章 50: Library (1)

Auron left the classroom. It was an hour past midnight. All of the things that happened today made him very tired. However, instead of going back to his room and rest, he went to the library. The library in the academy was opened for 24 hours. Although, it was opened for 24 hours, the student visited the library was not many. Almost all of the student that visited the library was the commoner student.

Auron arrived at the library. It was just as he thought, the library was empty. Auron could only saw less than five students inside. It was not a surprised since it was past midnight time. In addition, the tight lesson's schedule made all the student very tired. Some of the student who was planning to visit the library, canceled his plan because they were very tired.

Auron come inside the library. He greeted the librarian. But, the librarian only nodded at him and didn't bother with him. Auron walked into the library. The library was very big, with many bookshelves. There was five floors in the library. Auron was in the first floor.

If you go to the higher floor, you would find there were less book than the floor below it. However, the quality of the book was better than the previous floor. But, not all of the student could go to the higher floor, they needed to fulfill certain requirements. The first floor was opened to all students and it contained only basic book and few of the advanced book.

Basically, the second floor also opened for all of the students after they finished their learning period. However, if they wanted to enter during their learning period, there was an additional requirement. All of the nobles student could show their identity as a nobles and enter the second floor easily. However, for the commoner student to enter the second floor, the student needed to proof they were excelled in their lesson. And to proof that, if the commoner students felt that he was excelled, they could asked one of the teacher to give them an approval.

For the third and fourth floor, the student needed an entry pass to enter. To obtain the entry pass, they could got their entry pass by exchanging their academy point later on. Which mean, they needed to wait until the learning period over and entered the practical period to obtain the point. Luckily, for Auron's batch they only had one months of learning period, so they could obtain the point longer.

The entry pass was divided into 24 types. Each types corresponding to how many hours they could enter inside. The entry pass was a one time used item. When the time limit was passed they needed to putted back their books into the shelves and left the floor in at most 10 minutes after the time limit passed. If not, they would get punished. For the first time punishment, they only barred to enter the library for one day. The second time, they barred to enter the library for one month. And, the third time, they barred to enter the library for the rest of their time in the academy. Needed to be noted that this was barred to enter the library which mean that they could not entered even the first floor.

Also, when they used the entry pass, they needed to used it in one go. After they used the entry pass, the countdown time would go on whether they were in the library or not. The entry pass also recorded the identity of the one who exchange for it. So, they could not handed it over to their fellow student to use.

The entry pass could be fully reimbursed back to academy point, if they had not use the entry pass. The reimbursement process needed to be done within one week after the exchange. One week after the exchange, they could not do the reimbursement and could only used the entry pass or throw it to the trash bin.

The entry pass to the third floor and fourth floor were different. For the one-hour entry pass to the third floor, the student needed to spent 100 academy points. For the two-hours entry pass, they needed to spent 200 academy points and so on. Following this pattern, the student needed to spent 2400 academy points, if they want to get the one day entry pass to the third floor. For the fourth floor's entry pass, they needed to spent double the amount they needed to spent for the third floor.

However, the entry pass was not a popular item to be exchanged. The reason was, first, 100 academy points was not easy to get. They needed to accomplished almost 10 easy task to get the equivalent point. Moreover, a 100 academy points could easily get them a high specification common equipment. Second, one hour was not enough for them to learn something from the book and they could get nothing. Meanwhile, an equipment could directly be used and give them strength as soon as the equipment used. This was also the reason that there were lesser student would attending the library.

The fifth floor was special. Not only the student needed to fulfill the requirement, the academy's teacher also needed to fulfill the entry requirement. To enter the fifth floor of the library, the student and the teacher needed one thing only which was permission from the headmaster of the academy. However, to obtain that permission was not easy, they needed to impress the headmaster. And, the so called headmaster could not be bribed. The headmaster already administered the academy from the very first the academy was built on. Up until now, there were only two people that could enter the fifth floor. One of them was Kajo.

It was said that fifth floor was where the true skill books kept. It was also said that when you mastered one of the book kept there, you would become a master comparable to the royalty. Even if you failed to mastered it, the knowledge you get from the book could made you an individual above the rest. This was the reason the fifth floor was very enticing to many people despite the difficulty of the entry requirement

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