hey guys I know how bad a writer I am not being able to complete my books because I lost motivation..... But this is one book I won't lose motivation because it talks about my daily life, and you will soon find out why it's like this.......

Books. And they also sometimes have hidden treasures. I'm not talking about primitive hiding places carved inside books. And about the books themselves. Their owners, knowing that they would come from the political police in the mid 10-20-30s of the 20th century, hid their securities, cards indicating where they hid their jewelry, last will, notes on what was happening in the books.

The nobles carefully cut off the first page of the "bookend" as well as the "backhand", they fasten the book block with the front and back sides of the binding cover. Then they removed the cardboard and put their documents, card, shares and securities there. And in the spine, on papyrus paper, left their thoughts or notes. They wrote with milk or lemon juice. The naive, aristocrats, although some of them, treated the paper with poisons ... One way or another, this did not help them, none of them came back. What about books? Part of them was taken, part was sold, and the parts were handed over to the public library.

In the period of decline, the collapse of the second empire, smart at hand, collectors simply stole a number of valuable books, as well as the workers of these institutions themselves. They stole valuable copies of books, sold them on the black market, and then changed their citizenship and left for other countries. But this is the dark side of gathering.

And bright, this is when the find happens by chance. Having bought a country book in a second-hand book dealer, individual bibliophiles want to restore a shabby book. They begin to disassemble it and randomly discover, instead of cardboard in the flyleaf and on the back, some papers or topographic maps with some strange marks.

The cards found there ... they are sometimes just with marked crosses or triangles and sometimes with encrypted conventional signs. To find their description, you need to find other books "keys." Which give a hint where to find the main book or geek, where decrypted conventional signs are hidden. In most cases, such a finding of one of the keys is already considered a rarity. And to find the whole chain of books, after 100 or 80 years, is almost impossible. Since both trees and stones, "marks", landmarks have long disappeared, like old houses, and even more so books in public libraries.

Since in view of the change in formats, ideology, social system, books from public libraries throughout Small-An were ripened in the 90-00s. These are tens of millions of publications. So apparently, those books in which the data was decrypted have long been lost.

But the search engine stupidly just goes to the places marked on the map and there, surprisingly, they find something, coins or buttons. Some people think that this is a cipher indicating the geographical coordinates, while others think that this is the direction in azimuth and the angle of the points. But both are mistaken. This is a fortune-telling on coffee grounds. Most likely, these nobles were just joking. And they hid the money, somewhere close by. To immediately quickly take the money and run away. But they were out of luck.

Sometimes the books themselves are a treasure. Gold coins or precious stones are hidden inside them, inside the binding ... and sometimes it's completely unbelievable, the books themselves, by their uniqueness of publication, circulation, publishing house, already cost $ 1,000-3,000.

In old books of the 1889-1940s, which still remained in public funds, you can sometimes see various entries on the pages of books. In French, Hebrew, German, Arabic. If you don't know these languages, then you won't be able to read anything, much less understand it. But some collectors say that sometimes there is some information about the treasures in these briefs. Well, as a historian, it's hard for me to believe it. Maybe this is another urban legend?

Like idle conjectures, old collectors that in the forged railing of old houses, some spans are made of gold or silver, and then simply thickly painted with black oil paint. Hard to believe ?!

But the story with postage stamps and stamps is not fiction, since foreigners gave the forester for these envelopes - a digital camera, laptop and iPhone. If it did not cost anything, they would not give such things in exchange.

- "Uh, dear, Historian, in Europe - electronics, cheap, the same laptop or camera, maybe they were old, already out of fashion and cost not the full price of a couple thousand dollars. But just a couple of hundred?" Skeptical, said Dara.

Well, brother, a couple of hundred dollars for a tattered mail envelope, that's very good, don't you? Said the historian.

- "Of course it's very Good!" Said Dara.

"In general, it seems to me that if everything is arranged like that, then you don't need to throw away old things, it all costs money" ?! Noticed, Dara.

But, not with us! Officially, you have not sold anything to anyone. For example, I had nickel silver cutlery, on the auction site in the Baltic, they cost $ 250-300. And here in Small-An, I was only offered $ 5! Whereas a set of steel, new only spoons already costs $ 25!

Yes, and for some reason we have many restrictions, toughening, you will not be able to conduct business based on prospecting, without obtaining all permissions, approvals, seals, writing reports, paying taxes every month and at the end of the year. This is so tiring. And you can't even send coins by mail to another country until you receive the assessment of the Small-An Cultural Heritage Center that this coin is not part of the country's cultural heritage. You can sell it to local collectors, but only for 30 percent of the price in the catalog ... and the prices there are 45 percent lower than the auction percentages ... in short, it's not so simple as, for example, in the same Baltic States or Europe ...

A lot of restrictions, until all permissions are received, it will take 5 years.

And of course, this is an exciting lesson to find what was lost, a long time ago.

But by the way, I didn't tell you how I found a couple of interesting gizmos in our many mountains - Pistachkov, Rybny, Sveta, and also the Habitats of the Robbers. What colorful names, toponyms!

And they all have their own meaning and are not just named!

COMPLETED

The Silk Road ... it is inevitable the emergence of wells, caravanserais, guard fortresses, postal stations, local bazaars, regional bazaars, the emergence of new jobs:
- robbers (there were whole settlements)
- caravan guards
- changed
- merchants

Just about them and will be discussed.


About their life, tricks.

Alas, English is still the same ... there are mistakes, I am sure of it.

I hope over time I will be able to fix them.

I just wanted to share information about such an interesting topic as the history of the development of the Silk Road.

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And also a series of stories about treasures, treasure hunters.

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This is a work of art. Any resemblance to real people or real events is purely coincidental.

"So It can't be help. At least I am alive. I will live my life to the fullest in this life" Yoshi calm himself to accept reality.
"Now what should I do? I don't want to become the most idiot person." Yoshi go to find a paper and a pen sit down to make a plan for his life.

"I will study hard, find a best job, earn alot money and marry a most beautiful woman in this world"
"Yosh!!!" He get up.
"First step, I... Grrrr.... I'm hungry. We have to have full stomach before go to war hehe..."

He find his way to kitchen.
"Are there anything to eat?!"
"Damn! Only cup ramen?! How can he live to this day this idiot?" He curse.
"Well it's better than nothing." 😑

After he eat and clean, Yoshii come back to his bedroom. He look at everything in the room. 
"Is there nothing but games in his room!? Why this dumass spend almost all his money to this trash? At least He has some money left 😤
After that, he goes check his beg and find some book.
"I have to review all the lesson again. I don't want to spend my entire life live like a idiot like him. Hey what has he have?!"
*Ting*
<[Mathematic level 1 book aquire*]>
<[Physic level 1 book aquire*]>
.
.
.
"Hah!??" 😳
"Why my head hear something? Ghost?" Yoshii look at everything around himself. After he can't find anything. He look back at the book.
"Well, maybe my imagination. This book is for elementary student. Why he has something like this?"
Yoshii open and read the book.

