Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 228 Miraculous Painting Skills and Totem Valley

Chapter 227

Rosen stored the King of Cups Tarot card in his mind and waited for his injuries to heal gradually.

He had considered using the true divine authority of the Holy Grail King to heal his injuries, but refining the Holy Grail King had already exacerbated his injuries. He didn't have the spare strength to skillfully master the true divine authority of the Holy Grail King, and if something went wrong during the process, he might suffer a backlash.

It took Rosen a full ten days to fully recover from all his injuries.

The first thing he did after recovering was to use his mind to enslave Shire and Moggaro.

A few days later, the Mind Curtain was combined with Mind Control, plus the Seventh Sense's ability to read minds.

Rosen finally understood why Shire and Mogaro had ended up in this predicament.

It turns out that back then, Mogaro, through the painter's sequence, failed to take away the Queen of the Cup from Farah, so he drew a counterfeit Queen of the Cup Fall Tarot. Then, together with Sylvie, he spent over a thousand years successfully finding the King of the Cup who was sealed in some ruins.

The two immediately turned on each other, and Xi Lei, who launched the first sneak attack, gained the absolute upper hand.

Driven to the brink, Mogaro forcibly activated the King's Game by combining the Queen of the Grail he had drawn with the King of the Grail. What exactly happened within the King's Game is protected by a special power and cannot be known.

However, after the King's Game ended, Siré and Mogaro became a single entity with two souls, each hindering the other.

As for why he didn't go to Farah, it was entirely because he was worried about reactivating the King's Game.

Therefore, none of them dared to approach the Blue Whale Kingdom. With his dual souls in one body, Mogaro could only hide in Rainbow City, using the Rainbow Aurora to suppress Xilei's curse on Mogaro. In the end, he was the one who came to his door and used the Ten Directions Annihilation technique to kill him.

The secret of the King's Game remains unsolved, but Rosen now understands why Mogaro possesses such terrifying perception.

The King of Cups has a hidden effect that can amplify the Queen of Cups' power to Sequence 1.

Therefore, the Queen of Cups' intuitive divine authority was amplified and strengthened by the King of Cups, reaching Sequence 1.

Moreover, Mogaro also established rules and authority to enhance perception within his Void Gallery through the Holy Sword of Kings. Finally, combined with the painter's skills that Mogaro possessed, which could enhance perception, all these factors combined to make Mogaro's perception even stronger than that of Sequence 0 Qinon Touré.

The rules established by using the Holy Sword of Kingship require a continuous expenditure of faith to maintain.

Mogaro's keen sense of perception clearly stems from his vigilance against lurking dangers that could approach at any moment.

If Rosen is not mistaken, it should be related to the last King's Game.

Unfortunately, Siri and Mogaro know the memories related to the King's Game, but they can't say them. Various methods of reading memories are ineffective. However, they can roughly guess that the holders of the other minor arcana cards must be extraordinary beings of Sequence 1 or even Sequence 0.

Otherwise, Sire and Moggaro wouldn't have suffered such a terrible fate given the inherent advantages of the Grail King.

However, on the other hand, there should be four Kings in the Minor Arcana: the King of Wands, the King of Cups, the King of Swords, and the King of Pentacles. But the King of Cups' attributes clearly indicate that it can control all the Minor Arcana cards.

Therefore, it's possible that not all King cards are Miracle cards.

Because it became a Miracle Card, the Holy Grail King, who was originally equal, surpassed the other three Kings.

……

Ash Castle, Farah stood at the castle gate, looking expectantly at Rosen.

Seeing Rosen shake his head, Farah's hope vanished completely.

"Love me, you are my only family."

Farah closed her eyes and said in a trembling voice.

Rosen granted her request, knowing that Farah needed to vent her resentment at that moment.

After several busy days, Rosen finally managed to find time to deal with matters in Rainbow City.

At this time in Rainbow City, Duke Hal had already led his people to rebuild a new city from the ruins.

Upon seeing Rosen appear, Duke Hal almost cursed, but he held back, thinking of Rosen's Sequence 2 strength.

"The intelligence agency's judge is looking for you."

Duke Hal reminded him.

He wasn't being kind; it's just that too many people know about the relationship between his first in line to the throne and this mysterious man. This has caused such a big incident, and the Wilkins family will also be implicated, leading to many troubles in the future.

