Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 249 The Universal Printer and World-Famous Painters
Chapter 248

Rosen quickly refined the transformation badge, but he was still considering what extraordinary bloodline to fuse with the self-portrait clone.

First, the compatibility with the Feathered Serpent God's bloodline must be high enough. Second, it is best if the bloodline complements the Feathered Serpent God's bloodline. Only in this way will the new bloodline born after the fusion of the two have stronger potential, thereby driving the growth of the self-portrait clone.

Rosen spent a long time searching through the world's gene pool before finally choosing the extraordinary bloodline of the Phoenix.

With the help of the world's gene pool, he can create the Phoenix's extraordinary bloodline, similar to how he created the Shadow Fiend.

However, the extraordinary bloodlines created in this way can only possess talent at best, without the ability to inherit it.

In fact, the bloodline of the feathered serpent god obtained by the self-portrait clone was somewhat incomplete.

Therefore, the phoenix's extraordinary bloodline that is being fused this time must be an original product containing a complete bloodline inheritance.

However, even the weakest Phoenix can grow to the level of Void Rank 2, which is better than Quetzalcoatl's aptitude. In addition, its numbers are rare and its abilities are special. Obtaining the complete extraordinary bloodline of the Phoenix is ​​not an easy task, and the high-priced bounty offered by the Main God Network may not be enough to make him get what he wants.

Rosen put the matter aside for the time being, while offering an additional reward for clues about the Phoenix.

If he really can't buy them in stock, he can find a way to hunt them himself.

Rosen took out the Glory Badge, moved the badge space inside his heart in an instant, and then gathered the scattered noble extraordinary source essence in his body to his heart to wrap the Glory Badge, and began to absorb the Glory Badge as the transformation and strengthening material of the Glory Blood Seal.

As the Blood Seal of Glory merges with the Emblem of Glory, the omnipresent Laws of Glory within the Glory Empire are also drawn into its influence.

As expected, Rosen will be able to seize the opportunity to obtain the glory and power that many lords of the divine realm dream of.

Honor is not only related to personal honor and achievements, but also to social status and reputation.

Possessing the power of honor can directly enhance the strength of the noble ranks.

Several days later, the transformation of the Glory Blood Seal was completed.

【Glory Blood Seal LV7: (1/700)】

[Attribute: By imprinting a noble bloodline emblem onto a spiritual painting, one can attach an emblem lock to the painting, increasing its compatibility with the divine realm and boosting the attributes of a portrait painting by at least 100%.]

[Divine Authority Trait: Heraldic branding contains the power to seal authority]

[Divine Authority Trait: Heraldic branding contains the power to protect authority]

[Divine Authority Trait: The Blood Seal of Glory contains the power of glorious authority]

The successful transformation of the Glorious Blood Seal granted Rosen three additional rule powers.

However, only the Glory Authority is fully mastered. The Sealed Authority and the Guardian Authority can only be effective if the Glory Blood Seal is combined with a spiritual painting. But it is only a matter of time before I fully master these two types of rule authorities.

Besides its unique characteristics, the attributes of the Glory Blood Seal have also undergone a qualitative change.

Previously, the maximum increase in character attributes was 60%, but now it starts at 100% with no upper limit.

The reason there's no upper limit is because the Blood Seal of Glory can bestow a spiritual painting with glorious authority. With this authority, the more people know about the painting, the greater its fame becomes, and correspondingly, the painting's power will grow stronger.

The greatest benefit of the power of glory is that it can transform empty glory into power.

What Rosen needs to do next is to transform himself from an unknown, anonymous painter into a world-renowned artist, making his paintings increasingly valuable, turning them into works of art, and making them sought after by the world.

From this moment on, he will officially embark on the road to fame as a painter.

The simplest way to become a world-renowned painter is through packaging and promotion.

Of course, one's own strength is also essential, the quantity of works produced is even more important, and the cost-effectiveness must be extremely high. Basically, it can be understood as spending money to gain fame. As for thinking about selling low-quality, high-priced paintings after becoming famous, one's reputation will be ruined in no time.

There are too many painters in the human world, and the competition is too fierce.

This is why Rosen is only now considering becoming a renowned painter. Most other painters would only consider doing so after reaching Sequence 3, and their need for fame is far less than his, since not all Sequence 3 painters can wield the power of glory.