Five minutes later
"Hah!? Why? I am the graduate student from highschool with the highest score. Why I find it's hard to understand these beginer books?!!" He startle and shout out loud.

"I don't belive I can't understand something like this" Yoshii angry and try to read the books again.

One hour later
*Ting*
<[You gain 1 intellegent*]>
<[You gain 1 intellegent*]>

"Hah?!"
This time Yoshii hear clearly and he suddenly stand up.
"Is this the legendary super cheating 'System' that I used to read in many novel?!!"
"System are you there?" Yoshii try to call out.

*Silent*
"Is there anything wrong? I can hear clearly the system voice. Why it doesn't reply to me?" Yoshii sit down try to think. And suddenly...

*Ting*
<[Mission: Read 10 books and gain 10 intellegent]>
<[Reward: Activate System In Anime World]>
<[Progress: 02/10 books]>
<[Description: You need to have enough INT to use system You Idiot]>
😳😳😳
"Hah?! This is the reason I can't use system? Because I am too idiot?!" Yoshii cry and shout to system. 😭

When the MC(Main Charactor) wake up. He himself realise that he is reincanated in the most stupid person in the anime world (Yoshii Akihisa in anime Baka To Test). What would he do?!
This novel is talking about a young man who will become the most popular and richest in the future with the assist of "System in Anime World"
Enjoy my new daily update

"Whoosh~"
In a blurred world, someone was hurrying around like a headless chicken. He would go this way and that way. Sometimes, he would stop all of a sudden. Every now and then, he would mumble something like a lunatic.
"How can this be? How so?"
A moment later, that person stopped. His eyes spoke of confusion. Just now, he threw many things on the ground to try to verify if he had been going around in circles. However, it had been two hours, he didn't find anything he had put on the ground.
In other words, he did not go back to the starting point. He was not working around in a small circle. However, he was fast. He must have crossed a long distance during this time. Was this illusionary world really boundless?
"Stone Golems!"
A moment later, Lu Li let out over a dozen Stone Golems from his Interspatial Ring. He made them go around while he sat down on the spot and waited.
He wanted to find out if the Stone Golems would come back around. If the formation of illusion could secretly change the direction, then the Stone Golems would come back around.
One hour, two hours, four hours!
Lu Li was more and more puzzled. Stone Golems were fast. If they were going in circles, they would have come back already. But none of them had come. What did it mean?
It meant that the world of illusion was really endless, vast beyond imagination. This was what Lu Li was worried about. If in fact, the illusionary world was without end, then it would be hard for him to run into others in here. Besides… how would he leave such a place? How was he going to solve this problem?
Imagine this. In a boundless world, there were no living creatures, including flowers and other plants. There was nothing to see here other than a complete blur!
In such a world, what a person saw in a year, two years or even a hundred years would always be nothing, always be chaos.
What would become of this man?
Committing suicide or losing his mind!
Even the strong-willed and the most resolute people would find it hard to keep a good conscience. After all, people could think and experience emotions of happiness, pain, sorrow, and loneliness…
Even just a couple of hours here, Lu Li was already freaking out, not to mention staying here for a hundred years. He could not think what it would be like if he were to stay here for a year, for 10 years, for a hundred years or a thousand years. One thing he was sure of was that he would become crazy.
"Buzzing~"
He entered the Wicked Bead at once. At least, in the Wicked Bead, he didn't have to stare at the chaotic view. In here, he could enjoy some peace of mind so that he would not become increasingly agitated.
"Lord, is it bad out there?"
The Deaf Taoist asked with concern seeing how awful Lu Li appeared to be. Lu Li nodded and told him about what it was like outside. The Deaf Taoist was at a loss as well. Creatures from the Region of Doom were specialized in physical strength. They were not good at Profound Meanings or skills, let alone Inhibition Formations.
"Relax. I will find a way."
Lu Li waved his hand. He dashed into the hall with books on Inhibition Formations. Looking at the tens of thousands of books, he found some relief. At least… there was still a trace of hope.
Tian Lingzi was a master craftsman. The tens of thousands of books must include knowledge about all Inhibition Formations. Now, he might not be able to find a way. In that case, he could finish all the books after decades of reading it at least. By the time his knowledge of Inhibition Formations reached a certain level, there was a chance that he could solve the problem here.
Of course, if there were other options. He would not stay here and read for a decade. After all, he was too young to be that patient. Things could experience a sea of change in a decade. Something might even go wrong at the Heaven Reverse Universe and Earth Imperial Universe.
"Blood Fairy, do you have any ideas?" Lu Li asked. The latter replied, "I don't know. How about I go and take a look?"
"Sure. You can go."
Lu Li let out the immortal's body. Blood Fairy's tentacles reached into the ground which was so stiff that not even a Relic weapon could cut it open. But for Blood Fairy, her tentacles were not tangible, so they could reach in.
Lu Li closed his eyes to rest. He calmed himself down. Next, he began to organize the books on Inhibition Formations in this hall. He wanted to find a solution here somewhere.
There were a lot of books here. Using six hours, Lu Li sorted out over a thousand. He went through some patiently. Soon, he stopped. This book was too sophisticated. Given his current understanding of Inhibition Formations, he could not comprehend it…
Reading, checking!
Lu Li would cram knowledge where he was not good at. He had forgotten about the world outside and Blood Fairy. He was completely absorbed in the vast sea that was Inhibition Formations.
Unknowingly, days passed. Lu Li had lost track of time since he began to study books on Inhibition Formations until Blood Fairy startled him.
"Master!"
Blood Fairy said, "The formation of illusion here is too strong. I am not able to completely solve it. But… I can find a way to solve the peripheral one first."
"The peripheral one?" Lu Li could not understand. "Are you saying there are many formations of illusion here?"
"Right"
Blood Fairy was certain. "I can tell there are at least three tiers of formation. The first tier is the most common illusion of objects. The second tier is affecting souls, and the third tier is the one at the exit. To leave, you need to solve all three tiers. Otherwise, there is no way you can go."
"Affecting souls?"
Lu Li was puzzled. "Do you mean… the formation of illusion can influence my soul?"
"Right"
Blood Fairy replied, "Master, I suppose what you see here and touch out there are all illusions. Everything is fake. The formation is affecting your soul directly and has disturbed your ability to tell illusion from reality."
"Impressive!"
Lu Li exclaimed. The formation here was quite unbelievable and so sophisticated. If Blood Fairy was telling the truth, then this level would turn out to be rather hard.
"Master, I will find a way to solve the first tier of common illusion first!"
Blood Fairy continued, "But I need time, half a year or even up to one or two years. As for the other two tiers, I cannot solve them. You will have to do it."
"Sure. Try your best!"
Lu Li nodded. Suddenly, he remembered something and asked, "Well, Blood Fairy, I once heard that an immortal from the Waters Region tamed a Bloodvine. He brought the Bloodvine to the Divinity and the Bloodvine evolved after consuming some herb! Do you know how to evolve? That hall has a lot of herbs and materials. If you can evolve, consume at will. I am willing to give you any herbs and materials."
"Evolving?"
Blood Fairy was surprised. After a moment of surprise, she said, "Master, I do not know about this. Master, take me in and let me see if anything special can make me evolve."
"Alright!"
Lu Li believed that if Blood Fairy could evolve, then she would turn out to be very useful to him. Maybe, the formations of illusion of this level could be coped with.
…
…


On the Great Land of China, forces clashed for the sake of supremacy and Bloodline Warriors ran amok; the conflict of the strong threatened to shatter heaven and earth. A young man named Lu Li—nothing more than a humble Coffin Carrier from the Northern Desert—came along with Lu Ling, his sister. The two were regarded as puny insects and bullied, but little did people know that Lu Li had the strongest Bloodline in him of them all.

