Lord: Sequence Master

Rainbow City, Wilkins Family Rainbow Castle.

The contemporary hereditary Duke Hal of Wilkins was in his prime and had fathered dozens of sons. However, except for the two youngest ones who had non-hereditary titles and were transferred to the noble sequence, the rest were only transferred to the silver sequence. Duke Hal favored his two youngest sons because they were born when he was at Sequence 4.

The stronger the bloodline passed down from generation to generation by the nobility, the more difficult it was to produce offspring. The higher the level of the extraordinary life sequence, the harder it became to have children. But on the other hand, the qualifications of the offspring born would be better.

The dozens of sons before Duke Hal were the fruits of his efforts when he was at Sequence 9. Their naturally inherited extraordinary bloodlines and qualifications were inferior. They might have been good enough in a small noble family, but they were not worth cultivating in the Wilkins family. Therefore, only the two youngest sons with the best qualifications were trained as the next generation of heirs to the Duke.

Raising two sons instead of just one was a precaution. In case one was incompetent, there was always a backup. If both turned out to be incompetent, the family could either choose an heir from the grandchildren or find a way to have a third son.

Although they were all sons of Duke Hal, the later they were born, the higher their status and the better the allocation of resources they received. In this situation, comparison was inevitable. As long as there was comparison, complaints and jealousy would follow.

Moreover, not all hereditary dukes were as willing and able to have children as Duke Hal. In this environment, Tagis Wilkins, the eldest son of Duke Hal, saw that the eldest sons of other noble families were in high positions while he, himself, became a laughingstock. Gradually, Tagis's mentality became more and more unbalanced.

Today, Tagis went to collect cultivation resources, and a certain extraordinary resource he urgently needed happened to be in the possession of his younger brother. This was his younger brother from the same father and mother, but this well-behaved and adorable brother took all the extraordinary resources without hesitation, leaving nothing for him. It was obvious that his younger brother couldn't use so many resources, but it was clear he had taken them all on purpose.

Tagis knew very well what was going on. Among his father's many sons, he was the least talented. The two younger brothers had been fighting for the right to inherit the Dukedom for years, and his other half-brothers had been using him—the good-for-nothing eldest son—to humiliate the younger brothers. Over time, his younger brothers began to see him as an eyesore, but why should he be blamed for all this?

Tagis silently returned to the wizard tower that belonged to him. No, it was only the wizard tower that belonged to him temporarily. Because he was the eldest, even though he had the worst talent, his sequence level was not the lowest. One of the wizard towers that had been passed down from generation to generation in the family had been temporarily given to him for use.

However, some of his younger brothers, who also chose the wizard sequence, were about to catch up to his sequence level. Once they did, the wizard tower that had been his companion for many years would be taken away by others. Then, the only option left for him would be to go to the front line.

"I'm so unwilling…"

Tagis laughed bitterly at himself.

"Since you are unwilling, then try to change…"

The sudden voice from the side made Tagis, who had just closed the door and turned his back to the study, shudder. As the controller of the wizard tower, Tagis couldn't even hide a mosquito in the tower. However, he hadn't even realized that someone had entered the study, a place heavily guarded.

Tagis instantly realized that the mysterious person behind the scenes could easily kill him if they wanted.

"You're not stupid. Then come and sit down."

Rosen invited from his seat at Tagis's desk.

Tagis turned around obediently, walked to the desk, took out a stool from his space ring, and sat down stiffly.

"Let me first tell you why I'm here…"

Rosen said directly and frankly. "There is a powerful enemy in this city that I want to capture alive. The weakest is Sequence 3, and the strongest should not exceed Sequence 1. Before we officially fight, I am not sure of the specific Sequence level of this powerful enemy, so I need to make some preparations. There are two reasons for making preparations. The first is to leave a way out in case of defeat, and the second is to prevent the entire Rainbow City from being wiped out. After all, I am also a noble of the World Government, and I cannot afford the sin of destroying human cities. Now, I need your help to help me with the arrangements in Rainbow City. As a reward, I can change your qualifications, and even if you are willing to become my subordinate after the war, I can help you inherit the hereditary title of the Wilkins family. If you choose to refuse, I will delete your memory and visit your brother."

