Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 195 The Möbius Strip and the Human Catastrophe
Chapter 194

"It's actually the legendary miracle painting..."

Rosen stared in disbelief at the painting in his hand and exclaimed.

[Möbius Strip: A Miracle Painting]

[Level: Sequence 3]

[Range: Nine-fold Infinite Cycle Spirit Realm Space]

Population: None

Specialty products: None

[Miracle Characteristics: Dimensional Fusion, Uniqueness of Heaven and Earth, Eternal and Immortal]

After refining it, Rosen discovered that he had two paintings in his hands, not one.

The first painting is a Möbius strip, and the second painting is the city in the spirit realm he had previously entered.

Through its dimensional fusion property, the Möbius strip can merge with any painting of a spiritual realm, thereby transforming the original single-layer spiritual realm space into nine layers, and the spacetime and energy of the nine spaces can be infinitely cycled.

In this way, the people of that city were successfully allowed to survive thousands of resets over thousands of years.

Because in their minds, at most three years have passed.

Rosen spent some time peeling the Möbius strip from another painting of the Spirit Realm.

【Golden Plains: A Spiritual Painting】

[Level: Sequence 3]

[Area: Within a radius of one thousand li]

【Population: 619】

Specialties: Population, Golden Wheat, Golden Wheat Ears

He already knew from reading about the citizens in the Mind Realm that the crops planted outside the city were golden wheat.

This golden wheat is only a Sequence 9 extraordinary ingredient, and its value is not very high.

However, during the growth process of golden wheat, golden ears of wheat may grow. These golden ears of wheat can assist the spiritual growth of demigods and may even give demigods who eat golden ears of wheat a temporary boost in luck.

Therefore, this painting of a spiritual realm is also a good thing, capable of providing him with a continuous source of wealth.

The annual sales of golden wheat are conservatively estimated to be worth tens of millions of spiritual crystals.

If a golden ear of wheat appears, that single golden ear of wheat is worth hundreds of millions of spiritual crystals and is priceless.

Rosen hung the painting in Ash Castle and then placed the entrance to the Spirit Realm outside the castle.

Next, many mid-level managers from various territories will be responsible for entering the Golden Plains and informing all citizens of the true situation.

Rosen put away the two paintings of the Spirit Realm and began to observe the sequence of ancient trees beneath his feet.

Since being trapped in the Möbius strip, he has experienced eight time-space resets.

I didn't notice anything unusual the first time, but I learned from my experience in the next six attempts, and finally mastered five-dimensional drawing on the eighth attempt.

To be honest, it's only because of him that he's capable. If it were any other demigod or below, getting caught in the Möbius strip would only mean certain death.

Because once an outsider enters the Möbius strip, each cycle lasts three years, with a maximum of nine cycles. After that, the outsider will be assimilated by the Möbius strip, eventually losing the ability to resist and being sent out of the spiritual realm to become nourishment for the ancient tree in the sequence beneath their feet.

Logically speaking, since the demigod painter has been dead for so many years, the sequence ancient trees should have long since disappeared.

If Rosen is not mistaken, this sequence of ancient trees should be drawn.

The demigod painter suffered a fatal injury, but was unwilling to die. So, through the power of five-dimensional painting, he drew his own sequence tree. Those so-called friends who had tricked Misia were all devoured by this sequence tree.

So even if he didn't come, Misia's revenge was already achieved.

However, he only received such a great benefit because of Misia, and when he passes through Shanhe City, he will leave a painting for Misia's family.

Rosen calculated the time; eight months had passed since he got stuck in the Möbius strip.

One month outside and three years inside represent a time difference of up to 36 times.

Although five-dimensional painting can adjust time, such a large range of time differences requires a massive amount of spiritual crystals.

The demigod painter did this simply to shorten the time it would take for his own ancient tree to revive.

If Rosen had come out two months later, the demigod painter might have lived a second life within the sequence tree.

However, since he came out first, we should certainly give the demigod painter a proper send-off.

The Gluttonous Nen Beast was released and began to forcibly tear apart the Sequence Tree.

