Single Unlimited Wonderful Life

(Thank you, teacher, for your understanding. The publicity work we can do is limited.)

Levi got a reply from Machida Enko and knew how he should promote "His Majesty the Demon King" next. If he was allowed to promote it, maybe the sales of this book could reach the top level in the industry, starting with the first volume It sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

He could even entrust the library to bind the various illustrations and promotional posters he drew into a book, and make another fortune. Anyway, the money is very easy to make, and if you don't make it, you won't make it in vain.

However, although Levi is not alone in the industry in being able to do this kind of thing, he is still considered to be one of the few among the few. Painters are quite expensive, especially those top painters with guaranteed quality. Each piece of work costs hundreds of thousands of neon circles, and even one painting is equivalent to an ordinary person's monthly income.

Although light novel authors can also make a lot of money, if they want to hire an artist to promote themselves alone, it will be quite expensive. Most ordinary light novel authors cannot afford this kind of money-burning publicity method.

It is precisely because of this that most light novels and illustrations in the industry are provided by artists well contacted by the library, and few people will specifically ask the artist to draw another set of promotional works for them.

Moreover, the library is also happy to see Li Wei's self-promotion. After all, this is a win-win situation, and they do not need to spend extra money on illustrations. The better the publicity effect, the more light novels are sold, and the revenue from the library will also increase, and the royalties that the author can get are the same, so the library is happy to see Levi make the cake bigger.

Chapter 51. Help

After finishing three illustrations, Levi started his own fishing journey. He still had a lot of animations that he had not started to watch, but after he really started watching them, he discovered that there are various kinds of animations in this world. of deep pit.

There are some movies with poor plots that rely entirely on painting and dubbing, and there are also movies that are so mediocre that it’s easy to forget the character names and plot after watching them. When Levi discovered an anime that could be called a masterpiece, whether it was plot, painting, or even dubbing, it turned out that the original author passed away and the story had no end.

These various situations are no different from the real world.

In the real world, various masterpieces and bad works coexist, and this world is also the same. After reading the works that Levi thinks are good, he will choose to keep them. As for those bad works that make people blind, they will be deleted directly, and then new masterpieces will be added.

Levi watches anime at 1.5x speed, and his thinking ability is twice that of ordinary people. Therefore, for Levi, watching anime at 1.5x speed is no different from watching it at normal speed.

Watching anime is also a source of material for Levi. After all, he is also a light novel writer now. It never hurts to read more about the plot routines of various anime. There are certain differences between Neon's light novels and Chongguo's online novels. If you directly bring in the style of Chongguo's online novels, you may not be accustomed to it.

"There is still one hour left, which is the game time agreed with senior." Levi looked at the time, and it was relatively early now. He could go downstairs to have a late-night snack, and then come back slowly to play games. I have to say , this kind of life is really a kind of enjoyment.

At this time, a prompt popped up on the LINE client.

"Huh? Did senior finish his work so early today?" Levi was a little surprised.

But he has finished his work today, so he can start playing games now. As for late-night snacks, the refrigerator in the apartment has a variety of drinks, low-alcohol wine, as well as desserts and snacks. In addition, when he came back, he bought a bento at a convenience store not far from the apartment. If he wanted to eat, he could just heat it up in the microwave. Moreover, there are a variety of snacks in the special storage cabinet.

Otakus know how to enjoy themselves very well. As long as they have the financial resources to keep up, they can come up with all kinds of otaku enjoyment methods that ordinary people have never heard of.

But when Levi clicked on the information box, he looked at the nickname on the opposite side and couldn't react, because the person looking for him now was not Kasumigaoka Shiu, but Sawamura Eri, who had not spoken a few words with him.

"Li Weijun, are you there?"

"Here, what's the matter? Eiri-san."

"There's no need to be so polite. Li Weijun, just call me Yinglili. I have a little question and I want to ask for advice. It's about painting."

Li Wei was a little surprised in his heart. It is difficult for Yinglili, a proud and arrogant character like her, to admit that she is inferior to others. With her character, she was willing to lower her head and ask him for advice. She must have gone through some psychological struggle.

"Tell me everything you know, just send me your questions."

Eri Sawamura directly sent a picture. This is a picture painted on a board. It uses electronic painting to restore the brushstrokes of oil painting. If you don't look carefully, it really has the charm of traditional oil painting.