"Don't worry, everything will be back on track soon."

Rosen then summoned Tagis and instructed him to expand his divine territory.

Then, by manipulating the time-sealing technique within the divine realm to capture a fragment of time in Rainbow City, the painting's power spread from the divine realm to the real Rainbow City, causing the entire city to revert to ten days prior, as if time had reversed.

All the destroyed buildings were restored to their original state, and all the dead were brought back to life.

Duke Hal was dumbfounded, only to find that Tagis's cheap tutor had disappeared.

Only hundreds of rainbow pearls, infused with the aurora borealis, remained on the spot, along with a transcendent book recording the lineage of light and dark wizards. These items were enough to compensate for the Wilkins family's losses over the past few days.

Upon returning to Paradise Island, Rosen's first action was to invest resources in upgrading the God's Domain, which had degenerated to Sequence 9.

Only after the Divine Realm returned to Sequence 4 did they begin to consider how to use the ancient god's true blood condensed from the annihilation of all directions.

The previous drop of Sequence 5 Ancient God's true blood created the miraculous eye technique, the God-Hunter Demon Eye.

This time, Sequence 4 is of even better quality, and it's still difficult to decide how to use it.

After careful consideration, Rosen decided to use it for the finishing touch.

This is the key core skill for painters to master the power of creation, and it is also the key to painters making fakes real. In fact, the divine power of creation is far stronger than the divine power of painting. Painters cannot compete with the many branches of the four golden sequences, so they have no choice but to take a step back and choose the divine power of painting.

Rosen couldn't resist trying to see how much change the Ancient God's True Blood could bring to the finishing touch.

The ancient god's true blood, as golden as a gemstone, brought about a dramatic change to the painting after it was integrated with the extraordinary source essence.

【The Finishing Touch: Miraculous Painting Skills】

[Level: Sequence 4]

[Miracle Attribute: Possessing true divine authority, the final stroke of the painting will be imbued with a true concept]

[Miracle Traits: Historical Anchor, Belief Becomes Truth, Superfluous Addition, Unique in the Universe, Eternal and Immortal]

"It actually works..."

Although Rosen knew that the true blood of the ancient gods could shake the underlying rules of the main world.

But he never expected that he would actually be able to wield real divine power as he wished.

The painter hierarchy actually aligns with many divine authority systems, making it remarkably inclusive.

With different divine authority as the core of the painters' hierarchy, their future paths will also differ.

The strongest is undoubtedly the divine power of creation, but frankly speaking, it is not difficult to master a part of the divine power of creation. However, it is almost impossible to become a true god by mastering the complete divine power of creation. Therefore, if one wants to become a true god, one can only use the divine power of creation as an auxiliary and other divine powers as the core.

This is how the divine right to paint was born, but the divine right to paint is far less than the divine right to create.

Because the essence of painting is imitation, at most it can lead to the transformation of nature.

Taking the path of divine authority through painting may lead to becoming a true god, but it will never make one a top-tier true god.

Ultimately, the divine authority over painting is certainly inferior to the divine authority over fate, and certainly inferior to the divine authority over time and space.

Even compared to the divine right of hunting, the divine right of painting pales in comparison.

The fact that the painter, who is of the same rank, can completely defeat the hunter is not because the painter is powerful, but strictly speaking, because the World Government is powerful. Artists and other Gold Rank individuals are called Gold Rank only because they are backed by the World Government's civilizational fortune.

However, if the world government were to collapse one day, it would be almost inevitable that the Hunter sequence would surpass the Painter sequence.

Rosen doesn't want to rely on the World Government, so he wants to forge his own unique path.

His enhanced Nen ability, based on the bloodline of primitive humans, resonated with the finishing touch of a painting, granting him not only the power to create a god, but also the special power to make falsehoods come true. Thus, he used the true blood of an ancient god to gain true divine power.

Moreover, the initial stage of mastering true divine authority has already reached the conceptual level. The divine authority mastered by Sequence 3 is definitely not the same as the divine authority mastered by Sequence 0.

The divine authority held by those in Sequence 3 to Sequence 2 is also known as basic divine authority or pseudo-divine authority.

Because merely using divinity to wield divine authority cannot unleash the true power of divine authority.

It's like having a top-of-the-line engine but not being able to provide enough fuel to fully unleash its power.

