Alex sat in the garden of the Gold King's Palace, staring at the beautiful flowers. He looked at a red flower that he wanted to draw and quickly opened a book to check its color again.
"3 parts white, 2 parts red, and..." he looked at the flower, carefully judging the shade of red it was. "And... a bit of blue and yellow."
He had an artifact next to him that was gifted to him by the Gold King when he told him that he was going to be learning how to paint.
It was an artifact to accurately combine colors and pour it out in a non-sticking ceramic bottle for Alex to use. It added in the combination of the paint as he wished and created the paint that flowed out into the ceramic bottle.
Alex dipped his paintbrush into the color and pulled it out before placing it in front of him, right next to the flower in his vision.
'That needed a bit more yellow,' he thought and used the color to paint the flower. A normal man wouldn't be able to judge the difference in the shade either way and a cultivator would have no idea that the flower was supposed to be of a different shade.
The only one that knew that he had made a mistake was Alex here, and he didn't care much about his mistake as he was trying to learn. There were hundreds of other flowers to continue learning from.
He drew the painting for a few more hours, with his two elders sitting by his side, waiting for him to stop. When he finally did, they praised him for it.
"That is amazing, your majesty," Yao Ning said.
"It is so accurate that it barely looks any different from reality," Liang Shufen said.
"Alright, you guys can tone down on the praises," Alex said. "I know it's good, but it's not a masterpiece yet."
Even though he said that he was still quite happy to see his painting. The progress he had made in the past week had been absolutely ridiculous. Especially after learning about colors and how different types of strokes created different types of lines, he had improved a lot.
Alex turned the formation on the canvas and saved the painting from any accidental damage by creating a shield around it.n0vεluSb.c0m
"Are you done, your majesty?" the Gold King walked into the garden.
"Ah, King Tan," Alex spoke. "Yes, I was just getting done."
The Gold King came to the painting and nodded a few times before smiling. "As expected of Your Majesty. Your paintings have improved so incredibly quickly."
Alex smiled. He could tell that the King was being genuine in his praise.
"Thank you, King Tan," Alex said before putting away the painting. "Why did you come here? Was it to see my painting?"
"While I am excited to see your painting, that is not the reason why I have come here, your majesty," King said. "I was wondering if you still planned on selling anything in this auction or not."
"The time is getting close to when the auction houses need to stop taking in anything more so they can set up the list of items that they will be auctioning," the King asked.
"Stopping?" Alex narrowed his eyes in surprise. "I was under the impression that the auction was going to last for the whole month and one could join any time they could."
"While it is true the smaller auction houses will be taking items throughout the month, the bigger ones have such expensive products that they need to advertise it so that the people that come do arrive with their money."
"They don't like to be surprised with a random item that is presented in the middle of the auction that they are not aware of," the king said.
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