Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 297 The Doomsday Curse and the Vanished Kingdom
Chapter 296

The divine realm of Paradise Mountain, with its soaring sacred radiance illuminating the entire world.

Thousands of Sequence 3 angels and dozens of Sequence 2 angels continuously tempered Paradise Mountain with their divine radiance.

However, amidst the endless radiance, a patch of darkness was sealed off layer by layer by the sacred flames formed from the divine light.

Years ago, Rosen discovered a secret room in the captain's cabin of the Doomsday Ark. The moment he opened the secret room, the rotting corpse that was the captain of the Doomsday Ark rushed out from it, and he suppressed it in the territory of the gods. Later, when he had time, he casually killed the rotting corpse.

He thought he could gain godhood, but after death his body completely rotted into darkness.

If it hadn't been moved to Heavenly Mountain and suppressed immediately, the divine realm might have been corrupted and rotten by this darkness.

The angels of Paradise Mountain have been purifying for over twenty years, yet this darkness shows no sign of weakening.

Rosen had been busy refining the Window of the World in recent years, but now he finally has time to deal with this mass of darkness.

During the more than twenty years he spent resting and regaining his divinity, he did not stop studying this darkness.

Rosen discovered that this darkness was a terrifying curse, but it contained no rules or laws; it contained only pure spirituality, along with endless resentment and curses. This thing felt even more terrifying to him than the source of the evil god.

At least the source of evil gods had no way to silently harm a Sequence 0 deity.

Then, until death, they are unable to take any effective measures to save themselves and can only watch in despair as their bodies rot and their divinity decays.

Rosen carefully peeled a wisp of darkness from the mass of darkness.

Then, through the main god network, data was transmitted, and the darkness was quietly slipped into Heaven Mountain and thrown out.

He can't solve it, so I wonder if the true god of the angel race can?

After the problem is resolved, will it leave behind benefits or drawbacks?

If it's beneficial, then leave the rest for yourself to deal with. If it's only harmful, then keep it to use to trick the gods. I dare not say about the true gods, but once a god gets involved with this stuff, he can forget about living. Of course, the premise is that this stuff doesn't spread.

The wisp of darkness that Rosen left behind on Paradise Mountain was quickly discovered by the angels living nearby.

After all, in the heavenly mountain bathed in holy light, a sudden glimpse of darkness is as conspicuous as a torch in the night.

What they discovered was a Sequence 3 angel, and they casually tried to purify this wisp of darkness.

However, the holy light he released not only failed to purify the darkness, but instead brought a dormant wisp of darkness to life, instantly penetrating all the passively activated defensive skills on the angel's body and directly entering the angel's sea of ​​consciousness between his eyebrows.

This wisp of darkness doesn't cause much harm to the body; it even has a slight ability to nourish the body and slow down decay.

The captain's body was decaying, but it was simply the natural decay that occurred over countless years.

Darkness targets the spiritual, so the angel's body appears intact, but his divine essence has been infiltrated by this wisp of darkness like a bone-deep infection. He has tried all sorts of self-salvation methods, but none of them can stop the decay of his divine essence.

The angel demigod had fallen in a matter of moments, and it was only then that the other angels, who had received the distress message, arrived.

However, the angelic demigod, whose body was possessed by a wisp of darkness, began to frantically attack the other angels without fear of death.

He was quickly brought under control, and the wisp of darkness within his body was also discovered.

However, this only resulted in more casualties, with almost all of the first batch of angels and demigods who came to the rescue perishing.

The angels who sensed something was wrong and rushed over dared not approach, and began to pass the message up the chain of command.

Even the arrival of Sequence 2 couldn't dispel a wisp of darkness, but at least the Holy Light it possessed blocked one.

Even Sequence 1 couldn't solve the problem, which finally alerted the angels.

When even angels and gods could only seal it away and could not resolve the problem, the true god of the angel race was finally alarmed.

Upon seeing this glimmer of darkness, even angels and gods instinctively felt fear.

Soon, this wisp of darkness was sealed away and taken away by the true god of angels. Moments later, the network of gods was in an uproar because of this wisp of darkness.

With the help of some informed true gods, this glimmer of darkness successfully alerted all true gods and deities.