The ancient trees, which had little ability to resist, were quickly devoured by the Gluttonous Stomach.

Within the sequence of ancient trees, the demigod painter's newly born spirituality, along with the gluttonous stomach's digestive process, also yielded some fragments of memory.

The cause of death of this demigod painter truly left Rosen with lingering fear.

The one who killed the demigod painter was actually a Sequence 1 painter, who only managed to escape by using methods such as the Möbius strip.

In the end, apart from the Golden Plains and the Möbius Environmental Protection, all other spiritual paintings, territory buildings, people, and spiritual paintings were destroyed. Even the demigod painter himself died, with only his dying self-portrait avatar escaping.

They barely managed to retain a chance to be resurrected, silently waiting for some unlucky soul to step into the realm of the gods.

The reason this demigod painter was killed was because his talent was simply too great.

Sequence 3 can create skills like five-dimensional painting, so some people don't want to see it grow.

This is a bit scary. It seems he needs to be careful in the future. Anyone who has seen five-dimensional paintings has died.

The divine realm of the demigod painter is now just an empty shell; the territory's buildings, including the lord's castle, are gone.

Now that the Ancient Tree of Sequence is gone, the entire Divine Realm will soon collapse.

While dismantling the abandoned divine territory, Rosen used the divine territory imitation feature to imitate the territory characteristics of this sequence 3 divine territory.

Spatial Shaping – The ability to arbitrarily shape the spatial barriers of divine realms.

This isn't a particularly powerful territorial trait, but Rosen spotted it immediately when he was copying it.

The Lord of the Divine Realm has absolute control over the Divine Realm and can shape its terrain at will. However, he is helpless against the spatial barrier of the Divine Realm. Under normal circumstances, the spatial barrier of the Divine Realm is a spherical space.

However, with spatial shaping, spatial barriers become like clay, which can be kneaded at will.

Two days later, the dismantling was almost complete, but the Divine Realm Imitation was not yet finished.

After thinking for a moment, Rosen began to renovate his divine territory.

Even the basic soil in the divine realm of Sequence 3 is not ordinary.

If it weren't for the fact that a lot of soil was stored in the scavenging space, it wouldn't be a problem to fill his entire divine territory.

The soil used in Rosen's past divine territory was all nutrient-rich and suitable for planting.

Now that almost all the people in the territory are in the Spirit Realm, and almost all the planting and breeding are also in the Spirit Realm, the nutrient-rich soil in the Divine Realm is being wasted. He plans to transfer it all to the Spirit Realm to fertilize the farmland within the Spirit Realm.

Then he used soil from the demigod's realm to re-cover his divine territory.

Rosen used his Miracle Pocket to examine the soil and found that it was a special composite soil mixed with various precious extraordinary substances, giving it several unique properties.

First, it has an exceptional ability to shape objects; second, it has an exceptional ability to absorb energy.

During his battle with Capac, much of the soil in his divine realm was annihilated into nothingness.

However, this composite soil is completely different. It can absorb energy and become extremely hard. So even if Sequence 3 fights in the God Realm, at most it can only shatter the surface. It is absolutely impossible to completely annihilate the basic substances that make up the God Realm.

Clearly, this divine territory, constructed of composite soil, was primarily intended for slaughter and war.

After replacing all the soil, the spatial shaping territorial feature has also been completed.

Rosen also began to consider his advancement in the nobility.

He had already met the conditions to advance his noble rank to rank 5, but the Ancient God Priestly Arts made him decide to postpone it.

By incorporating the original laws, he successfully granted his divine domain four unique characteristics.

With the noble rank elevated to rank 5, there is undoubtedly another opportunity to cast an ancient god's ritual spell.

Although you can gain territory traits by performing Ancient God rituals after your territory advances.

However, if he simultaneously performs the Ancient God Sacrifice Technique when advancing in the Noble Rank and the Divine Realm Territory, and also integrates his Ancient God bloodline into every inch of soil and every inch of spatial barrier in the Divine Realm Territory, he can master another core skill of the Ancient God Rank when advancing.

