Chapter 175
The next day, Philly came back with Eric . Tama was with them .
Tama immediately started to lick my face .
I petted him as I said,
“How were your parents?”
“They were very well . But they are busy dealing with the dark ones…”
Eric smiled and said,
“Marquis Mastafon and his wife are doing their best . ”
“That’s good . As part of the privy council, I suppose?”
“Of course . We don’t have enough brilliant officials who we can trust with secrets . ”
The privy council worked directly under Eric, and they were continuing their investigation .
There were suspicions of informers within the home ministry .
And their role was very important .
As the former head of the ministry of finance, Marquis Mastafon now worked as a civil servant .
Milka came running towards us after noticing Philly’s return .
“Well come back, Master!”
“Hello . I am sorry you could not have lessons yesterday . ”
“Don’t mind that! I’m doing the task you gave us . ”
“That’s wonderful . Today we shall…”
Philly was already prepared to teach . However, we would have to go to the wind dragon palace today .
“Sorry, Philly and Milka . ”
“Hm?”
“Dorgo and Kathe said they will show us material at the wind dragon palace today . ”
“…That sounds very interesting . ”
Milka said quickly .
“Don’t worry about me! I still have work to do!”
“Milka, I’m sorry . ”
“Don’t you worry about it either, Mister Locke!”
After breakfast, Philly gave them work to do .
And then we headed to the wind dragon palace with Dorgo and Kathe .
Grulf and Tama came too .
As we used the magic circles, it only took a second .
Dorgo and Kathe were currently in human form .
“So this is the wind dragon palace…”
“Woof . ”
Philly and Tama were surprised .
It was made for dragons, which meant that it was very large .
“The library is this way . ”
“Please follow me . ”
Kathe and Dorgo led us to the library .
The room was tightly sealed with magic .
“These are some strong defenses . ”
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“Of course . Books are incredibly valuable . Locke unleashed fireballs in this palace before . But they were properly protected . ”
“That’s…amazing . ”
“…Woof . ”
Philly and Tama said in surprise . Kathe looked at them smugly .
“And here it is . ”
They went inside .
“These books are huge . ”
“Woof-woof . ”
Philly looked around the room in awe .
She had not stopped being surprised ever since stepping foot into the palace .
“Groof . ”
But Grulf had no interest in the shelves of books .
His nose was pressing into my back .
“They are for dragons . That’s why they are so big . ”
“Kathe . Where are the books on alchemy?”
“…Uh, this whole area over here . ”
Kathe pointed to an entire wall .
It was a dragon library . So the room was very big and the ceiling very high .
More precisely, it was about as wide as fifty adult men were tall .
And the height was about ten times that .
But it was so big that it was hard to tell that your perceptions were correct .
“That’s a lot . ”
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“It will take us days . ”
While a single book was huge, so was the entire shelf .
There were many books crammed into it .
“This will be a lot of work . ”
Philly said . But her eyes were shining .
She was excited to see so many books .
She had an unending desire for knowledge .
Dorgo said in a calm voice,
“In general, you may only read the books here, and cannot take them outside . ”
“I understand . ”
“And there are some books you may not read . ”
“Yes, of course . ”
The wind dragons were good with alchemy . And this was the king’s library .
There were probably arts passed down through the family and things others were forbidden from seeing .
“And so, unfortunately, I cannot say that you can freely look through them . ”
“That is fine . Just reading some of them will be a great help . ”
“Thank you for understanding . ”
Philly looked a little disappointed after hearing this .
Then Dorgo went to the shelf and picked out a few books .
Each book was about as big as an adult man .
They were also as thick as the distance from my foot to my knee . The covers were elaborate and beautiful .
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Once the books were on the table, Grulf showed an interest .
He started sniffing them .
“They are very big . ”
“They were made for us . ”
“Yes . ”
The pages were the perfect size for them to use .
I tried turning one of the pages .
The cover was thick and heavy . But the paper inside was very thin .
And the letters were not that much larger than they were in human writing .
“That’s a lot of words for a single page . ”
“It is the dragon way . ”
“And the number of pages…”
“That is how we prefer it . ”
Dorgo said with a smile .
Philly managed to open the cover of one book . Then she said,
“This is like exercise . ”
“Don’t worry, only the covers are heavy . ”
“That’s a relief… You are right, Mister Locke…there are so many words on each page . ”
Each page was dozens of times larger than the average human book . But the letters were the same size .
And the paper was very thin . Apparently, each book had nearly ten thousand pages .
“Dragons have a lot of time, thanks to our long lives . So books tend to be this way . ”
Kathe said proudly .