Chapter 128: The Story of the Black Brush
Seria sat down on the floor. "Alright, go search. I'll keep watch."
The three looked at Seria.
Xenon asked Seria. "Why didn't you come along? Wasn't that why we were here to help you?"
Seria raised her index finger and shook it. "I'm responsible for ensuring your safety. If anything happens, I can advise you immediately."
Zoe snorted. "Why do I have to do this?"
"Is this okay? This is an opportunity to help my esteemed senior?"
Zoe looked at Louis, who was standing still.
Louis nodded at Zoe.
"Can I help? I'm interested in this as well."
Zoe looked at Seria and agreed. "Yes, I can help."
The three began searching for something in the ruins of the Barrier House.
The wood was slowly being lifted away.
The house was in ruins, with demonic footprints stomping around.
Seria watched as the three searched for something.
The wooden house was being lifted piece by piece, but nothing was found.
Seria looked at Zoe's back. It looked like a black and white picture of a painting by Baria.
Seria thought of many possibilities for Baria's journey.
She thought of all the possible scenarios.
The sequence of events was as follows: One, Seraph brought a black paintbrush and gave it to Baria along with a sketchbook.
Two, Baria set off with an anonymous person.
Third, before leaving the village, Baria gave Seraph a sketchbook she had drawn herself.
Four, the painting depicted a boy or girl sitting and drawing a picture of herself.
Five, a painting worthless as a souvenir disappeared.
Six, Baria left Seraph's paintbrush in the middle of the road, or perhaps it was attacked by a horde of demons. This was a possibility.
Seven, two people from the Koren School. Someone I know is involved in the art of painting, somehow.
Eight. Could this place be the spark that sparked something?
Nine. Something will definitely happen if the house is found.
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Seria thought hard, using her face to search for all the clues. What had happened? What had she overlooked?
"Seria, think. Think about what Brother Seraph had done.
Think. Think.
Brother Seraph left Gollen Village...? „
Seria was thinking hard about Seraph's actions.
Seria tried to dig into Seraph's mind.
Seria thought for a long time.
Seria looked at the three of them, searching for something.
"A black brush. A picture of a child sitting and painting. The disappearance of Mother Barrier!?"
Seria's expression suddenly became serious, and she remembered something.
"Disappeared!? Oh, no way...!?"
Seria gasped, remembering something.
But before she could speak, At Baria's mother's house.
The misfortune Baria had imagined. His face paled, his fear evident.
"Run..."
Seria couldn't shout in time.
In Louis's pocket was a black paintbrush.
The black paintbrush emitted a black and white light, radiating spiritual energy.
The paintbrush suddenly exploded with a tremendous amount of spiritual energy.
Louis sensed the spiritual energy and grabbed the black paintbrush and threw it away.
The three of them jumped back and rushed to a stop in front of Seria.
The black paintbrush began to expand in size, with a tremendous amount of spiritual energy.
The black and white paintbrushes began to expand rapidly.
Across the ground in this place,
black and white paintbrushes stretched out like gray roots.
Numerous black and white paintbrushes began to expand rapidly.
In front of the four of them, a huge paintbrush A huge, tall building, it stood atop the Baria's house.
Black ink from the brush began to paint in mid-air.
Black ink covered the place.
Louie asked hurriedly, "What do you mean, Seria? What's going on!?"
Seria looked behind her, and there was nothing but black and white.
Many black and white pictures depicted houses and surrounding objects. Trees were painted with the paintings.
Everything in this place was created with the paintings.
The black and white pictures, the patterns, the houses, the birds, the clouds, everything was created.
A place as far as the eye could see, where the end could not be seen.
The feeling was that if she went deeper, she would never be able to return.
Seria looked around, where the brushes had been created.
Over ten brushes were poking into the sky.
The brushes were as big as half a building.
Black and white and black and white covered the place.
Small brushes began to appear, one by one, over a thousand small brushes.
Seria saw two white lines, a path.
Seria looked down at the ground beneath her feet.
There was white ink beneath Seria's feet.
Seria lifted her foot and looked, and the white ink showed Seria's footprints.
Seria took a few test steps.
To test it, and it was just as she expected.
Seria's feet stomped on the ground, leaving white ink footprints.
Seria didn't smile at all.
The other three immediately became cautious.
All three of them looked uneasy.
Louie, holding his sword, asked Seria.
"What do you mean? Why did the black brush cause such an event?"
The sky was pitch black.
Seria explained something.
"You're wondering why this happened, aren't you? The answer is, I don't know.
But one thing is for sure.
Seria looked up at the sky, where a painted bird, made from a black brush, was flying across the sky.
"The incident of the brush holder disappearing without a trace, right? Perhaps the Barrier group is in this place right now.
It wasn't like we were just playing around or getting swallowed up.
Zoe grew irritated.
"So, what do we do now? We're in the dark now."
Xenon asked the still-silent Seria.
"Is there a way, Seria? A way to escape this place?"
Seria put her hand to her chin.
"There's definitely a chance, but I don't know how long it will take. If I wait here, my Seraph brother will come and help me, since he left me a clue about his disappearance.
But I thought too late, and this happened."
Xenon drew his sword and prepared to fight.
"If that guy knew about this, he'd come and help. If he was really skilled, I'd have guessed you wouldn't have thought it through. You shouldn't have used such a roundabout method, even if you didn't know if it was true. Just tell me the truth, and the matter would have been resolved."
Seria held out both fingers. Press it into your mind to think.
"Perhaps, Brother Seraph wants the four of us to solve this problem. Do you know what I said before?
According to what you think, the painting in Brother Seraph's room has disappeared. Think of it as being here.
The clue to escaping this place is sitting and painting.
See that black brush on the floor? That's the key.
According to the oldest records of the Great Tenshin School, this kind of event has happened.
This is what Seria recorded and predicted.
This is the birth of a level eight treasure.
Whoever passes this test will gain immense power, unimaginable to others. Treasures choose the tester. The tester
chooses the treasure. So, this must be a test of the power before us. Are you worthy of receiving this treasure? I think so."
Seria picked up the black brush from the floor.
There was spiritual power inside the brush.
Xenon could only look puzzled.
"Are you telling me you dragged us here?" To do a test?
Seria shook her head in utter denial.
"Of course not. Who would dare challenge me like that? Evaluating yourself to your level requires some limits.
I didn't rate myself so highly that I thought I could definitely pass something like this."
Louie prepared to kill Seria.
"Then, prepare to die?"
Louie prepared to vent her anger on the girl
who had brought her own life
into crisis. Their encounter hadn't been so long ago, but it had become
an extreme crisis.
Seria raised her hand to stop Louie.
"No way... Big Brother Louie is at fault. Originally, it was because he brought that brush that it turned out this way. How lucky!
I was willing to fall into the trap too. Otherwise, you two would have died here instead."
Seria turned her finger. Pointing at himself
"I'm the one at fault, not Big Brother Louis."
Seria pointed at Louis.
"You're the one at fault."