The reason for revealing the origins of darkness is simply to prevent the situation from escalating, as the emergence of darkness is not accidental.

Rosen also learned about the origin of that darkness through the main god's computer and the network of gods.

According to the knowledgeable true god, that darkness was the resentment of all the dead from the previous era toward the main world. It was a doomsday curse born from the negative spirituality of all living beings, including all the true gods and some great true gods, who all died.

After the new era of the ancient gods began, the curse of doomsday was banished to the outside of the main world by the ancient gods.

From then on, it became a barrier sealing off the inside and outside of the main world.

The last recorded appearance was 150,000 years ago, when some of the true gods fled back to the main world with the curse of doomsday.

These true gods all disappeared soon after. Of the true gods who are alive today, only a very few have existed for more than 150,000 years. These true gods couldn't even get a ticket back then, so you can imagine how strong they were. The remaining true gods are all newly created true gods born in the last 150,000 years.

A true god who nearly wiped out an era—one can imagine the terror that would bring to those in the know.

Many of the true gods today had close ties with the group of true gods from 150,000 years ago when they were still deities. Therefore, they learned a lot of information before those true gods disappeared, including how to break this doomsday curse.

The solution was unexpected: destroy the main world.

The doomsday curse will dissipate as long as the main world is destroyed and the order of heaven and earth is disrupted.

Even after it dissipates, there may be benefits, as the doomsday curse may contain extraordinary inheritances from the previous ancient god era.

Rosen learned of this through the network of gods, and the first thing that came to his mind was the Old World.

He had merely killed some Ash Lifeforms, yet he had already disrupted the order of heaven and earth and transformed into a Sequence 2 Criminal Hunter.

The true gods of the main world, and even the hidden great true gods, joined forces to seal the world's will. How much order of heaven and earth must they have disrupted? How many true gods were killed or injured in the process of sealing the world's will? It even seems that one of the great true gods died.

Is it possible that the main force sealing the world's will was the group of passengers who boarded the Doomsday Ark back then?
In order to escape the doomsday curse, they spared no expense to seal the world's will and disrupt the order of heaven and earth.

In this way, all the clues can be connected, and the waters of the main world are far deeper than he previously knew.

Having learned how to use the doomsday curse, Rosen only needed to wait patiently.

Although he left the Old World, the Old Map still guides the demigods of the Old Camp to hunt down Ash Life, so the order of heaven and earth is still being destroyed. Continuously injecting this power into the Doomsday Curse can naturally lift the Doomsday Curse.

However, after considering it, he decided not to do so for the time being. It was better to keep this thing for evil people than to remove the curse.

The legacy from the previous ancient god era is certainly valuable, but it may not be of any use to him.

In the glorious royal city, Rosen took out a fragment of the divine essence of the Wise Dragon God and began to create his own hunter and painter skills based on his profound knowledge.

He even prioritized trying out skills from his own noble sequence.

Logically speaking, those in the noble ranks should have the least to worry about.

However, ever since the innate skill of Sequence 2, Divine Power, appeared, he contacted the Golden Pharaoh through the Old Map. Through further communication with this true god, he discovered that the World Government's Noble Sequence was essentially a castrated transcendental sequence.

Because of their noble lineage, they could not become true emperors.

Before the establishment of the World Government, the main world had the authority of kings, emperors, and monarchs.

Although there was no extraordinary sequence at that time, the power of these three authorities was terrifying.

To seize royal power and establish a kingdom, the entire territory of which is equivalent to a divine kingdom.

A king can bestow titles upon nobles, and all nobles can wield extraordinary powers of the corresponding level. Some powerful kings can even directly bestow titles upon gods. There have been more than one instance where a king declared war on a true god and forced the god to bow down and admit defeat.

However, there are no kings as powerful as that today.

Even for the ruler of an empire, the position of emperor is merely a title without substance.

Aside from absorbing more faith, it serves no other purpose.

If it were an emperor from the era of the Golden Pharaoh, even a true god would have to be careful not to be strangled if he stepped into the empire.

