Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 382 The King's Game and the Holy Grail Kingdom

Chapter 381

"This is the King's Game space..."

The King of Scepters pointed to the four thrones formed by stars and introduced the King's Game to Rosen.

Once you've entered the game space, you can directly project yourself into it or descend in your true form.

The four thrones correspond to the four Kings' Game Fallen Tarot cards.

The game of kings will start once all four kings sit on their respective thrones.

The white mist at the center of the game space will form a spirit realm after the King's Game begins.

This spiritual realm is very special, and its level is at least at the level of immortal gods and demons.

It has been confirmed that there are immortal gods and demons within the King's Game.

The entry conditions for the King's Game Spirit Realm are the same for all kings. Each king can bring his queen, knights, and attendants, for a total of fourteen people, including himself, to enter the King's Game. Doppelgangers and pets do not count towards the population and share an entry qualification with the king.

Since each spiritual realm is different, the specific details can only be known after entering.

After the introduction, the King of the Scepters teleported to his kingdom and sat down.

Rosen also sat down on his throne. The stars that make up the throne are all real-sized stars, so the height of the entire kingdom exceeds billions of kilometers. Even the bodies of immortal gods and demons cannot be that big.

It's not that it's impossible to have such a large body, but rather that no one would be able to maintain such a massive body.

Because a large body implies emptiness, only what is concentrated is the essence.

Of course, sometimes being big has its advantages. A larger size means a greater destructive range and a stronger control over energy and laws. Therefore, a true god can materialize their own domain of laws from the abstract to the concrete and then transform it into a giant composed of laws and energy.

Rosen's Law Domain expanded, and the invisible Law Domain began to materialize by absorbing energy.

The surface of the Law Realm transformed into Rosen's appearance, and then, under Rosen's manipulation, sat on the throne.

The moment the four kings sat down, the white mist at the center of the game space began to tremble violently.

As time passed, Rosen's omniscient magic eye, through the giant's deformed body within the domain of laws, saw the true faces of the three true gods hidden within the giant's head, all of whom uncontrollably displayed expressions of fear.

But why they were afraid, Rosen's all-knowing magic eye could not see.

Information related to the King's Game is also specially protected and beyond the comprehension of the Omniscient Eye.

The violently turbulent white fog finally calmed down after several days.

The white mist dissipated, leaving behind a spatial vortex.

The moment Rosen's divine consciousness came into contact with the spatial vortex, he had already learned the basic information about the King's Game Space.

King's Game: Miracle Realm

【grade:? ? ? 】

[Miracle Attribute: Can generate game worlds of corresponding levels based on the strength of the four kings]

[Miracle Trait: Return of the King]

Rosen now understood why the three true gods of pentacles were afraid.

The generation of the game map is proportional to the strength of the four kings. The stronger the game world, the more difficult it is to generate. It took several days to generate the game map, a situation they had never experienced before, which is why they couldn't help but feel fear.

The Miracle Trait "Return of the King" is crucial, as it grants the king special authority.

Once you activate the "Return of the King" feature, you can return to the initial game space with all the rewards you've gained in the game world.

However, entering the King's Game comes at a price.

The more you pay the price, the more benefits you will receive at the start of the game.

This cost is the strength of one's divine essence; paying this cost means permanently reducing the strength of one's divine essence.

Rosen hesitated, because the strength of divine essence is not easy to restore.

He used to have a thousand times the speed of time, the secret fruit of flesh and blood, and the primordial oil lamp, but as he became a god and a true god, these methods became less and less effective at restoring his depleted divine essence. Now he mainly relies on the primordial oil lamp and eternal plunder to restore his divine essence.

Because of the ancient god's sacrificial artifacts, his divine essence possesses immortality.

All abilities that permanently reduce the divine essence will not permanently reduce the upper limit of his divine essence; at most, they can only temporarily reduce it. Therefore, the advantage of restoring the divine essence is significant. However, he does not know whether the King's Game can break the ancient god's artifact's blessing on the divine essence.

After all, every spear has a shield, and even ancient god artifacts have their own limits.

Therefore, Rosen needs to carefully weigh the specific amount of divine essence he should give up before making a decision.

