Novels should have plausibility.
That was her principle.
However, even if this myth were a novel, it’s too light.
And I don’t understand the meaning.
Above all, how would a mere human know what God said, seriously.
‘Ah, I don’t want to read this.’
I don’t want to read it, but there’s nothing else to read.
Serena gritted her teeth, remembering Lemerun’s order to summarize an extremely boring 1,000-page book from before.
She opened the page again.
Serena had stubbornness.
“This is also your destiny, it can’t be helped. Become a great tree.”
So said God, bestowing a blessing on the fallen seed.
Thus, in the darkness, the primordial World Tree began to grow.
The World Tree began to grow vigorously, using the surrounding darkness as nourishment.
As the World Tree grew larger, the darkness that covered the world became its nourishment and disappeared completely.
Eventually, when the World Tree grew so large that it covered the world, the darkness finally vanished.
But nothing lasts forever.
The darkness that had become the World Tree’s nourishment began to rampage.
It was because it couldn’t bear being trapped in a narrow space.
“…No, why is the darkness alive? What kind of person is it? I’m getting frustrated.”
Serena swallowed a bitter laugh as she criticized.
It was a moment when the Korean racial trait of talking to oneself while watching morning dramas was fully displayed.
The World Tree, angered by the darkness constantly trying to break out, began to fight with the darkness.
A massive war broke out.
Not long after, God, who came to see if the World Tree was growing well, clicked his tongue.
It was because exactly half of the world was divided into darkness and light.
During the ongoing war, life was born on the land imbued with light.
Among them, there were strange creatures that crawled on four legs when first born, but at some point became able to walk on two legs.
They were humans.
Humans were much smarter compared to other animals.
It was a time when there was no day and night.
In one place, only day continued, and in another place, only night continued.
At that time, one human thought.
‘I want to sleep in!!’
“What the f…?”
Serena couldn’t hold back the curse that naturally flowed out.
No, does this make sense?
Suddenly wanting to sleep in, what kind of nonsense is that?
She was so dumbfounded that she closed the book again and examined the cover.
It was bewildering that such a book was properly placed in the library.
On the front, only the title and author were roughly embossed.
[D.G.O]
“DGO, are these initials?”
Serena glared at what appeared to be initials at first glance.
“Anyway, whoever wrote this… I want to tell them to go back and learn everything from scratch. Do they even know what plausibility is?”
She said with a frown, clearly dissatisfied.
Anyway, seriously, if you’re stupid, you shouldn’t write.
Even while thinking this, she sighed and turned the page.
However, because the world was too bright, humans couldn’t sleep.
So humans decided to take naps.
But they couldn’t sleep. Unable to nap, humans thought again.
‘I want to take a nap too!!’
—they said.
“Oh, for f*ck’s sake!”
Serena could no longer hold back and flung the book out of the bed.
It was because she couldn’t just laugh it off no matter how hard she tried.
“Whoever wrote this, just come out! I’ll pluck out all your hair!”
Serena vented her anger in the empty room, recalling how she had wandered around the vast library for nearly 4 hours looking for this book.
Today was truly another peaceful day of idleness.
“Hah…”
Serena buried her face in the bed pillow for a while, then reluctantly got up and picked up the book again.
“…Is this really all there is?”
Serena talked to herself.
“This really was all…”
And she answered herself.
Because this book is the only one she found after searching the library, almost like combing through it.
‘Should I go to the Marquis’ house?’
Serena flopped back onto the bed, holding the book and thinking about the upcoming regular check-up.
“Ah, life…”
Nothing was going according to plan.
She opened the book again.
After smoothing out the crumpled book, she read on from the part about humans wanting to take naps.
Humans were smarter compared to other animals. So humans worked in the World Tree’s realm where there was light, and when they wanted to sleep, they slept in the realm of Darkness.
Seeing the behavior of these smart humans, the beasts acted the same way.
That’s when God, who belatedly noticed the situation, came down and decided to mediate between the Darkness and the World Tree.
“As your fight intensifies, the world cannot stabilize. How about we do this?”
God said.
It was a proposal to divide the world into 12 hours each, creating day and night, and have each manage half.
It couldn’t have been a more genius and smart proposal.
Yes, God was smart.
Serena began to feel disillusioned with this book that only praised this God.
“If there’s more unnecessary talk next, I’ll definitely burn it.”
Serena muttered softly, trembling.
“It’s unfair! Why should I be victimized and oppressed by the World Tree and have half of my realm taken away! This was all my realm originally!”
The Darkness argued.
And God thought the Darkness had a point.
God nodded generously.
“Isn’t this God too easily swayed? Can a God be this fickle?”