Now all the conditions are met, the only thing lacking is that there isn't enough ancient god bloodline.

Rosen has been drawing blood from himself quite often lately, and he's almost tired of eating golden apples and blood-replenishing spiritual foods every day.

Currently, the radius of the Divine Realm territory is 5100 meters, and its area is already over 10 kilometers.

Running ten kilometers in a straight line, that's already quite a lot.

To permeate such a large space with the bloodline of ancient gods, one can only imagine how much ancient god bloodline would be required.

Rosen had also considered using the Bloodline Awakening Pod, but while that thing could replicate and clone ordinary extraordinary bloodlines, it was completely unable to replicate and clone ancient god bloodlines. The reason was that the ancient god bloodlines were too powerful, and the complexity of their internal genes exceeded the capabilities of the Bloodline Awakening Pod.

Seeing that the demigod realm was now just an empty shell, Rosen prepared to leave.

When he left, he still had some unresolved questions in his mind.

He didn't understand why the demigod painter had buried the millions of dead people.

He couldn't find this part of the relevant memory among the remaining fragments of memory within the ancient tree of the demigod painter sequence.

It's unreasonable to say that this demigod painter had a deep bond with his people, and that he would erect a monument to them even if they were dead and their bodies were mutilated.

After all, what escaped at that time was only the demigod painter's self-portrait clone, and this clone was also nearing its end.

In the precious limited time before his death, instead of planning more ways to resurrect himself, he spent a great deal of energy erecting a monument for his people. No matter how you look at it, this is not normal. There must be some secret he did not discover.

Rosen confirmed that there were no more resources left and prepared to leave this collapsing divine territory.

However, the moment he left, his sixth sense and death perception gave him a frantic warning.

Rosen's right eye, the Demon Eye of the Godslayer, instantly looked behind him, only to see a cloud of black mist suddenly appear behind him. It seemed to be countless resentful thoughts intertwined, locking onto him and trying to corrupt his spirit.

Rosen carefully perceived these resentments, and he seemed to understand why the demigod painter had erected the monument.

This is a backup plan; if someone disrupts the demigod painter's resurrection, these resentments will be the demigod painter's final counterattack.

Given the power of these resentments, even a demigod could potentially die at their hands.

As for why these resentments weren't discovered before, it's likely that they were hidden within the authority and rules of the divine realm, which the demigod painter had integrated into. Only when the divine realm completely collapsed were these resentments released.

It's just a pity that these resentments posed no threat to him whatsoever.

Lawson projected an ash curtain, and the horror park instantly pulled these resentments inward, absorbing them for a full half hour. This brought them one step closer to fully activating all the rides in the advanced sequence 5.

Using the Void Phase, Rosen teleported directly back to Mountain and River City.

A few hours later, he painted a resource-type spirit realm painting of Sequence 5 and sent it to the descendants of Misia.

Only then did he enter the spirit realm, preparing to head to the Star City, the capital of the Star Empire.

Perhaps it was because his fortune improved after his wealth increased, but Rosen acquired another Sequence 6 Soul Gem along the way.

This time, the divine beast pen was strengthened because Rosen felt that the fantasy spirits were about to awaken.

He immediately stopped and prepared to wait in the mysterious study for the fantasy spirit to awaken.

On this day, Rosen was hunting in the spirit world as usual.

He was responsible for clearing out those spirit beings who had reached Sequence 5. Those below Sequence 5 were escorted by Alicia's territory troops. All the extraordinary beings within the territory spread outwards from the divine domain to find suitable prey.

Rosen was chasing a Sequence 5 mountain giant when he suddenly felt the whole world shaking violently.

With a cautious mindset, he used a Dragon King's Roar to burn the mountain giant to death, preparing to end the day's hunt early.

Only after everyone had retreated to the divine realm did Rosen log into the deep web of the spirit world through the main god's computer.

He had never experienced the feeling of the entire spirit world shaking before.

