Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 296 The Window to the World and Sequence 2 Painters
Chapter 295

Rosen searched the Ark twice but found nothing of value.

Even the miraculous treasures at the level of Great True Gods have been destroyed into this dilapidated state, so there's no need to even think about the rest. However, considering the special circumstances, he still took out the Secret Compass, a miraculous treasure of Sequence 3.

[Secret Compass: Miracle Treasure]

[Level: Sequence 3]

[Miracle Attribute: The Secret Compass can point out hidden secret spaces nearby]

[Miracle Characteristics: Spatial Orbit, Unique in Heaven and Earth, Eternal and Immortal]

This is also a relic of Suard, a miracle-characteristic spatial orbit that can directly construct a spatial passage to the discovered secret space.

This was one of the things Suyad relied on to enter the mysterious cabin, but unfortunately, even the Secret Compass couldn't escape the World Recycling Station.

Whether the hidden space of the Ark can be discovered now, or whether there is any hidden space at all, remains to be seen.

The compass needle began to vibrate the moment Rosen stepped into the captain's cabin.

He immediately activated the spatial orbit, and the compass in his hand locked onto a corner of the captain's cabin, then generated a spatial passage leading directly to the secret space. The moment the spatial passage was created, a rotting humanoid monster rushed out from it.

The world domain that unfolded instantly pulled the attacking monsters into the divine realm.

This monster has no spirit, so it is a corpse. Its whole body is rotting, but it can still move.

Rosen temporarily trapped the monster in the divine realm and used the spatial passage to observe the situation inside the secret space.

The space inside isn't large, about the same size as the four-sided space included in the Doomsday Ark ticket.

It's even possible that they're the same space altogether.

In a corner of the room, Rosen found a notebook that showed no signs of decay.

The hand materialized from Nen energy reached into the space to take out the notebook, and only after confirming that there were no traps did it carefully open it.

After reading the contents for a moment, Rosen understood what was going on.

This is a personal nautical logbook, and the one who left it was that rotting monster.

This person is a deity of Sequence 0, and also the captain of the Doomsday Ark.

It's not that there aren't stronger beings on board, but this Sequence 0 is the most skilled at piloting extraordinary ships.

The Ark of Doomsday is a product known to have originated from the previous ancient god era.

It is speculated that the destruction and restart of all things in the world during the previous ancient god era may have prompted the birth of the Doomsday Ark.

Therefore, ever since the Ark of Doomsday was discovered by the gods, it has become their hope for leaving the main world.

Around 150,000 years ago, the doomsday ark, with everything ready, began its first voyage to escape the main world.

Everyone was very confident at the time because the Ark of Doomsday had three great gods in charge, and there were hundreds of gods in total. If the owner of the logbook hadn't been skilled at piloting extraordinary ships, he, as a Sequence 0, wouldn't have been qualified to board the Ark of Doomsday.

Rosen continued flipping through the logbook, only to find that the contents at the back were incomplete.

The incompleteness was not due to damage to the logbook, but rather the disappearance of a large portion of the recorded text, leaving only a series of blanks. This indicated that the contents recorded there were unacceptable to the world, so this part of the content was erased directly from the source.

Because the content is fragmented, there isn't much valuable information.

It's clear that the early voyage of Doomsday Ark went very smoothly, and the text is filled with joy.

However, an unexpected event occurred midway through, but the specifics of what happened remain a blank.

Eventually, it became increasingly dangerous, even encountering terrifying dangers that even the great true God could not resolve.

The captain, who was only at Sequence 0, hadn't even seen where the enemy was and was already seriously injured. The great true god who rushed to the captain's cabin couldn't save the captain in time and could only send him to the safe house located in the captain's cabin for refuge.

Rosen put away the logbook; the first half of it was quite valuable.

The starting point and direction of the Ark of Doomsday point to a path leading away from the main world.

Rosen conducted one last search of the Ark before reluctantly returning to his cabin.

He had already tried to access the other two tickets, but the tickets themselves were so powerful that even a true god could not destroy them.

