Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 320 The Shroud of Death and the Gatekeeper of the Spirit World

Chapter 319

In the magnificent royal palace, a winged gold coin suddenly appeared out of thin air.

This is the spirit messenger of the God of Pentacles, who delivered to Rosen the key to the spirit realm of the Abyss of Despair.

In some places deep within the abyss of despair, time falls into a peculiar state of chaos.

Time in the physical body will stop flowing, and then the thought time of the divine consciousness will accelerate infinitely. What may be a few days in the outside world may be thousands or thousands of years in the divine consciousness. When the acceleration of time at the consciousness level ends, a terrible backlash will inevitably follow.

Even gods cannot have their divine power only go out and not come in.

During the period of accelerated thinking when trapped in the abyss of despair and divine consciousness, the consumed divine power cannot be recovered. When the divine power contained in the divine origin is exhausted, out of the self-preservation instinct of the divine origin, it will inevitably squeeze the life source to replenish the consumed divine power.

Turning into mummies would be the least of their worries; many would be reduced to ashes.

After entering the Spirit Realm from the Glorious Kingdom, Rosen began his journey aboard the Void Destroyer transformed from the Wrath of the Dragon God.

He could use data transmission to reach a real-world area closer to the Spirit Realm of the Abyss of Despair before entering the Spirit Realm, but this would easily allow the True God of Star Coins to determine that he possessed the means of ultra-long-distance teleportation. Besides, if he went too early, the Spirit Realm wouldn't be open yet.

So it's better to go slowly, and you can hunt some spirit beings along the way.

Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the Dragon God's Wrath destroyer has already traveled more than half the distance.

Rosen had already realized that he had overlooked something: in the high-speed movement state of the Dragon God's Wrath, ordinary spirit beings simply could not keep up, and he could not stop and go as he pleased, so he had not gained anything after half a month.

Fortunately, it doesn't affect the creation of new skills, so the travel time won't be wasted.

As usual, Rosen continued to try to develop new painting skills that day.

Suddenly, the little fairy who had been playing nearby fell silent, shrieked, and darted onto Rosen's shoulder, waking him up.

Is there danger ahead?

As Rosen asked the question, he manipulated the Dragon God's Wrath destroyer to a sudden stop with a void flash.

As a messenger from the spirit world, the little fairy's perception abilities in the spirit world far surpass his.

He wouldn't suddenly lose control of his emotions and disturb him unless he sensed danger.

"There seems to be danger ahead, but there also seems to be no danger..."

The little fairy said uncertainly.

"Uncertainty means that danger is lurking and hidden."

As Rosen spoke, he activated the Ancient God's True Eye, his gaze sweeping across hundreds of miles ahead.

The anomaly was quickly detected; the space in the area was indeed unstable.

It was as if something was descending upon the surface of the spirit world from its depths.

Dragon God's Wrath, in its Void Destroyer form, unleashed a Space-Time Destruction Cannon that instantly locked onto the void ahead, shattering the space within a radius of dozens of miles. A corpse wrapped in tattered woven fabric fell from the depths of the Spirit Realm.

"The forbidden shroud of death in the spirit world..."

Rosen's pupils contracted sharply, and he instantly withdrew the Dragon God's Wrath and began data transmission.

He left with the wrath of the Dragon God, leaving behind a bronze dragon clone.

However, before the bronze dragon clone could attack the Death Shroud that was wrapped around the corpse, the tattered woven fabric called the Death Shroud abandoned the corpse it was originally wrapping and instantly wrapped around the bronze dragon clone. In the blink of an eye, the bronze dragon clone lost its life and turned into paint.

Rosen, who had successfully transmitted the data back to reality, still felt a lingering sense of suffocation as his bronze dragon clone died.

The Shroud of Death is one of the taboos of the spirit world that we should not provoke for the time being.

The so-called taboos of the spirit world consist of mysterious things that even world governments cannot solve or explain.

The Shroud of Death is one of them. Only true gods can survive by facing the Shroud of Death. Gods who encounter the Shroud of Death will only face death. No one knows the origin of this thing. It is only known that it drifts aimlessly in the spirit world.

Rosen didn't think he was that unlucky to run into the Shroud of Death while just traveling.

