Throne of Radiance

【Hook mode is off. 】

[The dungeon time of Nightmare Shards has been deduced to one month later. 】

When Bai Yi entered the nightmare game again, familiar historical records flashed across his panel.

[... With the help of many painting spirits, you successfully drew the painting "The Last Supper" with an S-level spiritual evaluation by virtue of your A-level painting skills and SSS spiritual energy. ]

[You have chosen to contribute to this district arts center. ]

[During the hang-up period, since the results of the painting awards have not yet been released, and the art awards in other groups have not yet officially started, your character "Joy" is unwilling to waste any time. Under the guidance of traits such as "a ghost on earth", he followed his own art-obsessed traits and continued to practice skills in painting, food, music, literature and so on. ]

[Your character "Joy" has been trained hard, experience +1. ]

[Your character "Joy" has been trained hard, experience +1. ]

[Your character "Joy" has been trained hard, experience +1. ]

……

［Your character "Joy" has undergone hard training, and his drawing skills are constantly declining. He is currently at level C. ]

[Your character "Joy" has undergone hard training, and his cooking skills have been declining. He has broken through the lowest level of the evaluation system, F, and cannot make a correct evaluation for the time being. ]

[Your character "Joy" has undergone hard training, and his musical skills have continued to decline. He has broken through the lowest level of the evaluation system, F, and cannot make a correct evaluation for the time being. ]

[Your character "Joy" has undergone hard training, and his literary skills have continued to decline. He has broken through the lowest level of the evaluation system, F, and cannot make a correct evaluation for the time being. ]

……

Bai Yi:? ? ?

Seeing this, Bai Yi's head was full of question marks.

He trains hard, but his level drops instead of rising. The more experienced he is, the lower his skill evaluation is. What kind of peerless genius is this? ? ?

This "artistic failure" is truly unprecedented.

"Mistake, mistake..." He secretly said in his heart.

Mature game characters will grow on their own. In the past, every time he hung up, Bai Yi could fatten up the character, allowing him to save time and directly accept the character at its peak.As a result, the character this time is really amazing, the more he hangs up, the more he pulls his hips, and he trained himself to directly fall below the lower limit of the evaluation system. The legendary crouching dragon and phoenix chick can't handle this guy, right? !

This is the first character who can't hang up to grow fat. It seems that to pass this nightmare fragment dungeon, you have to live!

The only thing to be thankful for is that although Bai Yi worked so hard to practice A-level painting skills in the game, he was immediately turned into a C-level by this character after hanging up the phone, but at least the painting has been handed in, and the painting award does not exist In the rematch, he doesn't need to practice again.

And this point in time, in the time of the Nightmare Shard dungeon, was the time when the final ranking of the Painting Awards was announced.

He turned on the TV in the living room on time.

Sitting on the sofa, the side is empty.

"Without familiar roommates and neighbors, it's a bit boring to watch TV alone~" Bai Yi stretched out a finger and nodded her chin, letting out a sigh of emotion.

As the TV screen lit up, the familiar host of the familiar World Art Channel appeared in front of the screen.

"Good morning, viewers, welcome to the World Art Awards... Just today, the month-long Painting Awards finally came to an end, and the list of 125 works selected for the awards has been released. Let us review the past month's works Take a look at the history of the competition, and take a look at the stories behind each piece of work..."

In the host's voice, the screen quickly switched.

A black and white logo in the shape of a huge cube is constantly rotating on the screen.

This is the famous gallery of death.

It looks like an ordinary building on the outside, but when you walk in, you will enter a special cube of 5×5×5, and each grid is an exhibition room, which can only hold one painting.All the paintings put in it will be automatically selected by the death gallery according to the strength of spirituality, and put into different exhibition rooms.After 125 paintings are selected, the rest of the paintings that are not spiritual enough will be automatically thrown out by the Death Gallery as garbage.

Therefore, from the outermost layer of the cube to the inner layer, the closer the painting to the center represents the stronger the spirituality.

