Contract Hunter and Mimic Divine Core

Underneath Little World Tree, Rosen extended his right hand, pointing at it.

Essence Nen Aura surged forth, forming into an Ancient God Shackle entwined with countless dragon souls. It extended infinitely, wrapping around Little World Tree from the base upward, taking several months to fully enshroud it without leaving a single gap.

The Miracle Trait: Ancient God Contract activated, while the Tree Spirit, materialized through Nen Ability, began to permeate the tree.

Finally, by combining Law Symbiosis with the Contract Authority embedded in Ancient God Contract, the Tree Spirit merged completely with Little World Tree, successfully making it Rosen's newest pet.

Through the Ancient God Contract, their powers became entirely shared.

Rosen immediately converted Little World Tree's essence into Essence Nen Aura and channeled it into his body.

The boundless surge of Essence Nen Aura significantly amplified all of his Nen Abilities.

With a mere thought, Rosen manifested Gluttonous Nen Beast. Originally, its power had been capped at Sequence 1, but with Little World Tree's inexhaustible Essence Nen Aura strengthening it, its might soared to Sequence 0.

And it wasn't just an ordinary Sequence 0—it was comparable to a peak-level Taboo Deity.

Rosen then summoned the Seven Deadly Sins Nen Beasts. They could either separate or fuse together; when divided, they were equivalent to seven Sequence 0 deities, and when merged, they even surpassed Gluttonous Nen Beast.

Just these manifestations alone could effortlessly crush Sequence 0 beings.

Unknowingly, Sequence 0 had already become something he could control at will.

Now that his Nen Ability was fully strengthened, there was no longer any reason to delay his Hunter Sequence advancement.

As with his previous advancements, Rosen had no intention of following conventional routes.

This new path was something he had created himself through the use of a thousandfold time acceleration. Now, all he needed were the necessary materials for his Hunter Potion.

With his Divine Consciousness, he connected to the Spirit Realm and descended upon it.

Sharing the power of his Spirit Realm Messenger Pixie, he began to prepare the Contract Ritual to forge a blank Contract Scroll.

Normally, for a simple contract, Contract Spirit God wouldn't personally descend—just a wisp of divine power would suffice to create an effective agreement.

However, Rosen's Contract Ritual was at a Sequence 0 level, designed to strictly bind even deities. Contracts of this level could not be formed with mere divine power; at the very least, Contract Spirit God had to send down a Divine Incarnation to ensure its successful execution.

As soon as vast amounts of Divine Crystals vanished within the ritual's formation, Contract Spirit God's Divine Incarnation descended into the array.

At the moment its incarnation appeared, Rosen, fully prepared, immediately bound it with the Ancient God Shackle.

The Divine Incarnation's Transcendent Power was entirely sealed, leaving Contract Spirit God's True Body unable to recall it.

With no means of escape, Rosen walked forward and implanted Pixie's Spirit Realm Beacon into the Divine Incarnation.

The moment the Ancient God Shackle loosened, the Divine Incarnation, still struggling desperately, instinctively returned to its true body.

Rosen instantly activated Spirit Realm Transmission, locking onto the Spirit Realm Beacon and teleporting directly to Contract Spirit God's true form.

The Contract Spirit God was instantly reflected onto the Mental Canvas, and Rosen activated the Original Painting Sealing Technique to begin sealing it.

The first attempt at sealing failed because the Contract Spirit God's explosive power reached the level of a true god.

Although the Contract Spirit God was only Sequence 0, it was no weaker than any Forbidden Sequence. Additionally, since its main body was always within its divine kingdom, it received the kingdom's blessings. Combined with the contract-type artifact it held, its strength was elevated to a level comparable to a true god.

Rosen activated the miracle skill Royal Divine Kingdom, transforming the area within his domain into his exclusive royal divine kingdom.

The power of the Royal Divine Kingdom neutralized the Contract Spirit God's divine kingdom, stripping it of its geographical advantage and significantly weakening its strength.

The Royal Treasury locked onto the artifact in the Contract Spirit God's hands. Although it couldn't forcibly seize the artifact, it could still interfere with its power to some extent.

Rosen then summoned the Golden Scepter and used Royal Declaration of War to lock onto the Contract Spirit God.

Once targeted by Royal Declaration of War, the Contract Spirit God had no way to retreat. If it tried to escape, its fortune would be completely suppressed, turning it into a walking disaster.

Rosen followed up with Royal Taxation, consuming the flame of civilization to temporarily strip the Contract Spirit God of its intelligence.

