Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 395 Judgment: A Death Battle Between Tyrants and Emperors

P.S.: I wrote "scepter" instead of "sword" in the previous chapter. It has been corrected. Thank you for pointing it out.

"Such formidable military strength!"

Rosen's all-knowing magic eye swept across the room and he already had a general idea that what followed would be a tough battle.

There are a total of thirty million bloodline knights and more than one million priests.

Having killed many kings and destroyed many kingdoms, he gained a new understanding of royal power.

Not all civilizations require a king's diligent governance and a peaceful and prosperous nation to flourish.

A tyrant can also make a kingdom's civilization flourish.

Because the monarchical system is ultimately a variant of faith, and all systems related to the spirit are, strictly speaking, inseparable from faith. It's just that his Holy Grail Kingdom follows a positive faith route, while the Iron Kingdom and the Judgment Empire follow a negative faith route.

The fear and resentment of all subjects can also become the source of a king's and emperor's power.

The existence of a judge emperor is like that of an evil god among emperors.

Thirty million demigod bloodline knights, each possessing a domain of authority belonging to a demigod.

At this moment, these demigod bloodline knights released several people from their respective domains. It was clear that they were all from the same family. However, strangely, one of them was tortured to the point of near death, while the rest were unharmed.

With a flash of light, all those released, regardless of age or gender, were beheaded.

Those who died unharmed were simply dead, but those who were tortured to the point of near death, even if only their heads remained, were still alive. At this moment, tens of millions of heads were either cursing, in pain, or completely numb.

Rosen could clearly sense that these heads were filled with endless resentment at this moment.

As expected, the Emperor likely selected 30 million harmonious families, then captured the family member who deeply loved their loved one and tortured them to the point of wishing for death, finally beheading the family member in front of them to maximize their despair, hatred, and pain.

Then, through some secret technique, they use these heads filled with resentment to enhance their own damage.

Countless heads rose into the air and were pieced together in front of the army to form a warhorse and knight.

The head knight roared as he charged toward the Holy Grail Legion, followed closely by thirty million bloodline knights.

As for the million priests, they hid in the safe zone behind the scenes and cast curses beyond visual range.

On Rosen's side, the Holy Grail Legion also launched a charge. Bloodline knights were constantly being dragged off their mounts by ropes that fell from the sky, some suddenly had iron nails piercing their bodies, or their bodies seemed to be corroded by strong acid.

The various bizarre and varied punishments directly resulted in casualties among the one million demigod knights of the Holy Grail Legion during their charge.

The various punishments and curses continued, but the damage was not as strong as the first wave. Obviously, those priests needed certain conditions to cast their curses. If they could easily curse and kill demigod knights, even 20 million bloodline knights wouldn't be enough for those priests to kill.

The Holy Grail Legion suffered heavy casualties, and the Judgment Empire's Judgment Legion was not unscathed either.

The giant dragon, formed from twenty million slimes, chanted dragon war magic under the command of the little dragon girl. Because the Holy Grail Legion consisted entirely of dragon knights, they directly unleashed war magic that caused the earth to sink and destroy the battlefield terrain while simultaneously killing enemies.

The land within a radius of tens of thousands of miles turned into rock, and then countless rock spikes rose up.

Finally, the ground gravity increased tens of thousands of times. Even though the Judgment Legion rode on warhorses that were demigod-level superhuman beings, the hellish warhorses, they were still thrown about by the terrifying gravity. Not many were killed by the ground spikes, but countless people in the front line fell and were trampled to death by the bloodline knights that followed.

Although both sides suffered heavy casualties during the charge, several thousand kilometers was too short for a demigod.

So in just a few seconds, tens of millions of bloodline knights were close enough to engage in direct combat.

The giant knight composed of human heads is the commander of the Judgment Legion, who unleashes the war skill Guillotine the moment he approaches the Holy Grail Legion.

The giant halo formed by the convergence of the knightly halos of the entire army transformed into a guillotine thousands of miles high in the void. The moment the head knight pointed his sword at the Holy Grail Legion, every soldier of the Holy Grail Legion felt a chilling wind on their necks.

The Little Dragon Girl, who commands the Holy Grail Legion, almost simultaneously commands the Holy Grail Legion to unleash the war skill "Roar of Ten Thousand Dragons".

