Is the person you sculpt as cute as me?

But Yu Man didn't get much useful information from the conversation just now.

This shadow should have some kind of job, and from time to time, other beings would come and do the same work as it. In addition, its pen might be able to produce some special effects.

So the conversation revolves around this...

"Are you alone here working on 'that thing' right now? It must be very tiring."

"Alas, yes, that incident lasted for a long, long time... so long that even until my death, my soul has been imprisoned there, for a never-ending... long time." The shadow sighed, looking extremely desolate.

"——What was that thing?" Xiaolu asked through the friend channel.

"—Don't worry, I don't know what this riddle man is talking about, but the riddle will do."

After typing, Yu Man sighed with empathy: "Hey, friend, how are you progressing?"

Shadow was silent for a few seconds, then shook his head. "I don't know... those words are endless, piling up like a mountain, even more vast and boundless than time itself. No matter how hard I work, it feels impossible to finish."

Its tone seemed faded, devoid of emotion.

Then, it said—

"Since you're not here to work with me...are you here to review the results?" This time, its tone became nervous.

"Exactly. I'll come and inspect it."

Yu Man nodded and continued speaking without blushing or beating her heart.

"I know you've been working hard, and I won't make things difficult for you. Just give me a verbal report first and go through the process."

"Really..." Shadow froze in disbelief.

The deer also had a playful look on his face, thinking it was his turn, and he started to chop again...

Then--

Shadow laughed.

It seemed like he was sneering at Yu Man's lies, and also like he was mocking his own work.

After the laughter, there was silence for a few seconds.

It is like a person drowning in a lake, grabbing a rope and trying to escape upwards.

In this tone, Shadow simply, refreshingly, and ironically—

"it is good."

accepted.

The shadow stood up from where it was sitting.

Then, he took a step towards the empty space, as if he was going to walk down the stairs, or as if he was going to jump off the building to commit suicide.

But strangely, there was a feather pen in its hand.

Shadow swung the pen.

The tip of the pen, with a miraculous dexterity, wrote a word in Old World.

"wake up"

The strokes that make up the words are extremely heavy and carry a powerful magic.

The words dissolved into the air and then became reality.

"--boom."

The entire Silver Court ruins were awakened by this word.

Vast amounts of dust suddenly rose from the ground, but they were actually moving back in time.

For they were so fallen to the earth, so destroyed by time.

Those ruins, every brick, every rubble, every speck of dust—

They reconstruct the mere word that was written.

But what appeared first was merely the staircase that supported the shadow's foot as it landed.

With this as the origin, white marble bricks are laid one by one, spiraling and winding downwards.

And the shadow itself is also recreated by this word.

Starting from the soul that has erased its appearance, and then the dust gathers and builds up the bones that once existed.

Flowers once grew on that human skeleton.

But as if time had gone back, the flower returned to its bud, became a seed, and then disappeared.

The old and dusty skeleton was completely renewed, followed by the tendons and flesh, blood and skin.

They return from death to aging, and from aging to youth.

The final frame is a woman.

Mature, dignified, graceful...but that's what anyone would call her.

"Princess."

Wearing a silver crown and golden hair.

Lace-trimmed and fluffy long skirt, and extremely comfortable high heels.

This silver courtyard, and the vast building complex that had been awakened—were they actually just her palace and courtyard...?

Just as Yu Man was thinking this——

"Then, follow me, guests."

The princess who was once a shadow wrote these words in the air.

Afterwards, everything in this world obeyed her orders.

The road to Yinting quickly disappeared under Yuman and Xiaolu's feet.

Then came the stairs, the threshold... and the door.

They didn't move a step, but they had walked a long enough distance, following the princess and arriving in front of the door.

The door is made of pure silver, without a speck of dust.

But the silver door, which looked extremely heavy, was only gently pushed open by the princess.

"As you can see—"

That's a library.

There was no light, only endless stretches of bookshelves.