He mounted the most handsome of horses and drank the strongest of wines;
He bedded the most beautiful of ladies and murdered the most hated of people;
He told a huge lie and carried with him an ill-reputation undeserved;
He traveled all by his lonesome and danced with devils;

He had given his word that he would come back, that he would be strong.
And it was because of this that she was still waiting in the city—alone.


From what I experienced over the past week, and from the reading materials Amber gave me, it didn't seem like Badoth was in any way chaotic or disorderly. As a functioning and stable state, Badoth could have readily established neutral or friendly diplomatic relations with Kitrod. What caused these two kingdoms to go to war with each other? Why did nobody ever decide that 70 years was too long for a war?
The texts Amber gave me didn't talk much about the Demon King Badoth and the history of the kingdom he founded 70 years ago, so it was probably unlikely that I would ever find the answer to my questions unless I had the chance to talk to the king himself.
In any case, I have the demon language's alphabet drilled into my head now, so I should be able to read any text written with it. I wouldn't be able to understand what it meant, but I could always ask Amber to translate that for me.
"Are there any diviners or warlocks in town, Amber?"
"None. Why do you ask?"
"Well there aren't any herbalists or alchemists around, so the only thing I can learn here in Badoth is new magic. For that, I need someone capable of using advanced spells."
"Aren't you retired from that?"
"Just because I retired from being an adventurer doesn't mean I can't still be an archmage. I still feel an urge to learn new spells every now and then. Whether or not I can actually cast it is a different issue, though."
"So you want to learn useless knowledge."
"Hey, it's not entirely useless. Learning a new spell, regardless of whether or not it's usable, allows me to recognize when someone is about to cast that spell and properly assess how dangerous the situation is. Of course that scenario will probably never happen, but you never know what life might throw at you. Who knows, maybe someone might challenge me to a duel some day."
Amber gave a long sigh to my response.
"…You might want to try the library."
"Do they have spellbooks there?"
"I'm not sure. They might, though."
"Then please show me the way there."
*   *   *   *   *
The population of Sachiru was less than 20000, so there was only one moderate sized public library serving the entire town. It was located at the very center of town, a fifteen minute walk from the shop.
It was currently around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, so the streets of the market district were bustling with townsfolk trying to purchase the freshest food they could find for making dinner. As we left the market district, the bustling sight gradually faded away in favor of quiet residential areas. There were children playing around on the wide empty streets, occasionally stepping aside to avoid an oncoming carriage.
Looking at the children having fun on the streets, I couldn't help but reminisce a little about my childhood, when I could live every day without a single worry in the world. It was only unfortunate that those days couldn't last long…
"It's quite a relieving sight, don't you think, Blaze?"
"Hm?"
"We're so close to where the war takes place, but people are able to live on their daily lives normally."
"It's always good to have some optimism even in times of crisis, I guess…"
It's hard to ignore the atrocities of war, but if the people are still able to continue living their lives normally with optimism, the soldiers can at least etch in their minds the sight of the peace they're fighting to protect and fight on. It would have been pointless to go to battle for a group of unhappy people, after all.
We arrived at the library before long. At first glance, the library building looked no different from a stone fortress. On each side of the entrance was a statue of what looked like a goblin man sitting on a raised platform and reading a book. The fortress was minimally decorated, having only one single banner above the entrance, with a drawing of an open book painted onto it.
While a fortress shaped library building was great for asserting that "knowledge is power", I can't say I'm fond of the building design at all. With the exception of the ground floor that had none, the upper floors only had two small embrasures on each side of the building. The library's interior would no doubt have received very little natural lighting because of that.
"Is this… really a library?"
I couldn't help but wonder what I was looking at when I opened the door and went in. It was far different from what I had in mind. While there were several bookshelves in plain view, the interior gave off a wholly different vibe.
There was no natural lighting due to the lack of embrasures, and the ground floor was only dimly lit with faint red lights. Small reading desks with empty flasks on top were scattered throughout the floor, and there were numerous drapes hanging from the ceiling that one could pull to create an enclosed private space around each reading desk.
A very light flowery aroma was lingering in the air. It was hard to imagine anyone being able to read normally in this kind of environment. Better yet, how is it even possible to read anything under this dim lighting?
"Huh, they remodeled this place. It looked a lot brighter the last time I was here."
Seems like even Amber is surprised at this sight.
Out of curiosity, I moved towards the nearest bookshelf and grabbed a random book. Like with the rest of the books on the shelf, the book was unlabeled and had a solid color cover, so I had no idea what was even inside. After taking it out of the shelf, I quickly flipped through the pages to see if I could figure out what it was about. Apparently the dim lighting in this library was sufficient for reading. One would have to focus on a page to make out the details, though.
A brief glance at the contents soon made me realize the meaning behind the library's interior design, but to confirm my suspicions, I took another book out and flipped through it. As expected, this book was yet another provocative magazine full of lewd female pictures. Were it not for the red lighting here, one could probably see my face turn beet red.
In any case, this floor's ambient lighting and abundance of private space certainly was a great setting for those looking towards partially satisfying their sensual needs. I reckon the flask being there was to make sure the carpeted floor wouldn't be ruined.
