Episode 380 < The Gardener of Rotten Flowers. (2) >
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Rusty sunlight pooled inside a plastic flower pot filled with black soil. The lily of the valley was quietly sleeping with its roots immersed in it.
After looking at it for a while, the Ancient Staff spoke.
“We created the sky and the land, so now it’s time to create the sea.”
“It’s Nenny.”
“Yes, the order of creation… … for a moment. “What answer is that now?”
“You’ll know when you see it.”
The Primordial Staff raised its eyebrows, but I took action without further reply.
First, I called Esther.
[‘The sky that gathers screams’ calls the apostle.]
[Your apostle answers your call.]
[The apostle of ‘Sky Gathering Screams’ appears.]
A woman who was once called the saint of the weak and who currently serves as an advisor to my family has appeared. Her voice spread around the world even before her toes touched the floor.
“Matriarch. “Why did you call me this time?”
Esther’s voice was flushed. It seems that the excitement of the battle that took place not long ago has not subsided.
I raised one hand to calm her down and said,
“Calm down, advisor. “I didn’t call you to fight.”
“Oh, is that so… . I was disappointed that I didn’t perform well enough during the last fight… .”
“Aren’t you a bit of a ssamdak these days?” ?”
“The Chamberlain is like an internet game. It tends to increase the aggression of those around you. “I am just one of those poor victims.”
Wouldn’t that be rude for an internet game?
There are differing opinions on the research results showing that Internet games increase violence, but the fact that Sylvia increases violence is a repeatedly verifiable fact. And while online games relieve stress, all Sylvia can relieve is her patience… .
“It’s good to burn up your fighting spirit, but save it. “A fight is bound to happen at any time, so it’s never too late to draw your sword.”
“Yes, matriarch… hmm. So why did you call me?”
Esther blinked hesitantly. It seemed that the place where we were standing was now reflected in those purple eyes, not me.
“Well, this place… ?”
“The world I am creating.”
I continued.
“This is where our family will settle down.”
“indeed. “Is this our Nazarick?”
“What is Nazarick?”
“This is a place from an old novel about the world of the head of the family recommended by the Venomous Snake.”
Is that gentleman planning to destroy our family from within? ?
“okay. You’re going to fortify this place. great. Each flower garden has a [gardener]. Each gardener has powerful skills and items, and within the garden they protect, they have absolute power that surpasses even the head of the family… .”
“I-I’ll have to talk to Lao Pan later. hmm. Esther. “The reason I called you now was not to discuss such a security system.”
“If you please?”
“Esther. “You can make it rain, right?”
The Demon King of Autumn Rain.
The girl who was once called the saint of the weak, who currently serves as an advisor to my family, and who had previously sunk a world under a red flood, blinked.
“Yes? Rain… do you mean?”
“huh.”
I remembered Esther’s skill card that Bae Hu-ryeong once read to me.
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[Resentment flows like rain]
Rank: S-
Effect: Not visible. It’s not visible. If people don’t see something in front of them, they assume it isn’t there. ‘They are the ones who have gone blind.’ That’s right. ‘These are ignorant things.’
If so, please show me.
Show us clearly how many lives have died in their ignorance. The sky will gladly pour down red rain as much as the blood innocently shed in this world.
※However, only the blood that you directly witnessed falls as rain.
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“Please make it rain in this garden.”
I asked for it.
4.
The appearance resembled a prayer.
Esther closed her eyes. She bowed her head. Her platinum-gold hair cascaded down her neck and chest, pooling over her clasped hands.
My lips parted.
“ah.”
It closed for a moment, then opened again.
“ah.”
again.
“ah—”
It was a kind of rumination.
When something unbelievable happened, or when I saw something unbelievable, it was as if I had to wriggle over and over again in order to somehow accept it into myself and digest it. Therefore, the sound that rang out every time the lips were opened came from inside the heart, not from the vocal cords.
A sight I’ve seen countless times in her trauma.
“—-, —-, —————······.”
Thus, the first sight I saw when I entered the world of the Aegim Empire unfolded.
Red rain fell in my flower garden.
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“…….”
“…….”
It was a flood
The rainwater spread out and fell hard, quickly covering this flower garden. Every hanging sunset was covered with water droplets and scattered around. Strangely, a dark blue rainbow bloomed where the red rain and red flakes met.
I quietly looked at the blood drops seeping into the plastic flower pot.
“You’re strong.”
“yes.”
I nodded at the words of the ancient staff.
“It’s like a shower.”
“…….”
“Even that rain was accepted as a shower at first.”
I spoke as if quoting from a book I read a long time ago.
“It’s been raining countless times until now. The rain stops as soon as it gets strong. So, I thought it was rain that would clear up if I just chatted with my neighbors under an umbrella or played a game of chess inside a house with an open ceiling.”
They were quotes from various books.
If each person had one book, I would have lived the life of a reader. Even though I wasn’t at the level of a library director, I had many books I could quote from.
“But it wasn’t like that.”
“…….”
“It wasn’t like that.”
The Primordial Staff held the broken staff in its mouth and took a breath.
The appearance is reminiscent of a smoker who calms his mind by smoking his favorite gombangdae. As if the actual effect was no different, the wizard spoke in a cold tone.
“It happens everywhere.”
“…….”
“Underestimating the other person’s resentment. He doesn’t think that the person he hurt might be a tiger, not a cat. The collar gets bitten or the internal organs rot due to negligence or carelessness. It’s something that all empires go through, and it’s a path that no strongman can avoid… … “Why are you smiling?”
“Just like that.”
