Chapter 183 Do Not Simply Open the Dimensional Rift. That Is Common Sense (1/2)

Over the years, Joshua had seen many strange things. He also had seen all sorts of spellbooks—evil spellbooks as well.

Summoning daemons and bringing misfortunes were rather common for these books. In regard to the function of those spellbooks, causing those occurrences would be the basic of the basics. In fact, regardless of whether it was killing or captivating lives and souls, or deceiving people or seducing people to sign some sort of pact with the devil, or even having the books turning into a pretty girl or tentacles to battle with people, Joshua had seen it all. However, no matter what, a book could actually break free from the hands of a person… That was something new to him in all those years.

In the middle of the living hall, Joshua and Ying exchanged looks with each other. After that, the warrior took a step forward as he reached his hand out to grab the book with the light brown hardcover that seemed to be made of goatskin.

However, strange things continued to happen one after another—this book continued to shake, and it took a leap forward all by its own, trying to get further away from Joshua.

Furrowing his brows, Joshua took another step forward and reached his hands to grab the book again. However, the book reacted so fast. Right when the warrior was taking a step out, it already moved and leaped to the corner of the living hall.

”…”

With his face looking grim, Joshua kept his playful thoughts aside. His eyes looked cold all of a sudden as he slightly narrowed his eyes. ”What is going on?”

The warrior's voice was completely flat as if he was about to get serious. ”It knows how to evade? Its speed does not seem bad as well. It seems that Alphonso has indeed bought the correct item. This kind of book is certainly not a normal item.”

After he was done talking, he slightly vibrated his legs. The ground beneath his feet shook vigorously for a brief moment. The entire body of the warrior instantly accelerated to the point that he surpassed the speed of sound. He sprinted toward the book and stretched out his right hand almost at the same instant, splitting space and causing bursts of white visible shockwaves in the air, along with a sharp and harsh noise.

At this time, even the strange book could not have reacted to such a speed. When the blast was about to reach the book, it seemed that the book was still attempting to evade. However, a large hand struck out right at it like a metallic iron wrench, firmly grabbed onto its body.

Slightly using a little bit of his strength, Joshua had succeeded in seizing the spellbook.

In his surroundings, although there was not even the slightest trace of crack on the floor, however, the chairs and the table were turned all over the place by the impact from the supersonic speed. In the meantime, the strange part about it was that the spellbook that had been attempting to evade no longer struggle to do so after it had been held in the hands of Joshua. Instead, it was behaving like a real book now, lying quietly in the hand of the warrior. There was not even the slightest sign of life in it.

This had led Joshua to think about the cunning creatures in the forests. They would play dead.

”This is really pretty strange.”

Raising his eyebrows a little, Joshua spoke to Ying who was tidying and putting the furniture in the living hall back into place, ”Why does the book have its own will to move?”

”… Could it be that this item has self-awareness just like us?”

The silver-haired young girl gave some thoughts about it for a while. Then she seemed a little happy as she came up with a conclusion. ”Is it just like me?”

”It shouldn't be.”

However, the warrior shook his head to express that he did not agree with the conclusion Ying had just come up with. He looked at the spellbook in his hand and scanned it through a few around. ”There isn't any trace of soul. It is probably an instinctive reaction, or maybe it might be some sort of automatic response measure that was being written on this book long ago.”

But what actual kind of automatic response measure would make a book run around?!

It would not bring any conclusion for having such thoughts. So Joshua had decided to give up on thinking about it. He straight away held onto the back of the book with one of his hand while he started holding onto the front cover of the book, attempting to open the book up. To read its content within.

However yet another strange occurrence happened.

The book could not be opened!

Feeling shocked for a brief moment, Joshua attempted to get the book open a few times over. However, the result was the same—he could not open up the damn book as if the book was being locked dead. He could not even move a single page of the book.

This time, he could not help but laugh out loud. However, after laughing for a moment, Joshua had once again furrowed his brow.

It was actually very normal that the spellbook could not be opened. After all, spellbooks such as this would record information about 'Mastery' and life experiences of a certain caster. Or, contain some horrifying forbidden magic spells. Or maybe even information about the fallen Evil God and other stuff of those sorts. These sorts of books might have multiple seals cast on them. Hence, opening them up might not be an easy task at all.

This 'Book of Eibon' had caused the destruction of the Fort Ares in the pre-existence after all. The book had summoned quite a large number of Terraria Dhole Worms from the Dark Abyss. So it would be completely normal that there would be some singularities that were hard to be explained.

However, Joshua did not bother himself with these ridiculously complicated things. He took a deep breath and started to charge his body with the flame of his Combat Aura. A powerful impact was unleashed. The Strength of Steel started to gather within the body of the warrior, changing into shapeless power, surging throughout both of his hands.

The body of a Gold-Tier champion had initially fused with the energy as one. So the warrior could not burst out with a powerful force that had nothing to do with his physical fitness anymore. At this time, Joshua did not believe that he could not open the book.

Before he could even make his move, Ying's slightly flustered voice rang in his ears. ”Wait, Master! Don't use any force on the book right here!”

”Master, stop!”

Ling who was cleaning up the tableware with the servants had also rushed back into the living hall. He looked at Joshua who looked calm and yet flashing with the radiance of Combat Aura, and instantly said, ”Don't do something rash in the mansion, Master. If you want to do anything, just do it outside the mansion!”

Even 03 could not calm down. Her projection surfaced in mid-air as she also attempted to persuade Joshua out of it, ”Yea, Joshua. The impacts of your our movements are just too strong for the place to handle, Meanwhile, this book doesn't seem to be normal at all. If you really want to open it up, I suggest you should find a place with much more space before you try it out.

”… You're right.”

Since that everyone around him had suggested the same idea, Joshua would naturally not going to open the strange book by force in his mansion. In fact, the warrior had also responded. The real question of this thing would not be whether he could open the book or not. The question would lie on whether he could use his full strength to open up the book when he was inside of his mansion. The new liege's mansion had just been rebuilt recently. So how could he use brute force out of his liking like he did before?!

Hence, Joshua let out a deep breath and discharged the Combat Aura that was brewing all over his body. After that, he held the book in his hand and walked out of the mansion.

Ying and Ling had also let out a breath out of relief. Then the two of them pushed the cart where the runic core of 03 was on, following right at the back of the warrior as they walked out of the mansion.

Soon, the four of them had arrived at the outskirts of the main city.

Currently, snow and frost across the land had already melted bit by bit. The land that looked plain white a while ago had now revealed some black ground and layers of grass. However, Joshua did not pay attention to the scenery at this time. His attention was completely focused on the book with goatskin cover that he was holding in his hand.

On the brown cover, the name of the book was written with strange words. Meanwhile, the touch of the cover felt like it was made of goatskin… Other than that it could run around on its own, this was absolutely a normal book. So why can't he open the god damn book then?

The warrior shook his head.

Then, in the next moment, he unleashed his strength. The red blazing Combat Aura was hot. Joshua swore that he would open the book today!

Boom!