Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 221 Multiple Personalities and the Inheritance of Death

Chapter 220

"what is this?"

Rosen stared at the time-predicting picture in his hand, completely baffled.

Even if Daisy Best wanted revenge for her son, it was unbelievable that a Sequence 1 powerhouse would need to sacrifice her own body to assassinate a mere Sequence 5 painter.

Moreover, if you look closely at the woman in the painting, you can't find a trace of murderous intent on her face.

All he could see was a face full of affection; if it weren't for his hand acting strangely, he would have really thought that Daisy Best in the painting had fallen in love with him.

Rosen fell into deep thought and finally logged onto the deep web of the spirit world to search for information about psychologists.

Finding nothing unusual, he continued to log into the God Network to search for relevant information.

A few hours later, Rosen bought a book through the main temple.

This is a novel that was destroyed by the World Government. The novelist who wrote it died a terrible death. The book is now only circulated among alien races because it reveals a fatal weakness of psychologists.

The inner world of life is too complex, and psychologists mainly study the inner world of life.

In order to explore the mind of life to the fullest extent, psychologists will project their own spirituality into the minds of others, and then empathize with the entire psychological journey of each life. The best psychologists are also the best spies.

There was once a Sequence 1 psychologist who split his mind and consciousness into millions of parts and projected them out.

The minds and consciousness of countless alien races have been parasitized and gradually controlled and enslaved by psychologists.

At that time, many powerful alien races were terrified of those psychologists. No one could accept it if their family members or confidants were suddenly possessed and turned into puppets, only to be betrayed in a crucial moment.

Finally, several alien gods even joined forces to curse the psychologist.

If psychologists continue to recklessly project and parasitize the minds of others, their minds may be contaminated by the minds of others, potentially leading to mental illnesses such as personality splits.

All the split personalities will instinctively be hostile to the original personality.

Because the original body is human, the split personalities are all extremely hostile to humans.

For a time, psychologists caused enormous trouble for world governments.

The birth of many evil gods in later generations is related to psychologists.

Ultimately, the World Government had no choice but to erase the relevant information and even used the Ancient Tree of the Golden Sequence to prohibit psychologists from mastering this skill of projecting their own consciousness into the bodies of others.

Since then, psychologists have not been completely demoralized, but they have never been as powerful as before.

However, some things cannot be completely eradicated by simply banning them.

Therefore, Rosen suspects that Daisy Best has developed a split personality.

Rosen put away the Time Prediction Painting and began to tour Shentu City after leaving the Shentu Hotel.

The spiritual paintings on each building are at least Sequence 3, and there are even Sequence 1 and Sequence 0 spiritual paintings.

Rosen spent two whole months admiring the three thousand spiritual paintings.

He continued to the Eternal Gallery, which contained at least tens of thousands of spiritual paintings. Although they had all been eliminated, it was no small feat for them to have remained in Shentu City. Some of them even contained Sequence 1 spiritual paintings.

It's not just that paintings are eliminated when they've been compared to others; if the owner of a painting dies, the painting left on the surface of a building in Shentu City will also be eliminated.

Rosen lived in the Eternal Gallery for five years, copying different spiritual paintings every day using his drawing skills.

He copied all of the hundreds of thousands of spiritual paintings except for those he really didn't like and stored them in the Void Album. If he were to compete with those divine-descended painters in creating spiritual paintings now, he was confident that he would not be at a disadvantage in the slightest.

Rosen reluctantly left the Eternal Gallery, only to find that the Shining Tower was no longer shining.

This meant that the inheritance already had an owner, so he immediately inquired about it within the city.

It turns out that Ashir's divinity and legacy ultimately fell into the hands of a divinely descended painter. Behind this person stood a true god, whose background was many times more powerful than Damon's. Therefore, many painters who participated in the competition dared not speak out against him.

Because of this incident, the higher-ups of the Painters' Association almost had an internal conflict.

The painters who came to Shentu City for this so-called exchange event did so because they believed in the Painters Association. However, a descendant of a true god decided on the reward beforehand, making all the painters who have come to Shentu City at any cost over the past ten years look like monkeys.

Because of this incident, the reputation of the Artists' Association has become extremely precarious.

