Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 203 The Tragic Death of a Demigod and the Survivors

Chapter 202

The Favalli Family Organ Castle is shaped like an old-fashioned pedal organ.

The butler drove the alchemical carriage into the courtyard, snapped his fingers, and the sleeping Rosen floated in the air, following the butler toward the castle hall. The entire hall was built like a concert hall, with a stage for performances right in front of the main entrance.

On this stage, Duke Favalli, dressed in a white suit, is playing the piano with his eyes closed.

The sound of the piano echoed in the concert hall, like a gentle breeze and drizzle enveloping Rosen, who was suspended in the air.

At the same time, on the third floor of the Organ Castle, Duchess Tessa was enjoying a rare moment of tranquility in the hot spring bath.

Music filled the city of Parthia, endless and incessant music.

Even the best music can become tiresome if you listen to it too much. Sometimes, when Tessa gets frustrated, she wishes she were deaf.

“I can send you away from Parthia.”

The sudden sound from behind startled Tessa.

Tessa suddenly stood up, turned around, and looked at the strange man with black hair and black eyes with suspicion and uncertainty.

"who are you?"

Tessa asked warily.

"Duke Howard..."

Rosen replied, "My self-portrait clone is enjoying the music in the hall."

Tessa instantly understood that the Favalli family was once again using music to plunder unlucky outsiders.

However, judging from the situation, this prey is not simple.

Duke Howard first contacted the butler, and it was probably through the butler that he learned about her situation, which is why he came looking for her.

"What do you want me to do?"

Tessa walked up to Rosen on the hot spring steps, chest out and head held high.

"You are tempting me."

Rosen looked Tessa up and down and smiled meaningfully.

Are you satisfied with me?

Tessa reached out and grabbed Rosen's right hand, placing it on her soft, steaming cheek.

"You are beautiful, but it's just not the right time."

As Rosen spoke, he raised his right hand and placed it on Tessa's head, his five fingers coming together to crush her skull into powder.

Tessa's eyes, almost bursting from the pressure, stared incredulously at Rosen, opening her mouth to speak, but blood and brain matter blocked her throat, preventing her from uttering a single word. Her body fell backward, crashing into the hot spring and floating on the surface.

Rosen learned from the butler's memories that Tessa, the Duchess, did not actually hold a very high position.

Because Tessa was originally a viscountess, but the Duke of Favalli later wiped out the viscountess's entire family and took them for himself.

Therefore, Tessa always hated Duke Favalli. Over time, Duke Favalli's patience gradually wore off. If Tessa hadn't given birth to three sons, she probably wouldn't be the Duchess anymore.

Rosen originally thought that Tessa would be a powerful tool for him to deal with Duke Favalli.

But now it seems that although Tessa hates Duke Favalli, she is actually very concerned about the three sons she raised, even though she appears indifferent on the surface. So much so that she tried to stall for time just now.

Rosen opened the Void Album, took out a paintbrush, and used Tessa's blood directly as paint.

Soon, a lifelike Tessa appeared on the paper, and Tessa's corpse was also fused into one with the Gluttony Seed in the painting.

Rosen summoned Tessa from the painting, dressed her, left the hot spring bath, and returned to his bedroom.

In the castle hall at this moment, Duke Favalli had stopped playing.

Rosen, who was originally floating in the air, now had a blank look in his eyes and kept taking out spiritual crystals from the divine territory.

With over five billion low-grade spiritual crystals, Duke Favalli almost couldn't resist completely robbing Rosen.

However, after thinking about it, he gave up. This was no ordinary person after all. Not only was he a hereditary duke, but he also had the Wood Elf Kingdom behind him. If he looted too thoroughly, it might be discovered that something was amiss afterward. He also couldn't completely kill Rosen, so he decided to stop while he was ahead.

Five billion low-grade spiritual crystals was already quite a lot, so Duke Favalli immediately instructed his steward to send Rosen away.

He had already altered Rosen's memory through music, not only making Rosen forget that he possessed billions of spiritual crystals, but also making Rosen forget that he had ever been to Anxi City. He had done similar things far too many times, and Duke Favalli was not worried at all about any accidents.

Having made a fortune today, Duke Favalli, in a good mood, thought of the Duchess taking a bath.

However, upon arriving at the outside of the hot spring bath, they found that the bathhouse door was blocked from the outside.

