The third day of the Month of Looming Frost, Apprentice Town Eight.
Angor woke up early today. He cleaned himself up and put on a well-tailored black gentleman suit.
In the mirror, the young boy quickly turned into an elegant noble. He had a tall nose, thin lips, blue eyes as deep as the ocean, and short blond hair that was slightly messy but had a unique charm to it. Based on the current standards of beauty, Angor was definitely the most handsome boy in the world. He could already attract people's attention when he did not dress up. When he paid attention to his appearance, he became even more handsome.
"I feel like I'm missing something." If someone else saw him, they would think that he looked perfect. His temperament, outfit, and appearance were all top-notch. Angor, however, was not satisfied.
Chirping noises came from outside the floor-to-ceiling window. Angor walked over and opened the window. Fresh air flowed into the room. Along with the fresh air came a seabird wearing the same black gentleman suit. It was Toby.
Toby circled around Angor's room and landed on Angor's head like it had done it before.
Just like that, one big and one small faced each other in the mirror.
The same clothes, the same dumbfounded expression, and the same posture …
"I know what I'm missing. I'm missing a hat!" Angor looked at Toby's tiny body in the mirror and recalled the fear he felt when Toby controlled his hair on the cloud whale.
There was a market in the town, and there were also peddlers in the nearby villages. Angor quickly found a hat stall and bought a pure black hat with an oval brim.
With Toby on his head, Angor hurried back home.
Angor attracted a lot of attention on his way back. His appearance, his clothes, and Toby's adorable figure attracted a lot of attention. But only ordinary people noticed him. Angor did not see any apprentices. They were probably all hiding in their basements doing experiments and rarely came out.
After removing Toby from his hair, Angor put on the black top hat, which made him look even more elegant. With the dark red bow tie and white silk lining, Angor looked even more handsome and mysterious.
Today, he was going to meet someone.
As a sign of respect, Angor wanted to show his best appearance when he met the man.
Flora also told him, "He's a wise old man, but he's a bit rigid. He likes people who follow the rules. If you're going to meet him, remember to dress up formally. "
Even if Flora didn't tell him that, Angor would discipline himself anyway. He didn't want to lose himself in the pursuit of supernatural powers and forget about the honor of the Lion's Heart.
"The Fire of the Lion's Heart will never be extinguished." The button on the suit was the emblem of the Padt Family: the Lion's Heart. This was the first time Angor wore the suit. He planned to wear it when his brother was awarded the title. However, before Leon could inherit the title, he left the Old Earth and came to the legendary Fey Continent alone.
The young man in the mirror seemed to have gained a new aura — a sense of responsibility and leniency.
"Come on, Toby. I heard that the old man is the most knowledgeable person in the south. Maybe he can help you find a way to evolve. "Angor was not only going for himself, but also for Toby.
Greya only asked him to take care of Toby, but Toby was already on his way to becoming a supernatural. After spending several months together, Angor and Toby had developed a strong friendship. Angor hoped that he could help Toby find a way to survive this ordeal.
Soon after leaving Apprentice Town Eight, Angor saw a ladder made of green vines descending from the sky, which connected to a leaf platform ten meters above the ground.
Not long after he climbed onto the platform, the vine bus slowly approached them.
On the bus, Angor quietly thought about the key points of "spirit power".
When he sensed spirit power, he would take the first step to becoming a supernatural.
There were three steps to becoming a supernatural. The first step was to sense spirit power, the second step was to control spirit power, and the third step was to construct a spirit model. Once a spirit model was constructed, a person could be called a level-1 apprentice. Abelle was at this stage.
Soon, Angor was awakened by a series of cheers.
He looked out of the bus and saw a large square in the center of Tree Spirit Garden suddenly being illuminated by sunlight.
The Tree of Eternity's huge branches and leaves completely blocked the sunlight. Tree Spirit Garden under the tree was always dark all year round. Occasionally, there was sunlight, but it was scattered through the cracks.
But now, the central square, which covered several kilometers, was completely exposed to the sunlight. The golden sunlight shone on the ground, making it look like the ground was covered in golden powder.
