Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 218 The Goddess of Time and the Horror Gallery

Chapter 217

On the God Network, Rosen has updated one of his bounties that he posted years ago.

The bounty has been increased to nine Sequence 3 Star Fruits, plus one hundred million high-grade spiritual crystals.

The bounty is only on one type of Sequence 5 extraordinary life form. Even though such extraordinary life forms are so rare that they are almost impossible to find in the world, and even though their value far exceeds their sequence level, this value is enough to make all those below the level of demigods who have the potential to complete the bounty go crazy with excitement.

Two weeks later, on this day, Rosen was creating a five-dimensional painting at the Void Gallery.

His Void Gallery is still only Sequence 6.

Of course, it's not that he lacks the ability to enhance his abilities; it's just that he has a mysterious study and a supermodel hunter sequence. He doesn't need to hide in the Void Gallery to defend and counterattack like other painters, so naturally, there's no urgent need to upgrade the Void Gallery.

The upgrade materials are all ready, and we can upgrade whenever needed.

I'm currently stuck at the Void Gallery level, just waiting to see if there's a better way to enhance it.

After all, there's no going back once you've upgraded; upgrading is easy, but downgrading is impossible.

However, as he got closer to Sequence 4, he couldn't wait any longer, so he decided to prioritize five-dimensional painting throughout the entire gallery maze, transforming the entire Void Gallery into a single painting, which would facilitate merging with the Möbius strip at any time.

The gallery maze with its nine-layered spatial loop has an ability to trap enemies that surpasses even the Void Shadow Realm.

While his Void Realm is composed of the power of 50,000 Shadow Demons, the Void Gallery can also hold countless Spirit Realm paintings, thereby strengthening the Void Gallery's defensive capabilities by leveraging the world power of the Spirit Realm paintings.

Rosen has already painted thousands of paintings of the Spirit Realm. Once all of them are integrated into the Void Gallery, the defense will be enough to kill almost all Sequence 3s.

As Rosen was drawing, Miracle Flame suddenly sensed that his innate fortune was plummeting.

The fact that his innate fortune was reduced by a full 90% means that something good must have happened for it to cause such a rapid depletion of his innate luck.

Rosen soon found out where the luck had gone: someone had completed the bounty he had posted on the God Network.

The bounty deal was quickly completed through the main temple.

Rosen looked at the thumb-sized transparent bottle in his hand, which contained a cocoon the size of a sesame seed.

This bottle is no ordinary object; it was carved from a crystal of divine power with the attribute of time.

The cocoons here are not ordinary, extraordinary life forms, but the legendary Time Silkworm, an insect that feeds on time. After transforming into a butterfly, it becomes the Goddess of Time Butterfly, which can only live for nine fleeting moments before perishing.

On average, one instant lasts 0.018 seconds, and nine instants would only amount to 0.162 seconds.

Despite its short lifespan, the Time Goddess Butterfly is hailed as one of the three most beautiful butterflies in the world.

Its beauty is enough to move even the gods, but this is not the true value of the Time Goddess Butterfly.

The Goddess of Time butterfly is born with a seventh sense. If someone can refine the Goddess of Time butterfly with their own spirituality while it is still alive, they will not only awaken their seventh sense, but may even gain another special ability that only the Goddess of Time butterfly possesses.

However, it is extremely difficult to successfully refine spirituality in 0.162 seconds.

It's almost impossible to achieve at Sequence 5, and there's no need to do it even if you can at a higher Sequence 5, because only those at Sequence 5 can master the special abilities of the Time Goddess Butterfly. Some abilities can only be obtained by the weak, and once you miss them, you can never get them again.

Rosen possesses the emblem of the stars and an ancient god's ritual artifact, allowing for a burst of spiritual power in a short period that surpasses the imagination of a Sequence 5.

However, he was not absolutely certain. Historical records show that only two people had successfully refined the Time Goddess Butterfly. Now, both of them were true gods, and from the beginning, they had mastered the race sequence of time, which is why they were able to refine the Time Goddess Butterfly by chance.

Therefore, Rosen was not sure whether he could succeed.

