The next day, three of them went to the book repository. Even though it was called a book repository, it was actually just a small building beside the village elder's home. Normally a village like this would not have any book repositories at all as this type of buildings were mostly only found in cities.

But as this village had ruins close to it, the mayor created a book repository as he thought that this might be a profitable business. Many explorers wanted as much information as possible before entering the ruins, so having books on that subject was definitely going to be desirable. So this repository mostly had books related to the ruins.

Even though that was the case, currently Eldriana and Dalia had no information about this world at all. So any information they could get no matter how insignificant, was going to be important for them.

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After entering the book repository three of them separated and started to search for relevant books. Elena did not need any book about general knowledge as she could just gather any and all information with her skills. So she started to read some books describing various rumours about the ruins. It was definitely a topic which would not help the girls at all.

After reading a few books all of them gathered together to discuss what they were able to find out. At this time of the day, most of the explorers were out in the ruins so the repository did not have anyone other than the girls. Elena started the discussion and told them a little bit about how this ancient ruin was created.

She did not tell them the rumours mentioned in the books she read but the actual history behind the ruins which she found out using her special skills. In this world ruins were like the dungeons from their world. There were several ways how a ruins could be created and depending on that it was divided into three types.

The first type of ruins were called the Origin Ruins. These types of ruins were created by the world itself and most of them were very dangerous and hard to explore. Normally one needed to be at least a rank 5 explorer to enter these ruins. Then there was the second type of ruins called the Transformed Ruins. These types of ruins were created when an area of the world got transformed by the world due to various reasons and became a ruin. Normally the danger level of this type of ruins was low and anyone could explore it with good safety precautions. The ancient ruin close to the village was this type of ruin.

Finally the last type of ruins were called Spontaneous Ruins. Both the Origin and Transformed Ruins were permanent and no one was capable of completely destroying it. But the Spontaneous Ruins were temporary and most of them disappeared after a certain amount of time.

The danger level of a spontaneous ruin was also very varied. Some of them might be easy enough to be cleared by an unranked person below level 100 and some might be impossible to clear even for the elite rank 7 explorers. This uncertainty made the spontaneous ruins to be very dangerous for anyone to enter.

The ruin that the girls investigated the last day was a Transformed Ruin. It was transformed from an ancient city which was lost in the annals of time. That city had a high technological advancement and used golems as their security. That whole security system had now turned into beings who were in charge of protecting the ruin and became the source of essence stones for the explorers.

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After saying this much Elena stopped. Dalia then started to speak about some of the things she managed to find out. She had managed to find an old book on business and from that book she was able to know various things. That book was useless for any businessmen as it was old, but for Dalia it was a treasure trove of information.

First of all now she knew what essence stones were and how important they were for the elves. Essence stones could only be found inside a ruin and it was the crystallization of the ruin itself. The elves could use them for almost any field like alchemy, blacksmithing, enchantments, engraving, runes etc. and were extremely valuable.

Other than that she had also managed to find out proper values of the all the gemstones which was unchanged throughout the world for a long time. So the explanation on this book about them was most likely correct. With that now they would not have to worry about getting cheat with money.

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Next it was Eldriana's turn to tell the girls about what she was able to find out. The few books that Eldriana read were all mythology and history books. But they were not history about the local area and instead were about the history of the world itself.

At the beginning of the world, the master of the world itself created the first things to be living in this world which was the world trees. Then those world three transformed their roots to create ground and that way the continents were created.

When the world was ready to be inhabited by living beings, the master of the world decided to create them by herself. But at that time, the world's tree showed their willingness to help the master of the world and go share her burdens, so she co-operated with the world's tree to give birth to the race populating this world, which was the elvin race.

That's how the elvin race came into being and that was also the reason why all the elves of this world called the world tree their mother. This was one of the things which was different for the elves from the RASHTROYNI world. That was because they did not have any world trees there. But Eldriana and Dalia were at least able to understand the feeling these elves had for the world trees and the master of the world by associating them with their subject of worship, the high goddess of Cheerful Nature, Alreuni.

But that was not the only discovery that Eldriana made. She also managed to find out more details about their current location. So far, they only knew about the village name and the region it was located in. But now she had managed to find more details.

This village was located inside a nation called Katylin Federation. This was a great nation with a high elf ruling over it but as this village was located at the very outskirts of the nation, this village was unable to share much of its glory.

Even though a Ruin was an important resource point in any nation, this particular ruin had no other decent loot other than the essence stones so it was one of the least valuable ruins of this nation. That's why Bouhou was still just a village even while having such an important thing like a ruin near it.

From this information it was clear that they would not be able to fulfill their goals by just staying in this village. Eldriana needed to face more different types of opponents and not just golems and Dalia also needed more diversity to practice her fire magic.

So that decided to leave this village for being a rank 2 explorer and after clearing this ruin. Obviously Eldriana and Dalia would not be able to defeat the boss who was above level 400 but Elena told them to just focus on all the other golems and she would take care of the last boss personally.

With that decided, all of them decided to give their all toward fulfilling their goals and left the book repository.

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