Lord: Sequence Master

On Paradise Island, Rosen stood in the now-empty chairman's office, feeling a touch of melancholy.

Just minutes ago, the space had been bustling with activity. Now, he was the only one left.

Daisy had taken Annika to the Glory Foundation. Her ambition to gain complete control of the organization was clear.

Amy, on the other hand, had departed for the Mechanical Continent—a land once ruled by the Mechanical Clan, now filled with spiritual realms left behind by its former inhabitants. Seeking a path to further her future growth, Amy had set off alone on her own adventure.

While Rosen could accept Daisy's absence, Amy's departure left him genuinely sorrowful. Fortunately, with the aid of data transmission, he could visit her whenever he wished.

Shaking off his feelings, Rosen activated the Void Gallery and stepped into the studio. He approached the wall, where a painting materialized out of thin air. This was a Sequence 4 Vampire Glory Heritage Spirit Realm painting, which had been in his possession for many years. Now, it was time for it to see the light of day once again.

Walking into the painting, Rosen emerged in Chaohu City, where time repeated itself in an endless loop.

Within a vampire castle, Fara Simmons awoke abruptly and attempted to flee using Blood Escape. Initially, she assumed Rosen had come seeking her assistance. However, upon sensing the unmistakable Sequence 4 spiritual fluctuations emanating from him, she realized he intended to free her.

Having reached Sequence 4 as a Painter, Rosen now possessed the power to lift the seal and confinement imposed by the Blood Clan Glory Painting without causing Fara harm. The freedom she had yearned for over 20,000 years was finally within reach. Unable to contain her emotions, Fara hugged Rosen tightly.

If Rosen had simply wanted to release Fara, he could have done so long ago. However, he understood that Fara's allegiance was forced. If given a better option, she would surely escape. Thus, he had waited for the right moment.

"Will you be my pet?" Rosen asked, his tone serious.

Fara hesitated but ultimately nodded in agreement.

"All right, I'll take you out today," Rosen said.

He retrieved a potion bottle and began preparing the Hunter Sequence Potion required for his advancement to Sequence 4.

Ingredients:

One Soul Crystal from a Soul Harvester.One Soul Fire from a Bone Dragon.One Sequence 4 Soul Gem.One Soul Bone from a Ghost Worm.Ten Pituitary Glands from Thousand-Eyed Evil Eyes.

Finally, Rosen added the core material: a fragment of a godhead condensed by a demigod wielding the divine power of the soul.

This fragment wasn't something one could buy. Rosen had obtained it from Daisy's private treasury.

The God Hunter Sequence he was transitioning into was exceptional—a branch specifically designed to counter gods. A fully developed Sequence 1 God Hunter could effortlessly defeat a Sequence 0. History recorded that the World Government once had a single God Hunter at Sequence 1, who eliminated numerous alien Sequence 0 beings.

However, this power came at a cost. The God Hunter Sequence had been relentlessly targeted by alien gods, leading to its near extinction. Only potions from Sequence 9 to Sequence 4 remained, with no way to advance further.

For Rosen, this limitation was irrelevant. He only needed the core ability of the God Hunter at Sequence 4 to strengthen his power.

With all the ingredients combined, the potion was perfectly prepared.

Rosen raised the potion bottle, drinking the mixture in one gulp. It resembled a thick liquid smoothie.

He anticipated that the Miracle Flame within him would suppress the mumbling and hallucinations as it had done in the past. However, this time was different. Multiple whispers filled his ears, their intensity overwhelming even the Miracle Flame's protective effect. Simultaneously, terrifying hallucinations began to assault his mind.

Through Daisy, Rosen already understood the origins of these disturbances.

In every extraordinary system, the total amount of resources was finite. When these resources were depleted, the world would prompt the emergence of a new extraordinary system. In this finite framework, the allocation of resources became critical.

The whispers and hallucinations were manifestations of this system—both a test from the sequence's source and a curse from alien gods.

The God Hunter Sequence, in particular, bore the brunt of alien gods' curses. This meant that anyone attempting to advance within this sequence faced relentless spiritual pollution. This was the primary reason for the near extinction of the God Hunters.

Despite the overwhelming assault, Rosen did not dare transform his spirituality into golden divinity to purify the effects. Instead, he relied solely on his formidable willpower.

