Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 294 Job Change to Criminal Hunter and Unforgivable Crime

Chapter 293

There is order in the universe and in civilization.

Criminal hunters are best at disrupting civilized order.

The essence of civilized order is law, and the essence of crime is violating the law.

If the law stipulates that murder and arson are not illegal, then even if a criminal hunter kills many people, it will not be considered a disruption of civilized order.

Although Rosen is never merciful, he wouldn't go so far as to kill indiscriminately in order to increase his strength.

Slaughtering other races and disrupting their order is acceptable.

However, humans are the dominant civilization in the current main world, so the criminal hunter who kills people is far stronger than the criminal hunter who kills goblins. Since he doesn't want to commit crimes in the human world to increase his strength, the only path he can take is to disrupt the order of heaven and earth.

Strictly speaking, the most powerful criminal hunters are those who disrupt the order of heaven and earth.

However, first of all, ordinary Sequence 9 is simply not qualified to disrupt the order of heaven and earth.

Moreover, even if one can destroy it, as one's strength increases, one will encounter various misfortunes. Destroying the order of civilization will offend the corresponding civilization, while destroying the order of heaven and earth will offend all things in heaven and earth, and may even gradually offend all civilizations and become enemies of the world.

However, there is a saying that goes, "The law does not punish the masses."

If the law punishes the masses, it only means that there aren't enough masses.

The world's governments make the laws through the Supreme Court, and then the local courts uphold the laws.

The world's will is formed from a portion of the ancient gods' spiritual essence.

Therefore, the greatest crime in disrupting the order of heaven and earth is to suppress, imprison, and attempt to kill the will of the world.

However, just look at the situation in the Old World. If the world's will has truly been suppressed, then the culprit is very likely to be all the true gods of the main world, as well as an unknown number of great true gods, and all the races and civilizations represented by these true gods.

Basically, it can be said that all life forms in the main world have been drawn into committing crimes.

Rosen deeply suspects that the first thing the World Will will do after escaping its confinement is to destroy the world.

Therefore, if someone disrupts the order of heaven and earth in the Old World, the sins committed will not all be attributed to that person alone.

According to the law, those true gods and great true gods are the masterminds; he is at most an insignificant accomplice.

With this mindset, Rosen began a frenzied hunt for Ash Life.

That's right, hunting Ash Life in the Old World is a crime.

The reason is simple: Ashes are an important component of the seal on the world's will.

The strength of the ash can affect the strength of the seal.

Ash beings rely on absorbing ash and spirituality to increase their strength. The more Ash beings there are, the stronger they are, and the weaker the ash's enhancement to the seal becomes. Conversely, only when all the Ash beings die can the ash's enhancement to the seal reach its peak.

The World Government's main purpose in opening the Old Ones camp is probably to use the hands of the demigods to eliminate the Ash Life.

Otherwise, why would the Torch of Hope in the old camp need to burn ashes of life to split the projection?

Using the Eye of Ash, Rosen first identified an area with a large number of Ash Lifeforms.

Then, they set up the Divine Realm territory and began releasing Abyssal Shadow Demons to provoke Ash Life and lure monsters.

Almost wherever it goes, it can easily wipe out the ash life in the surrounding area.

However, Rosen still complained that the efficiency was too slow, because the Old Continent was simply too vast. No matter how fast he hunted the Ash Life, he could only outnumber a thousand demigods, not even ten thousand.

So even tens of thousands of demigods can only slow down the growth rate of ash life, how can he possibly surpass the efficiency of tens of thousands of demigods?

But if we can't surpass it, then what's the point of talking about disrupting the order of the world in the Old World?
So after careful consideration, Rosen decided to seek help from outside forces.

The spiritual fragments of Sequence 0 transformed into dimensional canvas, and the ashes scattered throughout the Old World transformed into God's paint.

Rosen spent five years painting reality in one go, and successfully created a spiritual painting of Sequence 1.