Time-Bearing Silkworms are extremely rare, and they can only be born in a few places in the main world where the laws of time are abnormal. Time-Bearing Silkworms that can spin cocoons are even rarer, otherwise, no one would have been able to earn such a high price for so many years.

Rosen waited for five days without blinking once; it's possible that the Time Goddess Butterfly would have vanished in the blink of an eye.

Finally, the silkworm begins to emerge from its cocoon and transform into a butterfly, and the silk threads that make up the cocoon begin to dissolve.

He enhanced his spirituality to a maximum of 81 points, and the moment the Time Goddess Butterfly flew out of the dissolved cocoon, he enveloped it, forcibly assimilating the Time Goddess Butterfly, which was an energy life form, with his own spirituality.

In the seventh instant, the Time Goddess Butterfly completely disappeared.

Rosen succeeded; he instantly felt his hunter's extraordinary sixth sense ability begin to undergo a forced transformation.

[Seventh Sense: Divine Power Skill]

[Passive Attribute: Gains the ability to perceive the concept of time]

[Divine Power Characteristics: Extraordinary five senses, mind reading, instantaneous time]

The seventh sense is essentially the ability to perceive time.

While the sixth sense can also develop the ability to foresee the future, it is only possible to foresee the future briefly, and the accuracy is not guaranteed at all. However, if the seventh sense is used to exercise the ability to foresee the future, the success rate and effect will be greatly improved.

The seventh sense of the Time Goddess Butterfly is different from the ordinary seventh sense.

Because of the extra word "concept" after "time," his seventh sense is at an extremely high level. Usually, if the target also possesses abilities related to time, or has means to interfere with prediction, even with the seventh sense, it is difficult to guarantee accuracy.

However, the concept of time is different; there are very few ways to interfere with the concept of time below sequence 0.

If Rosen were to use Celestial Prediction at this moment, although the base cost would not be reduced, the predictive effect would be many times stronger.

However, for him, the greatest value of the concept of time is not for prediction.

Instead, it allows Rosen to further master the Time Hunter and Time Shooter skills, and to further enhance these two skills.

Time Hunters can deprive dead prey of time after a hunt, but in the past, they can only deprive up to 20% of the remaining lifespan.

Now, it can strip away almost 100% of one's lifespan, directly unleashing the full potential of this skill.

Next is the Time Archer, who can imbue all skills with the power of time, allowing skill damage to wear down the prey's time.

The original method of killing time was to consume a thousand years of time and wear down the opponent's lifespan by a hundred years.

But now, consuming a thousand years can wear down two hundred years of lifespan.

Don't be fooled by the fact that it only doubles in value; the value of that doubling becomes increasingly terrifying as time goes on.

For those old guys, his Time Shooter skill, enhanced by the Seventh Sense, will become a deadly Grim Reaper.

After Rosen finally perceived the divine power characteristic and transformed into one, his extraordinary five senses and mind-reading abilities were enhanced.

However, the most powerful divine characteristic is the ability of fleeting moments, which only the Goddess of Time, the Butterfly, possesses.

After activating the Momentary Time, one can control the absolute time of nine moments.

Within nine instants, neither reversing time nor accelerating time is affected by any external force.

To give a simple example, his Tree of Sequence was crushed by a true god. Under normal circumstances, he would have been doomed. Under the influence of the true god's divine power, there are not many ways to revive the Tree of Sequence. Even a true god who controls the divine power of time would find it difficult to do so.

However, with the help of a fleeting moment, he was able to reverse the time of the ancient tree sequence and fully restore it.

It's important to understand that the more powerful a transcendent being is, the faster their attack methods. If they can defeat an opponent in an instant, they will never use two. For the controller of fleeting moments, this is equivalent to having several extra lives, or being immune to several fatal blows.

If used offensively, nine moments are enough to unleash multiple times the damage instantly.

Of course, the moment of time is not without its weaknesses. If the true god does not destroy his sequence tree all at once, but instead slowly destroys it over more than nine moments, the time reversal and restoration effect of the moment of time will not be very effective.

Rosen has completed the final piece of the puzzle for promotion to Sequence 4 and has begun to continue modifying his Void Gallery.

