Chapter 104 (2/2)
In the end, on that day I just went around looking at the books I was interested in and returned to the dorical: part of theology concerned with death, judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind
2 Another spell from dndConsecrate is a spell that blesses an area with positive energy
3 From the idiom poke a bush, a snake comes out
In the center of the Royal Magic Library, a hexagonal tower made of beeswax liroundAlong with the seven floors underground, it is a huge building with 14 floors in total
There is a ruest a has existed since the era when books were more valuable than they are now, it has been devised to avoid thieves everywhere
It seems that the room with important books was ements and hard-to-reic to remove thieves has also been incorporated
It seeic to protect books such as fire control and air conditioning ement
Once we entered the roo with a brown s a book
He is the blind library director, Georgesobs
When we lightly bowed as we entered, he nodded back as though he could see
It see the dragon’s vision
“Do both of you go to the library frequently?”
“Just occasionally”
“I seldos around this place frequently, right?”
Both Klaus and Auguste are hard-working people
Without being conceited about one’s own talents, one should train daily and accumulate information
If there is a library with plenty of books about the field one is interested in, one should take advantage of it
“That’s not trueI have a business on the third floor basement’s library out of the fourteen floors”
“Aa, it’s the area for ancientmaterialsIt seems like you, huh~”
I see
For Klaus who is studying Ancient Magic, he will have to go back and forth the library since it’s forbidden to lend the book
“There is little s like spell, it’s only ait”
“Huh, all the ancient ic spellbooks are encrypted and have the saht?”
“The only one who can think ofis Klaus-sama”
“Is that so? No, they are just spells, not a dictionary or soet used to it to some extent”
“Klaus-sama, if it really was easy, everyone would’ve been able to use ancient ic”
“Kuh……”
Klaus averted his eyes with a bitter look
This person hasn’t gotten used to the fact that he is privileged
Well, since it is aefforts, there is no reason to bla your deed”
“Hm~? Is that so?”
“Onii-sama did?”
“When there are oes to the library, you’re always one step ahead and borrow them”
“Hahaha, sorry about that”
By the way, I feel like Auguste and ends and ancient anecdotes
“If you’re really sorry, leave the rare books that are prohibited to borrow on the shelf”
“Uh……I got permission to do that……”
“That shouldn’t be the formal procedureDo it in moderation”
“Well, uuste uous remark as if he was uncomfortable
I learned the secret of the First Prince’s abuse of authority in an unexpected place
I shouldn’t inquire about it here
“Ah~ look, EricaThe ht”
To escape froed the subject
In the direction where he pointed out, I could see themanuscripts were lined up at the rack
Even now, it seeerous griround and aristocratic students who have financial difficulties, working part-tihly recommended
After the manuscript room, we reached an area where the rows of bookshelves were lined up without a break
The bookshelves that reached the ceiling are a masterpiece that would make the private collection books of the nobles pale in comparison
“Come to think of it, do you have any purpose here?”
“Well, let’s see……”
When Klaus asked, I thought about it
Actually, I just wanted to look at the library, so I don’t have a clear purpose
Aah, but, speaking of which, there is so I wanted to see
“I would like to see the shelves of the Chained Library”
“That’s soo upstairs from over there”
In the direction pointed by Klaus, it looked as if there was nothing
However, when I went around the back of the bookshelf, there were stairs
Oh, it’s in a place like this?
This is the structure to avoid thieves that I’ve been hearing so much about, huh
This sort of complexity has raised both the difficulty to find the books as well as the security
By the way, I wonder what kind of books are placed in the Chained Library
Normally, it would be the expensive and rare books, but this is a ic library
Since that is the case, what kind of books are there?
“By any chance, are the dangerous grimoires stored on the sixth floor?”
