrifying commissions.

As time went by, Horror Park did not upgrade to Sequence 5 as expected.

Instead, it gains another bit of mysterious properties, enabling it to illuminate another mysterious scene and establish a mysterious rule.

Rosen suddenly realized that perhaps all the eerie scenes needed to be activated for Horror Park to be upgraded to Sequence 5.

Moreover, the mysterious rules of each mysterious scene cannot be infinitely stacked; it is very likely that only one rule can be added to each sequence level.

Therefore, even if Horror Park evolves to Sequence 0, each eerie scene will only have a maximum of seven eerie rules.

However, as expected, the mysterious rules will become stronger in tandem with the evolution of Horror Park.

Moreover, all the eerie scenes belong to the Horror Paradise, and the eerie rules in different scenes may have the opportunity to merge and complement each other.

Of course, this requires activating all the eerie scenes and then upgrading Horror Park to Sequence 5.

Only then can we verify whether his judgment was correct.

As time passed, the Feathered Serpent fighter jet traveled millions of miles and finally arrived at the Star Empire.

Rosen did not use the teleportation arrays of the kingdoms along the way; his main purpose was to hunt down spirit beings along the route.

I obtained quite a few Soul Gems from Sequence 7, but only one Soul Gem from Sequence 6.

Moreover, they have hunted hundreds of spirit beings of Sequence 7 or higher along the way, yet the drop rate is so low. The higher the level of prey, the harder it is to find and the fewer there are. It is likely that after 20,000 years, the World Government will only have obtained one Sequence 1 Soul Gem.

Otherwise, given the size of the World Government, how could it only have one Rank 1 unit building?

After obtaining the Sequence 6 Soul Gem, Rosen casually enhanced Ash Castle.

There are his ancient trees there, and no amount of defense is enough.

Having finally arrived at the Star Empire, Rosen paused his hunt, left the Spirit Realm, and returned to reality.

I checked the navigation map, and the nearest city is Shanhe City.

Two hours later, Rosen Void Blinked away from the cockpit of the Feathered Serpent fighter and hovered in the void.

"3D engraving..."

Rosen gazed at Shanhe City in amazement.

The entire Shanhe City is square, with a standard length and width of one thousand li.

The foundation of the entire city is a huge stone canvas, and on this huge stone canvas, three-dimensional 3D engravings rise up, forming countless mountains, rivers and skyscrapers.

This is not a man-made city, but a city painted by generations of artists from Shanhe City.

However, ink painting is secondary, while woodblock printing is the core subject. Rosen is certain that the entire Mountain and River City is a painting of a Gundam Sequence 3 spirit realm.

It's a pity he didn't study woodblock printing, because woodblock printing is not as good as carving by sculptors, nor as good as painting by traditional painters.

But since he's already here, he should be able to learn something here.

Rosen observed that those who entered Shanhe City all disappeared after entering the city directly from the air.

He and Alicia immediately rode the Storm Thunderbirds and, like the others, entered Mountain and River City from the air.

Almost instantly upon entering, I was teleported to a plaza in front of a bustling building.

Not far away, there was a huge stone tablet with the rules that outsiders had to follow when they came to Shanhe City.

Firstly, if the visitor is not a painter, they can only engage in tourism and trade within the main urban area of ​​Shanhe City.

If you want to enter the private areas of various painters outside the main urban area, you need to obtain the painter's consent. Some painters will open their private areas to hold art exhibitions and sell tickets. Whether or not you buy a ticket to see the exhibition is entirely voluntary.

Then there's the rule that no killing is allowed within the city, unless you can avoid being discovered by law enforcement.

The rules in Shanhe City were simple, and Rosen and Alicia quickly obtained temporary residence permits at the immigrant registration office.

The registration staff knew that Rosen was a painter and specifically asked him if he would like to leave behind his spiritual paintings.

Based on the quality of his spiritual paintings, he is likely to receive a return gift of equal value from the Mountain and River City Painters Association.