Logically speaking, with such an impartial referee, there is no need for anyone to participate in the behind-the-scenes selection of the Painting Awards, and there is no need to delay it for a month. As long as all the paintings are thrown into the death gallery, the ranking can be settled within a day.

And the organizers of the World Painting Awards are doing just that.

On the first day of the competition, the rankings came out.

The reason for waiting another month is to verify the special abilities of these paintings.After all, a painting in this world is not just a painting, but a transcendent item.

The Death Gallery only selects the 125 most spiritual paintings, and the organizers of the Painting Awards will also appreciate these 125 paintings.

Some of these paintings may not be very spiritual, but they can have a wide range of healing effects on spiritual pollution. Almost anyone can cleanse their spirits by appreciating paintings.Although some paintings are extremely spiritual, only a very small number of people with strong spiritual will can appreciate them, and most ordinary people simply cannot bear their spiritual impact;

The former can be displayed publicly to everyone, while the latter can only appear in some private art exhibitions with level restrictions.

As for those paintings that follow the dark art style, they should not be displayed casually, otherwise, wouldn't it be murder for the audience?

In terms of game terms, spiritual strength only represents the level of equipment, but it does not necessarily mean that equipment with a higher level is better than equipment with a lower level, it also depends on the characteristics of the equipment.Add defense, add attack, or add healing, the emphasis is different.

Because many of these 125 paintings are marked as dark art, and some are marked as healing art by the author himself, but no one knows if there will be any spiritual pollution, or some anti-federal anti-government Of course, the staff of the painting award organizers will not try the dangerous works deliberately mixed in by the guys. The people they sent to appreciate the paintings are all death row prisoners who have committed unforgivable crimes due to spiritual pollution.

This is also the usual practice of the World Art Awards.

Over the course of a month, the Painting Awards officials successively placed hundreds of executed prisoners in the death gallery.

Then by observing the changes in their mental state after entering each exhibition room and appreciating the paintings, we can identify the characteristics of these artworks.

However, whether it is mental pollution or curing mental pollution, generally speaking, it is subtle and cannot be done in a short time.

Just like the "Sabbath" at the beginning, there are many people who have seen this painting, but they did not have mental problems on the spot, but their mental status gradually became abnormal in the following time.Therefore, the official gave a one-month observation time.

At this time, what was shown on the TV screen was the various pictures that appeared in the death gallery during this month.

None of the contents of the paintings were photographed in the camera, and what appeared in the camera was the state of the condemned prisoners in different exhibition rooms.

Scene after scene switched.

Some people knelt on the ground, wept bitterly, and repented from the bottom of their hearts.There is a thoughtful subtitle next to it: [This is the murderer of a massacre, crazy and bloodthirsty, without humanity. ]

Someone stood there blankly, with a peaceful and happy face, as if they had gone deep into heaven.The subtitles continued with a thoughtful note: [This is a cultist who advocates doomsday theory and incites suicide. ]

Some people are insane, and they pick out their own eyeballs to play with; some people directly kill the guy in the same exhibition room, and write love poems with blood on the ground...

——In the past, such mosaic images would never have appeared on TV.But since the world has been polluted, everyone has begun to accept and adapt to this style of painting.Aren't they just a few unlucky ghosts who encountered dark works of art?

The pictures in the 125 exhibition rooms were switched one by one on the TV, and finally the camera slowed down gradually, and it was fixed to an exhibition room at the outermost edge of the Death Gallery.

On the wall, a picture scroll slowly unfolded, boundless wheat waves surging like an ocean, a large piece of golden yellow flashed in the camera, and was quickly switched to the center of the exhibition room.

——Although this is a healing painting, the show still didn’t show even one second more of the shot, as if one more second would cause mental pollution to the audience.

