On the Eternal Continent, in the World Government's capital city, the City of Eternity.
In the True God Council, nearly a hundred true gods sat in their seats, watching the projections in the meeting room with a sense of sorrow.
The true god avatar, as powerful as the Great True Gods, had been cursed and killed under the watch of two Great True Gods.
If it had been them cursed, who could escape the curse that seemingly descended from nowhere?
Especially the original seventeen True Gods of the World Government, who now regretted plotting against Rosen back on the Old Continent.
No one expected that, in less than a thousand years, Rosen would be able to assassinate a Great True God.
The Coin God was the most tormented because once the King's Game began, he could never avoid Rosen.
For a moment, the Coin God even considered betraying the World Government and begging Rosen for mercy.
The World Government of today was no longer the same as it was in the past.
In the past, the World Government was primarily human-based. While many of the seventeen highest-ranking true gods were from other races, they nearly all sided with humanity for the sake of civilization's fortune, and above them, there were no Great True Gods constantly interfering.
But now, things were different. The World Government had nearly a hundred true gods.
These true gods included divine servants of the Great True Gods, as well as those who had ascended to true god status. Although the number of human true gods had increased to several, the rest were all other-race true gods, and more and more of these races were joining the World Government.
What had once been a civilization primarily composed of humans now found humanity under increasing pressure.
Some continents had to be vacated to accommodate the growing population of other races.
Humanity, whose living space was already compressed, would only see that space shrink further due to rapid reproduction.
The day the World Government's accumulated resources ran out would be the day the World Government's demise came.
As the Coin God pondered the future, he suddenly heard the speech of the Speaker of the Noble Council, the Order True God.
"The situation is already very clear to all true gods present..."
The Order True God spoke with reluctance. "Rosen has completely trampled on the World Government's bottom line. Now I propose that we use the World Government's third seal to hunt down Rosen. Let's begin the vote to decide whether to activate the third seal."
Almost all the original true gods of the World Government immediately cast a vote against it.
However, most of the later-joined true gods voted in favor, and the resolution passed with overwhelming support.
The Order True God helplessly announced the result, then stood up without looking back and left.
...
"Third Seal?"
Rosen's Omniscient Magic Eye was observing the Noble Council throughout, but he didn't see any information about the third seal.
Clearly, all the true god members of the Noble Council knew what the third seal was.
However, all information regarding the third seal had been encrypted through some means. It was similar to how the Arcane Emperor couldn't directly reveal the secret of encouraging population growth among the various races. This information was encrypted by powers at least at the level of Immortal Gods or Demon Kings.
Rosen quickly realized what the third seal mentioned by the True God Council could do.
Some force suddenly locked onto him, attempting to erase the extraordinary essence of the Noble Sequence within him.
However, the problem was that he no longer had any extraordinary essence of the Noble Sequence within him. The extraordinary essences of the three sequences had already fused into the essence of the Root Sequence. Therefore, this third seal, which could erase the Noble Sequence's extraordinary essence, posed no threat to him at all.
But clearly, the Noble Council was unaware of this. Evidently, the erasure effect of the third seal did not provide feedback.
It was obvious that the true gods of the Noble Council firmly believed in the power of the third seal. In their view, since his Noble extraordinary essence was gone, his divine domain and the divine kingdom formed from it must have collapsed, and even his divinity had become incomplete due to the loss of part of his extraordinary essence.
Therefore, in the eyes of the Noble Council, he was now so severely injured that he could not recover in the short term.
Rosen couldn't help but burst into laughter; but after his laughter subsided, he fell into deep thought.
The third seal… perhaps there is also a first, second, and fourth.
It wasn't that it directly erased the extraordinary essence corresponding to the supernal sequence; rather, it was a type of erasure power that was irresistible.
The World Government can seal the World Will—even if the World Will deliberately withholds its power, the underlying strength of the World Government is unimaginable. Moreover, behind the World Government stand far more than just the Great True Gods; it is certain that unknown immortal deities and demons lurk in the shadows.
This time, racing off to the Eternal Continent to assassinate Sevin was, to some extent, a reckless gamble.
