Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 279 The Astral Judgment and the Source of the Evil God
Chapter 278

Rosen activated the God-Hunter's Eye, thinking of the Flesh and Blood Pope, and saw the Flesh and Blood Pope being resurrected in a certain town.

He took out a pre-drawn portrait of the Flesh and Blood Pope and began to use Death Judgment to hunt him down.

If the Flesh and Blood Pope were in good health, he wouldn't dare use the Death Verdict to kill him, because his divine essence is much weaker than that of the Sequence 1 Flesh and Blood Pope. However, the Flesh and Blood Pope's divine essence was damaged by multiple memory resets, and the sacrifice of decaying flesh further damaged his divine essence.

With the double injury, the remaining power of the divine origin was weaker than that of Rosen.

He directly penetrated the consciousness of the Flesh Pope through the portrait, but just as the Flesh Pope's consciousness was severely damaged by his shot and his divine essence was about to be harvested by the Grim Reaper's scythe, the Flesh Pope sacrificed himself completely at the last moment to summon the Mother of Flesh to descend.

Although he was forcibly killed by Rosen's time-stopping technique, his final divine intervention failed.

However, the Mother of Flesh and Blood, who had already locked onto the Glorious Kingdom and its arrival hidden within the meteorite, is now approaching the Glorious Kingdom even faster.

Eradicating the evil god's church has never been difficult; the real threat has always been the Mother of Flesh and Blood.

Rosen had no intention of directly confronting the true god-level Mother of Flesh and Blood. The intelligence bureau had failed in its duty, so the blame should naturally fall on them. In any case, his relationship with the intelligence bureau had already deteriorated after several conflicts, so this was a good opportunity to make an example of them and show them the consequences of targeting him.

Since Qinong used the intelligence agency, he shouldn't expect to gain any advantage from them.

To rectify its mistakes, the intelligence agency must find a way to prevent the arrival of the Mother of Flesh and Blood.

However, even with the size of the intelligence agency, resolving this matter would come at a considerable cost.

The intelligence agency certainly wouldn't accept this loss, and they would have to consider the opinion of the God of Pentacles before causing trouble for him, the victim.

In the end, they will definitely force the troublemaker Qinon to deal with the problem of the Mother of Flesh and Blood. Although the intelligence agency has no evidence that Qinon directly instructed them, some things do not need evidence. Qinon does not want to completely offend the intelligence agency, so he will definitely have to put in the effort.

That would be his best chance to deliver a fatal blow to Qinong.

Although the royal city was protected by the Wizard's Tower and did not suffer major damage from the purge of the evil god's church, it was still affected to some extent by the underground battle. The kingdom's knights, who had made preparations in advance, immediately went around to stabilize the unrest.

Meanwhile, Rosen had already taken the initiative and filed a complaint with the council of nobles.

Since the Mother of Flesh and Blood was involved, the Council of Nobles reacted very quickly.

In less than half an hour, arbitrators from nearby empires had rushed to the Glorious Royal City via teleportation array.

At this point, all the survivors from the intelligence agency who had been spared by Rosen had been captured.

The arbitrator immediately used the Noble Code to interrogate all the survivors of the intelligence bureau. Six evil god churches had infiltrated right under their noses, and the Church of the Mother of Flesh and Blood was located directly below the intelligence bureau. No one would believe there was no problem with that.

However, after a long interrogation, those who survived were found to be innocent.

Those that were problematic have already been eaten by rotten flesh and blood.

The arbitrator looked at Rosen with some apprehension; he had actually managed to eliminate all the problematic individuals.

On the surface, the fact that those with problems within the intelligence agency survived seems to make it easier to prove that the intelligence agency is solely responsible.

But if the person is alive, the intelligence agency will definitely try to protect them.

The reason is simple: the intelligence agency and the dukes, kings and emperors of various countries are inherently on opposite sides. Once the scandal of the Glorious Kingdom spreads, it will greatly affect the authority of the intelligence agency. Therefore, the intelligence agency will definitely try to protect its own.

As long as there is no irrefutable evidence, there are too many reasons and excuses to shirk responsibility for indulging evil cults.

Whatever punishment is given afterward, it will be handled behind closed doors by the intelligence agency, so as not to cause public embarrassment.

Politics often doesn't distinguish between right and wrong; it's simply a matter of mutual interests.

But now that Rosen has killed everyone, the intelligence agency has no way to protect its own now.

Rosen simply slammed the hat down on the heads of those dead men, leaving the intelligence agency with no choice but to admit defeat.

