Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 396 Hidden agendas and the emperor's foolish tricks

Chapter 395

The Judgment Empire was wiped out along with its people and territory, and the Holy Grail Empire was not much better off.

The half of the territory closest to the Judgment Empire was directly shattered by the aftershocks of the war.

Millions of surviving Holy Grail Legion bloodline knights, having lost their enemies and prey that healed them with blood, were quickly turned into mummies by the bloodthirsty frenzy that burned away their lifeblood. What awaited them was resurrection at the Holy Grail altar.

Rosen's Void Shifted to the Holy Grail Legion, where there were no mountains of corpses or seas of blood, only endless negative spirituality.

The corpses were all reduced to ashes by the aftershocks of the war, only the divine essence remained in the void after being shattered.

Rosen transformed into the twelve-winged Holy Angel King, took out the Cross of God, put on the Ring of Glimmer, and sensed the spirituality scattered in the void. Infinite radiance instantly illuminated tens of millions of miles of the void, and he cast Angelic Resurrection to revive his own lives.

The twenty million bloodline knights who perished have vanished without a trace, with no power left to revive them.

However, those who survived until after the war and died as mummies could be resurrected by the angelic resurrection enhanced by the Ring of Glimmer.

Although resurrection can be achieved using the Holy Grail altar, the cost of resurrection is considerable.

The strength gained from killing enemies and monsters in life will not be accumulated upon resurrection. Instead, it will return to the level at the time of initial resurrection and recruitment. These subjects born at the Holy Grail Altar may look like living people, but they are actually more like NPCs.

Soon, millions of bloodline knights were resurrected. Although their numbers were reduced by several times, their overall combat power increased rather than decreased.

Because originally, most of the 20 million were sequence 3, but now almost all of the millions are sequence 1.

After leaving the post-war matters to Farah, Rosen returned to the Holy Grail Castle to collect the spoils of war.

The Judgment Throne and the Judgment Demon Sword—these are the biggest gains this time.

Then there are the Eternal Game Origin and the Immortal Origin. As for the Civilization Flame, it was swallowed by the Miracle Flame after the Judgment Emperor died. A portion of the Immortal Origin was separated to continue reviving the Bloodline Knights, reviving them until they reached a maximum value of 20 million before stopping.

There are also many immortal essences that can be stored up for future use in resurrecting fallen bloodline knights.

As for the Eternal Game Source, Lawson refined and kept it all as a resource to consume when using game privileges.

If he were willing to completely consume these resources to modify the game data, not to mention resurrecting the entire Judgment Empire, at least resurrecting the Judgment Emperor would not be a problem. If he used these resources on himself, he could easily be resurrected several times even if he died.

This made Rosen realize that the most troublesome opponent next would probably be the Sky Emperor.

Because He also possesses game privileges, once He obtains sufficient eternal game essence, completely killing the Sky Emperor is not as simple as killing him once or twice; He would need to kill him at least three to five times to completely eliminate the Sky Emperor.

Therefore, the current strength is not enough, and the seven victorious emperors will each receive a significant boost in strength.

Both the Judgment Sword and the Judgment Throne are good items, but just because they are suitable for the Judgment Emperor doesn't mean they are suitable for Rosen.

Rosen infused the Eternal Root into two extraordinary artifacts, beginning to refine and elevate their essence using the Eternal Root.

Because he was worried about insufficient nutrients, he added extra nutrients.

Rosen placed all three special metals he treasured—black iron, silver, and gold—with the Judgment Throne.

The eternal source took root and sprouted, and it didn't even spare these materials.

As for the Judgment Sword, Rosen placed all the royal treasures of the kings who had died at his hands over the years together with the Judgment Sword, letting the Eternal Root use them as nourishment to take root and sprout. In this way, the two treasures began to blossom and bear fruit little by little.

Even with a thousand times the speed-up, getting results in a short time is not an easy task.

Rosen's gaze, following the Omniscient Eye, silently shifted to the other six battlefields of the King's Game.

The Sky Emperor's speed was second only to his, because the Sky Emperor's chosen prey was an avatar of the same origin as Him. Therefore, the Blue Moon Emperor of the Blue Moon Empire completely gave up resisting and died at the hands of the Sky Emperor. The Sky Empire also completely inherited the Blue Moon Empire's legacy.

They're all on the same side, yet they choose to kill each other.