The unified roar of all the dragon mounts forcefully dispelled the guillotine curse that enveloped the entire army.

That's not all; Roar of Ten Thousand Dragons is merely a war skill for all the army's mounts.

All the bloodline knights of the Holy Grail Legion, under Farah's command, burned all the blood within them, unleashing a bloodthirsty frenzy.

As long as the blood in the body is not completely burned, the bloodlust and frenzy will not stop.

This is a war skill that kills upon use. Its effect is to be fearless of all pain, while also gaining the ability to heal oneself by absorbing the blood of the injured flesh and blood, and to convert all battle aura into berserk battle aura, causing enemies to be tainted with blood poison and lose their minds after taking damage.

This is a war skill created by Queen Farah over thousands of years under the World Tree using accelerated time.

Rosen, the King of the Grail, became the Emperor of the Grail, and Farah, the Queen of the Grail, also successfully gained god-level combat power thanks to the synchronously growing Queen of the Grail cards. This time, Farah is the first commander of the Grail Army, while Little Dragon Girl is only the second commander.

After the Roar of Ten Thousand Dragons and the Guillotine almost canceled each other out, the two legions began close combat.

There's no point in using war skills to deal large-scale damage anymore; both sides have started using auxiliary war skills that enhance the overall combat power of their armies.

Normally, the legionary soldiers of the Judgment Empire are stronger than those of the Holy Grail Empire.

After all, one had been preparing for 23,000 years, while the other had only been established for a mere ten years.

However, when the two sides were fighting like meat grinders, it was the Judgment Legion that suffered a complete defeat. This was the terrifying power brought by bloodlust and rage. All the bloodline knights of the Holy Grail Legion would die after the battle, but before they died, they would kill all the enemies in their way.

Facing an adversary like the Judgment Empire, minimizing casualties is simply impossible.

If it develops into a protracted war, the Judgment Empire, which has been preparing for 23,000 years, will certainly have a greater advantage.

Therefore, a swift victory is necessary, and the best approach is to employ desperate measures that result in mutual destruction with the enemy.

Then, the Judgment Empire's fighting force is reduced to the maximum extent. Every soldier of the Judgment Empire who dies is one less soldier, while all the bloodline knights of the Holy Grail Empire who die can be resurrected through the Holy Grail Altar. This is the greatest advantage of the King Card holder.

The battle of tens of millions of demigods completely destroyed the land border connecting the two empires.

There were no corpses in the void. After all the blood had been drained by the Holy Grail Legion, the remaining remains could not withstand the impact of countless demigod skills, so even the corpses were reduced to ashes.

The Emperor of Judgment looked at the meat grinder-like battlefield and knew that the holder of the King's Card possessed the Altar of Resurrection.

Therefore, in His view, the key to victory or defeat lies in whether He can destroy the Holy Grail altar.

However, it now seems pointless to destroy the Holy Grail altar, because the Holy Grail Emperor had no intention of dragging it out into a protracted war.

In that case, there is only one way to quickly end the war and reduce the casualties of the Judgment Legion.

The Judgment Emperor instantly commanded all the priests, unleashing his domain and leading them to attack the Grail Emperor who sat high on his throne.

Soldiers against soldiers, generals against generals, kings against kings—this is the most direct battle plan in the world of extraordinary beings.

Rosen rose from the Holy Grail Throne, gathering the power of all the subjects of the entire empire, as well as the laws and energy within the entire territory of the empire, using the power of the King Sequence to confront the Judgment Emperor.

This time, it's not a battle where the clones each have their own ideas, but a life-or-death struggle between the two main bodies.

Both sides tacitly agreed to stay away from their bordering territories in the void, neither wanting to be met with ruins after their victory.

The moment it was confirmed that the impact would not reach their territory from the depths of the void, both sides attacked simultaneously.

Various instruments of torture kept appearing around the Emperor of Judgment, and a curse formed around these instruments continued to act on Rosen across the void.

However, the noose that could strangle the true god and bind the great true god could not even move Rosen's neck.

His dormant divine body has been fully activated, its quality comparable to an immortal world.

All curses targeting the body were meaningless to him. So whether it was a noose or a guillotine, a skinning knife or a beheading blade, all sorts of bizarre instruments of torture aimed at the body posed no threat to Rosen. Realizing this, the Judgment Emperor abandoned these instruments of torture without hesitation.

