Lord: Sequence Master

Rosen meticulously prepared for his masterpiece, a spiritual painting that would immortalize his understanding of the Seven Deadly Sins. The process began with the extraction of divinity from seven powerful abyss demons using the Ed's Palette. This extraordinary artifact enabled him to isolate their divine essence, the key to creating pigments of unparalleled potency.

Next, Rosen used his divinity to combine and stabilize the chaotic, sinful powers of the Seven Deadly Sins—Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, and Lust. Using the Palette of Love, these powers were transformed into vivid pigments, each color representing the essence of a sin. The process demanded precision, as any imbalance in the transformation could render the pigments useless.

With the pigments complete, Rosen turned his attention to the canvas. The skins of the abyss demons were carefully peeled off, their surfaces kept intact and unblemished. These skins were then merged with the flawless human skin Rosen had cultivated in the Void Gallery, a dimension he controlled. Using the miraculous synthesis power of the God Hunter's Eye, the materials were fused into a seamless, divine drawing paper capable of holding the spiritual weight of the painting.

The stage was set. Rosen began painting the Seven Deadly Sins. Though creating a flawless representation of their forms was relatively straightforward for a painter of his caliber, capturing their profound charm and spirituality was a far greater challenge. The essence of a Sequence 0 Deity was elusive, even to a Sequence 0 Painter like Rosen. He could only depict their physical appearances, leaving their deeper spiritual allure to be enhanced by external forces.

To bridge this gap, Rosen channeled thousands of points of Creative Divine Power into his work, forcibly infusing the painting with a semblance of their spiritual presence. But that was not enough. To ensure the painting embodied the sins' true nature, he utilized his Soul Painter ability to extract the souls and divine essence of the seven abyss demons, sealing them within the painting.

Even with the souls integrated, the painting initially felt lifeless, its portrayal of the sins unconvincing. To remedy this, Rosen incorporated Demonic Seeds of the Seven Deadly Sins, each composed of vast reservoirs of spiritual energy. These seeds amplified the painting's spiritual resonance.

The final step was the most crucial. Rosen employed his Telepathy, combined with the power of creation, to add the finishing touch. This delicate process imbued the painting with the ability to make the false appear true, breathing life into the static image.

Once completed, the painting was sent to the Lord God Church, where it was declared a holy artifact to 15 billion believers. The church proclaimed that the Seven Deadly Sins Demon had been sealed within the painting by the grace of the Great Lord God. With enough faith from the believers, the painting would transcend its origins, and the sins within would become real.

This transformation required time. The believers' collective faith gradually brought the depicted sins to life, though not as fully realized entities. Instead, the painting could summon a weakened Sequence 3 Replica of the sins—a formidable achievement nonetheless.

Creating this painting was no small feat. Rosen spent several months in isolation, concealing his progress behind a veil of spatial fog. This fog prevented others from observing his techniques, safeguarding his methods and materials from rival painters. Even after completing the painting, it took additional months in the Ancient God's Real World for the illusion to solidify into near-reality.

Rosen's secrecy inspired others. Rival painters began employing similar methods, shrouding their works in fog to prevent premature judgment. The competition became increasingly opaque, with no clear way to determine who was leading.

Finally, the day came when Rosen dispersed the spatial fog, revealing his nearly year-long effort to the world.

[Demon God Appearance: Miracle Painting]

Level: Sequence 3Miracle Attribute: Summons the Abyss Demon wielding the power of the Seven Deadly Sins.Miracle Features: Demonic Feast, Unique in Heaven and Earth, Eternal Immortality.

Rosen marveled at his creation. The birth of a Miracle Painting was an unprecedented event, a testament to his skill and ingenuity. The conditions required for such a creation were extraordinary:

Over 300 million worth of top-grade spiritual crystals.The miraculous synthesis power of the God Hunter's Eye.The Soul Painter ability.LV7 Telepathy for precise spiritual manipulation.Thousands of points of Creative Divine Power.Amplification of Divinity through an ancient god's sacrificial vessel.

Missing even one of these elements would have rendered the painting impossible. Yet, Rosen had managed to assemble all the necessary components, defying the odds to create a spiritual painting that surpassed his Sequence 5 limitations.

To protect his masterpiece, Rosen framed it using a specially crafted artifact—a frame created by a Sequence 3 Sculptor and purchased from the Main Temple. This frame further enhanced the painting's properties, its value rivaling that of a Sequence 3 extraordinary object.

