Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 339 The Arcane Emperor and the Soul Substitute

Chapter 338

High above the Spirit Realm, thousands of giant eagles circled and guarded the entire Spirit Realm.

In the clouds lies a sky city, where the giant eagle deity of the Sky Eagle Civilization is watching the deadly battle of the Sea Serpent Clan in the arena.

At the same time, deep underground in a subterranean lake, the gods of the sea serpent race were also devouring a giant eagle that was howling on a grill.

Freshly torn wings are not only delicious when roasted, but the torn wings can also regenerate.

According to the sea serpent deity, the giant eagle race of the Sky Eagle Civilization was naturally suited for barbecuing.

The two races' true gods may not have any life-or-death hatred, but their two civilizations have long been mortal enemies.

Now the two gods are forced to live in a small spiritual realm and cannot leave. They are mortal enemies but cannot fight each other. As time goes by, they can't stand each other anymore, and eventually they start fighting in a different form.

That is to torture and kill each other's clansmen, and then see who can't hold back and make a move first.

The giant eagle god was not difficult to deal with, because he only had one divine avatar.

This is also the choice of the vast majority of gods, because although divine avatars are good, they need to occupy the upper limit of divine origin. The more divine avatars a god cultivates, the weaker the god becomes in the Sequence 0 stage, and the weaker the strength of a single divine avatar also becomes.

Usually, creating one divine avatar is enough to ensure that either the original or the divine avatar remains in the divine realm.

After all, a divine kingdom is the lair of the gods, and if it is a race, there will be many divine kingdoms of gods watching over each other.

If the true god of light had been more cautious, hadn't recklessly left his divine kingdom to descend, or had possessed a second divine avatar, he wouldn't have been instantly annihilated by the Ten Directions Annihilation. Now, he can only rely on the faith of his believers to slowly revive over the long years.

Rosen was confident he could defeat the Great Eagle God instantly, the key being that the Great Eagle God's divine realm was under the influence of the Astral Plane and the Network of Gods.

Therefore, he was able to descend and steal the base through data transmission, and was confident that he could simultaneously deal with both the main body and the clone of the Giant Eagle God.

However, the sea serpent god is a bit troublesome, as this sea serpent god has a total of eight divine avatars.

Based on the calculation that one divine clone can be created from one point of divine essence, this sea serpent deity used almost all of its divine essence in the Sequence 0 stage to create divine clones, causing the strength of the original body to plummet to its lowest point in the Sequence 0 stage.

It's likely that among all the gods in the main world, this sea serpent god would rank near the bottom.

However, the corresponding sea serpent deity has an extraordinary survival ability. According to the observations of the God-Hunter Demon Eye, some of the sea serpent deity's divine avatars are in their own divine kingdoms, some are in the divine kingdoms of the true sea serpent god, some are in the abyss, and some are even hiding on the edge of some forbidden zones and sealing themselves away.

Just how afraid of death and how much do you value your life to go to this extent?

To deal with the Sea Serpent God and prevent him from warning the Sea Serpent True God before being captured alive, we must simultaneously eliminate both the Sea Serpent God's main body and his eight divine avatars. Even with data transmission, it won't work, because some of the divine avatars are not within the coverage area of ​​the five major networks.

"Looks like I'll have to put in some effort..."

Rosen used data transmission to send away the combatants around him.

The list includes: Yinglong's clone, Death God's clone, Cataclysmic Apostle, Gluttonous Mind Beast, Seven Deadly Sins Mind Beast, Imaginary Dragon, Sequence 1 Angel who wields the treasure of the true god of light, Leader of the Angels of Death, and finally, the Necromancer Queen who has already been promoted to Sequence 1.

At the same time, they split into nine groups and captured a total of nine divine avatars of the Sea Serpent God and the Giant Eagle God in one fell swoop.

As for the two original individuals, Rosen had no choice but to handle it himself.

Two weeks later, all the personnel had arrived at the prey's location and were lying in wait, ready to make their move at any time.

Everything is ready now; all that's left is to reap the rewards of victory.

The divine kingdom of Wangquan is the spiritual realm beneath one's feet.

Royal decrees, information blockade within the divine realm.

If a king declares war, anyone who chooses to flee will have their own destiny suppressed.

Royal law stipulates that attacking the king is punishable by death.

The will of the monarchy, which intimidates the spirituality of all life in the divine kingdom of the monarchy, weakens its combat power.

