there was a sharp bang, and the sphere began to increase in size many times over.
– Derek, the quasar is going into your black hole! What are you doing? Is it possible to supply so much light in three-dimensional space! I hope no one from management heard this explosion. Cool the sphere immediately, otherwise it will expand until it bursts!
– Il, but I don’t know how to stop the expansion!
– So you didn’t read the instructions at all? Separate the light from the darkness immediately!
Derek’s myriad tentacles scattered each of the photons away from the hot area.
– Well, look what you did! Derek, think before you act. Now photons will not be able to move as fast as they please. Now your creations will be connected to their own planet, like dogs on a leash.
– Il, excuse me, I didn’t do it on purpose!
– You have to think! I hope it didn’t turn out as bad as Master Lucius Sat-1.
¬– What’s wrong with him? – Derek was surprised. – He opened his own company, now he is the owner of his own Corporation.
– It’s not true that in the universe he developed, the temperature is so high that elements heavier than sulfur cannot be synthesized. Nine dimensions of endlessly raging flames and the stench of sulfur dioxide. Many Creators send their guilty people to him for re-education. Okay, quickly separate the water from the land, and we’ll rest. Just this time, do everything according to the instructions!
***
– It’s true, she’s a cutie! – Derek admired the created creature.
– A neutrino in each limb! Derek, just look at this abomination! What have you done! The instructions clearly say: in your own image and likeness. And you created this creature with four tentacles instead of the required five thousand, and you call it a likeness?
– It happened. But they won’t know what I look like! Nobody will know!
Il sighed heavily. Its tentacles swayed nervously.
¬– How will your creature bud? How will she create her own kind?
– Yes, Il, I didn’t think about that. Let’s help it bud for the first time, for example, take a rib, and then they’ll figure it out on their own?
***
A multidimensional series to the beat of rustling wings. Derek approaches each cherub with a menacing look.
– Forget what you were taught at the Academy. This is your first serious work. From now on, you are not students, but real moderators of reality. The demiurge team and I will be developing new additions. Your task is simple: view add-ons and enable them at the right time. Our rivals from the Master Sata corporation may try to introduce a malicious reality. For example, they can incite our creations to quarrel among themselves. Or they may try to introduce monsters that feed on the blood of people, or turn into octopuses during high tide, or you never know what these evil trolls are capable of. You must ensure that the sun rises in the morning and that your right sock is always next to your left. And if the trolls send you some kind of incorrect reality, then throw it away mercilessly!
– For example, if the sandwich falls butter side down?
– Yes, Stefan, such things will not be needed in our universe.
***
Derek increasingly disappeared into his office, carefully watching how his creations developed. They learned to dig up the ground and make a fire. They caught fish and drove away large animals with burning branches. But most importantly, they loved each other.
And Il became darker every day.
– Again you are babysitting your monsters! Let the moderators monitor them. And you and I, let’s think about how to unwind 7 unfinished dimensions.
– I wonder what it’s like not to bud, but to give birth to a child to two parents at the same time? They have so few tentacles, but so much desire to hold each other.
– They have love, but there is no eternity ahead. Although we are running out of time. If we do not return all dimensions to order on time, then your creations will never be able to move into the seraphim phase, and then you will never give birth to a single demiurge. Maybe it’s for the better? Imagine a demiurge with four tentacles! Sin, and nothing more! I have to confess something to you. Sorry, Derek, but I told Septon Iris-1 everything. He will now bring you to your senses and will not allow you to ruin the universe we created.
– But unraveling reality will destroy my creations!
– Let’s create new ones, ten-dimensional, healthy, with all the necessary tentacles! I’ve already taken care of everything. I picked one of the Fruits of Knowledge and gave it to your man. You know what they do to the lower ones who encroach on the Fruit?
Derek hit Il’s cheek with a dozen tentacles.
– You have always envied me, Il! Why did you act so meanly? I fell in love with these kids. I have never loved so much before. And you’re trying to kill them.
«You’re an upstart, Derek.» Your dad promoted you up the career ladder immediately after his elevation to demiurge. But I achieved everything with my own labor, and now I’m forced to work part-time as your assistant, watching you raise monsters!
– I will not allow my first universe to be destroyed! I will escape from Eden, and hide my people away from the eyes of any of the titans.
Before Il had time to come to his senses, Derek disappeared into the infinity of space.
Septon Iris-1 appeared in the office.
– Septon, if you had appeared a couple of moments ago, you could have captured this upstart! But it’s not too late to catch up with him!
– Let him run away. We won’t chase him.
– But Master Septon! He stole the universe!
¬– Il Zamar-8. Remember who you’re talking to!
– Sorry, Master!
– Or, demiurges as talented as Derek have not been born in the last few dozen cycles. The last one equal to him in talent was me. When I caused trouble in my own universe, I also expected my pets to be expelled and destroyed. I also had a good friend. He then handed me over to his mentor, and for a century now he has been trying to prove that his inferno universe is better than my creation. Every Creator in history had such a friend.
By the way, your father is also one of my offspring.
It seems to you that Derek made a mistake, did not work according to the instructions, created something wrong. But he created love, and this cannot be a mistake.
***
Eli also escaped from Eden. He continued to do all sorts of intrigues in the world created by Derek. But reality moderators constantly correct his mischief. Immortals have their own quirks, what else can
