Standing in front of Zixin and his group was a figure over two meters tall with long legs, a balloon shaped body, webbed hands and feet and a frog head who wore a suit and a monocle.
"I’m one of the Senior Librarians here, Sir Frogla, nice to meet you. It’s nice to meet you again, Miss Dorothy." said Sir Frogla.
"Nice to meet you Sir Frogla, my name is Zixin, this is Lillian and Anita and this is Sergi and Abigail, my servants."
"Ah, Mr Zixin, we’ve been expecting you. A hotel has been booked for you for the duration of your stay here. The library actually never closes so there’s that. And our job as librarians is very simple, we just help those in need either through translating, discussions, theories and our views on certain topics. That’s all we have to do." Sir Frogla explained.
"Great. Sir Frogla, can I get copies of all the books on this floor? So much knowledge, I can’t help but want to start reading."
"Of course you can but don’t you want to rest first and explore the city? You must have had a long journey, I’m sure you want to rest."
"Sir Frogla, first give me the books then I’ll go and rest. Or tell me where to make copies of these books."
"That won’t be necessary, here is the Library Ring, it has all hard cover copies of the books in here but I should warn you Sir Zixin, when you’ve reached your limit, do exercise restraint. Knowledge is not worth going insane or dying for." warned Sir Frogla.
"I’ll keep that in mind. Dorothy, take me to the hotel."
The Council had prepared a five star luxury for Zixin and he could stay there indefinitely for absolutely free. The room he got was like an apartment with ten bedrooms, four bathrooms, a kitchen, living and dining room with all the furniture, including a flat screen tv, a decoder will all channels unlocked and a lot more. It was more like a fully furnished house than a hotel room.
Zixin chose the main bedroom which was also the biggest room with its own tv, decoder, tv games, etc and it even had its own bathroom. The Mana in the room wasn’t as concentrated as in the palace but it was enough for now. After settling in, he sent his consciousness into the ring Sir Frogla had given him.
[Welcome Sir Librarian to the Mini Library, I’m Susan, the Artefact Spirit of the ring, here to assist you with everything that has to do with the Mini Library. Sir Librarian, what do you specialise in in terms of knowledge?] said Susan.
"Hello Susan, I’m Zixin and I specialise in Languages." Zixin answered.
[Wow, did you know that there are more languages than there are Sorcerers and Wizards?]
"Susan, I don’t have all day so don’t waste my time. Give me all the history books you have and if there are too many, start with the ones on the ground floor."
[Command received, there are currently 1.5 million history books on the ground floor, do you want all of them?]
"What?! 1.5 million history books?!"
[That’s correct. These books don’t have records of human history but records of the things that happened in the Nilrem World important enough to be recorded down.]
"I see, then give me a hundred thousand books and put the rest away, I’ll ask for more later."
[Command received.] ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭·𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮·𝙣𝙚𝙩
Zixin’s room was sudden filled with stacks of books but he quickly put them inside his Heart Space as food for the Bookworms. Inside his Heart Space, Zixin had hundreds of millions of Bookworms ranging from Rank 1 all the way to Rank 6. He’d been growing them for a while now and they gave birth and grew up very quickly which was why he had such a large number of them.
While the Bookworms ate the books, Zixin went to sleep because there was nothing to do. He didn’t feel like exploring the city so he chose sleep as his best option. The ladies and gentleman also didn’t go out but locked themselves in their rooms.
The next morning, Zixin took out five Rank 6 Bookworms that were very fat and juicy, their green bodies were shiny and tantalising to the eyes. Each of these Bookworms contained knowledge of twenty thousand books. A million Rank 1 Bookworms devoured the one hundred thousand books and were devoured by Rank 2 Bookworms and Rank 2 Bookworms were devoured by ten thousand Rank 3 Bookworms, Rank 3 Bookworms were devoured by a thousand Rank 4 Bookworms, Rank 4 Bookworms were devoured by one hundred Rank 5 Bookworms and those Bookworms were devoured by five Rank 6 Bookworms.
This process was called Gourmet Knowledge where Bookworms devoured each other for knowledge. Zixin quickly fused with the five Bookworms and fell asleep again. When he woke up, all the information was in his mind, never again to be forgotten. He repeated the same process again, feeding one hundred thousand books to his worms then went to bed.
He repeated this process over and over again for half a month and he now had all history information of the ground floor of the library. The 1st floor had ten times more history books than the ground floor and each booked contained new information but he hadn’t assimilated any 1st floor history books because he had to go to work today.
Dorothy had already ironed the shirt and pants he was going to wear, polished his shoes and even helped him take a bath, scrubbing him from head to toe without blushing or hesitating. Zixin found the whole situation awkward but could do nothing to stop her since she could use magic and was far stronger than Zixin.
Ever since the Zbethr incident, Zixin had learned to exercise restraint and bid his time, waiting patiently for the perfect moment to strike. In his eyes, Zbethr and Dorothy’s action were considered bullying and he didn’t like anyone who bullied him and would be sure to get revenge. Dorothy unfortunately didn’t know that her small action of forcefully helping Zixin to take a bath had put her on Zixin’s bad books, she was happily helping him get dressed and combing his hair.