To regain credibility, you need to find someone to take the blame.

The blame was shifted to the now-dead Ashir, because the true god had been kind to him during his lifetime, so this time he broke his agreement with the Painters' Guild and insisted on leaving the legacy to the true god's descendants.

To compensate all the painters who come to Shentu City, the Painters' Guild has opened up another inheritance that it possesses.

This time, they waited five years, and after five years, all the painters in the city would compete for this inheritance.

This time, there will be no surprises, and the value of the inheritance will definitely not be less than that of Ashir's inheritance.

Rosen seemed thoughtful; he had a feeling that something was amiss.

While the true God certainly holds a high position, common sense dictates that this is not enough to make painters constantly violate principles.

If the decision was made from the beginning to leave the legacy of Ashir to that descendant of the gods, why not simply notify painters from all over the human world to compete for the legacy? Why wait until so many painters come to Shentu City and then do something that damages our own reputation?
Actually, if you think about it carefully, this whole thing was a bit strange from the very beginning.

Normally, how could the divine status and inheritance of Sequence 1 be left for painters below Sequence 3 to compete for?
Painters are always those Sequence 3 and Sequence 2 painters. Don't they need Ashir's legacy? How could they so easily give up such a large benefit, unless from the beginning, Ashir's legacy was just bait?

This attracts a large number of talented painters below Sequence 3, in order to achieve a certain special purpose.

Could this soon-to-be-opened new tradition be the true purpose of the Painters' Association?
Rosen decided to investigate thoroughly; he didn't want to become a pawn to be manipulated.

The main god computer began collecting relevant information through the deep web of the spirit world, and the hunter's demonic eye began monitoring some targets. After much consideration, it also created a time-predicting painting and a celestial prophecy. Only by knowing the truth of the matter could it possibly transform from a pawn into a player.

This surveillance lasted for several years, and Rosen had almost finished copying the spiritual paintings on the surfaces of all the buildings in Shentu City.

On this day, the "Magic Eye No. 1," which had been monitoring for several years, finally brought good news.

Magic Eye One is a Sequence 5 intelligent life form created by Amy. It has no emotions or combat power, but only powerful analytical and computational abilities.

Rosen transmitted all the data he had gleaned from the Hunter's Eye to Eye One, which was then responsible for processing and filtering out the valuable information. Following Eye One were Eyes Two through Nine, each responsible for analyzing and processing different types of intelligence.

The Hunter God's Eye sends the information analyzed and processed by Eye One to the Main God's computer via data transmission.

Then the desktop of the main computer was projected directly onto Rosen's retina.

He immediately saw it; the total duration was half an hour, with intermittent audio and video recording.

“Elio Stark, Vice President of the Artists' Guild…”

Rosen looked at it carefully.

Of all the people he was monitoring, Elio, the vice president of Sequence 1, was the strongest.

As for the leader of Sequence 0, even intermittent spying by the Hunter's Eye would be detected.

Just half an hour ago, Elio received a Sequence 1 friend with whom he had a life-and-death bond.

The old friend's son is also a painter. He is very interested in the tradition of compensatory succession among painters, so he asked his old friend to pull strings and find out if this time there is another divine descendant of the true god who has already decided on the position, and what the compensatory succession is all about.

At first, Elio dodged the question and refused to speak.

Later, after his old friend pressed him repeatedly, Elio could no longer refuse. Under the witness of the contract spirit, he signed a contract with his old friend that was absolutely forbidden to be revealed to outsiders, and finally gave his old friend a piece of advice.

Immediately abandon this inheritance, and from now on, unless you become a Sequence 1 painter, never come to Shentu City again.

"Is the second inheritance even more of a rip-off than the first?"

Rosen turned off the video, seemingly lost in thought.

What shady things did the higher-ups of the Painters' Guild do to the painters who came to Shen Tu City?

It's definitely not going to be a good thing, otherwise they wouldn't have reminded me to leave Shentu City immediately.

Rosen took out a painting, his second time-predicting painting.

The painting doesn't depict him and Daisy doing push-ups; instead, he's lying on the ground covered in blood, surrounded by blurry shadows. This is because the higher-order sequence involved in the premonition exceeds his precognitive abilities, so he can only depict blurry shadows and not the true face.

