Zeres looked around. His silver gaze swept through the piles of books all around them. If he added all the books from the first floor, it might take a long time for just the both of them to get through them. He did not have that much time to waste to just search for a single book.
"I am going to call some people over to help us look for that book. I need to find that book as soon as possible." He told her with urgency.
Iryz blinked and stared at him for a while.
"Do not worry, those people I'm calling are the good ones… they will not dare do anything else but look for the book. I will make sure they will handle your property with care." Zeres added and Iryz could only nod. She knew there was no way he would accept if she said no. Not that she was planning to reject him anyway, given how desperate he seemed in wanting to find that book.
She already felt that this man was truly serious about this thing he was looking for. She had seen the anger in his eyes a while ago and not just the anger… Iryz had also seen something else within those eyes of his and for some reason, despite what he showed a while ago, Iryz did not know why but feel that she wanted to help him. Was it all because she could sense utter desperation from him?
After she watched him make a phone call to a man he called Jude, twenty men arrived at the bookstore after a quarter of an hour. Iryz had just finished eating her breakfast in her small kitchen when everyone suddenly arrived.
Without wasting a moment longer, Zeres ordered everyone to start right after informing them to look for any book that contain anything about spells.
And after just an hour, they had already gathered a mountain of books. The first row of shelves almost got emptied as Zeres ordered them to take all books about spells down.
"It seems that all the books here contain something about spells though." Jude told Zeres. "Maybe it's better if you tell us which particular kind of spell we should be looking for instead?"
Zeres listened to Jude's suggestion and ordered everyone to look for a book that contains spells about life and death.
…
At Winterfalls University.
The first day of class was finally over. The students were now returning to their dorms.
Lilith, who now goes by the name of Luna Averis, was walking with her new friend and roommate Agnes, back to their dorms. Lilith had chosen the appearance of an average college girl. She did not bother to don on a look of a nerd as she knew that it would only gain unnecessary attention that she did not want. So, she tried to look very average instead, as she believed it was easier to blend if she did not try too hard and if she tries to look like everyone else.
Her roommate Agnes was not lowkey though. Agnes was beautiful, probably the most beautiful girl in their year, so Lilith was trying not to be too involved with her once they were outside their rooms. Agnes was a good person despite her being rich and famous, but Lilith knew people like her were just accident prone or even trouble magnets.
And she was trying to avoid that. Lilith wanted to just study and stay in this school doing what she had initially planned to do. The last thing she wanted was to be dragged into any unnecessary dramas between humans. She was not here to play after all. She was here because this was part of her duty, and she was not going to do anything to screw it up.
She had made a promise to Alicia that she can do this. She assured her that everything would be alright, and she would survive this school year without any troubles and more importantly, without anyone discovering who she truly was at all.
"Ah… the first day of class is really exciting! I've already met a lot of hotties!" Agnes exclaimed as soon as Lilith came out of their attached bathroom. "That boy in our class, Gerald, is really cute too, right Luna?"
"Mmmh." was all Lilith replied, causing Agnes to roll her eyes.
"Ugh! You're so boring. But oh well, I guess it's only because no one grabbed your interest just yet. Just wait for it, Luna. Once you find the apple of your eyes, you'll start being talkative too." Agnes said as if she was so certain about it.
Then Agnes rolled onto her bed and started squealing and calling her friends. She talked about all the hot boys without reservation that Lilith could not take the noise anymore and finally left when she was sure that Agnes would not stop chatting on the phone even after she had been on it for an hour.
Lilith was not used to noises like this. The Black Forest had always been such a quiet and tranquil place that this new environment was really trying her patience. She actually even thought of using a spell to put her noisy roommate to sleep for a moment. So she hastily left the room before she could be tempted to do something like that.
"This is a test, Lilith…" she whispered to herself as she took in large, deep breaths of the fresh outside air that circulated in from the large windows that the dorms kept opened until lights out. "You need to get used to these noisy humans or you will fail in your mission." She sternly scolded herself before she walked further along the corridor to take in more air to calm herself until she ended up at the small park behind their dorm.
The park was quiet, and no one was around. So Lilith chose to take a walk there. She also thought of doing this to find nice spots where she could be alone. But as she walked leisurely around the area, she finally realized that the park was actually a memorial park and it even had ancient tombstones in the inner parts of it.
Lilith could only scratch her neck as she pondered her luck. No wonder there was nobody here! She sighed. She needed to leave this place. If someone sees her here, they would definitely be thinking that she was a weird person. Ah, the drama that could erupt if anyone spots her here! Her peaceful schooldays might end before it could even start!
Hastily, Lilith began to rush back. She did not use any magic. In fact, she could not, as she had restricted herself really tightly. Right now, she was only a human and she had promised that while she was here, she would be a human who did not have any…
Thud!
Something caught her feet, so Lilith's instincts kicked in and she managed to maintain her balance. However, as she was still in the air, she realized the thing that must have caught her feet was someone's feet. She had seen it. Someone had stretched their feet out at the very last moment to stumble her.
That realization made her decide to let herself tumble on the ground. She must act as though she did not see that at all, right?
"Ouch!" she groaned, feigning to be hurt from the fall.. Then she turned her head to look behind her.