An iron cage appeared out of thin air and locked Rosen inside.

Immediately afterwards, shackles and chains appeared on Rosen's body, and even a head cage appeared on his head.

The sole purpose of these instruments of torture is to seal and suppress supernatural powers.

Finally, the Emperor of Judgment retrieved the Great True God's extraordinary artifact, the Judgment Demon Sword, from his sea of ​​consciousness. This sword not only carried the Emperor's Law, but also the Law of Torture and the Law of Judgment, and contained the resentment of countless dead, possessing an extremely powerful destructive force against the divine origin.

The Judgment Sword flashed through the void and appeared inside the iron cage, beheading Rosen.

His physical body was unharmed, so it was his soul that was truly beheaded.

Seeing that everything was going smoothly, the Emperor of Judgment was filled with doubt and uncertainty.

How could the Holy Grail Emperor be so easy to deal with without showing any signs of resistance?
Despite his doubts and wariness, the Emperor continued his actions without pause.

The Judgment Sword annihilated Rosen's soul with a few strikes, then appeared in the sea of ​​consciousness to directly attack the Eternal Godhood.

Visibly, cracks were constantly being slashed into the Eternal Godhead.

However, Rosen seemed oblivious, abandoning his defense and allowing his injuries to worsen.

At the very moment when the eternal godhood shattered, Rosen's tightly closed eyes inside the headgear finally opened.

Judgments against emperors are difficult to resolve; in fact, they are difficult to resolve against all kings and emperors.

Because the king's sequence can not only gather the power of his subjects, but also transfer the damage he suffers to his subjects, theoretically, it is very difficult to completely kill a king unless all of his subjects die.

Rosen was able to kill kings so easily mainly because of the Mysterious Study and the Miracle Flame.

The flame of miracles suppresses the flame of civilization, and the mysterious study isolates the king from his subjects.

However, the same methods he used to deal with kings were unlikely to be effective against emperors.

So Rosen changed his approach; this time he was going to fight head-on.

This requires overwhelming damage, annihilating the Emperor and all his subjects in one fell swoop.

After Rosen mastered the Eternal Root Source Seed, although he could not mimic other extraordinary sequences, he could master these sequences by parasitizing the extraordinary source matter of each sequence through the Eternal Source, and after taking root, sprouting, flowering, and bearing fruit to form the Root Source Fruit.

In recent years, Rosen has planted thousands of Root Fruits, and he has mastered almost all the extraordinary sequences.

This time, he used the extraordinary power of the masochistic witch from the extraordinary sequence. The masochistic witch is a profession that enjoys self-torture. The more torture and damage she endures, the stronger the damage she will unleash after she has endured it.

While he was at it, Rosen also used the Faith Spider Web to infiltrate and corrupt the Judgment Empire's faith network.

In the blink of an eye, Rosen severed the faith network between the Emperor and all his subjects.

He then unleashed the power of the extraordinary sequence savage berserker, where the more damage he sustained, the stronger his monstrous strength became. His muscles bulged and his body expanded, transforming him into a giant ten thousand meters tall, which burst all the instruments of torture.

Dragon God's Wrath adapts to the body, transforming into a giant sniper cannon, locking onto the Judgment Emperor and pulling the trigger the instant.

Rosen possesses thousands of extraordinary sequences, which contain tens of thousands of skills.

There are thousands of passive skills. Of course, it is impossible to use so many skills at the same time, because the upper limit of the number of skills that can be used depends on the number of skills that the divine essence can control at the same time. Rosen's limit of divine essence is 182 points, and he can use a maximum of 182 skills at the same time.

Therefore, this single shot can stack the damage of up to 182 passive skills.

Moreover, it's impossible to achieve perfect stacking because many skills interfere with each other, and the enhancement limits of many skills are fixed. Therefore, at most a few dozen passive skills can be stacked simultaneously, and the remaining skills can only be stacked as support skills and damage skills.

Although there are certain limitations, the number of skills that can be stacked by the Dragon God's Wrath attack is not limited.

With a total of 182 combinations of various sequences and skills, this single shot was enough to easily cripple the great true god.

If you add the terrifying damage amplification from the masochistic witch, even a great god with insufficient survivability could be instantly killed.

