Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 286 Zero Ruins and the Disaster Apostle (Happy National Day)

Chapter 285

The Eternal Continent's Ruins City is a densely packed collection of thousands of ruins.

These ruins, large and small, range in size from a few miles to tens of thousands of miles. Some ruins are directly laid out in reality and form the main body of the ruin city, while others are located in various alternate dimensions.

These ruins and relics are basically ancient civilization remains discovered by world governments through various means.

Because the original location of the ruins was inconvenient for archaeological work, they were simply excavated and sent to the ruins city. The main task of the archaeological institute is to help the world government uncover the history and secrets hidden behind these ruins.

However, these ruins and relics have now become the basis for trade between world governments and historians.

Because soon, ownership of these ruins will be transferred to the General Association of Historians.

So during this final period, all the archaeologists began frantically excavating the ruins.

What was originally intended as a protective excavation has now turned into a destructive one.

Almost all archaeologists are thinking of getting as much as possible from the corpses found in the archaeological institute.

Rosen wasn't about to let such a good opportunity slip by.

He went directly to the alternate dimension where the most precious Ruins Zero was located. In the past, only Qinong and Sequence 1 archaeologists were qualified to excavate and explore the ruins of this alternate dimension, but now more than half of the demigod archaeologists have come to Ruins Zero.

Upon passing through the portal, Rosen first saw the camp established by archaeologists.

There are ruins of a city surrounding the camp.

Further out of the city ruins, there are countless colossal beast carcasses, but these carcasses have already decayed. Judging from the state of decay, they have existed for at least hundreds of thousands of years. When these colossal beast carcasses were alive, they could be identified as demigods.

However, whether it is sequence 3 or sequence 1 requires a more in-depth examination of the remains.

Rosen is not a historian by orthodox lineage, but he possesses the Bronze Dragon sequence, the Eternal History Book of Miracle Treasure level, the Miracle Skill Historical Mirror, and the professional authority of the Ancient Scholar.

If all of these factors are taken into account, even Qinong might not be as skilled as him in historical research.

Rosen has obtained some of Qinong's memories and knows more about Ruins Zero than anyone else.

Based on Qinon's archaeological excavations and research, he named this civilization the Disaster Civilization.

The strongest civilization in the entire catastrophe civilization is no more than Sequence 0.

There was no trace of a true god, so this catastrophe civilization was not a particularly powerful one.

However, the reason why such a civilization deserves to be named Zero is that, to this day, Qinon has not discovered any connection between this civilization and the main world, nor has it found any genetic map of life originating from the same source as humans on the corpses of the giant beasts.

There are two possibilities. The first is that this is a civilization created by some great true god.

The second possibility is that this disastrous civilization does not belong to the main world.

If it's the first possibility, then a civilization painstakingly created by a great true god, a species different from life in the main world, must be very important to the great true god. Perhaps these ruins hold the secrets of the great true god.

If it's the second possibility, then the value is even higher.

Beyond the main world, there is an even wider world. This is a secret at the level of the gods, but it is common knowledge at the level of the true gods.

Because the traces left by recorded cosmic civilizations indicate that there is a mysterious universe outside the main world. However, the prerequisite for leaving the main world is to be a great true god. In fact, many true gods suspect that the great true gods who have disappeared have left the main world.

Rosen was quite certain that this suspicion was correct but not entirely accurate.

Because the secrets he heard through the ancient sacred bells were, at their core, about those great, vanished gods.

Rosen didn't know the specifics, but he knew that he had extracted this part of the memory and sealed it layer by layer in the painting, which was hung on the wall of the mysterious study. He could see the painting at any time in the mysterious study, along with the warning he had solemnly left on it.

Unless you become a true god, or have an unavoidable reason, do not easily unlock the memories sealed by that painting.

Rosen believed in himself, so he would not easily break the seal, much less lift it outside the mysterious study.

However, this did not prevent him from using the limited information left behind to uncover clues through other means.

Because it is very likely that he can uncover more secrets at the level of the Great True God in Ruins Zero.

Rosen quickly left the safe camp and ventured into the surrounding city ruins.