Rosen continuously contacted various empires' specialized art marketing agencies through the deep network of the spirit world.

While marketing agencies in various countries were tailoring his path to fame, he began frantically creating spiritual paintings.

Moreover, all the spiritual paintings are portraits, and they all bear the emblems and marks generated by the blood of glory.

Although Rosen could accelerate his drawing by 150 times, even drawing faster was not enough to satisfy the needs of so many countries in the world.

Therefore, relying solely on hand-drawn paintings is far from enough to achieve fame; a painter truly needs high-quality printed paintings to become famous.

The goal is to make printed paintings snapped up by the low-class elites, and to make hand-painted paintings sought after by nobles from all countries.

Only in this way can one truly become a renowned painter.

Rosen originally planned to buy a high-sequence printable artifact, but at this moment, the Main God Computer gave him a new option: the printer that came with the Main God Computer, which had been a great help to him when he first created the virtual realm.

However, nothing changed with the printer afterward, so it was gradually forgotten in a corner.

According to the prompt from the main computer, printers, like cameras, can be integrated with skills or extraordinary artifacts to enhance each other.

If he integrates the printer from the main god's computer into his Nen ability, he can fully develop a special Nen ability to print spiritual paintings. The resulting printed paintings will also possess remarkable extraordinary attributes, which is far better than his custom-made high-sequence extraordinary artifacts.

Rosen disconnected the printer from the power supply and then released spiritual energy to envelop it.

As spiritual energy permeated and merged, the originally physical printer gradually became ethereal, eventually merging with the energy and disappearing. After the two were completely merged, he re-materialized the printer using a combination of materialization-type and quality-type energy.

In the blink of an eye, a versatile printer, which could be large or small, materialized from spiritual energy, appeared in front of Rosen.

His sixth Nen ability can not only print two-dimensional paintings, but also add materials to print everything in the painting in three dimensions.

Instead of printing, Rosen took out a piece of drawing paper and began to draw a portrait.

A few days later, he painted a Sequence 4 spiritual painting, depicting a rabbit-eared girl with Sequence 4 chef skills, diligently cooking in the kitchen. To complete this painting, he spared no expense in purchasing extraordinary source material of Sequence 4 chef and incorporating it into the painting.

He casually activated the spiritual painting, and a Sequence 4 bunny-eared girl immediately stepped out of the painting, twitching her ears and looking at Rosen obediently.

Rosen nodded in satisfaction and sent the spiritual painting into the universal printer.

After the prepared drawing paper and special paints were fed into the universal printer, lifelike rabbit-eared girls were quickly printed out. Although they were just printed copies, they contained the extraordinary power of the painter's sequence.

Rosen picked up a painting and looked at it; its quality had reached Sequence 7.

This means that as long as there is enough paper and paint, and enough spiritual energy, he can mass-produce Sequence 7 prints.

However, Sequence 7 is too high a level, and it's not very fast to print.

Rosen immediately began modifying the Universal Printer's Nen ability, integrating the power of five painter sequence skills—Spiritual Attachment, Mind Canvas, Drawing Technique, Bloodstained Glory, and Time Drawing—into the Universal Printer, further strengthening and expanding its power.

The print limit was not increased, but the printed images are more realistic, and the printing speed has increased by 75 times.

In addition, the universal printer also has a printing function.

Rosen tried the printing function and only managed to print spiritual paintings of Sequence 9 quality. However, the printing efficiency was ten thousand times that of printing. It took one minute to print a spiritual painting of Sequence 7, but ten thousand of them could be printed in one minute.

Based on this calculation, as long as there are enough materials, he can print 1440 million Sequence 9 spiritual paintings a day.

Then, in one year, there were 52.56 billion paintings, a number that even shocked Rosen.

The printer attached to the God's computer, combined with Nen ability, is actually this terrifying?
Rosen had been printing for half an hour when he realized there was still a gap between theory and reality.

Because his spiritual energy could not meet the needs of long-term printing.

Even with methods like binge eating to accelerate the recovery of his spiritual energy, it would be quite an achievement if he could print a billion Sequence 9 spiritual paintings after a year of not eating or drinking. What a load of nonsense! If that number of spiritual paintings were to enter the market, he would probably be dissected and studied.