Painters are not all-rounders. Some painters are only good at panel painting. When painting on paper or canvas, they don’t even know how to adjust colors. Some painters who are only good at painting physical paintings are asked to do computer painting and they can’t even draw a straight line. It's all very laborious, and using a brush is even more awkward. Physical painting and electronic painting each have their own advantages and disadvantages. Painters who are proficient in both are not rare among the entire group of painters, but their number is not that large.

Yinglili has considerable attainments in both fields, but she is slightly weaker in electronic painting. Of course, this weakness is only relative. To ordinary people, she is a tentacle monster level existence.

Li Wei looked at the landscape painting carefully. Ying Lili was excellent in composition and details, but in terms of color, light and shadow, her experience was somewhat lacking.

The painting is a picture of a forest path. It draws a path covered with fallen leaves from a squinting perspective. On both sides of the path are lush trees. Looking up, through the gaps in the leaves, you can see the blue sky. Sky.

"The light and shadow of this painting are very strange. I have changed it seven or eight times, but the more I change it, the worse it gets. Li Weijun, can you help me point out the problem?"

At this time, Eri Sawamura felt a little uneasy after typing this paragraph. She and Levi were not familiar with each other. Although they were now partners in the same team, the two parties did not communicate much.

Levi didn't know these little thoughts of Eri Sawamura, so he replied directly.

"Because we are not face to face, I can't give you direct guidance. Give me ten minutes and I will retouch the painting and send it to you. You will be able to realize by directly comparing the original picture with the modified picture. That’s the problem.”

Li Wei himself is a few years older than Yinglili. He has accumulated more experience in painting for several years, but Yinglili cannot catch up with her talent alone. Moreover, Li Wei's "skills have greatly improved" and his painting skills have already improved. He has become more sophisticated, and if it weren't for his age, being called a master wouldn't be an exaggeration. He is more than enough to guide Yinglili.

Li Wei opened PS directly, dragged the original manuscript sent by Ying Lili into the software, created a new layer on it, and began to adjust the tone of the entire painting, and then added light and more details.

In less than ten minutes, Li Wei had completed the modification of the painting. There are not many overall modifications. I just simply brightened the overall tone. However, because Yinglili sent it in JPG format instead of PSD format, it took a little more time to adjust the background, but this kind of For Levi, things were as simple as eating and drinking.

The forest path in Yinglili gives people a slightly quiet and eerie feeling due to the problem of light. Li Wei added some warm oblique light to the picture, which directly divided the whole picture and made the picture more vivid. The sense of layering, combined with the warm yellow light spot details added on the ground and tree trunks, turns the mountain forest that should be in the afternoon into a morning forest, with an indescribable sense of vitality.

Finally, I slightly adjusted the color of the sky, added some cloud details, and painted an old man with only his back on the forest path, holding a hunting dog and a shotgun in his hand. Suddenly, the style of the entire painting changed. It is even more retro, like an ancient work depicting rural life from the 18th to 19th centuries, full of a sense of history.

After completing all this, Li Wei saved the modified work as a PSD and sent it directly to Yinglili. The reason why he did not convert the format was to retain the layer information of the picture so that Yinglili could clearly see what he had done. Whatever has been changed, this can be regarded as a technical gift from the seniors to the juniors.

Chapter 52. There is also Uncle Jiu in this world

While Yinglili was waiting, she did not do anything else. Instead, she waited for the message from Li Wei. When she saw the file sent by Li Wei, she quickly clicked save and thanked her.

The LINE client is not a drawing software, so it cannot display thumbnail images in PSD format. She can only drag the file into PS to open it.

"Awesome..." Yinglili murmured unconsciously. Li Wei's painting skills had thrown her an unknown distance away. That promotional poster was not a work of luck, but Li Wei's skills. So awesome.

This painting was a small assignment given to her privately by a lecturer at the university, on how to use electronic painting to create a traditional oil painting style. However, such landscape subjects were not her specialty, so not surprisingly, this happened. .

Repeated revisions failed to satisfy her, so she had no choice but to turn to Li Wei, who had also been admitted to the Tokyo Metropolitan University of Arts in advance, to see how powerful this light novel writer from Okinawa was.