The reason is not hard to understand: no emperor is easy to deal with. If the Sky Emperor and the Blue Moon Emperor choose other emperors, winning is certainly good, but if they lose, all their assets will become the spoils of the victor. The Sky Emperor obviously does not like gambling.

Therefore, it would be better to sacrifice one and let the surviving child inherit everything from the abandoned one.

Although Rosen destroyed the Judgment Empire, his gains were less than half of those of the Sky Emperor.

After all, war kills people and destroys territory; what one can truly gain is only a portion of the empire's legacy.

Therefore, after this first round, the Sky Emperor will definitely receive the greatest benefit.

First, the number of troops under his command will double; second, the territory will double; and finally, the number of subjects will double. These enhancements to the emperor's power are enough to allow the Sky Emperor to catch up with the unfathomable Holy Spirit Emperor in terms of strength.

Rosen continued to observe the Sword Emperor, whose situation was not going very well.

Because of their ability to revive the Hōjō (a type of ancient Chinese military unit), the Treasure Sword Empire excels at protracted warfare.

However, the Twilight Empire on the other side, on the surface, only presents itself as normal, extraordinary humans, but in reality, it hides countless undead life forms transformed from humans in the darkness, and its number of troops is infinite, far exceeding that of other empires.

In a simple contest between the two armies, the Twilight Empire completely crushes the Sword Empire.

If it weren't for the Twilight Emperor's fear of the crossbow in the Sword Emperor's hands, which prevented him from openly confronting the Sword Emperor and thus giving the Sword Emperor frequent opportunities to attack the Twilight Legion, the Sword Empire would probably not have survived.

Rosen continued to look towards the Holy Spirit Empire, and just as he looked over, the war was over.

The Holy Spirit Empire utterly crushed its opponents; after all, hundreds of thousands of saints were terrifying.

The Holy Spirit Empire is so unrestrained; isn't it worried that the other six empires will join forces to destroy it?

It is important to understand that the overwhelming power of the Holy Spirit Empire poses a deadly threat to other empires.

The seven empires are difficult to group, but if the Holy Spirit Kingdom is eliminated, they will be easier to divide.

Therefore, logically speaking, the Holy Spirit Empire should not be displaying such power so recklessly.

Unless the Holy Spirit Emperor is absolutely certain, he wouldn't care even if he had to fight six against one.

Rosen continued to look at the remaining three empires. Two of the top seven empires had already gained an advantage, while the last one was actually suppressed by the Shining Empire, which was ranked last. It was clear that the Shining Emperor was very good at playing dumb to take advantage of others.

As time went by, six of the seven imperial wars had already determined the victors and losers.

Only the Sword Empire and the Twilight Empire are still locked in a stalemate, with no clear victor in the short term.

This situation was very difficult for both the Sword Emperor and the Twilight Emperor.

They feared that if the conflict continued for too long, the other six emperors would simply divide into groups of three and fight them to the death. In that case, even if they were lucky enough to survive, they would be facing three emperors who had grown a generation older than them and were far ahead of them.

Both sides began to accelerate the pace of the war, and the Twilight Emperor finally stopped hiding and came out.

Seeing that the Twilight Empire hides countless undead, it's easy to mistakenly believe that the Twilight Emperor has mastered the laws of the dead.

In reality, He possesses the Twilight Law, a fusion law created by combining the Law of the Dead and the Law of Night. A true god must create his own laws to become a great true god, but a new law created by fusing other laws can also be considered a self-created law.

At this moment, with the Emperor of Twilight going all out, the entire battlefield was completely shrouded in darkness.

Everything on the battlefield was enveloped and disappeared by the black sky.

Moments later, the subjects of the Sword Empire and the Twilight Empire began to die in droves.

Clearly, both suffered damage from the transfer of the two emperors. When the last undead of the Twilight Empire fell, the flame of civilization of the Twilight Empire began to collapse. Rosen flashed through the void, grabbed the flame of civilization, and put it away.

He did not take away the flame of civilization, nor did the King of the Sword have the power to do so.

On the contrary, the destruction of civilization and the backlash of its flames will turn the entire Twilight Empire into a sea of ​​fire that burns everything.

Therefore, the sword-wielding emperor who emerged from the darkness did not object to Rosen's actions.

Instead, they focused all their efforts on absorbing the benefits gained from destroying the Twilight Empire.

Half a month later, the Sword Emperor ended his seclusion.

Not everyone is as quick as Rosen to digest the gains from defeating the Empire.