"Oh, a living human? This is quite a surprise!"
Turning towards where the voice came from, I saw a curly haired short woman walking towards me. She wore very revealing tight clothes, which emphasized certain female parts of hers that already had an unnaturally large size. She had a small pair of wings on her back, and a slender long tail with a pointed tip, suggesting that she was a succubus.
"Welcome to Sachiru's one and only public library! I'm the librarian. Very curious to know what your tastes are like."
The succubus librarian had a somewhat devious smile as she said that.
"I don't think I have the time for that today…"
Succubi were a female-only race that needed to consume the bodily fluids of males to sustain themselves. Normally they would achieve this by giving men erotic dreams, so I found it quite abnormal to find a succubus stocking the library's ground floor with countless lewd magazines… Well, at least I know why there were flasks on the reading desks now.
"Is it even appropriate to arouse people here?"
"The orcs and goblins in this town keep flailing about dangerously in their sleep, so I had to find another place to do my work."
"Still, shouldn't a library be a place for learning, not for sexual pleasure?"
"The upper floors are normal!"
"Also, just curious, how long ago was the library remodeled?"
"About half a year."
If the library has been like this for half a year already, then I guess the authorities are fine with it. If anything, having a lewd collection of books here for everyone to access might even have a side effect of lowering the rate of sexual crimes in town. Not only that, the library would actually encourage more people to come in and read books… assuming the readers still had the energy and motivation to go upstairs.
"Well, since you're the librarian here, could I ask where I could find spellbooks?"
"Libraries don't usually carry those. You have to find a warlock or archmage for that. I think we have books that talk about magic, though."
"That's close enough. Could you tell me where I can find the magic books? Preferably ones written in the demon language."
"Let me check on that. Nobody ever reads books about magic in this town, so I never bothered remembering their location."
"I'll come find you in a few minutes, then. Thanks."
I kept watch of the succubus librarian as she walked away so that I would know where to find her later. Speaking of finding people, I wonder where Amber headed off to. She disappeared somewhere after commenting about how the library was remodeled earlier.
I walked around the ground floor in search of her and eventually found her sitting at one of the reading desks, looking attentively at a book with a plain blue cover and occasionally making sounds of surprise.
"So there are lewd magazines aimed at women here too, aren't there?"
"Seems like it."
"Are you enjoying that book?"
"Yes."
"Can I take a look at the types of men you're making sounds at?"
"This book doesn't have men in it."
Well, this is quite a shocker. If Amber wasn't looking at a book with lewd male pictures, then…
"Wait a minute… Does that mean you're into other women?"
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
Amber looked up at me with a confused look on her face.
"If you're not looking at a book with male pictures, then you're looking at one with female pictures, right?"
"There are other kinds of books on this floor, you know… And for the record, I prefer men."
"Oh… I'm sorry for misunderstanding…"
I really shouldn't have jumped to conclusions so quickly like that. It felt rather relieving that she didn't appear to be mad at me.
I walked over to Amber's side to take a look at the book she was reading. It was filled with pictures of what looked like fish.
"That isn't a book full of lewd fish pictures, is it?"
"Not everything on this floor is lewd, Blaze."
Come to think of it, that was probably a stupid question. What in the world would even count as a lewd fish picture?
"I want to see the ocean once in my life, but it's so far away, so the only way for me to learn about what it holds is through books like these."
"That's interesting. Can I read that when you're done?"
This continent was so large that most people have never been to the ocean because it would have taken an extremely long time to get to the coast. Stories of the majestic aquatic creatures that lived in the ocean occasionally got told and spread around by traveling merchants, but it was hard to take them seriously since word of mouth tends to get exaggerated after going through several people.
Nonetheless, I've never been to the ocean, so I know hardly anything about it. The fact that Amber was learning about the ocean through books piqued my interest.
"There are plenty of books like this one here. Look for a shelf with a missing book."
Before I knew it, I was taking out and flipping through the pages of random books about marine animals. I should probably borrow some of these to read at home later.
I couldn't help but feel like I was forgetting something, though…
As I was busy immersing myself in the illustrations of the mysterious creatures, I felt a sudden light tap on my shoulder. Standing behind me was the succubus librarian, with a slightly annoyed look on her face.
"You kept me waiting at the desk for so long!"
Right, that's what I was forgetting. I was supposed to come to her desk to know where those magic books were located.
"I'm sorry, I got too excited about all these animals I've never seen before…"
The librarian let out a soft sigh at my response.
"…Well, we only have a few books about magic since the demand for those is low. You can find all of them on the shelf labeled 'M' on the third floor."
"Thank you. And sorry for making you wait like that…"
Amber still seemed to be busy reading her book, so I think I'll just go upstairs by myself. If I find any interesting books, I could bring it downstairs for her to translate.
Contrary to my expectations and to its downstairs counterpart, the upper two floors of the library were actually very brightly lit. I don't even know how that was physically possible, since the embrasures on the wall were relatively small. Tiny windows like these shouldn't be able to let so much light through.
There were long reading desks lined up in an open space along the floor, with chalkboards placed by the end of each desk. There were scribbles and formulas written all over the boards, making these floors actually feel like a place where people would come to study or research and hold scholarly discussions with their peers. Too bad it was empty at this hour… and most other hours for that matter.
Now then, time to look for a shelf labeled "M"...