Rosen's divine essence is 159, his life essence is 160, and the ancient god's sacrificial artifact can double his maximum value by 14 points.

Due to the creation of eternal clones, both sources have fallen to 151 points and cannot be lowered any further.

Fortunately, his life essence and divine essence can transform into each other. So, under the premise of maintaining his divine essence and life essence from falling into true godhood, he can pay a maximum price of 28 points of divine essence, which is exactly the limit of the blessing of the ancient god's sacrificial artifact.

However, once the True God level has 28 points of origin, it is not easy to recover them after they are consumed.

The key is not the consumption itself, but whether the consumption is worthwhile.

Is this King's Game worth such a large investment?

Rosen finally decided to take the gamble, because he had already felt the difficulty of improving his strength.

After ascending to the status of a true god, the growth of one's divine essence and life essence becomes extremely difficult.

Conservative estimates suggest that it would take several thousand years to become a great and true god.

Accelerating time is useless, because what's lacking isn't time, but the resources needed for promotion.

Moreover, creating a new set of rules is no easy task.

Especially in this era of potion sequence, while there is experience to draw upon for gods to ascend to true gods, there is no experience to draw upon for the potions needed for true gods to ascend to great true gods, because no one has ever successfully ascended to great true god using the potion sequence.

Those who now possess the sequence of great true gods all directly convert their own extraordinary power.

Relatively speaking, the extraordinary sequences mastered by these beings are not actually perfect.

If a true god can advance to a great true god through the magic potion sequence, even if it is only a recent advancement, even if this true god was not outstanding at the true god level before, after becoming a great true god, his strength will rank among the top at all the great true god levels.

This is the advantage of the times; a great true god is not necessarily stronger the longer he lives.

The strength or weakness of something depends to a large extent on how well it fits with the times.

This is one of the core reasons why a new dominant civilization is born with the end of each extraordinary era, because even if the strong of the old extraordinary system switch to the new extraordinary system, the compatibility with the new extraordinary system cannot be 100%.

Rosen has abundant resources; any other True God could easily advance to the rank of Great True God without lifting a finger.

However, his foundation was too profound, and his clone also had the potential to advance to the level of a great true god.

So no amount of resources is enough; he comes to participate in the King's Game to gain more benefits.

Rosen held the Fallen King of Cups Tarot card between his fingertips and began to infuse it with divine essence.

A full 28 points were successfully used to activate the qualification to enter the game world.

He now needs to select the people to accompany him. As the Queen of the Grail, Farah will definitely be accompanied. The remaining twelve will be distributed among the Grail Attendants and Grail Knights. He can just choose any twelve of the strongest ones. Eight Grail Knights and four Grail Attendants should be suitable.

Because Rosen lacked experience, he spent the longest time considering and making his choice.

With all the candidates selected, he summoned them to his side. The kings on the four thrones in the starry sky vanished instantly, and the vortex of white mist surrounding the four kingdoms collapsed into a giant white egg.

After the teleportation ended, Rosen appeared in the hall of a castle.

Dust was everywhere, and the tables and chairs were rotten, showing that the castle had been abandoned for thousands of years.

Rosen looked at the Holy Grail King in his hand and discovered that the card's attributes had undergone a drastic change.

[The King of Cups: Miracle Tarot] [Level: True God]

[Miracle Attribute: The King of Cups can create and control all Minor Arcana cards]

[Miracle Traits: Grail Crown, Royal Sword, Primal Grail, Grail Kingdom]

The creation of Minor Arcana cards is easy to understand; both Grail Knight and Grail Servant are class-change cards created from these cards.

Once the Holy Grail Crown becomes a Miracle Trait, it can lock the source of life and the source of divinity. The Royal Sword is upgraded from controlling the authority of the king to controlling the laws of the king. The Source Grail can absorb all things and transform them into the source of immortality. The Holy Grail Kingdom, this Miracle Trait, is similar to the realm of the gods.

Through the miraculous nature of the Holy Grail Kingdom, Rosen's divine perception instantly enveloped the entire kingdom from a God-like perspective.

