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After perusing the outer bookshelves, Clay found his way towards the maze of bookshelves and cubicles a mere 15 feet from the walls.
Passing the first shelf Clay found that a mysterious force started to bear down on him very lightly. The force's intensity increased with Clay's each step by a marginal amount. By the time Clay had walked forty feet in, it felt like he had ten pounds strapped to his back ever pushing down on him.
Scanning the books to his left and right, Clay found them to all be simple books on how to be a warrior, mage, or some other vague profession. Clay could only count four books that where more specific with one of them being 'common creatures and their counters by Jathi' and such books where sparse still.
With steady steps Clay approached a clear difference in bookshelf quality, the wood was deeper and simple carvings ran along its edges. passing into these bookshelves the weight on Clays back doubled but didn't increase any further after a few steps. Once more checking the books titles, many books still had simple titles but more often then not they where about something other then the basics of their profession. The only exception being books on summoning, or other more specific classes like paladins and archers.
Not wanting to stay longer as he was starting to feel the weight, Clay forged forward passing to more areas of bookshelves, with each area more intricate then the last.
Coming upon a complete change in environment Clay stopped to take in and observe the change. The bookshelves opened up and many other lanes converged, the weight on his back was taken off and a warm fire lit a small half-circle of fine wooden chairs.
After resting for a few minutes and seeing multiple people come and go, Clay stood upon his feet and continued only to be met with eighty pounds upon his back. Almost falling over Clay struggled to stay up, his back arching under the push of the library; struggling to read the spines of the surrounding books, which stood on mahogany shelves with glowing silver runes, Clay Reached for a book that read 'A compendium of plants and how to grow them.' Clay barely grabbed it before being ejected back to the circle of wooden chairs due to hitting the floor.
Opening the yellowing pages of the book Clay found pages filled with fancy letters he couldn't read and complex diagrams starting at dome topped structures and eventually detailing the inside of a myriad of plants. knowing that the book held considerable knowledge Clay steeled himself to learn this foreign language.
Going back out to the outer circle after a quick recovery, Clay merely thought about books on language's before his surroundings warped and sped by before settling on a bookshelf full of common languages.
Finding a book that had the fancy letters on its cover Clay took it out of the shelf before sitting down an immersing himself in the pages. Mere minutes had passed before Clay realized that what he had seen was cursive; and that it was just a fancy way of writing universal English.
Opening both books to their first page, Clay started to cross reference the compendium of cursive with the 'A compendium of plants and how to grow them.' Eventually getting the hang of cursive and only taking half an hour to read the front page.
'so they are literally just fancy letters ' thinking on his new knowledge Clay found cursive redundant and serving no purpose, but having to learn it either way he delved into the book on cursive thinking it would be more effective to just learn it then to cross-reference all the time.
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Back at a cozy and traditional eastern style home; Nirin had been attempting to raise a fully functional corpse without either whole limbs not working or it just falling apart, most attempts failing in the process.
Sitting on a nearby rock, Mizuki covers her mouth before letting out a light giggle, "let you mana flow through you better silly. You can't do anything with such unstable mana control." Before casting a spell of her own to demonstrate.
"thats easy for you too say miss I-have-an-education; you think I have that kind of experience with mana? Until yesterday I was still trying to figure out how to get a meal!" her voice was slowly gaining heat until by the end Nirin was yelling at Mizuki. She felt that the playful laughter that was typical behavior of Fox people of all ages, was Mizukis way of insulting her intelligence.
not knowing what she did to upset Nirin, Mizuki simply sat atop the sturdy rock in silence .
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Having spent what felt like many hours in the library, Clay decided to leave. Heading back to the front desk by thinking about it, his vision warped before finding himself before the pretty receptionist, with now different boteu , again.
Recognizing Clay, the receptionist greet him and even offered to help."sir have you found what you want? If not I would be glad to help!"
"yes I have found what I needed, I can leave with the books right?"
"no sir I'm afraid not."
"I just have to bring them back no?""
"due to some previous incidents there is now only one way to bring books out of the library. One must have a Library ID. You can get one after a simple test"
hearing that taking the books out was still on the table, Clay immediately showed interest. "And may I please take this test now?"
"yes you can sir," the elf said in a slightly strained voice as she pulled a crystal orb from beneath the table"you just need to put your hand on hear."
following the instructions without hesitation a prickly sensation invaded Clays senses before growing till he was about to retract his hand then systematically receding back to the crystal ball.
smiling like she had just seen a rainbow of a unicorn, the elf receptionist told Clay of all his new benefits as a member of the tower.
Some of these benefits Clay planned to use immediately!
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hello readers! Webnovel add the ability to bold text, italicize, and add annotations. I will try to provide them when useful!
Hope you all have an amazing time! Would love some power stone, not that I have been posting many chapters.