Chapter 189

Chapter 189

He didn’t know what he’d been expecting, but it hadn't been this. When he’d managed to find the guild in question he’d been immediately impressed by the size, but had assumed the actual amount of books available would have been smaller than that of the craftsman guild given how broad the information that could be found there was.

He couldn’t have been more wrong. Three floors and a basement were almost entirely devoted to books, making this the largest library he’d seen in this world or his last. Not only that, but while he’d been asking the same questions about buying copies of the books he’d asked at the craftsman’s guild, he’d been informed that there was a selection of restricted books as well, containing forbidden information that only a select few were allowed access to.Ñøv€l-B1n was the first platform to present this chapter.

He immediately wanted to see if revealing himself as the queen's future son-in-law was enough to get him said access before he decided better of it. No need to do anything that might cause him problems farther in the future and there was already more than enough to keep himself occupied, with sections conveniently divided by their type of magic, and a non-magic section as well where he went first.

The mages guild seemed to be devoted to not just magic, but tangentially related scholarly pursuits as well, meaning books on both skills and jobs. Flipping through books on the latter first, he was able to confirm there was no information available on the kin job, but strangely enough also nothing to be found for heretic either. He could only assume that that one was being specifically hidden, presumably because both gods and the average mortal wouldn’t want someone taking it, but the fact he couldn’t learn more was a bother. It was a shame since Myriad hadn’t let him know anything about it beyond the fact that it would help raise his sacrilege level, but it was still far from a priority job-wise.

As for skills, information became harder to acquire as well, at least for the ones he was curious about reading up on. Once again there was no information for sacrilege, presumably for the same reason there was nothing for heretic, but both complex mind and absorption resistance were only in books that covered rare skills, meaning there was little information on them aside from the obvious.

At least for the newer of the two, it looked like he was able to get something beyond what the name implied. It seemed that each level of it would make it five percent harder for his mana or vitality to be drained, meaning he could just do a little math to figure out how to remake his ring instead of needing to worry about trial and error.

Once that bit of curiosity was out of the way he moved on to magics. While his god was doing his best to educate him on the way his people approached the subject and he was able to learn the more standard approach from the people in his life and the few books in the adventurers guild archives, he still felt he was lacking on the subject and was eager to fill that knowledge the best he could.

He moved from shelf to shelf of the affinitied magics as the hours slowly passed, recording the names of books that went over the broadest of spells to those that covered a far more unique approach to using a given affinity, as well as books that discussed specialized forms of a given magic such as prophecy or purification before moving onto ones that looked at combined magics like decay or explosion magic.

For good measure, he made sure to pick up books discussing the awakened version of each affinity, as well as one on soul magic to satisfy his curiosity on the topic. While he would have happily grabbed books on the other tier three magics as well he ran into the problem that there weren’t any. He couldn’t be sure if it was due to them being hidden or simply the fact that there hadn’t been nearly as many tier three mages for the other affinities compared to soul magic, but whatever the case he simply moved on to the non-affinitied shelves.

The time passed as he pushed not just his enchanting and connect, but also his mind skills to ensure everything was perfect, quadruple checking his work as he went, and after a few short hours he was done.

“All finished?” Thera asked sleepily, alerting him to the fact that she was awake.

“Just did, sorry, did I wake you?”

“No, I think I was just feeling excited for how it turned out.”

“Well give me a few minutes and I’ll check.”

He quickly ran out to grab the passometer he’d packed, setting it up to check the range and feeling a grin spread on his face as he came back.

She knew it would be good news from his expression, but he handed it to her to get the final result before telling her.

“On contact, it’s down to needing a resistance of nineteen, and at a distance it’s nine.”

She almost thought she’d misheard him, but the happy look on his face wiped the thought from her mind. In just a year and a half, Ben had taken her charm from being something potentially devastating to every race on the planet to a level where not only her own people, but every dark affinitied race would be able to handle without issue so long as they didn’t touch her, and as he happily squeezed her hand, feeling overjoyed to have made so much progress she couldn’t ignore her heart pounding in excitement.