The fact is a bit shocking. Compared with Levi, she is still too immature.

The two paintings were brought together for comparison, and she could tell at a glance that Li Wei's modified painting was more perfect.

On the other side, Levi looked at Ying Lili's thank you and didn't take it to heart, because it was nothing to him.

Levi left the computer, took out a box of bento and a two-liter bottle of Coca-Cola from the refrigerator, and took out two boxes of potato chips and a box of Oreos from the locker. The bento was heated in the microwave, and all other snacks and drinks were placed on the computer table. Levi had a habit that many otakus have, which is to play on the computer while eating.

Many otaku keyboards have all kinds of dirt in the gaps between the keys. This is mostly caused by eating while playing on the computer.

However, Levi loves to be clean. He will remove the keycaps of the mechanical keyboard and clean it every two or three days, and at the same time clean the gaps in the keyboard to keep his old friend in the best condition as much as possible.

The mechanical keyboard he is using now has been used for more than two years, and he has already used it emotionally.

After taking out the hot lunch box, Levi returned to the ergonomic chair, but this time he was not watching anime, but watching Chong Guo's ancient fantasy movie, "The Warlock of Maoshan" performed by Uncle Jiu. .

This world not only has many animations that are not available in the real world, but also in terms of movies. Uncle Jiu in the real world also left early in this world, but Uncle Jiu in this world has left behind a number of magical movies. Three times as much as Uncle Nine in the real world. For Levi, an old movie lover, this is simply more exciting than winning the lottery.

Uncle Jiu in this world made "Maoshan Warlock" into a whole series. There were nine movies in total. Each one was a box office hit in Hong Kong at the time. His magic movies have a lot of popularity throughout Southeast Asia. visibility.

Even Uncle Jiu from this world has made films that have influenced the metaphysics circles in Southeast Asia, causing wizards from the Demon Country and the Monkey Country to have some Maoshan magic. Of course, Levi only heard about this kind of thing on the Internet in this world, and he had no way to verify whether it was true or not. However, Uncle Jiu in this world is also very popular in Neon. Although he is not as popular as a certain dragon, he is not far behind.

Fans of fantasy movies here in Neon once said that when watching a fantasy movie starring Uncle Jiu, no matter how scary the monsters and monsters in it are, as soon as Uncle Jiu appears on the stage, the audience will feel a sense of security, as if there is no such thing in the world. The monsters and monsters that Uncle Jiu can’t deal with.

It has been less than an hour since the appointment time with Kasumigaoka Shiyu. If you want to watch the movie, you will definitely watch it to the end, but Li Wei will watch as much as he wants. When watching Jiu Shu's movies, he never adjusts the speed. When watching Li Wei Come on, adjust the playback speed. It's disrespectful to Uncle Jiu's acting skills.

Levi was in a happy mood as he ate his bento and enjoyed the unique Uncle Nine magic movie in this world.

He decided that the materials he wanted to take away were not only animations, but also copies of all the Uncle Nine movies that are unique to this world. Although this kind of treasure cannot be shown off, it can be enjoyed by himself even if it is just for himself. , is also a kind of enjoyment.

Many people say that having fun alone is not as good as having fun with others, but what Li Wei wants to say is that many people cannot enjoy the taste of having fun alone.

When Kasumigaoka Shiyu sent a message, Levi clicked on the LINE client. I have to say that the LINE client in this world is quite easy to use. It's a bit like Penguin, but it doesn't have so many fancy functions. Instead, it has The core functions are relatively perfect, making people feel comfortable using it.

"Li Weijun, are you there?"

"Here you are, do you want to start the game now?"

"No rush, I want you to review the manuscript for me and see how my new work goes."

"I'm happy to help. Anyway, senior, your writing style is of guaranteed quality."

Kasumigaoka Shiyu sent a TXT document. Influenced by Levi, she also started to use the black room, but the version she used was the version after Levi's neonization, which only retained the core functions, such as Levi could only cancel functions such as online naming.

But even this pure version of the Neon Language version of the Black Room is still easier to use than most document processing software on the market today. Kasumigaoka Shiyu has learned to enjoy the sound effects of the Black Room when typing. This kind of magic The sound effects increased her coding efficiency by more than 25%.