Urban buildings, generally speaking, are not built with very good materials.

After all, most buildings are only used for residential purposes, so there is no need to use high-quality building materials.

Normally, being able to build a city using Sequence 9 extraordinary materials is already quite luxurious.

Don't be fooled by the fact that all the buildings in Shentu City are painted with high-level spiritual paintings; those paintings represent the accumulation of 20,000 years by countless painters.

In this city, only a very few buildings are constructed using extraordinary materials.

Logically speaking, the giant beast skeletons outside the city in Sequence 1 should have completely decayed into dust, and the city should have decayed to ashes long ago. However, the reality is that although the city has become ruins, it has only decayed to the extent that it has been a few hundred years.

It is obvious that some force within the city prevented the ruins from decaying.

Rosen wandered around the city for half a day, but unsurprisingly found nothing.

If it were so easy to find, Qinon would have explored this ruin for hundreds of years without much success.

The World Government has entrusted the Zero Ruins to Kanon for over three hundred years, but apart from the first hundred years when Kanon diligently excavated and excavated it, he has rarely come in for the next two hundred years, because he has realized that continuing to work with his current capabilities would only be a waste of time.

The World Government did not urge Kannon, which clearly meant they had no other options.

Everyone knows that even if you have good things, it's useless if you can't enjoy them; you'll become complacent if you don't get to eat them for a long time.

Rosen slipped into a mysterious study in a corner of the city ruins, intending to try a different approach and see if he could find anything of value.

He successfully transformed the broken bricks and tiles of buildings in the city into a dimensional canvas.

He used time and history to successfully create God's paint.

Rosen spread out the drawing paper and activated the Hand of God to begin painting.

Due to time constraints, he could only spend a maximum of one day painting this picture. Even if he had time to sketch and speed things up, it would still take a maximum of 99 days. This amount of time was insufficient to create a highly detailed and spiritual painting, so he could only depict the surface appearance of the city ruins.

A day passed in the blink of an eye, and as Rosen looked at the finished spiritual painting before him, he felt that God's will had been activated.

His divine consciousness followed the painting before him, descending upon every corner of the city ruins.

The veil of mystery shrouding the city ruins successfully unveiled its hidden true nature to him at this moment.

The ruins of this city were able to transfer the damage they suffered to the outside world.

This means that the city transferred all the decay it should have suffered to the corpses of the giant beasts outside the city, which is why the giant beast corpses all turned into rotten bones, while the city ruins remained intact.

"A legendary conceptual miracle exists here..."

Rosen exclaimed in disbelief.

Everything has the potential to become a miracle. The so-called conceptual miracle is essentially the law of new life and the unborn.

Every law, without exception, is a miracle, and the most powerful miracle at that.

Rosen continued to delve deeper into God's will, and soon he made new discoveries.

Rosen discovered an eyeball hidden in a rubble of a building ruin in the city. The eyeball was completely dead, but some ashes remained on it. If he wasn't mistaken, it was the embers of civilization.

Rosen reached directly into the painting through the painting in his hand and grabbed the eyeball.

The eyeballs, which were well hidden in reality, also disappeared at this moment.

Rosen collected the embers of civilization that clung to the withered eyeballs, transformed them into kindling through the Miracle Treasure Firewood Pile, and then lit them with the Miracle Fire. His ash curtain immediately reflected the last embers of civilization.

He saw the intact city illuminated by the afterglow of the ashes, and he saw the countless giant beasts surrounding the city.

Rosen also saw the towering figure standing at the highest point in the city.

Not a great true god, but just a true god.

This true god was probably preparing to create the Law of Calamity as a final step. However, he ultimately failed, and the prototype of the Law of Calamity, the conceptual miracle, destroyed everything and scattered across the city.

The main world has laws of disaster, and these laws are inherent in the main world.

It is utterly impossible for a normal true god to artificially create laws of disaster if they wish to ascend to the status of a great true god.

Therefore, there is only one possibility for the truth: the true god revealed in the afterglow of the ashes did not come from the main world, but from outside the main world. This true god was outside the main world, in a world where there is no law of disaster, and attempted to artificially create the law of disaster to become a great true god.