But after calculating the gains, this adventure was undoubtedly worthwhile.
Because Rosen had already confirmed one thing: the fall of a Great True God, just like that of a True God, would drop miracle treasures.
He had once thought they wouldn't drop—merely because he had found the corpse of a fallen Great True God and noticed no miracle treasure beside it. Now it appears that either the miracle treasure was taken by someone after dropping, or that a Great True God only drops a miracle treasure with a certain probability.
Regardless of which possibility is true, the miracle treasure in his hand was genuine.
To determine exactly what was going on, he would naturally learn more by hunting additional Great True Gods in the future.
[Bio-Alchemy Manual: Miracle Treasure]
[Level: Great True God]
[Miracle Property: Automatically Master Great True God-Level Bio-Alchemy]
[Miracle Traits: Life Synthesis, Matter Synthesis, Alchemy Resonance, Unique in Heaven and Earth, Eternal and Indestructible]
Although the miracle property was impressive, Rosen could easily exchange for a Bio-Alchemy Book using the Hunter Map.
Life Synthesis and Matter Synthesis were somewhat commendable, but Rosen's original Alchemist sequence already mastered the abilities of gathering, decomposition, refinement, synthesis, and tracing origins—making the synthesis of an original alchemist no less potent than these two miracle traits.
However, the unique miracle trait, Alchemy Resonance, truly surprised Rosen.
With Alchemy Resonance, one can, by means of bio-alchemy, synchronously amplify other alchemist-type sequences to the level of a Great True God.
After Rosen's original alchemist merged into the Root Sequence, he was limited by his own supernal level to that of a deity; but because Alchemy Resonance could strengthen him to Great True God level, it was tantamount to preemptively acquiring part of a Great True God's power.
Rosen swiftly refined the Bio-Alchemy Manual, then simulated the original alchemist sequence using the Root Sequence.
The original alchemist of deity level was instantly elevated to the level of a Great True God.
With a flick of his hand, Rosen produced in his palm a stone sphere shrunk down to the size of a football.
This was an alchemical creature from Sevin's divine kingdom—an extraordinary world-class alchemical creature at Great True God level, forged from Immortal Bone Rock.
Ninety percent of Sevin's assets were all concentrated in this one creation.
Thus, despite being a dignified Great True God and a wealth-generating bio-alchemist, after Sevin's death not a single Great True God-level extraordinary miracle item dropped—not even a True God-level one; all his resources had been transformed into alchemical creatures.
But that was exactly why Rosen chose Sevin—the additional gains from hunting Sevin would be the greatest.
By merely deconstructing this divine kingdom, his divine domain would have its dimensional level raised anew, reforming into resources needed for his divine body in abundance. Under normal circumstances, to perform the Ten-Directions Annihilation, his divine body would require at least the strength of a Dragon Realm to make up the difference.
In reality, however, not that much was needed, because the deity-level Ten-Directions Annihilation could not completely obliterate his divine domain.
In fact, his divine domain, after merging with the Dragon Realm, had become so powerful that even the Ten-Directions Annihilation could only destroy the surface of the world, not its very origin. Therefore, to reconstruct his divine domain, he merely needed to mold the world's shell without reconstituting its origin; a Great True God's divine kingdom was more than sufficient.
Rosen's left hand flickered in the void, and an infinitely small zero-dimensional point appeared.
Under his control, the zero-dimensional point formed by the collapse of the divine domain territory began to increase in dimension, transforming from a point into a line. To continue increasing the dimension, however, enough resources were required.
Rosen's right hand manifested a Miracle Treasure Bottle, the bottle's mouth opening as it sucked the stone ball inside.
The decomposition and collection of the Original Apothecary began to slowly disassemble the carefully crafted divine kingdom of Seven, breaking it down into raw materials. Then, through refinement and synthesis, the quality of the raw materials was further enhanced. Finally, by tracing the origins, the materials were restored to their most fundamental essence.
The substance formed through this final tracing was now infinitely close to the eternal essence.
Though it didn't reach the eternal quality, it could at least achieve the quality of an immortal god or demon.