Some say that being an adventurer doing quests for a living was a wonderful job because of the freedom and exploration that comes with the job.

Unfortunately, that kind of life wasn't suited for everyone. A mage who found the life of an adventurer too difficult decides to retire and operate an alchemy store instead.

He gains a bit of fame from running one of very few alchemy stores in the world, but things don't go too smoothly for him, as he is once again forced to go on adventures...

* August 7, 2018: Novel now also published on Royal Road. Same title and author name.

* September 12, 2018: A problem occurred with Chapter 13, so I have to re-upload it and all the chapters that follow...

Seeing that Nika was thinking hard but still couldn't find a clue, Lucien hurriedly cut him off. "It's the power of the earth. We call it gravity."
"Power of the earth?" Nika was still very confused. In this world where everything was still in the rudiment, even the concept of the four elements earth, fire, wind, and water was not yet proposed.
Lucien nodded. "The power of the earth attaches us to it and keeps the stars, the sun, and the moon revolving. Birds have to keep flapping their wings to resist the power and fly freely…"
As he was speaking, Lucien cast Gravity Chaos, making the gadgets on the operation desk rose into the air and then suddenly drop.
Nika threw a random monster's heart up into the air and watched it fall down to the ground. After the muffled sound of the pile of flesh hitting the floor, Nika repeated to himself, "The power of the earth…"
The boy's eyes opened big in surprise. "Sir, are… are you a wise man, too?"
The boy's voice dragged Nika out from his own thoughts, and Nika stared at Lucien in great enthusiasm. "Can you explain it to me in detail? And how did you break up the pattern…"
"We're in a hurry. I'll leave some books to you later," said Lucien, pointing at Natasha's injured left arm. "Mr. Nika, do you know a kind of blood-red flowers that can catch small animals?"
Having no idea how people in this world call Bloody Family, Lucien described its appearance to Nika.
Nika was slightly stunned. He frowned and said, "are you talking about the Gronin Flower? Aki, fetch one for this gentleman."
The boy named Aki hurriedly walked to the storage room next door.
Nika finally noticed that both of the visitors were injured. He calmed down a bit and asked, " are you here for cures?"
"No. I know magic," Lucien shook his head. "I just need the flowers to make some potions."
"Magic?" That was another new word for Nika.
Lucien slightly raised his chin and smiled. "That's how the power you have is called."
Nika remained silent for a while. In his eyes, the visitor was beyond mysterious. 
Natasha, who was feeling fatigued from the injury, was just smiling and listening to their conversation.
Aki, at this time, had come back with a big red flower in his hand. Lucien saw the flower and took it over from Aki. He turned to Nika and asked, "this is the flower I'm looking for. Mr. Nika, can I borrow one of your spare rooms?" 
As a sorcerer, Lucien always carried his alchemy hut with him.
Nika was not good at socializing. When he heard Lucien's words, he quickly nodded, completely forgotten that the flower belonged to him. "Aki, go and find them a spare room." 
Lucien put his right hand on his chest and bowed lightly. "To show my appreciation, I have some gifts for you, Sir. Please give me enough parchment rolls or papyrus."
Nika shook his head. "You're my guest. I should help you. I don't need gifts, but later we can discuss…"
"The gifts are books about magic." Lucien cut him off.
The look on Nika's face abruptly changed.
"Aki, go and grab all my parchment sheets here!"
"Ha, Lucien, you sorcerers can be really straightforward sometimes, in a cute way," Natasha commented through the telepathic bond, laughing. "Just like that that you've never kissed a girl yet because you've spent all your time in your lab, haha!"
Seeing that his teacher was in such an elation, Aki, although he did not understand what magic was, also became very excited. He dashed for the study and then came back with a pile of parchment sheets almost as tall as him.
"From Magic Basics to Model Construction, The Significance of Modelling, Basic Magic Geometry, Element Equations behind Magic Formula, Basic Element, Low-rank Meditations, Basic Alchemy…" Lucien produced a long list.
Every time Lucien finished replicating a book, Nika read out the name. His eyes lit up with great excitement light the bright stars in the night sky. His body slightly trembling, Nika had completely forgotten everything else in the world, except for only the names of the books.
Lucien copied the elementary level books in his spirit library and translated them into the Baburian version. He said to Nika, smiling, "when you finish reading all of the books, you can organize and simplify your own knowledge and gain a deeper understanding."
Lucien was going to lead Nika to the Congress of Magic. After all, Nika was such a genius.
"Thank you, thank you!" Nika kept repeating the same words. Just from the names, he could figure out the value of these books. Then Nika said to Lucien a bit shyly, "sir, what about the power of the earth you just mentioned?"
Lucien thought it for a while. Seeing that there were still lots of parchment sheets left, he put his hand back on the pile again and copied another three books for Nika.
"These three books… One talks about theories of gravity and provides better calculation tools, one is a classic work in electromagnetism, and one introduces the latest theoretical system of Element and Alchemy. Although you won't be able to understand them in a short period of time, reading them will help you build your knowledge system from a higher perspective, so your theoretical framework will be more complete."
"Math Principles in the Philosophy of Magic, Electromagnetism, New Alchemy…" Nika could not move his eyes away from the three books.
Aki had got lost with the piles of books on the desk. He asked excitedly but also confusedly, "what are they, Sir?"
Before Lucien and Natasha left for the spare room, Lucien asked. "Mr. Nika, do you have any iron ores that look like crystal here?"
Lucien hoped that he could also fix his Holm Crown rings, so he could be more prepared for what was coming for them.
"I do! Take as much as you want!" Said Nika without any hesitation, who had already started reading one of the books.
...
The sun sank in the west, inside the castle had become darker and darker.
The door of a guest room opened with a creak. Lucien and Natasha walked out full of energy.
"Your left hand really behaved itself for the entire afternoon. I hope the rest of the six days are all like this." Natasha joked.
In the past several hours, Lucien made the potion called Heart of Sun, removed the cursing toxin from their bodies, fixed his Holm Crown rings, and partially fixed Natasha's armor called the Violet Guardian.
Lucien replied on purpose, "it's always very peaceful before a storm arrives."
"No worries. I am on full alert." Natasha pulled out Pale Justice to show that she had fully recovered. 
At this time, Nika pushed his door open and dashed out. Rather exhausted but thrilled, Nika said to Lucien with a book in his hand, "although there are lots that I don't understand, I have felt the profound knowledge and the great value in the books. My distinguished guests, please tell me, where are the great sages Derrick Douglas, Edwyn Brook, and Lucien Evans? I have to find and follow them!"
Natasha burst out laughing. Lucien cleared his throat a bit as his protest.
"You can understand some of it?" Lucien was surprised. Although he knew that Nika was very gifted and talented, it was still hard to believe that Nika can understand part of the three books without having any foundations previously.
Nika rubbed his hands against each other, and his face flushed slightly. "Just a tiny bit. I first read some of the basic books and understood the terms, and then I turned to the three books. Also, I've been thinking of some of the questions discussed in the books. Now I finally understand what element, atom, gravity, and lightning are!"
"I see." Lucien nodded. Nika definitely had a very good foundation for learning magic, it's just that he had never touched upon the theoretical section. Then Lucien switched the topic. "Sir, do you know any special spots nearby?"
Lucien hoped to know more about the northern mountain range so that they could hide from Demigod-lich more easily.
Nika hardly talked to people, so he was basically following Lucien's words to keep the conversation going. "Special spots? Well… I'm not sure what kind of special spot you're looking for, but I know a valley down below a nearby cliff, where many dangerous creatures live. The skin on the door was found there…
"… If you go over the mountain, you'll see a very creepy forest. I'm not able to spread out my spiritual power there. Besides the forest is a very, very big lake. And it's incredibly deep. There's a secret cave at the bottom of the lake that is connected to the other side of the mountain. I found it when I was hunting a water creature.
"Behind the dark forest, there's a valley filled with greyish white fog. Ghosts and specters cry in the valley all the time. So far I haven't gone into the valley yet. I dare not."
Nika tried his best to recall the places he had been to.
Lucien and Natasha listened to him carefully without cutting him off. When Nika finished, Lucien said to him, "thank you for giving us so much information. You can take the books with you and find a man named Rehau in the Metarin oasis in the eastern desert. Rehau will lead you to an organization that studies magic jointly, an organization built by the sorcerers around the world. When you get there, you will have a better environment for studying magic."
Nika knew what a sorcerer was after reading the introductory books. He nodded hard. "I can't wait. By the way, are the three sages still alive?"
Lucien simply nodded and was about to leave with Natasha. At this time, Nika finally realized that he never asked the mysterious visitor's name. "My distinguished guest, may I know your name? When I arrive at the oasis, who shall I refer to?"
Nika remembered scarcely that the groups for sharing books in the nearby area required a referrer.
Before Lucien replied, Natasha grinned and said, "his name? His name's Lucien Evans."
Nika was shocked. He suddenly lost all his words.
At this time, Lucien and Natasha had flown out of the castle.
...
Only a tint of dark red hung over the horizon. The early stars were hiding within.
"I think that the creepy valley that Nika mentioned is Death Valley, the previous divine realm of the Lord of Underworld. It's also the origin of the Solna River, and where Alterna and the mysterious existence from the World of Souls fell." Lucien introduced briefly.
"Then we have to go and check it out," said Natasha seriously. "We can probably find something to fight against Demigod-lich. We can't keep hiding."
"What a pity that you're not yet able to pick up the Shield of Truth, or we'd have no worries at all." Lucien joked.
Natasha glared at Lucien. "I have to be a gold knight to be able to pick it up. Also, legendary items are as scarce as the legendaries. There's no way that we can find another now."
Basically, except for the few top legendaries, most legendaries or countries only had one to two legendary items.
The breeze coming through the tree branches was rather refreshing. However, it somehow felt too quiet, unusually quiet. 
Something suddenly occurred to Lucien, and he asked, "when was the last time we spotted the specter servants sent by Demigod-lich?"
The look on Natasha's face changed. "This morning."
"Go!" Lucien suddenly tensed.


