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Art style: Digital comic-book illustration, graphic-novel style, semi-realistic stylized characters with expressive detailed faces and confident bold ink outlines, painterly cel-shading with smooth gradient rendering. Dramatic cinematic lighting with strong chiaroscuro, warm rim light and glowing highlights, deep contrasting shadows. Rich saturated color palette dominated by warm ambers, fiery oranges, golden bronze and deep earthy browns, with cool teal-blue shadows for contrecture, fire, smoke, dust, dramatic clouds and volumetric god-rays. Dynamast. Epic, emotional, high-tension mood. Detailed textured backgrounds — ancient architic composition, close-up emotional portraits or heroic low-angle wide shots, strong depth of field, atmospheric haze. Fine cross-hatching and texture detailing, polished professional finish, high detail, 4K, vertical 9:16 format, motion-comic key-frame aesthetic. Key visual techniques: Warm/orange fire-lit palette vs. cool blue shadow contrast Strong chiaroscuro and rim lighting, glowing eyes/tears catching light Bold black ink contours + soft painterly shading (mix of ink & paint) Volumetric god-rays, smoke, dust and heat haze for atmosphere Exaggerated, emotional facial expressions (fear, awe, determination) Cinematic framing: dramatic close-ups + epic low-angle hero shots Vertical 9:16 storytelling format (webtoon / Shorts key-frame look). A clearly recognizable likeness of King Midas — keep their real face shape, skin tone, hairstyle, build and any signature look (hair, kit, number). Middle-aged powerful king, around 50 years old, olive Mediterranean skin, strong angular face with a thick dark beard streaked with grey, deep-set intense eyes, heavy expressive brows. Wearing a richly ornamented royal robe in deep crimson and bronze, golden laurel crown, heavy gold jewelry and rings on every finger. Confident bold ink outlines, expressive detailed face, semi-realistic stylized graphic-novel look ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "Digital comic-book illustration, graphic-novel style, semi-realistic stylized characters with expressive detailed faces and confident bold ink outlines, painterly cel-shading with smooth gradient rendering. Dramatic cinematic lighting with strong chiaroscuro, warm rim light and glowing highlights, deep contrasting shadows. Rich saturated color palette dominated by warm ambers, fiery oranges, golden bronze and deep earthy browns, with cool teal-blue shadows for contrecture, fire, smoke, dust, dramatic clouds and volumetric god-rays. Dynamast. Epic, emotional, high-tension mood. Detailed textured backgrounds — ancient architic composition, close-up emotional portraits or heroic low-angle wide shots, strong depth of field, atmospheric haze. Fine cross-hatching and texture detailing, polished professional finish, high detail, 4K, vertical 9:16 format, motion-comic key-frame aesthetic. Key visual techniques: Warm/orange fire-lit palette vs. cool blue shadow contrast Strong chiaroscuro and rim lighting, glowing eyes/tears catching light Bold black ink contours + soft painterly shading (mix of ink & paint) Volumetric god-rays, smoke, dust and heat haze for atmosphere Exaggerated, emotional facial expressions (fear, awe, determination) Cinematic framing: dramatic close-ups + epic low-angle hero shots Vertical 9:16 storytelling format (webtoon / Shorts key-frame look)" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Digital comic-book illustration, graphic-novel style, semi-realistic stylized characters with expressive detailed faces and confident bold ink outlines, painterly cel-shading with smooth gradient rendering. Dramatic cinematic lighting with strong chiaroscuro, warm rim light and glowing highlights, deep contrasting shadows. Rich saturated color palette dominated by warm ambers, fiery oranges, golden bronze and deep earthy browns, with cool teal-blue shadows for contrecture, fire, smoke, dust, dramatic clouds and volumetric god-rays. Dynamast. Epic, emotional, high-tension mood. Detailed textured backgrounds — ancient architic composition, close-up emotional portraits or heroic low-angle wide shots, strong depth of field, atmospheric haze. Fine cross-hatching and texture detailing, polished professional finish, high detail, 4K, vertical 9:16 format, motion-comic key-frame aesthetic. Key visual techniques: Warm/orange fire-lit palette vs. cool blue shadow contrast Strong chiaroscuro and rim lighting, glowing eyes/tears catching light Bold black ink contours + soft painterly shading (mix of ink & paint) Volumetric god-rays, smoke, dust and heat haze for atmosphere Exaggerated, emotional facial expressions (fear, awe, determination) Cinematic framing: dramatic close-ups + epic low-angle hero shots Vertical 9:16 storytelling format (webtoon / Shorts key-frame look)". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "Digital comic-book illustration, graphic-novel style, semi-realistic stylized characters with expressive detailed faces and confident bold ink outlines, painterly cel-shading with smooth gradient rendering. Dramatic cinematic lighting with strong chiaroscuro, warm rim light and glowing highlights, deep contrasting shadows. Rich saturated color palette dominated by warm ambers, fiery oranges, golden bronze and deep earthy browns, with cool teal-blue shadows for contrecture, fire, smoke, dust, dramatic clouds and volumetric god-rays. Dynamast. Epic, emotional, high-tension mood. Detailed textured backgrounds — ancient architic composition, close-up emotional portraits or heroic low-angle wide shots, strong depth of field, atmospheric haze. Fine cross-hatching and texture detailing, polished professional finish, high detail, 4K, vertical 9:16 format, motion-comic key-frame aesthetic. Key visual techniques: Warm/orange fire-lit palette vs. cool blue shadow contrast Strong chiaroscuro and rim lighting, glowing eyes/tears catching light Bold black ink contours + soft painterly shading (mix of ink & paint) Volumetric god-rays, smoke, dust and heat haze for atmosphere Exaggerated, emotional facial expressions (fear, awe, determination) Cinematic framing: dramatic close-ups + epic low-angle hero shots Vertical 9:16 storytelling format (webtoon / Shorts key-frame look)" idiom, not in any other medium.