Pragna spent all almost 2 months reading inside the fire elemental section. After spending 1 week here both of his soul weapons returned to him. He read almost all the books here. He came to a rough understanding about working of elemental realms and their strong influence on the battlefront. He also understood why there is such a high level security for this section. Although he came to understand other stuff, there is slight progress regarding his research about red woman’s identity.
Well to be accurate he did not find anything about her. But the progress he made is regarding his own identity. It seems even though his class or species is called young fire lord many of his qualities are different from what is expected.
He found three points that differentiated him from the standard fire lords. First one is his title, fire pit. Though fire elementals are immune to most fire related attacks, they cannot handle every type of it. They slowly assimilate every type of flame into their body and then they will become resistant to every type of fire. But him? Pragna can consume any type of fire without any backlash.
Second the temper issue. He cannot say he is the most level headed person, still most of the time he handled the situations with a calm-mind. But according to description of the books, fire elementals are known for their ugly temper. They get into fights even at slightest provocation.
And the third point, his spirit creation skill. Before talking about this, one must know different levels among fire elemental lords.
It seems a young fire lord is at half immortal stage.
A fire lord is at immortal stage.
A true fire lord is at divine soul stage.
A fire emperor is at primordial stage.
Only after becoming a fire lord does one gain the ability to create fire spirits with different attributes and different elementals. Though all elemental lords can create their respective spirits, they cannot create fire spirits with death attribute like Pragna did, even though he is just a young fire lord.
More importantly, the lava golems. Only when a fire lord becomes a true fire lord does one gain control over the other elementals and then they can create lava golems. Yet he can already create them even though he is in half-immortal stage.
Though this evidence stacks up to point that Pragna is different from the standard fire-elemental lords, it does not prove that he is not one. He needs further information to confer his doubts.
After reading doing so much research Pragna is sick and tired of reading anymore books. But unfortunately for him he has to visit the sections mentioned in the sheet given to him.
Though in the process he did end up gaining few interesting skills. When he was reading information on elementals he got this notification,
Blessing of Venakaya, individual database updated. Personal all-format-data-scanner created. Can compile and store any information heard or seen by the scanner. Created skill, compiler-database.
Whenever he used this skill a small red eye ball would appear. It would read/scan everything it can in its surroundings. After that a screen would appear in-front of him showing the recorded information and this information seems to be permanently stored into his own database. Whenever he wants he can call it and look at the information. Now he can use this skill to store all the data he wants.
The first section in the list, Thieving.
He went into that section to see what kind of books he has to read. He found lot of books and video recordings on how to steal and hide in plain sight. He used his compiler-database skill on the all the books he could see. But when he used it on a row of books on a particular shelf he got an error saying,
The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.
Cannot compile the book.
After looking at that row of books, he did not find anything special. So he started going through each individual book. After few minutes he found the reason why his could not a book, because that a seemingly normal book in this shelf is a grimoire!
As he opened the book, there was a small formation pattern in the front page.
This is one more topic that greatly interested him, formations!
Also, it is the second name on the list given to him by Agarthala.
Whichever book he read, at-least once the concept of formations would pop up in it! This is one more thing that is in the Pragna’s to do list, check the formation section.
As he touched the formation a recorded male voice started playing from the book,
My name is Stivvin, I can sneak into any place I want. This Grimoire contains a skill that I painstakingly developed after many centuries of work.
It’s called Glance. There are protection skills out there that prevents others from looking at window status. After researching a lot! I found one huge loop hole in in those protection skills. When you try to find the other people’s information usually everyone tries to access the entire window. Rather than that if you only try to view a small piece of information from it without trying to access the entire window, these protection skills do not work! After a long research I found the right combination on how to sneak information. The only problem is that this skill, 7 out of 10 times gives incomprehensible data. So until you can get the right pieces of information together you will not be able to decipher it.
To some this may be a broken skill, but to him it is the most needed and better suited. With database skill he can store all the obtained information and compile it till he can make sense of it. After talking for some more the audio recording stopped and the formation started shining. Then from the book an ethereal copy of the formation flew into Pragna.
You acquired skill Glance. Mana cost bare minimum.
After gaining this skill Pragna wanted test it on someone so he went to test it on the fire spirit in the registration section.
Rather than meeting it up front he started using on it from a further distance. He used it once to check if it can detect anything. The fire spirit did not notice anything and went about its way. After gaining confidence he used it few more times. At the beginning all he got was gibberish. Luckily for him all that gibberish is saved up in the compiler-database skill. After sometime, the collected data compiled and showed in a format he can understand.
Fhuuja- Hot-air spirit. Part of Hearth-furnace faction. Minion of fire emperor Azemos.
Even after using several times he only got this much of information. But Pragna felt happy, because he is hundred percent sure that there are security measures here to prevent people from perceiving other people’s status. Yet he could use it without any problem. Though the information he got is quite small, it is still valid information.
After using that skill few more times he got bored and left to the second section. As he came back to his office Biazib is waiting for him. He told Pragna that library does have an arena to practice and they should go there now. Pragna told him that he has work to finish so he has to wait. While he was talking to Biazib Pragna used Glance skill on him few times. After the disappointed Biazib left, Pragna compiled that data and found,
Biazib, son of God of forging. Symmetric body. Pampered child of soul weapons.
Pragna now knew why he felt weird when saw Biazib for the first time. He has a symmetric body!
For one to understand how impossible a 100% symmetric body is, first one has to understand about dexterity. From our birth all beings have more dexterity on one side or one part of their body. Over the course of time we overly favour that side over the other parts when it comes to the movement of our body. Of-course many try to eliminate this asymmetry as much they can by doing different exercises, but no can eliminate it 100%.
So usually it is impossible. Because perfection is a myth, totality is reality.
But this is battlefront, a place where myth comes to life.
After checking out that his eyes fell upon ‘God of forging’. What amused him is the term God. From his past memories he remembered God were fantastical beings that can create worlds and beings at whimsy. But here he already beings who can do that, though not to the extent fanatical extent he remembered they still could. So what constitutes a God in battlefront?
After thinking Pragna knew that right now that is not his concern. What he should be concerned with is finish visiting the sections mentioned in the list. That way he can stronger. Though he made no progress in finding the identity of the red woman or if it comes to that matter he has no clue who his enemies are or why they are trying to kill him.
Instead getting flustered by all this questions, Pragna decided to tackle one problem at a time and right now the only thing he could is get strong and find as many clues as he can….
After this he went to the formation section in the library. Usually every section in library is small realm by itself. But when he came to Formation section and checked the map, the sheer size of it surprised. Without doubt by far this the largest section in the entire library. Also the most crowded. Because of the gargantuan size of each realm, even if there are 100 people they would distributed like a fist of sand granules over large room. But here in the largest section of the library he is finding 10 people for every 100 metres. He even had to wait for 10 minutes a soul puppet to come to him.
After it came to him, the puppet led him to Evy who is assigned to manage this section.