Ever since a divine work of healing was found to cause people who saw the painting to create non-existent gods in their hearts and become infected with fanatical faith worship, the Federation has become more cautious about the public display of all artworks—— No one knows whether there are hidden dangers in seemingly innocuous works.Or whether a certain creator has anti-federal tendencies and deliberately uses this platform to destroy the world.

This method of only showing the content of the painting for a second is very clever.Even if it is a masterpiece of dark art at the level of "Sabbath", it is not enough to catch people just by looking at it.

The camera cuts to the center of the exhibition hall. Several condemned prisoners are lying on the ground with their eyes closed. Their bodies seem to be spread out into noodles. The lazy expressions on their faces seem to be sleeping in a wheat field and basking in the sun, showing a very soothing and relaxed posture. .

The host did not know where to take out an envelope, and began to introduce: "This painting is called "Autumn Fields". The artist is the well-known master of healing art, Mr. Qiuyang. The creation theme of the appendix and the mental journey of creation..."

Each entry requires the artist to write down the theme of creation and the mental journey of creation. This is by no means for boring reading comprehension, but for the convenience of the organizer to know the position of the artist himself for the work, and then put the death penalty in a targeted manner guilty to appreciate.

For example, if the artist proves that his paintings have powerful healing power, and the theme is reunion after a broken mirror, the official will really send in lovers who have turned against each other to appreciate it.

As the most authoritative competition in the field of painting, all the candidates are already the most outstanding figures in the Federation. Some people's works may have healed many people in the past, and some people will make great contributions to the Federation in the future. contribution.

Therefore, the host introduced them one by one without missing a single one, and they are worthy of such an interview.

In this way, in a blink of an eye, it has come to the penultimate picture.

"...As a special figure painting with prototypes in reality, "Evil Ghost" is a well-deserved classic of dark art. The protagonist in the painting is the painter's younger sister who was abused and died in childhood. Every death penalty with a domestic violence record The criminals were all tortured mentally in this exhibition hall, experienced as if they were haunted by evil spirits, and finally strangled to death. As we all know, the spirituality of figure paintings is stronger than that of landscape paintings. The spirituality of this painting Except for the first famous painting, it surpasses almost all other paintings. But it is also very limited, and it only has spiritual pollution for domestic violence. It has high artistic value and lacks practical value."

Ending his evaluation with such a paragraph, the host cleared his throat: "The next thing is the number one work in this painting competition, which is selected by the Death Gallery, and it is a masterpiece with incredible and amazing spirituality! And it The creator of the painting is neither the previous god of painting, nor the master of art that we are familiar with. To be precise, the painting god who is about to reach the top has not published any works before this, and he is a complete novice. !"

"——It is the first time since the creation of the painting award that it directly won the first place in the painting award with only its debut work!"

Speaking of this, the host suddenly stopped talking, as if deliberately trying to make the audience in front of the TV scratch their hearts and lungs, she skillfully inserted a commercial, and continued:

"Before announcing the first name of the painting award, I would like to remind all audiences that after the award, according to the pre-signed contract, the participating works of healing will be included in the art exhibition of the Artists Association in the next month. The spiritual strength is graded, and all proceeds will be distributed proportionally between the artist association and the creator. After one month, the painting will be returned to the artist himself... Interested audiences please pay attention at any time, and don't miss the exhibition time."

"...As for the dark works, please come to the Federal Art Center to collect the paintings in person within one month. The Artists Association will give the creators certain containment suggestions based on the degree of danger of the works, so as to avoid accidental contamination and spread. The Federal Judgment Office, Special institutions such as the Dark Artists Association and the No. 27 Research Institute welcome everyone to join us!"

"...The 125 painters selected for this painting award will all be awarded the title of honorary member of the Artists Association and enjoy all the benefits of an honorary member."

After saying this, the host was ready to reveal the answer: "Then, let's take a look at No.1 who finally reached the top of this year's Painting Awards..."

The picture on the screen came to the deepest part of the Death Gallery, which was a room that seemed to be independent from all the exhibition rooms.