Rosen manipulated his left hand, and a thread pierced into the Miracle Treasure Bottle, beginning to absorb the material essence through Eternal Plunder, rapidly increasing its dimension.
Soon, the thread became a surface, then developed a height, turning into a three-dimensional form. With the introduction of time, it transformed into a four-dimensional space. The divine domain territory, previously destroyed by Tenfold Annihilation, quickly began to recover as the material essence was digested, restoring its dimensions until it was fully rebuilt.
Once restored, the divine domain territory began to reverse and transform into all things, reassembling into Rosen's ancient god body.
Compared to before the Tenfold Annihilation, Rosen's ancient god body was now at least 30% stronger.
This was already very good, meaning that Seven's divine kingdom alchemical creatures were equivalent to 30% of the Dragon Realm's resources.
Rosen summoned his divine palette through his primordial will and extracted the ancient god blood formed during Tenfold Annihilation from the divine domain territory. He carefully placed it into the divine palette, intending to use this drop of ancient god blood to paint a picture.
However, this single drop of ancient god blood wasn't enough. He immediately went to the blood sea outside the ancient god's heart.
Here, there was an endless supply of ancient god blood, but it could never evolve into true ancient god blood.
The ancient god's heart, however, could generate true ancient god blood, and even the drop of ancient god blood obtained through Tenfold Annihilation came from there. But the ancient god blood from the heart was something Rosen dared not use.
Using the Original Apothecary's abilities of gathering, refining, synthesizing, and tracing origins, Rosen continuously reverted the ancient god blood to its source.
While it didn't reach the level of true ancient god blood, it was now infinitely close.
As the pigments inside the divine palette accumulated, Rosen delegated the task of continuing pigment production to his Bronze Dragon avatar. His main body, holding the paintbrush, began painting. This time, he was drawing a miniature top-down view of the entire new world.
Every continent, every island, was marked on this map.
But even the continent where the empire was located only appeared as a tiny speck on the map.
Even such a simple map took several hundred years to complete, thanks to a thousand-fold time acceleration.
Finally, Rosen used the divine pen to absorb the only drop of ancient god blood and painted a raincloud on the map.
[New World Rainfall Map: Miracle Artwork]
[Rank: True God]
[Miracle Attributes: Through this map, one can control the rainfall of the entire new world.]
[Miracle Traits: Rainfall as Art]
"Finally completed," Rosen sneered.
He hung the New World Rainfall Map on the wall, projecting his mental canvas to merge with the painting.
Then, using the miracle feature Rainfall as Art with the divine hand, he began to cause rainfall across the entire new world.
All the land and islands of the new world were soon covered by the shadow of dark clouds, and rain began to fall.
However, the clouds could only be seen; they could not be touched.
The rain falling from the clouds wasn't ordinary raindrops but rather blood-red rain, as the rain didn't consist of water vapor but was composed of ancient god blood that had been reverted by the Original Apothecary.
Everything covered by the blood rain was enveloped in a layer of faint red, invisible to the naked eye.
Every being touched by the blood rain, whether a building or mountain, a wise lifeform or a wild beast, became a part of the painting through the miracle trait Rainfall as Art, a mere dot within the picture.
Using the New World Rainfall Map, Rosen turned the entire new world's land and islands into a painting.
Now, even without the Main God Network or the Omniscient Magic Eye, his divine consciousness could oversee all the land and islands of the new world. He could control the lives and deaths of all those affected by the blood rain and could easily destroy a continent the size of an empire.
This was the terrifying power of Rainfall as Art, though this painting wasn't permanent.
The rain would evaporate, and the effect of the ancient god blood would dilute exponentially, so after the rain stopped, the world-encompassing rainfall artwork would dissipate into nothingness.
To truly transform the entire world into a three-dimensional painting, an enormous amount of ancient god blood is required—so much so that even if the entire ancient god blood sea were drained, it might still not be enough. Therefore, other methods must be employed to completely turn the world into a painting.
First, one must understand that in the New World, all things are manifestations of the ancient god's transformation into all things. This means that the essence of every entity in the New World is, in fact, that of the ancient god.
