Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 265 Manipulating the Law and Mysterious Organizations

Chapter 264

Rosen wanted to incorporate the game design into the Divine Realm, but there was no point in doing so.

Because of the annihilation of all directions, his divine domain will be destroyed once at each level.

Therefore, in recent years, the Divine Realm has been completely left to its own devices, and the focus of its development has been placed on the Ancient God True Realm.

Using game design blueprints in the divine realm would only result in a meaningless waste.

Excluding the divine realm, there aren't many options left.

First is the historical dragon's nest, and second is the horror park.

After so many years of development and the addition of countless painters to the painter sequence, Horror Paradise is no longer what it used to be. This painting of the Spirit Realm has long since advanced to Sequence 1, becoming an important hidden trump card for him.

However, Horror Park is too powerful due to the combined efforts of hundreds of thousands of artists, so much so that he is currently unable to fully control it.

Incorporating the game design blueprints into Horror Park would enhance Horror Park and strengthen his control over it.

However, how to integrate is a problem, and Rosen has handed this difficult problem over to the 30 billion people of the Ancient God Realm.

There are quite a few people working in game design, so they can definitely come up with the best solution for him.

After dealing with the miraculous treasure, Rosen had time to get down to business.

Two days later, at the Starry Sky Hotel.

When Pompeii unleashed his domain to envelop Rosen, he had already taken the divine realm and fled into the spirit world.

Therefore, the real-world shining city was not damaged by the Dragon God's Roar Bullet.

Rosen waited for two days at the Starry Sky Hotel before the arbitrator sent by the World Government's Noble Council finally arrived.

Inside the hotel conference room, arbitrator Yulio Hughes was already seated at the head of the conference table.

To Yulio's left sat Kubi Weber, Pompeii's only surviving grandson. This Sequence 3 architect had stabilized the Shining Workshop in the two days following Pompeii's murder, and he was in charge of attending this hearing.

Rosen pushed open the conference room door, bowed slightly to the arbitrator, and sat down to the arbitrator's right.

“Duke Rosen, you will now recount the entire process of how you killed Pompe Weber two days ago.”

The arbitrator produced a noble code and pushed it in front of Rosen.

"The process was very simple..."

Rosen stated, "I learned about Pompeii, which is on the same continent, from the Divine Weapon Sky City. I decided to entrust Pompeii to enhance my Void Gallery and paid a deposit in advance. Then I came all the way to Shining City to discuss the enhancement plan for the Void Gallery in detail."

As a result, Pompeii suddenly breached the contract, and not only did it not compensate, it even refused to return the deposit without reason.

Of course I could not accept this, and I immediately petitioned the Council of Nobles for a protest.

That very night, Pompeii broke into my hotel room, immediately using his domain to pull me into his game world within his divine realm, intending to murder me without any reason.

Unfortunately, he overestimated his strength, so I ended up killing him.

"You're lying..."

Kubi, who had lost a loved one, couldn't help but slam his fist on the table and stand up to retort.

Please sit down.

The arbitrator frowned.

Kubi sat down, his face flushed and neck red, gritting his teeth. He knew he absolutely couldn't afford to offend the arbitrator at a time like this.

"The preliminary assessment by the Noble Code indicates that what you are saying is true..."

The arbitrator looked at Rosen and said, "However, since the deceased was a Sequence 1 art designer who was also a hereditary duke and had an even more noble status than you, I have to consider the possibility that you are hiding part of the truth and telling only half of it, or that you have the means to deceive the noble code."

So next, I need to further verify whether what you said is true.

If you have any other opinions, you can let me know now.

"I have no opinion."

Rosen said calmly.

The arbitrator began to use the projection of the genuine noble code in his hand to summon the true power of the noble code. Even a true god could not lie in front of the true form of the noble code.

As the ritual array was set up, more of the power of the Noble Codex itself descended upon the projection.

Rosen repeated what he had just said and personally assured everyone that he had nothing to hide.

"Your testimony is absolutely true..."

The arbitrator, dispelling the ritual array, stated unequivocally, “You have the right to defend yourself, but you cannot keep Pompeii Weber’s extraordinary essence, nor can you further seize Pompeii Weber’s other legacies, and you certainly cannot retaliate against Pompeii Weber’s relatives.”