Rosen finally produced the Glorious Map. Because the Spirit Realm had been temporarily transformed into the Kingdom of Kings, a map of the Spirit Realm appeared out of thin air on the Glorious Map.

Activate the Royal Judgment, a Royal Judgment that merges with the Law of Death, and lock onto the Sea Serpent God to begin the trial.

Royal trials, which incorporate different legal principles, produce varying outcomes.

The fusion of the Thunder Law means being struck by lightning and killed; the fusion of the Fire Law means being burned alive.

To merge with the laws of death is to strip life from both the physical and divine levels.

The sea serpent deity, who was eating roasted birds in the underground world, suddenly felt his life essence extinguished and his divine essence decay before he could even discard the oily wings in his hands due to the sudden change.

Even a powerful royal judgment could not kill the sea serpent god instantly.

After all, even the weakest sea serpent deity is still a deity, and possesses numerous life-saving and substitution skills.

Although the Sea Serpent God's shield was not as strong as Rosen's spear, it was still enough to offer some protection and allow him to save himself.

However, the sea serpent god realized within a second or two that he could not prevent his own death.

Realizing that he was doomed this time, the sea serpent god no longer relied on sequence skills to delay his death. Instead, he used various burst skills to unleash his full power, attempting to break through the information blockade before his death and convey the situation to all his divine avatars.

Although the royal decree imposed an information blockade, a crack was torn open in the face of the desperate sea serpent deity.

However, the sea serpent god was horrified to discover that he could no longer sense any of his divine avatars.

All eight divine avatars have lost contact.

The Sea Serpent God finally tried to contact the True Sea Serpent God, but Rosen had already broken through all the defenses the Sea Serpent God had set up underground. Seeing the extraordinary firearms pointing at him, two bullets were fired at the Sea Serpent God at the same time.

No matter how the sea serpent deity tried to control its body, it could not escape the instantaneous confinement of the human mannequin.

Because of the contest of divine power, Rosen's 126 points of divine strength far exceeded the Sea Serpent God's maximum of 109 points.

This is the benefit of the forbidden sequence: the divine growth rate breaks the limit, and each sequence level increases by 13 points. Even a sequence 1 is no less than an ordinary god of sequence 0, not to mention that Rosen has the ancient god's sacrificial artifact, which can go even further.

The true damage from the Ash Brand pierced through the passive defensive skills activated by the Sea Serpent God.

One of the bullets transformed into the shackles of an ancient god, binding the sea serpent deity and imprisoning its extraordinary power. Without the self-rescue abilities of various skills, the power of the death judgment began to erupt completely.

Just as the sea serpent god was about to be killed by the death judgment, a second extraordinary bullet struck his brow and entered his sea of ​​consciousness.

The time-stopping effect created by the laws of time brought everything in the sea serpent deity's sea of ​​consciousness to a standstill.

The Titan's Wrath, which had been swelling and was about to explode, was restored to an inactive state by the reversal of time.

When it was first discovered that the sea serpent deity had eight divine avatars, anyone would have thought that this was an indication of extreme fear of death.

However, through the precognitive paintings automatically generated by the Mind Canvas, Rosen discovered on the eve of his action that he had underestimated the sea serpent deity.

This sea serpent deity is not afraid of death; on the contrary, all its divine avatars and the original being are always prepared to die.

The Wrath of the Titans was a creation of the Titans at their peak. They directly captured gods, even true gods, and then modified their divine essence to create super bombs. It was because the Titans created the Wrath of the Titans that they incurred the wrath of the masses, which led to their siege by various races and their decline.

The sea serpent god unexpectedly received the wrath of nine Titans, which is why he had eight divine avatars.

Each divine avatar can either kill a god by self-destructing or cause great damage to the true god.

However, all of these Titans' Wrath are now Rosen's spoils of war.

At this moment, the pause in time was slightly lifted, and the divine essence of the sea serpent god was pierced by the death judgment, completely obliterating its divine origin.

Rosen casually sealed the corpse of the sea serpent god onto a page of the Void Album, then teleported to Sky City.

While dealing with the Sea Serpent God, Rosen did not forget to deal with the Giant Eagle God at the same time.

He summoned the projection of the Lesser World Tree, whose time-stopping ability was even stronger than his own. As a result, the Sea Serpent God died, while the Giant Eagle God on Sky City's side was still unable to break free from the time-stopping restraint.

There are many types of time stop, but the most powerful one is a complete stop that affects both friend and foe.