Only by condensing the divine essence and igniting the divine fire can faith be continuously transformed into divine power, and then divine power can be infinitely transformed into divinity. At this point, it is equivalent to having almost unlimited fuel, which can maximize the power of divine authority.

Then, from sequence 1 to sequence 0, it is no longer about controlling the laws of heaven and earth, but about making divine authority a part of oneself.

This leads to the sublimation of divine authority, and to its growth and transformation.

The foundation for the sublimation of divine authority is, first and foremost, to grasp the conceptual nature of the corresponding divine authority.

Before Sequence 1, all you needed to do was use divine authority and know that one plus one equals two. But starting with Sequence 1, you need to know why one plus one equals two, and you need to prove that one plus one can also equal three or five in addition to two.

Rosen's current strength is certainly not enough to prove that true divine authority equals three or five.

However, he was already able to access and study the concept and nature of true divine authority in advance.

This is different from the concept of time perception grasped by the seventh sense. The seventh sense can only perceive the concept of time, and can only touch the surface of the concept of time through a fleeting moment. It cannot yet delve into the research stage of the concept of divine authority.

Therefore, the skill of "adding the finishing touch" allowed him to access the core power of Sequence 1 starting from Sequence 4.

It took Rosen several days to fully grasp the three miraculous properties derived from the concept of reality.

The success rate of capturing historical traces by anchoring history to the present is 100%, and the efficiency of turning faith into reality is also greatly improved. The appearance of demons has a high probability of being promoted from Sequence 3 to Sequence 2 miracle paintings.

The paintings of the demonic apparition and the Möbius strip are now hanging in the Church of God and have become sacred objects of the Church of God.

Finally, there's the superfluous addition, which is the only miraculous characteristic of the "finishing touch" technique that directly targets the enemy.

Rosen conducted experiments on some prisoners in the Void Prison. He randomly selected a prisoner, drew a portrait of him, and then made unnecessary modifications. Whether he added a few arms or dozens of eyes to the painting, all of these changes permanently and realistically altered the prisoner.

For the next few months, countless prisoners in the Void Prison suffered a fate worse than death.

The heart of a Sequence 4 Heart Eater is the best enhancement material for the Art of Drawing.

However, very few painters can use the heart of a Heart Eater to enhance their painting skills, because the heart of a Heart Eater is very difficult to obtain. It is necessary to capture the Heart Eater alive to extract its heart. If the Heart Eater is given even the slightest chance to resist, it will destroy its own heart.

In addition, the Heart Eater is very weak, and very few of them can grow to Sequence 4.

Rosen first traded several Sequence 4 Heart Eaters from the Abyss using the Abyss Horn.

Then, by adding unnecessary details, he drew three hearts for the Heart Eater.

If two hearts are removed, leaving only one, the two removed hearts can slowly regenerate.
To increase the regeneration speed, Rosen even went so far as to transform the lower half of the Heart Eater into plant roots, which could directly absorb flesh and blood to become nutrients for heart regeneration. In a sense, he created a completely new species by adding unnecessary details.

There were many similar operations, and none of the prisoners who could collect extraordinary materials escaped the treacherous hand of those who added unnecessary complications.

The only thing that displeased Rosen was that these extraordinary beings, which he had unnecessarily modified, could not reproduce.

Even so, the production of extraordinary materials in the Void Prison has increased several dozen times.

Even the Star Fruit Tree couldn't escape its clutches in the end; its yield, which was originally 9 fruits per round, increased to a full 18.

Finally, Rosen also discovered that the finishing touch technique, when combined with other skills, could produce special effects.

The time-predicting painting can foresee images of the past, present, and future. However, when combined with the finishing touch, it can only change the past, present, and future to a limited extent. For example, he painted a time-predicting painting of a citizen who failed to advance in the leader's sequence and died tragically.

Then, through a series of skillful modifications, the subject was successfully brought back to life and promoted to a higher rank.

Finally, the finishing touch can enhance Amy's fantasy manifestation, thereby greatly reducing the consumption of fantasy manifestation.

In short, all powers related to reality are strengthened by the divine authority of reality.

……

On this day, Rosen was drawing as usual when he suddenly had a sudden inspiration and casually drew a picture of time prediction.

The painting depicts him holding a star emblem, upon which his death image appears.