"I have no objection, but I'm very curious why Pompeii broke the agreement?"

Rosen looked at Kubi as he spoke.

At this point, Kubi could no longer control his anger; if the arbitrator hadn't been present, he would have resorted to violence.

"I don't know why my grandfather refused..."

Kubi said through gritted teeth, "But from now on, no art designers or architects will design and enhance extraordinary buildings for you, and Shining City will not welcome you either. I will accumulate merits and apply to the Noble Council for a glorious bloodbath to the death."

"If you're not afraid of death, I'll grant your wish."

As he spoke, Rosen took out Pompeii's extraordinary source material and handed it to the arbitrator.

Kubi could no longer bear it and turned to leave, afraid that if he stayed any longer he would lose control and die.

Congratulations on your safe return.

The arbitrator waited until Kubi left before smiling and speaking.

"This is my thank you gift."

As he spoke, Rosen took out a Sequence 2 Miracle Cloud, shrunk to the size of a palm, and handed it to the arbitrator.
He had bribed the arbitrator from the very beginning.

Through the Hunter's Eye and the Spirit World Web, he knew in advance who the arbitrator sent by the World Government was this time.

Upon discovering that this person was merely superficially impartial and could be bribed, he immediately chose to bribe the arbitrator.

If he encounters an arbitrator who cannot be bribed, he can also use favoritism to deceive the aristocratic legal code.

He also considered that since favoritism and corruption could deceive people anyway, was it still necessary to spend a lot of money to bribe them?

He later decided to bribe the arbitrator, because the arbitrator had made a wasted trip without gaining anything, so the matter of killing Pompeii would not be resolved so quickly. He also wanted to plant a spy in the council of nobles, who knows when it might come in handy.

Not long after Rosen returned to his room from the conference hall, the manager of the Starry Sky Hotel came to his door with a smile.

Rosen didn't make things difficult for him and left Shining City directly after checking out.

However, this matter is not over yet; Pompeii still hasn't figured out why he wanted to kill him.

Unfortunately, everything in Pompeii's divine territory was destroyed, and Pompeii's divine essence collapsed due to the complete exhaustion of his lifespan. His body was also transformed into a miraculous treasure by the Hunting God Authority, so he did not obtain any valuable information.

However, based on his surveillance of Kubi using the Hunter's Eye, he discovered that Pompeii had a divine clone that had survived.

However, this divine avatar also died. Time eroded the lifespan of the divine origin, and even the divine avatar could not escape. Fortunately, the divine avatar's body was preserved, and perhaps useful information can be extracted from its brain.

Rosen infiltrated back into Shining City, easily broke into Shining Workshop, and took away the corpse of Pompeii's divine avatar.

There's the practice of sucking blood to read memories, and another method is to read memories directly from the brain.

After a long day of work, Rosen finally understood why Pompey was willing to kill him.

He's overthinking it; it's not that those old friends have any connection with Pompeii.

Rather, Pompeii had deep connections in the Kingdom of Divine Weapons, which is why he knew that Pompeii possessed the Dragon God's Wrath, a weapon of Sequence 1 quality.

Furthermore, Pompeii's investigation revealed that he had a grudge against Chinon.

So Pompey, in a moment of weakness, wanted to murder him and withheld the deposit, mainly to force him to make a mistake first. Once he made a mistake, Pompey would seize the opportunity to eliminate him within the limits permitted by the noble code and then take the Wrath of the Dragon God for himself.

The truth that Rosen wanted was right in front of him, but he still felt something was off.

It was too easy; the news came too easily.

He wasn't initially looking to get the truth directly; he just wanted to get some clues.

The reason is simple: divine avatars usually don't know much about the original self.

Because a divine clone is one sequence level weaker than the original, if the clone knows everything the original knows, the enemy will definitely capture the clone at any cost and seize its memories. In this way, the original would essentially lose all its secrets to the enemy. The earliest clones were improved time and again because of this flaw.

The clones of today have long since become mere tool clones.

Therefore, Pompeii's divine avatar seems to know far too much about the original.