The "Sabbath" that made countless people obsessed, chased, and crazy about it was once hung here.

And now, there is another painting hanging on the wall of this exhibition hall, a painting that looks very warm.

Everyone was surprised to find that this time the shot did not flash by, but was frozen on the screen.This is the treatment that the number one masterpiece of the previous painting awards did not have.

——Unless, this painting is very special.Officials believe that openly allowing citizens of the entire Federation to accept the spiritual infection of paintings is a matter of great benefit to the entire Federation.

It was a living room lit by dim lights.In the living room, more than a dozen figures sat around the dining table, which was piled with delicacies, and everyone's faces were filled with tears of gratitude.At first glance, it seems that some kind of prayer ceremony for enjoying delicious food has a kind of sacred brilliance.

This painting is not completely realistic, the outlines of the characters in the painting are somewhat blurred, because the clothes of different people are of different colors, it looks like a row of rainbows of more than seven colors encircling the long dining table.

And the person sitting at the main seat is neither black nor white, just a nothingness outline.All eyes were on him.It seemed as if only when he spoke could the dinner begin or end.

The painting is warm and bright, and it incorporates all the colors without appearing cluttered at all.

The host took out an envelope and introduced it as usual: "This painting is called "The Last Supper", and it is the debut work of the new creator, Master Joy. The background of the birth of this painting is very special. Talent in painting. After moving to a new apartment building, he hit it off with the neighbors in the whole building and became good friends with the same goals. They love each other and get along like family members. It is with the help of this group of good friends Then, the artist broke out with inspiration and painted this "Last Supper". This is a painting full of imagination, warm and beautiful, and encourages people never to give up hope and dreams. The most important thing is..."

The host read word by word according to the envelope:

"The theme of this painting is: Even strangers can be like a family. If everyone can give each other gifts with kindness, then the world will be heaven!"

As his voice fell, the scope of the camera expanded from the painting to the entire exhibition hall. In the center of the exhibition hall, more than a dozen people were sitting in a row on the ground, admiring the painting side by side. Everyone had a smile on their faces. The atmosphere between each other is extremely harmonious and beautiful, it looks like a gathering of friends sitting on the beach.

"There are sworn enemies here, strangers who have never met each other, people who hate each other like friendship, sociopaths, terrorists, cult leaders, and ordinary people... It's hard to imagine that they can... Sit together and admire the paintings like good friends."

The host introduced the identities of these people in due course.

But the audience in front of the TV did not pay attention to what she was talking about, and their eyes were almost attracted by the painting.

Staring at the paintings in the camera, even through the screen, they all have a feeling of being illuminated by warm lights, as if they smell the fragrance and hot breath of food, and the extremely strong beauty and warmth suddenly come from them Bursting out of my heart...

Unknowingly, everyone was intoxicated.

It was as if they had been led into a boundless and wonderful dream. An incomparably beautiful and harmonious artistic conception swept across the entire Federation, and everyone couldn't help feeling a sense of stability, contentment and happiness in their hearts.

All kinds of things in the past, the quarrels with parents, the conflicts with neighbors, the conflicts with competitors, the hatred with enemies... At this moment, it seems that they are being suppressed bit by bit by some strange force. go down.

There is no need for quarrels, no need for conflicts, no need for conflicts, no need for hatred, no need for all of these.

"Isn't it good to have a harmonious and peaceful life? As long as everyone loves each other, this world is a beautiful paradise..." Such thoughts flashed through everyone's minds.

At this moment, the light in the painting seemed to flicker.For a moment, everyone sitting at the table seemed to melt.

The colorful colors melted on the scroll, and everyone melted like a wax figure baked by fire, and flowed directly to the dining table, melting together with the ingredients on the dining table, like a paint plate after being completely overturned. Paints were messily mixed together on the dining table.

Only the vague silhouette was still sitting at the dining table.

It looks like, like...

It's as if everyone has become the ingredients on the table, for the being in front of the table who only has outlines to enjoy!

