The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage's Carefree Life in Another World: Volume 5 [Parts 1 to 10] by Kotobuki Yasukiyo

Author:Kotobuki Yasukiyo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, magic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, isekai, reincarnation, nobility, adult protagonist, OP protagonist, gamer protagonist
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

Chapter 7: The Old Guy Does Some Research

In the beginning, there was nothing.

An infinity passed, and a god appeared in the empty universe.

The god thrust its staff into the dark abyss, creating light.

Within the light, fire was created. Then the god thrust its sword into the fire, creating earth.

The earth was enveloped by fire. But the god cast writings into the fire, and water was created.

The water wet the earth, and the god held a shield against the water, creating air. And so did the world come to be.

The god placed the world onto a set of scales, and from there arose the laws of nature.

With time, the world became home to a great many life-forms, and they lived in paradise.

Eventually, some of the life-forms in that paradise gained intelligence. Those intelligent creatures moved throughout the land, spreading the seeds of life.

With time, the creatures changed, and formed settlements. As those settlements united with each other, they formed countries that blanketed the world.

Then came greed, and war, and hatred, all spreading throughout the land.

The hatred formed a cycle, and the cycle would never end.

With the cycle came a disaster that took hold of the entire world.

The disaster was a great war, and it marked the end times. None were victorious.

Blood dyed the land red, and bodies piled up into mountains, leaving nothing but silent ruins.

Eventually, all life had vanished, earning the disgust of the great ones above...

* * *

And so on and so forth.

Zelos sighed at the stereotypical religious tale as he closed the book on the mythology of the world’s different peoples.

All of the books on the shelves here were copies, and if you included every different version that had been rewritten for religious reasons, there was an immense number to get through.

However fast Zelos was at reading, there was no way he could finish researching all of that in just one day.

And so, for today—the second day of his research at the great library—he’d asked a librarian to recommend some texts that met his criteria, picked out a number of them, and gotten lost in flipping through their pages.

In other words, he’d already blown past his initial plans by a day, and now he was regretting not having set aside a few more days to stay at the library.

“Hmm... A lot of these creation myths kind of sound the same as each other, don’t they? They all eventually lead to war between the different species—and in the end, the entire world is destroyed by one final conflict. Can’t one of these stories have a twist for once? Or does everyone writing this sort of thing just naturally think of the same developments?”

“Uh... What are you even expecting, though?” Iris asked. “It’s the end of the world!”

“Oh, no; it’s not like I have any particular requests for the end of the world. I’ll be dead by then anyway, so thinking about it won’t really do me any good. I’m more worried about how I’ll pay for my next meal. Or.

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