Chapter 117: No Concessions (6K)
"Ludwig, there's more to this painting than that, isn't it?"
"Anna, you're almost old enough to get married."
Her Majesty the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire hinted at Ludwig, consciously or unconsciously, and you can explain it more boldly and directly.
Anastasia loves to hear this, as promised by Aunt Margaret.
"Ahem...... This one...... This ......"
Ludwig looked at the swing girl who didn't miss anything in the Rococo genre and didn't even take off her socks, and then looked at the representative works of ancient Roman sculpture, David, who wore nothing and went into battle naked.
Why, he had to explain this to Anna, Mary, don't teach bad children, Mary, she's only fifteen years old.
"Really, it's too dry, Ludwig."
"You need to be more decisive."
It was rare to put Ludwig in an embarrassing situation, and Margaret was satisfied.
This was Her Majesty's first victory over Ludwig to date.
At the same time, he also discovered the biggest weakness in front of the invincible transcendent sword master.
He doesn't seem to understand what love is all about.
Obviously, Anastasia hinted at it like that, why is it still the same as a piece of wood.
Little Louis Bonaparte, but at the first sight of her, he plucked the most precious rose in his back garden and proposed to her.
Anastasia's love for you is completely written on her face.
What ancient Rome master Michelangelo, what immortal monument David in the history of art, for her is not as good as your words.
If you want to say "this David is ugly", she will definitely agree.
"This artistic sense ...... It's true that I didn't understand it very well in the past. β
Ludwig thought that Margaret was talking about the "swing girl", and even nodded in agreement.
Before Anastasia and Margaret had not allowed his black and white world to appear in color, he really couldn't understand the artistic metaphor in "The Swing Girl".
Compared to the statue of David of the ancient Roman master Michelangelo, which he could understand, the field involved in the swinging girl was too mysterious for him who had never been in love.
What kind of talent does it take to use colors that don't belong to nature so well?
Why, it is such a composition that does not conform to the principles of mechanics, but it looks so pleasing to the eye.
If Ludwig were asked to paint this picture, he would never have been able to paint the delicate and dangerous feeling of a girl, and the sense of betrayal of the angel statue, and the contrast of light and shadow between the old man and the young man.
But now, he seems to be able to understand some of the mysteries of the painting.
The turning point was when he drew the little foot of Anastasia in the eighty percent.
He even wondered if the painter himself had projected the appearance of his young lover onto the swinging girl in the painting.
One of the spokesmen of Rococo art, the Fragonard master's personal life, seems to be very debauched.
It is better to say that most of the masters who have left a name in the history of art have some problems in their private lives.
People who are too upright, too one-sided, and follow fixed rules, cannot have the endless artistic creativity and the urge to turn these passions into works.
Art is not related to self-discipline most of the time, and even Michelangelo, Ludwig's most admired master, has nothing to do with ...... Ahem, let's not talk more about the personal problems of the masters.
The Masters are long gone, and the monuments they left behind have become treasures of the entire history of mankind, even transcending race and color.
"Anna, the metaphor of this painting is dangerous love."
"Angels symbolize tradition and purity."
"The pink dress represents the innocence of the girl."
"The shoes that flew out were a sign of going off the track, and the girl had broken the taboo, but she couldn't stop like the swing that was swinging high."
"It is the elder who pushes the swing behind her and controls the girl's destiny, the power she can't leave, and the hand that dominates her body."
"Hiding in the bushes is the true love of the girl, and he has no power to shake the order of the elders, and he can't even appear in front of the elders in public."
"According to known information, this is a work that depicts a young girl and her lover's betrayal of virtue, and the elder behind it is generally interpreted as the girl's husband."
Compared with Ludwig, Margaret's explanation was more simple and direct, and it was also recognized by the surrounding visitors.
"Yes, this is a masterpiece of Rococo art and the most perfect painting of all Fragonard's works.
"From this painting the master began to gain fame throughout the French court, and received a large number of invitations to private paintings by noble ladies."
"The paintings are too explicit, and they are all tailor-made luxuries for the ladies of the court."
"In contrast, this girl swinging on a swing is the least exposed of all his works, but it is the most rococo-style, the most gorgeous, and the most seductive."
