Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 204 The Undead Overture and Fragments of the Supreme Artifact

Chapter 203

Rosen, holding the juice Alicia handed him, walked to the window of the guest room and felt the gentle breeze blowing at an altitude of 70,000 meters.

The wind outside was actually quite strong, but there were magic circles attached to the window frames.

Not only does it bring in a gentle breeze, but it can even regulate the smell and temperature of the air.

This can be considered a unique type of air conditioner, but what he was most satisfied with was the night view of Shenmu City.

When the sun goes out at night, the leaves of the sacred tree no longer let the sunlight fall.

Instead, it began to absorb the starlight of the night, and countless leaves were like countless twinkling stars blinking in the sky.

The city was brightly lit, and it was definitely the most beautiful city he had ever seen at night.

After admiring the night view for a while, Rosen put down his empty cup and prepared to get down to business.

Getting to the upper levels from here is actually quite troublesome.

The entire area covered by the shade of the sacred tree is under a no-fly zone. Only special departments of the Sacred Tree Empire can remain unaffected in the air. Therefore, access to the upper-level noble apartments is only possible through special teleportation tokens.

Alternatively, you could climb a tree, as long as you're not worried about being discovered.

Rosen didn't want to choose either route, so he directly used Amy's miracle wish.

Consuming 50 spiritual crystals, he instantly appeared on the 890th floor.

There was grass underfoot and flowerbeds all around. In the very center of the space stood a small castle, which looked less like a musical instrument and more like a church or temple, giving it a sacred and magnificent feel.

Rosen traversed the void and soon arrived at the main gate of the castle, looking inside.

This really is a church, because there are statues of gods in the castle hall.

At that moment, Stig was kneeling on one knee in front of the statue, holding a book in his hands and praying silently.

Rosen logged into the deep web of the spirit world through the main god's computer, but he did not find any direct record of the idol.

There are two possibilities: either this deity has never appeared in the world and is unknown to the world, or this deity has been dead for too many years.

After observing it carefully, Rosen was certain that the owner of the statue must have perished.

Because the statue lacks the aura and majesty of a deity. However, why would the Favalli family worship a statue of a fallen god? After all, they are hereditary dukes with demigod status, so the chances of them developing faith in such a figure are extremely slim.

Unable to figure it out or stop thinking about it, Rosen decided to take swift action and finish the job quickly.

The Void Realm in the shadows spread out, instantly penetrating the castle's shadow. Then, through the divine power's alternation of light and darkness, the Void Realm instantly covered the real space, thus pulling the castle into the Void Realm.

Sensing something was wrong, Stig immediately released the divine domain of his sea of ​​consciousness.

The ability to bring divine territories to other dimensions so quickly is something Rosen currently cannot do; it must be due to some special territorial characteristic.

Stig directly summoned the territory's musical stage, along with a sequence of hundreds of musicians who had been promoted from the territory's ranks.

"This is really something..."

Rosen frowned.

The musician sequence is a subordinate sequence of musicians.

The training is extremely difficult. Even Duke Favalli's divine realm doesn't have this many musicians, yet Stig's divine realm has trained such a large number of musicians to form an orchestra. It should be noted that the orchestras of ordinary musicians are composed of alchemical golems and extraordinary artifacts such as musical instruments.

Bands made with live musicians like this are actually more common in Sequence 7 and below.

Because lower-level musicians are easier to train, while higher-level musicians are very difficult to train.

Musicians are a profession that places great emphasis on inheritance, because high-quality musical instruments usually require the extraordinary essence of musicians and musicians to create. Only by passing down their skills from generation to generation can high-level musical instruments be accumulated.

As for cultivating a high-level musician roster, the difficulty is simply unimaginable.

Because there aren't that many highly qualified citizens who can easily grow to a higher rank and then willingly become subordinates.

Stieg was holding a microphone, which clearly indicated that he was not a performance musician, but a vocal musician.

Unable to locate the hidden enemy, Stig ordered the orchestra to begin playing, not daring to waste a second.

Eerie, terrifying, and suspenseful music, played by hundreds of musicians, echoed continuously throughout the divine realm.