Of course, the intelligence agency could also insist that their own people were innocent, but if their own people were innocent, then Rosen would have committed a serious crime by murdering these people. The problem was that the King of Star Coins was behind Rosen, and the intelligence agency dared not shift the blame to Rosen and convict him.

In life and in business, this is where having a powerful backer comes in.

If Rosen didn't have a powerful backer, and he let those people in the intelligence agency go, the intelligence agency would protect them for their own benefit. If he killed them, the intelligence agency would shift the blame onto him to frame him. But since he has a powerful backer, the intelligence agency would have no choice but to accept defeat.

The arbitrator left with the investigation results, and Rosen was soon notified by the Council of Nobles.

The Intelligence Bureau will be responsible for resolving the incident of the Mother of Flesh's arrival, and will also provide the Glorious Kingdom with certain compensation.

The Noble Council is, in essence, part of the World Government, and the Intelligence Bureau is the World Government's henchman. If a henchman does something wrong, it's enough to teach him a lesson. So, this matter ends here, and Rosen is quite satisfied with the outcome.

Several days passed in the blink of an eye, and Rosen kept his eyes fixed on the Astral Plane.

It was noon that day, when the sun was at its strongest.

The spatial jump of a void warship in the Astral Plane caused a violent tremor in space, which was almost impossible to hide from the alien gods of the Astral Plane.

If a human void warship dared to do this under normal circumstances, it would have been met with divine punishment from an alien god in no time.

However, this time it didn't happen, because the Void Battleship's target was the Mother of Flesh and Blood.

The evil god has no friends, not even an alliance.

The human world is shrouded in ashes, making it difficult for the power of evil gods to descend directly upon it.

However, since the alien territories were not protected by the Ashes, the Church of the Evil God's influence in the human world was actually very weak. The main force of the Church of the Evil God was all stirring up trouble in the territories of various alien races. It can be said that the alien gods hated the Evil God even more than humans did.

On the bridge of the Judgment Void Battleship, the intelligence bureau's assembled personnel looked out through the ship's windows.

Tens of thousands of miles away, a meteorite containing the flesh and blood of the Mother is rapidly approaching.

Prince Gibson, an astronomer of Sequence 0, holds a Sequence 0 extraordinary object, the Celestial Orb, in his hand.

Under the control of various sequence skills, the Celestial Orb began to communicate with the Sun.

At this moment, the Celestial Orb became a medium for continuously drawing upon the Sun God's radiance. When the radiance stored in the Celestial Orb reached its limit, Prince immediately handed the Celestial Orb over to the captain of the Judgment, the Sequence 0 War Knight Serai Yanes.

Serai launched the celestial orb into the Judgment's main cannon, then locked onto the Mother of Flesh and Blood with its long-range main cannon.

After a brief period of gathering momentum, the golden flames that had traveled tens of thousands of miles struck the Mother of Flesh and Blood.

This attack was no less damaging than that of a true god. After all, it was a combination of a Sequence 0 Astronomer, a Sequence 0 War Knight, and a Sequence 0 Void Battleship. Even a slightly weaker true god might not be a match for the Judgment Ship. The Judgment Ship, the ace of the intelligence agency, was primarily responsible for expelling evil gods.

The meteorite that the Mother of Flesh and Blood parasitized instantly turned to ashes, and a large hole was burned through the Mother of Flesh and Blood's body, which was like a ball of flesh.

However, inside the Judgment, Serre did not relax at all.

You can say that the evil god is stupid, but you absolutely cannot say that the evil god is weak.

If evil gods were so easy to deal with, the gods would have joined forces long ago to wipe them out.

To completely destroy a fearless and insane evil god, at least two true gods must be prepared to be buried with him.

Moreover, evil gods are favored by the main world, and killing an evil god will result in being ostracized by the main world.

Therefore, the Judgment needs to continue attacking and attracting the hatred of the Mother of Flesh, and then lure the Mother of Flesh to those dangerous areas in the Astral Plane that can trap the evil god. Although it cannot trap the evil god permanently, it is enough to keep the evil god quiet for a few years.

The evil gods in the main world that were relatively easy to seal have basically been sealed by the true gods of various races.

An evil god who can still remain free is either terrifyingly powerful or possesses unique methods that make him difficult to seal.

Thinking about the life-or-death race that was about to begin, Serre glanced at the missing limbs of Qinon with disgust.

If it weren't for this guy, the intelligence agency wouldn't have been in such a rush to confront the Mother of Flesh and Blood.