Rosen then began experimenting with how to further reduce the quality of the printed images.

Although it is a printed product, the paper and ink used are of Sequence 9 quality. Those who can afford it can buy the genuine product and there is no need to buy a printed product of much lower quality. As for ordinary people, they cannot afford even such an inferior product as a printed painting.

Therefore, the quality should be reduced further, and the printing cost should also be reduced to a level that ordinary people can afford.

In this way, even if he prints a large quantity, as long as the printed images don't reach the ultra-high quality of Sequence 9, he can explain the quantity of the prints as him possessing high-quality printed extraordinary artifacts. Although it's still enviable, it won't lead to him being caught and dissected.

Most importantly, once the quantity reaches every household, he will inevitably become the most famous painter in the world in a short period of time, and this fame will bring him tremendous feedback. At that time, even a picture of chickens eating rice can become a high-level spiritual painting.

The artist hierarchy is unique; the higher you go, the greater the need for fame.

If a Sequence 3 painter goes unnoticed, the resources required to paint a Sequence 3 spiritual painting are 10,000.

However, if one has enough reputation, it is possible to paint a Sequence 3 spiritual painting for as little as 1.

This is the same as ordinary painters. An unknown painter's magnificent landscape painting may be worthless, while a world-renowned painter can be praised as a masterpiece even if he just scribbles a few strokes on the paper with his eyes closed.

Extraordinary painters are more magical than ordinary painters because the extraordinary world has faith and spirituality.

It's not impossible for a picture of a chick eating rice to become a picture of a chick eating a god.

This is why high-ranking painters are keen to hold exhibitions all over the world and invite extraordinary people and ordinary people from all over the world to visit the exhibitions for free. Isn't it all to accumulate fame little by little and collect the special faith that fame brings?

Enhancing the printing quality of a multi-purpose printer is difficult, but weakening it is too easy.

Rosen roughly estimated that printing 10 billion defective spiritual paintings of Sequence 9 would not be a problem. These defective paintings still retain some of the attributes of spiritual paintings, but their spirituality will dissipate within a year.

After much deliberation, Rosen decided to print and sell the two spiritual paintings in large quantities.

The first picture is of a bunny-eared chef, and the second picture is of a farmhouse vegetable garden.

Farmhouse vegetable gardens possess faint spatial and life attributes, allowing a small number of vegetables that barely contain a trace of spirituality to grow within them.

Then, the bunny-eared chef can materialize a bunny-eared girl with Sequence 9 cooking skills.

With both spiritual vegetables and extraordinary chefs available, cooking spiritually imbued delicacies is no longer difficult for ordinary families. From now on, ordinary families can also enjoy delicious dishes imbued with spirituality, which not only enhances their sense of happiness but also strengthens their bodies and increases the probability of ordinary people awakening their spirituality.

Rosen believed that any ordinary family with the means would buy these two paintings regardless of the cost.

Because everyone needs to eat, everyone wants to eat delicious food, and everyone wants to become extraordinary.

However, after carefully calculating the costs, Rosen discovered that even low-quality printed materials might be unaffordable for ordinary families, as they rarely even had gold coins, and the materials needed to print spiritual paintings could only be purchased with spiritual crystals.

If he wanted to make his paintings affordable for ordinary people, he would lose about 70% of the price per painting.

However, if the painting is printed in a lower quality, it basically lacks any supernatural power. Ordinary people have no need to buy such paintings that offer them no benefit. After all, for ordinary people, art is worthless compared to filling their stomachs.

Rosen sighed. No wonder other painters only hold exhibitions and sell only a small number of prints to low-level extraordinary beings.

The reason is simple: the world is so big, no amount of wealth can be enough to lose money while gaining publicity.

Unless we can find a way to make up for the lost costs through other means.

For ordinary people, it seems that only faith holds value.

Rosen thought of the Seven Deadly Sins. If the printed picture could absorb the Seven Deadly Sins from ordinary people, then the converted faith could be transformed into divine power crystals, which might be able to make up for the 70% loss in costs. However, doing so would probably cross the bottom line of the World Government.

The seven deadly sins can make the lazy diligent and the arrogant humble.

However, this involves manipulating people's hearts and distorting their consciousness. The World Government will not allow such a thing to happen. The World Government will not pay attention to the Seven Deadly Sins that manipulate its own people, but if it attacks the World Government's core base, it will be reduced to ashes in no time.

