This was indeed shocking. William started to read the content of these scrolls, before jumping over and picking more.
All of the scrolls here spoke about Mystic Arts, how to perform them, and the idea of Cults and their unique ways.
The level of these scrolls was totally a higher one than what he read before at the Cult. These scrolls weren't linked together, and many had the rest of their content missing.
"The other parts must be at that library," he thought to himself, referring to the Royal library.
He knew these scrolls were randomly picked without an order or care. No one could read this language, and so they must have picked parts of scrolls, leaving the other parts at the Royal library.
He first took a random tour around, picking scrolls and checking their content. With time passing, he didn't care about the dust anymore and got even his armour and uniform stained with dust and his sweat.
He lost himself while doing this, taking close to two days in just this random tour. Then he started to thoroughly read through them again, taking more than two weeks in doing so.
What made him take this long was the presence of many scrolls speaking about the conditions for anyone to train on the Mystic Arts. Unlike what he read back at the Cult, there were ways to let anyone without the right spirit affinity to train over these arts.
To do so, one had to use special techniques, hunt down special monsters, collect special parts of their bodies around. The idea was to use a technique to connect a master's spirit with the killed monster's, ending up crossing the gap that'd prevent someone like William from executing these arts.
William wanted to perform these arts when he saw how useful they were. His visit to the fate and destiny world wasn't simple and left a deep touch in his heart.
Yet, and weirdly enough, it seemed like all the scrolls speaking about these special techniques missed parts. That made William unable to grasp the general idea behind such techniques, not able to even try them out any time he wanted.
In addition to that, many scrolls spoke about high and advanced Mystic Arts, ones that were close to the grand formation used before by the Cardinals.
In these scrolls, Cardinals seemed to have another name, Bishops. Few scrolls spoke about an ancient history of the Cult, speaking about the idea of hailing from a special place.
"That place isn't mentioned in any scroll here," William thought to himself in regret. He wanted nothing more than to go to the remaining library and start working from there on completing the missing information he gained.
Yet he gained a lot of complete arts. And that made him quite satisfied by all this. "Yet there is a problem…" When he finished, he realised he spent lots of time checking and memorising these scrolls by heart and forgot to think of ways to gain more contribution points.
It was unquestionable that what he read in these scrolls would stick to his heart, wouldn't get known by anyone. Even if he was going to gain tons of contribution points, he wasn't willing to do this exchange.
What he didn't know was that when Tara relayed the news of his ability to read such weird scrolls, the elders, and those who were higher than them, agreed at once to let William into the Royal library.
"Are you sure?!!" And when William heard such news, he couldn't help but jump in delight, "I'm allowed to go there?"
"Yes," she nodded, "after all, you are the first to claim his knowledge and ability to read these weird scribbles."
She tried more than once to know what these scrolls were speaking about, and yet William kept a tightly shut mouth about this. When she told the elders about this, they weren't that dejected as her.
They planned to reward William handsomely in return for sharing what he read with them. The more William resisted to say anything, the more surer they became about the true value of these scrolls.
In fact, and throughout the long history of this city, and at other places in the world, a big conflict was there about these scrolls and weird items found in the world.
Many saw nothing of value in these items, and many things were lost at many times in history when the opposing party was ruling at few places in the world.
Luckily this city had rulers who thought highly of these scrolls, carefully saved them, and even placed high rewards for anyone able to decipher and share their content with them.
Such rewards were generous enough to even make the elders confident about William's decision to share what he learnt with them. And in one of these rewards, there was indeed something that William would need to acquire later on.
"Let's go then," William was so excited to even think about having any rest, "let's visit that library right away!"
Tara didn't delay and led William towards that library. William noticed they were heading towards the heart of the city and had to pass through a highly secured massive area, surrounded with thick walls and many defensive towers.
"You really love domes," William commented when he spotted many domes inside that region. There were lots of palaces and grand buildings here, many with different dome shapes and sizes.
"They look beautiful!" Angelica couldn't help but express her admiration towards the sight in front of her. And her comment made Tara quite satisfied, giving William a blaming look for not seeing the beauty in this place.
"Why are there many guards here?" William noticed the presence of many guards, walking in groups of a hundred each, wearing the same uniform, a purple cloak with fine white lines that stretched from their shoulders all the way down to their knees.
"They are the royal army," Tara explained, "they are the ones responsible for handling the security of this place. No other master is allowed to work here aside from them."
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