Episode 379 < The Gardener of Rotten Flowers. (1) >
One.
Ego.
Then now.
Let’s plant flowers in the world.
“okay. … … “I want to work.”
After stroking the Constellation Killer’s lily of the valley, I stretched out.
From now on, you’ll have to move around quite a bit. A world where there is still nothing. If you want to make a single flower bloom in this place that is literally nothing, you will need a lot of things.
-What do you plan to do?
Bae Hu-ryeong asked.
Come to think of it, Bae Hu-ryeong has been quiet these days. Even when he was almost sealed by the Constellation Killer and eventually succeeded in counterattacking and defeating the Constellation Killer, Bae Hu-ryeong did not say anything. He just watched from a few steps away.
So if you ask me if I was upset, no. Not really.
I guessed why Bae Hu-ryeong didn’t intervene. Even if there was no conversation, I could tell Bae Hu-ryeong’s feelings. Unlike the days when I was climbing the 10th floor, I am stronger now. I reached a point where I was only half a step behind Bae Hu-ryeong.
‘The teachings end here.’
‘You take care of the rest.’
If I were defeated by the Constellation Killer and captured by the Eternal Seal, that would be the end. The story is that my journey to the top of the tower ended there.
Between equal rivals, advice would be unnecessary.
“Yes… … .”
I took off my coat and rolled up my sleeves.
“First of all, we need the sun.”
-sun?
“yes. There has to be light. Is it a little dark in here? Even though only flowers that have already rotted will bloom, if it is too dark, the flowers will feel sad.”
Bae Hu-ryeong looked at me with a slightly crazy look in his eyes.
-How are you going to make the sun? For your information, you could band together with auras and put up a light bulb that resembles the sun, but it would be difficult to maintain that.
“what. “I wonder if it will work out somehow.”
There is a lot of time.
“And somehow I feel like I can get it from an expert.”
2.
“No, no, no. “Absolutely not.”
Unfortunately, after going down to Babylon and seeking advice from an expert, what came back to me was the pink meat of a cat violently writhing before my eyes.
“Is it too much?”
“Wal. Even though we decided to speak out like this, shouldn’t we at least have a conscience? “For your budget, ‘sunlight’ is a bit, no, very unreasonable.”
[The Cat with a Gold Coin] looked at me like a real estate agent looking at someone asking how they can rent out a new apartment when the budget limit is 50 million won. It’s so real it hurts.
“Woah, I can get you some really long-lasting light bulbs… .”
“Hey, that’s not cool. It’s still a garden after all. “Unless it’s natural light.”
“Umm… … . So what about Phoenix? “If you hang a cage on the ceiling and put a phoenix in it, it somehow creates a sun-like atmosphere.”
“Is that natural light?”
“Wouldn’t it be similar? “It depends on what you think, and the world is originally a series of appropriate compromises.”
Hmm.
I was shocked at first when I heard the cat’s words, but no matter how much I think about it, the sight of a phoenix hanging over the garden and crying out loud seems a bit sick.
‘but.’
The cat’s thoughtless remark that the world is essentially a series of compromises inspired me.
“Iknow, right. There is no need to bring the sun to get light. Rather, I think the sun is too dazzling for the rotten flowers.”
“Yep yep, that kind of self-justification is a virtue that a Constellation must have! Well, myeongcheon. Now, let me tell you more about the current price of Phoenix. Since Docheol left, the price of kids with fire attributes has gone down a lot… … .”
“Thank you for the consultation. good bye.”
“Nyan?”
I bought work gloves, a sack bag, and various other equipment and returned to the 81st floor.
“… … “You’re dressed like you’re going to dig up potatoes somewhere?”
[Ancient Staff] saw me wearing work gloves on both hands and carrying a bag of sacks, and looked at me with the look of a slightly crazy person.
what. Could it be that, in a place where I don’t know, the people of the world have enacted a new law in the way they look at me and agreed that they must look that way when they see me?