Fortunately, this guy was still somewhat useful. Despite his injuries, he conducted archaeological work in the Astral Plane and successfully found a suitable place to trap the Mother of Flesh and Blood within just a few days. Having redeemed himself with his merits and lacking concrete evidence, he couldn't continue to make things difficult for Qinon. Qinon, who kept his head down, silently recovered from the lingering damage from the laws on his body.

He felt that his life was a tragedy from beginning to end.

He was once a top genius and a top historian, but due to a single wrong decision, under the guidance of several true gods of the World Government, he switched careers to become an archaeologist. From then on, he was not only subject to the World Government, but also relentlessly targeted by the Historians' Association.

He finally won over the goddess he liked, only to find out that she was a psychologist with mental health issues.

She finally had a son, but although their relationship wasn't deep, her son died.

He wanted to avenge his son, but he couldn't even defeat a crawler that wasn't even a demigod.

Now this crawler has become Sequence 3, the king of a super-large kingdom that occupies a continent, and even received strong support from the true god, yet he failed to even plot against Rosen.

If he hadn't been kept around to keep historians in check, he probably would have been imprisoned for colluding with an evil cult.

If he were a true god, he could simply rush to the Glorious Kingdom and kill Rosen.

Who will dare to question him then? Who will dare to punish him?
However, he was merely a deity, and the deeper he delved into the power structure of the world government, the more he understood the difference between a deity and a true god.

However, relying solely on himself, Chinon saw no hope of becoming a true god.

Just look at the historians. When the historian was about to become a true god, he was directly destroyed by several true gods of the World Government working together. Unless he could take the Ancient Tree of History from the Historians' Association and then stay away from the human race, he had no chance of becoming a true god.

Qinon felt increasingly desperate, and the Judgment finally attracted the hatred of the Mother of Flesh and Blood.

As Qinong watched the Judgment ship flee in disarray and saw the tense Seres, the tension in his heart finally snapped. He was determined to become a true god, even if it meant becoming an evil god. He was willing to gamble that he would retain his wisdom after becoming an evil god.

As long as one doesn't become a monster like the Mother of Flesh and Blood, becoming a wise and evil god can even make many true gods retreat.

He had completely offended Rosen, that monster whose growth rate was astonishing. Once Rosen was fully grown, he would definitely not let him go. If Rosen's threat hadn't been growing so great that he felt suffocated, he wouldn't have secretly colluded with the Church of the Mother of Flesh and Blood.

However, if he hadn't been punished this time to find the place where the Mother of Flesh and Blood was trapped, he wouldn't have discovered that source of evil gods.

Many people believe that evil gods are deities who forcibly break through the laws, resulting in a backlash from the laws and the corruption of the true god's origin.

That's true, but it doesn't mean that the true god's origin can be corrupted and become an evil god.

That only meets the basic requirements to become an evil god; one still needs to merge with the source of evil gods to become a true evil god.

Otherwise, the pure, true god's origin would be corrupted, and he could not become an evil god but only a wicked god.

Evil gods are much weaker than evil gods; as soon as they appear, they are captured by the gods and refined into extraordinary artifacts.

If he hadn't repeatedly unearthed crucial information through archaeological excavations, he wouldn't have known that a true evil god needed to merge with the source of evil gods to be born.

The essence of the source of evil gods is, in fact, the law that is cursed by all living beings.

In order to prevent the world from being drained by more and more superhumans, the main world had no choice but to change the era and almost abolish the original superhuman system after the overexploitation of a superhuman resource, and then evolve a new superhuman system.

In this process, many gods will perish, and some of the true gods will die or be injured.

If even gods meet this fate, one can only imagine what will happen to those below them.

Countless extraordinary individuals watched helplessly as their cultivation paths were cut off, as ordinary people they once trampled underfoot rose up and surpassed them through new extraordinary cultivation systems, and as they grew weaker and weaker until their demise.

The resentment of those countless extraordinary beings was something even the main world itself could hardly bear.

At such times, the main world will integrate the resentment of all extraordinary beings into a law, and let this law bear the price. This is the original source of evil gods. To become an evil god, one must bear the resentment of countless extraordinary beings.

The stronger this resentment, the stronger the laws it carries, and the stronger it becomes after becoming an evil god.

However, it is almost impossible to retain wisdom. Instead, weaker resentment, weaker laws, and weaker sources of evil godhood are the only ways to retain wisdom after becoming an evil god, but correspondingly, one's strength among evil gods is also weaker.