At this moment, Stig closed his eyes and, immersed in the band's accompaniment, began to sing the extremely difficult song, Requiem for the Dead.

As the song echoed, the environment of the divine realm grew increasingly terrifying.

The sacred castle turned into a den of demons, the green grass of the meadow turned into bones, and the flowers of the garden turned into wailing ghosts. The entire divine realm instantly transformed from a paradise for the living into a hell for the dead.

Even as Rosen hid deep within the Void Realm, he was affected by the constant hallucinations arising from his spirituality.

If it weren't for the Dragon King's blessing protecting my spirituality, or the soul transformed by the Seven Deadly Sins protecting my spirituality...

At this point, Rosen might lose his self-awareness due to hallucinations.

No wonder there are those opinions about musicians: never get close to musicians who are giving concerts or recitals.

Because musicians in this state possess the terrifying power to challenge those of higher levels.

The best way to deal with a musician is to wait until they are off guard.

Like painters, musicians are a special kind of artist who are incredibly powerful when prepared, but much weaker when unprepared.

Rosen gave a cold laugh. Could a painter like him really lose to a musician in a contest of patience?
He went directly to a more distant location to minimize the impact Stig had on him.

Without needing to get close, he took out his easel, opened the Void Album, and placed it on the easel.

The magic brush dipped in paint and began to draw portraits of the musicians who were playing.

With the acceleration of time drawing, the entire portrait was completed in less than half an hour.

Rosen continued painting, this time depicting Stig's Void Concert Hall and a group portrait of all the musicians on stage. He wanted to seal Stig and all the musicians inside the painting, so that they could play and sing endlessly within it for all eternity.

The moment the last stroke fell, Rosen began to use the Death Verdict to curse and kill the musicians one by one.

A violinist on stage suddenly opened his eyes, his face filled with terror, and collapsed.

If Death's Judgment couldn't do anything to Stig, surely it can't do anything to a Sequence 6 musician?
Soon, one by one, the Sequence 6 musicians fell, their spirits harvested by the Grim Reaper's scythe and sealed within the painting. As more and more musicians died, the blessing that the musicians' accompaniment brought to Stig diminished.

Stig's hands were trembling as he shouted hoarsely, his anger mixed with panic.

However, at this moment, Rosen stopped the death sentence.

He sensed something was wrong; Stig's anger seemed feigned.

Although Stig's anger seemed genuine, Rosen possessed the Eye of Wrath and the Seven Deadly Sins Wrath, so he could tell at a glance whether someone was truly angry. Given the heavy casualties among the musicians, why was his anger fake instead of genuine?
Unless Stig believed from the beginning that the deaths of those musicians were not a bad thing but a good thing.

Death is not the end; many powers become stronger after the host dies.

Furthermore, considering that Stig sings music that seems to be related to the dead, the deaths of those musicians may not only not weaken Stig, but may actually strengthen him, or the killers may suffer a backlash because of the musicians' deaths.
Rosen considered all the possibilities and decided to change his strategy and method of killing.

Turning to the last page of the Void Album, the final section contained paintings he had copied from scenes in the Horror Park.

When the horror theme park lights up a scene, Rosen will sketch a picture to imitate it.

These paintings are both independent entities and can also serve as appendages to the overall artwork of the Horror Park's Spirit Realm.

Rosen selected a painting depicting the Hall of the Dead in Horror Park.

He sent all the musicians' spirits, along with their portraits, harvested by the Grim Reaper's scythe into the Hall of the Dead, where they were transformed into ghost musicians by the Hall's eerie rules. The characteristic of these ghost musicians is that the more terrified the audience, the more terrifying their performance.

The scene is illuminated by the painter who devised its mysterious rules.

When it was finally designed, I must have asked musician friends of at least Sequence 3 level to help me. So now the Hall of the Dead is one of the scariest horror scenes in Horror Park, allowing the painter to use this scene to control some of the musicians' power.

This is the benefit of opening a terrifying paradise to all painters through the canvas of the mind.

Each painter has their own strengths, and each painter has friends from different circles. How can developing a horror park by oneself compare to developing a horror park by all the painters together? Although some authority will be shared, the highest authority over the horror park will always be in Rosen's hands.