He used a combination of five-dimensional painting and mysterious painting abilities to copy and reproduce parts of the horror park in terms of space, time and energy that constitute the gallery maze, and finally integrated a horror amusement park composed of parts of the horror park into the entire gallery maze.

The final Void Gallery will inevitably become the most terrifying Void Gallery.

In order to create the best horror amusement park, Rosen even traded with the Abyss for a number of Abyss demons who naturally possessed the abilities of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Even with time to speed things up, it still took Rosen five years to completely transform the Void Gallery.

[Void Gallery: Divine Architecture]

[Level: Sequence 5]

[Defense Strength: Sequence 3] [Defense Strength: Sequence 3]

[Attack Power: Sequence 3]

[Functional Buildings: Horror Maze, Magical Altar, Void Studio, Void Prison, Wind and Thunder Forge, Void Safe House]

[Exceptional Traits: Bone Frame, Human Skin Canvas, Gluttony Furnace, Sea God's Blessing, Void Gate]

All basic attributes reached their limits, and the entire system was forcibly enhanced to Sequence 3 without the fusion of divine authority.

Aside from the basic attributes, the biggest change is that the gallery maze has been transformed into a horror maze.

We'll need to test it on a few more Sequence 3s to see how strong the effect is.

Five days later, on a survival island in the chaotic sea.

The entire survival island is not very large. There is only one port outside the island and only one hotel and one casino inside the island.

However, there are many people coming and going here because the casinos here are very popular.

Although it doesn't look big on the outside, covering only a kilometer in diameter, it contains many small worlds of varying sizes, each composed of a spiritual realm.

The casinos capture ordinary people and superhumans of all races and throw them into these small worlds to fight each other. The survivors gain freedom and a fortune. Gamblers bet on who will survive to the end and how long they will live.

Iva Kelly, one of the directors of Titan Heavy Industries.

He loved gambling on Survival Island and enjoyed witnessing the ugly deaths of humans struggling to survive, along with their terrified screams. The spirit realms under his control were filled with humans, all for the pleasure of torturing and killing them.

Rosen sat in a corner of the casino, his gaze sweeping over Iva, who had shrunk in size as she entered.

This was his goal for the day: to check the quality of the Void Gallery while also clearing obstacles for his hill dwarves.

With his covert support over the years, the Hill Dwarves have established a firm foothold in Titan Heavy Industries.

The Hill Dwarf King of Sequence 4 is even close to becoming a new board member.

However, due to interests, the Hill Dwarves have made many enemies over the years. Iva is the biggest obstacle to the Hill Dwarf King's ascension to the throne. Iva has made things difficult for the Hill Dwarves more than once at the board meetings.

Rosen quickly disappeared from the casino and silently arrived at Iva's usual room in the hotel.

The Void Realm unfolded silently, waiting for its prey to take the bait.

Iva was very unhappy after losing more than she won at the casino for several hours, so she decided to go back to the hotel to rest and try her luck.

However, the moment he entered the room, the alternation of light and darkness had already been dragged into the Void Realm.

Before Iva could break through the surrounding darkness, a terrifying gallery of flowing seawater appeared beneath her feet.

Iva immediately recognized it as the painter's Void Gallery and instinctively wanted to unleash the giant's true form to tear open the Void Gallery.

As a result, terrifying scenes appeared on the seawater beneath her feet, the ceiling above her head, and the walls on both sides. Before Iva could even get a good look at what these terrifying scenes looked like, she had already disappeared from the horror gallery and appeared in the horror amusement park.

Iva tried to activate the spirituality within her, only to find that it had been imprisoned.

He was riding a carousel that went up and down. Upon closer inspection, he saw that all the other carousels around him were occupied by people, and each one looked exactly like him. Each person was looking at everyone else.

Iva instinctively believed that the other versions of himself were fake, but his imprisoned divinity prevented him from acting rashly.

The carousel was going faster and faster, and Iva wanted to jump off, but her body was completely immobile except for her head.

Iva noticed a sign next to the carousel, and he glanced at it and memorized the human writing on it.

[1: The carousel will get faster and faster]

[2: Only one person on the carousel is real; the others are fake.]

[3: The game ends when only one person remains on the carousel.]

