How can a retired savior be considered retired if his price drops to 40,000?

Chapter 43 How to make a psychic base station by hand
Although he forced Conrad Coates to start work, Fujimaru Ritsuka did not actually know how to make statues.

The best she can do in this area is to knead something small out of ultra-light clay. Now she has announced that she will start directly from the stone carvings. It is like a child starting to run a [-]-kilometer weight-bearing obstacle course without even walking. It is ridiculous. .

——Then, she frankly admitted this in front of the prepared marble materials, accepted Conrad Coates’ ridicule, and finally said frankly: Otherwise, why would I have to drag you along?
Curze fell silent.

If you just ask if he can make stone statues, he can indeed do it.It is better to say that as long as the Primarch is born with this kind of knowledge that the Emperor considers to be "basic", it only needs a little practical experiment to fully activate it.

Although the skills of each primarch are also different due to personality, interests, areas of emphasis, etc.: For example, just talking about stone statues, Fulgrim, Sanguinius, Dorn and Pettu in the past The finished product created by Rabo is obviously in the first echelon (their objective skills are impeccable, so the specific order is more subjectively affected by the evaluator), and the rest have to step aside.But if the standard is lowered to "just do it," even Ruth can do it in a while.

But it should be noted that this "stepping aside" is the result of the evaluation dimension between the original bodies.Even Conrad Coates, who had to "step aside", lacked in this matter not the "technique of carving stone statues", but the vision of "theme selection" and the technique of "artistic expression".

At least the last time he decided to seriously make a sculpture, what he was worried about was not purely technical problems, but the inability to express the emperor's expression lifelike... Considering that the last creation process was very painful and full of problems. Experience, let it pass.

He also has little interest in masochistic behavior like repeating similar things over and over again.

Curze therefore hissed dissatisfiedly in Nostramo: "I won't do it. Anyway, even if you can tie me here, you can't force me to build the statue."

First of all, he didn't want to worry about the emperor's face anymore; secondly, he doubted that this time the statue was halfway done, the emperor would suddenly use the statue to say something to him that would not help the current situation and would only make him irritated and crazy. .He didn't want to hear it.

At this point, Fujimaru Ritsuka really couldn't hold down the Coze statue - the Sky Lock didn't have such a flexible function.But she didn't seem worried about this problem, she just folded her arms and smiled:
"Conrad, you know, people are eclectic."

"What are you talking about?"

"It means it doesn't matter if you don't want to do it. You can just stay there and watch me, a beginner, do it."

Conrad Coates stared in confusion as Fujimaru Ritsuka began to make preparations for carving in a messy manner. At this time, he did not realize the problem:
When he was faced with a complete stone, he refused to do it.But what will happen when he discovers that this stone will soon be destroyed by beginners and the final product will be called "Emperor"?

——Three minutes later, in Koz’s angry roar of “You want to start without even writing a beginner’s draft? Get out of here!”, Fujimaru Ritsuka was expelled from the place they were temporarily using as a construction site. empty room.
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In fact, if Koze is as stable as an old monk and enters samadhi, Fujimaru Ritsuka will not have a backup plan like Galatea.But things were going so smoothly, so there was no need for her to reach out and disturb them.

After being kicked out, Fujimaru Ritsuka happily ran to the cafeteria, looted the snacks and drinks in the refrigerator, and harassed Jeanne Alter, who was hiding from drawing comics.The two girls hid in a room where no one else could find them. They complained to the manuscript paper, "It's so hard to draw men." One of them slowly drew lines, and the other slowly painted in black and pasted dots. It took two hours. The time disappeared so quickly.

After passing this period of time, Ritsuka guessed that Koz had probably calmed down, so she went back to the door of the room where she was kicked out before, and looked inside openly.

In two hours, perhaps a mortal artist who is good at stone carvings can barely make the prototype of a sculpture in such a simple working environment on the Stormbound, but for a primarch, it is another matter. .Coze's own strength is the best hammer, and his fingernails as sharp as fine gold are the best chisels and carving knives. His powerful brain simulates the effect of each chisel for him, allowing him to do it almost instantly. Work with pauses.After those two hours had passed, the figurine was almost in its final stages.

The stones Fujimaru Ritsuka prepared at the beginning were not very large.Her original idea was to make a small statue of the emperor standing solemnly with a sword based on the popular shrine style in the empire - she guessed that if she chose among the current mainstream styles of the empire, the emperor himself would probably prefer the one with a dead corpse on the throne. She also believes that the sacrifice represented in this image is more religiously sacred.But this statue was not made just for preaching: the Emperor had to be constantly reminded of the burden of sacrifice when he left the throne and descended into the statue, which would be a bit... well...