Indeed, nothing in this world is perfect; otherwise, he wouldn't have become famous by producing a massive number of printed paintings.

Rosen then thought again that perhaps he was getting stuck on a rut.

His desire to have a print of his painting in every part of the human world is an unrealistic and arrogant idea.

If everyone had a painting, his paintings probably wouldn't be worth much.

What you can't have is the most expensive. If everyone owned a world-famous painting, the painter's fame would certainly be known to all, but the negative reputation would probably be greater than the positive one. The saying "a little kindness is appreciated, but too much kindness breeds resentment" is no joke.

The most correct approach would be to have one printed image for every hundred or thousand people.

People who buy prints in this way will be grateful to him for their extraordinary gains.

Even those who couldn't buy his prints would learn of his name out of envy and would seek to purchase them out of longing.

In this way, even if a printed painting loses 70% of its value, he will only make a profit compared to the fame he gains.

Other painters could certainly do the same, but they don't have a universal printer, so they can't reduce costs to the point where an ordinary person like him could buy it for 30% of the price. Moreover, ordinary painters don't have the mountain of divine crystals accumulated in the legacy of the true god like he does.

Rosen contacted marketing agencies in various countries through the deep web of the spirit world and shared his idea.

Then I remembered that the cost of selling paintings also includes sales costs.

Based on this calculation, selling a single printed painting would result in a loss of 80%.

This doesn't even include transportation costs, because he can send the printed paintings to various countries via data transmission.

If he's already having such a tough time, it's no wonder that no other artist dares to do it this way.

……

In Frost City of the Thunder Empire, a Glory Gallery selling spiritual paintings has silently appeared.

At first, passersby didn't think much of it.

The artist's spiritual paintings, which you can see but can't afford, are just trying to mess with your mindset.

If you don't give away some eggs, don't expect most ordinary people to even walk in and take a look.

However, the Glory Gallery was soon surrounded by people.

Because the price displayed on the projected advertisement outside was only a mere silver coin?
The fact that one can buy spiritual paintings with silver coins is one thing, but it is enough to arouse the curiosity of ordinary people in Frostsnow City.

Since it doesn't cost any money to look around, more and more ordinary people are going to art galleries.

I went in with curiosity, and happily went home carrying the two spiritual paintings.

Vegetables that are extraordinary and imbued with spirituality are things that ordinary people rarely see.

Now, bringing someone home means you can enjoy delicious food imbued with spirituality. If a spiritual being emerges in your family, even if it's just a cook or a farmer, it's a miracle that completely changes the fate of an ordinary family.

Of the 6 million ordinary people in Frostsnow City, 60,000 bought the paintings "Rabbit-Eared Chef" and "Farmhouse Vegetable Garden" from the Glory Gallery.

Those who bought it celebrated with their families, while those who didn't were filled with regret and self-blame.

However, the residents who failed to purchase the paintings soon received good news from the Glory Gallery, because both spiritual paintings were gifts from the world-renowned painter Rosen Howard to Frost City, as the world-famous painter Rosen Howard had once lived in Frost City.

Since the printed paintings can only be kept for one year, 200,000 spiritual paintings will be supplied every year on a first-come, first-served basis.

Moreover, each ordinary family is limited to purchasing one set; if you buy it this year, you can't buy it next year.

For the next year, families who couldn't buy the painting could only look on with envy and jealousy at their neighbors.

Whether one can awaken their spirituality by eating delicious food imbued with spirituality every day is another matter, but they will be healthier and stronger, which are benefits that those around them can see. Moreover, there are occasional rumors of children in other families awakening their spirituality and successfully changing careers.

The name Rosen Howard has become a household name in Frost City without anyone noticing.

Although the number of paintings for 100 people was increased to 2 for 1,000 people starting from the second year, most people did not complain about Rosen, because ordinary people also knew that only one painter who had an affection for the local area was willing to lose money to gain publicity.

If they say too many bad things, they'll lose even this one and only chance to change their fate.

Therefore, some people who failed to buy the painting publicly cursed Rosen, and some were even directly beaten up in the street by others.

As a result, in just a few years, Rosen's reputation in Frost City grew better and better.

(End of this chapter)