With the painting secured, Rosen carried it to the Glittering Tower, where he sought recognition from Ashier, an illusory figure of immense authority.

Ashier examined the painting closely, his expression inscrutable. After a long silence, he finally shook his head.

"Is there anyone below Sequence 3 who can draw better than me?" Rosen asked, his frustration evident.

"What I value is your talent and painting skills, not your wealth or luck," Ashier replied dismissively. "You may choose a skill crystal from my collection or create a new painting using ordinary materials to prove your ability."

Rosen's eyes narrowed, but he responded without hesitation. "I choose the skill crystal."

Ashier waved his hand, and an array of skill crystals appeared in the air. Rosen selected a Sequence 3 Skill Crystal, accepted it without a word, and left the tower. As he departed, he raised his middle finger toward Ashier, his back turned.

The inheritance clearly belonged to Ashier to distribute as he saw fit, but the competition's rules had been explicit: the best painting would win. Rosen had created a Miracle Painting, a feat unmatched by his peers. Yet, Ashier dismissed him with an excuse that defied reason.

"The materials are too precious? Ridiculous," Rosen muttered under his breath. "Can materials alone create such a painting? If fairness was truly the concern, how is it fair for Sequence 4 painters to compete with Sequence 5? Or for descendants of gods to contend against mortals?"

Rosen's anger simmered as he recalled the hypocrisy of the competition. Many painters had used valuable materials to enhance their works, yet none had been criticized for it. The truth was clear: Ashier's inheritance had been decided long before the competition began.

When Ashier saw the middle finger given to him, an unprecedented and terrifying murderous intent surged in his heart. However, he was relying on the little divinity left in his self-portrait clone and couldn't even get rid of this arrogant ant. This made Ashier suppress his anger, but the next moment, he could no longer keep it under control.

As Rosen left, most of the hundreds of painters stopped painting, packed up, and left. Although they didn't know that the Demon God Appearance was a miracle painting, they could tell that it was a spiritual painting of the Gundam Sequence 3. A Sequence 5 painter could not even draw a spiritual painting that a Sequence 3 could manage, so they weren't qualified to stay. It would only be a waste of time. Moreover, they realized that Ashier's inheritance wasn't meant to be passed on to them from the start.

As for those who stayed, they thought that if they couldn't get the inheritance, it would be good to at least obtain the skill crystal. Rosen did not leave Shentu City but instead came to the only hotel in the city: Shentu Hotel. This hotel didn't even have guest rooms; it only had empty spaces for void galleries. The void galleries could be converted into ready-made guest rooms. All the painters were lords of the divine realm, and they carried their lords' castles with them, so they didn't need to be served by hotel staff.

After Rosen placed the Void Gallery down, he prepared to advance to Sequence 4 there. The painting rules were everywhere in Shentu City, and advancing through the sequence levels here allowed a better exposure to these rules. Of course, before reaching Sequence 3, exposure to these painting rules wasn't particularly useful. After all, if spirituality hadn't yet transformed into divinity, mastering the divine power of painting was a distant dream.

But Rosen was different. He was confident that after advancing to Sequence 4, he would gain the power of painting. This confidence didn't only stem from his spiritual strength being comparable to Sequence 3 but also from the blood of the ancient gods, which could transform spirituality into divinity over time. Furthermore, he possessed the most inclusive primitive human blood. The moment the Demon God appeared, Rosen's spiritual strength had reached 60 points, and it was a perfect 60 points.

The spiritual feedback that the Demon God Appearance painting brought him was more powerful than he had ever imagined. Rosen used his own sequence of ancient trees to communicate spiritually with artists who had an ancient tree sequence. The ancient tree of the Artist Sequence located in an unknown area of the spiritual world instantly drew his spirit to the foot of the tree. Then, a golden leaf fell from the tree, merging into the extraordinary essence in the spiritual canvas and the magic brush, driving his painter sequence to advance to Sequence 4.

The two innate skills, Spiritual Attachment and Stroke of Inspiration, automatically advanced to Level 6. However, no new characteristics were born. His seventh sense told him that these two skills would unleash super-powerful divine characteristics only when they reached Level 7. Then there were the special skills that didn't have skill levels; they were strengthened as a whole due to the increase in sequence levels. None of these skills had new features, and Rosen had suppressed them, leaving their foundation at Sequence 3 to produce a qualitative change.

