Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 41 A Stroke of Genius (▄█▔▉● Please Read On)
Chapter 41

"You're not very good at oil painting, let alone abstract painting. Why is that?"

Clement asked in surprise after reading Rosen's work.

Rosen's oil painting is not bad, but...

He didn't understand Rosen's approach, believing that the higher the professional evaluation score, the better.

"I don't want to have a weak link in my life, and this painting will inspire me to strive to catch up with the many predecessors."

Rosen gave a plausible answer that was full of lies.

He had actually regretted it long ago; he should have been more careful when drawing still images in Redstone City.

The fact that a painter suspected to be Sequence 6 has appeared in Redstone City cannot remain hidden forever.

There will always be people who are curious about this and then want to learn more about it.

Although all the still images were destroyed simultaneously the moment the Saw Spirit Realm was created.

However, many people have seen those still paintings, and Rosen cannot erase all of their memories.

A painter's painting habits are probably as unique as a fingerprint in the eyes of a skilled painter.

To those with ulterior motives, this was a potential threat to Rosen.

However, at the time he knew too little about the extraordinary world, so he never considered that it might leave hidden dangers.

Later, it was learned that Rosen spent most of his time in the Spirit Realm of the Death Forest making amends.

During this period, he painted mostly oil paintings, rather than the realistic color paintings that he was best at.

The sole purpose is to conceal this hidden danger.

On the other hand, for a painter to continuously improve their skills, they also need to be proficient in multiple schools of thought.

"Your idea is quite unique; many painters are unwilling to show their less-than-ideal side..."

Clement looked at Rosen's painting and said words of encouragement against his will.

However, in terms of professional evaluation scores, he could only give Rosen's oil painting the score it deserved.

With only 65 points, that's just passing the mark.

Upon learning of this score, Rosen nervously inquired about the entrance scores for the city's official academy.

Upon learning that passing the exam would allow him to enter, Rosen breathed a sigh of relief.

It was clear that Clement was very friendly to newcomers, so Rosen chatted with Clement for more than an hour.

Rosen learned that studying the painter's sequence at the academy was not very meaningful.

Because those who are considered serious painters almost never become teachers.

The teachers who teach painting at the academy are mostly ordinary people who don't have an awakened spiritual talent, but are very talented in painting. Painters go to the academy to learn basic painting techniques.

As for acquired extraordinary skills, it's best to spend money in the guild to learn from other painters.

Of course, the academy's role is not limited to this. In addition to learning basic drawing skills, Rosen can also gain a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental knowledge of the extraordinary world and the fundamental knowledge of other sequences.

At the very least, when facing other sequences, one should know what methods those sequences employ.

However, college teaching must cater to the majority of students.

Even if you learn quickly, the college won't speed up the teaching pace just for you.

Therefore, any nobleman with the means would hire a private tutor rather than attend an academy.
Because of the small number of members, the artists' guild provides free room and board.

Rosen knew of these benefits and immediately settled in at the Artists' Guild.

Visit different painters every day, and learn what acquired skills the painters' association has mastered in which painters' sequences.

After more than half a month of research, he has already formed a preliminary list of choices.

First of all, don't expect much in terms of lethality; the painter's sequence at Sequence 9 has virtually no lethality.

Most painters will learn various auxiliary skills in Sequence 9 to enhance their spiritual paintings.

The most common choice is to enhance the three skills, namely paper, pen, and paint.

Alternatively, some painters choose to combine brush and paint together.

After all, not all paintings are like oil paintings where the brush and paint are separate.

Rosen excels at realistic color painting, where the brush and paint are basically blended together.

In this case, brush and paint count as one skill, leaving you with an extra auxiliary skill to choose from.

However, if you choose a painting technique that combines brush and paint, you can basically forget about painting oil paintings in the future.

After much consideration, Rosen finally decided to pursue a more mainstream approach using paints and brushes. Although he excelled at realistic color painting, he also didn't want to abandon other painting styles such as ink wash and oil painting.

Because of different fields of painting, the quality of spiritual paintings varies greatly.

For example, if you're drawing a gun, realistic painting and sketching are definitely more suitable for representation.

But if you're painting a twisted, crazy, evil monster, then abstract oil painting definitely has a much greater advantage than sketching and realistic painting.

Of the paper, brushes, and paints, the most troublesome and time-consuming is the paintbrush.