Fortunately, with a maximum spirituality of 12 points per sequence and an additional 9 points from the Ancient God's Sacrificial Vessel, Rosen's spiritual resilience rivaled that of a demigod. This allowed him to withstand the intense whispers and hallucinations, successfully completing his advancement.

The moment Rosen's spiritual strength rose to 62 points, all the mumbling and hallucinations disappeared. He immediately transformed his spirituality into golden divinity, took out the golden apple and star fruit, and ate them in big mouthfuls, finally purifying the slight pollution brought by the remaining mumbling and hallucinations of the spirituality.

Rosen carefully sensed the hunter's extraordinary essence, and the hunter's innate skills of Sequence 4 were born.

[Hunter God: You can burn your spirituality to gain true damage to the source of divinity.]

Rosen tried it and found that the Hunter God ability has two forms. It can burn the spirituality of the captured extraordinary life, and it can also burn its own spirituality. Burning foreign spirituality, the real damage caused can only be directed at the enemy's divinity. Burning one's own spirituality, the true damage can directly attack the source of divinity.

The spiritual essence of the Lord of the Divine Realm was transformed into a sequence of ancient trees hidden in the lord's castle. This is why, after the death of the Lord of the Divine Realm, he could be reborn under the ancient tree of sequence in the Lord's castle. However, if one attacks the divine origin directly, even if one is a Sequence 3 God Realm Lord, he will lose the chance of resurrection if his true body is killed.

However, it is very troublesome to recover from burning one's own spirituality. Although it is not burning the source of spirituality, burning one's own spirituality will also reduce spiritual strength. After burning, one needs to use treasures such as the golden apple to quickly recover the lost spiritual strength.

Although it is not as perfect as imagined, it is indeed a very terrifying ability. Almost all resurrection abilities were destroyed directly. It was no wonder that the God Hunter could easily kill a Sequence 0 God with Sequence 1.

Rosen sensed his other innate skills and found that his Nen ability was still at LV7, without any change. He would likely have to wait until he became Sequence 3 before his Nen ability would be further improved to LV8, as every level after Sequence 3 represented a qualitative change. The Nightmare Shackles were upgraded to Level 6, but no new features were born. Other innate skills that do not have skill levels had been strengthened overall due to the increase in sequence levels.

However, what Rosen was most looking forward to was the ability to use the Divine Beast Seal to contract a new pet after reaching Hunter Sequence 4.

Rosen had just advanced to Sequence 4 right in front of Farah, which was essentially a test for her. If she had any ill intentions, the Wood Elf Queen would immediately take action to capture her. Fortunately, Farah did not let him down. She quietly guarded him from beginning to end and did not take the opportunity to betray him.

Rosen quickly condensed a new Divine Beast Seal, combined it with the Nightmare Shackles, and sent the Divine Beast Seal towards the sea of consciousness between Farah's brows. Farah, who was well-prepared, resigned herself to the fusion of the Divine Beast Seal, allowing it to brand her spiritual origin and letting the Nightmare Shackles bind her spiritual origin.

When the fusion was complete, Farah became Rosen's new pet.

Unknowingly, he already had six pets: Nightmare Slime, Self-Portrait Clone, Storm Thunderbird, Little Dragon Girl, Amy, and Farah. He could borrow the sequence abilities of all the pets at any time to switch states and restrain enemies as much as possible.

Farah Simmons: The Original Bloodline

Level: Sequence 4

Divinity: 62

Divine Power: Blood, Concentration, Charm, Loyalty, Intuition, Dream, Corrupted Holy Grail

Skills: Blood Mark, Life Super Sense, Eternal Dream, Blood Bat Technique, Corrupted Blood Mist...

Exclusive Treasure: Fallen Tarot Card - Source, Divinity, Holy Grail Queen

There were seven kinds of divine power, and Rosen tried it, finding that all of them could be shared without loss. This discovery truly shocked him.

Among Farah's seven divine powers, only the divine power of Blood originated from the extraordinary bloodline of her own ancestor, the vampire clan. The remaining six all came from the Queen of Cups, a Sequence 3 Fallen Tarot Card.