If he wasn't mistaken, the Shroud of Death was aimed at the Law of Death emanating from him.

Because when the bronze dragon clone was finally wrapped in the Shroud of Death, it clearly felt the power of the hidden law of death on its body, and a slight connection was formed with the Shroud of Death, so it is very likely that the Shroud of Death came to it on its own initiative.

Rosen remained in reality for a long time, but the Shroud of Death never came knocking.

Having only been in the spirit world for half a month, they've already come knocking on my door.

Furthermore, since there are no records of the Shroud of Death appearing in the real world, it is highly likely that this thing cannot leave the spirit world.

However, we still need to find a way to solve the problem; he can't stay away from the spirit world forever.

If they've come after us because of the Law of Death, then all we need to do is find a way to conceal the Law of Death.

Rosen immediately sealed all the power related to the laws of death within him through the Origin Star Core.

The resurrected bronze dragon clone was transmitted via data transfer to a kingdom in the real world near the coordinates it had just left. After entering the spirit world from there, it slowly approached the Shroud of Death. Sure enough, this time the Shroud of Death did not come looking for it.

Seeing that the method was working, Rosen continued his journey after entering the spirit world.

He can't do anything about the Shroud of Death right now, but once he becomes a god, he might be able to try sealing the Shroud of Death with the Origin Star Core, and then he'll be able to figure out the true nature of the Shroud of Death.

A few days later, the Dragon God's Wrath destroyer began to leave the surface of the spirit world and enter its deeper layers.

We are very close to the Abyss of Despair. The time around us has begun to show slight distortions. This is the effect of the time power within the Abyss of Despair spreading outwards. Without sufficient strength, one cannot even get close to the Abyss of Despair.

The entrance to the Abyss of Despair is a door, the portal to space and time of the extraordinary artifact of the true god level, the Boya.

If this door hadn't sealed the Abyss of Despair, the influence of this spiritual realm on the outside world would have been far greater.

In Boya's Time Gate, there is a Time Tower right next to it.

This time tower also has time acceleration inside. Countless beings want to create their own skills or comprehend and master the laws. This time tower can be said to be a rare holy land for cultivation. However, even the best time tower cannot compare to his extraordinary artifact, the Time Tower.

Even the Time Tower can't be superimposed on the Time Simplified Drawing now, so this Time Tower is even less likely to be.

After all, it's difficult to manipulate time through nested dolls, unless the outermost doll possesses far greater time-manipulation power than the innermost one.

The simplified time drawing contains the authority of time, so only the laws of time can be superimposed and reinforced with the simplified time drawing.

At this moment, in front of the open bottom gate of the Time Tower, sat a strange man fishing in the void.

This strange being has the body of a child, the face of an old person, yet possesses the life force of a middle-aged person, simultaneously embodying the three most typical stages of an ordinary person's life. Although it is merely a deity, it is definitely not an ordinary deity.
"Are you the gatekeeper?"

Rosen asked as he approached.

"You are special."

The gatekeeper looked at Rosen in amazement and exclaimed, "Your youthful and vigorous vitality, your mastery of the power of time, and your mastery of more than one time-related miracle skill—I never thought I would see such a brilliant gem before I die."

"You flatter me."

Rosen said modestly.

"Would you be interested in making a deal with me?"

The gatekeeper suddenly asked seriously.

"What deal?"

Rosen asked calmly.

"I'm giving you my entire inheritance, in exchange for doing me one thing..."

The gatekeeper put away his fishing rod and said, "If one day you master the laws of time, I will need you to resurrect me and give me a chance to live again. Of course, if you cannot do that by mastering the laws of time, then you can resurrect me when you become a great true god."

"I don't think I have a reason to refuse."

Rosen said after weighing the pros and cons.

"Fine, kill me now, and you'll get all my inheritance."

The goalkeeper made a suggestion that left Rosen speechless.

"This is too sudden. I need to know why, and I also need to know if there are any other hidden dangers?"

Rosen shook his head, expressing his concerns. The gatekeeper nodded, and a memory crystal ball appeared in his hand, copying a portion of his own memories.

After Rosen took it and examined it carefully, he discovered that the gatekeeper was actually a spirit from the legendary, extinct world.

What are spirit beings? They are the native humans born in the spirit world.

