Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 306 The Devil's Contract and the Fruit of Life and Death

Chapter 305

From his room balcony at the Oasis Hotel, Rosen looked out the window at Duke Morrison's divine domain.

Although the Divine Realm only has one exit that has been transformed into a potion shop, the Divine Realm hidden deep within the shop's space holds no secrets from his God-Hunting Demon Eye. He can see the entire Divine Realm clearly.

The lord's castle hides over a hundred spirit realms, with a total population exceeding one hundred million.

For veteran demigods, the population within the Spirit Realm isn't actually that large.

However, in reality, there would not be this many people in a normal demigod's territory.

Because ordinary demigods simply cannot support so many subjects, especially since the demigods who settle in Oasis City are all here to retire. Usually, a divine realm territory with several million subjects is considered a lot. It's not that they can't afford to support more, it's just that there's no need.

Rosen's gaze kept shifting, and soon he spotted a deeply hidden spiritual realm within the lord's castle.

This spiritual realm was located inside a book. If the book hadn't been open at the time, and people hadn't been constantly bringing things into it, it wouldn't have been easy for him to discover this deeply hidden spiritual realm.

Looking at the words and symbols on the book, Rosen was certain that the book came from hell.

Data transmission occurred, and Rosen instantly appeared in the castle dungeon where the book was located.

Other demigods could not possibly infiltrate the castle of a lord of the divine realm without being discovered.

However, Rosen had the wolf totem to enhance his stealth, and Duke Morrison's divine perception couldn't cover the entire divine territory at all times, so he didn't notice that someone had infiltrated the castle dungeon.

Rosen examined the goods closely and discovered that they were all paintings.

It's not a painting by an artist, but it still contains space.

His divine perception quietly seeped into a painting, in which he saw many sleeping old people.

Unsurprisingly, these elderly people were sacrifices offered to the devil.

The devil enjoys devouring the souls of the elderly. The elderly are wise, and their souls contain the knowledge and life experiences they have gained throughout their lives. Devouring the souls of the elderly makes the devil more cunning, granting him greater wisdom and increasing power.

They would sacrifice all the elderly to the devil, and it would take hundreds of millions of people to satisfy his appetite.

It's likely that the weakest of the demons worshipped by the Morrison family are Sequence 0 deities.

However, it was definitely not a god in perfect condition, otherwise there would be no need for it to hide in Oasis City.

Having found his target, Rosen immediately deployed his divine domain.

His divine realm was comparable to Sequence 0, and with the authority of the world, he easily suppressed Duke Morrison's divine realm. Duke Morrison, enraged and rebellious, was dragged into the Shadow Realm by several Sequence 2 Shadow Demons who had lurked around him.

The entire Divine Prison territory offered no effective resistance and was completely suppressed by Rosen's troops.

Rosen warily stared at the demonic book containing the world within, when suddenly the book began to etherealize and attempt to escape.

However, the escape attempt failed due to the blockade of the divine realm. After the devil's book closed, a human face suddenly appeared on the cover, spitting out devilish curses. However, before these curses could get close, Rosen used his royal power to plunder them and pull them into the royal treasury.

No matter how the devilish books resisted in the Royal Treasury, they could not escape the Royal Treasury's seal and refinement.

This book is not about the devil, but rather a devil's contract crafted from materials made from devils and deities.

The book contains the true names of demons hunted and captured by demon hunters. They can use the Demon Contract to summon and control those demons whose true names are recorded. However, with the destruction of the underworld and the annihilation of demons, the true names of the demons in this Demon Contract are no longer useful.

The Devil's Contract is now just an unclaimed, extraordinary artifact.

Duke Morrison did not actually believe in the devil. Instead, he wanted to feed the devil's contract through sacrifices, thereby gaining the devil's power and advancing his own power. The devil worshipped by the direct descendants of the Morrison family was actually Duke Morrison himself, a fake devil.

Duke Morrison is only a Sequence 3; refining a Sequence 0 extraordinary artifact is not so easy.

However, for Rosen, refining the Devil's Contract was not difficult at all.

