This was a book written by the 'Recorder of Fear'.
The 'Recorders of Fear' – the very first humans to encounter the Outer Gods, and the writers who also spread the word on their existences.
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I couldn't help but feel my anticipation grow after seeing the book's title. To think, this would be a story regarding the 'Secretive Plotter' and the 'Most Ancient Dream'.
The Plotter often brought up this 'Most Ancient Dream', so I hoped that this could be an important opportunity to learn more about that 'thing'.
I didn't even notice that [999] had disappeared by then, all my being focused on reading this book.
Exactly eight hours later, I closed the book's cover, my face one of pure stupefaction.
“This….”
I knew of a perfect expression to describe this sort of book.
“It's even more boring than 'Ways of Survival'….”
I had no idea who wrote it, but if this book got published in the various platforms of the 21st century, then I was sure of it tanking as badly as the 'Ways of Survival'.
Not only was it boring, it was also quite a hard read, too.
“….Just what on earth was it even talking about?”
However, there was this one thing that I did understand. Which was, there were five great 'Outer Gods' in the expansive [Great Hole].
⸢The 'Living Flame' that rises up from the east.⸥
⸢The 'Master of the Sunken Island', the calamity of the world in the west.⸥
⸢The 'Monarch of the Great Abyss', the ruler of the northern universe.⸥
⸢The 'King of Silver Heart', the ruler of the interstellar space in the south.⸥
⸢And finally, the 'Great Plotter' that crawls from the place of nothing.⸥
“….This set-up is even cooler than the Ways of Survival.”
In the context of the things so far, this 'Great Plotter' moniker seemed to signify the 'Secretive Plotter'. Actually, there were several interesting parts among the texts related to the Plotter himself.
⸢A few Recorders of Fear who had encountered the 'Great Plotter' came to learn that he was searching for the 'Most Ancient Dream'…. (Omitted)…. Those lucky Recorders were able to ask the Great Plotter about the identity of the 'Most Ancient Dream'.⸥
⸢[It is the beginning of this universe and the master of the gigantic cogwheel. My oldest mortal enemy and my parent. And the one who decides the end of everything.]⸥
⸢The few Recorders of Fear managed to see the Great Plotter's expression the moment those words were spoken, and they fainted right away. After waking up, they could no longer remember who they were anymore.⸥
….Records written by a bunch of people who couldn't even remember themselves? Was that why the author of this book was simply stated as a 'Recorder of Fear', instead?
I wanted to read more about either the 'Great Plotter' or the 'Most Ancient Dream', but the majority of the book didn't contain records of those two, but rather, a collection of boring anecdotes related to the general overview of the 'Outer Gods', instead.
Even the plot development was all over the place.
Quite often, a story would end abruptly without warning just as it was getting interesting, or the sequence of events would be jumbled up even within the anecdote itself and made it utterly impossible to make heads or tails of it.
I wasn't just talking about one story here, but every single one of them, so I just couldn't get immersed within the book at all.
It was a mini [Heaven Shaking Sword], visible under the faint sunlight. I raised my head to find the kkoma Yu Jung-Hyeok number [999] glaring at me.
“You bastard, what have you done?”
Chapter end
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