A weaker version of time stop only works on enemies and requires you to allocate some of your strength to allow yourself to move freely.

If Rosen himself were to use time stop, he would have to completely stop the Giant Eagle God to imprison it. However, the Lesser World Tree is already at the level of a true god, so the second type of time stop would be enough to completely imprison the Giant Eagle God.

Rosen arrived before the giant eagle god during the time stop, seeing no fear, only the hidden anger in its eyes.

"Anyone who refuses to kneel before me is guilty of an unforgivable crime..."

Rosen instantly distorted the definition of sin, causing the giant eagle god to be burdened with sin.

Then, he activated the Miracle Property of the Judgment Ring, Sinful Judgment. A golden lightning bolt shot out from the fingertip of the finger bearing the Judgment Ring, striking the giant eagle god. The terrifying Judgment Lightning, amplified by Sinful Judgment, instantly pierced through the giant eagle god's brow and tore apart his divine essence.

Looking at the shattered divine essence, Rosen gained a profound understanding of the terrifying damage caused by the Judgment Lightning Punishment.

One by one, the combat forces that Rosen had dispatched to hunt down the divine avatars returned.

The most troublesome issue is dealing with the divine avatar of the Sea Serpent God within His divine realm. Therefore, the one responsible for taking action is the assassination of the strongest Death God avatar. To this day, the Sea Serpent God has not realized that the Sea Serpent God has disappeared within His divine realm.

With the two deities completely dealt with, dealing with the other extraordinary beings of the Sea Serpent Clan and Giant Eagle Clan was a piece of cake.

They only dispatched a group of Shadow Demons, and they have already wiped out the entire Spirit Realm in a bloodbath.

Meanwhile, the spacetime domain unfolded by the Lesser World Tree, having been left unattended in the Spirit Realm, had quietly severed its connection with reality, pulling the entire Spirit Realm into the World Domain and transferring it to the Ancient God True Realm.

Rosen activated data transmission and has quietly left the Shattered Star Islands.

The fall of the two gods did not alarm the true gods of the two races, but the disappearance of the spirit realm along with the arcane magic array was discovered by the true gods of the two races immediately. However, all clues had been erased, and they were unable to find out who was behind it all through various means.

In the Dragon Realm, Rosen sent a considerable number of dragon arcane mages into the territory of the Lesser World Tree.

As long as they don't see the Lesser World Tree, there's no need to kill the dragon to silence them.

With the concerted efforts of a large number of dragon arcane sorcerers, it took several years to gradually dismantle the mysterious arcane magic circle of true god level.

Arcane magic circles are at the level of true gods, but the ones who create arcane magic circles are not true gods.

Furthermore, given that the arcane magic circle has existed for no more than a few thousand years, it's not hard to imagine that the great true god who set up this arcane magic circle was the legendary Arcane Emperor who built the Arcane Network, and the origin of the legendary great true god-level arcane masters.

This means that behind the two races' true gods, there is a high probability that the legendary Arcane Emperor stands.

This Arcane Emperor was the most recent ruler of the Six Tribulations civilization. At that time, the Arcane Empire had no racial discrimination. As long as one learned arcane magic, identified with arcane magic, and abided by the laws of the Arcane Empire, any race could join the Arcane Empire and have equal status.

Therefore, unlike the World Government, which is surrounded by various alien races, the Arcane Empire almost ruled the main world.

Then came the sixth tribulation, and the Arcane Emperor successfully ascended to the status of a great god.

Then he began to build the Arcane Network, and shortly after it was completed, the Arcane Emperor went mad.

From being wise and insightful, he suddenly turned into a brutal and insane man.

The Arcane Emperor believed that individual life, wisdom, and power were limited, so he decided to exterminate all life in the main world. The spiritual essence of all life was integrated into the Arcane Web, and all races abandoned their physical bodies, taking the Arcane Web as their new bodies.

Ultimately, through the arcane network, the wisdom and power of all life are unified to create the ultimate arcane life that surpasses even the greatest true gods.

Few people want to die for no reason, especially countless gods and true gods.

The Arcane Emperor suddenly became the enemy of all the gods. In the end, the Arcane Emperor was surrounded and killed by the gods, and even his divine essence was stripped away and integrated into the arcane web. If the Arcane Emperor had not died back then, would he still want to exterminate all living beings now that he has reappeared in the world?

After a moment of contemplation, Rosen uploaded all the data of the arcane magic circle to the Gods' Network.

