The Scarlet Sky of Romance Legend

In 1675, Solanerdos founded the country, and Vasilian I designated the capital of the country as Mandorain.

In the year 2053, Solanerdos was popular in art, and was famous for his excellent poems and paintings. The world often called his royal city Mandolain the "City of Art".

In the year 1208 of the comet calendar, on the other side of the Dantimos Strait, a fire broke out in the mansion of the lord of Little Fordil.

In March of 1220 in the comet calendar, the brother painters Victor & De Lier became famous. The debut work "Salvation of the Gods" held by the two brothers was auctioned in August of the same year, and it was sold with the Holy Court at the highest price in history. The most expensive sacrifice of the gods".

At the beginning of 1228 in the commemorative calendar, the new emperor Kuspico III of Solanerdos ascended the throne, declared the belief in the Holy Court as the state religion, and ordered the construction of a church dedicated to the founding gods.

At the end of the same year, the Mandorain Cathedral was completed, and Kuspico III invited a large number of wandering painters to paint the screen wall for the church.

The most famous brother painters, Victor & Delier, were invited by Cuspico III to participate in this project, and undertook the drawing work of "Holy Kingdom" and "Catastrophe Purgatory" respectively.

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Solanerdos, in the capital of Mandorain, the cathedral of Mandorain.

It is now the beginning of 1229 in the comet calendar, and it is only one month since the completion of the Mandorain Cathedral. Most of the remnants left by the construction in the church have not been cleaned up, including wooden scaffolding and empty paint. Buckets are piled everywhere, and the dust caused by the construction has spread a thick layer on the ground. People who walk on it can feel the broken ballast and sundries through the soles of their shoes, making the place that should be clean and spotless. The church looks very messy.

It is said that the design of the church was designed by the most famous architect, Van Dole, invited by the current king of Solandos, Kuspico III.Because of the vast area of ​​the Mandorain Cathedral, Cuspico III firmly believed in the passage mentioned in the religious books of the holy court that "the radiance sown by God will bring good luck to the chosen ones" Therefore, the dome of the entire church is made of translucent frosted glass. Whenever the sun shines through the glass into the cathedral, the patterns on the colored frosted glass will be projected onto the ground, giving people a sense of heaven. hazy hallucinations.

The patterns on the ground glass tell the stories about "miracles" and "God loves the world" recorded in the religious books of the Holy Court. They are very exquisitely made and lifelike.

The interior design of the cathedral adopts a more solemn and serious style, and assembled rhombic lenses are often installed at the corners, giving people an illusion of infinite space.

The road to the inside of the church adopts the design method of "zodiac". A straight road leads directly to the depths of the church. The pilgrims walk along the road and finally see two opposite statues at the end of the road. Carved into the faces of a man and a woman, the female face is gentle and sacred, while the male face is majestic and noble. The two statues stretch out their hands together to hold the stone scepter at the end of the "zodiac", implying that the two founding gods jointly control the authority of the world. Ze Wanfang.

According to the consistent church style, various murals will be painted on the screen walls on both sides of the "Zodiac", generally speaking, it is to show the achievements of God and the love for the world, but because the churches in the past usually separated the two founding gods They are enshrined, so the murals are all in the same style, but because the Mandoline Cathedral enshrines the founding gods at the same time, the patterns on the largest and most important screen wall behind the two founding gods must not be the same, otherwise it is disrespectful to the gods Well, the person responsible for building the cathedral might be sent to the stake by the fanatics of the Holy Court.

The founding goddess is in charge of the "beginning", while the founding male god is in charge of the "end", so after a heated discussion among a group of religious fanatics, King Kuspico III decided that the screen wall behind the statue of the founding goddess should be painted with the words "God". ", "Redemption" and "Heaven" as the theme of the murals, and the murals of "Sinner", "Punishment" and "Punishment" are painted on the screen wall behind the founding male god.

For this cathedral, which may be said to be the most luxurious in the world, Cuspico III spared no expense in inviting two of the most famous brother painters and some other well-known painters to paint all the shadow walls in the church, and the most important behind the founding twin gods Those two strokes were handed over to the pair of brothers with superb painting skills to complete.