The Contract Spirit God, already not particularly intelligent, was reduced to a state of utter foolishness.

Under multiple layers of weakening, the Contract Spirit God could no longer resist the Original Painting Sealing Technique and was soon sealed into the Mental Canvas. Before it could break free in a desperate attempt, the Ancient God's Shackles within Rosen's consciousness wrapped around the Mental Canvas, activating the Ancient God's Seal.

With the combined power of three transcendent sequences, even the mighty Contract Spirit God was instantly captured.

However, this seal couldn't last long, as maintaining it consumed an enormous amount of energy.

Therefore, Rosen took out the Quantum Vial and transferred the sealed Contract Spirit God from the Mental Canvas into the quantum void.

The Quantum Vial could even trap a true god, let alone a Contract Spirit God.

Rosen expanded his World Domain to cover the Contract Spirit God's divine kingdom, then activated World of Painting Descent to overlay the Death Hell onto the kingdom. Finally, he used the Original Painting Sealing Technique to temporarily seal the entire kingdom into a painting before escaping the Spirit World through data transmission.

With the core material for the potion prepared, Rosen began gathering the remaining supplementary materials.

The path he was about to transition into was the Contract Hunter, and its core innate skill was named Equivalent Exchange.

The eight supplementary materials had no specific requirements but needed to possess powerful contract-related properties.

After ransacking the Contract Spirit God's divine kingdom, Rosen easily collected all the necessary supplementary materials.

Once the core material and supplementary materials were placed into the Potion Vial, this miracle artifact began processing all the materials according to the potion recipe, fusing their powers into the Sequence 1 Contract Hunter potion.

The potion brewing process took an unexpectedly long time, lasting a full half hour.

When the vial was opened, Rosen poured out a rolled-up piece of parchment.

Instead of consuming the potion, he used the Twin Daggers to carefully cut open his flesh and heart.

He then inserted the parchment-like potion into the Ancient God's Heart Chamber through the wound.

As the potion absorbed his blood, it began to soften.

Finally, it transformed into a blood-red light and merged into the crystal statue standing in the blood sea within the Ancient God's Heart Chamber.

The transcendent essence began to transform, and all Hunter skills were significantly enhanced.

The innate skill exclusive to the Contract Hunter soon emerged within the transcendent essence, powered by the potion's energy.

[Equivalent Exchange: Mastery of the laws of equivalent exchange, granting the exclusive transcendent artifact Book of Equivalent Exchange.]

With a thought, a silver book with a golden scale on its cover appeared in Rosen's hand.

Unlike other Transcendent Relics with complex abilities, the Equivalent Contract Book had only one power—Equivalent Contract.

As long as a contract was signed, both parties were bound to pay an equal price.

Rosen flipped open the Equivalent Contract Book. At his right fingertip, God's Pen transformed into a fountain pen.

With a stroke of the pen, he swiftly drafted a contract.

The contracting parties were the Spirit Realm and himself. The contract stated that the Spirit Realm would reward him with a Sequence 1 Soul Gem in exchange for him hunting a certain number of Transcendent Beings from the Main World within the Spirit Realm. Both sides would engage in an equivalent trade.

Once the Equivalent Contract was finalized, Rosen channeled Innate Fate into the book, gradually activating the contract.

Despite its name, Equivalent Contract only ensured fairness within the contract's terms.

As for the contract itself, Rosen had the ability to unilaterally force any entity to sign it.

However, even this required an equivalent price. For example, forcing the Spirit Realm into a contract involving a Sequence 1 Soul Gem meant he had to offer a Sequence 1-level Innate Fate as a cost to enforce the agreement.

At first glance, this seemed like a loss—after all, he still had to fulfill the contract's terms for an equal exchange.

But considering how difficult it was to obtain a Sequence 1 Soul Gem, the true value of Equivalent Contract became evident.

Moreover, the contract was not limited to Soul Gems. It could involve wisdom, life, or anything the contracting entity possessed. However, the contract's success was dependent on the other party's genuine needs.

Rosen was the Contractor (Party B), while the Spirit Realm was the Principal (Party A).

Since he wanted to trade for a Soul Gem, the equivalent exchange had to be something beneficial to the Spirit Realm, something it genuinely needed.

If he attempted to offer something irrelevant—no matter how valuable, even a True Deity's Transcendent Relic—the contract would fail.

The Equivalent Contract and Ancient God Contract perfectly complemented each other.

