Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 43 The Canvas of the Mind (Please continue reading)

Chapter 43

The Artists' Guild has 95 floors, and all the painters of the Blazing Shadow Kingdom live on this floor.

Rosen also has free housing here. Unless it has been more than a century since his last stay, the Artists' Guild will not take back the residence allocated to him. Living here, no one in the entire Duchy of Blazing Shadow can threaten his safety.

Because the artists' guild is so safe, many painters prefer to live there rather than go home.

The only drawback here is that you have to verify your identity to get home.

For painters who spend most of their time in their studios, this isn't much of a problem.

However, if you bring your family to live with you, it can be quite inconvenient to come and go every day, so most of the people living here are single.

As the alarm clock rang, Rosen, who was painting in his studio, put away his magic brush.

Looking at the clock, he realized it was time for his scheduled training session on sequence skills.

He quickly tidied up his studio and then left home to visit a senior painter.

It's worth mentioning that all the residences are pseudo-spiritual realms; the residences themselves are within the paintings, and the paintings hanging on the walls serve as the entrances and exits.

Even though the Artists Guild is very wealthy, they cannot send every painter a Sequence 6 Spirit Realm painting.

Therefore, the dwelling is merely a pseudo-spiritual realm; it has empty space but cannot continuously draw spiritual power from the spirit world.

Maintaining the existence of a dwelling even requires additional consumption of spiritual crystals.

Not only is there no output, but there is also a continuous investment in spirit realm crystals. This is the essential difference between a pseudo-spirit realm and a true spirit realm.

Such pseudo-spiritual paintings are much simpler to make, and even so, only painters can enjoy this privilege.

Along the ten-meter-wide corridor, paintings of pseudo-spiritual realms hang on the walls.

Rosen quickly found the painter he had booked and then touched the frame with his spiritual power.

Inside the frame is a painting of a small house on a lake under a starry sky.

Suddenly, the tranquil lake dotted with starlight in the painting came to life, and a whirlpool appeared.

Rosen, who was standing outside the painting, was instantly enveloped by the water, which pulled him into the painting in the blink of an eye, bringing him to the front of the lakeside cabin.

"Ms. Fam, it is an honor to receive your guidance."

Rosen looked at the sunny young girl who walked out of the cabin and spoke politely.

Even though he didn't judge people by their appearance, he was still surprised to see this young, blue-haired girl.

After all, as far as he knew, Ms. Fam was over sixty years old and was recognized by the Principality of Blazing Shadow as the painter closest to Sequence 6.

He never expected that Ms. Fam would accept the task of guiding him in sequence skills.

Do you enjoy stargazing?

Ms. Fam nodded at Rosen and asked meaningfully.

"I wouldn't say I like it, but sometimes I want to look at the stars."

Rosen answered truthfully.

"That saves me a lot of trouble."

Ms. Fam smiled, and a magical paintbrush appeared in her hand, which she then touched down in the air.

In an instant, the paint falling from the void transformed into two reclining chairs, perfect for stargazing.

Rosen's pupils contracted slightly; his five senses were very strong and his observation skills were also very sharp.

So he saw the truth: Ms. Fam simply made a small dot with her brush, and it created two reclining chairs. What appeared to be a small dot was actually the individual bristles of the brush tip sketching out a reclining chair within a thumb-sized space.

Each bristle is like a paintbrush, which is equivalent to Ms. Fam manipulating dozens of paintbrushes to paint at the same time.

Rosen and Ms. Fam lay on their respective deck chairs, the sky a dull gray with not a single star in sight.

But as a starry sky suddenly appeared in Ms. Fam's pupils, the grayness of the sky was instantly replaced by the brilliance of the stars.

Of course, none of these are real star clusters. Not to mention Sequence 7, even Sequence 1 may not be able to draw a real star cluster.

These stars are merely projections. Ms. Fam projects the stars from her memory onto the sky through her eyes. This is the Sequence 9 acquired skill, Mind Canvas, that Rosen came to learn.

Once the canvas of the mind is mastered, the painter's sequential painting will no longer be limited to the paper.

Instead, they can paint on a spiritual level. The most basic spiritual canvas can only paint in one's own consciousness. Higher levels can project the paintings in consciousness onto reality, and even higher levels can paint on the spiritual level of other beings.

When Rosen learned about this skill, he was truly shocked by the legends surrounding it.

There was once a Sequence 2 painter who used the Mind Canvas to paint a picture of an alien race, adding a mental painting of the race as plants to the mental level of the entire alien race.

As a result, the entire alien race treated themselves like plants, and even as they starved to death, they remained in the same spot basking in the sun.

While the Mind Canvas is powerful, leveling up its skill is extremely difficult.

What Rosen valued was the high difficulty of the Mind Canvas. Abilities that are easy to improve in the Extraordinary Sequence do not necessarily mean they are strong, but abilities that are difficult to improve must be very strong, because those that are not strong and are difficult to improve have long been eliminated.

His Sequence 9 allows him to convert two skills into innate skills, with Divine Stroke already occupying one of those slots.

He decided to reserve the last spot for the Mind Canvas skill. This way, no matter how difficult it was to improve, it would upgrade in sync with the sublimation of his extraordinary sequence, allowing him to focus more on other skills.

Ms. Fam asked him to look at the stars, and Rosen earnestly gazed up at the night sky.

Gradually, he discovered that the starry sky had a magical charm.

This allure began to influence his spiritual consciousness, causing damage to his spirituality, but the damage was very weak. Gradually, his spirituality began to develop resistance to this damage due to this stimulation.

Two hours later, Rosen successfully mastered the acquired skill, Mind Canvas.

Ms. Fam looked at Rosen in disbelief. She never imagined that Rosen could master the Mind Canvas in such a short time. In her opinion, it would take at least ten days and continuous spiritual stimulation every day to master the Mind Canvas.

However, Rosen mastered it on his first try, which shows that Rosen's soul strength and spiritual potential are very strong.

Rosen was surprised to perceive the Mind Canvas skill within the extraordinary source essence.

He hadn't expected that he would have such good aptitude in this area. Perhaps it was because he had devoured everything from Little Rosen, which had caused a special enhancement to his soul and bloodline.

Because she had prior knowledge of the mental canvas, and also because Ms. Fam somewhat admired Rosen.

So, for the remaining time of the course, which was originally scheduled to last for half a month, Ms. Fam allowed Rosen to learn about the growth and cultivation methods of the Mind Canvas.

Many of these were based on Ms. Fam's experience, and Rosen visited her every day to humbly seek her advice.

After half a month, Rosen had finally mastered all the applications of the Mind Canvas.

After dinner that evening, Rosen reluctantly bid farewell to Ms. Fam.

He was prepared to go and learn the final Sequence 9 acquired skill at the appointed time.

This last skill requires self-improvement, so its learning and development difficulty is far lower than that of the Mind Canvas.

However, sometimes it's not about having the strongest skills; the best skills are the ones that are most suitable for you.

The various extraordinary abilities they possess cannot be systematized or complemented and strengthened. No matter how strong the individual skills are, they can only be defeated when faced with the combined extraordinary skills of other humans.

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