The remaining Ring of the Sea God in Rosen's hand could also allow him to obtain several kinds of divine blessings. However, these divine powers derived from the Remaining Ring of Poseidon would be greatly discounted even if they were shared with other pets. This was because the powers did not come from Rosen himself but were external forces from the Remaining Ring of Poseidon. It was naturally impossible to share them all with pets.

However, he could perfectly share the divine powers that Farah held. This showed that, although these divine powers originated from the Queen of the Holy Grail, they completely belonged to Farah. They were an inseparable part of her being, powers she perfectly controlled. This also implied that, although the Queen of the Holy Grail was only Sequence 3, she was not as simple as she seemed.

It was not surprising. Both the Queen of the Holy Grail and the Remaining Ring of Poseidon possessed true divine power. Theocracy was the power held by demigods and, strictly speaking, was only pseudo-theocracy. However, the weakest true divine power required Sequence 1 to have a chance of mastery. Typically, only true gods of Sequence 0 could easily wield it. The Queen of the Holy Grail was either incomplete or possessed hidden powers yet to be activated.

Rosen looked at the bright and charming Farah, hesitating for a moment before stepping forward. He tightly embraced her, the realization settling over him. Despite the trials they had faced, Farah had remained by his side, loyal and unwavering.

In the past, his attempts to approach her had been met with grave consequences. Farah's overwhelming physique as a pureblood vampire made her instinctively absorb the vitality of any man who came too close. Several attempts had nearly cost Rosen his life.

But now, through their connection, Rosen shared all of Farah's abilities, including her immunity to the effects of her own bloodline. This time, there were no risks, no dangers. Only triumph.

Rosen no longer had to worry. Bat wings grew on his back and he took Farah into the air. He began to try extremely difficult aerial riding in the clouds. He did not fall asleep until Farah, the girl who had lived for 20,000 years, had completely become his woman.

Maybe it was because she had been trapped in the vampire castle for too long, but Farah was extremely eager for everything in the outside world.

So she tried her best to get Rosen to agree to take her out for some fun.

On this day, Rosen took Farah away from Paradise Island for a trip as agreed.

However, the moment they left, he and Farah both felt a kind of threat that seemed like fate.

"The Holy Grail King..."

Rosen and Farah said in unison.

Since there is a Holy Grail Queen, there must naturally be a Holy Grail King. Strictly speaking, the Queen is even the King's subordinate.

Both Rosen and Farah could feel that the Fallen Tarot Queen of the Holy Grail was instinctively connecting with the Holy Grail King, and that the Holy Grail King already had a master. This instinct would prompt the Holy Grail Queen to approach the King like a moth to a flame.

Farah thought of a possibility and suddenly felt a little distraught.

Rosen looked at Farah's expression and guessed what she was thinking.

The most painful thing in Farah's life is undoubtedly the betrayal of her brother, Shire Simmons, who has been both her brother and father to her since childhood. The brother who was willing to sacrifice his life for Farah gradually turned bad and imprisoned Farah for the Queen of the Holy Grail.

Because the contrast between the past and the present is so great, Farah feels very awkward towards Shire.

There is a brother-sister bond that has not yet been completely severed, as well as resentment that cannot be forgotten after betrayal.

But if the Holy Grail Queen can be restrained by the Holy Grail King, then there may be a possibility that Shire sealed Farah in the Vampire Glory Spirit Realm painting. Shire was not really coveting the Holy Grail Queen, but knew through some means that the Holy Grail Queen was naturally restrained by the Holy Grail King.

Although this is just a possibility, Farah would rather believe it.

"If you want to know the truth, I will help you investigate."

Rosen hugged Farah and promised seriously.

No matter what the truth is, he will get the King of Cups Tarot card at any price.

Similarly, the holder of the Holy Grail King will also get the Holy Grail Queen at any cost.

Rosen calmed down the dazed Farah, took out the Void Album and began to draw the time prediction painting.

Soon he finished the painting. The painting showed a studio with a painter sitting on the side, who was also painting on the void album. After carefully enlarging the void album, he saw that he was holding Farah's hand in the painting and had just finished painting the time prediction painting.

Rosen immediately confirmed two things: the holder of the Holy Grail King was at least a Sequence 3 painter.

Moreover, this painter also possessed a skill such as predictive painting. While he predicted the holder of the Holy Grail King, this Sequence 3 painter also simultaneously drew him and Farah. However, due to the interference of each other's power, the predictive paintings only showed half of each other's faces in profile.