Duke Favalli immediately returned to the bedroom and, seeing Tessa combing her hair, immediately went up to her and picked her up in his arms.

On the bedroom wall hangs a decorative painting. Rosen, in the painting, listens to the sounds coming from the bedroom and nods in satisfaction.

The butler's memory was indeed correct; Duke Favalli would come and torment Tessa whenever he was in a good mood.

Now, one can only hope that Duke Favalli discovers too late that his duchess has been switched.

In less than two hours, Duke Favalli's once healthy body had dark circles under his eyes and his muscles were withered. He was a whole size thinner than he had been three days ago, as if Tessa had drained all his energy and spirit over the past three days.

Rosen watched a two-hour live broadcast within the painting, gaining a new understanding of the horror of the Seven Deadly Sins.

He meticulously infused the Tessa he drew with the Gluttony Seed, Enchantment Seed, and Sloth Seed.

Then Tessa's charm suddenly surged, so much so that Duke Favalli, a Sequence 3 musician, was so captivated by Tessa's charm that he lost all vigilance and, as time went on, became increasingly reluctant to let go of Tessa.

Even now, with his life force largely drained by the Gluttonous Demon Seed, Duke Favalli has still not regained his senses.

However, it's probably coming soon. After all, it's Sequence 3, and when it weakens to a certain extent, its divinity will issue a warning.

Several hours later, Duke Favalli suddenly woke up with a splitting headache.

He looked down at Tessa and instantly sensed that something was wrong with his duchess.

The voice, the body, the habits—everything was correct; it was the Tessa he knew.

But something was off about her emotions. He loved Tessa's complex emotions towards him—three parts hatred, three parts helplessness, three parts forbearance, and one part affection—but the Tessa in front of him didn't have any of those emotions.

Moreover, today's duration is too exaggerated; Duke Favalli feels he's lost at least several hundred years of his life due to the exhaustion.

Just as Duke Favalli realized he had been tricked and was thinking about how to escape, Tessa suddenly clung to him like an octopus. Feeling the life force draining from his body, Duke Favalli instinctively prepared to save himself.

However, before Duke Favalli could save himself, Rosen had already fired a time bullet from the painting.

The bullet disappeared under the power of the future silencer, and a fraction of a second later it appeared on the back of Duke Favalli's head. Although some transparent notes tried to block it, they were all breached by the ash armor attached to the time bullet.

At the same time, the Gluttonous Demon Seed stopped devouring life force and instead began to release it outwards.

However, this life force was mixed with the deadly poison of ash honey. The weakened Duke Favalli instinctively absorbed this life force that originally belonged to him. However, before this life force could heal his weakened body, the life force within him began to drain away even more frantically.

In order to deal with Duke Favalli, Rosen brought out his ash honey, which had been aged for a hundred years using the Time Tower.

It contains a deadly poison that can rob one of a hundred years of life in a single second.

Furthermore, the time bullet instantly stripped him of two thousand years of lifespan. Duke Favalli, despite his immense strength, was unable to unleash it. He grew increasingly weak due to the drastic reduction in his lifespan until he turned into a dried-up corpse and lost all signs of life.

Logically speaking, Duke Favalli should have been able to put up more resistance before his death.

However, at this point, the final Sloth Seed takes effect.

Influenced by the Sloth Seed, Duke Favalli's reactions slowed down, and his self-awareness was affected, making him complacent. In addition, under the influence of the Enchantress Seed, Duke Favalli was reluctant to kill Tessa until his death, which is why he did not put up an effective resistance.

Rosen retrieved the Seven Deadly Sins Demon Seeds and clearly felt that the power contained in the three Demon Seeds had increased to a terrifying level.

After all, the three demons had killed Duke Favalli and turned a Sequence 3 musician into resources for their own growth.

Although Duke Favalli is dead, as a Rank 3 Lord of the Divine Realm, he can be resurrected in the Divine Realm territory.

So the matter wasn't over yet. Rosen immediately used the Sloth Foot to escape into the Spirit Realm, and relying on the life force of Duke Favalli within the Sloth Demon Seed, successfully located Duke Favalli's divine territory in the Spirit Realm.

Under the shroud of the Void Realm, Rosen silently infiltrated Duke Favalli's divine territory using his Slothful Feet. At this time, the divine territory was under full martial law. The Sequence 4 knight heroes within the territory had already commanded their knightly squires and were ready for battle at any moment. All the guardian knights inside the lord's castle had gathered around the Sequence Ancient Tree to guard it at all costs.