After gaining complete control of the Devil's Contract, Rosen immediately wrote the true names of all the troops in his territory on the Devil's Contract, and even had the troops in the territory infuse their true names with divine essence, further strengthening the Devil's Contract's control over the true names.

The Devil's Contract, which was originally in a weakened state, has been restored to its peak condition in the blink of an eye.

The Devil's Contract has three core abilities: contract, curse, and wish.

The contract is used to sign a devil's pact with intelligent beings; the curse is used to punish intelligent beings who break the contract; and finally, the wish is used to fulfill the wishes of the contracting party when signing the contract. No matter what the wish is, as long as the price is sufficient, the wish can be fulfilled.

Even wishing to become a true god can be fulfilled as long as the price is high enough.

Of course, it couldn't be a permanent true god. It could be a true god for a second, or it could be called a true god but actually a special realm classification of a small civilization. The devil's ability to deceive in terms of contracts is unmatched in the entire main plane.

Rosen signed a devil's contract with his troops, so of course he wouldn't tamper with the contents of the contract.

Instead, they take advantage of the opportunity to sign the contract, using the condition that the souls and divine essence of the dead soldiers belong to the devil's contract, in exchange for a powerful wish effect to strengthen the Flesh Hell attached to the Flesh Hell Tree.

It was only then that Rosen realized that the Devil's Contract's wish-granting ability actually consumed the power of the underworld.

Although the underworld was destroyed, a large number of remnants were occupied by the intelligent evil god.

Therefore, this batch of devil contracts directly led to the further loss of the remaining essence of the remnants of hell.

This allowed the wise and evil gods dwelling in the ruins of hell to discover immediately that someone was signing devilish contracts on a large scale.

However, they could not stop the flow of the origin of hell, because the contract and the effect of the wish of the devil's contract were rooted in hell itself and were rules established by the strong among the great true gods. Therefore, even the true gods could not prevent the signing of the contract.

Left with no other choice, the Wise Evil God could only trace the devil's contract back to the source of hell.

However, the Devil's Contract was in the Ancient God Realm, and no matter how the Wise Evil God tried to track it down, he could not find it.

Rosen, seeing that he could exploit the remnants of hell through his wish-granting ability, almost made all his followers sign the devil's pact.

However, he eventually terminated the contract because he discovered that the devil's contract was not all benefits. The power of the devil's contract would continuously corrupt the consciousness of the signatory, gradually drawing the signatory closer to the devil. Ordinary believers simply could not resist the corruption of their consciousness by the devil's contract.

However, after some experimentation, Rosen did discover a method for creating fallen angels.

He voluntarily signed an extremely harsh contract with a celestial soldier, then made the angel break the contract, and then used the devil's contract to reclaim the angel's soul and divine essence. In the end, the angel's soul actually absorbed the essence of hell in the space inside the book, and was resurrected as a fallen angel.

Its overall strength is not much stronger than before, but the Fallen Angel's healing ability has turned into a curse ability.

Rosen immediately trained a group of fallen angels before continuing to develop the painter's self-created skills.

Several months later, he made considerable progress, but he could no longer continue his solitary cultivation.

Because the Black Sandstorm of Death is coming soon, if we miss the opportunity, we will have to wait until next year to enter the sealed space of the Mother Tree of Life.

That evening, Gavin, who had been preparing for months, paid a visit to the Oasis Hotel.

Under the witness of the contract spirit, both parties signed this cooperation agreement.

Rosen also secretly used the Ancient God's True Eye to reveal the secrets, lowering the upper limit of his divinity to 91 points. He successfully discovered Gavin's deepest secret. Sure enough, Gavin was hiding something; his intention was not simply to remove the curse.

The moment darkness fell completely, all the plants in Oasis City withered and died.

At this time, even demigods would not easily leave the divine realm, because the curse of Oasis City would reach its peak at this time, and even the domain of a demigod would find it difficult to completely offset the curse of the night. Therefore, at night, only mechanical puppets could be seen coming and going on the streets of Oasis City.

However, there are no mechanical golems today, because the deadly black sandstorm is about to descend tonight.

Rosen and Gavin left the Oasis Hotel without a sound, and then took off vertically outside the city.

