"another world?"

Annan suddenly became interested: "Explain in detail?"

Nigel took a sip with tea instead of wine.

Then he sighed and told Annan about the journey from the beginning:

"In the beginning, I received a letter from a friend a long time ago. He helped me a lot when I just returned to the art world... He is a wizard and a well-known artist in the industry. A student of the legendary'eye of lagging time'.

"When I first returned to the art world, I was very unfamiliar. I had a considerable degree of confidence in my paintings at that time-after all, it was a painting that Yaon rated as ‘okay’.

"But after all, that's the level of'okay', not'very good' or'not bad.' My face is not thick enough, Yaon said a little bit of kindness, I can use the name of Yaon to go out to promote degree.

"If there is no fame, it will not sell at the price that matches it. Those who can buy paintings will only be aristocrats in the country who know a little bit of art. I have to sell some paintings and save enough money to open it. gallery.

"Only in this way can fame really hit the market-I am ready. I will not be famous in the first two years of returning to the art world. Until I save enough money to open a gallery, I invite critics in the industry to come... Or in a gathering of nobles, people with knowledge can see these paintings drawn by me."

I just point to being so famous.

Painter Nigel said so.

In this plain and humble language, in fact, there is an absolute confidence in oneself hidden.

Although it is "dare to use the name of Yaon to promote it", Nigel himself knows the actual level of this painting. He believes that as long as people who really understand art and see this painting in the homes of other nobles, they will be able to realize what level of painter they are.

As long as a nobleman is willing to sponsor him. With his strength, he can fly into the sky easily.

"But at this moment, I met him... a traveling wizard from the White Tower of Howling Wind. He was full of praise for my paintings and took the initiative to raise the price to three times what I requested, and bought the paintings back. .

"Within two months, a nobleman from the royal capital rushed to my hometown all the way and wanted to buy my paintings for a lot of money. Only then did I know how much he helped me."

"Your friend...what's his name?"

Annan asked.

"Rafaelo Santi. This is his name."

Nigel quickly replied: "He is about a dozen years older than me. But unlike me, he was born in an artistic family since he was a child. His parents are followers of Shifu and Zhiji...His My father is a well-known architect in the United Kingdom, and my mother is Noah's painter. Among the paintings I imitated when I taught myself painting skills when I was a teenager, there are his mother's works.

"But when he was very young, he was sent to Rindong to learn witchcraft. Because his father told him, "The technique of carving has its limits-people's energy and physical strength, and the texture of the stone, will affect it. The final product. A truly perfect sculpture can only be made by mastering the spells of the idol and shaping school.'

"So he went to the White Tower of Howling Wind to concentrate on learning spells. At the age of more than 30 years, he became a great silver wizard, graduated successfully... and began to concentrate on art."

Nigel sighed earnestly: "I really envy him and I am grateful to him. For me, he is one of the few friends I really want to make. So even afterwards I became famous. , Even when he was far more famous than Rafaelo, I often wrote to him.

"Although my mother is a ritualist, I don't know anything about rituals. My painting experience keeps reminding me that I don't have that talent, and I can calmly make a reputation in different fields like those geniuses.

"I only have to work hard. The art of this era is constantly evolving, and I don't even have to regress... As long as I stop, I will soon be left behind by people.

"Because this is my experience of retreating for 20 years, studying a craft with all my heart, and finally realizing it. If it is for those talented, it may only take 15 or even 10 years-if they have enough The money and the time left to work may be able to surpass me in only five or six years.

"I don't have the energy to delve into other things. And with my talents, it is not enough to master the skills of a ritualist with a short period of study..."

If you don't have enough level, then you just take your own humiliation.

Nigel's self-esteem as an outstanding painter and his calm and rational judgment made him never intend to contact the ritualist industry.

It is precisely because he clearly knows that the ritualist is more eager for talent and accumulation than the painter, that he will not expand to such a degree of cross-border.

"So, we have always used letters to communicate. I don't know where he traveled, so I can only send the letter to a contact point in Lin Dong... That is where he often goes back, and can be regarded as him. s home.

"We can receive one or two letters from each other almost every year, but it's a lot of trouble if we want to meet each other. Because of this, he wrote me a letter... I hope I can go to Winter and help him draw Some'things that cannot be portrayed correctly at his level'.

"He promised me high enough rewards, including a winter villa. That's why I chose to sell all of Noah's properties at this time and use it to pay off the owed paper girl. Debt."

Of course, his accumulation over the years has long been much more than his debts back then. That is dozens of times, even hundreds of times.

But what Nigel paid back was not the small amount of living expenses that he got when he sacrificed to Zhi Ji with the bad paintings that could not be sold... but the money used to maintain his "dream".

It is precisely because he owes a lot of Zhiji that he clenched his teeth in tears when he was criticized by Yaweng.

That's what he can now embark on this path without giving up, the first light.

"I arrived at the agreed cold wind fortress and met Count Felix at the recommendation of Rafaelo. He gave me a commission...that is to enter the bottom of the'Furnace Mountain' from the secret passage and depict the'world The shape of the wound.

"——I thought he wanted to murder me."

Nigel said with lingering fears.

Anyone who travels all the way to a foreign country will be laughed at by the other side and said that he is going to be sent to the bottom of an active volcano... will have the feeling of "Am I fooled" and "Am I going to die".

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"And when I descended down the deep well to the bottom of the'Furnace Mountain'... I found a magnificent sight that I had never seen before."

Nigel whispered in a dreamlike tone: "That's really [the wound of the world~lightnovelpub.net~ I have truly seen the end of the world-when all colors disappear, all matter is A place that doesn't exist. You can easily see "outside the world" at a glance.

"That is all matter, there is no chaos bounded by a fixed form. Only with the intuition of'beauty' can we barely distinguish their essence.

"That's... the living flame and the imprisoned light. I lost my mind at the time, and when I woke up, the painting was finished.

"That is the painting I am most proud of and can never be copied. I feel that my mind, skill, and other things have been lost to that painting... I will never be able to paint that painting again in my life.

"As long as you uncover the canvas blocking it, the other papers and fibers in the room will burn on their own. All mirrors will shine with their fierce light at the same time, as if the light trapped in the depths of the mirror is about to escape."

Nigel glanced at Annan and said incomprehensible words with certainty: "That is the light...very similar to the light in you."