According to the Golden Pharaoh's analysis, it's highly likely that the World Government separated these two powers—royal and imperial—after their establishment because they were too powerful, creating a noble hierarchy. However, Rosen has a different view: while he doesn't know about imperial power, he believes royal power hasn't disappeared.

His King of Cups Fallen Tarot card contains royal authority.

His current problem is that he has royal power and authority, but he cannot fully exert the power of royal power and authority by virtue of his noble status. Fortunately, royal power and authority are already subtly influencing the noble status. The birth of the two innate skills of royal supremacy and divine right of kings is not without reason.

Through these two innate skills, Rosen has already grasped some of the power of royal authority.

But that's not enough; he needs to create more acquired skills centered around royal authority.

Only in this way can his noble lineage be freed from the constraints of the World Government.

However, ten years later, Rosen has gained very little in terms of royal authority.

It wasn't that the God of Wisdom's divine status was inadequate, nor that his understanding of royal power was insufficient. Rather, he discovered that while it was easy for him to wield royal authority through the Holy Grail King, it was virtually impossible for him to seize royal authority through his own power.

Because laws are omnipresent, the power of royal authority should also be omnipresent in the main world, only varying in intensity.

However, in the main world, once Rosen leaves the Glorious Kingdom, he cannot perceive the authority of the king.

Even within the glorious kingdom, the perceived royal authority all originated from the Holy Grail King.

This means that the laws of kingship in the main world have been completely sealed away.

This is not something that the main god could do, and even the great true gods are unlikely to do it alone. It is very likely that multiple great true gods joined forces, and it may even be related to the sealing of the world's will. It is certain that a great true god stands behind the world government.

After pondering for a long time, Rosen decided that since the right path was blocked, he would take a shortcut.

Over the years, a drop of Sequence 2 Ancient God blood, which had been nurtured within his Ancient God heart, has been born.

Using the true blood of an ancient god to directly enhance a royal power skill is not a loss.

Although Rosen has not created any new Royal Power skills over the years, he has made some progress. Now, the Ancient God's True Blood has absorbed these progresses and has instantly given birth to a miracle skill that belongs exclusively to the Royal Power series.

[Kingdom of Gods: Miracle Skills]

[Passive Attribute: The lands under the influence of royal rule become the royal divine kingdom]

[Active Attribute: The place where one stands is a divine kingdom]

[Miracle Traits: Royal Decree, Uniqueness of Heaven and Earth, Eternity]

After Rosen carefully studied this miraculous ability, he truly realized how terrifying it was.

The Kingdom of Kings is completely different from the kingdoms of ordinary gods.

The divine kingdom of an ordinary deity is essentially equivalent to a fixed, slow-moving base.

Within the divine realm, a deity can easily contend with a true god for a short period of time, but outside the divine realm, they are just an ordinary deity.

Therefore, many deities never leave their divine kingdom in their true form, but instead travel outside in divine avatars, because for many deities, the area outside their divine kingdom is too unsafe, and their divine kingdom is the place where they feel most at ease.

The divine kingdom is the strongest shield of the gods, but it is not a spear.

The noble hierarchy is powerful because it transforms the divine kingdom from a shield into a spear.

The nobles of Sequence 0 can have their divine kingdoms etherealized and integrated into their sea of ​​consciousness, carried with them at all times.

In a sense, the noble order did not only steal the power of the monarchy and other authority, but also merged the power of those authority and the power of the gods. However, while merging, it limited the power at the level of the monarchy. Therefore, the noble order was very powerful, but it did not instill fear in other gods.

The Kingdom of Kings, from the very beginning, was a special kind of divine kingdom that combined offense and defense, and was also full of contradictions.

As long as his subjects actually occupy the land, it is his divine kingdom. As long as his true self stands, the area within the range of divine perception is his divine kingdom. This is even more powerful than divine domains. Divine domains still need to be developed, but the royal divine kingdom can be directly occupied.

Even the priority of a royal kingdom is higher than that of a god's kingdom of the same level.

This means that if Rosen were to step into a Sequence 0 divine kingdom now, after he activates his divine perception, he could forcibly transform part of that divine kingdom into his own royal kingdom, directly seizing partial control of the divine kingdom.

It's no wonder that ancient kings dared to attack the true gods, and it's no wonder that the gods abolished royal power and other authority.