!!!

In an instant, this extremely horrifying association made everyone in front of the TV wake up, subconsciously retreating tactically.

Only then did they realize that the scroll in the lens hadn't changed.

It is still the living room decorated with dim lights, the dining table full of rich dishes, and the people sitting at the table with tears in their eyes, as if they are extremely grateful for the delicious food.

But at this moment, everyone who saw this picture scroll felt completely different from before.This time, they seemed to see the silent tears of despair before a group of victims were brought to the table.

There may be only one person who reacts differently, and that is Bai Yi.

He also fell back tactically for a moment, but his expression was a little exaggerated: "Oh, is this an accusation against me? Or is it a coquettish? Isn't it just to put you all into the painting to be more spiritual~ Isn't this Is it more in line with the theme of good friends loving each other and helping each other?"

Bai Yi thought brokenly: "...I'm going too far with this connotation! I'm not some man-eating devil!"

——Although if the entire painting is regarded as a dining table, the spirit of the painting painted on as paint is indeed the food placed on the table, and it is the victim.

The sudden change seemed to surprise the organizers, and the camera quickly cut across the scroll, but what happened next brought even greater shocks to the entire Federation.

After the wall where the painting is located is switched, other parts in the center of the exhibition hall are instantly reflected in the camera.

I saw a group of people who were sitting on the ground side by side admiring the paintings before, with different expressions at this time.

Some people sat against the wall with their heads slightly lowered, with serene and peaceful smiles on their faces, as if they had fallen into a woven fantasy.Others described it as madness. Some people bit off their fingers like eating biscuits one bite at a time; some walked towards the painting step by step like fanatics, even though they were blocked by the invisible force in the death gallery a few steps away, But he still rushed forward without giving up; someone directly bit off the enemy's throat... The whole picture is filled with thick blood, chaos, and weirdness, like a large-scale cult sacrifice scene.

It seemed that something was wrong, the camera of the TV station was cut off directly, and everything came to an abrupt end in an instant.

However, the settlement of the system will not be interrupted.

[1/3 of the main mission has been cleared, and you have been awarded the title of God in the field of painting. 】

[The achievement system has been refreshed...]

[You have achieved the "Flesh Sacrifice" achievement. 】

[Explanation: When the spirit of painting is involuntary, using the spirit of painting to complete the painting is tantamount to putting the victims on the dining table for enjoyment.You complete a special flesh and blood sacrifice, "sacrifice" the spirit of the painting, so that your paintings have unparalleled spirituality, and thus firmly win the title of God. ]

[You have achieved the "Illusion of Paradise" achievement. 】

[Explanation: Goodness and beauty come from the heart.Everyone voluntarily does good, voluntarily pursues beauty, and the world is heaven.If we forcibly distort other people's hearts and suppress their will by extraordinary means, what seems to be the ultimate good will be distorted into the most terrifying evil. ]

[The paintings that were supposed to depict heaven on earth and pass on all the good things came from the forced suppression of the spirit of the painting.Everything conveyed in the painting is just a distorted illusion.The true face of heaven is purgatory for the sufferers. ]

Bai Yi:? ? ?

"Are you really created by my future self?" He was speechless to this system that beat around the bush and connoted himself, "Don't talk like I'm some kind of devil, hey!"

He just wants to do the task well, so what's wrong with him?

——If he hadn't tried a few weeks, the spirituality of normal painting would not be enough, and he would not be able to reach the level of the second-ranked "Evil Ghost", and he would not have a whim to directly attach the spirit of painting to the scroll Well.

Bai Yi does not believe that if all the spirits of the painting have tried their best when painting, the spirituality of "The Last Supper" will not be as good as other artificial paintings.It can only be said that they are all reluctant, and they don't work hard, and they don't add much spirituality to the paintings.

After several rounds, Bai Yi has let them go a few times, but this group of painting spirits have no awareness, and still want to trick him?

...Then don't blame him for using them as raw materials!