"I choose to be your subordinate, but please convince me."

Tagis thought of the humiliation his younger brother had suffered before and said without hesitation.

Rosen nodded, took out the hereditary duke's emblem ring, and released a divine pressure equivalent to Sequence 3 under the amplification of the ancient god's sacrificial vessel. Finally, he pulled Tagis into the void shadow world and let him see the painting of the demon god appearing with his own eyes.

Tagis set aside his last bit of doubt and completely gambled his fate on the mysterious man in front of him.

As time went by, everyone in the Wilkins family noticed that Tagis had changed. No longer forbearing, he had become confident and outspoken. The wizard level that had remained at Sequence 6 for many years had suddenly risen to Sequence 5 in a short period of time. He even invited many alchemists from other cities to privately build his own exclusive wizard tower.

Such a huge change naturally attracted all kinds of curious eyes.

At a cocktail party, Tagis revealed the secret of his amazing transformation. It turned out that his extraordinary bloodline had regressed in a rare way, which directly led to a surge in his talent. In addition, he met a teacher who passed through Rainbow City and was successfully accepted as a student by a Sequence 2 wizard. The wizard tower was a gift from his teacher.

Rosen, who successfully disguised himself as a Sequence 2 wizard, also received a visit from Duke Hal the next day. The Sequence 2 that Rosen was disguising as was no inferior knockoff with no identity or origin.

But this person really existed. Among Daisy's multiple personalities, one of them was parasitic, controlling this Sequence 2 wizard. Of course, the control of this personality was no longer in the hands of Daisy's main personality but was instead controlled by the second personality occupying the main body.

Unless someone can reach the true entity, it wouldn't be easy to expose Lawson's high-end counterfeit.

No one knew what Rosen and Duke Hal had discussed, but that day, Duke Hal had already promoted Takis to the first place in the family rankings, which led to countless envy, jealousy, and hostility within the family.

"How did you do that?" Takis asked excitedly after finding Rosen.

"The extraordinary bloodline of your Wilkins family is the Light Griffin, which controls the power of light…" Rosen replied. "However, the Bright Griffin's potential is only Sequence 3, and this extraordinary bloodline is very domineering. It increases the chance of becoming Sequence 3 by one-third, but if you want to become Sequence 2, the chance is reduced by half.

I know of a heritage of light and dark wizards that allows you to fuse the shadow bloodline to offset the bloodline weakness of the Light Griffin. This way, the descendants of the Wilkins family will have a greater chance of advancing to Sequence 2 in the future."

"I will never forget your kindness." Takis said, tears in his eyes.

Rosen believed that at this moment, Takis was truly moved. But people's hearts changed easily. So, as early as when he strengthened Takis' extraordinary bloodline through the world gene bank, he had already rooted the seven deadly sins in Takis' spiritual origin. Unless he became Sequence 3, it would be impossible for him to discover the seven deadly sins.

But by that time, Rosen would be at worst Sequence 1. By that time, the seven deadly sins will have evolved many times, and Takis is doomed to have no chance of escaping my control.

In the following days, Rosen continued to transform Takis' extraordinary bloodline. Duke Hal called a few of his old friends together, and after studying the changes in Takis, they were amazed by the transformations in him. If it weren't for the fact that it became more difficult to reshape the extraordinary bloodline as one became stronger, Duke Hal would have been unable to resist paying a large sum of money to beg Takis' teacher to help him reshape his extraordinary bloodline.

As the days passed, Takis' wizard tower was finally approaching the final stage of completion.

No matter how magnificent a castle is, it inevitably leaves a shadow under the sunlight. The sky of Rainbow City was filled with rainbow-like auroras, creating a visual feast of light and shadow. However, today, the shadow of the Wilkins family's Rainbow Castle, which was originally obscured by the light, began to come alive and, in turn, obscured the light.

In a short period of time, with Takis' Wizard Tower at its core, the entire Rainbow City was shrouded in the Void Shadow World.

