Fantasy Library.

Chapter 1 "Administrator"

"Well……"

The accidental murmurs in dreams echoed in the silent space.

Aize just felt as if he had returned to the womb, his whole body as if soaked in warm water, his body and mind relaxed.

Just as Aize was about to immerse himself in this comfort and fall into a deep sleep from which he did not want to wake up, a thought suddenly came to him.

[The person who meets the selected target has been selected and successfully accepted into the library. 】

【You have become the library administrator. 】

This is a very pure thought.

Like a voice ringing directly in his mind, this thought appeared suddenly and woke Aize from his unconscious state.

"Wow!"

As Aize stood up subconsciously, a sound of water rose up around him.

It was not until then that Aize realized that he was actually soaking in the water.

The strange thing is that although soaked in water, Aize's clothes were not wet at all, and even his hair and body were fresh and not wet at all.

"W-what's going on?"

Aize looked confused.

"Crash..."

The sound of water was still echoing, clearly reaching his ears, forcing Aize to temporarily put aside his confusion and doubts and look around.

Looking around, Aize couldn't help but be attracted by the surrounding environment.

Then, a very spacious space came into Aize's sight.

The overall space is cylindrical, with a diameter of at least several hundred meters and a height that is not much less, but it does not appear empty at all, but instead has a just right feeling.

The reason for this is that there are numerous bookshelves arranged in a specific way in various locations in this place.

Some of the bookshelves are arranged on the ground, while others are stacked up along the cylindrical walls, with books neatly placed inside, creating a mysterious, quiet and intellectual atmosphere.

In addition, the floor is covered with crimson carpets, and there are corridors extending on the walls and in the air. The ceiling is open, and there is a bright starry sky outside, with stars twinkling and blooming in it, which looks extremely beautiful.

Aize was in the very center of the place, in an area surrounded by a wooden fence and sinking downwards.

This place seems to be arranged as a leisure area. There is not only a large fountain, but also a pavilion and lawn, and even a rocking bed made of flower vines. It looks like a paradise in a fairy tale.

Aize was in the fountain, soaking in the crystal clear water. Water splashed continuously from the center of the fountain, hitting Aize's body, but still did not wet him, as if all this was just an illusion.

"Where is this place?"

After being attracted by the beautiful scenery for most of the day, Aize finally came to his senses and began to pay attention to this issue.

Then--

"Om-"

The previous thought came again.

Aize was immediately enveloped by this thought and closed his eyes involuntarily.

A few minutes later, when Aize opened his eyes again, there was no more confusion in his eyes, only realization and relief.

"Fantasy Library... So I came to such a magical place?"

This is a space independent of the rest of the world, formed by the emotions and spirits of people's fantasies, curiosity, longing, yearning, regret, and remorse about other worlds.

It does not exist anywhere, yet it connects reality and fantasy.

Every book here is a different world imagined by others.

Every page in these books is a life made up of someone else's fantasy.

The Fantasy Library collects these lives and also these fantasies, storing them here and placing them on the bookshelves.

This is the function of the Fantasy Library, to collect fantasies, make them into books, turn the imaginary world into reality, and create countless diverse and wonderful universes and dimensions.

However, there is a problem here.

"If you want to make the fantasy world become real, you need to experience real life in it." "The life imagined by others is ultimately illusory. If there are no real people to experience it, fantasy will only be fantasy and will never become reality."

"So, from the moment the Fantasy Library was formed, it was destined that someone would become its administrator, to live and experience the fantasy world according to those fantasy lives."

So, Aize was chosen.

He became the first administrator of the Fantasy Library.

“…Have I found my real job?”

Before coming here, Aize was a clerk in a bookstore.

His family was not a happy one. His parents divorced when he was young, and his grandparents raised him with great difficulty. But after he went to college and became independent, they passed away one after another.

His parents had each started their own new families. He felt uncomfortable wherever he went and was the least popular person. So he simply worked part-time while studying, and after getting a diploma that was neither high nor low enough, he became an unemployed college graduate. Later, he found a bookstore and applied for a job as a clerk, and only then did he feel a little settled.

Aize remembered that he was still sorting out the new books in the store last night. After finishing, it was too late, so he lay down and fell asleep in the library in the store.

Who would have thought that when I woke up, I would be chosen by the Fantasy Library and become the administrator here.

"That's fine."

After walking out of the fountain, Aize, who was still wet, looked up at the starry sky outside the open-air dome, with the light of the stars reflected in his eyes.

"Since reality is not satisfactory, just throw it away."

"From today on, I am the administrator of the Fantasy Library."

"It must be exciting to travel through countless fantasy worlds and experience real life, right?"

After years of independent living, Aize has developed a decent ability to adapt and accept.

Therefore, he quickly adapted to and accepted his identity, and began to figure out what to do and how to act.

"Om-"

At this time, the invisible thought came for the third time.

Aize, who has received a certain degree of knowledge and understood the nature of the Fantasy Library, knows that this thought is actually the Fantasy Library itself.

The Fantasy Library has no will, nor intelligence or emotion. It is like the rules themselves. It will only send down invisible power when the administrator needs it, and instill the necessary knowledge into the other party.

The way it manifested was like a sound ringing directly in his mind. In fact, Aize did not hear any sound, and no words appeared in his mind. He just imagined that when the power of the library descended, he would accept this power in a form that he could accept.

The same is true now...

【You have become the library administrator. 】

[As an administrator, you can receive a gift from the library and gain a power that best suits you.]

[When the administrator completes the life experience, based on the wonderfulness of the life experience and the degree of authenticity of the world, the library will pay the administrator additional compensation in accordance with the power of this gift. ]

[Begin to bestow power...]

In an instant, the entire fantasy library changed.

The ground was emitting faint light, and the books on the bookshelves were emitting faint or bright lights one after another. Even the starry sky outside the open-air dome was blooming with starlight, and one star after another became extremely bright and dazzling.

Bathed in this light, Aize only felt something expanding inside his body.

Before long, the expanding feeling spread throughout his body and actually formed a page of a book, flying out of his body.

"This is……?"

Aize stared at the scene in a daze.

As he watched, the pages floating in front of him began to absorb the light emanating from the entire fantasy library and burned.

After the pages of the book were completely burned, gold-stamped lines formed in the air.

The gold-plated lines connected, intersected, and outlined each other, finally forming an extremely complex and mysterious geometric pattern, which flew towards Aize and sank into his body.

At this moment, Aize almost instinctively knew what he had obtained...

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(End of this chapter)