Li Wei received the document sent by Kasumigaoka Shiyu, and used his powerful thinking speed to read ten lines at a glance, but with incomparable precision. This was only the first 30,000 words of the first volume. Kasumigaoka Shiyu used her delicate writing style to , creating a super-powered boy with an online IQ and a rational and calm personality.

Although it is somewhat different from the mainstream style on the market today, if we carefully look for similar characters, we can see that this young protagonist in Kasumigaoka Shiu's novel is not necessarily a good person. Levi saw the shadow of a certain anime character in him. This character is... The fifth generation protagonist of JOJO, Giorno Giovanna.

Although Giorno Giovanna is a gangster, he possesses a dazzling golden spirit. Although there are not many detailed descriptions of the young protagonist written by Shiyu Kasumigaoka, Levi has a feeling that this will He is a ruthless man like Giorno Giovanna, and he is very much looking forward to the story that follows.

Chapter 53. Kasumigaoka Shiyu’s transformational work

"Senior, your style change this time is a bit big. Do you have a rough outline?"

Li Wei quickly tapped the keyboard. Kasumigaoka Shiyu's transformation this time was huge. She is better at love themes. After all, her delicate writing style and emotional descriptions have huge advantages.

Kasumigaoka Shiu's current transformation is equivalent to giving up what she is best at and switching to a brand new field. Although, it does not mean that her delicate writing style is useless, but the place where she can give full play to her is always not as good as love. Theme.

"The rough outline is a story about a young man with super powers who lost his memory. Under the pursuit of a mysterious enemy, he regained his memory, rescued his beloved girl who was in the enemy camp, and finally had a happy reunion."

"Is the overall tone warm or cold? Although the story has a happy ending, is it too twists and turns? The psychological endurance of light novel readers is not that high. Even if the protagonist is slightly frustrated, he cannot accept this. The story line of being hunted all the time, if not handled well, can easily make readers abandon the book.”

"Don't worry, the overall tone of the story is warm, because the protagonist himself is the ceiling of this work's combat effectiveness, possessing the ability to suppress the entire battlefield by one person. Although he has lost his memory, his combat effectiveness is not affected at all, so the protagonist continues There is no chance of failure."

"That's fine. If it's just a simple puzzle solving, it won't bother readers."

"This time, I changed to a new style. The character design of the protagonist is a macho route. When setting it, I referred to the protagonist of the game "Doom" and the protagonist Dante of "Devil May Cry". He looks calm but is actually a bit cynical and reckless."

"Such a character is not that easy to write. It seems to be a rough and delicate character."

"Li Weijun, you should be relatively familiar with this type of character design. I will need your help, Li Weijun, to describe some big scenes later."

The description of war scenes that appeared in the later part of the first volume of "His Majesty the Demon King" allowed Kasumigaoka Shiyu to see Li Wei's terrible writing skills. The description, which is not long, vividly describes the war in the aristocratic era and the cruel environment in which the people at the bottom were not regarded as human beings at all.

The male protagonist and his bandits were hired by the nobles and appeared as mercenaries. They fished in troubled waters on the battlefield. Most of the time, they bullied the ordinary peasants and soldiers on the opposite side. Occasionally, they used new hooks, sickles, guns and dirty tricks to kill the knights on the opposite side. Quickly Drag the opponent off his horse and stab him to death, then directly drag him and his horse away to a relatively hidden place to remove his armor.

Levi's depiction of large-scale scenes is far beyond what ordinary light novel writers can match. If the wars described by Levi are real wars, then the wars described by most light novelists are just chickens and ducks fighting.

Although it is a bit unkind to say this, in Kasumigaoka Shiyu's view, this is the fact.

After the top light novelists of the older generation have closed their books one after another, the new generation of light novelists are now able to depict war scenes in a decent way. In the entire industry, they can be counted on ten fingers.

Levi replied.

"There is no problem with this aspect, but if you want to write a big scene well, you need to find some information. For example, writing about ancient battlefields requires a considerable understanding of various ancient military knowledge, including weapons and equipment, formations, and military capabilities. , as well as language and folk customs, etc., the more you know, the more realistic and detailed you will be when describing ancient battlefields. The same is true for modern battlefields. The most basic common sense knowledge is necessary, and when it comes to In a superpower battle, it is even more necessary to balance various abilities in advance to avoid becoming boiled water after just writing."