Rosen was of course willing, and the staff handed him a business card after the registration was completed.

Rosen discovered that it was actually a painting, and a woodblock print at that.

The drawing depicts a telephone. Infusing it with spiritual energy will materialize the telephone. Dial the corresponding number to communicate freely within Shanhe City. Subsequently, an official Shanhe City painter of at least Sequence 5 will be responsible for contacting him.

Rosen held Alicia's hand as they walked through the city, stopping to admire every building they passed.

Because all the building surfaces are covered with various paintings, the entire city, from skyscrapers and mountains to roadside stone benches, and even the flowers, plants and trees in flowerbeds, are masterpieces of painters. Living here is like being in paradise for painters.

As day turned to night, Rosen and Alicia reluctantly checked into their hotel.

The next morning, the hotel receptionist called my room early in the morning.

Rosen had to carry Alicia through the accelerated time in the Time Tower to finish their morning exercise before leaving Alicia, who was catching up on sleep, to come to the hotel lobby alone. There, a young man in a tuxedo was drinking red tea and reading a magazine in the lounge area.

"Hello, Duke Howard, it's a pleasure to meet you."

The young man noticed Rosen approaching and stood up to extend his hand warmly.

"Hello, what's your name?"

Rosen stepped forward, shook hands, and asked.

“Misia Dyson…”

The young man called over a hotel waiter and asked Lawson what drink he wanted.

After ordering a juice, Rosen and Misia chatted in the hotel lobby lounge area.

Misia is a Sequence 5 painter, and her actual age is not as young as she appears.

The chances of becoming a Sequence 4 are basically slim, so I chose to settle in Shanhe City and join the official painters' association. I usually paint around, teach lower-sequence painters, or do other work such as receiving visiting painters.

They live a relaxed and enjoyable life, essentially enjoying their retirement.

However, the recent emergence of the horror theme park in the artist community has rekindled Misia's desire to take things a step further.

So today's reception is the last one. After today, Misia is preparing to leave the comfort zone of Shanhe City for one last gamble.

Perhaps it was because she had lived a comfortable life in Shanhe City for over two hundred years that Misia felt uneasy about leaving the city.

So even though it was their first meeting, Misia had a lot to say.

However, aside from being talkative, Misia is quite serious and responsible when it comes to her work.

After chatting for half an hour, Misia asked Rosen for his opinion and then took him to a clothing store.

The three-story building is entirely white, both inside and out, like a canvas.

This building became Rosen's canvas. After taking out his magic pen, he remotely controlled the pen to swirl and fly, coloring the exterior of the three-story clothing store. Once he finished coloring, he went inside the store and drew each piece of clothing and each shop assistant.

All the shop assistants came out from the murals on the wall, and all the clothing depicted in the murals was placed on the shelves by the shop assistants.

In a sense, this clothing store is a miniature painting of a spiritual realm.

Those painted clothes are local specialties; almost all the shops in Shanhe City are products of this kind of painting.

After finishing the drawing, Rosen didn't stop. Instead, he took out a large number of spiritual crystals with time and space attributes.

Finally, he took out a leaf from a golden apple tree, transformed it into a canvas, and used the sealing painting technique to seal the entire clothing store within the painting. He upgraded the level of this miniature spiritual realm painting from Sequence 7 to Sequence 5.

The total value of the resources invested in this project alone exceeds fifty million spiritual crystals.

Rosen's goal was simple: to exchange this painting for the rare painting skills possessed by Shanhe City.

Misia was very satisfied after the inspection. This clothing store will operate independently in the future, and the clothes sold will be equivalent to extraordinary items from Sequence 9 to Sequence 7. These kinds of production-type spiritual paintings are most popular in Shanhe City, and there can never be too many.

Rosen also received a list of rare painter skills possessed by Shanhe City.

Some skills can be freely exchanged, some require the witness of a contracted spirit god and cannot be passed on after learning, and some are skill crystals that allow you to directly master skills. However, some skill crystals even require additional money to exchange.

"There's this?"