Soon, some true gods discovered these materials, and more and more gods saw them. A few ancient true gods who had experienced the era of the Arcane Emperor, after confirming the authenticity of the materials, directly began to persuade and mobilize the gods to kill the Arcane Emperor.

However, there were very few responses, after all, there were not many true gods who had experienced the terrifying rule of the Arcane Emperor's last reign.

How could you risk your life against a great and true god if the knife hadn't cut you?
However, a few days later, the Sky Eagle Civilization and the Sea Serpent Civilization were wiped out by a group of True God Arcane Masters.

Some of the True Gods who had interests in the two races and were on good terms with them wanted to stop a few True God Arcane Masters, but without exception, they almost died on the Sky Eagle Continent. In the end, they hid back in their respective divine kingdoms and dared not say another word.

Rosen, who had been observing everything from the sidelines, confirmed three things through the destruction of the two races.

The Arcane Emperor is not dead; the Arcane Web has been sealed off by the combined efforts of the true god arcane mages.

He also determined who one of the great true gods currently hidden in the main world is.

He finally confirmed that the great true God could indeed travel between the old and new worlds.

Because of this rescue of the two races' true gods, several of the true gods who were severely injured took action to repel their great true god and established His holy court in the old world. However, this one should not be the real one returning to the new world, but rather sending a divine avatar to the new world.

Although its strength is far greater than that of an ordinary true god, it still does not reach the level that a great true god should be.

Rosen's information led to the deaths of two civilizations and two true gods, while also revealing a big fish in the main world.

If we end up on the opposite side in the future, we can prepare countermeasures in advance now.

In the mysterious study, Rosen took out the Soul Core he had retrieved from the core of the arcane magic circle.

He had only heard of this material, but after seeing it with his own eyes, he became certain of one thing.

Soul parasites are miraculous life forms, so they are eternally immortal and cannot be killed.

This soul core is the most important core of the soul parasite beast. It takes many years to recover it after losing it. The one he has has been nurtured by the soul parasite beast in the seal for hundreds of thousands of years, and its quality has reached the limit of a true god.

With everything in place, Rosen began to master the last of the Sequence 1 painting skills.

The most difficult part of the whole process is to completely refine the soul source core.

The moment the new skill runes are formed, it has been elevated to a new level and transformed into a miracle skill.

[Soul Substitute: Miracle Skill]

[Miracle Attribute: Permanently consumes divine essence to generate a soul substitute]

[Miracle Traits: Soul Symbiosis, Uniqueness of Heaven and Earth, Eternal and Immortal]

Without hesitation, Rosen consumed 21 points of divine essence to begin generating a soul substitute that belonged to him.

His divine essence instantly plummeted from Sequence 1 to Sequence 2.

However, with the help of the ancient god's sacrificial artifacts, it can barely maintain its position at Sequence 1.

He was very experienced in this area. With the help of the Origin Oil Lamp and the Flesh and Blood Secret Fruit, the lost upper limit of divine origin could be quickly restored. Now he was more concerned about how powerful the soul substitute composed of up to 21 points of divine origin would be.

Rosen tested it out and found that the soul substitute could merge into any life form that had lost the ability to resist.

Then it merges with the soul, silently devouring and replacing the other's soul and spiritual essence.

The lives ultimately replaced by soul substitutes will not realize that they are dead.

Rosen only needs to actively awaken the Soul Stand, and the life replaced by the Soul Stand will instantly become his puppet clone, perfectly and unilaterally sharing all the power of his Painter Sequence except for the Soul Stand.

Furthermore, the ability of a soul substitute to perfectly absorb the memories and power of the object it replaces is enough to compensate for the painter's weakness of not being omniscient and omnipotent.

The only thing I'm not satisfied with is that you can only have one soul substitute at a time.

Rosen already knew that this was the only chance for parasitic replacement.

We must choose high-ranking officials of the World Government. If we can't choose gods, we must choose important figures, such as the Chief Justice of the World Government. Although he is only a Rank 1 jurist, his status in the World Government is in no way inferior to that of a true god.

However, after drawing a picture of the prophecy, Rosen immediately rejected the idea.

Although the World Government's Chief Justice is only a Sequence 1, he is probably more terrifying than he imagined.

During the height of world government, the chief justice who controlled the aristocratic code was truly terrifying.

If you want to replace the parasite silently, it's more likely you'll have to wait until he becomes a god before considering it.

As for the present, gradually parasitizing the gods of various races is the most correct choice.

(End of this chapter)