[Old Map: Paintings of a Spirit Realm]

[Level: Sequence 1]

[Attribute: The old map contains a void dimension, allowing a God-like perspective to view everything around the outer reaches of the old continent]

In terms of attributes, it's basically a weaker version of the Glorious Map.

However, the painting materials used far exceeded those of the Miracle Painting: Magnificent Map.

Rosen did try to draw a second magnificent map, but while it's not difficult to present everything on the outskirts of the Old World from God's perspective, editing everything on the outskirts of the Old World would probably require a miracle painting by a true god.

It was through painting this picture that he realized he had underestimated the stable order of the Old World.

So he changed his mind halfway through the drawing.

Rosen took out the game design blueprints for the Sequence 3 Miracle Treasure from Horror Park. Because of this Miracle Treasure, his control over Horror Park had improved a lot, and he had also made many modifications to various game scenes in Horror Park using the game design blueprints.

He was temporarily reassigned, and soon the game design blueprints began to modify the void dimensions within the old map according to his wishes.

Rosen transformed the entire void dimension into a game world that was a proportional replica of the outer perimeter of the old continent.

This game world is roughly composed of 9999 virtual elements, with one element of reality.

Unfortunately, a Sequence 0 fragment of the spirit world is not qualified to replicate the entire outer region of the Old Continent.

After transforming the Void Dimension into a game world, Rosen began using a universal printer to photocopy old maps.

While making the copy, Rosen also used painting principles to render and modify it.

In this way, no one could tell that the photocopied paintings were his work.

With everything in place, Rosen projected 9999 photocopies onto all the demigods, using the influence of old maps on reality.

In the blink of an eye, a painting appeared beside them. Whether it was the demigods in the old camp or those exploring the outskirts of the old continent, they all carefully examined the painting signed "Old Game".

Then these demigods quickly discovered the value of the ancient game-themed paintings they possessed.

Through this painting, one's divine consciousness can enter the old game and register as a player.

It was a special world that was more real than virtual games, yet more unreal than the spirit world.

The game is a complete recreation of the outer regions of the old continent, and it's updated in real time.

Every player can light up a 10-kilometer radius area of ​​the game map for free. If they want to light up a larger area of ​​the map, they need to infuse the old game with spiritual energy. The more spiritual energy they infuse, the larger the area of ​​the map they can light up.

If one is unwilling to infuse spirituality, one can still complete various game tasks from the old games.

A small number of game missions involve collecting specific resources, while the majority involve hunting Ash Lifeforms.

Some demigods believed the old games were a scam, while others, half-believing, decided to give them a try.

This experiment indeed revealed that the map of the outer perimeter of the old continent, illuminated in the old game, was exactly the same as the real world. Whether it was the ash life forms or various dangers that appeared in reality, they could all be replicated in the old game.

What if you want to hunt an ash life form in real life, but you're not entirely confident you can succeed?
You can invest more divine consciousness to create a game character with equal strength to yourself in the old game, and then try to hunt Ash Life in the old game. If you can successfully hunt it in the game, you can naturally hunt it back in reality.

If you fail to hunt repeatedly in the game world, you'll naturally avoid it in real life.

The old continent, which was originally shrouded in the deadly dangers of the Ashes, has been transformed into a semi-fantasy, semi-real exploration game with the help of the Old Days game. In a short period of time, a massive number of Ashes have been hunted down in reality, and all the demigods who believed in the Old Days game have made a fortune.

The reappearance of the old games quickly alarmed the World Government.

The investigation revealed the true nature of the old game.

There is a painter who has mastered the ability to ignore the ashes of the Old World and attempts to use the demigods of the Old World camps to cleanse the ashes of the Old World. There are two possible purposes: to elevate the Old World game world or to collect the sins born from the destruction of order.

If it's the former, it's possible that a painter is trying to use this to advance to Sequence 0.

If it is the latter, it is possible that a Sequence 1 criminal hunter is trying to advance to Sequence 0.

