Chapter 345
Here was a man whose vessel had been so immense that he became a disaster.
On the day a tremendous upheaval came to the world, Seo Gio, who should merely have obtained a skill called “Painting,” became an entirely different existence.
Whether through good or bad fortune, an utterly absurd series of coincidences ultimately caused him to touch the Source. And with that power, he escaped the fire on the day of the Great Calamity.
Together with his student, into a landscape painting he had created.
“T-Teacher?”
“……”
“This place…”
“Haera.”
Before allowing himself to become bewildered, he examined his student.
“Are you all right?”
“…I’m fine.”
“Then that is enough.”
Perhaps Seo Gio should have steeled himself from that very moment. From that first instant, when it was obvious just how much awe filled the eyes with which his student, Dan Haera, regarded him.
But Seo Gio had been sufficiently bewildered at the time as well. He was not the flawless, perfect existence Dan Haera imagined. Seo Gio could only stare in confusion at a section of forest standing alone as though space itself had been sliced away, and at the cabin situated in its center.
There was no sky, only blackness. Darkness filled everything beyond a certain boundary of the forest, while the cabin’s interior was an empty white space. It was a world that felt alien and profoundly unnatural.
‘…Interesting.’
Perhaps that was why he had worked even harder to fill it.
But that was a story for slightly later. Once the fire appeared to have gone out, Seo…