From the completion of the Mandorain Cathedral, the painters began to work hard.His Majesty the King gave them a three-month deadline, and the work will be over after three months. Such a short period of time has caused some people in charge of painting a large area to work almost to the point of madness... Well, the specific situation is roughly as follows:

"Brother! Brother, are you there? Come out to eat soon! Anyway, there is still a long time before the completion deadline, why are you working so hard!" The young man's carefree voice sounded in the empty cathedral, with the unique vigor and drive of young people.

The young man excitedly carried a basket and ran into the innermost hall of the church. The cover that had not been covered was wobbly and almost fell, and a few strands of it floated out from the gap where the basket was not tightly covered. The aroma of the food can't help but make people want to drool.The young man ran into the inner hall, stopped in front of the huge and blank wall, and said dissatisfiedly: "Brother, are you going to starve to death? Anyway, such a big screen wall can't be finished in a few months. Why do you do this?" Desperate!"

"Don't keep saying things like this, Delier." Another man's calm and powerful voice answered him, with a little blame, "Since we have received the bounty from His Majesty the King, then we should settle things well. And, This is also a test for ourselves, isn't it?" The young man whom De Lier called "brother" stood on a very high ladder, the ladder leaned against the wall, and a bracket was placed on the other side, and on the bracket was a Brushes and special paints.Delier's brother held a paintbrush in one hand and a palette in the other. Standing on the ladder, he turned his head and gave Delier a stern look. His face was covered by the shadow cast by the dome.

After the elder brother finished speaking, he turned his head and continued to paint the screen wall. The paintbrush in his hand was stained with white paint, and he skillfully outlined the outline of the god and the delicate wings behind him on the screen wall, with distinct down feathers.

Because the ladder he was standing on was too high, the actions of the two brothers looking down and looking up looked extremely funny.

"Cut!" De Lier muttered, sat cross-legged on the ground, took off the lid of the basket, revealing the steaming and fragrant food inside, and looked up at his brother who was working hard to paint, couldn't help but He raised his voice and shouted: "Hey, Victor! Are you really skipping lunch? You didn't even eat breakfast, don't hold on there!"

"Wait a minute, I'll put the things away." Victor responded, stepped back a few steps on the ladder, looked at the part he had just completed, and then carefully stepped back step by step while holding the ladder He went down, and when the soles of his feet finally touched the ground, he seemed to be relieved, and then turned to his twin brother who was waiting impatiently because of his slow movements.

"Do you still have a psychological shadow on the ladder? But is it the first time you accidentally fell down, brother, you are really enough..." Delier said a little impatiently, Victor used the face that was exactly the same as his brother He returned a somewhat apologetic smile, and then squatted on the ground with his brother to have dinner.

"I can't help it. To use the oriental saying to explain it, I call it 'Once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of a well rope'." Victor smiled stiffly, but the corners of his mouth could not be moved upwards at all, as if he His facial muscles were weak to complete such movements, so he could only lower his head to eat, and De Lier didn't speak. For a while, the whole cathedral was very quiet, only the sound of chewing food.

"Brother..." After a moment of silence, De Lier tore a greasy chicken leg, stuffed his mouth with something, and said vaguely, "Your face... this one has been used for a long time, right? There," he stretched out his finger and pointed at Victor's forehead covered by black hair, swallowed the big mouthful of chicken thigh with great effort, wiped his mouth and said, "it broke again."

"...Really?" Victor stretched out his hand to stroke his forehead, and then put his hand in front of his eyes. There was indeed a little bit of dusty stuff on his fingertips, a bit like the paint shards that were roughly peeled off after being completely solidified. In that way, very dry and hard. "At that moment, you helped me repaint it...or you can act as a model for me, and I will paint it myself."

"...Okay." Delier continued to gnaw on the chicken leg hard, and now he began to spit out the chicken bones on the ground.

"Delier." Victor frowned, and his movements seemed very stiff, as if countless lumps of paint had condensed together, "Don't keep bothering the slaves who clean up here, they won't have a good time." of."

"I'm not as ignorant as you said." Delier pouted, and suddenly reached out to touch Victor's face, "This time, mix bone meal with the paint, maybe the effect will be more realistic?"

"Don't move around—" Victor just wanted to stop the little brother's behavior, but he didn't expect that De Lier's simple and rough one hand wiped his face vigorously. Under the action of friction, Victor Things fell off the face one after another—it was a block of paint that was completely evaporated and solidified after the paint had been dried for a long time.

