God's Work

As the supreme and only God, one and three as Creator, Incarnate, and Destroyer, Their work is full of delight.

Creating a world takes imagination and forbearance.

Imagination adds unknown possibilities and paths of development to a new world. Forbearance reminds Them to put up with all its flaws: be patient, then patient again! At least this world still has bright spots that keep Them from destroying it for now!

Destroying a world takes imagination and forbearance.

Imagination makes the methods of destruction varied and keeps them from becoming dull. Forbearance stirs Their enthusiasm for creating another world: destroy it, then! Every world destroyed is experience gained for making the next one better!

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"O supreme Lord, only God, almighty Father! Those foolish, cowardly mortals! They hate and fear me, afraid that You will unleash Your wrath upon me! How pathetic, how laughable! If You are watching this world..." The blasphemer spread his arms and stood atop the highest point of the city wall, facing the howling winter wind, the blood-red ash rising to the sky, and the endless fields of corpses. He laughed aloud. "Why don't You appear and crawl to my king's sword to die, making my name immortal!"

"Hetuli Situqiutudutuosi! You madman, you devil, you sinner who deserves to be hacked to pieces even after death!"

The most evil blasphemer the world had ever known, the tyrant who unified the continent by slaughtering the Church, the godslayer who killed the righteous gods of both the Light and the Dark in the form of a mere human, the hopeless soul who had lost his way on the road to immortality, once asked the bard who had been his close friend since they were nobodies: "Everyone on the continent knows I'm a blasphemer. The Church issued thirty-seven new bounties on me this year, yet you still come to meet me every year. Aren't you afraid the supreme Lord will reject you along with me?"

The bard, one of the supreme and only God's [Incarnations], replied, "Someone wants to use God, blaspheme against God, or even kill God. Why assume God would take offense? Don't judge the Creator by the standards of Their creations. Have a little confidence, blasphemer. God favors you."

Compared to the same old believers who only know how to sing Their praises, an unexpected rebel is far more entertaining and worth a little attention.

So Their favorite work is, after all, the work They do while incarnate.

Every time the world surprises and delights Them, They put off its destruction.

Again and again.

[Reader's Guide]

1. Their nature is an inscrutable, chaotic whole. Ordinary humans are strictly forbidden from speculating about Their worldview.

2. There is at least one world-ending event in the story. At least one world exists at any given time. The story spans an immense stretch of time and features countless characters.

3. The one-sided stories of blasphemers, godslayers, destroyers, and fanatics with Them, and the subtle entanglements between Them and Their [Incarnations] (of which there are several), explore life, ideals, faith, and the many emotions of humanity. This is not literature, no matter how you look at it.

4. Because of "Western Name Memory Disorder" (which the author mainly suffers from), characters' real names and invented terms will be highly memorable, and shortened names and nicknames will be used whenever the story allows. Thank you.

[The premise is unchanged. The blurb needs revision. Screenshot dated 2022-11-25.]

Premise: Let the limited life shine with infinite brilliance.