Regardless of the possibility, the appearance of the Ancient Games will not affect the seal of the Old Continent; on the contrary, it will strengthen the seal. Although some true gods are still very interested in the Ancient Games and want to know why they can ignore the cover of the ashes, true gods can no longer enter the Old Continent, and even those gods who are capable of entering are powerless against the Ancient Games.

Gradually, the old games became popular in the old camps, becoming an essential item for all demigods exploring the old continent.

And through this old map, Rosen also gathers more and more sins.

Even though tens of thousands of demigods hunted the Ash Life day and night, Rosen waited a full ten years to accumulate enough sins to perfectly advance to Sequence 2 Criminal Hunter. During these years, he also prepared the necessary materials for his potions.

On this day, Rosen made all the preparations, took out the potion bottle, and began to prepare the potion.

[The extraordinary essence of a criminal hunter, born from the sins of disrupting order, committing the seven sins of gluttony, greed, sloth, seduction, wrath, envy, and pride, plus a touch of the spiritual essence of a saint...]

After the first eight potion ingredients were placed into the potion bottle, Rosen instantly arrived at the largest temple in the Ancient God Realm.

Here is his only saint, the only saint born among hundreds of billions of believers.

Saints, beings who dedicate themselves entirely to God, are all extremely precious to the true God.

The two Sequence 0 deities of the Golden Pharaoh were actually his two saints.

The moment Rosen descended upon the temple, time stood still throughout the entire temple.

The muzzle of the Dragon God's Wrath was pressed against the saint's brow. The saint was slightly taken aback, but there was no fear in his eyes. Instead, he was joyfully awaiting his death. He already knew his fate, but in his eyes, becoming a magic potion and merging into the body of a god was his greatest honor.

For Rosen, killing such a loyal saint with his own hands was undoubtedly the greatest sin.

The saint's divine essence was pierced through his sea of ​​consciousness by the psychic bullet and instantly absorbed by the magic potion bottle.

The nine magical potion ingredients began to fuse, quickly combining into a lifelike crystal statue depicting Rosen's appearance and clothing.

Rosen swallowed the crystal statue, and the power of the potion immediately permeated his body and soul, finally merging into the Hunter Sequence's extraordinary essence through his divine origin. The extraordinary essence, which was originally in the form of a card, transformed into a crystal statue of Rosen's appearance and clothing at this moment.

Through his extraordinary essence, Rosen sensed the innate abilities born from Sequence 2.

[Unforgivable Sin: You wield the power of sin, you can tamper with order and distort the definition of sin, you can make the innocent unforgivable and the guilty innocent innocent.]

"Sequence 2 Criminal Hunter, what terrifying innate skills..."

Rosen murmured to himself, deeply moved.

For a typical criminal hunter, the core innate skill is concealing their sins, and the deeper the sins, the faster their spiritual essence grows.

However, his crimes were unforgivable, unlike those of ordinary criminal hunters.

Not only do they directly wield power, they can also distort the definition of sin.

For example, one of the laws of the nobility states that colluding with evil gods is a capital offense if discovered; this is the order established by the world government.

But now Rosen can alter the order, making collusion with evil gods righteous and not colluding with evil gods a crime.

In this way, an innocent person can instantly become unforgivable, which is a terrifying method of killing someone with another's help.

Rosen could even twist the order, mandating that everyone in front of him must kneel.

If this person does not kneel, then their crime is equally unforgivable.

He can only distort the order of civilization now. When he becomes a true god in the future, he will be able to distort the order of heaven and earth, and truly say that you are guilty even if you are innocent, and say that you are innocent even if you are guilty.

His innate skill is an unforgivable crime; if legal scholars knew about it, it would be enough to make him the public enemy of all legal scholars.

In the Old World, Rosen uses an old map to locate a group of five Sequence 3 Ash Lifeforms.

The moment he saw this life of ashes, he twisted the order and redefined sin.

Almost all life is bound by the constraints of order.

These ash beings are the same; they originate from the world's will in the main world, and the order set by the world's will is to expel foreign demigods and to strive to expand their race to absorb more ash.