"Ha! Why don't you care so much! Anyway, there are only two of us here! The other cowards dare not come to other people's work areas casually. Didn't the king issue a ban on not being disturbed!?" Delier hugged nonchalantly. He raised his arms, and the weak tone of the last sentence made Victor deeply regret his brother's IQ-don't disturb that was during fixed working hours, now it's time to rest!Are you really my brother?Could it be that my mother hugged the next door wrong when she gave birth?Aside from our faces, don't we have anything in common! ?

In the end, Victor still suppressed the self-screaming of his mental outburst, otherwise the two brothers would probably fight again... He still wants to work, amen.

Victor took out the mirror from his pocket, and looked at his face carefully in the mirror—the ingenious camouflage made of paint was just removed by his younger brother, and now it seems that he has to paint it again—— Hidden under the camouflage of paint is not the same face as his younger brother, but the criss-cross burn marks like flames, which are uglier than any devil in hell in any painter's brush—this is his face, he real face.

Before the injury, Victor and De Lier were indeed mirror-like twins, but after a fire at the age of eight, everything changed.

At that time, they were still living in the country across the Dantimos Strait. As the sons of the lord, they lived carefree every day-until the premeditated fire, almost everyone in the lord's mansion was burned to death , and some were killed before the fire broke out.

Victor didn't care who his father's political opponent was. He was just glad that on the day the fire broke out, De Lier ran out over the wall behind his father's back because of his usual playfulness, and didn't suffer any harm.

Victor showed an unparalleled talent for drawing when he was young. When the fire broke out, he drew a sketch in front of a vase in the room, because he was so focused that it was too late when he noticed the fire— —The blazing flames surrounded the entire room, and he couldn't escape at all.The studio used to be a storage room, the windows were high and small, and the railings on the windows were made of iron, so he couldn't escape at all.

The little Victor pressed his face against the railing, trying hard to breathe the fresh air outside, and from time to time he was choked by the thick smoke wafting from the house and kept coughing.Metal conducts heat. As the fire intensified, the temperature of the railing became higher and higher. That immature face was burned by the high temperature, leaving ugly scars. Every time Victor gasped violently, the muscles on his face moved. The scabbed scars were forcibly torn, and the blood gradually solidified after wetting the railing and cheeks. This was repeated again and again until Victor was numb...

——The house collapsed, and the younger brother brought back by the flames dragged Victor out of the ruins in time, avoiding his fate of being buried alive under the ruins and suffocating to death.

But that face was also completely destroyed.

Since then, Victor has covered his face and shown it to others. When he became famous for his painting skills, he painted his own face with paint and repainted it regularly to prevent the cracked paint from being seen by others.

"Keep working." After eating and drinking, Victor drew a face in the mirror that was the same as before, patted his dusty clothes, stood up, and walked towards the tall ladder. Decided to keep working.

Half of the screen wall facing the ladder has not yet been completed, and the completed part has angels and gods with wings on their backs, as well as the picture of heaven slowly unfolding in the brilliant divine light. But it is also a place they can never reach.

"Holy Kingdom of Heaven", based on the miracles displayed near the Azure Star Tower in the year 1205 of the comet calendar, outlines the ultimate paradise idealed by the world.

"Got it." Delier stood up resentfully, and walked in the opposite direction to his brother.

The painting he was in charge of was only half completed, but it was less than the completed part of "Holy Kingdom of Heaven". If "Holy Kingdom of Heaven" was more than half completed, then this painting was only half completed. Apparently caused by someone being lazy.

With the background of hell burned by black and red flames, countless hideous and terrifying pictures are displayed, showing the fate of those who betray the gods.Mountains of knives, sea of ​​fire, tongue pulling out...a variety of cruel hell punishments are displayed on the half of the work that has been completed, which makes people feel frightened from the bottom of their hearts.The terrified expression of sinners in the painting is lifelike, and the distorted face gives people a more terrifying feeling.

"Catastrophe and Purgatory", which gathers a variety of sins and punishments, and shows the fate of the unbelievers and blasphemers, is obviously an added part of the Holy Court.

Once they entered the working state, the two brothers became very quiet. In the huge space, there was only the slight sound of brushes rubbing against the wall, which could be heard for a while.

"This is the new cathedral? The murals are very nice...especially the last two."

With a sudden sound of admiration, Victor and De Lier's brushes stopped suddenly, and they said in unison:

"Who?"

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