Due to learning teleportation, Raze pushed everything away, the auction he had to go to, and every other single thing, not even resuming school after the second part of the test was done.
He stayed in the inn for a full week, eagerly learning teleportation. He got so invested that nothing else really mattered to him. No one had heard from him or could reach him at all, he just vanished.
Inside the library, he stood there, eyes closed in full concentration. "I've been at it for a full week. Let's see if I can do it now," he muttered. His eyes shot open and instantly he teleported. He had barely reached the target side before he teleported again onto the tip of a shelf, then teleported again, landing on a wall, and teleported once more before he could fall.
"This is awesome!" he yelled as he appeared in the air and then teleported down to the ground. He landed in a superhero pose and slowly looked up. "I'm badass." But then he saw the librarian floating in front of him, it had watched everything he'd done. Raze immediately felt a wave of shame for the last line he had spoken.
"Why are you always watching me? You don't talk, you don't say anything, you've been appearing for a week straight just to watch me," he said, getting to his feet. He bent his back and cracked it.
The librarian floated up a bit, and when it was a full meter off the ground, it teleported, appearing over twenty meters up and instantly teleporting again. It kept going without stop, extremely fast and precise. Raze's best speed could not even come close to this; its finesse was unmatched.
He watched with wide eyes as it kept going, showing him the endless possibilities of teleportation, teleporting small bits instantly to move in a circle extremely fast, and doing tricks that, if Raze tried, would kill him.
When it was finally done, it came back down and faced Raze.
"I don't know what your aim was exactly when you did that. Maybe you wanted to show me up, but I have one thing to say, it was freaking awesome," he said with a gleeful smile.
"I'll get better, and then that sort of movement will be mine. Hahaha!" He let out a hearty laugh, but the librarian just floated up to the upper floors.
"What? Did I scare it away? Tsk." He clicked his tongue and then turned around. The book from before, the one the librarian gave him to constantly pour mana into—was there, so he walked over to it on the table and flipped it open.
He was almost done; what was left was a small fraction of the head of the warrior, and once he filled that, he would know what it was for.
"Alright, here we go," he muttered and released his mana. It rushed out like a raging ocean and poured into the book, filling up what remained of the warrior in the book. Raze's smile widened when he thought he would finally get to see what it was. The head filled up, but it didn't stop there—the environment started gaining colors as well.
"You have to be kidding me," Raze said in disappointment. He believed that after he filled it, that would be the end, only to be faced with another set of work, to color the entire background. He was almost losing patience with whatever the book had to offer.
But since he had started, he would see it to the end. He allowed all his mana to rush in, finishing about five percent of the environment. It showed a burnt and destroyed land, with blood spilled, corpses rotting, and flames burning.
Seeing this, Raze's intrigue burned hotter. He wanted to know what happened, but his mana had run out, and so he was forced to stop and switch to Qi to keep himself standing. He closed the book and let out an exhausted sigh.
A week ago, he recalled the system sending him a message about being a level one reader and unlocking special functions of the library. Shockingly, he hadn't come around to even ask what it was. So today, before he left, he decided to find out what they were.
The moment he thought about it, the library showed him.
[You have gained function: Search]
[Search allows you to use the librarian to collect any book from any part of the library you are allowed in. You just have to specify what you want.]
[You have gained a Monthly Pass.]
[Monthly Pass allows you a visit to any floor of the library you want. Be warned, the current reader can be killed by certain floors instantly.]
[You have unlocked the Second Floor.]
[You can currently take out 5 books at a time.]
Raze read everything, and his eyes widened, realizing that he had actually made progress in the library and that a whole new section was now open to him.
'Damn, I've barely touched the surface of the first floor, and now I have the second. I wish I could actually read faster,' he muttered, pissed at himself for his inability to read enough.
"No time to mope, I just have to do what I have to do," he spoke with conviction. Before he left, he wanted to take a good look at the second floor. He also had an idea for something he needed, so he walked up using the stairs and entered the second floor, and it was amazing.
He had passed through here before to go up and get God's Eyes, but never had he actually stopped to look. Certain artifacts were stored along with the books and tomes.
"Hey, librarian, I need a book on how to recover mana fast—your fastest and safest method that would work for the current me," he yelled. After a few seconds, the librarian floated down, but it didn't stop at the second floor. Rather, it went down to the first and pulled out a book with a green and black gradient cover, then flew up and handed it to him.
He took the book and frowned. "I wanted something from the second floor. Why did you have to go to the first?"
"Because you lack the capacity to master books from the second floor. Having permission to a floor doesn't mean you can use it. You can currently use God's Eyes due to the fact that the library is shielding you from the real effects. Normally, your mind would be turned to mush and you'd be dead."
The librarian spoke suddenly, its cold voice kept distorting and changing sound, making sure Raze couldn't attribute a specific voice to it.
[The librarian is correct. Please refrain from accessing certain knowledge, and only use the ones sanctioned by the library or the librarian.]
Raze stared at the librarian. "The first time you speak to me, you tell me I'm weak," Raze said. "Don't worry, it's only a matter of time before I get strong enough to actually reach the peak of this library," he said.
"Impossible. The library is infinite. Every new knowledge created is stored somewhere in this llibrary, the useless ones filtered away, and the right ones stored. For you to currently read all books available in this instant, you'd need over a million years. That number is constantly climbing," the librarian shot down his dream before it even had a chance.
"Tsk, whatever. I'm leaving for now," Raze said, slightly pissed. He went along with the mana book, leaving the library.
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