For reasons unknown, this true god arrived in the main world just as he was about to succeed.

Then a fatal problem arose: the main world already had a ready-made law of calamity, but suddenly an external rudimentary law of calamity appeared, attempting to replace the existing law of calamity. One can imagine how powerful the backlash of the law of calamity would be.

This true god, who could have successfully ascended to godhood, failed because he came to the main world.

Rosen took out the magic pen, attempting to use its miraculous properties to ensure the flame would be passed down through generations, allowing everything illuminated by the lingering light of the ashes to reappear in the world.

Looking at the unchanging afterglow of the ashes, the power to pass on the flame forever has failed.

The reason is simple: the birth of the embers of a normal civilization is the ashes left behind after the backlash of the civilization's flames burned away the corresponding civilization. However, although the ruins and remnants of the outside world are broken, they have not been burned to ashes by the flames of civilization.

The ash on his eyes did not actually originate from the ruins of this city.

Rather, it was the flame of civilization that burned away part of the true god's eyeballs. What he saw through the ashes was merely the last sight seen by the true god's eyeballs, which was far from enough to activate the power of the flame to be passed on forever and bring the extinct civilization back to life.

Rosen carefully examined the dried eyeball in his hand, and sure enough, this thing was the vessel on which the prototype of the disaster concept miracle was attached.

Without this eye, the decay of the city ruins outside could no longer be slowed, and the damage from the decay was distributed. The most valuable treasure hidden in Ruins Zero had fallen into his hands.

When this thing is outside, it is constantly suppressed by the laws of disaster in the main world.

Now that the Mysterious Study has isolated itself from the laws of the main world, the concept of disaster within the dried-up eyeball has lost its suppression and will soon be completely integrated into the dried-up eyeball, eventually forming a miraculous treasure similar to the Cloud Dream Cave.

The level won't be very high, not reaching the level of a true god; at most, it will be Sequence 0.

The reason is simple: neither the Cloud Dream Law nor the Calamity Law within it are integrated into the main world. Even if they possess the miraculous characteristic of eternal immortality of a miracle treasure, the power of the laws within them will be firmly bound within the miracle treasure.

Rosen pondered for a moment, then left the mysterious study with his dry eyes.

Then, the mysterious eyeball was sent directly into God's palette, attempting to use the power of the laws of painting to transform this withered eyeball and the nascent concept of disaster within it into God's paint at the level of laws.

Even the laws of disaster in the main world couldn't eliminate this nascent form of an external law of disaster.

Rosen's rules of painting, of course, could not overcome the nascent form of the laws of disaster.

However, the catastrophic power contained within it can be transformed into God's paint by the laws of painting.

The laws are not immutable. Take the laws of space, for example. The larger the main world is, the stronger the laws of space in the main world will be. If the main world shrinks to the size of a fist, the laws of space may be so weak that even a Sequence 9 cannot be dealt with.

Therefore, in addition to the law itself, the strength of a law also depends on the amount of its original source.

Rosen cannot overcome the essence of the law, but he can transform the source of the law of disaster contained within the concept of disaster miracles.

Several hours later, God's palette had been drained of the source of the laws of disaster, producing some God's pigments of true divine quality.

Even without the source of the law of disaster, the withered eyeball still became a miraculous treasure.

However, the level no longer even has a sequence 0; it is only a sequence 1.

[Disaster Insight: Miracle Treasures]

[Level: Sequence 1]

[Miracle Attribute: The Eye of Calamity can draw upon the power of calamities to generate the origin of the laws of calamity]

[Miracle Traits: Calamity Ritual, Uniqueness of Heaven and Earth, Eternal]

Rosen tried out the Miracle attribute, which was essentially about stealing and plundering the power of calamity from the main world.

As for the miracle trait of the Calamity Ritual, it allows one to be promoted to a special sequence Calamity Apostle.

This is a transcendent sequence that controls and manages disasters, a transcendent sequence recognized by the main world.

By going through the disaster ritual, one can part-time become a disaster apostle.