Angor looked up and saw the several hundred-meter-long leaves covering the square were all rolled up.
"So Mister Tree Spirit decided to show us some light," Angor muttered to himself.
But was this really worth the cheers? If they wanted to enjoy the sunlight, they could just take the vine bus to the leaves of the Tree of Eternity.
Angor looked away in confusion. He did not notice that a crack suddenly appeared in the center of the square, and the cheering apprentices rushed into the crack one after another.
Twenty minutes later, Angor arrived at his destination.
Angor stood alone on the small platform. There was a three-meter-tall metal sign under the platform that read "Cloud Library Platform".
The bottom of the sign was above the clouds.
Yes, that's right. It's the clouds.
The platform was not on the leaves. Instead, it was inside the thick clouds. Angor stepped on the clouds and felt as if he was stepping on soft mud.
This was "cloud soil", the product of a special material that reacted with clouds and mist.
The cloud soil was vast. Angor could see a giant library shining in golden light not far from the platform.
The elder Angor was looking for was inside the largest library in Brute Cavern.
The library was huge, and there were many people inside. Compared to the library, humans were like black ants, densely packed together.
Angor was the only one on the platform because everyone else came here by flying. A middle-aged witch wearing a blue wizard robe and a wizard hat of stars and moons flew past him on a broom.
As Angor approached the library, he could feel the magnificent aura of the place. It was like a church with a true god, which made people feel reverence and worship. But Angor knew that the Cloud Library was not reverence for religious ceremonies. It was reverence for knowledge and truth.
Everyone looked at Angor respectfully along the way. No one even spoke a word.
Angor entered the library with the same solemn mood.
The library was spacious inside. Obviously, it was built with space-extending runes. The library was divided into different sections. Angor saw on the map at the entrance that the library was divided into 8,329 sections. He could teleport to different sections according to his needs.
Of course, the principle of equivalent exchange was followed here. Teleporting or renting books would cost merit points. Basically, apprentices would spend all their hard-earned merit points here.
Angor remembered Flora saying that the elder was studying something about energy conversion in sections 7920-7930.
Angor chose an empty teleportation array and prepared to go to section 7920. He decided to search the sections one by one.
When he swiped his bone card on the array, a number popped up: 100 merit points.
Angor's eyes widened when he saw the number. When an apprentice was teleported to a certain section, he only received one merit point. How come he got 100 times more?!
Angor was about to cry when someone urged him to leave.
There were 30 teleportation arrays in the library, and they were all full. Angor did not want to waste time, so he gritted his teeth and spent the points.
When he reached section 7920, he was still reluctant to spend the points.
He thought the section would be about ten meters in size at most. To his surprise, the space inside the section was more than a hundred meters in both length and width. It was filled with huge bookshelves. There were at least a hundred times more books here than in Sunders' library.
Angor glanced at a random book on a shelf nearby: Experience in Using Railgun.
Angor placed his bone card next to the book, which showed the rental fee: 300000 merit points.
300,000 merit points …
Angor only had 10,000 merit points in total. But a book here cost 300,000! That was equivalent to 3,000 magic crystals! It was a sky-high price. Not many apprentices had such a huge amount of savings.
Angor assumed this section was meant for formal wizards.
If this was an area for formal wizards, Angor could understand why the teleportation fee was 100 points. It was a barrier for apprentices. Considering how fast they could earn money, they would never waste their merit points on something like this.
No wonder Angor couldn't find a single soul in this place.
Angor walked along the center line of the section and looked around, hoping to find the elder Flora mentioned.
However, he did not see anyone in section 7920.
Angor had no choice but to return to the teleportation point and go to section 7921.
The teleportation fee for section 7921 was still 100 merit points.
Angor bit his lip and paid the 100 points with tears, but he still got nothing.
7922, 7923, 7924. He searched through three more areas consecutively and spent 300 contribution points, but it was still the same. Not to mention the elder, he didn't even see a shadow of anyone else.
When Angor was about to go to section 7925, the teleportation fee increased to 300 points!