Using the secret compass, the space inside the ticket does not meet the conditions for a secret space.

The so-called secret space is one where the existence of this space is unknown, or the standard is lowered and it is uncertain whether there is a space. Only in this way can the secret compass work. If he clearly knows that there is a space inside the ticket, the secret compass will naturally be unable to function.

That leaves only one last method: using the mysterious study to enter the ticket's interior.

Rosen reached out and pressed his hand on the surface of the ticket; the square surface of the unknown material opened a door.

Entering the mysterious study, I came to the window and looked into the interior space through it.

Rosen's pupils contracted instantly as he saw that the square space, ten meters in diameter, was filled with things.

After careful examination, he discovered that this space contained the kingdom of a true god, the corpse of a true god, and the corpses of countless believers, all compressed into a tiny space with a diameter of ten meters.

There are generally two methods to stuff a living person into a ping-pong ball.

The first method is to expand the space inside the ping-pong ball, extending the limited space infinitely to the point where it can accommodate a person.

The second method involves compressing a person to a size smaller than the internal space of a ping-pong ball.

What we are encountering now is the second type. However, it is easy to compress an ordinary person, but to compress a true god, to compress a true god's kingdom to this extent, what kind of great power would be needed to do such a thing? Even a great true god would probably find it difficult to do.

Rosen left the mysterious study, ready to see what was in the other ticket space.
He dared not touch the one in front. If the window were opened, he feared that the space in the ticket area would deflate like a punctured balloon, squeezing the true god's kingdom out through the window under high pressure. In that case, the mysterious study might not be damaged, but he would definitely be in deep trouble.

Entering the mysterious study again, Rosen nervously and expectantly approached the window.

The space inside the ticket was empty. He subconsciously reached out to open the window and refine the ticket from within the space, but at that moment, a crack suddenly appeared in the window of the mysterious study.

The real Rosen, who was painting not far away, instantly left the mysterious study through the main entrance.

Then, immediately, the anchoring of the mysterious study and the ticket space was released.

Reopening the mysterious study, the view outside the window is no longer the scene inside the ticket space.

At this moment, Yinglong's clone, who was about to push open the window, finally came to his senses. If it weren't for the main body, something terrible would have happened.

Rosen stepped forward and touched the window; the starting point of the crack looked like a handprint.

The space in front of the ticket wasn't empty; rather, there was at least one unseen entity. This entity discovered the mysterious study from the opposite direction and then slammed its hand on the window. If the window hadn't cracked, Rosen wouldn't have realized that Yinglong's clone had been bewitched.

The being inside the ticket space was absolutely the most terrifying being Rosen had ever come into close contact with.

Rosen's divinity permeated the window, and the window immediately began to absorb his divinity and repair itself.

His divine strength, which was as high as 93 points, was drained in just a few seconds.

The numerous cracks on the window were so numerous that only one tiny crack was barely noticeable.

Rosen took out the divine crystal, and sure enough, the window could absorb the divine crystal and repair itself.

However, at this moment, the main computer released the network cable to stop Rosen.

After considering it for a moment, Rosen stopped using the divine crystal to repair the window.

Instead, he painstakingly refined the divine crystals and then used his restored divinity to repair the windows.

Several years have passed since the restoration was completed, and Lawson has devoted itself to the project during this time.

If the divinity of the main body is exhausted, then infuse it into the divinity of the two clones.

Since the divinity of the two clones has been used up, I'll summon a few pets and draw their divinity into the window.

If all available divinity has been used up, then every means must be used to restore divinity.

Even gluttony alone couldn't restore her, but thankfully she could still eat spiritual food, set up magic arrays to accelerate the restoration of divinity, and take alchemical potions to restore divinity. Over the years, Li Shiqing had almost grown into a gourmet at the peak of Sequence 4. Rosen watched the last crack in the window disappear, gritted his teeth, and returned to the space containing the unknown terror of the ship ticket.

Just like last time, the unknown entity inside the ticket space attacked the window of the mysterious study.

Moreover, it appears that the damage to the windows this time is even greater than the last time.