Rosen immediately realized that someone was trying to harm him using the Star Emblem.

Indeed, he hid in the chaotic seas as Richard Phoenix, and with the help of the Mysterious Study, even Sequence 0 Qinon Touré couldn't find him. However, the Crest of the Stars could pinpoint his true location.

Of course, locating his exact position using this method is not so simple; it requires the aid of the Star Emblem itself.

Without the help of the Council of Nobles, it would be impossible to locate the target using the projection of the Star Crest.

Rosen immediately speculated and analyzed, pointing his suspicions towards Chinon and Daisy's second personalities.

The solution to this problem is simple: just send the Star Emblem into the Mysterious Study to sever its connection with the main body of the Star Emblem.

But knowing in advance that someone was plotting against him, choosing to run away would have been a great pity.

Rosen's first thought was whether he could use this to scam people.

He logged onto the God Network and searched for a long time, and he actually found a place that was perfect for scamming people.

The borders of the human world are almost always battlefields between humans and other races. However, since the world government has not yet fallen into decline, the other races are not foolish enough to start a full-scale war with humans. For the past 20,000 years, almost all the wars have been localized wars of limited scale.

For example, the Abyss Battlefield, and the Totem Canyon that Rosen is preparing to visit.

Several days later, Rosen traveled across most of the human world via data transmission before arriving at Totem Canyon, the border between humans and beastmen. The beastmen were not a particularly powerful alien race; the entire race had only one true god, but they had many totem gods.

The totem god is not a deity; overall, it is stronger than sequence 1 but weaker than sequence 0.

The difference lies in the absence of an independent divine kingdom. The earthly divine kingdom of the totem gods is essentially the land inhabited by various orc races.

Totem Canyon was once a battlefield between humans and orcs. More than ten totem gods fell here, and no fewer than five human Sequence 1s perished. In addition, the land occupied by the orcs was barren of resources, so continuing the war would be a losing proposition.

However, the orcs were stubborn; the World Government didn't want to fight anymore, but the orcs still wanted to continue.

Finally, with no other option, the two gods modified the Totem Canyon. The entire Totem Canyon was no longer a single canyon but six canyons. Each canyon allowed one sequence level to participate in the battle. The lower limit for the six canyons was sequence 9, and the upper limit was sequence 3.

No matter how many casualties occur in Sequence 3 and below, it doesn't fundamentally damage the troops; on the contrary, it can serve as a training exercise to weed out the dross and retain the essence.

As for the Totem Canyon in Sequence 3, it contains some of the disputed legacies of the fallen gods of both sides.

After 20,000 years, there's not much of value left in Sequence 3 Totem Canyon.

So when Rosen arrived at Warrior's City, the human settlement outside Totem Canyon, he easily obtained the Sequence 3 qualification to enter Totem Canyon, and then entered the canyon to wait for the prey to come to him.

Whether it's Qinon or Daisy's second personality.

They could not possibly enter the Totem Canyon of Sequence 3 in their true forms, otherwise the true god on the orc side would definitely take the opportunity to cause trouble.

They can send at most Sequence 3s into Totem Canyon, and Rosen is confident that he can kill as many as they come.

However, as soon as Rosen stepped into Totem Canyon, he discovered that a Miracle Map he carried with him had been activated.

A Miracle Map of Sequence 2 level means that there are still Sequence 2 Totem Treasures in Totem Canyon.

For 3 years, humans and orcs in Sequence 3 have practically turned Totem Canyon upside down. Yet, a Sequence 2 unclaimed treasure was still discovered by the Miracle Treasure Map. Such a well-hidden treasure must contain something valuable.

After thinking it over, Rosen changed his mind and decided to prioritize finding the treasure indicated by the miracle map.

Anyway, as long as he's in Totem Canyon, anyone who wants to harm him will run into him sooner or later.

A few heroic souls wander in the Totem Canyon of Sequence 3. These are special spiritual beings, transformed from the immortal souls of extraordinary believers in the divine kingdoms of both sides after death. They guard the ruins formed by the fragments of the divine kingdoms, just as they did in life.

Guided by the Miracle Map, Rosen avoided the spirits along the way and arrived at the ruins of a totem god's kingdom in just a few days.

The ground is covered with countless collapsed megalithic buildings, and groups of werewolf spirits wander among the ruins.

(End of this chapter)