“I overheard you talking about saving the sun and needing light. “You’re not going to go somewhere and bring the sun in a sack, are you?”
“hmm. It’s similar.”
“what?”
“Rather than that, can I stop by the Constellation Killer’s sanctuary for a moment?”
The [Primordial Staff] blinked.
“What are you talking about? The Constellation Killer’s sanctuary has already been destroyed. “You saw it right before your eyes yesterday.”
“yes. However, the voice in the tower said that the world would be destroyed, not that it would disappear. As for the tower owner I know, even if the world was destroyed because all the constellations, apostles, and believers disappeared… … . “We’re not completely eliminating that place.”
“…….”
“It will probably remain in the same state as it was destroyed. Somewhere. “Please let me stop by there for a moment.”
[Ancient Staff] touched his forehead.
“Myeongcheon… … . You really are a strange person. Go to the place where it all ended and pick up something? trash? Or are you trying to bring back the body of a murder doll? I would understand if you asked for a legendary item instead. “What are you doing in a place where there’s nothing left but trash?”
“ha. … … “Wait a moment.”
The wizard glared into the dark space.
[I am requesting entry tickets to the sanctuary where the ‘Primordial Staff’ has already stopped.]
[approval.]
[You can enter the Constellation Killer’s sanctuary.]
The wizard nodded with a very unfazed expression.
“I got permission. Tapju seems curious about what you are trying to do. “It’s not easy to win that person’s favor, but you’re talented.”
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“You just have to be good like me, just be good.”
“That’s funny. “If I live like you, not only will I have no life left, but my soul will rot and crumble.”
What’s wrong with my soul?
“A person who would turn his sanctuary into a garden of rotten flowers cannot be sane. No, just imagine that someone planted flowers on the veranda of their house, and they are all rotten. “Is this normal?”
is it?
It might be a little strange to hear that.
I thought maybe that was the reason why everyone, starting with Bae Hu-ryeong, started looking at me like a crazy person, but I didn’t change my plan.
send.
[You have entered the Constellation Killer’s sanctuary.]
So I set foot again in the world I destroyed yesterday.
The scenery did not change.
The wind picked up and time stopped. The sunset sky disappeared, and the red color of the sky, which had become comfortable with glass shards, was broken countless times.
In the air, the collapsing trash and the shattered glass-sky were stuffed like still images.
“ruler. “I brought you here as you asked.”
This time, the [Primordial Staff] also followed me. When I was with other colleagues, I never tried to show my face, but now that I was alone, I easily showed my face.
“I have no choice but to ask you one more time what you are taking from here.”
“The sky.”
[Ancient Staff] narrowed his eyes.
“ha? sky… ?”
“yes. “I will capture the sky.”
I began rummaging through the mountain of trash of a still world.
What I was looking for was glass. Glass that was originally a sky with a sunset engraved on it, but then split, leaving only fragments.
The world was destroyed, but the glass still retained the red color it had dyed at the very moment it was broken.
I picked them up piece by piece. carefully.
Glass fragments that were too small were difficult to use. We found a piece at least as big as the upper body of a person. When I put it into the bag slowly so as not to break it, the glass glowed red and yellow in the dark bag.
[You will be transferred to the 81st floor.]
I filled the sack with sunset and returned to the 81st floor.
There was still nothing here except lilies of the valley.
I was flying through a space filled with darkness, walking up empty space, as if I had stepped on stairs. Before long, I was able to reach the pitch-black ceiling.
“good.”
I took the glass out of the sack. Then, I raised my fingernail and made a small hole in the glass. The life name cut out by the Auror was nothing short of neat.
I put the thread I prepared in advance into the hole. It was a thread that was purchased in place of a phoenix at the request of [The cat that bitten a gold coin], and it was an item that the cat boasted that it would never break. Then you can trust me.
“If you twist it like this and hang it from the ceiling… … . done.”
Shake-.
Yuri’s day, twisted by a thread, hung in the dark.
