April 9, 1669.

Hidden 400 meters underground in Galaxia, in the "Red Well Abyss" that had been abandoned a thousand years ago, or the "Star Bridge Hall" where the six nations flowed, Victoria Yunol was sitting on a stone beam high in the hall drinking.

You have never seen her name, but her other name is known to everyone in the world of Kale - painter.

The president of Jianhua University, who studies the long-lost ancient magic school "Painting", can be regarded as the top genius magician of the contemporary era. In terms of fame, he far exceeds the royal legend "Night King", the Scepter of Faith "Pope", the Principal of Truth "Mentor", the Duke's Blade "Vosloda", and the peerless craftsman "Alchemy King".

Her fighting power and abilities are not outstanding, but if there is only one legend left in the Starry Kingdom, everyone will pray that the other legends will give the chance of survival to the painter - because she is omnipotent.

The special thing about the painting faction is that it can exchange time for miracles - as long as Victoria is given enough time, she can imitate any miracle she has seen through painting, and can even create a miracle that is theoretically achievable out of nothing.

In other words, as long as she is given enough time, she can use the most powerful healing miracle, the most powerful barrier miracle, the most powerful prophecy miracle... But as a price, the 'time' she needs is really long.

It would be fine if it was a magic that she was familiar with, but if she was asked to create an unfamiliar magic miracle out of nothing, such as a miracle of fate, the time it would take would be calculated in years. It would be more like creating a classic than creating a miracle. If something unexpected happened along the way, it might even become a posthumous work.

From this we can see that the loss of painting schools is simply inevitable: although creating works in normal times is equivalent to practicing, the problem is that if one copy of your work is used, it will be gone. If you don’t encounter danger, it’s fine. But if you encounter danger and use up all your works, do you think the enemy will wait for you to create on the spot?

But this is not actually a fatal flaw. After all, a painter will run out of works, but an ordinary magician will also run out of magic power.

The painter's real weakness lies in his mentality.

Ordinary magicians use miracles without any regrets, but painting magicians are different. Every miracle is a masterpiece created by their own hands. If possible, they will not use it. They preserve precious disposable props like hamsters. For example, if you are about to win, you will play slowly and don't waste attack paintings. If it looks like you can block this move, don't waste defense paintings. If you look like you can run away, don't waste movement paintings... This inevitable "saving" mentality of painting magicians will greatly increase the probability of them falling into crisis. In addition, other magics are not worse than painting. With the rise and fall of one, the decline of the painting magic is just a historical inevitability.

However, as long as they can grow up, painting magicians have always been more popular than other magicians. Who doesn't want to have an all-powerful friend? For example, Victoria has repeatedly used barrier paintings to suppress the abyss and used colorful paintings to liven up festivals. At the Starry Sky Festival a few months ago, he even took out a group strengthening painting to cast a weak physical enhancement for the people of the entire square of Galaxie, which doubled the sponsorship funds received by Jianhua University.

In comparison, the Night King, the Pope, the Mentor, and Vosloda, no matter how powerful they are, can they defend the lives of the people from any enemy? Naturally, they are far less popular than painters who can benefit ordinary people.

So Victoria has been living comfortably since the starry sky was shattered.

This might be the most enjoyable vacation she had since she became a magician...she finally didn't have to paint.

As a noble of the Emiya clan, Victoria naturally had to bear the shackles of the stars' blessing. She had to do her best to complete any drawing orders assigned to her by the Throne Room - because the Throne Room could always give her convincing reasons to let her know that her paintings would benefit the Starry Kingdom.

The nobles, who put national interests above all else, could not even think of refusing.

Of course, the Throne Room would not get anything for free. The rewards they offered definitely exceeded the value of the legendary painter's labor, and they did their best to support Victoria's research on magic. However, Victoria had been advancing to the legendary level for eight years, and had to spend more than sixteen hours a day every year painting, seven hours adventuring in the virtual world, and only one hour to deal with physiological needs, without any personal rest time.

Some people may wonder, is it okay for a legendary magician not to go to the virtual world? But if Victoria doesn't go to the virtual world, due to the constraints of the noble charter, she can't rest either, and must spend seven hours painting - for her, "virtual world adventure" is the only way to fight "noble obligation".

Of course, Victoria is not the only one who suffers. All the legendary magicians in the stars are similar to her. The Alchemist King is so old that his teeth are about to fall out, but he still has to serve as the chief designer of the military industry of the stars; Vosloda has to conduct research outside for 300 days a year; the Pope maintains the balance of the starry sky day and night; the mentor cannot leave his laboratory; the worst is the Night King, who patrols the abysses all over the stars over and over again to guard against abyss riots.

As you can imagine, when the Starry Lord needed the Legends to go to the Starry Cage, the Legends were all excited. Even if their lives were in danger, there was no throne room in the Starry Cage, and apart from the Starry Lord, there was no other middleman who could order them around!

Although they knew that the throne room had no selfish motives and only wanted to make the Starry Kingdom a better place...but they really couldn't stand it!

Even if they wander in the Star Cage for a few months and then die in battle, it is a much-needed rest time for them!

As a result, Vosloda and the Night King got this rare opportunity to take advantage of the glory of generations of nobility, and Victoria's murderous intent towards them was almost able to break free from the constraints of the stars.

Recalling the night when the Star Lord issued the decree, the group of legends gathered together for the first time. She still remembered that the Alchemist King, who was shameless, asked her cheerfully if she was planning to get married recently, and said that her grandson had just divorced recently, and they could meet each other... The Alchemist King instantly ignited her anger. She was only 28 years old when she advanced to Legend, and she still had a little yearning for intimacy. As a result, the endless commissions from the throne room destroyed her personal life. When she came to her senses, even her closest friends had started families and careers.

When Victoria was about to lose his temper, Vosiloda separated the two of them. Among all the legends present, Vosiloda was the most haggard one. When Victoria was just attending the aristocratic elementary school, Vosiloda was a handsome young man famous in Galaxia. The magazine covers he took were regarded as the template of dream lovers by elementary school girls... But now he has become a middle-aged man with a gloomy mood. Just looking at him, you can imagine the background story of a couple quarreling and children rebelling.

Of course, Victoria also knew about the Vosloda family's affairs, and naturally cursed in her heart that they deserved to die.

However, no matter how much grudge they had before, it is meaningless now.

The Alchemist King died in the White Tower Fortress, and Vosloda died in the Star Prison.

If they knew that there would be a day when the starry sky would be shattered, they would definitely regret not being able to catch up with the good time, right?

Victoria's view on the shattering of the starry sky is actually very complicated. On the one hand, the stars deeply rooted in her soul made her realize that this was a disaster, but on the other hand, the shattering of the starry sky caused the constraints of the stars to become invalid, allowing her to gain the long-lost freedom.

I just won’t draw the draft, Throne Room, why are you urging me?

On the second day after the starry sky was shattered, Victoria had the audacity to sleep in for five hours, soak in the bath for half an hour, drink while watching the movie of Deda Rose, and did not touch the paintbrush for the whole day. Victoria feels it was too exciting when she thinks about it now.

There are many magicians like her who let go of their hands and feet. The Galaxie seemed to be calm in the past half month, but the Holy Domain Wars occurred six times, and even a vicious incident such as the Legendary Killing of the Holy Domain, which has not happened in nearly a thousand years...

Many conflicts that could only be resolved by violence can now be settled.

Victoria swung her short legs, raised the glass bottle high, and with a slightly drunken blush on her face, she smiled softly and said, "Here's to the stars that you will protect until your death."