Normally, after ascending to an altitude of 10,000 meters, you will be randomly teleported to the edge of the Death Desert.

So, after approaching an altitude of nearly 10,000 meters, Gavin took out a fresh branch. This was a branch of the Ancient Tree of Life. After activating its essence and enveloping the two of them, the Life Mother Tree Law Divine Realm of the Death Desert would mistake them for elves. As long as the altitude did not exceed 30,000 meters, they would not be randomly teleported to the edge of the Death Desert.

At this time, a deadly black sandstorm began to appear in the sky.

However, the intensity is not very high yet, and the deadly black sandstorm will become stronger over time.

Rosen could see very clearly that more and more powerful vengeful spirits were appearing out of nowhere at an altitude of 30,000 meters. Because of these vengeful spirits, the ordinary sandstorm turned into a deadly black sandstorm. The entrance to the sealed space was right where those vengeful spirits first appeared.

After waiting for two full hours, Gavin took the lead and rushed towards the source of the deadly black sandstorm.

Rosen followed behind Gavin, unleashing his World Domain to block the bites of countless vengeful spirits.

In the blink of an eye, the two had entered an invisible spatial rift, which was filled with vengeful spirits. Rosen was able to easily block them, but Gavin almost risked his life to barely pass through the spatial rift and arrive in a terrifying world inhabited by countless vengeful spirits.

Gavin immediately put away the branches of the Ancient of Life and activated the Ghost Cloak he had put on beforehand.

The nearby vengeful spirits immediately stopped attacking, and Gavin, disguised as a ghost, carefully hid.

The Ghost Cloak can disguise one as a ghost, but at most it is immune to attacks from low-level vengeful spirits at the edge of the sealed space. If one wants to penetrate deeper into the sealed space, no disguise will be of any use. Therefore, the only way to penetrate deeper into the sealed space is to fight one's way out head-on.

Rosen expanded his world domain, and at that moment, Mount Paradise within the divine realm merged into the domain.

Any vengeful spirit that enters the area will be instantly killed by the angels' concentrated fire.

Rosen charged recklessly and soon arrived at the center of the sealed space.

Here stands a colossal tree, entirely black, though it appears to have no physical form. Its exterior is composed of the vengeful spirits formed from the souls of countless elves, while its core is a solid black heartwood, from which only a faint green light emanates.

Rosen realized that the Mother Tree of Life's self-sealing had failed to save itself.

Over the long years, although the Mother Tree of Life has been constantly expelling the curse, it has only delayed its own demise. Now, the Mother Tree of Life has most likely completely lost its self-awareness and is left with only instincts. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for it not to have discovered Gavin's infiltration.

Rosen opened the door to the mysterious study and released the roots of the World Tree through the Window of the World.

Then, the roots of the World Tree were allowed to ignore the terrifying curse and plunge into the heart of the Mother Tree of Life.

Countless vengeful spirits frantically tried to stop the roots of the World Tree from penetrating the tree's core. However, once the roots actually penetrated the core, all the vengeful spirits suddenly stopped attacking. The core didn't even need the roots to actively extract the tree's essence; instead, it began to actively channel its own essence into the World Tree.

The World Tree is the source of all life, and it has a natural dominance over plant life.

Without the World Tree, Rosen wouldn't dare covet the Mother Tree of Life.

Even if such a terrifying being at the peak of true godhood is left with only one breath, they still have the ability to launch a last-ditch counterattack. Otherwise, how could so many true gods not join forces to seal the space? They are simply worried about being dragged down with the Mother Tree of Life.

Rosen doesn't need to worry about these things, because he is the only savior of the Mother Tree of Life.

The World Tree is not afraid of any energy pollution. Over the years, it has tried to absorb even the doomsday curse and turn it into nutrients. Of course, the absorption is extremely slow and inefficient, but this also means that no curse can threaten the World Tree.

Therefore, these terrible death curses that took the life of the Mother Tree are nothing more than indigestible food for the World Tree.

If the Mother Tree of Life wants to live, it will definitely cooperate obediently with the World Tree.

A few hours later, the heart of the Mother Tree of Life had been 99% absorbed by the World Tree.

Only the core remains, with one black-skinned tree species preserved.