After all, Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't want to do this.However, the person who was actually responsible for the carving obviously had different ideas about this: Konrad Coates obviously did not pay attention to the state religion, and he was not making this statuette with the mentality of "carving a statue of God". He was just replicating it. A scene in his memory - it was as if this scene had been sealed in the stones, and all he needed to do was to take them out.

Coates made extremely extreme use of almost all parts of the stone. He carved an entire scene out of a single-portrait marble: at the bottom were many little people in ragged clothes or covered in robes, with lifelike faces. Whether frightened or delighted, without exception, they all knelt or fell to the ground, with light traces of tears gently etched on their small faces.

These small and exquisite statues alone can be called works of art, but they are just the most inconspicuous part of the whole, a base that exists to support and set off the main body of the statue.Surrounded among these villains is the overly majestic emperor, and a huge and exaggerated light effect is shrouded behind the emperor.The original body's craftsmanship is so exquisite that the countless layers of light rings that are between religious fiction and depiction of reality, even if they are still the original color of marble, can still give people the illusion that "the statue is really glowing" .

Fujimaru Ritsuka was also aware of this impressive scene.Given a simple title for the statue, she would have chosen The Emperor's First Arrival at Nostramo.

Konrad Coates could not help but be impressed by this scene: it was the beginning of everything for him, but also the end of everything.His responsibility truly begins, and his prophecy is finalized.

Naturally, Fujimaru Ritsuka had seen the same thing in the fantasy world, and it must have been exactly the same as what Coze had seen before.This emperor does not wear some kind of gorgeous and huge power armor as shown in the more mainstream emperor statues, but is covered with some kind of soft and drapey robe.The entire statue is still the original color of marble, so perhaps only those who have seen the scene with their own eyes can know how luxurious the robe originally was. Others can only barely imagine it through the small dark patterns he carved on the marble cloth.

Judging from the shaping of the civilians on the base, the details of the emperor's clothing and the treatment of the halo behind it, Curze's sculpting skills are undoubtedly impeccable after learning from Fulgrim.But the part of the entire statue that should be carefully carved is still blank:
The face of the Emperor.

As for why the emperor's statue doesn't have the emperor's face, it can be round if it has to be round.There are many ways to explain it, and it is not impossible to stop here, but from Coz's own demeanor, it seems that he has no such intention.

Fujimaru Ritsuka could tell that he was desperately trying to remember something.She also understood that under the influence of psychic energy, the Emperor's face and expression looked slightly different to everyone, and when someone wanted to describe the details in detail, they would flow naturally from their minds. The ground flows away.

The Primarch's memory was comparable to that of an amnesiac, so this ambiguity was always very difficult for them to tolerate.But for Ritsuka Fujimaru, who is an ordinary person who is used to getting by with memory, she has some lies to say here:
"It's an 'artistic creation' anyway. It doesn't have to be purely realistic." She comforted her, "Just make it what you think he looked like at that time. You can already tell that he is the emperor. There is no need to be too realistic in this aspect."

Cozz gave her a dissatisfied look, but after thinking for two seconds, he still condescended to speak and was ready to find some reference: "You must have seen this too. What do you think it should be like?"

"This is hard to say. What do you want me to say..."

Fujimaru Ritsuka also thought for two seconds, and then suddenly took out a water-based pen from Jeanne d'Arc Alter, and tried to draw the emperor's facial features with Coz's permission - - She is indeed an amateur at sculpting, but she has been around Leonardo da Vinci for so long, and she still knows basic painting skills such as drawing and sketching.

The fact that Koz's burning eyes burned accurately at the back of her heart really made her efficiency slow down, but Fujimaru Ritsuka still expressed her idea as satisfactorily as possible after 5 minutes.The feeling of relaxation after completing the work made her let out a sigh of relief, and she was about to step back a little to see the overall effect, but at this moment, something no one expected happened:

The entire statue suddenly began to emit a golden light, and the air inexplicably began to smell of scented candles commonly found in Anglican churches. It seemed that hymns were being sung intermittently from a distance, surrounded by virtual images of feathers and little angels. It rotates with the statue itself - and the facial features that have just been painted on also truly "come to life".

The Emperor came here with psychic projection. Curze immediately turned around and fled the room without hesitation. Only the unresponsive Fujimaru Ritsuka was left standing there stupidly. After a short while, he was stunned. Question:
"Is this some kind of finishing touch?"

(End of this chapter)