A Splash of ink

Chapter 90- Only scholars get to burn the world! (X-Tale)

Sirius and Vega are frustrated. Jammy is having a wonderful time with the Voices. While Star shows off his latest trick!

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X-Tale

"..this book is useless. I swear half of it has words i don't understand and the other half is words so misspelled i'm surprised it was ever published

Vega scowled in irritation and grew the useless book behind him to join the rest of the slowly growing pile, loudly complaining about the subpar books available. The library had seemed so promising at first but it seemed it was only so large due to any dimwit being allowed to publish a book without proofreading.

"At least yours has some readable words. Mine just says 'Temmie'..."

Sirius dryly muttered, squinting at the words as if hoping they would make sense with it feeling almost sacrilege to throw the book to the likely future bonfire. He adored books but he would make an exception to these books which looked more like a toddler wrote it.

His eye twitched as he opened another book and it was simply the number 4 written on every single page. That was it, just the number written again and again like some obsessed fanatic with the numbers looking like they were lovingly drawn.

"How did we get through a whole row of books and yet we haven't found a single bit of useful information?!

He nearly screamed as his composure crumbled when he got a book which seemed to be written in dog. He wasnt sure how that was possible or why anyone would do that and was feeling more normal the longer those went in.

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"Heh, these monsters truly can't understand the classics. It took XGaster weeks to translate what that puppy was saying and yet now they throw away the work like its trash"

"Isnt it great?! This is going to drive the pastry thief insane! I knew it was a good idea to lead them all here"

"Quick, Jammy! Save the book about how to end the world! It has a great cake recipe at the end and i can never remember it"

"..why did we insist on writing that again?"

"We have the combined memory of a half dead gold fish. Why wouldn't we write that cake recipe?!"

"Guys, i just had a thought. Maybe if we wanted more people to actually use the book we should have had it written in English"

"No! Only idiots don't understand the true complexity of our super secret code! If you want to destroy reality then you need to be able to read dog! Whats the fun otherwise?! We don't want someone dull destroying everything"

Jammy quietly laughed as the voices argued on the pros and cons of their little 'death book', grabbing it from his siblings pile with the number '4' swirling and shifting in his gaze to form a very detailed explanation of the fabric of reality.

It was a shame that he couldn't find the Gaster of this place but the books were just as good, his siblings truly getting the good shelf with the astrophysics one, written by a rare Temmie who was in that field, a game changer.

This would help him with his portals later on, his current ones a tad unstable and the book on how to create a black hole sounded like a fascinating experiment to try when he had some free time.