"A falling star has brought the chaos. The throne of fate has lost its master. The nonbeliever who walks in light and darkness will make his debut."
In this magic world, knowledge is power.

Leanunya walked along a dirt packed road headed for the capital city. She knew she was close and subconsciously picked up pace. She wanted to arrive before dark if not sooner. 
She walked swiftly soon arriving before the city gates. They were huge and dominaniring steel gates unlike the wooden city gates other cities had. After she paid the entrance fee she walked through the gates. 
The gates were several feet thick built for resisting against sieges. There were also several notches in the walls for archers. The capital city was built to be easy to defend but hard to attack. That also included the fact it was built on the edge of a cliff on the far end of the city. 
She looked around as she walked into the city going through the thick crowds of people. The place was packed with people and stores truly showing the city's wealth.  Leanunya counted the number of guards she could see in the city discreetly. She didn't like the numbers she could see around and knew there would be more in the castle. She was unsure if she should attempt to try killing the king this year or later. 
While she was here though she figured to go to the capital library and see if she can find any maps on the castle and capital city layout. She headed off for the library walking swiftly even as the suns set. She would gather as much information as she could before making her move. The last time she had gotten away due to pure luck. 
Leanunya wouldn't leave her life up to fates luck. She was going to use her research and skills to get in and out. She wasn't going to let herself die just because she had been foolish and believed in her own luck. 
Leanunya made it to the library and went in. She was extremely glad the library had few people moving about in it. She went deeper into the large library with thousands of selves filled with books on just about anything one could hope to find. 
She started to look for the history of the capital city figuring that was where she could find the maps for the castle and city. She walked through the library looking through the books on the ground level but even after several hours of looking she still had no luck. 
She sighed and went over to a librarian who was repairing the binding of an old looking book. She had already spent several hours in the library but had not yet even covered the entire first floor of the library as she looked. She only had the option to ask someone who knew where she could find the books she wanted. 
"Excuse me could you tell me where the capital city's history is?" The librarian looked up at her and spoke "It's on the second floor on the east side wall" She nodded, "Thank you." 
Leanunya headed upstairs to the second floor and headed to the east wall. She reached the wall and found the section of books about the history of the capital city. She started to look through the books glad the library had lumps all about the library making it easy to see what she was looking at. Though it did help she had very good eyesight so even if there was minimal light she could still see everything around her but would have some trouble reading. 
She looked through the books on the shelves looking for a map on the capital city and the castle. She doubted she would find anything about the castle but anything she found would be more than what she has currently. 
Leanunya spent the night in the library looking for any maps but still hadn't found what she was looking for and when sunlight shone through a nearby window she left to get some food. She went to a nearby food stand and bought a bowl of rice and meat. She would have swiped it but there were far too many guards nearby and so she just bought it and ate silently. 
She finished her food and left the clay bowl before going back to the library to continue her search. There were hundreds of books on the capital city and going through them all was taking quite some time to find any maps. 
~
Leanunya continued her search throughout the day and back into the night. It was close to the middle of the night when she finally discovered a book with a map with the layout of the city excluding the castle. She smiled and started to study the map sitting on the floor near a lamp. 
She suddenly sensed danger and without thinking rolled to the side dropping the book. She looked up to where she had been sitting and saw Wolferan. She bounced to her feet and ran for the nearest exit which was the window. She heard a curse from behind her even as she jumped through the window. 
She landed hard outside but didn't bother to look back as she rolled to her feet and ran. She could sense danger close by even as she ran as swiftly as she could. She had never been so close to being caught as that back in the library. A split second later and she would have been caught. She was thanking the heavens for her fast reflexes. 
Leanunya ran swiftly ducking in and out of alleys. She finally stopped running panting, needing to rest a moment as she looked around still sensing danger. She needed to get out of here. 
She looked around panting to catch her breath back. She felt a strong sense of danger and tried to jump to the side but was a moment too slow and was hit in the back bringing her to the ground. She heard a snap and felt unbearable pain in her right wing and on her chest and was unable to tell what had snapped. 
She yelped from the pain before she gritted her teeth and rolled away the weight on her back. She stood unsteadily and glared at the culprit, Wolferan. She growled pinning her ears at him barring with the pain. 
"Give it up. You are not getting away this time Silver-eyed demon." Leanunya spat out, "Go to hell!"
She drew her dagger facing him. She knew she had no chance to win but that was not her goal. Her goal was to try to injure him and have a better chance of escaping. She had to give it her all to escape if she didn't she would be caught and that'd be the end of it.

In the world of Huskarian the king has banned all hybrid peoples. Leanunya is of such hybrid people but few know her to be. She is known as the most dangerous woman in the world with a bounty on her head and others after that bounty make her life difficult. She would rather be left alone and live in one place rather then be forced to move town to town without any rest.