As if a candle had been lit in the middle of an unlit basement, the glass illuminated the remnants of a sunset, small but clear in red and yellow.
“The lighting is still too weak, though. “It will get better soon.”
“…….”
I went back and forth between the Constellation Killer’s sanctuary and the 81st floor, continuing to collect fragments of the setting sun.
[The Ancient Staff] watched me in silence. Although I was murmuring just a moment ago, I kept my lips tightly shut for some reason.
[You have entered the Constellation Killer’s sanctuary.]
[You will be transferred to the 81st floor.]
[You have entered the Constellation Killer’s sanctuary.]
[You will be transferred to the 81st floor.]
[you are…..]
How much time has passed?
There were strings hanging from the ceiling.
The sunset swayed at the end of each hanging thread. Sometimes from a piece of glass as big as a person. Sometimes a piece of glass as small as the palm of your hand. However, they all contained the sunset light of a destroyed world, and their luster flowed quietly.
The length of the thread is jagged and the size of the glass is different.
“If you look up from below, it looks just like a wisteria.”
I was satisfied.
The 81st floor was no longer dark. If you were to ask if it was bright, it wasn’t bright at all. The sunsets, which would have once been brilliant, had lost their grandeur and were only decaying.
A faded sunset.
So, I liked it.
With that kind of light, even rotten flowers would willingly allow it without being burdened.
“… … okay.”
[Ancient Staff] looked up at the glass sunsets hanging in the sky. After looking around at the sunset that colored her world on the 81st floor, she muttered.
“This is the light of heaven and earth that you create.”
And so there was light.
There is no other constellation that has collected so much unsightly light and decorated its sanctuary with it, except me. My believers were the corpses of flowers that had lost their place, and my sun was a trace of a world where no one could shine anymore.
trash.
ruins.
A place where not life, but the rest of life, blooms, and where it merely remains rather than exists.
“yes. “It’s not that bad, right?”
“…….”
[The Primordial Staff] did not respond. I didn’t really expect an answer either, so I shrugged.
I brought the last plastic bottle from the Constellation Killer’s sanctuary. It was a plastic bottle that was still intact in a place full of crumpled trash.
“hmm. “It’s been quite a while since I made this.”
I did my dad’s legs and picked up the scissors.
Suddenly.
The scissors cut the waist of the plastic bottle into square pieces. It was neatly separated in half. As I looked around at the shapes, I was lost in old memories.
“I made it quite often when I was at the orphanage… … .’
What I made was a flower pot.
A bowl containing flowers.
When you actually try to buy flower pots, they are more expensive than you think. So, at the orphanage, they took plastic bottles and turned them into flower pots. This is prettier than you think when you make it.
“Put some dirt here…” … .”
I also thought a lot about the soil I would put in the pot.
But in the end, I went to the world where Kim Yul lived—- the world where Kim Hwang-tae is currently studying abroad with all kinds of hardships–and picked the dirt.
I went to the garbage dump where Kim Yul’s house was, dug a hole, and brought back the black rotten soil.
“Whoa.”
After compacting the soil into the pot, I carefully planted the lily of the valley there. Fortunately, the lily of the valley was safely transferred to the pot without any damage.
The red light flowing down from the glass in the sky was brightly reflected and slid across the transparent surface of the plastic flower pot.
“okay.”
In this way, light was added to this world and the first flower was planted.
After placing the lily-of-the-valley pot in the center of my sanctuary, I turned and looked at the [Primordial Staff].
Giving a wide smile to the wizard whose mouth was still closed.
“In this way, we will create a sky here, create a waterway, and plant flowers and more flowers. It may not be a fun sanctuary to visit, though. Umm. “I think I’ll probably love it here.”
“Let’s move on to the next step. “Wizard.”
[A sky has appeared in your world.]
[Floor 81 is cleared!]
[A land has been created in your world.]
[Floor 82 is cleared!]
Now it’s time to climb to the 83rd floor.
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