Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 298 The Horror Gallery and the Desperate Sonia
Chapter 297

In the Eternal Continent's Divine Paint City, very few painters reside there anymore.
Once a haven for artists, it has been almost entirely replaced by a horror theme park.

As the president of the Artists' Association, Sonia has been living in constant anxiety these past few years.

The rules of the painter were born, but she was not the one who mastered them.

Furthermore, Horror Paradise is about to transform into a painting of the True God Spirit Realm. In the painter community, this means that a painter who has reached the level of a True God has been born. The reason why he has not appeared in recent years is simply that he is perfecting the painting of Horror Paradise.

When the mysterious true god painter finishes the painting, how will she, a sequence 0 painter, conduct herself?

If she is an unknown human painter, that's fine. But if she is a painter from another race, not restricted by the World Government, then it would be too easy for them to do something to her by using the law to suppress the rules.

Sonia didn't want to gamble her future on a mysterious person who hadn't shown up.

As the horror park drew ever closer to the painting of the True God's Realm, she grew increasingly nervous, for this likely meant that the mysterious True God painter would soon finish his first painting after becoming a True God.

Sonia was frowning when she was suddenly startled.

Because of an extra line of text on her self-portrait.

I'll be waiting for you at the horror park...

Sonia looked at this line of text and realized that only those who master the laws of painting could do this.

After becoming a painter in sequence 0 and then the president of the Painters' Guild, she learned a secret that was absolutely forbidden to be revealed.

The Sequence Era: An Era of Despair.

In the supernatural systems prior to the Sequence Era, it was inevitable that a deity who mastered the rules of painting would fail when facing a true god who mastered the laws of painting, without the assistance of other forces. However, the deity who mastered the rules of painting possessed a strong ability to resist.

However, after the start of the Sequence Era, the True God Sequence rose above all other transcendents of the same sequence.

The true God who has mastered the laws of painting can easily destroy all spiritual paintings created by deities who hold the authority over painting.

This means that all extraordinary beings in the same sequence can only bow down and submit to the true god.

One reason the World Government forbids the birth of true gods from the four Gold Sequences is that this secret must not be known to the world.

If this gets out, humanity's superhuman system will collapse, and countless superhumans will rebel in anger.

Because no extraordinary being would willingly spend their entire life cultivating only to be manipulated at will by a true god.

Sonia's worst fears have finally come true.

If she hadn't gone to the horror park, her spiritual paintings would probably have been destroyed one by one.

……

In the horror park, Rosen sat atop the Ferris wheel, observing Sonia through the Hunter's Eye.

Seeing her terrified expression, Rosen couldn't help but chuckle.

The fundamental laws governing the extraordinary sequence—the true gods who master these laws indeed have absolute dominion over the same sequence.

However, he is not a true god, so theoretically he can destroy Sonia's spiritual paintings through the Ancient Tree of Laws, but in reality he can only destroy the spiritual paintings of Sequence 1 painters at most. If he wants to completely suppress Sonia, even if he has mastered the laws of painting, he still needs to become a Sequence 1.

Being able to leave a message on Sonia's self-portrait under the protection of her divine kingdom is already close to his current limit.

However, Sonia was unaware of these things, so being frightened was within his expectations.

If Sonia is forced into the Horror Paradise, whether it's the real Sonia or her divine clone, she's doomed.

……

After making all the necessary preparations, Sonia ultimately decided to enter the Horror Park as a divine avatar.

Nowadays, there are two ways for painters to enter the horror park.

The first way is to master the Mind Canvas, which will naturally allow you to enter the Horror Paradise. The Horror Paradise already has tens of thousands of mysterious scenes, each with different mysterious rules. Just like the Divine Paint City, countless painters are vying for control of the mysterious scenes.

The second way is to draw a copy of the horror park, and then you can enter the horror park through the copy.

Regardless of the login method, as long as you thoroughly conquer a mysterious scene, you are qualified to modify the mysterious scene and redefine the mysterious rules.