This is why no emperor wants to engage in a chaotic war. After finally defeating the enemy by exhausting both sides, they still have to guard against other emperors taking advantage of the situation. Just as the Sword Emperor emerged from seclusion, the Holy Spirit Emperor was already surrounded.

While waiting for the Sword King, Rosen and the others had already discussed killing the Holy Spirit Emperor first.

Even surrounded by six emperors, the Holy Spirit Emperor remained completely unfazed.

He simply took a tiny bit of the eternal game's essence and then made no attempt to conceal the modification of the game data.

Rosen and the Sky Emperor almost immediately relaxed their killing intent. This was because the Holy Spirit Emperor had locked onto them. If they continued to attack the Holy Spirit Emperor, even if he died, he would surely drag them down with him before he died. Moreover, it was clear from the game data manipulation that the Holy Spirit Emperor controlled far more game privileges than they did.

Other emperors also noticed some problems to varying degrees, but this only made them more wary of the Holy Spirit Emperor.

If even a six-on-one fight can't defeat the Holy Spirit Emperor, who will ultimately win if the game continues?

At this point, surrounding and killing the Holy Spirit Emperor would inevitably force him to choose to take a few down with him.

Nobody wants to be one of the ones who get taken down. Since they can't be killed, the only option is to seal them away.

After a brief exchange of divine consciousness in the void, Rosen and the other six simultaneously began to seal the Holy Spirit Emperor.

The Holy Spirit Emperor did not resist, because the game data He had just modified also put Him into a deep sleep.

The Holy Spirit Emperor, who had fallen into slumber once more, manipulated the territory of the Holy Spirit Empire to flee into the depths of the void before falling asleep.

With one less Holy Spirit Emperor, the remaining six Emperors can be divided into groups, so there's no need to worry about others profiting from the situation.

Finally, three winners were determined, who then continued to be paired with the Holy Spirit Emperor in pairs.

It's important to understand that after the first round of destruction of an empire, the strength of all surviving emperors increased significantly.

After the second round, the gains were at least twice as much as in the first round.

Even though the Holy Spirit Emperor was powerful, they had gained less than two empires in terms of victory. If they weren't confident of fighting the Holy Spirit Emperor to the death, they wouldn't need to fight to the death in the King's Game. They could just perish together with the Holy Spirit Emperor.

This time, there was no need for a lottery; the Sky Emperor directly approached Rosen.

The Shining Emperor sought out the Judgment Emperor, leaving the Sword Emperor with only the Burning Eye Emperor.

The four directions of the void, excluding the direction where the Holy Spirit Empire is located, form a group of directions.

After the Holy Grail Empire and the Sky Empire distanced themselves from other empires and the continent of kings, their prepared legions began to charge and fight each other in the border areas. In the blink of an eye, the battlefield was filled with the sounds of battle and rivers of blood.

Inside a palace-like extraordinary artifact of a true god deep within the void, Rosen and the Sky Emperor sat facing each other.

On the table between the two, images of the battlefield were being projected.

"The bloodshed is a bit too much, how about we make it a little more intense?"

The Sky Emperor proposed.

Rosen nodded in agreement. This was no ordinary battle; rivers of blood were necessary to prove the brutality of war. The fact that rivers of blood flowed in the Imperial War meant that fewer people died and less resources were invested. In a full-scale war, the dead would be wiped out, and there would be no need to imagine rivers of blood.

The six emperors were paired up, and in the end, three emperors survived, along with the Holy Spirit Emperor.

If the Holy Spirit Emperor didn't have control over the game, this outcome wouldn't be bad.

However, both Rosen and the Sky Emperor were well aware that having control over the game and possessing enough eternal game essence meant being able to modify game data and resurrect repeatedly. Faced with the Holy Spirit Emperor, who could resurrect multiple times, both he and the Sky Emperor felt a tremendous threat.

So right after that, Rosen and the Sky Emperor temporarily formed an alliance and reached an agreement.

They pretended to divide into two groups to fight and die, but in reality, they sat on the sidelines and watched the two remaining groups fight and die. Before the victors had time to digest their spoils, they each chose an emperor to reap the benefits while they were at their weakest and at their peak.

The Sky Emperor took the initiative to propose the alliance, and Rosen agreed after considering it and deeming it harmless.

However, he had a feeling that their plan to reap the benefits might not be successful.

If they could think of forming a temporary alliance to reap the benefits, would other emperors have the same idea?