"The real sense of betrayal is often set off by the purest girl, and those works are not qualified to be placed in the Vienna Kunsthall!"
Anastasia listened to these comments, looked at the cheerful painting style of the swing girl, and made up about 100,000 words of passionate script in her mind.
Yes, this is good!
What's even more rare is that this makes the invincible transcendent sword saint Ludwig deflated, meow haha!
"It's my fault, my understanding of this masterpiece has been wrong in the past."
Ludwig also sincerely admitted his mistake, this is a true master, at least when he painted this "swinging girl", he is definitely qualified to go down in history.
Now, he still needs to learn from these masters who have left a name in history.
It was Anna and Marie who finally started a talent called "artistic sense", and now Ludwig is like a sponge, constantly absorbing the creativity and imagination of the masters.
Now, this talent is just beginning, but when he looks at the "swing girl", Ludwig really feels a beauty that he has never felt before.
"Dangerous love", Ludwig stared at the girl who was "swinging", and suddenly involuntarily brought it in.
Strangely enough, however, it was not the older man pushing the swing behind him, nor the young man hiding in the bushes, but the girl on the swing.
Light and flying, the swing swinging high allows the girl to see a more beautiful and wider world.
Someone pushed her behind her and sent her to a higher world.
Someone was secretly looking at her, and the love in their eyes overflowed, as if to fill her heart.
Ah, what a wonderful, happy world.
At this moment, I am the center of the world.
In a trance, the appearance of the elder behind him changed to Mary, and the young man in the bushes became Anna.
The composition of the triangle is completed.
He even heard the conversation between them that was not recorded in the painting.
"Ludwig belongs to Rome, to the world, not to you, little Anna."
"No, it's mine, what's mine is mine, the world is mine, it's Anna's!"
Well, what a dumb conversation, Ludwig shrugged as he watched the aunt and niece's argument.
It's time to wake up, Ludwig.
In the blink of an eye, Ludwig returns to the real world from the "Swing Girl" love triangle composition.
It is truly a masterpiece, and in the past, I underestimated the great artist Fragonard who left a name in history.
Similar feelings were felt when Ludwig first visited Michelangelo's David.
At that time, he replaced the hero David, and the giant Goliath with a height of nearly three meters appeared in front of him.
Throw your own stone projectiles, defeat this incredible giant, and cut off his head to win!
This is Ludwig's fantasy after substituting himself for David, and it is also the brain supplement that all artists who know the history of David's statue have.
The contagion of art is so incredible, everyone has their own David in their hearts, heroes who are not afraid of strong enemies and move forward bravely.
"Looks like he's finally getting a little bit of it."
"This painting is really good."
Noticing Ludwig's awake expression, Her Majesty the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire looked at her little niece.
As always, Anastasia's eyes were fixed on Ludwig and she didn't leave for almost a second.
This incident was discovered as early as the first time she chased the Vienna underground black market and caught Anastasia, who had run away from home.
Her little niece is not an ordinary favorite of this Ludwig, the new generation of Roman swordmaster.
It's as if there is some invisible string between the two.
When the two did not meet, the string was broken and could not play any notes.
Until, when the encounter came, the once-broken strings were joined together in one piece, and began to play an incomparably beautiful note in Vienna.
Isn't it, I have something like that on me?
Margaret looked at herself, and after she met Ludwig, she realized that the whole world had changed.
After 100 years at the helm of the Holy Roman Empire, she gradually entered a period of weakness, and she had long given up the idea of continuing to make further breakthroughs.
Because no one knew what to do next, she had already tapped the power of the Divine Blood Bloodline to a limit.
The ancient Roman sword saint had more than her, and it was only the mystery of swordsmanship that she had comprehended in the battle of life and death, and in terms of physical fitness alone, she had reached the peak of the divine blood bloodline.
The limit of humanity is not the limit of Roman divine blood.
The limit of the blood of the Roman gods is the limit of the entire human civilization.
After reaching the peak, it is a decline, and it is impossible to go further.
She intends to take advantage of Anastasia's inheritance to have another battle with her brother Roman I.
