This Artist Is Pretty Good

A paper tiger, a hapless Level 1 player randomly assigned to the Elven Forest. While other players’ starter zones are slime plains, he opens his eyes to face an ancient ranger tree whose level is marked with a question mark. While they hunt wild rabbits to level up, he stands before a Level 20+ Tree Guardian with nothing but a wooden club that gives +1 attack. He dies seventeen times. On his eighteenth attempt, he stands before the BOSS and grinds it down without taking a scratch. The server-wide announcement sends everyone into a frenzy: “The world’s first kill has been achieved! Killer: A Paper Tiger. Level gap: 19!” That day, nobody knew what this ID meant. They found out later. He was an Illusion Painter: he could paint things into existence, turning the unreal into reality. While others played the game, he painted it. While others farmed gear, he painted gear. While others fought for the top spot on the power rankings, he took a profession ranked seventeenth and painted it into something unrivaled. But the game was never just a game. When the rules of the Fantasy Universe began seeping into reality, when cracks appeared in the sky and in-game abilities awakened in the real world, Ding Huichen discovered that the truth behind this game was more absurd than anything he had ever painted. And the final thing he might draw with the pen in his hand could be an entire world. “What you draw becomes real.”