Rosen directly used Time Reversal on Pompeii's divine avatar, and sure enough, it reverted to two days ago. A portion of Pompeii's memories suddenly disappeared, indicating that this part of the memories had been implanted into him by some means two days ago.

"With such a large-scale operation, who is behind it?"

Rosen thought to himself.

Silently modify the memories contained in the brain and original bloodline of a Sequence 2 divine avatar after death.

This method is definitely not something that can be easily accomplished.

What are we hiding by going to such great lengths?
After a moment of contemplation, Rosen began to dismantle the body of Pompeii's divine avatar.

He used Pompeii's skin as canvas and melted Pompeii's flesh and blood into pigment.

Then, on the canvas, relying on the final finishing touches, he used a realistic concept to paint a lifelike Pompeii.

Pompeii in the painting came to life, stepped out of the canvas, and looked at Rosen with a mixture of surprise and anger.

He never expected that even after his death, Rosen would not let him go.

Rosen knew very well that no matter how realistic his painting of Pompeii was, it was not the real Pompeii. All the memories came from what he had been taught while painting. The truth that he did not know, this imposter he painted also did not know.

Therefore, the Pompeii he painted was merely a decoy.

Rosen led Pompeii into the spirit world, and then dived directly into its depths.

Indeed, Pompeii is dead, and his divine essence has been eroded by time. However, traces of Pompeii's history must still exist deep within the spirit world. He wants to use the painted Pompeii to retrieve these historical traces, thereby truly bringing Pompeii back to life.

However, Rosen gave up after a few days because he couldn't find any historical traces of Pompeii.

If the historical traces of an individual's life were so easy to find, wouldn't painters be able to easily resurrect the dead?

The trail seemed to have gone completely cold, and Rosen didn't have a better solution for the time being.

He still has a drop of Sequence 3 Ancient God True Blood, but he is reluctant to use it now.

Over the next few days, Rosen quietly turned the Shining Workshop upside down.

Still unable to find any clues, he could no longer resist and used the true blood of the ancient god to enhance the Time Prediction Painting.

The Predictive Painting series of skills do indeed possess remarkable predictive abilities.

However, its drawbacks are also obvious; it is easily interfered with.

After all, painters are not specialists in prophecy, and cannot compare to those who have spent their entire lives playing with prophecy.

Strengthened by the true blood of the ancient god, the Time Prediction Painting began to undergo a transformation according to his will.

[The Predictive Painter: Miracle Skill]

[Miracle Attribute: You can draw prophetic paintings using all prophetic powers]

[Miracle Traits: Miracle Prophecy, Unique in Heaven and Earth, Eternal and Undying]

Building upon his work as an ash painter, Rosen has now become a unique precognitive painter.

This miraculous skill, like the Ash Painter, affected his extraordinary essence. The Ash Painter allowed him to add an extra portion of extraordinary essence to his mental canvas, while the Foresight Painter significantly enhanced the extraordinary essence within his divine brush.

In the past, when he painted paintings of time prediction, he could only rely on the authority of time to paint.

But now, the powers of destiny, evolution, time, nightmares, and history that he possesses can all be integrated into the prophetic painting, because these five powers are five times stronger than the original prophetic painting.

Rosen picked up his brush and quickly painted a picture of the prophecy.

The painting depicts the corpse of Pompeii's divine avatar, with a dark figure shrouded in a cloak crouching beside it.

Unsurprisingly, this shadowy figure is the one who altered Pompeii's memories.

However, he wanted to draw the true face of the shadowy figure under the cloak, but he couldn't manage to do so.

"I will perform a miracle prophecy; the cloaked man will appear before me..."

Rosen said.

The Miracle Trait, Miracle Prophecy, possesses the terrifying power to make any theoretically stated prophecy come true.

Of course, the three words "theoretically" are involved, but whether the prediction can be fulfilled depends on the actual situation.

His miraculous prophecy undoubtedly failed, but he went on to make various attempts.

The prophecy of miracles finally came into effect after he said that the cloaked man would return to Shining Workshop.

Based on the miraculous prophecy, Rosen drew another prophetic picture.

This time, things went surprisingly smoothly, and the cloaked figure in the painting appeared at Pompeii's house in the Shining Workshop.

