Late night.

  Joshua deed the super luxurious residence provided by Sir Weissenasche and followed Hyrn and Ciri back to the atelier.

  The rather small atelier, in truth, could not fit three persons, and as a man, Joshua could not allow Hyrn and Ciri to sleep on the floor.

  So, he deed Hyrn’s proposal to give him the only room. Instead, he found a separate workspace to start his te-night programming routine.

  The beginning of arepreneurship was difficult. How marepreneurs i industry ba Earth had started their journey in a small garage?

  Be it Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or Larry Page and Sergey Brin, all of them started from scrat a garage.

  Most of the well-known trillion-dolr panies in Sili Valley basically all started from a small garage.

  While Hyrn’s atelier was not a garage, it was just a tad rger than one.

  Joshua spread a bnk sheet of paper out oable as a light ball floated beside him, dispelling the surrounding darkness.

  That was the lowest level of magic, “Illumination”, and it was something that almost all mages who could use magic would know. The inium crystal that was ented with the Illumination spell had repced dles and became Nornd’s most on lighting tool.

  Using the light brought on by the Illumination spell, Joshua fihe creation of the “Beauty and the Demon” poster.

  Joshua had yet to solve the program of imp images into the ruing program in his sciousness. So, he could only write the title on the paper by hand before he chose the dance se where Belle and the demon looked lovingly at each other, projeg it onto the paper.

  After he pleted the poster produ, Joshua left the small spad proceeded to the room where the finished products were dispyed.

  The entire room was lit up by Illumination crystals, and the arotech Hyrn had created were also emitting a faint glow. On the runic proje of the device was the image of a female mage.

  Her pupils were filled with a faint blue are glow as magical currents surged in her hands. The background of the image was a raging storm with her silver and light-golden hair fluttering in the rain.

  Just by looking at the portrait of the female mage alone, one could clearly feel how powerful she was.

  “Who is she?”

  Ciri walked out from behind the device, and she was holding a white paper. On it was the “inal artwork” Joshua had drawn.

  “Jaina. Jaina Proudmoore,” Joshua said her name.

  That character retty much the heroine who ran through World of Warcraft’s story. Simirly, she was also the representative of the Mage css in the game of Hearthstone.

  “What is her retionship with you...”

  Ciri demurred for a moment but could not help asking Joshua the question.

  “Retionship?”

  Joshua was stunned for a moment. Jaina was just a fial character, and Joshua did not have anything to do with her. Yet, as a World of Warcraft pyer, Joshua found su answer unsatisfactory either.

  “A rade-in-arms whom I fought together with.”

  Joshua had pyed on the side of the Alliance[1] in World of Warcraft, and Jaina was on the same side. As a video game pyer, Joshua was indeed Jaina’s rade-in-arms.

  Ciri did not say anything. As she looked at Jaina’s portrait, she suddenly recalled the versatioween Joshua ah that she had overhead while she was sleeping in the castle. She remembered that Joshua had said something along the lines of, “I already have someone I like”.

  Joshua could guess what Ciri was thinking, but he did not deliberately expin it. He just shifted his gaze to Jaina’s portrait.

  The portrait projected on the device was based on Ciri’s pletion of Joshua’s inal drawing. Ciri’s drawing had made Joshua realize something... Ciri was not suited to be a mage!

  Joshua had only told her about some teiques in c and position before he allowed Ciri to redraw the inal art on the are device.

  While Ciri’s art was still a distance away from being “professional”, it was at the very least, iegory of “passable”.

  Most importantly, Ciri’s painting was not affected by the style of the era they were in. The paintings of that age were mostly oil paintings, and the style was simir to that of Mona Lisa or the ese ink-brush paintings. Joshua had seen the same type of painting ba Sir Weissenasche’s theater. He had heard from the former that the paintings came from a try called Daxia.

  However, whether it was an oil or ink painting, it was different from m art oh. Joshua could not sense any trace of “retro” in Ciri’s work.

  “Have you ever sidered a career as a graphic artist?”

  Joshua ied the painting of Jaina Proudmoore from top to bottom. There were some fws in the miails, but they were still acceptable after Joshua’s modifications.

  If Ciri tio practice at that pace, she could definitely bee an excellent video game cept artist.

  “I... don’t know.”

  Ciri had inally prepared to dee Joshua’s proposal with justification. She helped Joshua to draw because of the debt of life she owed to him. But if he wanted Ciri to give up being a mage and bee a full-time artist, Ciri would definitely not be willing to accede to that.

  After all, a powerful mage would be the oanding at the top of this magical world, and Ciri had enough talent to be a powerful mage.

  “I’m not asking you to quit your main occupation, just make painting your side profession.”

  Joshua gave Ciri a perfeswer.

  Ciri looked at the portrait of Jaina, a female wizard eared very powerful. Perhaps, it would be of the most use to Joshua if Ciri became an artist since he was surrounded by too many powerful people.

  “Sure, but there will be a day when ‘my magic will tear you apart’.”

  Ciri used Jaina’s line against Joshua. It was the same lihat was written in Jaina’s manuscript.

  Yet, Joshua felt no sense of danger from it. Instead, his eyes lit up as he heard what Ciri said.

  “Ciri, you sound pretty good saying that. Are you ied in doing voiceover for this character?”

  “Voi-Voiceover?”

  Joshua once again uttered a word that struck Ciri’s knowledge blindspot, but Ciri was already used to it by now.

  “The character Jaina has already bee up. Are you ied in being the voice for this character?”

  Joshua was determio create Hearthsto was a game that could be pleted with just inal art and some not too difficult animations. The only troublesome part was the voiceover for the cards.

  Ciri’s voice leasing to the ear, and with just a little emotion, her voice perfectly matched Jaina’s image.

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