Rosen continued to inject divine energy to repair the window. Over the years, he had come to realize why the main computer didn't allow him to use divine crystals to repair the window: because while repairing the window, his control over the mysterious study was being enhanced.

From beginning to end, he could only passively use the secret study.

His relationship with the mysterious study was roughly equivalent to that of a homeowner who holds the key but doesn't have the property deed.

Being able to enter and exit the mysterious study indicates a master-servant relationship with it, but this master-servant relationship is very weak without a property certificate.

This is because he is too weak to truly master the Mysterious Study.

Now, with the help of repairing the window, although he still cannot completely control the mysterious study, he finds that he is gradually gaining control over the window. After a few more repairs, he will be able to completely control the window of the mysterious study.

Another twenty years passed, and Rosen finally refined the window of the mysterious study.

In the blink of an eye, the window opened, and then closed in the next instant.

Window to the World—that's the real name of the window in the Mysterious Study.

By fully refining and controlling the Window of the World, one can integrate different rules and laws into the Window of the World to create different effects.

Infused with the authority of faith, the Window to the World instantly transforms from a transparent window into a screen.

On the screen at Window of the World, Rosen can see all believers from God's perspective at will.

Continuing to merge with the authority of destiny, he was able to see the past, present, and fleeting future destinies of all believers.

The attempt to integrate blood and authority failed this time.

It is clear that World Window can integrate rules and laws, but there are limitations to the degree of compatibility in integrating them.

Rosen began to experiment and discovered that the only rules and authorities he could currently integrate were the twelve rules and authorities: Faith, Fate, Time, Devouring, Sealing, Guardian, Mind, Reality, Nightmare, Light and Shadow, History, and Painting.

Even so, the power possessed by Window of the World is already quite terrifying.

Fate, history, and time can reveal the past and future, enhancing divination skills; devouring and protecting can strengthen the defenses of the Window of the World; mind and nightmares can peek into the hearts and dreams of life outside the window; and the remaining elements, such as sealing, reality, and painting, can transform the Window of the World into a painting.

Rosen could clearly sense that those were the original abilities of the Window of the World.

Finally, the ability of the Window of the World to transform into a painting is not its original power, but rather the result of its complete control over the Window of the World. It allows the user to integrate some of its extraordinary power into the Window of the World and use it to better exert its influence.

Rosen once again attempts to peer into the mysterious entity, but this time the Window to the World is still damaged from the outside.

However, the previous destructions were instantaneous. This time, he observed for several seconds before the mysterious entity discovered the Window to the World. Moreover, the damage to the Window to the World was actually less this time, and the overall strength of the Window to the World had increased significantly.

Rosen no longer needs to inject divine energy for repair; he can simply take out the divine crystal and let the Window of the World devour it.

Once he was certain that the Doomsday Ark offered no further benefits, he returned to the Glorious Royal City via data transmission.

For some time afterward, Rosen devoted himself to in-depth research on Window of the World.

The abilities of the Painter sequence can be fused with those of the World Window, so there's no reason why abilities from other sequences cannot be fused.

Sure enough, he discovered some new uses. The World Window could actually be integrated with the Hunter's Eye, presenting everything the Hunter's Eye saw through the World Window. Beings spied on by the Hunter's Eye would find it even more difficult to detect the Hunter's Eye's spying.

Rosen only temporarily stopped his research on Window of the World when he could no longer find any new uses for it.

After decades of accumulation, the divine strength gained from advancing to Noble Sequence 2 has been fully absorbed.

So now it's time for the final painter to advance to Sequence 2.

Inside the painting world, Rosen was transported to the ancient tree in the painting sequence.

The painter sequence has now separated from the artist sequence. Painters in the main world, whether changing jobs or advancing in sequence, no longer communicate with the ancient tree of the artist sequence, but with the ancient tree of the painting sequence that exists in front of them.

Over the years, many true gods have tried to follow the clues to find the ancient tree of the painting sequence.

