All 11 dimensions are used, one of them is for time, and 10 for space. Who will unravel the tangle?
– And if you are entrusted with creating a 26-dimensional world, will you also reel in the excess?
– Il, don’t pick on words. I will hand over the project, and then after receiving the position I will finalize the remaining measurements.
– Derek, do you have any idea how precisely you need to adjust all the parameters so that your 3 dimensions do not crumble into dust from any blow of the cosmic wind?
– Yes, I’m unlikely to become a watchmaker who creates the world and then forgets about it until I finish the Creation.
– Can you imagine how much the demiurges will have to pay if they turn out to be fools and even agree to work in such a short time?
– Don’t be a pessimist, Il, buddy! Of course, the reserves of karma in my vaults are not that large, but we will definitely come up with something.
¬—Derek, what can we come up with? – Il’s middle limbs disappeared into one of the higher dimensions.
– Il, don’t be angry! Here, I came up with it! We don’t have to hire demiurges, do we? Let’s hire someone from the lower ones, for example, cherubim or seraphim. They will receive their first entry in the work book and work experience before graduating from the Academy. And they won’t have to pay a lot of karma.
– And what can they do? They still don’t know how to do much! All they can do is kick their wings while no one is looking and drink wormwood. Workers for me too.
– This is how we will do everything. And they will be ordinary moderators. They will make sure that the weak interaction does not change its constant, and that the seven dimensions do not unwind and are invisible to the locals.
«Oh, Derek, it’s always because of you that we end up in a complete black hole!»
– Don’t swear like that! True, this is the last time!
– Where are you going?
– Il, you are a true friend! I never doubted you. We will definitely make it through.
– Go to the quasar!
***
Il carefully re-read every instruction in the book, and Derek improvised, blowing the bubble of a new universe.
– Yes, sir! We need to add light,» Derek said.
– Wait a minute! You need to carefully calculate everything.
– Il, buddy, what’s there to calculate! We are running out of time, it’s painful to rely on calculations.
The sphere suddenly became too hot, and Derek dropped it from his paws. And then 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