Chapter 221 Preparation before action
In the afternoon, according to the agreed time, Locke waited for Elagabalus and another sketch artist in his three-piece apartment.
Locke looked at Elagabalus and another sketch artist who was a first-class wizard apprentice in surprise. "Is this?"
Elagabalus raised his eyebrows and laughed: "Customer Locke, please don't worry, this is Tok Carlisle, my apprentice."
"The gallery he opened before went bankrupt, so he is now heavily in debt, and the usurious interest he owes every day is more than his principal."
“So, now he is completely bankrupt, you see...” Elagabalus sighed sadly. "Any property he has now will be taken away immediately to pay off his debts."
"So, you can only follow me. He is my assistant, and with his help, he will definitely be able to serve you better."
Tok Carlisle looked taciturn, just following Elagabalus, looking at Locke with a worried look, for fear that Locke would have objections to this.
Elagabalus said to Locke: "Locke's customers are not the ones I like to take care of. It's us who are engaged in art. We go bankrupt faster than you potionists and breeders. Even if you hire other quick painters, it will be the same."
"We are often brothers, and we have to support a large group of people behind us. Sometimes when you hire a sketch artist, it is probably equivalent to hiring a group of juniors behind him... I only brought one junior..."
"Don't worry, my junior is really just my assistant, and he won't charge any extra money."
Locke was a little speechless. No wonder his teacher Sophia Witch used the word "they" this morning.
It is estimated that Witch Sophia has long understood that she would encounter such a situation.
However, the magic painting map project is huge, and it is not a big deal to hire an extra sketch artist. Moreover, this matter has already been paid for by Witch Sophia in advance.
Locke opened the door and invited them in. "Come in, I also found an assistant to help us draw magic paintings together. The first thing is to draw magic paintings for one of my magic plants called Crystal Palm Fire Lotus."
Locke invited them to the bedroom he prepared. According to the contract he signed with them, they had to draw a series of magic paintings for themselves, so they would eat and live in the room they arranged. At the same time, he would put the materials they needed to draw in their temporary studio.
On the first day, Locke asked them to draw a magic painting of a fire lotus in the crystal palm.
By the early morning of the next day, they had completed the drawing work. Locke looked at the two-dimensional crystal palm fire lotus hanging on the wall of his living room and nodded slightly.
Although Elagabalus’s behavior of dragging his family with him was somewhat strange, his skills were indeed good.
Locke pressed his fingers on the magic painting on the wall. As his fingers slid, the fire lotus in the crystal palm of the painting rotated and translated in the magic painting, and every detail could be enlarged or reduced.
This magic painting can be used as a specimen in a plant identification course.
"No wonder magic paintings are very popular. They indeed play a certain role in auxiliary teaching and storage of breeding." Locke looked at the magic painting with satisfaction that he spent thirty magic stones to draw.
Then, Locke looked at Tok Carlisle and Elagabalus and said, "Howard, come out. You two, these are the assistants I was talking about."
“Now please help me draw a map of the magic painting.”
Elagabalus originally had a faint smile on his face, and was very happy that Locke praised his magic painting.
But at this moment he saw a vampire apprentice coming out of the small room. His expression suddenly changed, and there was some fear on his face.
"Dark...Dark Wizard?"
Elagabalus looked at Locke and found that Howard respected Locke very much, and then he relaxed slightly, but he still looked a little scared when he looked at Howard's inhuman appearance.
"Locke... we still need to cooperate with the dark wizard?"
"You have never said this before."
Locke looked at Elagabalus and joked: "Are you afraid of the wizard in black robes? Do you want me to ask him to change into a white robe and come back?"
Elagabalus waved his hand. "That's not the problem."
He was stunned for a moment, then nodded in agreement and said, "Locke, I think you are right, color does have a great impact on people's mood. This is the core content of the visual illusion of our Artis Color Studio."
"I think you really need to ask this "black robe" wizard friend to change his clothes before coming here, otherwise my hands will be shaking with fear and I won't even be able to hold the brush."
Locke snapped his fingers and glanced at Howard lightly. "Go upstairs and change into a white wizard robe."
Howard said to Locke respectfully: "It's the master."
Elagabalus looked in surprise at the extremely obedient dark wizard who obeyed Locke and said, "My employer is a bit ruthless. Even the extremely ferocious dark wizard is like a docile sheep in front of him." 』
This employer is not an ordinary person. 』
Locke looked at Elagabalus and said, "Great artist, can you work now?"
Elagabalus heard Locke call him a great artist, his face suddenly turned red, and he was very happy in his heart. "Of course, of course."
"Tok, unfold the canvas quickly. It is also an honor for me as an artist to serve such a wizard who respects art."
Elagabalus seems to be good at using lifelike oil paintings to make magic paintings, so he used linen as the base and used a large number of paints based on various magic plants.
Hence, the colors he used were only richer than those used by ordinary painters.
Many colors that ordinary painters cannot obtain, such as pure purple, can be obtained by using the juice of perilla vine.
Of course, the pigment part is indeed a fringe subject in the field of breeders, and it can be regarded as a relatively partial type.
After all, speed painters themselves don’t make much money, and the unpopular fields of studying pigments, colors and magic plants don’t make much money at all.
As Locke and Howard, who had changed into a white robe, told Elagabalus and his assistants all the details of the curse spell research institute, Elagabalus's expression in front of the drawing board became more and more cautious.
He seemed to have guessed something, turning his head from time to time to look at Howard, who had fierce eyes, and Locke, whose eyes were always calm and unruffled, showing no depth at all.
Locke looked at Elagabalus in confusion, "What's wrong? Are you encountering some problem?"
Elagabalus immediately shook his head and said nervously: "Mr. Augustine, there is no problem. There are just some curse magic spells that I don't understand very well, so there may be drawing errors."
Locke said: "Don't worry, you don't understand. Howard will interpret it for you. All you have to do is to accurately describe all the information I told you and draw it on a magic map."
"You can do everything else." Don't worry about it, don't ask anything, don't say anything."
"Do you know?"
Elagabalus and his apprentice, Tok Carlisle, were all frightened by Locke.
Tork Carlisle was even on the verge of tears. He just felt that he was so unlucky. He had just gone bankrupt and finally found refuge with his senior. Now he seemed to be involved in a very complicated problem of dark wizards.
Where is the magic map? The information Locke told them in one afternoon contained much information that the curse masters dreamed of.
This information has already made Tok Carlisle and Elagabalus afraid.
I am afraid that Locke will suddenly want to silence him.