“Nope, that sort of things are stored in the underground libraryYou need pererous ones”
“The books in the Chained Library on the sixth floor are ordinary rare booksIf we’re talking about the contents, they also contain dangerous heretic ideas”
“Heretic ideas……I see”
“They are mainly books written on the Southern ContinentFor exa huical1 cult and that sort of things”
At the Royal Magic Library, I heard that books containing heretic ideas are preserved without being discarded
This is not just due to generosity, it is to fight against dangerous ideas co from the outside or those that occur naturally
To trace the past dangerous thoughts back to the source and clarify them
“The fahest Existence〉 and 〈Psalave the titles of the dangerous banned books with a carefree tone of voice
〈Altar as the Celebration of the Highest Existence〉 is a scripture of a Godless fanatic cult that was prominent in the past Karkinos
It includes the doctrine of denying and destroying all the Gods and religions rooted on the land
Tolerance is close to zero, it seeenocide occurred abnormally often
〈Psalms of the Zombies〉 is a scripture of Casketia, or in other words, the vay that let people leave their ties of obligation to the living and be immersed in a pleasant death
“In addition to that, books about the ideology of decadence scribbled and created by the vas, and books written before the alchemist’s heretic faction, 〈Festival Faction〉, escaped to the Southern Continent also re?”
Festival Faction is said to be the faction of the main criminal of Zaratan’s murder
In other words, they were those who betrayed Tirnanog and killed hiend that they took Aurelia’s forbidden techniques and fled to Karkinos
There are a few anecdotes about the alcheht of as s should be celebrated」, which seems to appeal for eternal life
“As far as I can tell, there are only unusual books that seem to assault you with madness or petrification when you coround library”
“There is that sort of unusual book……?”
“Do you want to see it? Let’s get permission next time”
“Klaus-sama, I will decline because no”
“Because you are the only one who can browse that sort of books without difficulty, Klaus”
Klaus probably offered it out of kindness, but it is a casual death flag fortheoods and knowledge a lot, events that can be handled have increased
Still, being an alchemist, I a difference with the h ability to deal with unforeseen circumstances
As we talked, we clih a route that felt like a long journey, and finally reached the sixth floor
Somehow, I feel like the air is dustier than the other floors
In the narrow room with low visibility, the seasoned bookshelf is lined up
All the books packed inside the ceiling-high bookshelf are restrained by chains
This is ed up to such extent
“There really is a chain on everything……how spectacular”
The words that I carelessly said echoed ure appeared froe who used Levitate to fly
“My apologiesPlease refrain fro from this point onwardBecause we have a barrier to isolate the spirit body”
Wearing a flecolored robe and a staff, a young htly
From his appearance, he looks like a staff member of the library
Oh, I wonder if we interrupted his work
“Oops, you’re a freshman, huhNice to meet you, I am the librarian, Charles Owen”
Owen said so with a nod of his head
He is a youngplump features with a serious atmosphere
“When you said ‘spirit body’, by any chance, did you uessed, Your Highness”
When Auguste responded, Owen slowly nodded
Theair flowed
“It see that it took us all these years to do it”
“Is it a real ghost then?”
“NoIt’s not real, it seeht it was strangeEven though we used Consecrate2 and Purify over the entire floor many times, it didn’t work at all”
“Heh~ I see”
Auguste seemed to be convinced, but Klaus’s expression becas with various types of de that there is such a phenomenon in the library”
“Because it will only appear on the sixth floorKlaus only visits the underground library, right?”
“It wasn’t reflected on the dee examined it, they couldn’t see it easily”
“It is also one of the seven wonders of the academySince most people do not come to the sixth floor of such labyrinth-like library, it is not faic acade of which, in the third scenario there was a ghost story about 「Evil Spirit of All Souls’ Day」
At the tiic Academy was in an excitement over All Souls’ Day, there was an outbreak of uished faht unanimously that it was due to the 「Evil Spirit of All Souls’ Day」
On the night of All Souls’ Day, someone will either disappear or die every year
In the bustle of the festival, the corpse of the student that encountered the spirit arrived at the riverbank—
—I h I intend to break the flag, what caused me to float on the river is still unclear
No way, this hanging ghost is not a death flag, is it?
Aah, everything is suspicious
I wonder if I should investigate……no, this could be a snake3
I will keep in
In the end, on that day I just went around looking at the books I was interested in and returned to the dorical: part of theology concerned with death, judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind
2 Another spell from dndConsecrate is a spell that blesses an area with positive energy
3 From the idiom poke a bush, a snake comes out