Iva roughly understood that he could only survive by killing all the imposters.

He knew about the amusement park on the human side. When he was eating some human souls, one of the most profound memories of those little guys was the amusement park. He also almost immediately thought of the horror park that had recently become very famous in the painter's camp.

It is said that all painters who master the canvas of the mind can invoke the power of the horror paradise through it.

Because of the mysterious horror park, the overall combat power of painters below Sequence 3 has been raised by a level.

According to what he knew, the horror park had special rules and authority that it had to abide by regardless of whether it was friend or foe.

It seems that to escape this carousel, we need to eliminate the other imposters according to the rules.

However, only the head can move, and spiritual power cannot be used.

Iva's mind began to calculate frantically, and he quickly came up with a simple plan to wait for the opportunity to arise.

The carousel is going faster and faster, to the speed of sound, ten times the speed of sound, a hundred times the speed of sound?
The high-speed rotation of the carousel had already stirred up a tornado and even generated a terrifying centrifugal force. At that moment, all the Iva gritted their teeth and spat them out with all their might according to the calculated time and trajectory.

Teeth spun rapidly in the hurricane, tearing apart every part of Iva's body in their wake.

Like being slowly sliced ​​to death, the skin and flesh of each Iva were torn to shreds by individual teeth.

"A total of 99 Iva, I hope you can handle it."

Rosen sneered from outside.

Only one of the Iva is real; the remaining 98 are clones created using the Mysterious Properties.

However, all of Iva's divine consciousness is real. Iva's divine consciousness was divided into 99 parts, of which 98 parts entered the 98 clones. Then each clone's divine consciousness became independent, each believing itself to be real, and trying every means to kill all the imposters.

A copy can never compare to the original, so the one that survives in the end will definitely be Iva's original self.

However, at the moment Iva prepares to step off the carousel at the end of the game, the remaining 98 divine consciousnesses will return to their original body at the same time, and the pain they endure will instantly be amplified 99 times and erupt.

If someone doesn't get off the carousel within one second, the carousel will restart.

Aside from being a bit torturous, the damage from a carousel isn't actually that severe.

Because of the divine strength of Sequence 3, even if one is torn to pieces and slowly tortured, even if the pain is amplified by nearly a hundred times, even if one does not know that the carousel will restart the first time, one will only need to endure two rounds of pain to be able to walk off the carousel alive.

Of all the horror games, the carousel's power level is among the lowest.

However, this is not an ordinary carousel. It is the interior scene of the Spirit Realm painting. As long as it is a Spirit Realm painting, it can merge with the Möbius strip. As long as the memory is preserved at the moment when Iva is about to escape, the time reset will be activated, and Iva will never be able to get off the carousel.

Ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times, Iva will be trapped on the carousel forever under the constant reset of time.

Unable to live or die, until finally even the most resilient divine consciousness completely collapsed.

Rosen left Horror Park, closed the Void Gallery, and quietly departed after making a wish for a miracle to erase all traces.

A few months later, the Hill Dwarf King successfully became the new director of Titan Heavy Industries.

With the support of resources at any cost, he successfully advanced from Sequence 4 to Sequence 3 and became a demigod.

During this period, Rosen also enhanced the Void Album with various materials to Sequence 5.

He is ready at any time, and this time he plans to prioritize breaking through to the painter level.

However, he did not intend to advance in the Chaotic Seas, but instead planned to go to the World Government Painters' Association for advancement, because the Painters' Association was about to hold a grand exchange event among painters, and the best-performing painter in each sequence level could apply to obtain special painter skills.

However, Rosen has not yet decided what identity he should use to travel there.

Because the ancient tree of the artist sequence from the spirit world will descend into reality, he may not be able to hide his identity successfully. Therefore, after careful consideration, he decided to participate in the grand event openly using his original identity. The more he stands in the sunlight, the safer he will be during the event.

Even an archaeologist of Sequence 0 wouldn't dare to openly murder a painter at the Painters' Association.

Rosen's only concern was how to escape after the painters' gathering ended.

However, with the mysterious study and data transmission capabilities, even Sequence 0 can't catch him.

(End of this chapter)