Because of Duke Hal's advance notice, the extraordinary people in the city were not surprised. Everyone knew that this lucky guy, Takis, had mastered both the power of light and darkness. This time, he even planned to use the completion of his wizard tower to extract the light and shadow of the entire Rainbow City in one fell swoop to shape the prototype of a special divine territory.

Having recently become the first heir, Takis had finally obtained the noble status he had always dreamed of. It had only been less than a month since they were promoted to Sequence 9 nobles, yet they had already shaped the prototype of the Divine Realm. To prevent any accidents, Duke Hal invited many old friends to Rainbow City to help stabilize order.

Rosen knew without thinking that these old friends of Duke Hal were invited to guard against him. After all, I've been too good to Takis, and that makes Duke Hal uneasy. But it didn't matter. Rosen never intended to do anything bad to the Wilkins family.

He just needed a reason, a reasonable reason, to cover the entire Rainbow City with the Void Shadow Realm. In this way, he could use the cover of the Void Shadow Realm to successfully peel off the past time fragments of Rainbow City.

Rosen took out the copy of Rainbow City he had prepared long ago and infused his own time attribute divinity into the painting in his hand. The power of time sealing allowed his divinity to cover Rainbow City under the veil of the Void Shadow World.

When the intercepted time fragments were peeled off, the seven days of time in Rainbow City were also integrated and sealed in the painting. Rosen finally fixed this painting and the Rainbow City within it inside the divine territory of Takis.

As long as Takis' divine territory and the painting were not completely destroyed, no matter what kind of damage Rainbow City suffered now, after the war, Rosen could use the power of time to reverse Rainbow City's time back to before the destruction.

Of course, the first battlefield was in the Void Shadow Realm, and the Rainbow City in the outside world was only a secondary battlefield as a last resort.

Without any last reservations, Rosen began to wait for the rainbow pearls to mature.

On this day, thousands of rainbow clams in the Void Shadow World beneath the deep pool of the cliff waterfall produced the first batch of rainbow pearls. The self-portrait clone who had arrived ahead of time, after collecting this batch of rainbow pearls, immediately began to quietly collect all the rainbow auroras around the cliff waterfall, leaving no last rainbow aurora behind. He harvested more than 600 rainbow pearls that were integrated with rainbow aurora.

Truth would eventually come to light, and the Wilkins family's men at Cliff Falls soon discovered that all the rainbows and auroras had disappeared.

Such a big thing could not be kept secret, and soon everyone in Rainbow City knew about it.

Mogaro Andrade, who was leisurely painting in the city, had a calm and confident smile on his face.

There were many things that could suppress the curse on him, but the most cost-effective one was the Rainbow Aurora.

More importantly, he also learned a secret—the secret of the mass extinction of rainbow clams.

Thousands of years ago, the Wilkins family raised more than hundreds of rainbow clams. At that time, the production of rainbow pearls was very high, and once the rainbow aurora was born, it would be immediately fused with the rainbow pearls.

However, one day, a rainbow aurora turned into special elemental life. The Duke, the ancestor of the Wilkins family, who was at Sequence 2, relied on the elemental life formed by the rainbow aurora, which enabled him to successfully break the blood defect of the Light Griffin and advance to Sequence 2.

After that, the rainbow clams experienced a catastrophic accident and only six were left. The reason they didn't die out completely was simply because the Wilkins family didn't want to completely cut off their source of income.

Since then, the production of rainbow pearls has been far less than the number of rainbow aurora births. As more and more rainbow auroras were preserved, the probability of the birth of special elemental life naturally increased.

Mogaro had settled in Rainbow City for hundreds of years, always waiting for the birth of new elemental life formed by the rainbow aurora.

Now, all the rainbows and auroras were gone, completely cutting off his way to eradicate the curse on him.

Mogaro was so angry that his teeth were about to break, but then he changed his mind, and a glimmer of hope emerged in his heart.

Only the Wilkins family could have accumulated so many rainbow pearls. Therefore, the Wilkins family must be the one who collected all the rainbows and auroras and then cried thief.