Therefore, the Ash Life in the Old World is very special; the Ash Life here almost never kills each other.

Because, with a few exceptions, the vast majority of ash life forms will not defy the world's will and integrate into their instinctive order.

Rosen has now distorted the order, and with it, the instincts of these ash lives.

"Those of the same kind should kill each other..."

The moment Rosen redefined the standards of sin, the five Sequence 3 Ash beings began to kill each other.

Because they instinctively believe that they are born to kill each other.

Having tried to prove the innocent guilty, he continued to try to prove the guilty innocent.

Rosen quickly found another group of Ash Lifeforms, who immediately attacked him in a frenzy upon seeing him.

Because he disrupted the order of the Old World, the Ash Lifeforms of the Old World are extremely hostile towards him. Even if an Ash Lifeform is fighting to the death with another demigod, if he passes by, the Ash Lifeform will instantly abandon its original opponent and pounce on him.

"I am innocent..."

The Ash Life, which had been rushing towards Rosen, stopped instantly, losing all hostility.

When facing a powerful enemy, the enemy suddenly loses all hostility.

Rosen felt a pang of pity for his future enemy whenever he thought about it.

Rosen continued to experiment with the hidden ability of the Unforgivable Crime, and soon he discovered that as long as he committed crimes, the power of the Unforgivable Crime to distort the order he controlled would become stronger and stronger, and at the same time, the power of the Seven Deadly Sins he controlled would also become stronger and stronger.

Having thoroughly mastered the power of unforgivable sin, Rosen took out the skill crystal accumulated over ten thousand years by the Hunter Pioneer.

A transcendent essence, resembling a crystal statue, appeared in his palm. It came to life as if it were alive, reaching out to embrace the skill crystal while its mouth instantly opened hundreds of times larger, swallowing the skill crystal in one gulp and beginning to fuse with the skills within.

[Hunting Domain: Domain Skill]

[Attribute: Expands the hunting domain, greatly enhancing the power of the hunting authority and significantly increasing the priority of the hunting authority's laws within the domain's coverage area.]

Mastering a domain is not difficult for a demigod, but such mastery only represents the most basic level of domain.

Mastering exclusive domain skills can greatly enhance the domain power of the corresponding rule authority.

Rosen's mere fusion of the Hunting Authority with divinity to form a domain only slightly enhances the power of the Hunting Authority; it does not possess the attribute of significantly increasing the priority of the Hunting Authority's laws.

The increased priority of laws is crucial for deities challenging the true god.

Because true gods control the laws, while deities control the rules, when a true god who controls the laws of hunting fights a deity who controls the rules of hunting, without either side using other powers, the true god who controls the laws of hunting can instantly render the deity incapable of resisting.

The greatest value of this hunting realm is that it allows deities who control the laws of hunting to defy the true gods who control the laws of hunting.

While not enough to completely eliminate the gap between rules and authority, it is sufficient to minimize the gap.

Among all skill categories, this skill is among the top-tier.

Without millennia of accumulation and the assistance of a wise god, a hunter pioneer with only Sequence 1 would never have been able to create such a domain skill that could enhance the priority of laws.

If we are to face the true god of hunting who has usurped our place in the future, this hunting domain will be of great value.

What Rosen values ​​most is not even this point, but rather his intention to create his own domain skill based on this skill.

Incidentally, he also plans to use the power of the God of Wisdom to create his own skills for the Hunter Rank.

However, all of this is contingent on leaving the Old World as soon as possible.

Ever since he disrupted the order of the Old World, he has had an increasingly unsafe feeling there.

Even now that the crime is unforgivable, this feeling of insecurity has only lessened slightly.

Clearly, while the "crime cannot be punished" principle can clear the guilty of their crimes, it only affects the ashes of beings below the level of gods. It is far from enough to affect the will of the main world. If he continues to stay, he will likely suffer the hostility of the world's will.

It's important to understand that even if the law doesn't punish everyone, the one who jumps the gun the most is the most likely to be made an example of.

(End of this chapter)