Immediately after the lunch meeting, Zero and Merlin travelled back to the tower quickly, eager to continue their work. Zero quickly picked up books and activated golems while going into his meditative mood. Merlin decided to catch up on his reading as well. Zero's spare golems had written a pile of notes regarding the boy's understanding of qi and chaos energy. Both master and student worked hard trying to catch up to each other.
Merlin didn't let Zero idle and taught Zero the sequence of books he had to read. Zero glanced over some of the books and asked Merlin if they were already scanned into the reading device's library. Some of the titles looked similar.
The wizard god couldn't be sure of it. Steve did give him the option to convert all his tomes into a more convenient format but after converting a hundred or so books, the magician decided to abandon the project. He still preferred the feel of bound paper in his hands.
"I'll leave the task of updating them into the library to you," Merlin said and Zero agreed.
The young doctor had another task that he wanted to do simultaneously while reading the library. He has five spare golems stationed in Merlin's tower library and another five working on the books in the forbidden library. In the mindscape, the information overload was real.
"Pass the pen, stack those books on the third shelf. No, We need to expand the section, move!" Mii hollered from her desk. Zero was doing everything he could as Mii's assistant while coping with the strange feeling of having new knowledge pour into his brain every second. Wii was also given her personal office to help coordinate the other Parallel Minds that were working hard at information gathering.
Thanks to Merlin's tips, Zero discovered that Wii can level up without going through the quest system that Mii was limited to. The eggplant fairy simply had to continuously perform arithmetic of increasing difficulty to increase her mental power and ability to control her duplicates. Right now, Wii was able to control up to twenty duplicates but Zero didn't want to use all twenty duplicates to gather information in the real world. He had ten doing that by possessing the spare golems, five working on Arithmetic with Wii and coordinating the information collected while the other five acted as Mii's assistants alongside Zero who was still getting the hang of it.
Zero's aim was to create ideas for the grimoire that Merlin wanted him to make. It has to be a magic that was unique only for him. A grimoire was every magician's lifeline. Once that grimoire is destroyed, the magician loses all their powerful spells. Some grimoires are tied to their owner's soul, others are tied to their owner's hearts. Most grimoires that weren't created by humans belonged to a demon who would reap the summoner's soul as offering or feed on their life energy in exchange for lending them power.
"I don't have anything to offer to a grimoire to give it power," Zero sighed. His research in the mindscape wasn't progressing well at all. Mii and Wii's yelling didn't help him concentrate either.
"Ugh!" Zero groaned as another sharp pain pierced his mind. With Wii's help, the work is definitely progressing smoother on Mii's end. Unfortunately, there was only one Zero and having so many tomes crammed into his head at the same time often caused the teen to be rendered paralysed for a while. The pain of having so much new information entering his head within such a short period of time can be hard to cope with.
"Are you ok?" Wii asked from the third floor.
"What's the pain like from the scale of one to ten? One like a paper cut and ten having an arm cut off?" Mii asked.
Zero groaned and tried to lift his head from his desk with much difficulty. "Eight... what did you girls do?"
Wii looked sorry and Mii felt guilty. "Sorry, we simply synced all the newly scanned books from the reading device to your library. It's faster this way. Wii can work on processing the information at leisure and you can recall anything that needs recalling. We prioritised grimoire-making materials."
Zero groaned again, the headache still not leaving him. It was true. The girls really added the entire reading device's content into his head and information just couldn't stop flooding into his mind. Unable to move, Zero could only lay there in pain and wait for the overload of information to complete. Unknown to him, the amount of information input wasn't stopping. When ten books were synced, Zero's mind was made to process a hundred more.
In the forbidden library, Merlin had created a spell to help his student read faster. All spare golems were equipped with a speed reading spell similar to his famous speed-reading glasses. They now scanned things faster too and Merlin welcomed the abuse of mana in his tower. These golems were really handy and Merlin couldn't imagine what it would be like to have ten more household golems like Bib to maintain his library, lab and business.
Zero found it odd. He was beginning to see many new things despite the splitting headache. Suddenly, he knew things he never knew before. Each minute that passed made him wonder if it would ever stop. From necromancy to summoning, the subjects of his studies were making no sense. Even if Zero was able to understand the contents of whatever that had been scanned and read, he was still struggling to know how they can be applied to grimoire-making.
Wii and Mii gasped in horror as the books started piling on the floor.
"What's going on?" Wii asked her older sister.
The strawcherry fairy didn't have time to respond. In order to prevent an accident, she had turned to Wii with seriousness in her eyes."I'm going to find Lily and take over the system for a while. It looks like three floors won't be enough. Make sure that the books don't fall on Zero before I'm back!"
Wii didn't have any time to react before her sister disappeared. From the first floor, she could hear her master groan in pain. At the same time, she could feel that something was wrong with the other cloned libraries. Perhaps it was better to stop for a while and consolidate all their materials before continuing. At this rate, there wouldn't be enough space to put all these copied books in Zero's mindscape!
"Dispel clones! Parallel Minds, gather!"
The ten cloned librarians stopped working and gathered at the office that Wii's original self was at in order to help with the administrative matters that were starting to pile badly from the syncing of all ten libraries.
Mii hurried over to where Lily was and demanded to create ten floors for Zero's mindscape library. At the rate that Zero was learning, they needed a lot of room. Zero wasn't even done with a third of Merlin's books. They wouldn't survive it without enough space.
"Sorry, Mii. The system says that Zero's current capacity is five floors," the flower fairy apologised and Mii cursed.
"Let's make it five floors then. Once there are enough resources to expand the library in size or height, let me know. I'll head back now!"
Lily assured the busy assistant that she will look after Zero's mental state from the back end and Mii left in a hurry.
Wii was relieved to see that there were two additional floors to sort the books out. She got to work immediately without waiting for her sister. It didn't matter if the categorisation was wrong, right now, it was more important to get all the books off the floors and onto shelves. the clones worked efficiently and with the books put away, the cloned libraries were able to slowly disappear.
Mii returned to find everything returning back to order with the exception of Zero who was still clutching his head in pain with a huge frown. The teen groaned again when Wii's clones started shelving a new stack of books. Mii felt sorry for the young doctor. Every book that they shelved in the mindscape library was directly linked to Zero's mind. With Wii's rate of processing books from the Parallel Minds and copying them over to Zero's main mind, the stress was more than enough to cripple an ordinary person. Wii wasn't merciful with shelving the copied books either. Each cloned librarian assistant threw in at least three books at a time and there were at least ten working on shelving the pile of books that had been transcribed into a common language for Zero's easier reference. Mii still hasn't gotten to sorting the books by categories or making notes for Zero'seasier understanding and reference.
"Astrology?" Zero groaned in pain. "Why is there astrology in Merlin's library? Mii, Wii... what are both of you reading?"
Mii didn't answer Zero, too busy organising the new books while Wii smiled in apology. "It's something from the reading device and not Merlin's library. It appears as if your mind is also syncing the entire library from your reading device as we speak."
Zero paled. "Re-reading device? Steve said that there were at least a million books in there from stories to research journals... you're not serious, right?"
Mii dropped the book she was holding. "What?"
Wii stared at both of them with a confused look. "Was I not supposed to sync that? We finally found a way to sync the books to the reading device. I thought that if we were going to go for a reading marathon, we might as well do it thoroughly now before the training ends. Besides, master could take some inspiration from other materials to create his very own unique magic and grimoire."
Mii couldn't fault Wii for her analysis but did she have to do it now? Zero's mindscape wouldn't hold a few million books at this stage, they were going to be in trouble.
"Can you cancel the syncing of the reading device's library and solely focus on the books in Merlin's library for now? Lily told me that the system couldn't make more than five floors worth of shelving space."
Zero let out a sharp scream as a new genre entered his mind.
"Folk tales and music? Why is this here...? Mii! Wii! Do something!"
Panicked, Wii immediately got to work and tried to stop the syncing of Zero's mind with the magic device.
"I'm so sorry, master! I'm afraid it's too late... the syncing cannot be cancelled at this point. I have stopped the spare golem from reading anything more, everything else that is being processed now is from the reading device... Thousand apologies!"
Mii inhaled deeply and closed her eyes, trying to find inner peace in the chaos of Zero's writhing and Wii's tears.
"There's no helping it. Wii, gather your assistants and help me search for the books with memory increasing functions. We need to prioritise learning those first to help Lily increase the system's capacity to expand the mindscape. After that, search for ways to borrow the void to throw all the unprocessed books for a while. We need to get through Merlin's library first. The rest can be sorted through later."
Wii obeyed quickly and gathered all but five of her assistants who were in charge of shelving new books. They searched through quickly the job queues for anything related to memory increasing techniques and worked on them. Under Mii's careful guidance, the headache lessened and Zero was finally able to focus.
"Wait, what? Mythical creatures and where to find them? Why's this even a subject?!" Zero yelled when the colourful images of rainbows and gory pictures of severed human limbs dangling from a beast's jaw startled him from his thoughts.
"Sorry master!" Wii's clone shouted from the seventh floor now. "It's one of the books we're still shelving."
Zero sighed. With so much reading to do, how could he make any progress with his magic and grimoire?