Yu Man and Xiao Lu widened their eyes, because this place felt more spacious than the main city... No, it was even more vast than the world they saw from the top of the World Tree.

Countless bookshelves, countless books.

There are also a vast number of books piled up on the infinitely extending wooden floor.

Xiaolu was thinking, "Won't the video memory and internal memory explode? How does the equipment achieve this scene?"

Yu Man forced himself to suppress the amazement in his heart, pretending to be an inspector, and began to stroll in the library, even touching the books and opening them to read.

She discovered that there was a table hidden in the book.

It was filled with writing utensils and the chairs were incredibly worn.

When Yu Man got closer, he found that the work on the table was not writing, but copying.

It seems that this is her job.

The whole thing is in Old World, an old book crammed with words.

A brand new scroll had just begun copying, with large areas of text left blank, with only the opening paragraph copied.

Yu Man took a quick look at the book and found the wording surprisingly simple.

Every few paragraphs, she recognized a few words.

From what I read...it seems to be telling a story about the destruction of a country, but the tone doesn't sound like history, it's not that serious.

Yu Man half-jokingly asked the princess, "Are all the books in this library there for you to copy?"

"Something's wrong." The princess shook her head.

That’s right, not that exaggerated…

The princess corrected herself, "To be precise, it's the books that haven't been copied yet. The ones that have been copied have already been placed at the delivery area."

Deathly silence fell between Yuman and Xiaolu's lips and tongues.

They didn't have the courage to look at the vastness of the library.

Even Yu Man's eyes, which were blessed with skills, could not see where it ended.

I dare not imagine how much time this job will take.

"Shall we begin the inspection?" asked the princess.

"Okay... take me to where the delivery is."

Yu Man gritted his teeth and thought about taking a screenshot as a souvenir to see the results of the NPC's hard work.

Even if the inspection fails, the worst result will be that the deer will start to chop it down...

The Princess was delighted to begin the inspection, and so she led them out of the Silver Gate again.

She closed the silver door and then stood still.

Just a second later——

"Please, here is the copied library."

She opened the silver door.

Just like that, Yu Man and Xiao Lu followed the princess and stepped into the place they had just been to.

There are still endless and vast bookshelves and the books filling them.

"Huh?" Yu Man couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise.

"What's wrong, Acceptor?" asked the princess.

"...Uh, wait, let me check it myself."

Yu Man walked towards the place in his memory... There was indeed a table hidden in the pile of books, which was used for copying.

On it lay… the same book about the nation's ruin and demise. The copying progress was the same, except for the opening paragraph…

Even the slight warmth left by touching the paper just now seemed to still be there.

Yu Man felt her scalp tingle, and she mustered up the courage to ask, "...Excuse me, are the books here for those who haven't started copying yet...or are they for the books that have already been copied?"

"Hmm? Of course it's the copied book, so I brought you here for inspection."

Yu Man picked up one of the books and said to her, "Take us back to where we were before, where we kept the books we hadn't started copying yet."

"it is good."

Before leaving Yinmen, Yu Man placed the book at the door and dropped a snowflake on it.

Then he came out and watched the princess close the silver door - and then open it again.

"The books that have not yet been copied are all placed here." said the princess tiredly.

Yu Man and Xiaolu looked down at the book with snowflakes falling on it - it was lying quietly.

……

As an inspector, Yu Man is a meticulous person.

She discovered that the books piled up like mountains and as vast as the sea were actually of very similar thickness.

So, Yu Man suppressed the fear in his heart and picked out a few books at random.

——They are all the same story, with the same content... As expected, they are all stories about the destruction of a country.

"Excuse me! At the beginning, is there only one book you want to copy?" Xiaolu couldn't help it anymore, she participated in the copy strategy.

"...It's been too long, I can't remember it...but I should...yes, because the first time I worked was very painful, I remember it quite clearly." The princess' eyes were blurred and she hesitated.

"Excuse me, for this second assignment, are you going to copy two books?"