I picked up an empty plastic bottle, cut off the middle, and continued.
“Even beings as big as pillars have a hard heart.”
“Are you saying I’m acting strong right now?”
“is not it?”
“… … “What I was doing must have sucked a lot.”
The wizard, who had been the judge of the underworld for countless years, put his wand in his mouth again and then removed it.
The rain that was falling right now had a different temperature from the blood flowing in his body, so it was as cold as freezing, so the wizard’s disgust was expressed as white steam rising from his mouth.
“okay. But whatever my intention, it’s not true. “The reason the Aegim Empire fell was because they mistakenly thought they were strong and let their guard down.”
“yes.”
I nodded and also shook my head.
“no.”
The autumn rain pouring down from the clouds that covered the entire sky naturally soaked the entire ground and pooled. It didn’t take long for the rising level of rainwater to seep into the inside of the shoes.
Each raindrop had a different weight, and as rainwater overflowed from a plastic flower pot, it naturally developed strength and weakness. The flat bottom rose flat at first, but then began to swell due to the difference in force hitting the water surface.
It was the ocean of this world.
“Besides that, I forgot two things.”
I said, standing with my feet in the sea made of tears.
“Someone is crying.”
He continued:
“That someone is crying for someone else.”
I spoke to the Primordial Staff.
“Just like the owner of the tower.”
The ancient wand stopped.
Heat pooled in the broken cane. Like a great wizard, she immediately understood the gist of what I was saying.
“Are you saying that what the top owner does is a common thing that can happen anywhere?”
“Isn’t that why you were attracted to the owner of the tower?”
“yes.”
Even if there is a world of despair ruled by some ruthless being, even there, someone will cry, and someone will cry for someone else.
“It’s something you shouldn’t forget.”
The Aegim Empire is an empire founded by the Constellation Killer Lefanta Aegim. The founder of the empire has been crying with his sword for those who are not him in a garbage dump where no one has been invited.
Someone is crying. Someone was crying for someone else.
The reason the Aegim Empire fell was probably because they simply forgot to maintain it.
“—————······.”
The tears of the demon king who destroyed the empire flowed from the flower pot where the founding plant of the empire was blooming.
The overflowing autumn rain mixed with the sea, leaving dark red marks on the outside of the translucent flower pot. Even though it was just born, the sea did its work like that. The sea quietly accepted everything that flowed from the world.
And gave it.
I bent down and poured some seawater into the newly made plastic flower pot… She said with her hands spread out.
“Hundred Flowers Reincarnated.”
[Activates the skill.]
A small lotus flower had bloomed in a pot that was shaking like well water in a bucket.
The frayed lotus flower, like an undrawn curtain spread across an old ruined mansion, had no weight. The tattered flower petals silently surrendered themselves to the waves created by alternating heavy and light raindrops.
“… … “This flower.”
The ancient staff immediately recognized who the lotus was.
I nodded and pointed to the pot containing the lily of the valley.
“If there was to be heaven and earth in this world, it was only because that child needed it.”
“Likewise, if there needs to be an ocean in this world, it’s because this child needs it.”
I put the flower pot down on the water, which was now up to my ankles. It was the first ship to float on the seas of this world.
The flower pot, like the lotus flower it contained, seemed to have no weight at all and surrendered itself to the movement of the waves. It climbed up the hill created by the waves, rose that high, and then slid down again and again.
It looked precarious, as if it would capsize at any moment, but it gradually set a steady beat and began its own voyage.
It flowed somewhere and eventually became invisible.
5.
[An ocean has appeared in your world.]
[Floor 83 is cleared!]
That’s how I took care of my sanctuary.
“Hundred Flowers Reincarnated.”
[Activates the skill.]
“Hundred Flowers Reincarnated.”
[Activates the skill.]
First, flowers bloomed. I transplanted them one by one into the pots I had prepared.
He then called his vassals and gave them work.
“Ugor. Abby. Are you asking me to punch you on the floor right now?”
“That’s right.”
“I will do it because they tell me to…” “What does it mean?”
“This flower likes high places.”
I said while holding a tattered cloud chrysanthemum. The military leader of my family looked at the white plastic pot filled with soil and the flowers blooming there for a while, then snorted loudly.
“I get it. Abby’s work is always so difficult to understand. Ugh. “Stay back.”
“Please.”
“greatness!”
Uburka shook his fist. bang… … !! The flat floor and the sea that had been rolling on it exploded vertically.
When the rising stream stopped once again drenching the world with rain, the floor of my sanctuary was no longer level.
[A mountain range has appeared in your world.]
[Floor 84 is cleared!]
It was like that.
[Spring has come to your world.]
I brought spring for some flowers that loved the spring breeze and for others that were tired of eternal winter.
[Summer has come to your world.]
I created summer for a flower that called the boiling heat its home and for a flower that wanted to go to the sea with its family at least once on a summer day.
[Autumn has arrived in your world.]
For some flowers.
[Winter has come to your world.]
Just for some flowers.
[Congratulations! Seasons have appeared in your world!]
[Floor 85 is cleared!]
[In your world… … .]
I filled my world with only the things that each flower needs.
“Bloom.”
Flowers bloomed.
“Take it sweet, feel comfortable, and rest in the things you long for.”
I planted flowers.
“As much as you want, as long as you want.”
If you wish, forever.
but.
“When that time comes someday.”
When the day comes when the damaged petals heal again.
When the day comes when the hole in the leaf fills itself and the broken stem gains strength.
If the moment comes when you want to bloom once again with your own will.
“At last you will come out of the flowerpot.”
That’s how I tended the flower garden.
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