Could it be that they did this suddenly because, without him noticing, Duke Hal had already discovered that some of the rainbow auroras had turned into elemental life, so they collected all the remaining rainbow auroras in one fell swoop to feed the elemental life of the same origin?

The Sequence 2 wizard who suddenly came to Rainbow City might have come for the Rainbow Aurora.

Thinking of this, Mogaro left the Void Gallery directly, opened the Void Album, and drew a door in front of him.

Pushing open the door, Mogaro had already sneaked into the Rainbow Castle.

However, the moment Mogaro appeared in the Rainbow Castle, the entire Rainbow Castle was shrouded in endless darkness.

Except for Mogaro, everyone else in the Rainbow Castle was excluded from the darkness.

This sudden change not only made Mogaro realize that he had fallen into a trap, it also alarmed Duke Hal. Just as he was about to join forces with a few old friends to forcibly break the darkness from the outside, Tagis stepped forward to stop Duke Hal.

Duke Hal then realized that Tagis' teacher actually used Rainbow City as a battlefield to trap and kill powerful enemies.

And the thefts of those rainbow auroras were all stolen by the person hiding in Rainbow City.

This left Duke Hal with a gloomy face as he evacuated everyone in the city. It turned out that there was no such thing as a free lunch.

…

In the void shadow world, Mogaro looked at Rosen, who appeared opposite him in surprise.

Ever since Farah escaped from the Holy Grail Queen's trap and appeared in the world, he had used all his energy in the past year to search for the traces of Farah and the man in front of him. However, he had drawn countless cause and effect prediction paintings and used a lot of other prophetic treasures, but in the end, all of them failed.

Mogaro never expected that the enemy would sneak into Rainbow City and set a trap for him.

Moreover, in view of his powerful perception, the trap was not aimed at him directly but was set indirectly in the Rainbow Castle, and he was indirectly lured into the trap through the rainbow aurora. In this way, no matter how strong his perception was, he would find it difficult to detect abnormalities.

However, it was a bit naive for a Sequence 4 to want to trap and kill him.

Mogaro opened the Void Picture Album, and instantly turned dozens of pages.

Dozens of angels of light walked out from the paintings, a total of fifty Sequence 3 angels of light. The enormous power of light they released almost instantly destroyed the void shadow world.

However, when Rosen saw these angels of light, he smiled.

He was worried that Mogaro would be difficult to deal with, but he didn't expect that he would use the painter sequence summoning style.

Some painters are good at drawing extraordinary life and summoning, some are good at drawing extraordinary objects, the golden lights that people walk on, and some are good at drawing natural wonders, relying on the powerful force of nature to kill the enemy. As long as the energy is enough, all these combat styles can be taken into account.

However, the 50 Sequence 3 angels of light obviously majored in summoning and supplemented with other schools.

If Mogaro could materialize other extraordinary life forms through the Void Album, it would not be difficult for 50 Sequence 3s to break through the Void Shadow Realm.

But all of them are light that is opposed to darkness, so these angels of light are basically given for nothing.

Rosen instantly activated the balance of light and darkness. This was the authority of rules that he had permanently established in the void shadow world with the help of the ecological planetarium, after consuming 10 billion high-quality spiritual crystals.

Now that light was stronger than darkness, the balance of light and darkness would weaken the light and strengthen the darkness.

So it is visible to the naked eye that the divine aura of all the angels of light has dropped dramatically.

However, the strength of the void shadow world has been greatly increased.

Mogaro did not hesitate at all and instantly released the divine territory from the sea of consciousness between his eyebrows.

He saw that the entire divine territory was built like a paradise with angel reliefs everywhere. However, the paradise was full of ruins, and the angel reliefs were all stained with blood and looked hideous.

Mogaro instantly hid the spatial barrier of the divine territory, so that the divine territory was defenseless both inside and outside.

However, because of this, his divine territory is in direct and close contact with the void shadow world.

Mogaro released the Void Gallery and hid directly inside it. As he did, hundreds of blood-stained angel statues came to life. Each statue was no weaker than Sequence 3, and a small number of them rushed toward Mogaro's Void Gallery, while the majority charged at Rosen.