Everyone was on edge, after all, Duke Favalli had died suddenly and without warning.

The fact that he died without issuing any orders led them to suspect that Sequence 2 might have assassinated Duke Favalli.

Without saying a word, Rosen released 50,000 Shadow Fiends, using the alternation of light and darkness to cover the real space with the Void Realm, pulling everyone outside the lord's castle in the entire territory into the Void Realm, where they were met with the strangulation of 50,000 Sequence 6 Shadow Fiends.

As for Rosen himself, he unleashed the Brilliant Beacon to launch a fierce attack on the elemental barrier of the lord's castle.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Duke Favalli is Sequence 3, but his Lord's Castle is only Sequence 5.

Obviously, the Soul Gem of Sequence 4 is not so easy to obtain. Even if you were lucky enough to get one during the Spirit Realm's descent, Duke Favalli would not be able to afford to feed the Spirit Realm with 300 billion Spirit Crystals.

Both are Sequence 5, offense is definitely more advantageous than defense.

Furthermore, Rosen could share skills such as Ash Armor Break with the Brilliant Lighthouse, so in less than half an hour, the continuous beams of brilliant light had already broken through the elemental barrier, allowing Ash Bees, which had been contracted as secondary pets, to lurk in the shadows and invade the Lord's Castle.

Ashbringer has high attack and low defense, but when combined with Shadow Fiend's power, it has almost no weaknesses.

Simply get close to your prey and fire a bee stinger with armor-piercing properties to hit the enemy and deal true damage. If you also attach aged ash honey to the bee stinger, it will cause the prey to lose its life force rapidly until it dies.

Rosen made his way unimpeded, passing over rows of mummies to reach the hiding place of the ancient trees deep within the castle.

The few remaining guardian knights watched in despair as the intruders drew ever closer.

Combination skills: Ash Curtain and Mind Control.

The hunter's Mind Control can forcibly enslave the spirituality of intelligent beings, but its weakness lies in its slow speed and short range. The enslavement effect of Mind Control can only be greatly enhanced if the enemy is in an extremely weakened state.

Therefore, mind control needs to be used in conjunction with other skills.

A bullet of judgment made of spirituality, or an ash curtain that can directly enter the consciousness of others, are both good choices.

At this moment, Rosen projected the Ash Curtain onto the consciousness of the two Sequence 6 Guardian Knights. Their spirituality was far inferior to his, and they were almost instantly controlled and manipulated by his mind. He then used his knight's longsword to launch a sneak attack on the two Sequence 5 Guardian Knights from behind.

It did not pose a fatal threat, but it did create a flaw in the life-protecting barrier constructed by the guardian knight.

Rosen instantly appeared inside the barrier in a flash, and his two twin daggers pierced the hearts of the two guardian knights with a speed too fast for them to react to.

The Twin Daggers' inherent weakness effect, combined with a highly potent paralyzing poison, further enhances their power.

The two guardian knights were immediately weakened. Before they could launch a final counterattack, the magic-blocking orb shared by Little Dragon Girl, combined with the Nightmare Shackles, had already bound them and sealed off their spirituality as well.

Guardian Knights are extremely difficult to train; it takes at least a hundred years of foundational training across several generations to cultivate one.

Rosen himself didn't have time to train him, and the Guardian Knights simply couldn't keep up with his growth rate.

However, he can capture existing Guardian Knights and then seal them in paintings to strengthen the Guardian Knights he creates. Although the potential of the Guardian Knights created in this way is limited, it is better than nothing and can provide some protection for the Sequence Tree.

With all the rebels gone from the entire lord's castle, Rosen began ordering Shadowfiend to plunder the entire castle.

First, move the spiritual realm that houses the people. Second, before Duke Favalli's ancient tree is destroyed and before the territory's buildings self-destruct, dismantle the territory's buildings as much as possible. There might be a chance to find blueprints for extraordinary buildings.

They searched the entire divine realm and only found four hundred billion low-grade spiritual crystals.

For a ducal family, this is already an astonishing fortune.

Unfortunately, no particularly valuable treasures were found.

The reason is simple: in a truly extraordinary world, unless the scale becomes large enough, there is no habit of accumulating treasures and leaving them unused. Unused treasures are exchanged for usable ones, because only by becoming stronger can one acquire more treasures.

