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Transmigrated to become a high-level painter

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Journey to become a high-level painting master after transmigration
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Chapter 1 - Transmigration

Aahhhhh!

In the mirror, Noah saw his reflection and screamed in terror. "I have a terrible headache. Where is this place? Whose memory is this?"

He stumbled to the bed, collapsed onto it, and tried to piece together what happened since he woke up.

Back to the morning...

Ohh, my body feels so heavy. Pain throbs everywhere.

He pried his eyes open fully and stared at his exposed hand.

"Wait... why are my hands so milky white, small, and soft?"He glanced around, shocked by his surroundings.

"What is this place?"

Unsure of what was happening, he bolted to the bathroom. He didn't realize this was an unfamiliar home—yet somehow, he navigated it effortlessly, as if he knew every corner by heart.

The moment he saw himself in the mirror, memory fragments flooded in, accompanied by a shattering headache.

Back to the present...

"My name is Noah Laurent. I'm a 23-year-old painter who worked tirelessly to chase my dreams. I became famous and held the grandest exhibition of my life yesterday—but I died from overwork. As an orphan, there was no one left to mourn me. The body I've transmigrated into shares my name. You might wonder, 'How do I know I've transmigrated?' As a novel lover, it wasn't hard to guess.

From the original owner's memories, I pieced together his tragic story—a fate far worse than I imagined. He hadn't always been poor, but after his parents' accidental death, his cunning uncle seized all their assets. Their family boasted a deep legacy in painting, yet the foolish original owner remained oblivious. Only after being evicted from his own home did the truth dawn on him.Distraught, he collapsed—and that's when I arrived.

His memories revealed a world with technology far beyond my own. One detail stunned me: people here have six genders—Alpha males and females, Beta males and females, and Omega males and females. The original owner is an Omega male.

No time to dwell on that now. I need food first, or I'll starve. He hasn't eaten in two full days, lost to depression.

After scarfing down a meal, Noah scoured the room for any clues about his current life. Faced with gadgets more advanced than anything from his world, it took hours of fumbling, but he finally understood his predicament.

This seemed like a high-tech realm, echoing an interstellar era—yet without space travel. Instead, the pinnacle of progress was a unique art form called 'Star Painting'.

These paintings fell into categories like healing, combat, and auxiliary types, touching every facet of life. They ranged from small and simple to vast and complex; smaller ones were far easier to create than bigger ones.

What truly elevated Star Paintings to legendary status was the first-generation Star Painting Maker, a genius with an uncanny gift for the craft.

As the system for creating Star Paintings gradually improved and became systematic, the number of people working as Star Painting Makers in this world also increased.

Yet, despite this, high-level Star Painting Makers are still at the top of this world. A Star Painting Maker who has mastered the art and is capable of independently crafting seven-star Star Paintings is a sought-after individual for major factions-even if it means they have to part with nearly half of their wealth.

Simply because, while entering the field of painting may be easy, advancing to become a high-level Star Painting Maker is incredibly challenging.

Fundamentally, anyone can become a Star Painting Maker as long as they can use mental power to create a painting, which can barely qualify as novice-level work. However, producing high-level Star Paintings would require tremendous mental power to support it.

Mental power levels are often a type of innate talent. While there are those who achieve high mental power levels through postnatal training, the proportion between innate and acquired high mental power levels is approximately ten thousand to one.

In other words, to become a high-level Star Painting Maker, one needs to possess an extremely high level of mental power. This is one of the reasons why it's so difficult to advance as a Star Painting Maker and why there's such a scarcity of high-level Star Painting Makers-not to mention the material and time costs involved in practicing painting making.

The users of these paintings are those who go to the border to fight external forces like the Zerg. After battling with them, mecha fighters' mental power will be damaged, and they need healing paintings to recover their mental health. Other paintings also have uses in different fields.

As a painter, Noah held an edge here—but did he really possess any mental power?

The original owner is just 16 years old, not yet an adult, so he can't seek work. He scrapes by in a government-provided shelter. With scant funds remaining, he must finish graduation before chasing a job.He doesn't try to become a Star Painter uncertain if he possesses any mental power.

Just as Noah pondered his dire straits and next steps, his left wrist buzzed with an electronic chime. A light blue bracelet glowed with blue fluorescence. A message icon blinked, and he tapped it, guided by inherited instincts.The bracelet flared to life, projecting an A4-sized virtual screen above his wrist. A single line of text hovered:The entrance exam of painting department is on [Month XXXXX], Date XX—three months from now. Prepare accordingly. Click the attached link for the venue.