However, all of these were blocked by the mysterious study combined with the World Tree, making it impossible to find the ancient tree of the sequence hidden inside the World Fruit.

Rosen controlled the ancient tree of the painting sequence with his divinity, and two leaves fell and merged into his extraordinary essence. He couldn't even hear any muttering, because the true gods who had cursed the painter sequence had all lifted the curse in recent years.

The reason is simple: now all intelligent beings can become painters.

Painters have always been the preferred class for creating artificial spiritual realms, so all races are frantically switching to the painter class. Under such circumstances, if any true god were to curse the painter class, there is no doubt that the true gods of all races would not agree.

The painter's series became widely known, and various alien races profited greatly from it, while only the World Government suffered heavy losses.

The most unfortunate one is the Painters' Association, which is now a mere shell of its former self.

The transformation of his extraordinary essence ended quickly, and Rosen's divine strength directly increased to 95 points, an increase of two points.

One reason is the inevitable improvement brought about by the sequence advancement. The remaining reason is that most of the improvement was brought about by the assistance of the Origin Oil Lamp during the continuous consumption and recovery of divinity over the past twenty years, which is why the divinity strength was unexpectedly increased by two points.

But Rosen didn't care about that; he was only concerned about what innate skills would be born.
[Painting Domain: Expanding the painting domain greatly enhances the power of the painting authority, and within its coverage area, all personally created paintings can be integrated into the painting domain.]

"Exclusive domain skill..."

Rosen's eyes lit up, and he immediately began exploring the field of painting.

Flipping through the Void Painting Book, I found that the difficulty of painting, as well as the intensity of the spiritual paintings I created, had indeed increased.

Although he has mastered the principles of painting, it does not mean that he can fully utilize the power of those principles.

In fact, even true gods find it difficult to unleash the full power of the laws.

The logic is simple: a true god who has mastered the laws of light cannot allow the entire main world to lose its sunlight and be shrouded in darkness. It would be quite remarkable if the Holy Continent could be shrouded in darkness. Even a great true god who has mastered the laws of light might not be able to extinguish the light of the main world.

The only beings capable of fully unleashing the power of the laws are perhaps the fully awakened ancient gods.

The power that demigods pursue to become true gods is essentially about constantly strengthening the upper limit of the power of rules and laws they can exert.

Now, in the field of painting, the upper limit of the power of painting authority that Rosen can exert has been greatly increased.

Conservative estimates suggest an increase of 100%, which is already the upper limit for improving domain skills.

Rosen continued to explore another skill in the field of painting, producing a picture of a sandstorm, a natural disaster.

These are spiritual paintings of Sequence 3 that he casually sketched in his spare time over the years after seeing that desert in the Old World.

The moment the painting merged into the painting realm, the space inside the painting realm expanded dramatically, and at the same time, a massive black sandstorm appeared within the realm. If it were just that, Rosen could have materialized the sandstorm in the painting into reality without the painting realm.

So next, Rosen presented a second spiritual painting, a picture of thunderclouds and storms.

This painting depicts the largest storm and thunderclouds he had ever seen in Storm Canyon.

After the thundercloud storm diagram was integrated into the painting field, in addition to the black sandstorm, boundless thunderclouds appeared in the sky within his field. Then, endless hurricanes were also integrated into the black sandstorm, which made the wind speed of the black sandstorm several times stronger.

Through his work in painting, he can now perfectly blend the power of different paintings together.

The maximum number of fusions depends on the strength of one's own divinity.

By merging the two paintings, the divinity consumed in maintaining the realm of painting will double.

Combining three paintings results in a fourfold increase, while combining four paintings results in an eightfold increase.

The more elements are integrated, the greater the consumption of divinity in the realm of painting.

Therefore, endless fusion is impossible; once there are more than three to five paintings, a quick resolution is necessary.

Rosen then made various attempts, the most interesting of which was to integrate an angel portrait and a demon portrait into the field of painting at the same time. The result was an unprecedented demon angel, a Sequence 3 demon angel that could actually fight against Sequence 2 angels and demons.

(End of this chapter)