April 9, 1669.
Hidden four hundred meters beneath Gala City lay the "Red Well Abyss," abandoned a thousand years ago. In the "Star Bridge Hall," known as the place where the Six Kingdoms flowed, Victoria Yunuoer was sitting on a stone beam high above the hall, drinking.
You had never seen her name before, but her other name was known to everyone in Gala City—Painter.
The principal of Sword Flower University, a scholar of the long-lost ancient Spell School of "Painting," she could be called the foremost genius arcanist of the age. In terms of fame, she far surpassed the Royal Family legend "Night King," the Scepter of Faith "Pope," the Truth principal "Mentor," Duke's Blade "Vosrodar," and Peerless Craftsman "Alchemy King."
Her combat strength and abilities were not top-tier, but if only one legend in the Star Country could be left alive, everyone would beg the other legends to give that chance to Painter—because she was all-purpose.
What made the Painting Faction special was that it could trade time for miracles. As long as Victoria was given enough time, she could use painting to imitate any miracle she had ever seen, and could even create theoretically possible miracles from nothing.
In other words, as long as she had enough time, she could use the most powerful Healing Miracle, the most powerful Barrier Miracle, the most powerful Prophecy Miracle... but as the price, the time she required was truly very long.
If it was a spell art she had dabbled in, that was one thing, but asking her to create an unfamiliar spell miracle from nothing—say, a Fate Miracle—would take years. Rather than calling it creating a miracle, it was more like creating a classic to be passed down through the ages. If anything unexpected happened midway, it might even