Chapter 54: The Great Library
"How much magic energy did this guy steal from us?" Piret was about to die of distress, "I'll go too!"
"You can't, you'll get the ghouls. Robinson refused, "And that cunning construct-puppet could appear at any moment, you want me to be killed?"
"I would have killed him if I had known!" Piret regretted, "I wonder if he got the news out of the dungeon?"
"Don't be kidding, he's a miscellaneous fish, and it's probably difficult to survive. Tony tossed the dagger in his hand with a disdainful expression, "Don't worry, I promise he won't survive today, but don't be lazy, hurry up and take the Mage Tower." ”
"Robinson is in a hurry than you!" Pire knew that Tony's selfishness was nothing more than taking advantage of the time to take a break and avoid the dirty work.
"Alright, the Constructed Puppets in the Alchemy Workshop, keep one for me!" Tony looked at Robinson, and when he saw the iron guys through the narrow ventilation window, he coveted them.
After the construction puppet is activated, it is the most obedient and practical bodyguard.
"No problem, you go and kill that person, and then lure some ghouls to the hotel, so that even if he collects enough magic stones, he can't go in and activate the portal!"
Robinson casually commanded, how could he bother with a miscellaneous fish, he had been thinking about how to break the magic lock on the iron door of the alchemy workshop.
Violent dismantling is not possible, otherwise the alarm circle above will be activated, and if it cannot be lifted within the limited time, the entire alchemy workshop will be destroyed by the magic mechanism.
As a magician, this mage tower has the greatest promotion for Robinson, and the few parchment scrolls he found before, although they are all some casually recorded experiences, have benefited him a lot, so he can't wait to enter the bedroom and study on the upper level to get the magic notes of the tower owner.
"Well, I'm leaving!" Tony went downstairs, he learned to stealth and assassination, so he could approach the target without alerting the undead monsters on the street to the greatest extent.
Unbeknownst to him, Downton, who had been targeted by an assassin, regained some strength and left the half-destroyed neighborhood.
The nearby ghouls were emptied, and if someone came, they would immediately see the problem, and they could search for themselves without danger, so Downton moved to the East Quarter, where he had never been.
Downton lowered his body and cautiously made his way through the rolling rooftops, dodging the ghouls roaming the streets.
Celest, who had taken the lead in her arms, floated up from a courtyard sixty meters away, lifted the luminite stone, and drew two semicircles.
Downton rushed over at once.
"There are only two ghouls, and the place is big enough that it looks like the owner of the yard is a minor nobleman in front of him. Homer projected the text, opening up the space of war.
Four servants passed through the bronze gate and appeared in the courtyard.
The two ghouls suddenly saw them and stared at them, but because they were of the same kind, they did not attack and looked away.
When Downton drew his ogre saber and jumped off the roof, the servants were already rushing over, and they were like chariots in heavy infantry armor, overturning the enemy without any suspense, and they could not get up.
Downton dropped his knife in his hand, and as a result, he lost the lives of two miscellaneous fish, and then walked to the bedroom.
Celence had already inspected the house, and Downton was too lazy to waste time, but was stopped by Homer.
"Go to the study, it's convenient for me to hide. "An elemental arrow sticks out of the tome to indicate the direction.
Pushing open the decaying wooden door, you will find a tall bookshelf filled with hundreds of books with cowhide covers.
Downton walked in, stomping on the wooden floor, creaking.
The white oak desk was covered in dust, and in addition to some yellowed parchment, there was a brown coffee mug with a spoon in it, and a solidified lump.
"It's all written 3,000 years ago!" to Downton, who liked to read, the bookshelf intrigued him, and his fingers ran over the spines of the books, wiping the dust off them and revealing the words.
Pulling out a copy of "Selected Poems of Vogts", Downton leaned against the bookshelf and began to flip through it.
"Hey, hey, there's no time for you to enjoy your reading time right now, and there's the guardian door god of the Great Library waiting for you to challenge!" Homer blocked the Demon Flame style on the anthology.
"I'm all injured, and the soul shield hasn't been repaired, so go now, aren't you looking for death?"
After the soul shield is blown up, it will be repaired naturally, but it will take at least three hours, not to mention that Downton is not in the best state right now.
"You can't die, the big library is a place to study, and it's not a gladiatorial arena for you to live and die, and it won't kill you. ”
A beam of light shot out from the tome, which unfolded into a Gothic-style door of light.