Rosen finally recalled the outcome of the celestial prophecy, which surprisingly advised him to stay.

But we can't predict anything more, so should we stay or not?
With the secret study as a safety net, they can hide there for refuge in any dangerous situation.

Rosen decided to stay and see what the higher-ups at the Painters' Guild were really up to.
As time went by, more and more painters came to Shentu City.

There are tens of thousands of people in total. The worst are all Sequence 5, and most of them are Sequence 4. Those below Sequence 5 don't even dare to think about competing for the inheritance. In fact, most Sequence 5s have given up. Only the best of the best have a little confidence to participate.

On this day, Rosen, who was sketching on the street, saw a crow land on his easel. It had an envelope in its beak, and after Rosen took the letter, it vanished without a trace.

……

Shen Tu City Painters Association
President: Luca West
Dear Mr. Rosen Howard:

You are now officially informed that you have been granted permission to compete for the legacy of the Sequence 1 painter. Please bring this letter with you at sunset to the building in Shentu City where the Sunset Glow Spiritual Painting is located to participate in the succession competition.

Vice President: Elio Stark
……

"At sunset..."

Rosen put away the letter and continued to use his magic brush to copy the spiritual paintings on the surface of the building in front of him.

Several hours later, the sun in the sky above Shentu City gradually set in the west.

As the setting sun cast its golden rays upon Shentu City, all the painters qualified to participate in the inheritance competition gathered in front of a pyramid-like building in the west of the city, each carrying an envelope. The exterior of the building depicted the sunset over Shentu City.

The pyramid's gates had already opened, and Rosen was about to go inside when he suddenly felt someone tap him on the shoulder.

The Hunter's Eye instantly spotted Annika, or rather, Daisy, Damon's mother.

Rosen gave up dodging, which instantly brought a bright smile to Annika's face, who had been a little uneasy.

Can we go together?

Annika asked cautiously.

"can!"

Rosen thought for a moment and nodded.

Although Annika herself is a threat, there is now an even greater threat from the Painter's Guild. With Annika by our side, wouldn't it be perfect to have her step up in times of danger? The second personality of the Sequence 1 Psychologist is a powerful asset.

After Rosen and Annika entered the pyramid together, they found that the interior was a small world.

To his knowledge, this pyramid structure had never been open to the public before.

If Rosen wasn't mistaken, this should be a half-finished divine kingdom, not reaching Sequence 0, but much stronger than Paradise Island. In the center of the divine kingdom, there was a dying ancient tree of Sequence 0, thousands of meters tall, which could be seen at a glance.

The fact that the ancient tree of sequence has not yet collapsed indicates that the master of this divine kingdom has not completely perished.

However, judging from the weakened state of the Sequence Tree, the painter of Sequence 1 is not in good condition.

"Stulain's Pyramid of Resurrection..."

The thought suddenly flashed through Rosen's mind.

He carefully examined the layout of this world, and it looked exactly like Stulain's Pyramid of Resurrection.

Rosen suddenly had a hunch that the inheritance of Sequence 1 was just a smokescreen.

This involves gathering the most talented painters below Sequence 3, and then letting that half-dead Sequence 1 painter be resurrected and possessed. With tens of thousands of painters present, they can always find a suitable candidate for possession.

However, there's no need to arrange Ahshir's legacy; wouldn't it have been enough to just bring people here from the beginning?

Moreover, among the tens of thousands of painters present, some of whom were either Sequence 2 or Sequence 1 standing behind them.

If the artist were to be resurrected and choose these individuals to possess, how would he explain it afterward?

Could it be that it's not as simple as possession and resurrection? With that thought, Rosen decided to wait and see.

Just then, the letter in Rosen's pocket became scalding hot.

Upon examining it, one finds the specific rules for this competition for inheritance, as well as details of what kind of inheritance is being contested.

Although the inheritor is only a Sequence 1 painter, this person's status is higher than that of the president of the guild.

Because this person was the founder of the painter sequence, the legacy he left behind is no less precious than that of the sequence 0 painters.