Compared to the small amount of authority he delegated, the benefits he gained far outweighed the costs. Rosen continued his Death Judgment, reaping the musicians' lives, and soon the entire Void Concert Hall was left with only Stig singing a cappella.

However, at this moment, Stig stopped pretending and made no attempt to hide the mockery and excitement in his eyes.

Stig stopped chanting the Overture to the Dead in a low voice and instead let out a high-pitched scream at an eerie frequency. However, after chanting for a long time, nothing happened. The dead musicians did not respond to his screams and play the real Overture to the Dead.

The true Undead Overture can force enemies to listen to the entire Undead Overture at the level of death's cause and effect.

After listening, it can forcibly transform enemies into undead minions of the Undead Overture.

But now all the dead musicians, whether their spirits have been destroyed or not, should be entangled with the enemy based on the cause and effect of their deaths. But now all the musicians' spirits are not responding at all, so the Overture to the Dead has naturally become a joke.

Stig finally realized that the enemy possessed even stronger powers related to musicians.

With the aid of Lazy Feet, Rosen appeared on the stage through Void Blink.

Stig sensed this and turned to look behind him, only to be met with a bullet that appeared between his eyebrows in an instant.

The bullet, transformed from the Gluttony Demon Seed, instantly struck Stig and entered his body.

Driven by an insane hunger, Stig stopped singing at the top of his lungs and took a bite out of the microphone in his hand.

The Undead Overture abruptly ended, and Rosen began firing Dragon King's Wrath at breakneck speed.

Stig's spirituality had already been greatly depleted from singing the Overture to the Dead for so long, and now, facing a close-range attack, he was simply unable to withstand the terrifying damage of the Dragon King's Wrath.

Especially before stepping onto the stage, Rosen also shattered a twin dagger using the Smash skill.

Sacrificing the fragments of a Miracle Treasure amplifies the damage of this skill by a terrifying ninefold.

The Dragon King's Wrath fired psychic bullets one after another, and even the gun barrel could hardly withstand the damage from the surge of shattered soldiers.

If you're not facing a strong enemy one-on-one, and you rashly use Shattered Soldiers, Dragon King's Wrath will need a period of self-repair before you can use it again. However, the effect is still terrifyingly good. Stig's various survival skills are no match for the absolute damage.

Rosen then looted Stig's body and spirit and sealed them in the Hall of the Dead.

This copy was originally just a Sequence 5 imitation of a painting from the spirit realm, but it will soon be able to transform into a Sequence 4. After all, it has a Sequence 4 musician and hundreds of musicians of Sequence 7 and above, and Stig also has mysterious songs related to the dead.

With the greatest threat eliminated, the remaining threats to Stig's divine realm are negligible.

Within minutes, the Radiant Lighthouse had torn through the elemental barrier of the Lord's Castle. Fifty thousand Shadow Demons easily destroyed all resistance in the Divine Realm, and finally, Stig's Divine Realm and the Sequence Ancient Tree were all pulled into the painting by the Hall of the Dead.

At Stig's lord's castle, Rosen found two things that interested him.

First, there is a musical score, the score for a lullaby.

[Rest in Peace: Miracle Treasure]

[Level: Sequence 6]

[Miracle Attribute: Can generate projections to create accompanying musical scores]

[Miracle Traits: Rest, Hypnosis, Euthanasia Symphony, Uniqueness of Heaven and Earth, Eternal Immortality]

Upon seeing the attributes, Rosen understood that this miraculous treasure was worth far more than its sequence level.

Because usually only a very small number of treasures of the demigod level or above have the power to generate projections.

For example, in the case of the Star Emblem, it is almost impossible to generate a projection in low-sequence architectures.

Rosen quickly refined the Lullaby of Rest. Through this miraculous treasure, he discovered that all the buildings in the entire City of Rest were fused with projections of the Lullaby of Rest, which was why they were almost able to hypnotize him.

Three miraculous properties: Rest can induce sleep, and hypnosis can alter consciousness.

The final euthanasia symphony can use a separate projection to carry a piece of music, just like a tape recorder. Then, by integrating the projection into a device that can automatically play music, the power of the music can be fully unleashed the moment the device is activated.