I started off as nothing, just a mass of consciousness that slowly evolved. Just your average overpowered existence hungry for a multiverse adventure.

Demons? They are my friends.
Monsters? They are delicacies.
Heroes? Not even equal to the dirt on my boots.
Royalty? Money Machi- Ahem, a pleasure doing business.
Immortals and Gods? Share with me the latest gossips!

With power comes responsibility, but I'm just a ball... or am I just a ball? Watch as I regain my memories and beat up my past self.

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Endl started to look inside each room carefully, he looked in every closet he had inside the rooms, on the floor, everywhere looking for a map, or something that might indicate a way for him to get out of here, but of course not it would be that easy, he wouldn't find a map just looking around the rooms, and he knew it.
But even though he knew that, he still had at least a little hope, and that a miracle could happen, that would make him find something, even if it was another passage like the painting.
He just hopes that if he finds another passage, it will not be closed with the priest's magic again, because if that happens, he will have to find the main body of the priest and somehow make him open the passage.
It also crossed his mind that the priest can take care of all the passages in this place, he only takes care of the entrances and exits, and if that is so, he will have no choice but to face the priest.
"Damn, how long am I going to stay in this place? I'm already stinking, and I'm hungry." Endl only had water that he created with his magic, as he had nothing to eat, and not even how to take a shower.
If he wet his clothes, he would have difficulty running, so he preferred not to get wet to take a shower: 'This is also not the most hygienic place to do this.' He also started to think hard, which is not a lie, as taking a shower in such a disgusting place is not good.
"Let's just focus on finding something." Endl started running again as he looked into each room carefully, with each room he looked at, he felt he was closer to finding something.
He didn't know if it was any bad, or something good that would help him, but somehow he feels like he's going to find something.
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It had been more than a day since Endl had died, and work on finding his body was still going on.
Many adventurers came together to dig the place where the cave was, many of them used tools, and others used their magic to help with the excavation, and of course, the guild master was monitoring everything closely so that nothing went wrong.
During that working day, the guild master came back to the guild only once to report, but when he got there, he found the three girls sleeping after crying all night, it was a pitiful scene.
"Tell them that we are almost at the point of the cave he was in, we are close to finding his body." The guild master left a message for the receptionist.
He didn't want those three girls to go to the place they're digging, if they see his body, it's going to be a general cry between them, and they can't stand the shock and be sick, the guild master has seen cases like this happen oftentimes.
Wives and daughters who lost their husband and father who were adventurous, is something that he is used to seeing, and that he does everything possible to help those who are in this difficult time.
"Do you think he's dead?" Before the guild master could leave the room and return to work, the receptionist decided to ask his opinion.
"If his body is not there, there may be a chance that he will be alive, but if we find his body, I don't need to say anything else ..." When the receptionist heard that, she created a little hope, and hoped to pass it on for girls.
She would hope and pray that Endl's body was not in the middle of that land, and that he had managed to get out in time, and is somewhere out there.
After finishing the conversation with the receptionist, the guild meter returned to his excavation work, he hopes to finish this before he stays the night: 'The sooner we know the truth about his death, the better.' That was what the guild master was.
He also wanted to find out if Endl was dead, or if he was smart enough to get away from the fallout.
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After opening a few more doors, Endl arrived in a slightly different room. There were two cabinets inside the room and there was also a table with a very good quality, it was very different from the chairs that he saw broken by the corridors, it seems that this table was placed there not long ago.
He was a little confused because that table was different from all the old furniture that existed in here, so he approached the table and started touching it, but there was nothing different.
He looked for some secret place on the table where he had something hidden, but even after spending a few minutes doing it he couldn't find anything.
"It only remains to look here." He had two lockers to look at and was hoping there was something inside them, he was getting tired of running down the halls and his mana was going down very fast because of the wind magic.
'Come on.' Endl took the doors of one of the cabinets and opened them at once, because if there was something inside he would have time to react, but inside the cabinet, only a large amount of dust fell, there was nothing inside.
He put his hopes in the other closet, and then he went to him and did as the other, opened both doors at once, hoping that something would fall.
When he opened the closet, he found something inside. Inside the closet, there were a lot of old books in a row and they were all perfectly placed in their places, it was very well organized.
Even though he managed to find something, he was still a little irritated that he would have to look through all the books to find something, he would waste a lot of his time in that place.
"I have no other option, I will have to read them all." He only had a little mana, so he took this opportunity to look at all the books while his mana recovered over time.
It will take him a long time to do this, but he still took all the books out of the closet, put them all on the floor and started reading one by one. Even though it took a long time, he was sure he would find something here.
Endl has no idea how long he is in here since there is no sunlight to tell him what time it is, whether it is night or day, but he knows it has been many hours since he was there .
He wants to get out of here, because he is sure that the people out there must be desperate behind him, or even thought that he is dead, but he finds it understandable, since that cave has collapsed all over and they have no idea that this is down here.
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Endl continued to read all the books, it was a good thing to do as he stayed here too long and the priest may have given up looking for him for now. He's been inside this room for a few hours and still hasn't found anything.
He didn't read all the books line by line, he just read all the books quickly and looked for something relevant inside them, but every book he picked up was talking about monsters in this world that he already knew, and some others were telling stories of heroes and the like.
"Is there nothing relevant in this place?" He was already getting bored by sitting on the floor reading books and I couldn't find anything, he at least wanted to find something that would help him get to the exit, but it seems that it won't be that easy.
If he cannot find the way out on his own, he will have to let the priest find him so that he will somehow reach the original body of the priest, but of course this is Endl's last option, and it is also the most risky .
He will basically be handing over his location to the enemy. Well, if he is prepared, he will not suffer a surprise attack or somehow not know that the priest is coming.
Endl doesn't know how, but his search magic detects the priest's clone, so she is also considered a living being, maybe she is a part of the priest, and maybe he suffers damage when his clone is damaged, that's a possibility.
'I know it's hard to keep fighting clones like that, but maybe I have to do this.' Endl thought as he looked at one more book, he was flipping through the pages very quickly while looking at each one.
He thanks you for having a quick reading and does not miss much when you read everything very fast, if something appears on any page, he will see it at the same time.
And that's what happened.
In one of the last books he had in his pile, he found something intriguing. It was a map that looked like it was from the cave, but it wasn't a separate map, the map was stamped on one of the pages of the book, a page that talked about a slave prison or something.
'Then that's it.' Endl understood what this place was.


Our protagonist, an adventurer S-RANK, died in an act of betrayal during a mission.

But a goddess gave him a second chance, he will go to another world but with level system.

Join our protagonist's journey to be the most powerful human in this new world!






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