The entire Holy Grail Kingdom covers an area of ​​approximately 28 miles in diameter. Excluding the current capital city, there are 28 city ruins. This number corresponds exactly to the divine essence he invested. The larger the territory, the stronger the power boost that the Holy Grail Kingdom, with its miracle characteristics, brings to him as king.

Although the Holy Grail Kingdom is relatively intact, it is actually in ruins.

The only intact building in the royal city is the Holy Grail Castle, where we are currently located.

The entire castle looks like a giant Holy Grail, and the castle itself is a divinely inspired wonder.

【The Holy Grail Castle: A Wonder of Architecture】

[Level: True God]

[Miracle Attribute: Can consume Immortal Essence to construct auxiliary buildings]

[Miracle Trait: King's Relic]

Rosen first checked which auxiliary buildings could be constructed and found that the core parts did not need to be built.

Since the core auxiliary buildings are all housed inside the castle, only the core buildings need to be repaired.

What needs to be built are basic residential buildings and farmland outside the castle, as well as defensive buildings such as city walls and defensive towers. These are not the most urgent buildings to be built. The current priority is to repair the core building, the Holy Grail Altar.

Once the Holy Grail Altar is repaired, the subjects of the Holy Grail Kingdom can be resurrected through it.

As long as the king is alive and the Holy Grail Castle still exists, the reconstruction of the Holy Grail Kingdom is only a matter of time. The spiritual essence of all the dead beings in the Holy Grail Kingdom will slumber in the Holy Grail Castle, awaiting the resurrection of the Holy Grail altar.

Rosen glanced at it and realized that repairing the Holy Grail Altar would consume nearly ten thousand units of Immortal Essence.

He had no concept of the origin of immortality. He tried to take out the crystal of divine origin and was able to, but when he tried to bring out a death row inmate from the Ancient God Realm, the inmate died the moment he appeared, but his body was left behind.

Obviously, apart from the thirteen followers, clones, and pets, no other life forms can be brought into the game world.

However, inanimate objects could be used. Rosen immediately took out a mountain-sized crystal of divine essence, then activated the miraculous property of the Source Grail. A palm-sized golden Grail appeared in the void, its mouth pointed at the mountain, and all the divine crystals immediately shrank and were sucked into it.

Soon, the divine essence crystallized into the immortal essence, with approximately ten thousand units transforming into one unit.

Rosen's face instantly darkened. Ten thousand immortal origins meant one hundred million divine origin crystals, enough to cultivate several true gods. Yet, most of his wealth could only barely repair a Holy Grail altar.
This is clearly abnormal; the true gods of the stars could not possibly provide so many resources.

Therefore, it seems that the resources to repair the Holy Grail Altar will need to be obtained within the Holy Grail Kingdom's territory.

Rosen's first thought was of the 29 city ruins, where he might find enough resources to transform into the source of immortality.

With the Eternal Clone Technique, he instantly created one hundred clones.

This amount is not enough to cause his divine origin to fall back to godhood.

Each Eternal Avatar is a Sequence 3 demigod, capable of altering the spatial anchor of the Mystic Study. These avatars simply need to travel to various city ruins to transfer the resources they find to their original body via interdimensional portals.

As for what the true self should do most, it is to restore its divine origin and life origin as much as possible.

If he had known the King's Game would turn out this way, he wouldn't have sent out ten thousand eternal clones.

However, he did not regret it, as most of those eternal avatars were reborn as divine offspring.

Invest early and reap the rewards; in life and in business, one must always make choices.

Since you've already done it, don't regret it. Instead, seize the time to quickly restore your depleted resources.

The Eternal Avatar is in charge of exploring the ruins of other cities, but Rosen doesn't intend to take on the exploration of the royal city ruins alone.

Eight Grail Knights, trained to Sequence 1, are scattered to explore the ruins of the royal city.

As for the four Grail servants, they are all maids, which is perfect for cleaning up the Grail Castle.

Rosen also tried to take out some spiritual paintings and found that the people materialized in the spiritual paintings could exist, but the people who already had life inside the spiritual paintings could not be taken out. However, this was enough, and he quickly drew a group of servants to assist the Holy Grail servants.