Not only do you need to master auxiliary skills, but you also need to customize your own extraordinary and unique paintbrushes.

Moreover, it is best to customize the brushes in one go, specifically the Sequence 7 brushes, and then seal the brushes into the Sequence 9.

In this way, as one's own sequence improves, there is no need to frequently replace the extraordinary artifact brush.

However, a custom-made Sequence 7 paintbrush starts at 50,000 units of spiritual crystals.

Rosen watched as his savings dwindled by nearly half, but he still reluctantly placed a custom order for a paintbrush.

Since he couldn't get the goods yet, he took advantage of this time to master the skills of using a paintbrush.

If a painter paints an ordinary picture, even a Sequence 9 painting can turn into a human printer that resembles a tentacle monster.

However, creating spiritual paintings can sometimes be slower than a normal painting.

Because during the painting process, the painter must concentrate fully on infusing their spirituality into their brushstrokes.

However, drawing slowly is fine in a safe environment, but if you are slowly drawing a spiritual painting in a dangerous environment, you might be tortured to death before you finish it.

Therefore, auxiliary skills are needed to increase drawing speed, and auxiliary skills are needed to strengthen and modify one's own hands.

With hands strengthened, the painting speed naturally increases accordingly, and there are other auxiliary skills to solve the problem of infusing spirituality.

"Exquisite brushwork, masterful strokes, powerful and elegant lines, a stroke of genius..."

Rosen struggled to choose among the four support skills.

"Masterful Hands and Painted Brushes" is an auxiliary skill that can enhance both brushes and paints simultaneously.

A skillful brush can enhance one's calligraphy and painting abilities, as calligraphy and painting are inseparable. It also provides a significant boost to ink painting skills.

Iron strokes and silver hooks—this is the auxiliary skill that provides the highest enhancement to both hands.

The final stroke of genius enhanced not the hands, but the paintbrush composed of extraordinary source matter.

This extraordinary skill allows for the permanent fusion of extraordinary essence and the paintbrush, enabling the paintbrush to evolve and grow along with the extraordinary sequence.

Of the four auxiliary skills, Divine Stroke is undoubtedly the strongest, but no one in the entire Painter's Guild has mastered this auxiliary skill.

Therefore, he could not consult other painters and could only explore and master the skills on his own based on the information left by his predecessors.

The difficulty has increased several times over, but Rosen still felt unwilling to give up the strongest option.

So he decided to give it a try; if his strokes of genius didn't work, he could always learn the iron hook style later.

Youth is an asset; he has the right to take a chance if he returns to being eighteen.

Rosen spent five thousand units of spiritual crystals to successfully obtain the skill data for the Divine Stroke.

I spent two days watching it before I understood why this skill was so difficult to master.

To master the Divine Brush, each sequence must permanently occupy a point of spirituality, then be infused with extraordinary source matter and extraordinary brushes, and finally one can create their own unique Divine Brush.

This means that from now on, when creating a spiritual painting, one must always infuse it with less spirituality than other paintings of the same level.

When others are at Sequence 1, the highest amount of spiritual energy they can inject is 98 points into a single spiritual painting.

The Divine Stroke can only be infused with 89 points of spirituality. The former is the upper limit of Sequence 1, while the Divine Stroke is destined to be the lower limit of Sequence 1.

However, with such a significant negative impact, the positive effects of this stroke of genius are naturally also very strong.

Other painters who have reached Sequence 1 generally have 9 innate skills and 27 acquired skills.

However, a stroke of genius allows each sequence level to transform an acquired skill into an innate skill.

Moreover, if the controller of the Divine Brush after Sequence 1 wants to go further to Sequence 0 and become a god, the Divine Brush can more perfectly carry divinity and divine power.

Of course, excluding that effect, the nine extra innate skills are enough to make up for the nine points of spirituality disadvantage in the spiritual painting.

Many painters wouldn't even dare to dream of Sequence 0; becoming Sequence 6 is the dream of countless painters.

Therefore, there are very few painters who are dedicated to mastering the art of divine inspiration. In addition, mastering the art of divine inspiration requires being imbued with divinity. Although it is not as difficult as acquiring divinity, it still requires contact with treasures that contain divinity.

Such treasures, containing divine demigod-level qualities, are rare even after twenty thousand years of accumulation in the Blazing Shadow Kingdom.

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