Rosen instantly activated the time sketch and drew the full face based on the half face he saw in the painting.

Farah looked at the full image of the man in the painting, and her second most hated target instantly emerged in her memory.

The person she hated the most in the past was her brother Shire, and the second person she hated the most was the painter who sealed her together with Shire.

Now that the Holy Grail King was in the hands of this painter, Farah's guess was confirmed. Could it be that Shire and this painter had teamed up to find the Holy Grail King, and then Shire was assassinated by this painter?

Farah did not dare to disturb Rosen who was concentrating, and could only stand aside and anxiously wait for the result.

The moment Rosen finished painting the portrait, he began to curse the other person with the death sentence.

The curse was blocked by the phantom of a crown, and the self-portrait clone almost didn't come back alive.

Before he could test further, his hands suddenly began to rot, and in the blink of an eye, only bones were left. However, under the purification of the golden divinity, the curse of decay that enveloped his hands was purified in an instant, and the terrifying regenerative ability restored his hands to their original state.

After the test just now, Rosen realized that the opponent was not someone who could be easily dealt with.

The other party probably had the same idea, so I didn't continue to test it.

If the long-distance online probing yields no results, then the next step will definitely be a head-on conflict offline.

Now it depends on who finds the other party first. Whoever can gain the advantage and arrange a favorable situation in advance.

Rosen used the portrait in his hand as a medium and the God Hunter Magic Eye to spy on the target.

He instantly saw the young man who was deep in thought in the studio. However, the moment he saw this man, this painter who was only Sequence 3 actually discovered the surveillance of the God Hunter Magic Eye and looked up to form a stare-like confrontation with him across the void.

Even in Sequence 1 Daisy couldn't do this, so how could this Sequence 3 painter's perception be so terrifying?

Either the Holy Grail King was incredibly strong, or this Sequence 3 painter was just playing dumb.

Rosen sent the self-portrait clone back to the mysterious study, and the gaze between the two immediately turned into one-sided peeping.

Through the mutual induction between the Holy Grail Queen and the Holy Grail King, Rosen locked the approximate location and immediately used data transmission to continuously approach the current position of the Holy Grail King. At the same time, he could also feel that the Holy Grail King was also actively approaching the Holy Grail Queen.

"You said he was Mogaro Andrade, Shire's best friend?"

On the way, Rosen unexpectedly got a new clue from Farah.

"I'm sure it's him."

Farah said without hesitation.

"Then there are two possibilities..."

Rosen thought for a moment and said, "The first possibility is that this person is not the real Mogaro, otherwise how could he not know that you were trapped inside the Simmons family's inherited spiritual painting? The second possibility is that for some reason, Mogaro cannot actively approach you before you escape."

"Everything will be clear once we catch him."

Farah couldn't be sure which possibility it was, so she could only say it helplessly.

Rosen nodded in agreement. Guesswork is always just guesswork. Once the opponent is captured alive, the truth will naturally become clear.

However, he hoped it was the second possibility. If it was the first one, after giving Farah hope, he didn't know how sad she would be if he gave her despair again. However, this time his seventh sense gave him a feeling that it might not be that easy to capture the Sequence 3 painter alive.

Because whether it was the main god network or the deep network of the spiritual world, he couldn't find any information about Mogaro.

You have to know that even for a Sequence 0 like Chinon Touré, a lot of basic information is retained in these two networks, especially the main god network. Chinon has no way to delete the information left on it. The most Chinon can do is to delete the traces he left in the deep network of the spiritual world, and it is difficult to delete them completely.

Therefore, it is very likely that Mogaro had bad luck innately, which is why he was not pulled into the main god network.

Moreover, he had never logged into the deep web of the spiritual world, so he could not find any trace of Mogaro.

Of course, there is another possibility that Mogaro did not use the identity of Mogaro when logging into the deep web of the spiritual world.

Because on the surface it looks like Mogaro, but in fact it could be anyone.

Rosen can master role-playing skills with the help of human body painting. Naturally, other painters may also have similar abilities to disguise themselves as Mogaro. Even Sequence 3 may not be the opponent's true sequence level. It seems that it is best for him to be cautious in the near future contact.

(End of chapter)