The spirits are not people who perished in the history of the spirit world's resurrection, but rather the original inhabitants of the spirit world. Initially, the world government attempted to include the spirits in the human category, but the spirits refused.

Moreover, the spirits stubbornly believe that the spirit world belongs only to them.

However, as soon as the war began, the Spirit World people were slaughtered in droves. In the end, something unknown happened to the Spirit World people that completely enraged the World Government. The World Government, which would not normally exterminate the Spirit World people, actually wiped them out completely.

The gatekeeper is the only living spirit, who uses special miraculous abilities to disguise himself as an ordinary human.

He dreamed of revenge, but after 20,000 years, he saw no hope whatsoever.

In order to gain immense power and resurrect his fallen kin, the gatekeeper has focused on cultivating the power of time from the very beginning, and he does indeed have a huge advantage in this regard, because he possesses a special time-related miracle skill—Life.

The miraculous skill of life allows one to split into three independent life entities.

These represent yourself as a child, as an old person, and as a person in your prime.

The three individuals can transform into three different extraordinary sequences, and then they can merge together. The gatekeeper transformed into three different golden sequences. After the trinity merged, it could rival the true god with the strength of a deity.

However, besides its positive benefits, this miraculous skill of life also has a terrifying negative miraculous characteristic.

Three independent entities, after merging, will result in a state of one main entity and two secondary entities.

Moreover, each possesses a different divine consciousness and personality, equivalent to a triple personality in a special state.

The gatekeeper, in child form, never forgets his identity as a spirit.

The gatekeeper, in his prime, was well aware of the World Government's power and did not want to fight against it head-on.

Then the old gatekeeper is no longer simply unwilling to seek revenge in his adult form; he wants to become completely human, to completely erase his child and adult forms, and to become the only independent individual.

The three forms become stronger with age, but the child form initially dominates.

Because the one who mastered the miraculous skill of life back then was the gatekeeper who hadn't grown up yet. The child form that controlled the main body of the miraculous skill of life suppressed the other two stages of himself within his body by his own power.

However, as the years passed, the gatekeeper gradually lost control over the two remaining versions of himself.

For the last thousand years, the gatekeeper in the form of a child has been searching for a solution.

In another hundred years or so, once the suppressed old form breaks free, it will definitely kill its own child form immediately.

At that moment, Rosen appeared, and the gatekeeper instinctively performed a divination and prophecy upon meeting him.

However, all methods failed. Even with the help of a treasure to temporarily elevate his divination and prophecy abilities to the level of a true god, he still couldn't see through Rosen's true nature. This made the gatekeeper realize that Rosen possessed the power of a great true god.

The gatekeeper's first thought was to kill and steal the treasure, but all the divination and prophecy failed.

Instead of killing Rosen, they will provoke a monster with unlimited potential.
After weighing the options, the goalkeeper decided to take a gamble. If he lost, he would only perish a century earlier; if he won, he would have a chance to start over. For the goalkeeper, this was the best option.

Rosen reached out and grabbed the gatekeeper, using the Origin Star Core to seal the gatekeeper who was actively cooperating with the sealing.

This gatekeeper is far more powerful than Eugene; even his Origin Star Core could barely seal the gatekeeper.

By reading all of the gatekeeper's memories through the chaotic starry river, Rosen confirmed that the gatekeeper was not lying.

He attacked the gatekeeper's divine essence directly through the source star core, destroying the gatekeeper's divine essence three times in a row before finally killing the gatekeeper. Without dropping any loot orbs, he began to sort through the gatekeeper's legacy.

The most important legacies are four Miracle Skill Crystals, three Divine Essences, one Divine Kingdom, and one Sequence 0 Miracle Treasure.

This doesn't even include the other miscellaneous treasures; the legacy left by the gatekeeper was so vast that even Rosen was astonished.

There are three divine ranks, each containing a noble sequence, as well as four extraordinary sequences: Time Hunter, Playwright, and Director.

The four miracle skill crystals are Life, Time Fishing, Time Script, and Persona.

Time Hunter is a transcendental skill naturally possessed by beings in the spirit world.

For Rosen, this might be an opportunity to advance his Hunter Rank further in the future.

Right now, he can also directly master the miraculous skill of time-space fishing, which originated from the time hunter.

