Chapter 503: Mishap at work (1/2)
With how focused I was on finally reaching my long target; the library, I forgot about a single, small detail.
This time, I had no access token on me!
While initially, that didn't seem to be a problem, as I passed through the first set of doors that allowed me to move from the nicely furnished and finished corridor to the same, crude tunnel, the deeper I got into the mountain, I could feel how the pressure on my body was steadily increasing to the point when even making another steep seemed like a challenge!
When I first realised this small mishap, I felt the urge to rid of this obstacle with a precise entropy strike at the origin of this strange repulsive force, yet upon realising that the rune, formation, spell or whatever was responsible for my hardship could be serving more than just this single job of barring intruders from the library, I realised that unless I was down to unearthing the entire underground library complex after it could potentially collapse on itself due to the missing support of the formation, I had no other way than to gnash my teeth and trod forward.
Even with all the improvements to both magical and physical sides of my strength, by the time I finally reached the portier office, I was barely capable of taking a single step for as long as an entire minute!
Yet to my surprise, rather than seeing either the same disciple as before or one of his coworkers, the reception was empty!
While that alone could be explained with the ongoing event and how everyone was either willing or obliged to take part in the celebration that ultimately turned wrong, what made me actually baffled was the fact that as soon as my body moved past the point where I should meet with a hard barrier due to the lack of a token, all the pressure that was slowing me down suddenly disappeared!
Just to be sure that I wasn't misunderstanding things, I even limited the strong that I could govern to just a fraction that I used back when I first visited this place, yet just a single moment later I realised that it wasn't that my body simply turned too strong to even perceive the barrier as a real obstacle!
In reality, there was no barrier at all!
Puzzled by this strange change, I had no other way than to continue deeper into the corridor, swiftly recognising the same corridor that leads me to all the places that penguin sect disciples should have access too.
Yet rather than ending with the one door at its very end, it actually extended way further, connecting to a huge, circular room from where I could not only see the paths that spread to the other directions on the mountain, but also a huge, central point filled with bookshelves!
Unable to hold my temptation, I rushed to this grand hall and picked a few random manuscripts, opening them on random pages and reading a few words just to confirm my guess.
And just like I thought, this place was nothing else but the secret archive that those managers from the continent kept for themselves!