Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 285 The Glorious Map and the Last Archaeologist
Chapter 284

In the magnificent royal palace, Rosen carefully peeled away a portion of the glorious kingdom's civilization.

The thought manifested as God's palette, and the separated flames of civilization immediately merged into God's palette.

Then there is the loyalty extracted from the faith of hundreds of billions of believers, plus the power of rules and authority such as nobility, lords, glory, destiny, law, order, and judgment, which quickly created a unique God's paint.

With the paints ready, Rosen began preparing the drawing paper.

After careful consideration, he collected soil from all the cities of the Glorious Continent and fused it to create dimensional canvas.

With the paper and paints ready, Rosen began to paint with the hand of God.

He painted the magnificent continent, the mountains and rivers, and every town. Normally, even though the dimensional canvas is very large, it would be impossible to paint the entire magnificent continent. However, with dimensional art, he could reduce everything he painted to points and lines.

So soon, countless densely overlapping dots and lines appeared around the entire painting.

The content of the drawing can be reduced to points and lines, but it would take at least several hundred years to draw everything on the entire glorious continent.

Even with a time-shortened drawing at 97 times the speed of time, Rosen's drawing still took a full eight years of real time to complete.

With the final stroke, the magnificent royal city in the painting was reduced to a single line.

At this point, the entire painting was reduced to countless dots and lines. These dots and lines, as if alive, were absorbed by the brush tip. He then began to use these dots and lines to redraw a map of the glorious continent, except that this map was a miniature version.

This step only took three days, and the painting is now finally finished.

By simply raising the dimension of any line or point in the painting, one can see that there are deeper layers of the painting hidden within. This spiritual painting not only reached Sequence 1, but also became the third miraculous painting he created the moment it was completed.

【Magnificent Map: A Miracle Painting】

[Level: Sequence 1]

[Miracle Attribute: The Glorious Map can present and edit everything on the Glorious Continent from a God-like perspective]

[Miracle Traits: Glorious Art World, Unique in Heaven and Earth, Eternal and Undying]

With a thought, Rosen's magnificent map in the painting began to zoom in on the location of the glorious royal city.

Finally, his divine consciousness entered the painting, directly seeing every person in the magnificent royal city from a God's-eye view.

From God's perspective, he could clearly see which humans were loyal to the glorious kingdom, which harbored resentment, and which had broken the law.

In the blink of an eye, a breeze swept through the magnificent royal city, and dark clouds shrouded the sky.

In the blink of an eye, several cultists of evil gods were twisted into die-hard loyalists of the glorious kingdom.

If we compare the real-world glorious continent to a game, then the glorious map is the ultimate GM who can modify game data at will.

Only a demigod could barely resist altering or distorting spiritual consciousness.

With this painting, no evil god cultist could infiltrate the entire Glorious Kingdom. Even if they did, unless they were demigods, their spiritual consciousness would be twisted and they would become loyal followers of the Glorious Kingdom, then turn around and betray the evil god cult.

Because of painting this picture, and with the help of the Origin Oil Lamp, Rosen's divinity increased to a full 90 points.

He was just a little short of advancing to Sequence 2.

Only a few decades in real time have passed since he became a demigod.

Becoming a true god within a thousand years is not a great pressure for him.

Rosen used his Nen to conjure a universal printer, and soon printed out two copies of the magnificent map.

The replica uses the same Dimensional Paper and the same God Paints; the biggest difference is that it lacks the power of God's Hand.

Although it is a replica, it still possesses some of the power of the genuine product.

Although these replicas, with their godlike perspective, cannot see everyone's loyalty, they can identify hostile targets and manipulate celestial phenomena and mountains and rivers to a certain extent. Using two replicas to govern the glorious kingdom is definitely twice as effective with half the effort.

Rosen kept one copy, intending to give it to Farah so she could better manage the Glorious Kingdom.

As for the remaining part, the painting will be divided into sections centered around each city. In the future, the lord of each city will be able to better govern their respective city by using the painting in their hands. If the lord has any ill intentions, Farah will be able to detect them immediately through the complete copy of the painting.

Of course, Lawson wants to keep the genuine version of the final glorious map in its own hands.