The benefits of gaining complete control over a mysterious scene are astonishing.

The entertainment mode allows you to invite others to experience a horror game with eerie scenes.

Kill Mode allows you to pull enemies into mysterious scenarios using a mental canvas and eliminate them using unseen rules.

The entertainment mode, also known as the management mode, allows players to earn a large amount of in-game currency by managing the mysterious scenes. This currency can then be traded in the shop of the horror park for various valuable artifacts and treasures for the painter.

Although the horror park is very large, it is still too small compared to the number of painters.

Therefore, in the past, only a few high-ranking painters could control terrifying scenes.

However, since Horror Park merged with the Source of Evil God formed by the Law of Illusion, all the eerie scenes have gained the ability to project infinitely. Ordinary painters cannot occupy the original eerie scenes, but they can spend game coins to buy illusory eerie scenes.

Although the phantom version is not as good as the original version, it can still set up mysterious rules with about 60-70% effectiveness.

Sonia has done in-depth research on Horror Park, and she even runs the only Sequence 0 Mysterious Scene in Horror Park.

She has tried more than once to seize ownership of the horror park through this eerie setting.

However, all attempts have failed so far, though I have earned a considerable amount of in-game currency as a result.

After logging into Horror Park, Sonia appeared at the eerie scene horror gallery she ran, just like always.

Ironically, among the various methods she has mastered in the painter's sequence, the Horror Gallery is currently her strongest.

While Sonia waited anxiously, Rosen had already quietly arrived at the Horror Gallery.

He owns the primary rights to all the eerie scenes in the horror park; other artists can only use them.

Ownership is greater than usage rights, so Sonia didn't even realize he had entered the Horror Gallery.

The entire Horror Gallery contains countless paintings, each depicting a mysterious scene from the Horror Park. Any being pulled into the gallery will have its mysterious rules activated upon seeing any painting, and will automatically generate multiple personalities that are then projected into the world within the painting.

The Horror Gallery contains tens of thousands of paintings; viewing them all would generate tens of thousands of terrifying personality clones.

In the end, all the personality clones will meet in pairs, and only one will survive while the other will inevitably die.

There are two criteria for death: suicide and murder.

Suicide is considered voluntary fusion, while being murdered is considered forced fusion.

Voluntary fusion allows fragments of each other's memories to be combined, while forced fusion will permanently erase the memories of the deceased.

The question is, if you suddenly see a stranger version of yourself, how many personalities would be willing to commit suicide to fulfill the other's wishes?

"Let me see your strength."

In a flash, Rosen dragged Sonia's divine avatar into the eerie scene of the Horror Gallery.

"Let me see your strength. I'll be waiting for you outside..."

Sonia suddenly heard a voice in her ear.

Then, in a flash, you find yourself at the entrance to the Horror Gallery.

Her face instantly darkened. The horror gallery she had painstakingly built had been taken from her in the blink of an eye, and she was now trapped in its clutches. Fortunately, she knew the gallery's mysterious rules very well, even though she wasn't confident she could leave alive.

When Sonia saw the first painting, she instantly felt that a part of her memory was missing.

Fortunately, her memory is vast enough that even when broken down into tens of thousands of parts, she can still maintain sufficient rationality and wisdom.

If this were someone below demigod level, their memories would be split into tens of thousands of parts, resulting in a personality clone that would be completely stupid.

A few hours later, Sonia went to the end of the gallery to look at the last painting.

At this point, Sonia had already forgotten that she was in the Horror Gallery.

The Horror Gallery not only splits life's memories into different personalities, but the splitting process also gradually makes people forget all related memories of the Horror Park. Therefore, each personality clone sees themselves as inexplicably trapped in various mysterious scenes.

No matter how long it takes to complete the game in the mysterious scene, the time it takes to leave the mysterious scene will be perfectly synchronized. Then, in pairs, they will simultaneously walk out alive from the paintings in the gallery.

Although each mysterious scene was dangerous, the difficulty was not fatal for Sonia's Sequence 1 divine avatar.

