335 Ancient Tech? (1/2)

\”Oh, you are finally here! I see that you have come for your daily lesson, let's start at once!\”

\”Yes…\”

I uncontrollably replied as I looked at the bearded elder before me, who had a bright and kind smile on his face, as his hands got closer to my… forehead.

\”Now, let me guide you on practicing 'Aerial Sword'...\”

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A few minutes earlier…

After I was done picking up tomes at the three libraries, I had already returned to the central division, which didn't take much time with Wind dropping me there as I took my stack of covered tomes and went into my own courtyard with haste as I started testing immediately.

Firstly, I started with confirming the established fact that opening the tome again didn't activate 'Archaic Guidance' anymore, which seemed to be completely true yet not easily explainable. Just why was such a process of the 'Archaic Guidance' only activating when someone opened a tome for the very first time?

It naturally didn't make sense for a special inherited tool to have a function that has no use whatsoever.

Of course, I didn't dwell on this fact much as I started with using my 'Telekinetic Force' to check up the Wind technique tome.

Probing the book in its closed state immediately proved useless as the cover itself didn't seem to hold anything special, there wasn't even a hint of mental energy on it, however…

That was only the case for its outer part!

As soon as I flipped the cover open, the inner paper padded part of it immediately invoked a reaction!

Particles of mental energy started to latch into my own mental energy as they seemed to be moving at light speed and heading directly to the place where all the mental energy was stored, my mind space.

While the reaction was fast, it wasn't at the speed which I couldn't react to, but I didn't do anything in hope not to screw it especially after I received a reaction at the very first try. It wasn't like I wouldn't be capable of destroying these mentality particles once they entered my mind space in the case they were hostile like I did to the cult's representative after all.

Observing the particles' behaviour once they entered my mind space made me a lot worried, as they seemed to be under an inhibition or a weakening of some sort, apparently losing the hyperactivity that appeared with the first interaction.

'It can't be that my 'Telekinetic Force' is too much for it, right…?'

I quickly shot down my first assumption as it felt too unbelievable. After all, this was supposed to be an ancient tome that invaded my mind space earlier and even transmitted a whole mental vision without me even noticing it till I was inside of it, so why would that prove to be so hard now all of the sudden.

It was true that the mental energy stored in the tome could have weakened with time, but that forced mental vision was applied for so many times just today, which meant…

Shshshsh!

'This…'

Hearing a strange noise in my head, I suddenly noticed that something foreign was moving within my own mind space, and it wasn't the particles that entered just now!

However, as if it was exactly waiting for this moment, the particles followed the same pattern as they seemed to restore their energetic behaviour as they met with the source of the other foreign movement.