It's a pity that neither she nor Roman is the same person they used to be.
Her Majesty the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, His Majesty the Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, is going to fight to the death in a duel, which is really a horror on the level of a world war.
In the end, neither she nor Roman can go back to the past, and they can never go back to the youth when they faced off with the purest force in the Colosseum.
After that, both she and Roman almost acquiesced to the fact that Anastasia was the successor to the two Roman empires at the same time.
Will the blood of Rome continue to decline like this, and finally leave only a thousand years of glory in history and then come to an abrupt end?
In this world, there are only three Roman gods left, and they are a veritable ultra-endangered species.
If Anastasia's generation fails to produce a successor to the Roman divine blood, the later generations can only count on the fact that there are only three cases of divine blood in the millennium of Roman history.
But that's different now.
Margaret looked at Ludwig, who was still immersed in the afterglow of substitution.
Because of you, Ludwig.
The first Roman emperor "Caesar Octavius Julius Augustus Constantine" is another transcendent Roman divine blood.
According to historical records, the first "Caesar Octavian Julius Augustus Constantine" himself gave birth to dozens of Roman gods in one breath in three hundred years.
According to the current scientific theory of divine evolution, that is, the blood of the first Roman gods is the closest to the origin of the blood of the gods, and later married with other nobles, the special factors in the blood of the gods will continue to weaken.
This is also in line with the evolutionary explanation that the more powerful the predatory organisms, the more difficult it is to reproduce, and the number of organisms at the top of the food chain cannot be too large.
The Roman divine blood is so powerful that it will be weakened by some rule in the underworld until it is lost to everyone.
Unless, a miracle happens.
The return of divine blood is such a miracle.
The Roman branch of the Divine Blood Retrogression will once again raise the bloodline to a level close to the second generation of the Divine Blood in Roman history, and intermarry with many Roman nobles to continue the power of the Roman Divine Blood.
As for Ludwig, it doesn't look like the blood of God has gone back, but is closer to the state of the original "God Blood God-given".
Those old men don't know about this yet, otherwise they won't be even more crazy?
Ludwig's divine blood is a strategic weapon that can recreate a thousand-year-old Roman Empire.
"I see!"
"Thank you, Mary, Anna, I was so arrogant in the past that I dared to question the work of this master."
"Sure enough, the higher I stand, the farther I see, and my understanding of the areas I don't understand is too shallow."
Ludwig looked intently at the "swinging girl", especially the little foot in white socks raised from the corner of the girl's skirt.
The foot of Anastasia drawn by "Sleeping Anna" can be given eighty points, so now the foot of the "swinging girl" in Ludwig's eyes is a masterpiece that is difficult to describe even a hundred points.
It is a different kind of beauty from the statue of David.
David is a symbol of war, a hymn to human courage and praise.
The swing girl is a metaphor for love, the expression and expression of human feelings.
In fact, there is no distinction between superior and inferior, and both are part of human art.
In the past, Ludwig was blindly immersed in the heroic epics unique to ancient Roman art expressed by David, while ignoring the merits of other art schools.
Now, he understands that whether it is the statue of David that he likes or the swing represented by Rococo art, it is the goal he needs to learn.
"Hey, hey, let's go on, Ludwig!"
Anastasia didn't think about it that much, anyway, whether it was an artist or an art museum, it all cost money.
She is Princess Anastasia, and she has the money to buy all the works of art in this world.
Ludwig loved art, and she went to find the best art in the world for him.
Ludwig likes swordsmanship, and she can also hone herself, and when the fifty times Golden Cat Acceleration mode is implemented, she can also say that she is a cat school sword master, commonly known as cat sword.
In short, she just liked Ludwig, the kind she liked very much.
When did you realize this?
At first, it was just a hazy favorite.
It was the anger and unwillingness of Ludwig to break through her sneaking, and at this time she was like an enraged cat, showing her teeth and claws to Ludwig.
Subsequently, there was a gradual realization of Ludwig's power, Ludwig's incredible, and Ludwig's dullness.
This guy obviously has that terrifying transcendent swordsmanship, and he actually bothered about money?
