Chapter 58

Lying on the bed, Dylan thought about the fact that he still had an unused [Special]-level bestowed skill in his hands. He had received it after an unpleasant encounter with the priests for the unique skill [Reincarnator's Madness] [Special].

He could choose any skill he wanted, but he hadn't decided to do so until now. Since it was impossible to decide based on the books he read in the manor. There were many skills that tempted him, such as [Great Meditation], which could easily raise his active mana recovery by 50-100% of the base stats. Or a skill from any school of Magic that could quickly increase his skill, due to easy and quick learning. Or a specialized skill of analysis and combat.

There were so many wonderful and necessary skills. This choice could change a lot for him, for a very long time. So Dylan approached it responsibly and decided to reread all the books available in the academy on this topic.

Dylan got out of bed and walked over to the mirror and looked at himself. He looked pretty good, with a few dark circles under his eyes from being a little tired, but nothing serious. Dylan looked at the ring and decided he needed to cheer himself up.

After activating it, a small portal appeared in front of him, he took out the [Ghost Blade] [Special+] from there and hung it on his hip next to the [Nascent Spirit Sword] [Rare]. Next, he took out a metal ring from the portal that was given to him on one of his birthdays and put it on his hand, it was the [Ghost Bracelet] [Special+] that allowed him to become intangible for a while from physical attacks. Stroking it with his hand, he remembered what his father told him about it, these bracelets were made by the first Patriarch of the family and the holder of the title [Ancestor of the Class Lineage]. There were only a few bracelets left, since no one else could imitate his skill.

Next he took [Ring of Invisibility] [Rare] and [Necklace of Adaptive Water] [Special].

Having put all this on, he felt much better, looking in the mirror again, he saw in his gaze a confidence that he had not felt before. Of course, he lacked artifacts that increased characteristics, but he planned to solve this soon. After all, his father owed him a significant gift for his fifteenth birthday. And Dylan vowed to knock something very good out of him for his needs.

As he was about to leave the room, he remembered that he should contact his parents Benedict and Maria... After thinking about it, Dylan decided that he didn't want any extra moral burden and left the room.

Taking out the map of the Academy, he was able to quickly find where the library was and immediately went to it. On the way, as always, he assessed the students and the academy as a whole with great interest. When he reached the library, he was surprised by the huge double gates made of steel, each door was about 6 meters high and 4 meters wide. The gates were open and on both sides he saw that several people were engraved, who impressed with their wisdom.

Dylan stopped to take a closer look at each one, several were holding impressive staffs, others were holding open books.

"Hmm, it's easy to guess that it was either Archmages or other important people who made a great contribution to the creation of the library."

Dylan tried to remember their appearance and went into the library. Behind the gates he saw two floors with many shelves full of books, where students were walking around choosing them. Looking around, Dylan appreciated the design, everything was made of light wood with a pleasant warm light. Inhaling the pleasant smell of wood and books, he stopped not knowing where exactly to start, looking around the library.

A moment later, an attractive girl in an academy uniform, with black hair and brown eyes, approached him.

"Hello, academy card please?" She said looking him over and letting her gaze linger on his swords.

"Certainly."

Dylan pulled out a card and held it out to the girl. As soon as she saw the card, her eyes widened in great surprise.

"Special class." She whispered softly.

Mmm, and I hoped that the cards would not show the hierarchy, but what did I expect? And why did she stop me anyway?

While Dylan was pondering these troubles, the girl pulled herself together. She smiled brightly and bowed slightly, instantly changing her attitude towards him.

"How can I help you, what books are you interested in?"

Dylan pretended to think, putting his hand to his face. But he was really looking at her grade.

Name: Rin Frinel, 18 years old

Race: Human [Uncommon] Lvl 56

Class: Rune Mage Apprentice [Uncommon] Lvl 41

Class: Apprentice Metal Mage [Uncommon] Lvl 26

Not bad

"First, I need all the skill books for the various mage class lines, and then we'll see."

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The girl blinked slowly, not fully understanding what he meant.

"Um, there are a lot of them and only basic books can be taken from the library without spending academy points."

Dylan paused and remembered Elton's teacher's words.

Of course, I could have guessed right away that something like this existed here and what points were needed for. It was really obvious and the fact that my memory and speed of thinking are much higher than before do not help at all.

"It's okay, I'll take all the books I have points for." Dylan answered without thinking twice.

"Okay, please tell me how many points do you have in total?"

Dylan took out the card and turned on the holographic menu, in the very corner there was a number written with the symbol of the Royal Academy in the form of a crossed golden sword and staff.

"I have 73 thousand."

The girl froze at his words, at first she wanted to ask loudly, but managed to bite her tongue in time.