It wasn't that he was reluctant to give the original to Farah. If it weren't for the miraculous feature of the Glorious Painting World, he really wouldn't care about a supplementary painting like the Glorious Map. But with the Glorious Painting World, things were completely different.

The Glorious Painting Realm is a world within a painting, and its size is almost the same as the Glorious Continent.

In a sense, the illustrious world of painting is like a special spiritual realm.

Of course, this spiritual realm is not a physical entity. If it were, it would be equivalent to recreating a glorious continent. A Sequence 1 miracle painting could not possibly achieve this. Only a miracle painting of the True God level could possibly recreate a glorious continent.

Therefore, the glorious world of painting is an illusory spiritual space, where everything is nine parts false and one part true.

All life that dies on the Glorious Continent, unless its spiritual essence is captured by someone, will have its spiritual essence enter the Glorious Painting Realm after death. The Glorious Continent is now like a small hell, becoming the final destination of the spiritual essence of life after death.

The Brilliant Art World absorbed these spiritual origins, enabling it to be given a soul and body, allowing it to live a second life within the Brilliant Art World.

It can also absorb spiritual essence, becoming nourishment for the growth of a brilliant art world.

As the Glorious Painting World grows stronger, the Glorious Map, this miraculous painting, will also gain greater control over the Glorious Continent. The level of the Glorious Map may even increase, potentially becoming a Sequence 0 or even a True God-level miraculous painting in the future.

Rosen hung the magnificent map on the wall of the mysterious study and, in a flash, arrived near the World Tree.

There is a lake here. It is called a lake only relative to the Dark Continent. In reality, it spans tens of thousands of miles and could not be filled even if dozens of blue stars were thrown into the sea. And what fills this lake is blood.

Over the years, the Blood and Flesh Hell Tree has eaten plenty of good food, but it can't digest it all, so it has to be sent to the Blood and Flesh Hell.

In the end, even the flesh and blood hell could not be digested, and it could only be initially transformed to form this blood lake with a radius of tens of thousands of miles.

It was precisely because they were so full that the Flesh and Blood Secret Fruit of the Flesh and Blood Hell Tree failed to grow for a long time.

However, the excess nutrients have now been transferred to this Blood Lake. The Blood and Flesh Hell Tree has begun to digest the flesh and blood within its body and start growing the Blood and Flesh Secret Fruit. In a few years at most, the Blood and Flesh Secret Fruit will be fully grown, and at that time, the growth rate of divinity will be even faster than it is now.

He only needs to eat one to reach a divine strength of 91 points.

However, divine perfection does not mean perfection on other levels.

The ancient god's sacrificial arts have not yet integrated the sacrificial miracles and treasures into the divine realm.

His sequence of miracles has yet to find a Sequence 8 miracle treasure that satisfies him and can be completely brought under his control.

The proficiency issues of other individual skills are actually minor matters that can be easily resolved.

Sacrificing miracle artifacts primarily transforms miracle traits into territory traits.

Rosen most wanted to sacrifice the Möbius strip. With the Möbius strip's miraculous dimensional fusion properties, his divine realm could merge with any spiritual painting, essentially turning his divine realm into a painting at any time and integrating everything in the painting into his divine realm.

But then I thought, sacrificing the wolf totem isn't a bad idea either.

With the wolf totem's devouring properties, the Divine Realm territory can recover more quickly after casting the Ten Directions Annihilation spell.

Don't be fooled by how quickly the Divine Realm can be rebuilt now. In the future, when the Divine Realm becomes a divine kingdom, it will be difficult to rebuild it from scratch after unleashing the Ten Directions Annihilation spell.

Besides the Möbius strip and the wolf totem, the remaining options include the Fairy Dragon Ball, the Lucky Love Lock, the Ecological Planetarium, the Apocalypse Treasure Map, and the Miracle Pocket. These miraculous treasures, which the divine realm could not originally support, now meet the conditions of the ancient god's sacrificial arts.

Because there are so many choices, once you've made a choice, you can't regret it.

Therefore, after Sequence 3, Rosen did not perform the Ancient God Sacrifice spell for a long time.