As expected, Rosen used his omniscient magic eye to observe the other two battlefields and found that the other four emperors were actually holding back, and that the other two battlefields were actually staged. Clearly, the other four emperors had also formed alliances in pairs, waiting for the opportunity to reap the benefits.

Although he discovered this in advance, Rosen did not expose it.

Because delaying the inevitable benefits him, his strength has not stopped growing.

Three months later, 90,000 years had passed in the accelerated time of the small World Tree.

The two extraordinary artifacts left behind by the Emperor of Judgment have been sublimated into the Fruit of Origin by combining various materials with the Eternal Origin.

Rosen had already left behind a clone to continue feigning compliance with the Sky Emperor, while his true self had been diligently cultivating in the mysterious study.

His self-created Hunter Contract skill allows him to achieve comprehensive growth after successfully hunting selected prey.

An ordinary role brought him minimal growth.

Even hunting down those kings yielded little benefit, because their great divine power did not belong to them, but rather was obtained through the external forces of royal law and the royal hierarchy. Therefore, killing so many kings only slightly increased their divine essence.

However, the Judgment Emperor is different; He is a great and true God even without relying on the power of the empire.

Therefore, after hunting down the Judgment Emperor, the Hunting Contract brought him considerable overall growth.

The divine origin grows by two points to reach 162, and the life origin grows by one point to reach 161.

It may seem like only one or two points of growth, but at this level, even one point of growth means a 15% increase in overall strength compared to the previous point. 161 points is a 15% increase from 160 points, and 162 points is another 15% increase from 161 points.

In summary, after Rosen hunted down the Judgment Emperor, his basic strength increased by at least 50%.

We're getting closer and closer to the maximum value of 165 points.

Rosen was already eager to hunt down other emperors.

Rosen took out two mature Root Fruits, then crushed one, and a throne fell out.

Throne of Glory: Extraordinary Artifacts

[Rank: Great True God]

[Attribute: Able to gather the power of all territories within its ruling area, and can enhance the control range of the Emperor's Law]

[Emperor Traits: Invulnerability to All Magic, Damage Transfer, Suppression of National Fortune]

Neither the Throne of Judgment possesses the ability to suppress the fate of a nation, but the Glorious Kingdom does.

While the Eternal Origin played a part, the greatest credit goes to the three special metals: iron, silver, and gold.

These three metals, being relics of the civilizations of the three kingdoms, possess the power to suppress the flames of civilization.

At this moment, the characteristic of suppressing national destiny was generated. As the Glorious Throne appeared in the Ancient God Realm, within his body, and in the Holy Grail Empire, gathering all the power that controlled the territory, the Glorious Throne's invulnerability to all laws has surpassed that of the Great True God.

Because Rosen's body was formed from the fusion of the divine realm and the dragon realm, his physical body itself is also a world, which is his territory.

In addition, the mysterious study is, strictly speaking, also Rosen's territory.

This is equivalent to an empire, a kingdom, and the defensive capabilities of two immortal worlds, all unified by the Glorious Throne. Now, even facing the Sword King's crossbow, Rosen has no fear whatsoever.

Crush the second Root Fruit, and the Glorious Holy Sword, transformed from the Judgment Holy Sword, will fall from it.

【The Glorious Holy Sword: An Extraordinary Artifact】

[Rank: Great True God]

[Attribute: The Glorious Holy Sword can wield the laws of kingship and the laws of emperors]

[Emperor Trait: Imperial Judgment]

The attributes and characteristics are very simple, but Rosen felt that it was many times more powerful than Dragon God's Wrath when he held it in his hand.

Holding the Glorious Holy Sword felt completely different from holding the Imperial Holy Sword formed from the King's Card.

Similarly, by mastering the laws, they gathered the power of the entire empire through those laws.

The Emperor's Holy Sword can only gather the full power of the Holy Grail Empire, and at most a portion of the power of the Glorious Kingdom.

However, all the Glorious Holy Swords could be gathered together, and with the birth of the Glorious Holy Swords, the flame of civilization of the Glorious Kingdom became even more condensed. He had a feeling that as long as his true self truly ascended to the Great True God, the Glorious Kingdom could be promoted to the Glorious Empire.

Rosen did not attempt the Emperor's Judgment because the activation prerequisites for this feature were extremely complicated.

Only when the empire faces a desperate situation, when it is on the verge of destruction, can the Emperor's Judgment gather the power of all the dead to unleash a terrifying and fatal blow. This is the last counterattack that can only be launched when a nation is on the verge of annihilation.

(End of this chapter)