The Ancient God Contract required the target to lose its ability to resist—an ability rooted in overwhelming strength and coercion.

In contrast, the Equivalent Contract was specifically designed for dealing with entities stronger than Rosen. By using negotiation and indirect leverage, he could force powerful beings to accept an Equivalent Contract, ensuring that—besides receiving what he wanted—he would also gain additional benefits during the contract's duration.

Now that Rosen had signed an Equivalent Contract with the Spirit Realm, the Spirit Realm was bound to not target him while the contract remained active.

Any attack, interference, or harm from the Spirit Realm would be considered a breach of contract.

In the event of a breach, the injured party—whether Principal or Contractor—would be entitled to equivalent compensation.

Additionally, using the Equivalent Contract Book, Rosen could directly perceive what the contract target truly desired.

For the Spirit Realm, its greatest need was expansion and growth. It required the deaths of Main World beings within the Spirit Realm, allowing their Spiritual Essence to return and nourish it.

By knowing exactly what his target desperately wanted, Rosen could always craft the perfect Equivalent Contract.

And just because the Equivalent Contract enforced equal exchange did not mean it couldn't be used for deception.

After all, a being's desires could change over time.

For instance, if Rosen signed an Equivalent Contract with an ordinary person who had been starving for days, their most desperate need at that moment would be food.

However, if he fed them in advance but then dehydrated them slightly, their most pressing need would shift from food to water.

He could then sign a new Equivalent Contract, making water the exchanged commodity.

The potential of Equivalent Exchange was limitless, but its greatest value lay in directly mastering the laws of equivalent exchange.

Now that Rosen had advanced all three of his sequences to Sequence 1, he eagerly took out the Miracle Flame to activate a new miracle trait.

However, to his surprise, the miracle trait of the Miracle Flame still hadn't activated.

When the Noble Sequence and Painter Sequence had advanced previously, he had already tried and failed.

Now, even with the Hunter Sequence also advancing to Sequence 1, he still couldn't activate a new miracle trait for the Miracle Flame.

Rosen turned his attention to the transcendent essence of the Miracle Sequence within him. Could it be because the Miracle Sequence hadn't yet reached Sequence 1?

For the advancement of the Miracle Sequence to Sequence 2, he ultimately decided to fuse the Apocalypse Treasure Map.

Under the Small World Tree, the Apocalypse Treasure Map was gradually fused with the transcendent essence of the Miracle Sequence.

[Apocalypse Treasure Map: Miracle Sequence]

[Level: Sequence 2]

[Miracle Attribute: Can consume Fate Coins to generate miracle treasure maps of different sequence levels.]

[Miracle Traits: Fate Coins, Truth Chamber.]

On the surface, the attributes and miracle traits of the Apocalypse Treasure Map appeared unchanged.

However, in reality, Rosen had used Equivalent Exchange to deeply bind the Fate Coins—a miracle artifact fused at Sequence 4—with the Fate Coins miracle trait of the Apocalypse Treasure Map, significantly enhancing the overall power of the treasure map.

Now, creating miracle treasure maps consumed less fortune, and it was possible to create higher-level treasure maps beyond the current sequence.

Rosen carefully studied the Apocalypse Treasure Map in his hands. After integrating it into the Miracle Sequence, his control over it had greatly improved.

Although he hadn't focused much on it over the years, ever since the Main God Computer could infiltrate the five major networks to gather information, a portion of the Demon Eye intelligent lifeforms had been dedicated to searching for the final treasure location indicated by the Apocalypse Treasure Map.

Yet, not only had they failed to find it, but they hadn't even discovered a single useful clue.

This made him wonder if the treasure location pointed to by the Apocalypse Treasure Map might not even be in the main world. After all, besides the main world, there was another hidden old world in an unknown place.

Putting away the Apocalypse Treasure Map, Rosen began decomposing the true god statues to extract the World Tree's origin.

Out of tens of thousands of true god stone statues, the World Tree absorbed over eight thousand before its growth slowly reached 100%.

For the Sequence 1 miracle artifact, Rosen didn't hesitate to fuse the Holy Grail King.

However, an unexpected issue arose: the Miracle Sequence couldn't fuse with the Holy Grail King. Every attempt resulted in backlash, indicating that the true level of the Holy Grail King far exceeded Sequence 1. The current Holy Grail King was not in its complete state.

After some consideration, Rosen decided to fuse the miracle artwork Glory Map instead.

While it wasn't the best Sequence 1 miracle artifact, the growth potential of the Glory Map was unmatched by any other Sequence 1 miracle artifact.