Rosen found something good and didn't hesitate to exchange it for a skill crystal.

However, it's not a painter's crystal, but an assassin's skill crystal.

After obtaining the skill crystal, he couldn't wait to begin analyzing the spiritual runes that constituted the skill.

This analysis took several months, which is still several months in reality under the five-times-faster-than-life effect of the Time Tower.

After a thorough analysis, Rosen couldn't wait to begin his second human figure drawing.

Last time, he painted a human body portrait of his own doppelganger [playing the role], and this time he painted a human body portrait of the real person [shattered soldiers].

Rosen lay on the sofa, while his self-portrait clone continued to draw spiritual runes on his back.

Finally, two crossed twin daggers were drawn on his back.

Finally, the shattered soldier skill crystal is integrated into the human body painting to activate the skill depicted in the painting.

[Shatter Weapons: Shatter weapons refined by one's own spiritual essence over a long period of time to increase one's own damage.]

It's a very simple special skill, but it's the kind of special skill that assassins dream of.

This skill, combined with the constantly regenerating Miracle Treasure Twin Daggers, can increase his damage several times over during its burst phase.

Having unexpectedly acquired the rare Soldier Shattering skill, Rosen prepared to travel to other cities to explore.

In any case, you need to find three painting skills that will satisfy him.

However, just as he was about to check out, the hotel receptionist handed Rosen a letter from two months ago.

Since he had notified the hotel in advance, no one should disturb him while he was painting.

So the letter didn't reach him for two months.

When Rosen received the envelope, he was surprised to find it was a letter from Misia Dyson.

Although he and Misia had a fairly good chat, they had only met once. Could it be that Misia had invited him to some noble banquet? But the envelope didn't look like it contained an invitation.

After casually opening the envelope, Rosen pulled out a page of letter paper.

Looking at his own hastily written reflection, his expression grew increasingly serious.

A few months ago, during a casual chat, Misia mentioned that because of the appearance of Horror Park, Misia was prepared to take a gamble: either go further to become a Sequence 4 and enjoy a thousand years or more, or die on the way to becoming a Sequence 4.

Misia said so, and he did exactly that.

Misia, who had just received him that day and completed the last task of the Mountain and River City Painters' Association, was now in charge.

He chose to go to a spiritual realm he had discovered in his early years, and he also gathered a few trusted friends to explore that spiritual realm together.

However, you can know a person's face but not their heart, especially when faced with huge interests.

Misia's true self has died in that spirit realm; the letter that was left behind is a self-portrait clone of Misia.

A painter's self-portrait usually serves two purposes.

First, you have to do the dirty, tiring, and dangerous work; basically, you help the painter identify dangers and assist in combat.

Then, after the original body dies, the self-portrait clone can retain the original body's memories and continue to exist in the world.

There is even a very low chance that the self-portrait clone, relying on the memories of the original, is reborn with spirituality, allowing the painter to live a second life.

Misia chose the latter, leaving her self-portrait clone to her family.

However, unexpectedly, the death of the original body would also destroy the self-portrait clone.

Therefore, before Misia's self-portrait clone was completely destroyed, he wrote this letter. If he is not strong enough, it is best to pretend that he has not read the letter. If he is strong enough, he can help Misia take revenge and also gain great benefits.

Rosen put down the envelope thoughtfully; ordinary spiritual realms were not enough to excite him.

Misia's enemies aren't his, so why would he help Misia avenge her if there's no incentive for him to do so?
However, that spirit realm was a bit special; it was a Sequence 3 spirit realm left behind by a demigod painter.

There might be a legacy from that painter, and at the very least, you could obtain a Sequence 3 Spirit Realm painting.

So, it has to be said, he was somewhat tempted.

After Rosen finished his final tour of Mountain and River City, he went there according to the coordinates in the envelope. He had already confirmed through the Mind Canvas that Misia, who also possessed the Mind Canvas, was indeed dead, so this was unlikely to be a trap aimed at him.

(End of this chapter)