Lord: Sequence Master

After leaving Ms. Fam's residence, Rosen headed straight back to his own home in the Artist Guild. His pseudo-spiritual realm was a lush oasis set amid a vast desert.

For the past half-month, he had been staying at Ms. Fam's lakeside cabin. Although he had mastered Mind's Canvas, he hadn't been able to convert it into an innate skill during that time, nor had he fully tested its capabilities within his Divine Territory.

Now, with thirty minutes before his next appointment, Rosen finally had enough time to test the results of his training over the past few weeks.

His spiritual energy sank into his Sequence Tree, and he immediately located the now-innate skill, Mind's Canvas.

Mind's Canvas LV1: A painter can use their eyes and mental perception as mediums, projecting everything they see onto their spiritual essence and consciousness, and can create artwork within their spiritual awareness.

At first glance, the description didn't fully capture the value of Mind's Canvas.

Operating at the level of spirituality and consciousness, it required no physical materials like paint or paper, and it significantly reduced spiritual energy consumption. Where creating a single spiritual painting would usually use one unit of spiritual energy, with Mind's Canvas, Rosen could make two paintings for the same cost.

Moreover, painting with Mind's Canvas was much faster, making the overall process three times more efficient than creating regular spiritual artwork.

For a painter, growth in both artistic skill and spirituality required persistent practice. Using Mind's Canvas effectively tripled a painter's spiritual growth rate.

However, because Mind's Canvas was notoriously difficult to level up, most painters only benefited from this tripling effect during Sequence 9. Once they advanced to Sequence 8, the skill's level often couldn't keep pace. While spiritual growth still improved, it wouldn't be three times as much.

For Rosen, though, the growth rate would remain at least double, even at Sequence 8, thanks to its innate status.

Since it had now become an innate skill, Mind's Canvas would naturally evolve with Rosen as he progressed through the Sequences.

Ideally, it would maintain the triple efficiency boost even as he advanced. But in practice, relying solely on Mind's Canvas without refining his actual painting skills would cap his spiritual growth at a lower level.

Besides, Rosen would still need to create traditional spiritual paintings from time to time.

If he could consistently achieve double the growth rate, it would already give him a considerable advantage over other painters.

With a single thought, Rosen disappeared from his oasis villa and entered his Divine Territory.

Entering the Divine Territory felt similar to stepping into his Mysterious Study Room. It was like leaving behind the external world to enter a personal space disconnected from reality. The main difference was that while the Mysterious Study Room existed in an unknown location, his Divine Territory was rooted in the Spiritual Realm.

Rosen summoned his Divine Brush, drawing a circle in the air with a swift motion. He then took out a spiritual painting of a rabbit. With the enhancement of his Divine Territory, the rabbit manifested into reality.

Grabbing it by the ears, Rosen threw the rabbit into the boundary marked by his brush, using the divine technique Drawn Prison.

Immediately, the rabbit fell asleep, and Rosen sensed its consciousness sink into the pond within his Mind's Canvas.

As he suspected, Drawn Prison and Mind's Canvas could combine seamlessly. While using Spiritual Realm Paintings and Drawn Prison could pull an entire being into a spiritual realm, combining Drawn Prison with Mind's Canvas allowed him to capture their consciousness within his mental canvas.

This combination had immense potential for powerful techniques, but Rosen knew this wasn't the full extent of Mind's Canvas.

His Divine Territory was tied to his Sea of Consciousness, with the Sequence Tree at its core, blending both physical and spiritual properties into a mental world.

Though Mind's Canvas was still at LV1, Rosen realized he could already project his mental canvas outward, just as Ms. Fam had demonstrated.

Excited by this discovery, Rosen sketched a starry sky within his Mind's Canvas, and moments later, the sky above his Divine Territory mirrored the scene he had drawn.

This brought him immense satisfaction.

Not only could he pull a being's consciousness into the canvas using Drawn Prison, but he could also bring their entire body into his Divine Territory and use its power to suppress them.

In doing so, Rosen uncovered a combination mastery spanning three skills across two sequences.

He was so engrossed in experimenting that he almost lost track of time. Only the Main God Computer's alarm brought him back to the present.

His next appointment was with Clement, the painter who had welcomed him when he first joined the guild.

Unlike Rosen's oasis or Ms. Fam's lakeside retreat, Clement's pseudo-spiritual realm resembled a bustling street. It wasn't just Clement who lived there—his family and over a thousand servants also resided within the realm. The servants worked the fields, tended livestock, and ran shops, utilizing every inch of space within the realm.

Clement's home was modest—a three-story house along the street. His studio faced the street, and the sounds of the bustling environment flowed in through the open window.

Rosen observed the portraits lining the studio walls and quickly understood Clement's process. The thousand-plus servants who lived and worked within the pseudo-spiritual realm served as inspiration and models for his portraiture.

"I enjoy the liveliness," Clement said, gesturing toward the busy street. "But if the noise bothers you, I can quiet things down."

"No need, it's fine," Rosen replied with a smile.

"Good. Let's start with some tea while you review the skill documents I've prepared," Clement said, casually sketching a teapot into existence with a flick of his brush. He handed Rosen a thick folder.

Opening the folder, Rosen found a detailed compilation of materials on the skill Noble Blood Seal.

Initially, Rosen had considered selecting skills that enhanced paint for his final Sequence 9 auxiliary skill. However, after learning about Noble Blood Seal, he chose it instead.

Noble Blood Seal allowed a painter to extract their noble bloodline and mix it into their paint, creating a noble emblem within their works. This emblem had three intriguing effects.

First, it served as an anti-theft mechanism—paintings marked with the Noble Blood Seal could only be controlled by the painter.

While useful, this anti-theft feature wasn't its greatest value.

The second effect was that, when applied to Spiritual Realm Paintings, the seal enhanced the connection between the painting and the painter's Divine Territory, strengthening their control over the realm.

This was the aspect of Noble Blood Seal that Rosen valued most, though its significance would become more apparent at Sequence 6 and beyond.

Clement, currently at Sequence 8, considered Noble Blood Seal essential due to its third effect: it increased the attributes of spiritual works, particularly portrait paintings, by about 10% at LV1.

(End of Chapter)