With the maze and traps completed, the main body of New Black Rye Fortress as a tourist attraction was more or less finished. All that remained was some finishing work around the edges.
Yet that finishing work was actually very important. Before Sui Xiong had transmigrated, he had known an illustrator whose technical skill was clearly excellent, yet whose business had never been very good. The reason was that his paintings were exceptionally minimalist: the backgrounds were practically nonexistent, and the characters' clothes had no embellishments at all. In fact, the artist was fond of drawing characters dressed in ancient Greek white robes, all to fulfill his aesthetic ideal that "simplicity is beauty."
From Sui Xiong's professional perspective, that artist's skill had truly been superb. There was nothing wrong with simplicity being beauty. But buyers and players did not agree with that view, so by the time Sui Xiong transmigrated, that artist was still living in considerable poverty, getting by entirely on a little general store...
Sui Xiong was not a minimalist. He was the sort of artist who rather catered to popular tastes; making his audience like his work was his greatest pursuit. So he planned to spend a little more time dressing up this fortress as gorgeously and brilliantly as possible, so that every visitor could enjoy beauty.
As for how one was supposed to enjoy beauty inside a maze dense with traps? He had not considered that at all.
Thus, he threw himself back into work at a furious pace. This job looked, at first glance, less grand in scale than the previous one, but because he was pursuing meticulous refinement, the workload increased rather than decreased. Sui Xiong also had a slight compulsive streak, insisting that no set of decorations could be repeated and that every