"That's a very large number of points, enough for any books you want to take." She said instead in a rather calm voice.

I had already managed to distinguish myself here, but judging by her reaction, teacher Elton did not spare me points.

"Okay, as far as I understand, this is some kind of part-time job for you?"

"Yes, I help the students choose books and sometimes help the teachers with various tasks." She said, bowing again.

"Okay, but stop acting like I'm so important, I'm out of the habit of it and I'm afraid I don't want to put up with it anymore."

"Of course, please follow me." The girl easily agreed and led him further into the library.

Following her, Dylan noticed the stairs leading up and was once again amazed by the craftsmanship of the carving. He didn't have time to understand what exactly was depicted there, but the quality was incredible. Looking around, Dylan truly appreciated the grandeur of the Library. He was so impressed that he didn't notice when the girl stopped in front of the section he needed.

"Here you can choose anything that interests you."

Dylan nodded and started reading the titles of the books. There were many books with similar titles, like "Beginner Mage Skills", "Essential Mage Skills", "Advanced Mage Skills" and so on, from unknown authors. There were also skill books for different schools of magic, skill books for mastering weapon combat, skill books for Alchemists and so on. Reading on, he didn't see anything that he could take right away and without thinking, everything was surprisingly monotonous and not particularly interesting.

"Okay, maybe you have some advice for me?"

"Of course, Rurin Lance's book "The Strongest Skills of a Mage" is very good, it describes several combinations of skills for mages of different schools. Also, Cedric Kirz's book "Secrets of the Secret Mage" may be very suitable for you..."

After recommending the first two books, Dylan stopped listening to her. The titles and authors meant nothing to him. He simply decided to agree with everything she said, while choosing other books that were at least somewhat interesting.

***

After 15 minutes, they were both holding about 30 books each. Dylan wanted to put everything in the spatial ring at first, but Rin warned him that it was forbidden. They had to take all the books to the librarian's desk, where several teachers looked at him very strangely, but without further ado, they wrote down all the books. He touched the card to an unknown rune device and then without further ado, began to put the books in the portal.

Repeating this procedure a few more times, he had skill books for most schools of magic, skill books for different types of close and ranged combat. Books explaining what skills different mages mostly have and how to counter them, books for just useful skills. Finally, he thought that he should learn a few new spells and that it was no less important to understand what the basic spells were for each school of magic. So he took even more spell books.

His spatial ring was filled to the brim with more than a hundred books. He spent about 8 thousand points on them.

During the time he was choosing books, he managed to have a pleasant conversation with Rin, on the topic of Rune Magic. And he took several books on it to understand the main disadvantages of this art. Having loaded the last book into the ring, he was about to say goodbye to Rin, but a guy about his age approached him.

"Well, well, well, who do we have here? Dylan Ghostblade, nice to meet you, my name is Cullen Golden Crow, to my friends you can just call me Kel." He said and patted Dylan on the shoulder.

Dylan was a little annoyed that someone was so blatantly violating his personal boundaries, but he decided to be gentle with the guy. Cullen was the same height as him, with a decent build, blond, short hair. He didn't see anything special, except for his wide smile and appraising look, so he used the identification skill.

Name: Cullen Golden Crow, 17 years old

Race: Human [Uncommon] Lvl 100

Class: Magnificent Artifact Merchant [Rare] Lvl 25

Class: Warrior-Mage of Mirata Arts [Rare] Lvl 32

Wow... This is unexpected.

"Nice to meet you, Cullen."

"No need to be so formal, after all, we are both from a special class. When I heard that someone wanted to take the entire library, I immediately came here, but I couldn't imagine that it would be a first-year student. Ha-ha-ha!" He said, laughing loudly and clapping Dylan on the shoulder.

"I'm just getting ready to brush up on the basics, so to speak." Dylan replied, slightly awkwardly.

"I already understand, it was nice to meet you. I won't keep you, we'll meet again!" Cullen said and wanted to pat him on the shoulder again, but stopped and instead waved goodbye.

Dylan stood in a bit of a stupor from this situation, for him it was just unexpected. But still he became interested in who he could be, he had not heard of anyone with the last name Golden Raven.

"Rin, what kind of guy was that?" He said and turned his gaze to her as she tried to pull herself together.

"Ahem, it was the son of the head of the richest trading firm in the Holy Kingdom."

"Thank you and I think I'll see you later. It's time to start reading books, otherwise I'll never finish this."

"Of course, see you later." Rin replied and bowed slightly.

Dylan shook his head and waved goodbye as he left, but his thoughts were no longer about books, but about the fact that such an important merchant could certainly behave decently and did it for a reason.