CHAPTER FIFTY FOUR

The dangers only libraries can offer a young mage

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~ Name: Oak ~

Title: Ghostly Archer

Class: Sorcerer [lv103]

HP

[103]

MANA

[262]

ATK

[95]

INT

[184]

DEF

[75]

SPD

[99⇨ 105]

Okay, I’ll help you look for answers, you have got to move

Without your help the city’s situation won’t improve

There’s a strange old magic I can feel in those books there

Hurry, your own daughter’s fighting while you’re in that chair!

“I do wonder how Sky’s doing, with her odd new class

Though it’s not the strangest thing that will have come to pass”

“Will you please stop talking for a little while my love?

You needn’t worry, that’s my own daughter you’re speaking of”

Achievement: Concerned Parent

For a while it seemed as though you’d forgotten your child

Right now she may be in danger out there in the wild

Find your answers, but accept you may not like the truth

This is not some game like you were prone to in your youth

“I know, but she’s still so small, despite her strength and skill

I wish I could be there to see her first monster kill

Wait a minute, what’s this book, I can’t translate a thing

Take a look at this, it feels almost like it’s hiding!”

Hawk rushed over, shocked to hear he couldn’t read a word

“A language you can’t translate with your skill, that’s just absurd!”

But sure enough, she couldn’t read it either, and she stared

It was just a small book, but it almost made her scared

“This book is far too old to have been written in this land

This was written with a magic I can’t understand

It’s more like a diary, but something’s off a bit

Tell me quickly, exactly where did you find this book”

Oak pointed toward another book upon the floor

“It was hidden in this book, behind a magic door

Sealed away at least a thousand years ago or so

Why somebody hid it there, I guess we’ll never know”

“This book has been sealed in another since an unknown age

And even with your language skills, you cannot read a page

Let me try a higher level appraisal skill now

Maybe it’s be tamped with to hide its words somehow”

Hawk was known for being the ‘All Seeing’ for good cause

Her skill to understand things what give even the gods pause

So when she cast the highest class appraisal class she could

She knew the status screen that she unlocked could not be could

Unknown Entity

This magic in this object is unlike any other

An unknown energy radiates from this book’s cover

Integrate this object with a known mana format

Be aware, the System Admin may not allow that

“Well, what does it say, is it what you were looking for?”

Oak then slowly realized what she was silent for

“You’ve never looked regretful to learn about something new

Tell me quickly, is there anything that I can do”

Hawk was breathing heavily but managed to whisper

“I’ve found a red status box, but I must dig deeper

The System doesn’t seem to have power over this book

Cast whatever stealth magic you have, we’ll take a look”

Achievement: Challenging Universal Law

Hawk, I’d normally advise against this sort of thing

But unnatural events nwo threaten everything

The System seems preoccupied with whatever’s begun

It seems it’s having trouble watching over everyone

~ Name: Hawk ~

Title: All Seeing

Class: Mage [lv149]

HP

[167]

MANA

[210⇨ 420]

ATK

[197⇨ 92]

INT

[186]

DEF

[161⇨ 56]

SPD

[87]

If it gets too much to bear, I’ll take the status back

It should be mostly balanced through your defense and attack

Waste no time and spare no mana, unseal that old book

Every god I know here is too tempted not to look

Hawk new from the pain she felt, this might be her last chance

A risk she’d have to take if her research was to advance

She held the book before her husband as he cast a spell

No longer would they cast shadows, or make a sound or smell

“This is all I’m capable of, what shall we do next?

Do you have a spell that might unseal this ancient text?”

“I think it may just be a simple puzzle in disguise

There shouldn’t be too many spells in something of this size”

“She filled the book with mana and began to search through it

Its nature was much harder to unseal than she’d admit

But with unrivalled mana flowing through her spells and soul

The book began to change, and she knew she had reached her goal”

The cover and the pages all transformed in clouds of dust

Opening as if Hawk’s spell had earned the pages’ trust

Its final form was different than what she had ever seen

The cover was majestic, glowing an emerald green

She waved her hand to open it as it hung in the air

Surprised and disappointed to see what was waiting there

Only three pages survived, the rest had been torn out

She didn’t wait to see what those three pages were about

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