At this moment, the Spirit World Deep Web has been in an uproar. It's not just the Holy Continent that has experienced the same thing; the entire human world's Spirit World has been in turmoil, and everyone is now waiting for the World Government to provide an explanation.

Rosen attempted to hack into the World Government's website, but after viewing the encrypted data on the desktop, he felt a chill run down his spine.

It turns out that this time, all the major races joined forces to do something big.

The main body of the spirit world is in the main world, and it continues to spread outward from the human world, gradually enveloping the territories of other races.

However, the spirit world cannot easily spread to independent worlds like the abyss.

However, not long ago, dozens of independent worlds, including the Abyss, joined forces to pull the Spirit Realm into their respective worlds, while various alien races also joined forces to pull the Spirit Realm into their own territories. Now the Spirit Realm has completely covered the main world and all its subordinate worlds.

On the surface, this seems like a good thing, since the main control over the spirit world is in the hands of humans.

However, in reality, many alien races are doing this in a way that is counterproductive.

The reason is simple: the area covered by the spirit world has nearly doubled, but the quality of the spirit world has not doubled accordingly.

If the spirit world is likened to an ocean, its level has now dropped by more than half.

That would mean that the spatial intensity, spiritual intensity, and material intensity of the spirit world would all be diluted and reduced by half.

The spirit world where this event occurs will undergo earth-shattering changes compared to the past.

Previously, only those with a Sequence 7 could enter the Spirit Realm in their true form, but now those with a Sequence 9 can do so.

Secondly, it used to be difficult for spirit beings to leave the spirit world and enter reality, but now it is very easy for spirit beings to enter reality.

Then, beings from the deeper levels of the spirit world are now more likely to appear on the surface of the spirit world.

In some places, the real world and the spirit world may even partially merge. If extraordinary individuals are caught in this situation, it's not so bad, but if ordinary people are suddenly drawn into these merged areas, their chances of survival are slim.

What's even more frightening is that most of these merged zones appear in human cities.

Because cities are full of people, the spirituality of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people gathers together, which is like bait for the weak spirit world. The spirit world will instinctively drop a part of its space to merge with reality. When people die, their spirits will merge into the spirit world.

This situation will continue until the sea level in the spirit world returns to three-quarters of its original level.

Conservative estimates suggest this process will take fifty years.

Because of this upheaval in the spirit world, it is conservatively estimated that the human population will decrease by 30% in fifty years.

Any principality has billions of people, any kingdom has tens of billions of people, any empire has hundreds of billions of people, and the world government has countless principalities and kingdoms, and even the empires number at least a thousand.

This means that, conservatively estimated, trillions of people will die in the next fifty years.

With so many alien races joining forces to cause such a huge commotion, it's impossible for the World Government not to have noticed.

Therefore, it is very likely that this is something the world government tacitly approves of.

A 30% reduction in the total population would undoubtedly shake the very foundations of human civilization.

Rosen didn't know what considerations led the World Government to tacitly approve of this.

The only information he can currently hack into is the World Government's official website, which has a very low level of confidentiality. The information he saw will be made public in a few hours at most, and he can no longer obtain more information through the Spirit World Deep Web.

Rosen then logged into the God Network, and sure enough, it was just as lively there.

Moreover, some powerful beings from other races have already begun exchanging ideas about the expansion of the spirit world.

The information mentioned by some of these people gave Rosen a deeper understanding.

A few years ago, the World Government had just become a second-stage civilization and survived the second cataclysm. During this period, Sequence 0 betrayed humanity.

However, the deep web of the spirit world couldn't find any information about the specific calamities the world government had suffered or the extent of its losses.

The truth has only been revealed now by the alien beings of the God Network.

It turns out that the World Government lost three true gods, and many alien true gods seized this opportunity to further weaken the World Government using the Spirit Realm. The chaos within the World Government in recent years is basically related to the fall of these three true gods.

Those Sequence 0s want to become true gods, and those Sequence 1s want to become Sequence 0s.

The fall of the three true gods is a disaster from a human perspective, but in the eyes of Sequence 1 and Sequence 0, it is an opportunity to rise to power.