The music box that Stig left in the study contained a euthanasia melody that served as a prelude to the dead.

Now that Rosen has obtained the Restful Lullaby, it is equivalent to him having complete control of Rest City.

He carefully put away the sheet music, preparing to incorporate it into the Hall of the Dead.

Rosen picked up the second item, a broken clay tablet.

No matter how he looked at it, he couldn't see any trace of spiritual presence on it.

However, since it's mentioned alongside lullabies, this thing is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface.

Rosen tossed the broken clay tablet into the Miracle Pocket, but the Sequence 3 Miracle Pocket couldn't identify any attributes?
Rosen had no choice but to use mind control to force Stig to read his memories.

This incomplete clay tablet is indeed extraordinary; it is a treasure passed down through the Favalli family for over 20,000 years.

First of all, this thing is indestructible; no matter how it is damaged, it will return to its original state.

Secondly, this clay tablet itself possesses the power to conceal the aura of civilization.

The Favalli family's enslavement of all the humans in the city of Parthia should have caused Parthia's civilizational fortune to plummet into negative territory. The World Government should have noticed the anomaly in Parthia immediately, but for many years no one has noticed anything wrong with Parthia.

After learning about the information about the missing clay tablet, Rosen suddenly felt that the missing clay tablet seemed to have a certain feeling about him.

The more I looked at it, the stronger this feeling became, and the divine energy that had been transformed into spirituality began to be consumed frantically.

Rosen had no idea how many high-grade spiritual crystals he had consumed with his gluttonous stomach, but he finally managed to read the text and information from the lost history from the broken stone tablet. This was the first time that the professional authority of the ancient scholar had taken effect.

This incomplete clay tablet, in its complete form, should be called the Fate Tablet.

The civilization of the gods was destroyed because the Tablets of Destiny were destroyed.

The strongest being of the supreme god civilization at its peak attempted to create the Tablet of Destiny, and then have all the gods integrate their divine authority and divinity into the Tablet of Destiny, thereby creating the strongest artifact that could control the fate of all gods and command them at will.

The result was obvious: the main god civilization was destroyed in an unprecedented civil war.

The true god, who had survived by chance, ultimately destroyed the rudimentary form of the Tablet of Destiny.

They even went so far as to completely erase this period of history from the memory of all life, including God himself.

Why not even spare itself? The reason is simple: the prototype of the Tablet of Fate was born because it was a miracle artifact that could not be completely destroyed.

Even the surviving true gods and deities yearn to integrate their divine authority and divinity into the tablets of destiny.

The great being who wanted to seize the transcendent true god was killed, and the Tablet of Fate became a coveted prize.

The reason is simple: if divinity and divine authority are integrated into the Tablet of Fate, as long as the Tablet of Fate is not completely destroyed, even if the true god completely perishes, he can still obtain a chance of rebirth by relying on the divinity and divine authority integrated into the Tablet of Fate.

Therefore, as the ultimate victors, all the gods yearn to integrate their power into the Tablets of Destiny.

But all of this has one prerequisite: the tablet of destiny cannot have an owner.

The tablets of destiny have a master, and all gods will become puppets.

Therefore, the gods ultimately decided to dismantle the Tablets of Destiny and seal them away.

Then erase all memories related to the gods, completely turning the Tablet of Fate into lost history.

However, as time went by, some of the seals eventually broke down.

The small piece discovered by the Favalli family contains the divinity, authority, and knowledge of a Sequence 0 undead deity.

The Favalli family produced a generation of archaeologists thousands of years ago.

Although this one ultimately failed to discover the true nature of the Fate Tablet fragments, he did manage to extract some knowledge from them that the Sequence 0 undead deity possessed, which led to the creation of the Undead Overture.

Although Rosen learned the true nature of the clay tablet, strictly speaking, it was of little use to him.

Only when the Tablet of Fate is complete can its great power be revealed.

It's just a fragment; its only value is that it can obscure the fortune of civilization.

If a single fragment could threaten a deity, the deities who dismantled the sealed tablets of fate would not have felt comfortable merging their divinity and authority into them. Therefore, unless someone can collect all the tablets of fate, they cannot threaten that group of deities with them.

(End of this chapter)