However, wisdom can make up for everything; with wisdom, one can lie dormant and continue to grow.

Throughout history, there have been instances of evil gods completely resolving the resentment of the source of evil gods and then transforming themselves back into normal true gods. Without exception, all true gods in history have been top overlords among true gods.

Qinong had carefully examined it and found that the source of the evil god he discovered was not very strong.

Therefore, after becoming an evil god, there is a high chance that he retains his wisdom.

Once he becomes an evil god, the first thing he will do is to seize control of the Judgment Ship from within, and incidentally transform the two Sequence 0s into his evil god's followers. When he leaves the human world, he can continue to live a carefree life. It's just a pity that his divine kingdom is located on the Eternal Continent deep in the spirit world and cannot be taken with him.

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Rosen arrived silently via data transmission from a rest cabin near the bridge of the Judgment.

Hidden by the wolf totem, the captain of the Judgment did not discover this intruder.

However, this only allows him to hide in the rest cabin. If he leaves the rest cabin and approaches the bridge, there is a high probability that he will be discovered by the captain of the Judgment. After all, knights have absolute control over their mounts, so it is best for him to hide in the mysterious study after leaving the rest cabin.

Rosen reached out and pressed his hand on the hatch, opened the mysterious study, and slipped inside.

He could jump out of the window and appear outside the rest cabin, but it would take nine seconds to open the mysterious study from a different location. He needed to ensure that he wouldn't be discovered by the captain of the Judgment for at least ten seconds in order to gradually approach the bridge using the mysterious study.

Rosen quietly jumped out the window, but less than five seconds later he came back through the window.

Because his seventh sense had already warned him that if he remained outside, the captain of the Judgment would immediately discover that someone had broken in.

Just as Rosen was at his wit's end, he saw a Sequence 3 criminal hunter walk past the rest area toward the bridge. Looking into the criminal hunter's eyes, Rosen saw the image reflected in the man's eyes.

Who says this isn't a painting? The reality reflected in the window of the soul is itself a painting.

Rosen instantly activated the Time Drawing, opened the Void Sketchbook, and drew a pair of eyes.

These are the eyes of the criminal hunter who is gradually walking away outside the window. He directly enters the eyes drawn in the Void Album and then quietly appears in the eyes of the criminal hunter who is walking towards the bridge.

It would be almost impossible for other painters to do this, let alone make a Sequence 3 completely unaware.

Rosen's ability to do this stems from his mastery of the principles of painting, his mastery of the divine authority inherent in his skills—the spiritual parasitism—and his ability to deliver a death sentence. The power of the mental canvas and the finishing touch, combined with various other methods, are what allow him to achieve this incredible feat.

As time went on, he was even able to gradually control the criminal hunter through spiritual parasitism.

Leo Gaddafi leisurely walked to the bridge, saluted Cerrey, and then stood silently beside Qinon.

Qinong's heart sank. He was too calm. He should have been frustrated, angry, and showing some hatred. His abnormal emotions had alerted Serre, who then secretly called a criminal hunter to keep an eye on him.

However, Sere underestimated him too much. At the crucial moment, a Sequence 3 player actually tried to stop him?
For the next two weeks, the Judgment was relentlessly pursued by the Mother of Flesh and Blood.

With the Judgment's speed, it wouldn't be difficult to shake off the Mother of Flesh, but the Judgment's mission is to lure monsters, which means it can't escape the pursuit at full speed and even has to turn around occasionally to actively attack the Mother of Flesh to increase its aggro.

Fortunately, although the process was difficult, after half a month, they managed to lead the Mother of Flesh and Blood to the designated area.

That was a turbulent zone of laws formed from a shattered star. Almost all naturally born stars in the astral plane contain a law, so in ancient times, gods only needed to occupy a star to easily become true gods.

This is one of the simplest ways to become a true god, which is why there have been countless struggles surrounding the natural stars.

Driven by the idea that if they can't have something, they will destroy it, many natural stars have been destroyed in the struggle for them.

The laws contained within stars, combined with the power of shattered stars, form a law turbulence zone. Basically, all gods avoid such areas because the star fragments within the law turbulence zone will regenerate into new law stars as the laws stabilize.

Whether it's a star that destroys the laws of nature or a star that is reborn from the destruction of the laws of nature, it will be subject to the backlash of innate destiny.

Even if the Mother of Flesh and Blood were trapped here, she would suffer misfortune for many years due to the chaotic flow of disrupted laws.

(End of this chapter)