Serena grumbled dissatisfied, but flipped to the next page like someone addicted to morning dramas.
“Give me compensation! Give me compensation! This is God’s tyranny, tyranny!”
The Darkness started a one-person protest.
The power of the enraged Darkness grew a bit more, and the realms of the World Tree and Darkness split greatly.
The World Tree’s realm shrank further.
The animals and humans thought it was strange that the night realm had expanded, but they didn’t pay much attention.
To appease the angry Darkness, God came up with a genius move.
“How about this!”
“What is it?”
The Darkness spoke like a rowdy delinquent.
“I’ll make you into a World Tree too!”
God was smart.
He proposed what he thought was the best solution.
“Deal.”
The Darkness coolly agreed to God’s terms of agreement.
“…Wow, I really wouldn’t want to serve under such a boss. He’s the worst boss who would decide to print more money when there’s no money.”
Serena was now looking at the unknown God’s aide with such contempt that she even felt pity for them.
The Darkness became a new World Tree.
Of course, since only one World Tree could exist in the world, the two World Trees had to exist very far apart from each other.
Anyway, with the existence of two World Trees, day and night, light and darkness were created in the world.
The world ruled by the two World Trees developed little by little.
The Darkness and the World Tree became friends as they took care of the world together.
God was satisfied.
But where there is light, there is darkness.
Along with day and night, bright and dark sides came to exist in the world. There were good people and bad people.
‘Good’ was born from light and ‘evil’ was born from darkness.
Greedy ones disregarded life and moved only for their own benefit.
The World Tree and Darkness tried their best to eliminate as much evil as possible, but human greed evolved and developed more and more.
Because humans existed, evil did not disappear.
If evil was blocked here, it would appear there.
Eventually, evil cut off branches of the World Tree for its own greed, coveted its fruits, peeled off its bark, and craved its roots.
The Darkness became enraged at seeing the screaming World Tree.
The Darkness thought.
‘We must eradicate all evil.’
Because if evil didn’t exist in the world, peace would surely come.
‘Evil’ even corrupted ‘good’.
When seeds of evil were planted in the hearts of the righteous, sprouts would surely grow from those seeds.
Justice became injustice.
“I will eliminate all evil in the world.”
The Darkness vowed.
To eradicate all evil in the world.
To eliminate the source of evil.
And so…
“Huh?”
There’s no next page.
Serena’s eyes widened as she looked at the book that abruptly ended at the most interesting part.
“Ah, what the!”
There are two most annoying things in the world, one is stopping mid-sentence…
“Ahhh… ack!!”
Serena was so angry that she buried her face deep into the bed pillow.
That’s right.
Serena couldn’t stand things being cut off in the middle.
She had a personality that couldn’t endure curiosity.
“What is this!”
She was furious.
She considered burning it for a moment, then collapsed limply.
There were no easy things in life.
Bang–!
While she was lying face down on the bed and stomping her feet, the door suddenly opened without warning.
“Master!”
…Including the disciple she recently accepted.
“…Who just barges into someone else’s bedroom like that?”
“Huh? I knocked… Several times!”
“But I didn’t answer.”
“That’s… but… this is the office after all.”
Serena was quiet for a moment, as she had been rolling around on the bed set up in the inner part of the office.
“…So, why?”
Serena asked as she got up from her prone position, casually tossed the book on the table, and sat down at the desk after leaving the rest area in the office.
“It’s mealtime, so I came to escort you!”
Colin Martora said with a bright smile despite Serena’s grumpy question.
“…Ah.”
“And I’ve sorted the documents by type and marked the urgent ones with red strings separately.”
“Hmm, I see. Thanks.”
“And today’s main dish is duck, so what kind of alcohol should I prepare?”
“Uh… I’ll just go with whatever you recommend.”
“Understood. Lastly, letters have arrived, so I’ve collected them in a separate box. For those that don’t require a personal reply, if you sort them out and give them to me, I’ll send rejection letters.”
Colin Martora spoke rapidly.
Serena blinked at his quite different appearance compared to the clumsy one she had seen before.
“Uh… yeah…”
She was a bit taken aback.
Honestly, she didn’t expect him to be this good at his job.
Above all, while she wanted to raise a disciple, she didn’t want to receive this much help.
Perhaps because of her life as a teaching assistant, she wanted to take someone as a disciple but not treat them like an assistant.
“…Uh, okay.”
But she didn’t refuse.
It was too comfortable to refuse.
“Ah, Mr. Drukan!”
“……”
Drukan, who had entered the office, turned pale upon seeing Colin Martora’s eyes sparkling.
- ianthe
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