But after finally escaping the dangerous and eerie scene, you suddenly see an exact replica of yourself on the other side?

Any normal living being suddenly seeing another version of themselves on the other side.

My first reaction was that I was real and the other person was fake.

Because different personality clones inherit different memory fragments, their behavioral patterns are also very different.

Some people are cautious and rational; in such situations, they will try to contact the other party to ask for clarification before making a decision.

However, some of the personality clones carry fragments of Sonia's angry and suspicious memories. These personality clones are almost impossible to communicate with properly. The first priority is to capture the imposter alive, and then decide whether it is real or fake.

However, once action is taken, it constitutes a forced fusion of personality clones.

The essence of multiple personality disorder is actually the combination of different memory fragments from the subconscious mind.

The more fragments of memory disappear during forced fusion, the less complete a person's core personality becomes.

This horror gallery wasn't Sonia's work alone; Daisy also played a crucial role in its creation.

As a psychologist, Daisy was well aware of the suspiciousness and selfishness of intelligent life.

Intelligent beings with a spirit of sacrifice are always in the minority. Even if Sonia's personality clones discover that they are real and have different personalities, they will hesitate at such times. Why should they sacrifice themselves instead of the other?
Therefore, Sonia who commits suicide to fulfill the other party's wishes is a very small minority; the majority of Sonia chooses to kill the other party and then merge with them.

Especially when the teams are divided into pairs, the Horror Gallery will deliberately create a situation where one is strong and the other is weak.

The different Sonias are not equal in strength.

The more dangerous the eerie scenes in the painting she experiences, the stronger the personality clone of Sonia becomes.

And when paired up, there is always one strong and one weak.

The strong can easily kill the weak, so the surviving personality clones are even less likely to sacrifice themselves for the other.

As a result, Sonia's personality clones became fewer and fewer, and she lost more and more memories permanently.

In the end, only one remained, and Sonia had lost more than 90% of her memories.

At this moment, all the memories of the previously blocked horror park returned. Realizing that her memories had suffered a major loss, Sonia was not nervous. Her horror park was almost unsolvable, but its lethality rate was zero.

If the real person were to enter, losing 90% of their memories would render them completely useless.

However, if it's a clone that enters, then all that's needed is for the original body to copy a memory over to restore everything to its original state.

This is why Sonia wasn't panicked at all after falling into the Horror Gallery.

The moment she left the Horror Gallery, she contacted the original body. At this time, the original body obviously could not personally set foot in the Horror Paradise, so the original body chose to send a new divine clone and then synchronize its memories with the clone that had lost its memories.

As a painter of Sequence 0, Sonia has a divine avatar composed of three self-portrait clones.

Unbeknownst to her, she already had two divine avatars enter the horror park.

"It's time to make a move..."

Almost instantly, Rosen also threw Sonia's second divine avatar into the Horror Gallery.

As for the first divine clone with severely missing memories, he easily captured it alive.

As the main body made its move, his bronze dragon clone, through data transmission, suddenly descended upon Sonia's divine kingdom, carrying the empty shell of the divine domain that had been cleared of its buildings. The moment it descended, it unleashed the Ten Directions Annihilation technique from the divine domain.

At this moment, Sonia herself is in the divine realm, but her mind is focused on the horror park.

Suddenly attacked by the Ten Directions Annihilation, before she could react, the core of her divine kingdom was already enveloped by the divine domain and began to collapse in dimensions. She desperately tried to escape, even using all her spiritual paintings, but she could not escape the dimensional reduction of spacetime and the Ten Directions Annihilation.

In the blink of an eye, a hole with a radius of 950 miles appeared in Sonia's divine realm.

Everything within this scope has been reduced to zero-dimensional space by the Ten Directions Annihilation and perished together.

The bronze dragon's avatar reclaimed the divine realm, which had collapsed into zero dimensions, and began capturing all life within the Sonia Divine Kingdom.

Believers cannot be spared; once captured, they will all be executed.

