Chapter 278: Painting Inheritance (1/2)

After clearing the first block, Sam stepped on the next block. He looked at the remaining candidates who are still stuck in the first block.

The experience of the etching indeed helped him.

He looked at the next holograph which formed, this time the complexity increased by a lot as he needed to draw a pattern formed by combined a number of straight lines.

The energy flow is the same as the previous one, but maintaining the same energy flow constantly while making sure that it is sufficient without any interference in the energy even when the lines overlapped.

He started doing this and after a few tries, he understood why it would take two days for the painting artisanship.

These trails are designed with the most variation in difficulty and complexity that it tests a person's capability to learn things of complex nature in a short time in the most efficient way.

This method of learning is not feasible in regular situations. But it could surely give a person a certain level of expertise in a short amount of time.

This method should opt-in extreme situations but the person must have extraordinary intelligence level and a certain level of genius.

Sam also opted for this method in his previous life so that he could execute certain assassination assignments.

He didn't expect that he would use this method again in this life and that too in this kind of situation.

He started practicing the whole thing again and again. He only passed after more than three hours of practice and by this time remaining candidates also passed the first stage and moved to the second stage.

Sam looked at the third stage of the test as he stood on the new block. The third one is even more complicated there are two patterns one which is made of straight lines and another one with the curved lines.

He has to create two patterns with the same energy consistency.

He started practicing it again and this time, he has to work for at least three hours to even have partial success in the whole pattern.

After more than another three hours, he was finally able to create two patterns perfectly.

The next step though made him feel defeated and it became a test of patience. Because in this thing he has to merge the patterns into a single one without letting it clash and turn chaotic.

This time, the failures are not as calm as before, rather they are completely chaotic and they are completely blasted and created ripples of spiritual energy at the canvas.

If it was a real canvas, Sam is quite confident that the canvas would have blasted away.

He now understood the difficulty, for every blast a normal person would have lost his focus bit by bit, even Sam with his highly tempered mental state is having a hard time focusing on it, he understood the significance of the tower of will now.

Only after another nine hours did he have success.

He was wondering how he would deal with this whole inheritance in two days as already more than eighteen hours in the four stages.

But he got his answer on the fifth test because he has to copy a whole painting using the expertise he gained from the first four stages, The painting is a smaller one. Only three elements are in the painting.

They are a volcano, magma, lava blast.

A painting depicting the volcanic blast, an attack-type painting.

This time, it didn't take as much time as the previous test, because, he doesn't need any extra knowledge or expertise to do this, all he has to do is combine and repeat the things he had done in the previous four tests, except in an extremely different way.

He completed the test in three hours, and the next is another painting with around five elements. The tidal wave attack. In this, the water, the direction, the wind assisting the water, the intensity of the wave and the nature of collision all these elements have to be depicted.

This is the great thing about the painting artisanship. One doesn't need to possess the elements to wield attacks or defenses of that certain element. All he has to do is possess the elemental paints to create a painting. Of course, possessing the elements will further increase their success rate and the efficiency of the whole thing.

It took another six hours with a total expense of twenty-seven hours.