Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 40 Artists' Guild

Chapter 40

Rosen sat down by the roadside and began to carefully read through the city handbook.

Some areas of the Blazing Shadow Royal City are open to the public, while others are private territory and entry is prohibited.

Most wizard towers and floating islands are private territories that are not open to the public.

The more Rosen looked at the city handbook, the more he felt that it was worth the money.

The Blazing Shadow Royal City is too large; including the farmland outside the city, it covers an area of ​​at least several dozen miles.

The city has a permanent population of over ten million. Without a map, even locals who have lived there for decades could get lost.

Rosen quickly skimmed through the city handbook, but he wouldn't be able to read it in detail for at least a month or two.

The city handbook is an alchemical creation, and it also has search and navigation functions.

Rosen simply typed "professional guild" into the navigation, and it instantly showed him the route to the Blazing Shadow Royal City Professional Guild.

In the entire Blazing Shadow Royal City, only the professional guilds do not belong to the Blazing Shadow Duchy.

All professional guilds are directly under the World Government.

The staff members are mostly from other countries.

The main functions of a professional guild are threefold: professional assessment, global recruitment, and selling tickets to the Spirit Realm.

Global conscription is easy to understand; all extraordinary individuals can apply to go to the borders to expand their territory.

However, those below Sequence 6 have to pay for their own way, while only those of Sequence 6 can go for free.

Selling tickets to the Spirit Realm is easy to understand.

Many noble families possess family-inherited spiritual realms, but the resources within these realms are limited and insufficient to meet the needs of cultivation.

Most nobles would choose to open a portion of their spiritual realm to the public and sell tickets.

Rosen has no interest in going to the border right now; he has only been away from the Spirit Realm for a short time and has no intention of going back.

He went to the professional guild mainly to conduct a professional assessment.

It's really just a test of one's potential. The difference in aptitude and potential between an 18-year-old Sequence 9 and a 30-year-old Sequence 9 is obvious. The better the official academy in Blazing Shadow Royal City, the higher the score requirements for career assessment.

Following the navigation, Rosen boarded a public alchemy carriage and arrived at the Artists' Guild half an hour later.

Few people come and go from here, since the number of people in the noble ranks is actually quite small.

In the entire Blazing Shadow Royal City, it would be quite good if there were about ten thousand nobles with titles.

Normally, when there's nothing to do, why would a nobleman go to a professional guild every day?
Rosen estimated that the entire Artists' Guild had no more than a thousand members.

Those in the painter sequence are even fewer, and those in sequence 9 are even rarer.

Therefore, the pressure on him to get into the best official academy is not very high from any perspective.

It's not even difficult at all, of course, that's assuming you have enough wealth.

If you can't afford art, there's no room for the poor to survive in the sequence of human civilization.

"I'm here to conduct a professional assessment for the painter's career."

Rosen went to the front desk of the professional guild and explained his purpose.

"Please go to the twelfth floor. I will inform the painters' branch to receive you on the twelfth floor."

The receptionist with her long, golden hair pointed to a mural on the wall not far away and said, "That mural is the passage to the twelfth floor of the spirit world. You only need to walk into the painting to go directly to the twelfth floor. Just be warned, if you are not a painter, you will encounter unpredictable dangers."

"Ok!"

Rosen nodded and walked towards the mural. The moment he bumped into the wall, the mural on the wall rippled and came to life.

Rosen felt a blur before his eyes and found himself standing in front of a giant gallery filled with countless spiritual paintings.

At that moment, an elegant middle-aged man in a tuxedo suddenly appeared from a painting at the entrance.

His golden mustache was neatly trimmed and quite handsome. The elegant middle-aged man frowned slightly upon seeing Rosen in his ordinary suit, and a paintbrush appeared in his hand, creating a series of afterimages in the air.

An elegant middle-aged man conjures up a suit out of thin air, and with the final stroke, he points it at Lawson from a distance.

His suit instantly transformed from an ordinary item into a high-end, custom-made piece.

Rosen's overall energy and spirit were greatly enhanced by the new clothes that fit him perfectly.

The elegant middle-aged man nodded in satisfaction and put away his paintbrush. In his view, an artist must be elegant and noble.

“Clement Curtis, I’m glad you’ve chosen the path of a painter.”

The elegant middle-aged man extended his hand and said warmly.

"Rosen Howard, it is an honor to be a painter."

Rosen also extended his hand and shook hands with Clement politely.

"Mr. Howard, come with me..."

Clement led Rosen into the gallery and continued to introduce him to the paintings along the way.

Every painter from the Blazing Shadow Kingdom will leave behind a spiritual painting in this gallery.

These spiritual paintings are specially protected, allowing one to determine the life or death of the artist.

These spiritual paintings can even help pinpoint the approximate location of the artist.

Of course, the location function can easily infringe on personal privacy, and may even be used by enemies to endanger the painter.

Therefore, to locate a painter's position through a spiritual painting, the painter must authorize it, the president of the artists' guild must approve it, and the current Grand Duke of Blazing Shadow must give final approval. Only after these three conditions are met can this location be activated.

Because the gallery's layout was designed by the World Government, even Grand Duke Blazing Shadow could not arbitrarily determine the painter's location.

This gallery can identify the special role of painters, and its main purpose is to give painters a chance to seek help.

As long as you are in the Duchy of Blazing Shadow, no matter where you are trapped, you can apply for help once through the spiritual paintings you left in the gallery.

Of course, the artists' guild's rescue efforts are not free; payment is required afterward.

Once a painter reaches Sequence 6, regardless of whether they have used their SOS opportunity, they must leave behind one Spirit Realm painting for the Artists Guild. If they have used their SOS opportunity, they must leave behind two Spirit Realm paintings.

Of course, the resources needed for the Lingjing paintings do not need to be paid for by the artists themselves; the artists' guild will cover all the costs.

This is an obligation that all painters must fulfill, and of course, the corresponding rights are absolutely worth it.

All resources for the painter series can be purchased from the Artists Guild at a price slightly above cost.

All painters can earn contribution points to exchange for various unique resources from the Artists Guild.

Even noble families that have fallen on hard times can easily earn the resources needed for cultivation here.

Clement led Rosen to a blank wall, where a blank picture frame appeared out of thin air.

"This is also part of your career assessment."

Clement pointed to the blank picture frame and said expectantly.

Rosen put down the storage backpack on his back and took out the paintbrushes and paints that he had exchanged for with spiritual energy from Masadora.

He focused his attention on the drawing paper on the wall and soon had something he wanted to draw.

With his own spirituality, Rosen used his paintbrush to create an abstract painting of an ancient golden tree.

Perhaps it was the gallery's special feature, but he managed to infuse nine points of spirituality into his paintings.

It should be noted that after establishing his divine territory, his spirituality only grew to nine points.

Normally, one must retain some spirituality; otherwise, one's own spirituality will fall into an extremely weak coma.

However, when this oil painting was infused with nine points of spirituality, Rosen not only did not feel weak at all, but the spirituality he had consumed was instantly restored. He even felt that he was not far from reaching ten points of spirituality. The gains from painting a picture here were a hundred times greater than those from painting every day.

(End of this chapter)