Ordinary citizens can stay, but they will not have the opportunity to leave the Ancient God Realm in the future.

Sonia herself was instantly killed, and her two divine avatars were trapped in the horror park.

Only one divine avatar survived, and this divine avatar had been sent by Sonia to Wendy's divine realm.

Even though both are Sequence 0, Shifang Jumie can ambush and instantly kill Sonia, but it may not be able to instantly kill Wendy with 100% certainty.

One of them is a newcomer to Sequence 0, while the other has been at the peak of Sequence 0 for a long time.

Since he couldn't kill the last divine avatar, Rosen decided to frame someone else.

He chose to make Wendy the murderer. When his bronze dragon avatar descended upon the Kingdom of Sonia, it perfectly transformed into Wendy's appearance through the recombination of the life gene map. No matter how the true god rewinds time, the murderer he sees will always be Wendy.

In order to completely smear the blame, Rosen even fabricated information about the argument between the two parties through the deep web of the spirit world.

That wasn't enough; he also captured Sonia's severely damaged divine avatar. He would use this divine avatar's name to announce that Wendy was the one who killed her. This would make it much harder for Wendy to clear her name.

Because the original body died so quickly and was instantly killed, Sonia's last divine avatar didn't even know how the original body died.

Will Sonia, who is as easily frightened as a bird, believe Wendy's explanation, or the last words of the other divine avatars?

The entire frame-up plot succeeded thanks to two key factors.

The true form of a deity and its divine avatars are too far apart to easily synchronize their memories.

Even if memories could be synchronized, it would be the original body synchronizing with the clone's memories. The clone could not synchronize with the original body's memories because the clone was much weaker than the original body. If the clone possessed all of the original body's memories, wouldn't all of the original body's secrets be known after the clone was captured alive?

The value of a clone lies in its being a consumable; since it is a consumable, its loss should not endanger the original.

Therefore, as long as Sonia's true form is killed instantly, her clone will not know the memories of her true form before her death.

Sonia herself believed she was very safe in the divine realm, and of course, she wouldn't be idle and constantly synchronize her memories with her third divine avatar. Therefore, this divine avatar was very likely unaware that the other two divine avatars had entered the horror park.

In this situation, would Sonia's final divine avatar believe the dying words of the other avatars or Wendy's explanation?
Whether you believe it or not, Wendy and Sonia's relationship will suffer a fatal rift.

Anyway, no one will suspect Rosen, since he only appears to be a Sequence 3. Even if someone knows he has become a Sequence 2, they would need clues and evidence to suspect him. There is nothing, so the Noble Council would never offend the King of Star Coins to target him.

Sonia herself was killed, and only one of her three clones survived.

This attack shocked the world government's top brass because it took place on the Eternal Continent.

Today Sonia was assassinated in the kingdom of God; will it be the turn of other gods tomorrow?

The gods will be restless until the murderer is found.

Wendy was cleared of suspicion after several investigations, but the relationship between Wendy and Sonia inevitably developed cracks.

Sonia's clone is only Sequence 1. Even with the help of the divine kingdom, it is not an easy task to reshape her divinity. In addition, Sonia now feels unsafe even in her own divine kingdom and can only hide in the Eternal City, the main city of the World Government, all day long.

For a dignified deity to be reduced to this state, Sonia felt that living was worse than dying.

She sat blankly by the roadside in the Eternal City, feeling that everyone on the street was looking at her strangely.

She knew she was overthinking things, but she had truly been driven to a dead end.

She wanted to re-establish her divine status, but dared not return to her own divine kingdom to clean up the mess.

He wanted to side with Wendy, but his previous suspicions had already offended her.

Not to mention there are lurking assassins capable of instantly killing her; she can't hide in the Eternal City forever.

After calming down, Sonia made a difficult decision.

With her divine perception logging into the deep web of the spirit world, Sonia gritted her teeth and began to contact Daisy. However, she wasn't contacting Daisy's second personality, but rather Annika, Daisy's third personality clone, whom she had betrayed in Shentu City.

(End of this chapter)