This tree species resisted the absorption of the World Tree because the dormant consciousness of the Mother Tree of Life had awakened.

Without having to exert all their strength to resist the curse of death, the Mother Tree of Life, though extremely weak due to the loss of its heart, has regained its senses.

With the knowledge of the Mother Tree of Life, she instantly recognized that it was the World Tree that had saved her.

Moreover, it is an immature World Tree. If this World Tree had no master, the Mother Tree of Life would definitely have immediately joined the World Tree. But the problem is that this World Tree clearly has an owner, and the pride of the Mother Tree of Life makes her unwilling to become an appendage of a human.

However, sensing its own state, the Mother Tree of Life finally had no choice but to relinquish its pride.

If death were so easy, it wouldn't have survived until now.

As the tree species were absorbed into the World Tree, and with the active cooperation of the Mother Tree of Life, the World Tree's speed of digesting the Mother Tree of Life's essence increased dramatically. Soon, two World Fruits were growing simultaneously on the top of the World Tree.

The first one contains a powerful force of death, and the second one contains a powerful force of life.

The two world fruits were nearing maturity, but stopped growing at the last moment.

The World Tree can only grow a maximum of nine World Fruits, which can create nine new laws. The laws of death and life already exist in the main world. If two World Fruits are allowed to generate the laws of death and life, the World Tree will become an appendage of the main world.

The main world can, in turn, control the life and death of the World Tree through two laws.

This was something Rosen could not accept at all, so he began to make the World Tree generate new laws according to his will.

The two worlds began to merge forcibly, giving birth to the cycle of laws that did not exist in the main world.

At the moment the Law of Reincarnation was born, Rosen felt an unprecedented terror.

In the Old World, the entire continent began to tremble violently.

At this moment, blood rain began to fall throughout the main world. The newly formed Law of Reincarnation, which was originally meant to be integrated into the main world, was forcibly expelled by the main world. Like the old Law of Flesh and Blood, the Law of Reincarnation also became a law that was not recognized by the main world.

However, due to the backlash from the main world, the World Fruit that the World Tree had just merged with was once again split in two.

The laws of life and death are born simultaneously in the two worlds.

However, the laws of life and death within this World Fruit are different from the two laws of the main world. They are more like the laws of flesh and blood of the Flesh and Blood World Fruit, originating from the old laws of the previous ancient god era.

Among them, the Life World Fruit matured completely first, and Rosen's control over the world's power reached 47%.

Once the fruit of death matures, the degree of control will inevitably exceed 50%.

Rosen raced against time to take out the prepared Sequence 6 Miracle Treasure, the Ash Emblem, and quickly integrated it into the extraordinary essence of the Miracle Sequence.

If the fusion had been delayed any longer, his miracle sequence would have been permanently missing.

It seems that when feeding the World Tree, one must be careful not to let it eat too much at once.

Ash Crest: Miracle Sequence

[Level: Sequence 6]

[Miracle Attribute: The Ash Emblem can be perfectly concealed under the protection of the ashes of the apocalypse and can control the Ash Curse]

Miracle Ability: Eye of Ash

Rosen sensed the change in the Miracle attribute; this Ash Curse was a very special curse.

It's not targeted at living organisms, but at an entire civilization.
If he casts the Curse of Ashes on a civilization, that civilization will suffer various calamities, the intensity of which depends on his strength. This is the only ability with a damaging effect that has been created so far in the Miracle Sequence.

Just as the Miracle Sequence was advancing, the Death World Fruit was also fully ripe on the other side.

Rosen sensed the interiors of the two World Fruits. Inside the Life World Fruit, a Sequence 0 Mother Tree of Life had been born. Inside the Death World Fruit, there was a desert filled with the curse of death. Even a true god would be cursed to death by the death curse if he ventured into this desert for too long.

Finally, looking at his 59% control over the world's authority, he began to worry about how the World Tree would continue to grow.

Rosen manipulated the World Tree's world domain to merge with the divine realm. The desert inside the Death World Fruit merged with the divine realm, and this desert immediately began to absorb countless vengeful spirits from the sealed space. The sealed space also began to collapse little by little.

(End of this chapter)