Only one person can inherit the legacy. Among the tens of thousands of painters present, only one will survive the infighting and kill each other. This means that only one person can leave alive.

"Are you kidding..."

"Are all these painters crazy...?"

"Aren't they afraid of the World Government, the Council of Nobles, or the powerful figures behind us?"

Angry questions were everywhere, and some familiar painters had joined forces to try to escape this divine world by various means.

However, despite trying every means, not a single one of the tens of thousands of painters managed to leave.

If they couldn't do it alone, they joined forces. Rosen and Annika didn't go it alone, but joined forces with the masses to try to destroy the divine world before them. However, even with tens of thousands of painters working together, they still couldn't shake the world.

Finally, someone suggested attacking the Sequence Tree, but the Sequence Tree can only be seen and not touched.

Seeing that they were really stuck, someone suggested that everyone use the Void Gallery and the Divine Realm to hold out.

If they remain out of contact for more than a certain period of time, the people behind them will definitely discover the problem. At that point, the painter will be unable to hand over the person, and it won't be difficult for so many high-ranking demigods to rescue them.

"It seems we won't be able to get out anytime soon."

Rosen sighed.

"I'm a little scared, can I go to your Void Gallery?"

Annika nervously grabbed Rosen's arm and asked.

Rosen did not agree immediately because he thought of the time-predicting painting from before.

The background in the painting is not his studio.

Seeing his hesitation, Annika summoned her Void Gallery, which from the outside looked like a fluffy ball. The fluffy ball opened its mouth, revealing a passage leading directly to the studio. Rosen glanced at it and immediately recognized it as the background of the Time Prediction painting.

Annika, head down, grabbed Rosen's arm and dragged him forcefully toward her studio.

Rosen is now in a dilemma; leaving at this point would definitely lead to a falling out.

However, following Annika inside, according to the precognitive results drawn by the timeline, although sleeping with Annika was quite nice, this woman's true identity was Daisy, a psychologist of Sequence 1, who was preparing to rip out his heart.

Under Annika's persistent dragging, Rosen finally followed her into her Void Gallery.

This is a true gallery of illusions, and Rosen gained a deeper understanding of the power of psychologists.

Daisy's second personality can actually use the new identity to switch to other Gold Series.

Doesn't this mean that if there are enough personalities, a psychologist could theoretically work on all the extraordinary sequences?
There must be some kind of limitation, otherwise psychologists wouldn't be invincible.

Upon arriving at the studio, Annika gritted her teeth and pounced on Rosen onto the pink sofa.

"why?"

Rosen looked into Annika's shy eyes and asked.

"You forgot..."

Annika whispered stories about her and Rosen when they were little.

As Rosen listened, some blurry images in his memory became clearer and clearer. He remembered that when he was a child, he had saved Annika. Like Rosen, Annika was also a fallen noblewoman, and because of her good looks, her situation was even more difficult than Rosen's.

Annika was almost kidnapped in the middle of the night, but Rosen saved her despite being seriously injured.

The two children depended on each other for survival, each relying on the other as their only source of support.

Until one day, Annika suddenly disappeared. Little Rosen searched for Annika frantically, but found nothing. Despair and pain caused Little Rosen to instinctively seal away this part of the memory, just like losing his memory due to a strong shock.

Rosen regained the memory that little Rosen had forgotten and immediately hugged Annika excitedly.

However, at that moment, Rosen's pupils contracted slightly as he came to his senses. Just now, the self-portrait clone that had been hiding in the mysterious study suddenly contacted him and told him something: the spirituality he had scattered within the self-portrait clone had not retrieved the memories of Annika that little Rosen had forgotten.

It is obvious that this memory was false from the beginning.

However, through some means, he was given this memory out of nowhere and believed it to be true.

Fortunately, thanks to the shielding effect of the mysterious study, the spirituality he possessed within the self-portrait clone remained unaffected.

Next, he wanted to see what Daisy was trying to achieve by putting on this show.
Judging from Annika's genuine feelings, Daisy is likely completely deceived, even by his own second personality. Otherwise, Annika's emotions for him wouldn't be so real, and his seventh sense wouldn't fail to detect any pretense.

Since Daisy wants to play, he'll play along with her.

(End of this chapter)