This was because the strength of the Glory Map was directly tied to the prosperity of the Glory Continent and the Glory Kingdom.

The fusion went smoothly, and the Glory Map received a significant enhancement.

[Glory Map: Miracle Path]

[Rank: Sequence 1]

[Miracle Attribute: Can present and edit all things in Glorious Continent from a divine perspective, allowing Glorious Continent to be absorbed into the painting]

[Miracle Trait: Glorious Painted Realm]

Seeing the newly added second half of the Miracle Attribute, Rosen wasted no time and used Data Transfer to return to Glorious Royal City.

Then, using the Glory Map, he enveloped all of Glorious Continent with his Painting Domain from a god's-eye view.

Next, he activated Painting Realm Descent, fusing the Miracle Trait: Glorious Painted Realm with reality, merging it completely with Glorious Continent.

Originally, the Glorious Painted Realm was a spiritual projection of Glorious Continent, merely a phantasmal replication.

Now, as the two fused, Rosen activated the second half of the Miracle Attribute along with Original Painting Seal.

With the combined power of both abilities, the real-world Glorious Continent was gradually absorbed into the Glorious Painted Realm.

Finally, Glorious Continent completely vanished from the sea, leaving behind an enormous crater that rapidly swallowed the surrounding ocean.

Rosen stowed away the Glorious Map, hanging the Miracle Relic on the branches of the Little World Tree.

Then, activating Data Transfer, he quietly returned to the Dragon Realm and went into hiding.

When Rosen had ambushed and slain the Flesh Mother alone, it hadn't alarmed the major powers of the Main World.

But this time, not only had he killed Light Angel True God, but he had also eliminated Contract Spirit God, who had deep ties to the World Government.

This had definitely crossed the World Government's bottom line.

On the surface, everything seemed calm, but underneath, an invisible storm was brewing.

The True God Innate Luck wasn't an absolute safeguard—it could only block True God-level foresight abilities.

If a Great True God intervened, unless Rosen remained in the Mysterious Study Room forever, it was only a matter of time before his true identity was exposed.

So before the situation could escalate, he had already prepared to lay low.

He had to take Glorious Continent with him because his karmic ties to Glorious Kingdom ran too deep.

A Great True God might not be able to pinpoint him exactly, but tracking down Glorious Kingdom wouldn't be difficult.

And if that happened, the Great True Gods wouldn't bother gathering evidence or pinpointing the real culprit.

They'd simply erase Glorious Continent outright—better to kill everyone than risk letting the perpetrator escape.

Rather than take that risk, it was safer to remove Glorious Continent from the Main World entirely.

Upon reaching the Dragon Realm, Rosen entered the Mysterious Study Room and attempted to activate the Miracle Kindling once more.

This time, the previously unresponsive Miracle Kindling instantly erupted into an enormous fireball, engulfing him completely.

The flames didn't harm him, but his four Transcendent Essences began to change simultaneously.

The separate Transcendent Essences within his body actually began fusing under the Miracle Kindling's influence.

Within Rosen's Sea of Consciousness, the flames gradually condensed into a resplendent, multicolored Godhead.

[Miracle Kindling: Miracle Law]

[Rank: Great True God]

[Miracle Attribute: The Miracle Kindling can command the Civilization Kindling, formed by the fate and legacy of a civilization]

[Miracle Traits: Fate Balance, Mimicry Godhead, Unknown, Savage Will, Unknown, World Exclusive, Eternal Indestructibility]

"Mimicry Godhead?"

Rosen carefully examined the Miracle Trait to understand its full potential.

Fate Balance allowed him to alter fate.

Savage Will enabled him to erupt with terrifying combat strength.

As for Mimicry Godhead, this Miracle Trait allowed him to wield the Miracle Kindling to burn Transcendent Essence into a Mimicry Godhead.

This Mimicry Godhead retained all the abilities of a normal Godhead.

Moreover, it could temporarily boost all four of his Transcendent Paths to Sequence 0 when needed.

Of course, this enhancement required the expenditure of Civilization Kindling.

And it had to be Civilization Kindling under his control.

As long as he had enough Civilization Kindling, he could wield Sequence 0 power while still at Sequence 1.

And once he reached Sequence 0, he would possess full-fledged True God-level strength.

If he combined this with Savage Will's extreme combat burst, Rosen would now be fully capable of slaying a True God in direct battle—regardless of the cost.

(End of Chapter)