But that's not all. Over the years, Rosen has continuously destroyed countries, and the number of humans he has directly and indirectly hunted is countless. He has more hunter points than he can use, because the true damage accumulated from hunting humans through the hunter contract has reached an extremely high level.

Rosen can now stab a human god with a toothpick, and if true damage is activated, it could potentially kill them instantly.

With this level of real damage, instantly killing a true god is no longer a pipe dream.

It's impossible to instantly kill the Great God, but combined with the damage increase from the masochistic witch and the amplification from the 182 skills of each sequence, if Rosen's shot hits the Judgment Emperor, even if He survives by chance, He will be half-dead.

The Emperor of Judgment sensed a potentially fatal threat the instant Rosen retaliated.

The Judgment Emperor traversed the void continuously, even summoning his own imperial guards to act as human shields in front of him.

However, Rosen had already activated the Fate Mark, a Fate Mark fused with the Law of Fate, which was guaranteed to hit regardless of distance or evasion, and instantly crossed tens of thousands of miles of void to strike the Judgment Throne in the hands of the Judgment Emperor, which was used to block.

The Throne of Judgment is bound to the territory of the Judgment Empire, and can transfer all damage to the entire empire's territory.

This was a terrifying defensive measure that even Rosen was unaware of. At this moment, the Dragon God's Roar Bomb collided with the Judgment Throne. The first thing to be damaged was not the Judgment Throne, but the entire territory of the Judgment Empire, spanning millions of miles, which was instantly reduced to ashes.

The final projectile, made of Eternal Stones, nearly pierced the back of the Judgment Throne and got stuck on it.

The Emperor of Judgment blocked Rosen's fatal blow, which could have been fatal with a single shot, at the cost of the destruction of his entire empire.

Rosen was also surprised, not expecting that such a shot could be blocked.

He realized he had overlooked something: the territory of the Judgment Empire was only a few million square miles in circumference. This territory was not small in the King's Continent, but it was just a tiny place in the New World. Small does not mean weak; small may very well mean it is small enough to be compressed and refined.

Since his sniping attempt failed, Rosen accelerated through time, traversing tens of thousands of miles with the Emperor's Holy Sword in hand, and charged toward the Judgment Emperor.

At this moment, the Judgment Demon Sword also crossed the void and returned to the Judgment Emperor's hand. The Judgment Emperor, still in shock, had no choice but to fight Rosen. As their respective imperial holy swords clashed, countless shouts of victory and cries of fear mingled together in the void.

The Imperial Holy Sword, depending on the strength of the empire, is primarily responsible for gathering the power of all its subjects.

Originally, the power of the Judgment Demon Sword far exceeded that of Rosen's Imperial Holy Sword. However, with the destruction of the Judgment Empire's territory, although high-level superhumans could survive, low-level civilians had already perished along with the empire's territory.

In this situation, the power boost that the Judgment Demon Sword can receive from the subjects of the Judgment Empire is naturally greatly reduced.

Furthermore, the Judgment Emperor was not skilled in close combat, while Rosen possessed many melee-type extraordinary sequences. At this moment, relying on the Orcish Sword Saint sequence, he brought the power of the Emperor's Holy Sword to its extreme, completely overwhelming the Judgment Emperor and leaving sword wounds on his body.

It doesn't need to cause a large wound; just breaking the skin is enough to inflict terrifying real damage.

Half an hour later, the Emperor had suffered hundreds of cuts and bruises.

However, the accumulated true damage finally reached its limit and shattered the Judgment Emperor's divine status, destroying the divine essence within it. The entire Judgment Empire's subjects were either slaughtered on the battlefield by the Holy Grail Legion or became scapegoats by the Judgment Emperor's transferred damage.

Therefore, the moment the Judgment Emperor fell, the Judgment Empire was completely wiped out, leaving no one alive.

Just as the Judgment Empire was about to be destroyed, two things appeared out of thin air inside the Holy Grail Castle.

One is the inexhaustible source of immortality, which can resurrect fallen soldiers at the Holy Grail altar.

The other thing was a clump of eternal game essence, the original power of the King's Game integrated into the entire Judgment Empire. At this time, because the King's Game was in its final stage, it was directly collected by the King's Game and sent to the Holy Grail Castle.

These eternal game elements are enough to allow the Holy Grail Empire to grow at least twice as large.

(End of this chapter)