This sudden change caused Rosen's face to turn pale. When did Sequence 3 become so common?

Mogaro was definitely not a Sequence 3 painter. At his peak, he was a Sequence 2, but he had been cursed by some tyrannical force that reduced his Sequence to Sequence 3. Now, he was using his cursed divine territory to kill a thousand enemies while losing eight hundred of his own.

Without hesitation, Rosen took out the Horn of the Abyss and blew it to summon the tributaries of the Abyss Blood River. There were few things as filthy or as cursed as the Abyss Blood River, and even fewer curses could threaten it. As the river descended, it blocked all the cursed angel statues.

Mogaro, hiding in the Void Gallery, was dumbfounded when he saw this. The cursed angel statues, which only knew how to kill, would have to follow the blood river of the abyss if they kept moving forward. Would they kill their way into the abyss?

If banishing the cursed angel statues could rid him of the curse, Mogaro would have done so long ago. In fact, the angel statues helped him share the curse. If the statues were completely destroyed, the dispersed curse would return to him. Forced into a desperate situation, Mogaro could only control the Void Gallery to flash in front of the Abyss Blood River. Then, he materialized the gallery maze in his divine territory, trapping all the angel statues inside.

Rosen immediately realized that the angel statues were actually Mogaro's weakness. He had summoned the tributaries of the Abyss Blood River not to clash with the statues but to prevent direct confrontation. However, he had inadvertently made Mogaro suffer the consequences.

Rosen transformed the Dragon King's Wrath into a giant sniper cannon, accumulating various skills for a critical strike. He burned his own divinity, converting all damage into true damage to the divinity. When the Dragon King's Wrath reached its peak, Rosen unleashed the Dragon King's Roaring Bomb.

The extreme bombardment from the Dragon King's Wrath placed a huge burden on the weapon, and the pressure from the momentum accumulated within it caused cracks to form both inside and out. However, at that moment, Rosen used the power of time manipulation. He reversed the duration of Dragon King's Wrath, causing all damage to be instantly restored.

The Dragon King's Roaring Bullet struck the gallery maze. Endless light and heat radiated through the sound waves of the dragon's roar, releasing super-high-temperature dragon breath in every direction, causing Mogaro's Void Gallery to melt bit by bit. The true damage even burned the souls of the angel statues to death.

A full quarter of an hour later, Mogaro's Void Gallery and Divine Territory had completely disappeared. However, through the dissipating dragon's breath flames, a burly figure wearing a crown and holding a sword of kingship emerged. Rosen recognized him immediately: it was none other than Farah's brother, Shire Simmons.

So, it wasn't Mogaro who murdered Shire but Shire who murdered Mogaro?

No, Mogaro and Shire must have hurt each other. As Rosen drew closer, he noticed that Shire's face had changed slightly, bearing some traces of Mogaro's appearance. It seemed that Mogaro and Shire had been checking and balancing each other. This check and balance were the reason Farah had been able to remain unaffected in the Blue Whale Kingdom for the past 20,000 years.

Just moments ago, Rosen had nearly killed Mogaro with a single shot. However, Shire, who had been sealed by Mogaro, had managed to escape. Now, whether they were enemies or allies depended entirely on Shire's choice.

"Hand over Farah…" Shire raised the Holy Sword of Kingship in his hand, pointing it directly at Rosen.

"What are you going to do with Farah?" Rosen questioned.

"Make her my queen." Shire's eyes shone with excitement and madness.

"It looks like Farah is going to be disappointed." Rosen said, no longer holding back.

The one confronting Shire was merely a clone of his self-portrait. During the time when Mogaro was severely injured by the Dragon King's Roaring Bullet, Rosen's original body had been hiding in the mysterious study, setting up the Dragon King's Wrath behind the window, preparing for a second round of attack—just to strike Mogaro down before he was completely dead.

As a giant bullet appeared out of nowhere, the second Dragon King's Roaring Bullet hit Shire.

(End of Chapter)