He, obviously may be his brother or not, or the strongest of all the illegitimate children of his father Roman.
Later, she learned from her aunt Margaret that her brother might not be her brother and that she might not necessarily be her sister.
Since then, the relationship between the two has become ambiguous - or rather, Anastasia's unilateral bold imagination.
Even up to this stage, it was only a one-sided affair for Anastasia.
The key turning point was the prophetic dream.
Every year, there will be prophetic dreams that are never absent and never mistaken.
In the dream, Anastasia gets the approximate coordinates of her sixteenth birthday present and the correct way to open the ruins.
It is the ultimate weapon that can subvert the entire world financial order, and it is the ultimate treasure that can rewrite the history of mankind.
A mountain of gold, far inferior to all the veins of gold that mankind has discovered so far combined!
If that's all there is to it, it's just a surprise on Anastasia's sixteenth birthday.
What I saw next from this prophetic dream was a huge fright that surpassed the surprise.
Ludwig, and Her Majesty the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, her aunt Margaret, eloped!
What the hell is this, what the hell is this?
Foresight that everything in the dream is not born for no reason, but is an event that will inevitably occur at some point in the future.
Don't!
Auntie, you are too cunning, how can you snatch my Ludwig!
I have many brothers, but this one can't be given to you!
Ludwig is a special, one-of-a-kind one.
The time with him, every minute, every second is different from the past.
New worlds, transcendent realms that could never have been imagined in the past, have been opened one by one.
Ludwig is like a mysterious box that never exists if you don't observe.
Every time a slight crack in the box is exposed, Anastasia's mood can't help but thump.
This unparalleled thrill, the excitement, the madness of witnessing the moment when history is changed.
There is no one to replace, no one can do the same thing as Ludwig!
Auntie, you can't take Ludwig, it's a crime!
You're obviously the elder of Ludwig's brother, so it's too foul to elope with him or something!
That kind of thing, I don't agree!
Anastasia's eyes were full of feelings for Ludwig, and it was impossible to hide it.
In the same way, Anastasia had long noticed that her aunt Margaret was similar to herself, even if she was well disguised.
Once, the frustration of losing under Ludwig's sword twice, the doubts of doubting life, and finally understood after being puzzled - I can't win against Ludwig.
After Ludwig's extraordinary sword master's strength was completely exposed, Her Majesty the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire also experienced a metamorphosis of the worldview.
In the process, the weight of the name Ludwig gradually deepened in her mind, and finally became an indelible imprint.
Unlike the naΓ―ve Anastasia, Her Majesty's emotional weight is of a very different level.
If it weren't for the impact of Ludwig, her already established worldview would never have allowed her heart to waver.
Her Majesty the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire does not allow herself to show her weak side.
Every time she challenged Ludwig, she carried the glory of the Holy Roman Empire and Rome with all her might.
In this world, I am afraid that only Ludwig, the extraordinary sword master, can smash the powerful spiritual barrier opened for herself by Her Majesty the Holy Roman Empire, and imprint everything into her heart.
The moment the Roman Twin Star Shortsword was knocked away, Margaret's world-class psychic wall also fell apart.
Ludwig showed her a whole new world, a brilliance that she had never discovered when her mind was once blinded by the dust of time.
What Anastasia saw in Margaret's eyes was the joy of having her worldview completely shattered and then suddenly realized.
Ludwig, who had accomplished this great feat, had no idea what a miracle he had achieved.
They brought to Ludwig the magnificence of the black and white world.
Ludwig also broke down the barriers of the world for them, showing the extraordinary power full of infinite possibilities.
In the process, they all stared at Ludwig after their worldview was shattered and recondensed.
Margaret, desperately proclaiming that "Ludwig is my illegitimate child", detonated the entire Holy Roman Empire.
Anastasia formulated "There will be two Romes in the world, one in Ludwig and one in Anastasia, but in the end the world will be all Roman." β
"Because, Anastasia will be with Ludwig...... Let's become Rome! β
"When two Romes merge, the world will be happy!"
Just by looking at it, Her Majesty the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire and Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Eastern Roman Empire realized something.
None of them will budge.
Ludwig is mine (my)!