So we found some good stuff, but none of the really rare items.

However, Rosen still felt something was off, because he couldn't find the ritual array, so it was very likely that it was the most precious heirloom of the Favalli family, otherwise it wouldn't have been hidden so deep.

Before anyone knew that Duke Favalli had fallen, Rosen quietly returned to reality to capture all members of the Favalli family.

Aside from Duke Favalli's eldest son, the first in line to the next duke is a Sequence 4 musician, and the strongest others are only Sequence 5. Rosen hides in the butler's shadow, approaching each one from weakest to strongest before launching a sneak attack.

As long as the person is instantly dragged into the Void Realm, the remaining members of the Favalli family will not be alerted.

In just half an hour, only Sequence 4 Stig Favalli remained unharmed in the entire Organ Castle.

At the door of Stig's study, the butler stepped forward to knock.

"stop!"

Rosen's voice came from the shadows.

His sense of death told him that the butler exuded a strong aura of death when he went to open the door.

Without any hesitation, Rosen took out the Ecological Celestial Instrument in the Divine Realm and made a celestial prophecy.

He instantly saw through his precognitive ability that there was no Stig in the study, only an ordinary music box. However, just as the butler opened the door to enter, the music box started playing music, and the butler, upon hearing the music, instantly died at the door.

Although Rosen survived, his spirit was severely damaged.

It was obvious that Stig had already sensed something was wrong.

However, instead of saving his family, he set a trap in the study and escaped.

Rosen took out the Void Sketchbook and began to draw a portrait of Stig.

Once the portrait was finished, they immediately prepared to use a death sentence to curse Stig and eliminate him completely.

However, an unexpected event occurred: the self-portrait clone cloaked in the Grim Reaper's cloak was unable to enter Stig's sea of ​​consciousness through the portrait, and the death judgment could not proceed. This was the first time the death judgment had failed.

Where there is a spear, there is a shield; where there is a method of killing with curses, there are naturally methods to prevent killing with curses.

Rosen immediately began his second celestial prophecy, this time predicting Stig's whereabouts.

Sure enough, Stig had already escaped, and had already fled to Shenmu City.

It's likely that the moment Duke Favalli was in trouble, Stig had already fled.

It's easy to see from this that Stig is a very intelligent, decisive, and cold-blooded person.

In Stig's view, an enemy capable of silently eliminating Duke Favalli was clearly not someone that Stig, a Sequence 4, could contend with. Therefore, staying would only lead to certain death, and escaping immediately was the right choice.

But he left alone, fleeing for his life without even taking his children with him.

It's obvious that this is using all relatives to buy time.

If it weren't for his ability to predict celestial phenomena, Stig might have actually escaped this time.

The two celestial prophecies cost him 200 billion low-grade spiritual crystals, and nearly half of his gains from the Favalli family were lost.

Rosen teleported back to Sky Garden via the Void Phase, then disguised himself as an ordinary hunter and headed to Godwood City via the Wizard Tower.

In fact, he wanted to pretend to be a survivor of the Favalli family and then travel to the City of the Sacred Tree via the teleportation array in the City of Anxi.

However, after Stig escaped, the Wizard Tower was also moved away by wizards trained by the Favalli family.

Shenmu City is very strange; all the buildings are made of hollowed-out tree trunks.

These hollow tree trunks are still alive, but they are just trunks without branches or leaves.

Only the towering, million-meter-tall sacred tree in the center of Shenmu City has leaves, its drooping shade covering the entire city.

The giant tree seems to absorb sunlight and then let it fall through its leaves.

Therefore, Shenmu City is not gloomy at all; looking up, one can appreciate the sea of ​​light formed by countless glowing leaves.

Rosen arrived in front of a giant tree that was 100,000 meters tall. The inside of this giant tree was hollow, like a skyscraper. You could even say that the inside of the giant tree was a small city. There were only a few giant trees like this in the entire Shenmu City.

The Sky Hotel, located on the 699th floor of the Giant Tree, is nearly 70,000 meters above the ground.

There are two hundred more floors above the Sky Hotel, but those are all large apartments where the nobles of Shenmu City live.

The single-story space, reaching a height of 100 meters and a diameter of over 2,000 meters, was large enough for nobles living on the upper floors to build castles inside.

Stig was up there; that must have been the fallback plan run by the Favalli family.

(End of this chapter)