Because of its overwhelming power, it aroused the unanimous hostility of all the gods.

For the time being, Rosen cannot use the Divine Kingdom of Kingship unless he does so and leaves no survivors.

The greatest strength of miracle skills lies in their miracle properties, and the Royal Kingdom miracle skill is no exception.

Through royal decrees, what he says in the divine kingdom of the king is law and rule.

Words alone cannot encompass the power of royal decrees.

Although the innate skill of rulers in the noble sequence can also establish laws in the divine realm, the influence of these laws mostly applies to the people, with only a small portion affecting invaders who trespass into the divine realm.

However, royal laws are different; royal laws apply equally to everyone, whether they are subjects or enemies.

In comparison, the ruler's judicial power is merely a beggar's version of royal decrees.

The Royal Kingdom cannot be used casually in the outside world, but that does not prevent Rosen from using it in the Ancient God Realm. He has more than one glorious kingdom; besides the one on the Glorious Continent, there is also this one in the Ancient God Realm.

As the power of the Divine Kingdom of Kings enveloped the entire Glorious Kingdom, Rosen felt omniscient and omnipotent in that instant.

He can now arbitrarily control all the lands occupied by his subjects, from the smallest grain of dust to the vast rules and authority that permeate the heavens and earth. If a deity who wields the power of darkness were to enter the Kingdom of Kings, he could completely strip that deity of their control over the dark divine authority within the kingdom.

Of course, he would be far less powerful in wielding the same dark divine authority than this deity.

After all, mastering divine authority is only the beginning; the key is to develop skills that can maximize the power of divine authority.

Simply wielding divine authority without the corresponding skills is most effective at weakening enemies rather than strengthening oneself.

However, this was true for other kings, but not for Rosen.

Because he holds the power of the world, and the power of the world itself is composed of countless powers, within the sphere of influence of the divine kingdom of kingship, his divine power of the world is more than a hundred times stronger, and his combat strength has increased by at least ten times, if not a hundred times.

Moreover, this is only at the combat level; the Divine Kingdom of Kings can also play a supporting role in wielding the power of rules.

Even if one only temporarily holds a power within the Kingdom of Gods and Kings, the difficulty of comprehending and mastering the rules and powers during that period is undoubtedly reduced by countless times. Those ancient kings would probably be ashamed to show their faces if they didn't master hundreds of rules and powers.

However, while royal power and authority are formidable, they also have a major flaw.

That is, if an ancient king wanted to become a true god, he needed to monopolize and control the laws of the kingdom.

The only known way for a deity to become a true god is to master the laws. While there are many ways to master the laws, the most common one is to kill all Sequence 0s that possess the same rule authority, and then monopolize the rule authority and sublimate it into a law.

Therefore, if an ancient king wanted to become a true god, the first thing he had to do was kill all the other ancient kings.

It's not hard to imagine that the decline of royal power in ancient times was likely related to civil war.

Rosen even suspected that the miracle characteristic of the King's Game might be related to the decline of royal power. The fact that the three true gods were so eager to play the King's Game might mean that it was the key to mastering the laws of royal power.

After all, it is very likely that only the holders of the four cards currently hold the reins of royal power.

If even royal power is like this, who knows how powerful the even stronger imperial power and the way it disappeared?

Having tasted the sweetness of victory, Rosen couldn't resist the urge to annihilate everything.

Sequence 2's Ten Directions Annihilation can instantly kill gods, and when combined with royal authority, it can also wipe out the divine kingdom.

It seems it's time to find a good opportunity to get rid of him and resolve the grudges between him and Sonia, as well as Daisy's second personality, who has been protected by Sonia all these years. Sonia should have foreseen her own fate if she hadn't killed him back then.

However, we still need to make full preparations beforehand, because the destruction of all directions may not necessarily kill Sonia.

Destroying Sonia's divine kingdom is not difficult, but if Sonia herself is not in the divine kingdom, if Sonia's divine avatar reveals the cause of her own death in time, and if someone suspects him, it will bring him great trouble.

He only wanted to get rid of Sonia, but he didn't want to be wanted and hunted by the World Government because of her.

(End of this chapter)