Rosen only needs to infuse the eternal essence into the New World Rainfall Map so that, within the falling rain, enough concentration of eternal essence is mixed in. This will allow his eternal essence to silently permeate every being on the surface, and then, at a crucial moment, activate several characteristics of the Eternal Root.
Activating the Dark Sun Contamination trait will turn all surface life into Dark Sun subjects.
Activating the Plunder trait will reduce surface life to ash and dust.
Thus, with the New World Rainfall Map, he can control the life and death of every surface creature in the New World. This is the trump card Rosen has prepared for himself—the ace to flip the table when the time is right.
Although the New World Rainfall Map poses little threat to deities and even only modest danger to demigods, the New World contains countless beings lower than demigods, not to mention ordinary lives by the innumerable.
Rosen continuously extracted pigment, and the blood rain of the New World kept falling. All the eternal essence absorbed by the ancient trees of the Old World during this period was poured out over the surface of the New World via the rain. Such ceaseless, anomalous rainfall inevitably alarmed every powerful figure in the New World.
Even the Great True Gods personally intervened in an attempt to destroy the rainclouds overhead. However, as soon as one was destroyed, another formed immediately. Since the continents and islands of the New World were scattered across an endless sea and far apart, even a Great True God could only provide protection over a very limited area.
In the end, with no other choice, they had to focus on safeguarding empire-level continents while sacrificing kingdom-level islands. Yet, this was not a long-term solution, because the True Gods and Great True Gods of the New World could not simply do nothing day after day to shield ordinary life. Rosen, by his own force, made every strong being in the New World uneasy and sleepless.
One day, as Rosen was still extracting pigment, an abnormal fluctuation suddenly appeared in the space not far from him. Rosen instantly retracted the New World Rainfall Map and fixed his gaze on a tear in the void. On the other side of the gap stood a strange figure that exerted immense pressure on him.
"World Will?" Rosen asked in surprise.
"This is what you wanted," the World Will said, tossing over a stone ball roughly the size of a fist through the spatial fissure.
As the spatial gap disappeared, Rosen, using his Yinglong Incarnation, carefully moved forward and caught the falling stone ball.
With the New World Rainfall Map, Rosen could annihilate half of the ordinary lives on the New World's surface. Yet the World Will, which advocates for population growth, obviously could not accept his actions.
These past days, the World Will must have tried every method, but nothing could stop the transformation brought about by Rainfall as Art. With no other option, the World Will could only temporarily compromise with him.
Had any unknown immortal gods or demon kings—possessing the World Will's power—intended to pass through the spatial gap, they would have fled without hesitation. The World Will knew this well, so it sent over what it needed by throwing it through the gap.
Originally, Rosen had planned to force the World Will into contact and negotiate a deal. But unexpectedly, the World Will, without any discussion, delivered what he required. Clearly, the World Will was returning the favor.
Rosen, carrying the stone ball, retreated into the Mysterious Study Room. This stone ball was created from the heart of the World Tree. Therefore, even an immortal life, if it did not master the Eternal Compatibility Essence, would find it nearly impossible to decipher what this stone ball sealed.
Rosen extracted the Eternal Primal Stone Essence from within the stone ball, then shattered the ball to retrieve a chip. The Main God Computer connected to the chip and extracted the information he desired.
He was willing to use the New World Rainfall Map to control the life and death of at least half of the surface beings of the New World, and thereby threaten the World Will—just to learn the truth about the World Government's seals. He believed that the World Will surely understood the World Government better than he did.
From the way the World Government sealed the World Will and the attitude it took toward the World Will, one could tell that the two were not on the same side. Behind the Great True Gods of the World Government, there were likely those ancient civilizations that had endured ten calamities and broken away from the New World. Otherwise, how could they stand against the World Will?
Since they were adversaries, the World Will naturally had no qualms about selling information on the World Government. Of course, even if the World Will were willing, not just anyone was qualified to receive intelligence on the World Government from it. That is why Rosen used the New World Rainfall Map to threaten the World Will—and he did not expect the World Will to immediately see through his intentions.
(End of Chapter)