However, there was one skill that Rosen couldn't suppress. The moment he was promoted to Sequence 4 Painter, his proficiency in the Mind Canvas skill increased directly to the maximum and was instantly promoted from LV6 to LV7. Because the Glory Sage could convert knowledge into proficiency, his proficiency was maxed out, and he was instantly promoted from LV6 to LV7. Therefore, the Mind Canvas became the first skill he mastered to reach the demigod level.

It seemed a bit difficult for the Mind Canvas to breed new features, and it was estimated that it would take at least a few days to complete the transformation. However, his innate skill of Painter Sequence 4 had already been born within the extraordinary source.

[Destiny Eraser: You can condense your own luck into a destiny eraser and then tamper with the spiritual painting.]

Rosen sensed this skill within the extraordinary source, activated his innate skill, and began to condense the Destiny Eraser. He consumed a portion of Sequence 9 acquired luck to condense a Sequence 9 Destiny Eraser.

Rosen took out various spiritual paintings and began to verify the correct way to use the Destiny Eraser. This was another innate skill that had never existed in the Painter Sequence—at least, he had never heard of it. Most likely, it was because of the Xinhuo Painter that the innate skills he was born with had become increasingly rare and special.

After a few hours of tinkering, Rosen roughly figured out how it worked. The most basic function was that if a mistake was made in drawing, the Destiny Eraser could be used to erase the mistake and draw again. Not only could it be used on his own paintings, but other people's paintings could also be tampered with at will by erasing parts of them with the Destiny Eraser.

In addition, the Destiny Eraser could erase other people's innate destiny. Rosen tried to draw a portrait of Kurapika and then used the Eraser of Fate to erase Kurapika's innate luck. Although it didn't permanently erase the innate luck, it could instantly reset Kurapika's innate luck to zero. As a result, before his innate luck was restored, Kurapika was extremely unlucky.

Of course, Rosen was only Sequence 4, so he needed to pay double the cost to erase the luck of Sequence 3. For Sequence 2, the cost was four times as much, for Sequence 1, it was eight times as much, and if nothing unexpected happened, Sequence 0 should require sixteen times the cost. This meant that, in theory, if one could accumulate sixteen times the acquired luck of Sequence 0, they could clear the innate luck of a Sequence 0. Of course, Sequence 0 also had acquired luck, so to truly clear their luck, it was estimated that one would need a hundred times the acquired luck of Sequence 0.

Therefore, it was only theoretically possible to threaten Sequence 0, as this was only an innate skill of Sequence 3. In theory, it could be effective against Sequence 0, relying solely on the power of the Miracle Flame. However, it was impossible to obtain a hundred times the acquired luck of Sequence 0, but it wasn't impossible to obtain several times the luck of Sequence 1.

Although it was impossible to completely clear the luck of Sequence 1, if this Sequence 1 were to be promoted to Sequence 0, then the sudden disappearance of a portion of its luck could be enough to be the last straw that broke the camel's back and directly lead to the failure of the promotion to Sequence 0. By then, the Sequence 1 would be seriously injured at best, or die at worst. With this, Rosen could be said to have mastered a means to threaten Sequence 1.

In fact, when Rosen thought about it carefully, he realized that the biggest function of the Destiny Eraser was not to erase the enemy's luck. Being able to modify spiritual paintings was the greatest value.

Although it is not true that the faster a painter paints, the better, most of the time it is best not to slow down. Sometimes, when inspiration and touch come, what you draw is what you like best. If I draw too slowly, it feels like the painting might pass by before I finish it. But if you draw too quickly, it is easy to make mistakes, and if you make a mistake, the painting is basically ruined. It is actually quite difficult to balance fast and slow, but with the Destiny Eraser, you don't have to worry about it.

Having successfully advanced to Sequence 4, Rosen was not particularly satisfied. Although I have reached Sequence 4, I have not mastered the divine power of painting. Despite trying his best to use spiritual thoughts to capture the painting rules around him, he still could not master the divine power of painting. Only now did he truly understand how difficult it was to master the divine power of creation.

Rosen casually took out the void painting album and the magic brush and began to paint with the help of the time acceleration of the Time Canvas. What he painted were still spiritual paintings. It was not that he had forgotten that spiritual paintings were the foundation, but the World Tree needed spiritual paintings. The spiritual paintings he drew and hung on the World Tree could slowly improve his control over the authority of the world.