"May I go in?" said Celest, with pleading on her cheeks, clasped her hands together, and looked at Homer pitifully, and when she had received an affirmative reply, she immediately cheered and rushed in.
Downton stepped into it and found himself standing in a hall made entirely of Heavenly Star Stones, all of which were more expensive than the same weight of gold, a snow-white and holy atmosphere.
"How do I get there?" Celes asked, confused, about the Grimoi.
Stone staircases stretch from one to the next, and at the end of them are tall, majestic library gates, and countless!
These gates are carved with all kinds of reliefs, full of wisdom and divine atmosphere,
Downton looked around, as if he heard a melodious recitation.
"Don't look at it, with your level, you can enter this one in front of you!" Homer floated up, "Hurry up, don't waste time!"
Instead of levitating, Celes walked up the steps, a place where she felt too small and became restrained.
There were two hundred and sixty-seven steps, and Downton noticed that each step was engraved with a famous quote.
"It's so beautiful!"
Celes exclaimed at the door of wisdom and interrupted Downton's silent reading.
On the two huge, heavy, 88-meter-long stone piers, there are beautiful and beautiful flower reliefs, but the most eye-catching is a statue of a young man who is sitting on the grass, holding a huge book like a hungry reader.
Because there are twelve big words in that book that smell of truth!
"Books carry wisdom, and wisdom gives birth to civilization!"
At the urging of the Grimomy, Downton stepped into this door of wisdom.
It's still a hall so big that it seems to have no edge, but this time it's a little different.
Bounded by a white trace, on its right side is the reading area, where large desks and chairs are placed, and the sunlight pouring down through the glass windows is overflowing with a warm atmosphere.
On the left is the borrowing area, where huge shelves thirty meters high spread throughout the library, one is brown, and the other is full of books.
"Wow, that's incredible, how many books do you need to fill so many shelves?" Celes exclaimed, looking at the table in front of the borrowing area, with a sign that said Librarian, but there was no one.
"12,630,000 copies!"
The Grimoire reported the numbers and floated to the borrowing desk.
"Even an ancient elf with a long life can't read so many books in a lifetime, right?" Celes followed.
"Knowledge is limitless!" Homer rolled her eyes as she projected her expression.
In the entire Western Earth Continent for tens of thousands of years, the total number of borrowers who have been qualified and have read more than two-thirds of the books here does not exceed five.
"How can I borrow books here?" Downton's eyes lit up, like a traveler in the desert who had been hungry for a hundred years and suddenly came across an oasis and couldn't wait to read.
"If you pass the assessment, you can get a library card. The Grimoire looked at Sereth, "You have to do it too, get ready." ”
"Ahh
"Don't be in a hurry to be happy, "Necromancy Introductory Spell", "Hundred Changes and Derivatives of Elemental Laws", "Elementary Use of Magical Energy", these are your next courses, and then you will have to learn "The Three Laws of Magical Energy", "Elemental Theory Intensive Research", in a word, your future life, you have to say goodbye to words such as play and games. ”
The Magic Book is only a little enumerated, and if Celes wants to become a great magician who is famous in the Western Earth Continent, the books to be read are definitely a vast number.
Celes looked at Downton pitifully, longing for him to intercede for herself, the Banshee of Death was only a fifteen-year-old girl, still carefree and hating to study the most.
"Homer, don't teach Celes to be a nerd, lighten the amount of schoolwork!" Although he knew that the more powerful Celes was, the more he could help himself, but Downton didn't want her to lose her happiness, and her entire girlhood was filled with books.
"Do you still have time to care about others? If you want to become a great potions master, you must not put in much less effort than her. "If you're afraid, get out of here now, don't defile the Great Library, for those who can walk in here come with a pious heart and a thirst for knowledge." ”
"I'm talking about Serles!" Downton was not afraid, reading was a pleasure for him, not an abuse.
"You don't know how lucky you are, if you let those magic scholars know about this, they will cry and shout, willing to pay any price, just to read, but they are not qualified, they don't even have the opportunity to take a look, don't you cherish it?"
The Grimoon hates iron and steel.
Downton humbly accepted the teaching, and quickly diverted the topic, "Who collected these books?"
"You have no right to know. Homer refused, "But if you find books and knowledge that are not available in the Great Library, you will be rewarded with a great gift!"
"Gift?" Downton was puzzled.
"You don't think you can read all the books here, do you?" joked Homer, "You have to work hard to get a loan qualification, and at your level, it would be nice to get the minimum permission." ”