Because once a miracle prophecy takes effect, it will surely come true. Knowing the future already, the accuracy of the prophetic painting will naturally increase significantly. Although the true face of the cloaked man is still unknown, he will definitely be able to pinpoint where he will appear in the future.

Rosen immediately and silently infiltrated the Shining Workshop via data transmission.

Then, the Hunter's Eye simultaneously locked onto everyone in the Shining Workshop, while he himself hid in Pompeii's house under the enhanced concealment of the Wolf Totem.

Two days later, a cloaked figure appeared silently in Pompeii's study.

The cloaked man was very unhappy. He had suddenly received news in the past two days that Pompey had a habit of keeping things to himself, and if he left behind something he shouldn't have, it would cause a lot of trouble for the organization.

This forced him to return and thoroughly search Pompeii for anything that shouldn't have been left behind.

However, just as the cloaked man was rummaging through his belongings, the Necromancer Queen appeared behind him like a ghost.

The mouthparts instantly pierced the sea of ​​consciousness, directly spitting out the only eighth-level soul insect egg, which parasitized the cloaked man.

However, just as the cloaked man's divine essence was being enslaved and about to become an undead life form, the cloaked man's divine essence suddenly ignited, burning even the eighth-level soul insect eggs to ashes. At the last moment, the cloaked man actually committed suicide through some means.

The Necromancer Queen landed on Rosen's shoulder with a wronged expression, sharing with him the memories she had collected during the parasitic period of the Soul Insect Eggs.

The cloaked man is a Sequence 3 titled demigod and the head of the intelligence bureau of the Star Empire.

However, this was only his official title; in reality, he was a scepter attendant in the King's organization.

However, due to the sudden destruction of the divine essence, the information he obtained about the King's organization was incomplete. He was only certain that Pompeii was the Knight of the Scepter and that he knew who the cloaked man's superior was.

Although the cloaked man is a Page of Wands, he doesn't have the Page of Wands Tarot card that he dreams of.

The same applies to Pompeii; Pompeii was not a true knight of the scepter.

They were just one of the candidates, because the cloaked man's memories of becoming a true scepter were easily captured by the soul worm eggs. Now that the cloaked man is suddenly dead, the King's organization behind him must already know.

Rosen searched Pompeii's study as quickly as possible, but found nothing of value.

However, since the cloaked man risked his life to return, Pompeii must have left something behind.

If not in the study, where would he be?
Rosen took out his painting of Pompeii, which contained all the memories he had extracted from the brain of Pompeii's divine avatar. If Pompeii had a particular habit of hiding things, his painting of Pompeii was the most likely to be found.

Half an hour later, Rosen arrived at the mayor's office.

Inside a miniature model of a glittering city on the table, he found a chip left behind by Pompeii.

Rosen immediately vanished into the mysterious study, wanting to see if anyone else would come.

The chip is a memory storage chip for virtual devices. He directly connected it via network cable, and the main computer successfully read all the information inside. The content was all videos that Pompeii had taken himself, which contained everything Pompeii knew about the King's organization.

The King's Organization has a true god, but according to Pompeii's judgment, it is unlikely to be the true god of the World Government.

Because the true god of the world government has far too many means to control a Sequence 1 Pompeii.

Sequence 0 must abide by the aristocratic code, but the true god can disregard it because the true god is the true creator of the aristocratic code. All the laws formulated by jurists are just waste paper without the approval of the true god.

It was precisely because he was a true god from another race that he bribed and won over Pompeii.

Although Pompeii did not know who the King and Queen of Wands were, he knew that the candidates for the Knight of Wands were three Sequence 1s, including himself, and the candidates for the Page of Wands were three Sequence 3s. He also knew that the King's organization had been searching for the Fallen Tarot.

As for why Pompeii targeted him, it was because Pompeii possessed the projection of the Knight of Wands Tarot card.

Through projection, Pompeii discovered that he possessed the power of the Tarot cards outside of the King's organization.

So after he arrived in Shining City, Pompeii suddenly broke the agreement. However, Pompeii underestimated his strength. Instead of getting the Holy Grail from him, the King lost his life. Now, the King's Organization is probably already eyeing him.

(End of this chapter)