The World Government publicly executed the Demon God not to make an example of him, but because it was weakened.

At its peak, the World Government was able to capture demons alive and turn them into bloodless pigs.

Killing them now would actually be a huge loss.

This is just the Demon God. Over the years, many other alien gods have broken free. Apart from one that was sealed back, the rest were killed to reduce the cost the World Government has to pay to seal the gods.

Therefore, on the main god network, many alien beings with great fortune are now clamoring to kill all of humanity.

However, at this time, some of the alien races also rationally analyzed the situation and warned against being wary of humans.

Because humans have always been prone to internal strife when they are at peace, and now that humanity has been at peace for 20,000 years, although there are more and more strong people, the whole society is showing signs of becoming a disorganized mess.

Therefore, some alien races believe that the World Government is undergoing a radical transformation, undergoing a painful but necessary cleansing and rebirth.

Even at the cost of several percent of the population dying or being injured, they must rely on external pressure to reunite as a united force.

Moreover, a number of strong individuals will certainly emerge during a fifty-year war.

It is far from enough to overthrow the World Government now. Since the World Government survived the second calamity, it has been destined that the World Government will exist for at least 10,000 years. If many alien civilizations really want to destroy humanity, they will have to wait until the World Government faces the third calamity.

After understanding all this, Rosen realized that humanity's world wasn't about to collapse.

If it really collapses, he won't be the one to push it up.

On the contrary, the next fifty years will be a good opportunity for him to grow rapidly.

Although the sea level in the spirit world will eventually drop by half, there will be a transition period for the sea level to drop, which is about a month. So this month is the final preparation period for various countries and cities.

Those powerful enough cities have no need to fear the fusion of the spirit world and reality.

Those particularly weak cities are best broken down into smaller towns. That way, even if some towns are unlucky, the rest can survive by chance. So, the human world will definitely be in chaos for the next month.

Five days have passed since the world government issued a global disaster warning.

The fantasy spirit that Rosen had been waiting for so long finally showed signs of awakening.

He immediately went to the foot of the ancient tree of life, waiting for the fantasy spirit that had been turned into fruit and hung on the tree to awaken.

Before long, the fairy fruit fell and hit the ground.

Two delicate white hands emerged from inside, pierced through the fruit shell, tore a crack in it, and crawled out.

Rosen stepped forward and caught the Fantasy Elf, whose eyes were filled with confusion as it looked at him.

This was the perfect time to form a contract, so he immediately released the Divine Beast Mark and Nightmare Shackles to prepare for the contract with the Fantasy Spirit.

Because he drew the Tree of Life, the fantasy spirit instinctively felt an unusual closeness to Rosen.

Therefore, it offered no resistance and has become Lawson's fifth pet.

[Amy Sheila Ferreira...: A Miracle Life]

[Age: 12510 years old]

[Occupation: Sequence 5 Mechanic, Sequence 5 Dreamer]

[Divinity: 51 points]

[False Theocracy: Mechanical Theocracy, Fantasy Theocracy, Life Theocracy]

[Skills: Mechanical Manufacturing, Mechanical Modification, Mechanical Fusion, Mechanical Space, Fantasy Manifestation, Fantasy World...]

[Miracle Traits: Miracle Wish, Unique in Heaven and Earth, Eternal and Immortal]

Rosen was somewhat alarmed by Amy's age, but after learning more about her, he realized that Amy was definitely more powerful than Little Dragon Girl.

The unique Miracle trait is Miracle Wish, the effect of which depends on equivalent exchange.

If one is willing to pay a sufficient price, it is theoretically possible to directly use a miracle to wish for the annihilation of a true god.

This doesn't even include the fact that Amy possesses two extraordinary sequences, both of which are extremely powerful. The Mechanic is the core sequence of the Mechanical Race, while the Dreamer is a unique sequence of the Fantasy Elf. With the two sequences combined, Amy's strength is in no way inferior to that of a Divine Descendant or Beast King of the same level.

(End of this chapter)