Angor felt dizzy. He wanted to leave, but he did not want to. In the end, he gritted his teeth and teleported to section 7925 with a sad face.
Once there, Angor searched for someone just like before. When he was halfway there, he saw a bookshelf at the end of his right. The color was different from the others. It was shining with a faint silver light.
Angor walked over out of curiosity.
The books on the bookshelves were all alchemy related books!
Alchemy Manuscript — Energy Stabilizer.
It was an alchemy manuscript about making an "Energy Stabilizer". Angor remembered he once recorded a book called "Basic Alchemy" in the warden's secret room in the Stairs of Hanging Prison. The book mentioned how to make an "Energy Stabilizer". It seemed to be a very basic alchemy tool.
Why was the bookshelf silvery white? Was it because it contained alchemy related books? Angor used his bone card to check "Alchemy Manuscript — Energy Stabilizer". When he saw the number displayed, his heart skipped a beat.
"Rental fee: 1,100,000 merit points."
1,100,000 merit points?! This amount was too frightening!
The book Basics of Basic Alchemy he recorded recorded nearly a thousand ways to make basic alchemy tools, and the Energy Stabilizer was only one of the most basic ones.
And the rental price of the most basic alchemy tool alone was more than a million. That was tens of thousands of magic crystals! Angor could not believe what he just saw.
Based on this pricing, wouldn't [Encyclopedia of Basic Alchemy] cost over 100 million contribution points?
The book was only one of the alchemy books Angor recorded. The other intermediate alchemy books, advanced alchemy books, and even some special alchemy books would cost an unimaginable amount.
"Alchemy books are so valuable," Angor murmured. Angor mumbled to himself. So he was actually a millionaire in disguise. However, he did not dare to sell the alchemy books he recorded. As Jon said, "a man's wealth is his own ruin". Before Angor fully developed himself, selling alchemy books would not earn him money. Instead, he would get a self-destructing sword.
"I can't sell them, but he can learn them." Angor thought to himself. There were ready-made materials, and they were all step-by-step. It would be a waste if he did not learn them.
However, learning alchemy was still a priority. His main task now was to enter the circle of Extraordinaires and successfully become an apprentice. Everything else was not his priority.
He moved away from the silver bookshelf and continued his search.
Just as he was about to give up, he saw an old man sitting in front of a desk in a corner. The old man was drawing something in front of a long table. His body flickered in and out of existence, as if he was a soul.
Angor's eyes lit up when he saw the strange old man.
"Found him!"
…
There were three ancestor souls in Brute Cavern: Tree Spirit from the Tree of Eternity, Lady Mirror from the Mirror World, and this old man in front of him.
The Elder of Books, the most knowledgeable sage in the southern region and the sage of Cloud Library.
The Elder of Books was also an illusionary spirit that existed since ancient times. He was wise and steady. More than 50% of the books in Cloud Library were written or edited by him. It was said that he was a spirit born from an ancient book, which was why he cherished and cared for books the most.
He never left the Mirror World. In fact, he rarely left Cloud Library. Even so, he still earned himself the title of "The Most Knowledgeable Sage in the southern region".
However, being knowledgeable and being a master were two different things. Being knowledgeable meant knowing more things, while being a master meant digging deeper and deeper into a certain field. There was no difference between the two. However, for wizards, it was necessary to be a master.
The Elder of Books knew a lot of things. Many of the wizard's special techniques came from the Elder of Books. The Elder of Books had even taught legendary wizards before. Therefore, Flora recommended the Elder of Books to Angor.
Angor approached the Elder of Books and saw him writing something. He did not want to disturb him, so he stood aside and waited.
This wait lasted for ten hours.
Angor's legs were getting numb, but the Elder of Books did not seem like he was going to stop.
At first, Toby was sitting on Angor's left shoulder. Then he moved to his right shoulder. Then he climbed onto Angor's hat. In the end, Toby simply fell asleep. Angor put him in his chest pocket.
It was getting dark outside. Angor tried to call the Elder of Books in a soft voice. "Elder of Books?"
The Elder of Books was still buried in his work. His expression would flash across his face from time to time, and he completely ignored Angor's call.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