Rosen knew he couldn't change classes, so he summoned a thousand Abyss Shadow Demons and sent them all to an uninhabited area around the World Tree. At the same time, he activated the Calamity Ritual, and the Calamity Eye immediately split into a thousand projections that merged into the Abyss Shadow Demons' brows.

Merging with this projection does not mean one can directly become an apostle of disaster.

Rosen began to manipulate the World Tree's authority, creating various natural disasters near the thousand Shadow Demons. For a Sequence 3 Shadow Demon, ordinary natural disasters were no threat at all. However, the disaster ritual sealed the extraordinary power of all the Shadow Demons.

Aside from their unsealable physical strength, all Abyssal Shadow Demons cannot rely on other powers to resist natural disasters.

After natural disasters such as torrential rains, droughts, and extreme cold passed, Rosen began to create man-made disasters, such as plagues and famines, which all descended upon the Shadow Demon of the Abyss.

Under the repeated torment of countless disasters, the projection of the Disaster Eye between the Abyss Shadow Demon's brows absorbed enough disaster power.

Then these forces of disaster gradually transformed into the origin of the laws of disaster.

At this point, more than a hundred of the original thousands of Sequence 3 Abyss Shadow Fiends had been killed or wounded by various disasters.

Rosen showed no mercy, nor did he attempt to save the dead Abyss Shadow Demons at the last moment.

Because there is only one Disaster Apostle, which is a unique extraordinary sequence that only one person can advance to.

Therefore, of the thousand Sequence 3 Shadowfiends, 999 are sacrifices for the Cataclysmic Ritual.

The external calamities have disappeared, and the remaining nearly nine hundred Calamity Apostles, driven by the Calamity Ritual, began to hunt down other Abyssal Shadow Demons at any cost. Every Abyssal Shadow Demon that died was devoured completely by the Calamity Eye projection.

Then the victorious Shadowfiend will pluck the Cataclysmic Eye projections of the dead and feed them to its own Cataclysmic Eye projection.

After two weeks of fierce fighting, the final victor has finally emerged.

Shadow Fiend: Miracle Life

[Level: Sequence 1]

[Sequence: Shadow Fiend Sequence 1, Cataclysm Sequence 1]

Divinity: 108

[Talents: Calamity Eye, Dark Body, Shadow Mastery, Possession]

[Skills: Disaster Affinity, Disaster Mark, Disaster Control, Law of Natural Disaster, Law of Man-Made Disaster, Curse of Natural Disaster, Curse of Man-Made Disaster, Avatar of Natural Disaster, Avatar of Man-Made Disaster, Affinity of Darkness, Affinity of Shadow, Void Shadow Realm...]

Rosen looked at the Abyss Shadow Demon in front of him. He never expected that it could grow to Sequence 1 through the Calamity Ritual.

The current Abyss Shadow Fiend is essentially a walking calamity, capable of directly wielding the powers of calamity, darkness, shadow, and parasitism from the main world. Combined with the skills it possesses, its individual combat power is inferior to that of a god, but its destructive power surpasses that of most gods.

Rosen now understood the true meaning of the Apostles of Calamity.

The miracle of the concept of disaster within the Eye of Disaster cannot directly contend with the laws of disaster in the main world.

Therefore, the Disaster Apostles are created. The Disaster Apostles wield the authority of disaster in the main world through disaster rituals. If the Disaster Apostles grow into true gods and completely control the laws of disaster in the main world, the Disaster Eye can turn the tables on them.

As he came into contact with more and more miraculous treasures, he gradually discovered the commonalities among them.

All miraculous treasures either infinitely enhance one's strengths or compensate for any missing features.

The birth of miracles must have specific rules and reasons, and the existence of miracles must involve the underlying rules of the main world.

The Zero Ruins yielded amazing results, and Rosen seized the time to explore other ruins.

There were many gains, but none were as large as Ruins Zero.

After nearly two months of preparation, the historical secret realm finally descended upon the Eternal Continent. A very small number of archaeologists fled a few days in advance, while the rest prepared to stay and become historians.

The World Government didn't completely abandon the situation; instead, it sent a deity to mediate.

P.S.: Happy National Day! It's finally a holiday, I hope everyone has a great time!
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