There were now thousands of spiritual paintings hanging on the World Tree, and his world authority was almost approaching 10%. A few days later, under the acceleration of the Time Canvas, Rosen's spiritual strength, which had reached 61 points after his promotion, began to completely transform from Sequence 5 to the spiritual strength of Sequence 4. Similarly, under the acceleration of time, the transformation of the Mind Canvas was also completely completed.

[Mind Canvas LV7: (700/700)]

Attributes: The painter can use his eyes and spiritual perception as a medium to project everything he sees into his own spirituality and consciousness, and can also paint in the spirituality and consciousness of life.

Miracle Features:

Mind Projection – Can project the contents of the Mind Canvas onto the real and spiritual levels.

Ash Curtain – The Mind Canvas can be transformed into an ash curtain, reflecting the afterglow of the ashes of civilization.

Mysterious Reflection – The Mind Canvas can copy a miracle characteristic belonging to a miracle (unique in the world).

Theocratic Characteristics:

Mystical Psychology – You master theocratic power of fear and theocratic power of the mind, and have insight into the mind of life. You can directly reflect the most fearful things in the target's heart through the Canvas of the Mind.

Rosen muttered to himself, "Mystical psychology, I'm not a psychologist?" While complaining in his heart, after carefully understanding the characteristics of this divine power, his only feeling was that it was really good. If the east is not bright, the west will be bright. He did not master the divine power of painting, but he had mastered the two divine powers of fear and mind.

Not to mention, Mystical Psychology can also see through a person's deepest fears. Although the things that one fears in one's heart may not be a fatal weakness, they are definitely one of the weaknesses. This means that no matter who I see in the future, I can instantly discover one of their hidden weaknesses, he thought. Of course, the premise is that the spiritual strength of that person cannot exceed his by much.

With the help of the God Hunter's Demon Eye, one can see through the fear in others' hearts even at home. Rosen tried and failed. Outside the mysterious study, he transformed the Mind Canvas into an Ash Curtain. However, the Ash Curtain could not reflect the fear in other people's hearts. So, in the short term, this ability could only be used in the mysterious study. Despite his disappointment, he decided to be happy and took out the skill crystal he got from Ashier and began to refine it.

This was a Sequence 3 skill crystal, and normally, he could not refine it now. However, the power of the two divine powers expanded the foundation of the extraordinary source within the Mind Canvas, so it was not difficult for him to master this skill.

[Time Predictive Painting: You can draw predictive paintings with the power of time.]

Painters also have the ability to predict the future, and predictive painting is a skill that every painter will try to master. There are time-predictive paintings, fate-predictive paintings, cause-and-effect-predictive paintings, dream-predictive paintings, and so on. The time-predictive painting is second only to the destiny-predictive painting. However, to master the destiny-predicting painting, one needs to master the destiny-predicting divine power. So far, there is only one Sequence 2 painter who has this means. It is not that easy to master the destiny-predicting divine power.

Rosen had the seventh sense, as well as time skills such as Time Hunter, to master the power of time. In addition, he held the power of the world, and the core of the world's power was time and space, so time-predictive painting was most suitable for him. He casually opened the void painting album and began to draw his first time-predictive painting.

The drawing process consumed time and energy, and the Time Dragon Crystal had a reserve limit of 30,000 years. The self-portrait clone randomly shot some prisoners in the Void God Prison and replenished the Time Dragon Crystal.

The object of Rosen's prediction was himself, and he placed the magic pen on the canvas and began to paint. During the entire painting process, Rosen had a feeling that it was him holding the paintbrush, but it was not his present self who was painting the picture. Instead, it was his future self using his hands to paint the picture. This may be the essence of time-predictive painting.

It took two hours and consumed thirty thousand years of time to complete the time-predicting painting. The mist of time that originally covered the canvas slowly dissipated at this moment.

Rosen was already frightened after just one look. In the painting, he and a woman were training horse riding. He was hugging the woman from the back. From her figure and hair, the woman looked like Annika, but her face was Daisy Best. Daisy Best, Damon's mother, a psychologist at Sequence 1.

In the painting, Daisy's hand was blurred and moving backward through her heart. It was not difficult to imagine that she was definitely not trying to take out her own heart. The hand passing through her heart was aiming at his heart behind her, wanting to take out his heart when his defense was weakest.

(End of chapter)