Even when advancing to Sequence 3 in the Divine Realm, he did not use the Noble Sequence advancement to simultaneously cast the Ancient God Sacrifice as usual, because he was worried that integrating into the rules and authority of the territory would conflict with the Ancient God Sacrifice.

However, with Sequence 2 now within sight, the Ancient God Sacrifice Technique must make a decision. "Perhaps we should sacrifice the Möbius strip!"

Rosen reluctantly gave up other options.

In less than half an hour, the miraculous painting, the Möbius strip, had been integrated into the divine realm through ancient god rituals.

With the addition of a new dimension to the Divine Realm, he immediately integrated the three miraculous paintings—the Glorious Map, the Manifestation of the Demon God, and the Two-Dimensional Ash Bee—into the Divine Realm. In an instant, the Glorious Painting World transformed into a nine-layered world.

The demon god manifested and the two-dimensional ash bees also became the guardian forces of the divine realm.

However, none of these are actually the best options for dimensional fusion. The best option is undoubtedly to fuse a horror theme park.
This will also be Rosen's strongest trump card at present.

I witnessed the Mother of Flesh and Blood utterly crush the Judgment Ship, and I saw the terrifying dragon claws of the Sun Dragon God.

He still felt some fear towards the true God.

Now that the Horror Park has merged with the source of the evil god, it is highly likely that it will transform into a true god-level spiritual realm painting once the fusion is complete.

However, an overly powerful horror park would inevitably lead to him being unable to fully control it.

Now that the Divine Realm has the ability to enhance the fusion of spiritual paintings, his control over the future Horror Paradise will definitely be greatly improved. If a true god comes to kill him, he can use the Divine Realm to strengthen his control over Horror Paradise and resist it to some extent.

If it weren't for this consideration, the most suitable items to integrate into the divine realm would actually be the Ecological Planetarium and the Miracle Pocket.

The former can accelerate the birth of rules and has a great effect on the growth of world authority.

The latter's miraculous properties, Equivalent Exchange and Void Escape, grant the Divine Realm Territory terrifying treasure-hunting abilities through Equivalent Exchange and grant the Divine Realm Territory superior stealth and escape capabilities. Both are more valuable than the Möbius strip at the current stage.

For the next two months, Rosen took a good rest.

Over the years, he hasn't actually been painting non-stop. When he gets tired of painting, he often hands it over to his two doppelgangers to take turns painting.

As for the real person, he took some time out of his busy schedule to travel and enjoy the scenery with Li Shiqing and the others.
So this two-month break is enough for him to recover to his peak condition in all aspects.

Lawson has been searching for Sequence 8 miracle treasures for years, not because he can't find them, but because he has found too many.

However, despite their large quantity, none of them matched the quality of the ancient sacred bells and knight's reins.

If he hadn't seen Sequence 9 Miracle Treasures of such high quality as the Ancient Sacred Bell and the Knight's Reins, his standards wouldn't have improved so much. Now, having to choose a Sequence 8 Miracle Treasure of much lower quality, he was unwilling to accept it no matter how he thought about it.

However, there are probably only a handful of Sequence 8 Miracle Treasures in the entire Overworld that can rival the quality of the Miracle Reins.

Anyone who owns it will surely treasure it.

The entire main world is so vast that even with the Miracle Pocket, the Miracle Wish, and the Prophecy Painting, finding these treasured miracle treasures would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Now, Rosen can only pin his hopes on one place.

There's no news about a super high-quality Sequence 8 Miracle Treasure at the moment. Is there no such thing in history?

Finding relevant historical records and following the clues is always better than finding a needle in a haystack.

Once the general area is determined, methods such as the Miracle Pocket and Miracle Wish will not be difficult to help him pinpoint the Miracle Treasure.

Therefore, Rosen must make another trip to this historical secret place.

The LV7 role-playing skill possesses two powerful divine characteristics: spiritual assimilation and spiritual parasitism.

Unless it is a true god in person, there are not many beings who can see through his disguise.

However, since his last infiltration into the Secret Realm of History, the Secret Realm of History has become much more strictly managed. His precognitive paintings are effective against Sequence 0, but ineffective against Sequence 0 located within the Divine Kingdom. The Secret Realm of History is in no way inferior to the Divine Kingdom of Sequence 0.