Then the primordial oil lamp was lit, and the lamp oil burning inside was transformed from Seven's divine essence.

The Primal Lamp floats in the sea of ​​consciousness, its flames continuously burning the Eternal Divinity.
After finishing all his tasks, Rosen finally had time to examine the miracle-related King's Relic of the Holy Grail Castle.

By activating this miracle property, he can obtain the relics of the previous Grail King.

The more Immortal Essence consumed, the more valuable the King's Relics obtained.

In any case, they can't do anything without the immortal source. I wonder if the true gods of the stars are having a headache right now.

Rosen activated his Omniscient Eyes, attempting to glimpse the current state of the Star Gods.

The All-Knowing Eye did not disappoint him, but it did not bring good news.

Apart from the Kingdom of the God of Pentacles, whose territory is only about 150,000 miles in diameter, the kingdoms of the God of Scepters and the God of Swords are both about 200,000 miles in diameter. Moreover, they have already repaired their altars and begun to resurrect their kingdom's subjects in batches.

Such a vast territory, such a huge amount of resources.

This is clearly not something the Gods of Pentacles could do. It's obvious that more than one Great God is involved behind the scenes. It seems that the hidden value of the King's Game is higher than he imagined, otherwise it wouldn't be worth the investment of so many Great Gods.

But why invest now, and why didn't you invest in the past?
Rosen is not yet clear on the reasons behind this.

However, he needs to speed things up, and even consider whether to first convert his own resources to repair the Holy Grail Altar.

If those great true gods are willing to invest, he doesn't need to be stingy.

Rosen nearly emptied his coffers, but finally managed to scrape together 10,000 units of Immortal Essence to repair the Holy Grail Altar.

The Holy Grail Castle has two parts: the upper part is located inside the golden cup, and the lower part is located at the base of the golden cup. The hall at the base is the administrative hall, which is open to the public, and the Holy Grail altar is located in the center of the administrative hall.

As the source of immortality was depleted, the cracked Holy Grail altar was quickly restored to its original state.

The only purpose of the Holy Grail Altar is resurrection; it offers no other surprises.

Rosen checked through the Holy Grail altar and found that resurrecting all life would consume the Immortal Source. The weakest of the subjects of the Holy Grail Kingdom waiting to be resurrected were Sequence 9 superhumans, but the strongest were only Sequence 1 superhumans. None of the subjects had a single Sequence 0.

After observing for a while, Rosen decisively used the remaining dozens of units of Immortal Essence to revive several thousand miners.

Then all the miners were dispersed to various mining sites throughout the kingdom to collect extraordinary resources.

This was his first time playing King's Game, but it wasn't the first time for the God of Pentacles and the others.

Even though each King's Game is different, the experienced ones are obviously more experienced. The resources inside the city ruins are dwindling little by little, and there is not a single living creature to be seen in the kingdom. The best way to obtain resources is obviously to mine.

Rosen took out dimensional drawing paper and magic pen, and began to draw the materializable miners continuously.

Since it's a competition of resource consumption, let's see who can extract resources the fastest.

The great god behind the Star Gods obviously provides them with limited support. He is not far behind in terms of the source of immortality, and he has an absolute advantage in the subsequent mining of resources. He is definitely the fastest to rebuild the Holy Grail Kingdom.

With Lawson himself busy, his clones and pets naturally couldn't be idle either.

The Dark Sun Slime has begun producing regular slimes. It has merged the Slime Nest with the Dark Sun Slime, and now the Dark Sun Slime itself is a Slime Nest. This unit nest has been transformed into a Dark Sun Nest.

The Golden Cow went out to explore for resources, while the Void Pufferfish was responsible for transporting them.

The Apostles of Calamity are responsible for investigating dangers, while the Genie is responsible for leaving the Holy Grail Kingdom to explore the outside world.

Then the three clones went to the kingdoms of the three true gods of pentacles.

Although the distance is very far in perception, it is not difficult to determine the spatial coordinates through the omniscient magic eye and sneak over through the interdimensional gate. With the miraculous properties of soul symbiosis and flesh symbiosis, it is enough to perfectly replace their resurrected subjects.

(End of this chapter)