As for time-travel scripts and personification, the former requires becoming a playwright to master this miraculous skill, while the latter can directly override the acting skills he already possesses. However, Rosen would never master the skill of personification, even if you beat him to death.

The reason why the elderly gatekeeper is so determined to become completely human is because he has mastered the miraculous skill of personification.

The assessment of this skill is to truly transform oneself from a personal level into the role being played.

The Gatekeeper is loyal to the World Government and deceived the true God of the World Government by impersonating a persona. Impersonation itself is not a big problem as long as it is not performed for a long time. However, when combined with the miracle skill Life, the side effects of both are amplified.

Therefore, Rosen does not intend to master the persona portrayal; he will keep it as a collection and seal it with the Origin Star Core if needed.

Life and time are the same; he doesn't need these miraculous skills.

It's worth considering whether we can use these unused Miracle Skill Crystals to exchange for the Miracle Skills he needs.

The gatekeeper possessed more than four miracle skills, but only four ultimately dropped.

Rosen collected the ones he didn't need and began to integrate the Time-Space Fishing Miracle Skill Crystal into his Hunter Rank.

Time Hunters, strictly speaking, are also a hunter sequence, but unlike the hunter sequence controlled by the World Government, which is centered on the law of hunting, Time Hunters are centered on time. They were then fused with the spatial authority by the Gatekeeper, successfully creating this miraculous skill.

As different branches of the Hunter sequence, the Time Hunter's strength surpasses that of the Silver sequence and reaches the Gold sequence.

If it weren't for the fact that only spirits can become Time Hunters, Rosen would have wanted to become a Time Hunter himself.

Fortunately, the skill of time-space fishing is still applicable and has been successfully integrated into the extraordinary source essence.

[Time-Traveling Fishing: A Miracle Skill]

[Passive Attribute: Able to integrate spacetime traps into different timelines]

[Active Attribute: Able to fish for prey that has fallen into a time-space trap in different time and space]

[Miracle Traits: Time-Space Fishing Rod, Unique in Heaven and Earth, Eternal and Undying]

Rosen activated the Miracle Property: Time-Space Fishing Rod. His control over time and space materialized into a fishing rod.

This fishing rod can greatly enhance the power of both powers, and even the fishing line and hook can transcend time and space. All prey successfully hooked by the hook can be caught across time and space, including even lives that have fallen in the past.

The gatekeeper originally created this miraculous ability with the intention of resurrecting his dead people.

He failed because he couldn't find any spirits in the past.

This made him realize that there might be a power at the level of a great true god that completely erased the traces of the spirit world's lives in the past timeline.

Rosen finally hung the Gatekeeper's divine kingdom on the World Tree, allowing the World Tree to devour it. This special divine kingdom, formed by the fusion of the divine kingdoms of three Sequence 0 nobles, was enough to allow the World Tree's growth rate to reach 80%.

This divine kingdom contains too many extraordinary resources with temporal and spatial attributes.

Rosen finally took out the miraculous artifact that the gatekeeper possessed, glanced at it, and prepared to toss it to Daisy.

【Life Puppet: Miracle Treasure】

[Level: Sequence 0]

[Miracle Attribute: The Puppet of Life can fuse with an extraordinary life form to gain a new life]

[Miracle Traits: Virtual Personality, Personality Reshaping, Uniqueness in Heaven and Earth, Eternal Immortality]

This is a terrifyingly miraculous treasure. When a life puppet merges with a deity, it can erase the deity's divine consciousness, create a new virtual personality, and ultimately reshape that personality, giving birth to a completely new life entity.

However, using a life puppet comes with a negative consequence: a new virtual personality will also be created within one's own body.

This is a treasure to psychologists, because only psychologists can master the puppet of life.

Rosen sorted through the gatekeeper's other relics, which included several low-level miracle treasures and several extraordinary artifacts of the highest sequence 0. However, none of these were suitable for his use, and their only value was in trading with others.

It will be two months before the Abyss of Despair opens, but the gatekeeper has already died at his hands.

Rosen took out the Void Sketchbook and quickly drew a lifelike gatekeeper.

As long as no one makes a move, no one can tell that the gatekeeper is an imposter.
(End of this chapter)