Absorbing and refining the new knowledge in his head, Felix took deep breaths as many ideas of new skills started to gather in his mind.
'Now things are starting to make more sense...'
The main reason he came to the combat section of the library was to read books and understand the way the people of this world fought, and the various kinds of techniques that they used.
So that when he creates skills, it wouldn't be something completely off from what they could do, making him appear as the odd one and then become the target of their suspicion.
It wouldn't matter if he was one of the strongest in the world, but he was still weak, and displaying such strange skills would only get him in troublesome situations.
He didn't want kingdoms to capture him and some crazy mages to experiment on him for his uniqueness.
Opening his eyes, Felix used the fallen shelves as support and got up from the floor.
It seemed there was a toll on his body, especially the head, from continuously reading hundreds of books in one take.
"Growl~"
Hearing the weak sound from his stomach, Felix smiled wrily and made his way towards the door of the library.
On his way, he suddenly stopped as he saw a person sitting on a chair elegantly amidst the chaotic scene of the library.
It was a woman wearing a brown robe, which couldn't hide her tender and curvy figure, but the mask on her head completely hid her face except for her green charming eyes.
Her presence seemed to have turned the tumbled-down library into a picturesque and aesthetic scene, adding beauty and elegance to the messy place.
Felix narrowed his eyes on her, wondering where she got the chair from when he had to just sit on the floor, and then furrowed his brows as she looked familiar.
'Hmm...where have I seen her...'
As he churned his exhausted mind to recall where he had seen her, his vision slightly faltered, stopping him from continuing to stare at her.
'Ugh, whatever. I am in no mood for that now...'
Holding his hungry and grumbling tummy, Felix quickly walked out of the library without making a single sound and thus failed to notice the woman who had turned towards him.
"Phantom, I didn't think you'd get involved in this...", she muttered while staring at his leaving figure, her calculating eyes turning brighter.
*****
After coming out from the Forbidden Library, Felix headed directly to the Nether Cuisine, a facility created specifically to satisfy the appetite of the elites in the underworld.
'I just hope this place isn't dysfunctional or chaotic like the other two...'
Standing before a door present within a tunnel inside the corridor, he wished himself safety and protection from whatever was inside and pushed open the door to enter it.
A dim golden light shined on his face the moment he stepped inside, and his eyes widened in surprise, not at something that completely blew his mind but at the simple yet classy design of the restaurant.
There were dozens of doors in the long corridor, each one opening to a shop belonging to an elite underworld member or some professional illegal merchants.
The names of these shops were all bizarre like Thordon's Basement, The Illegal Corner, Rogue's Finds, and The Smuggling Merchant.
Pondering to himself, Felix walked around and chose a shop at random to enter.
'Anyways, with my Inspect skill, there's no way I'm getting scammed.', he smirked.
Pushing the door open, he stepped into a shop named 'An Outlaw's Shack' and took in the scene that caught him off guard even when he was prepared for something strange.
But it would be better to say that he didn't actually take in any sight, because he couldn't, as a thick layer of smoke covered every inch of the shop.
Just when he was about to take a step back to exit the shop, a murmuring voice trickled his ears.
".....welcome dear customer, how may I help you....."
Felix quickly turned his head in the direction of the voice and held his breath when an ugly face was a few inches away from his face.
His thoughts got jumbled up for a second before he hurriedly stepped away and took a battle stance unsheating his sword with unstable breathing.
'Gosh that scared me!'
The ugly face, which was the only part of the person that could be seen in the gaseous room, stared at him blankly and muttered in a low voice.
"...dear customer, is there anything you would like to buy from my shop..."
Felix glanced at the face cautiously and looked around in confusion.
"I can't even see what you're selling, so how am I supposed to buy anything from your shop?"
The ugly face sighed, then closed his eyes as he muttered a chant of a spell.
Swoosh~
A whirlwind was conjured in the middle of the shop, sucking away all the gas present inside and turning it into a small orb of solid white crystal.
'H-How did he do that....'
Felix widened his eyes in shock, now that he could see the interior of the shop, and turned to the hunched-back man who had just done something magical.
"Was that a magic spell? But what attribute does that belong to? Wind?"
The ugly man shook his head and replied matter-of-factly.
"A magic spell? No. That was just a basic technique of Compression of an enchanter."
Standing in the shop without even looking at the items present, Felix rubbed his chin as he came across a rather rare and new profession.
'Hmm, an enchanter? That's interesting....'