If you venture into a historical secret place without knowing anything, you'll be in big trouble if you get discovered.

There's no real danger; data transmission is sufficient for a safe evacuation.

But if he can't check the history and can't find any clues to the Sequence 8 Miracle Treasure he wants, wouldn't all his efforts be in vain?
Just as Rosen was filled with anxiety, the Magic Eye AI brought good news.

It turns out that ever since Kanon confirmed his betrayal of the World Government, archaeologists have been subjected to a terrifying crackdown by historians.

The world government's support for archaeologists was essentially a way to weaken historians.

The reason why the historical secret realm doesn't stay on the safe Eternal Continent is essentially because the historians and the World Government are at odds. Now, the fate of the ancient tree with the archaeological sequence is unknown, and the historians have almost cut off their path to becoming true gods.

Wendy was completely enraged and began to ignore the World Government's attempts to eliminate the archaeologists.

The World Government was already in the wrong, so it simply abandoned the archaeological research institute.

Both being Sequence 0, Kannon had no choice but to obey, while Wendy dared to disregard the World Government.

The key is that historians have such profound knowledge.

It's important to know that among the four golden ranks, historians are the only profession definitively capable of producing true gods.

Because the history of the extraordinary world is too long, there are too many secrets hidden in history, and historians have too many secrets. Many of these secrets pose a significant threat to the World Government. Unless historians eventually turn against the World Government, the World Government will not break off relations.

Ultimately, it's an internal conflict of interest; struggle is acceptable, but it shouldn't go too far.

Wendy seized the opportunity, and the archaeologists became history.

All archaeologists have only two paths: the first is to become historians, and the second is to be purged by the Historians' Council. They are unlikely to be killed, since many archaeologists are nobles and protected by the Noble Council.

But secretly crippling you and cutting off the archaeologists' path forward is not difficult.

Unless one is a die-hard fan of archaeology, switching to history is a common choice.

Wendy's approach to archaeologists isn't simply suppression; it's primarily about winning them over. Anyone willing to join her and switch careers has the opportunity to study in the Historical Realm. To ease tensions with the World Government, the Historical Realm might even dock on the Eternal Continent soon.

The management of historical secrets will be chaotic for a while, and many archaeologists will join them on the condition that the historical secrets are partially opened.

Therefore, playing the role of an archaeologist and then delving into historical secrets can reduce a lot of danger.

Although Qinong is dead, many of his memories from his life have been unearthed.

Rosen's understanding of the archaeological institute far surpasses Wendy's.

He quickly selected a suitable candidate: an archaeologist at the Archaeological Institute who was most skilled at excavating miracle artifacts. Using this person's identity to enter the historical secret realm and request access to historical materials related to miracle artifacts would not arouse suspicion.

Through data transmission, Rosen quietly arrived at the Ruins City, where the headquarters of the Eternal Continent Archaeological Research Institute is located.

The entire ruins city is composed entirely of ruins from different civilizations.

At this time, most of the archaeologists inside the archaeological institute were dejected.

In the past, although archaeologists were not as capable as historians, they were in the government and had more power and status than historians. Moreover, with government support, their development was rapid. But things are different for historians who switch majors in the future.

World governments are wary of historians, and even if they stop suppressing them in the future, they will not support them.

Even if these archaeologists who had defected to the past switch to studying history, it would be difficult for them to fully integrate into the historical community. After all, human xenophobia is notorious, and there aren't many benefits to be shared among historians.

So it's obvious that switching to history won't be a good career path.

To make things easier, one either needs to find a powerful backer, or be capable enough to carve out a niche for oneself, or attach oneself to a historian's association and then find one's own way to make a living. All archaeologists are looking for a way out, and with people feeling uneasy and the situation chaotic, no one even notices that someone has been replaced.

Rosen looked in the mirror; his body was his own, but with the help of the ancient god's divine body, he became a stranger in the mirror.

As for the soul and spirit, they have already been parasitized and assimilated by him.

Now we're just waiting for the Historical Realm to arrive on the Eternal Continent, and then I'll switch to being a historian and infiltrate the Historical Realm.

It's best to avoid any more accidents; now is not the time to completely break ties with Wendy.

(End of this chapter)