Chapter 167: Palace’s Library
A month passed since Yale started his research about Shirk’s bloodline, but although the experiments didn’t fail, the progress was the same as the first time, and it wasn’t possible using any of them for a huge improvement of the bloodline.
Shirk lived the whole month eating only fasting pills, and he didn’t move from the bed in the whole time; he was tired of that, but he also knew that Yale was putting his effort into helping him, so he just endured it.
Yale had been so frustrated that even his night training was almost stopped, his progress in that month was small compared with his usual speed after meeting Aiwai.
That day, Yale was seated in his chair checking the system out of boredom, he was blocked and didn’t know how to continue the research.
“Name: Yale | Age: 14 | Origin Level: 17 |Origin Points: 643/643”
“Vitality: 661 | Strength: 667 | Agility: 665 | Intelligence: 700 | Wisdom: 700 | Dexterity: 658”
In the eyes of others, his progress was still extremely quick, but he didn’t like that loss of speed in exchange for nothing. If Yale had a big progress on the research then he wouldn’t mind for that loss, but the research was also in a stalemate, and his only idea was trying to use some aggressive and dangerous methods that had almost the certainty to fail and cripple Shirk.
Yale didn’t want to do that; if Shirk was crippled by a failure then there was nothing Yale could do as that was part of the risk, but doing an experiment while being almost sure that Shirk would be crippled was just crippling him directly.
“Hi, Yale. How is your research going?”
Sebe’s voice appeared in Yale’s mind, Yale had been in contact with him to obtain supplies of blood samples, but Sebe’s servants always delivered those blood samples because Sebe had been in seclusion for training the whole time due to the matter of the Twin Eunuchs.
“It isn’t going well. There are no failures, but the improvements are just too small, and I am blocked about what to do to change that.”
Sebe didn’t know if he should laugh because Yale was joking or cry because he was serious, improving a lot the trash bloodlines like Shirk’s was something no one did. Those tiny improvements were the only ones people managed to standardize for some trash bloodlines, and trough bit improvements in a lot of generations the bloodlines improved a bit more compared to the original bloodline.
In a month, Yale managed to create a successful method to improve Shirk’s bloodline a bit without failure, that was something most people needed years of research. However, with such method, maybe in some generations after Shirk there would be some appreciable improvement, but for Shirk himself that was impossible.
“Yale, you put your standards too high, your results are already extremely good for just a month, but knowing you, you won’t be satisfied just by that. How about if you accompany me to a meeting with my friends, that was the reason I called you. Maybe a change of environment would enlighten you.”
The matter about the Twin Eunuchs had calmed after that month, so Sebe decided to organize a meeting with his friends. Although Sebe liked training, he didn’t like being completely isolated from the world forever.
“Alright, maybe that is a good idea. I will ask my big sister to take care of Shirk although there shouldn’t be any problem with him. Where will the meeting be?”
After all the experiments Yale didn’t feel that there were possibilities of Shirk losing his control as the methods he used were already standardized and always worked in the same way, but he didn’t want to bet, so having Aiwai checking him until Yale returned was better than leaving Shirk alone.
“In the library of the palace, that place was usually empty, and I managed to put it under my authority, so we always have our meetings there. Wait for me at the door of the palace, and I will show you where the library is situated. You can go there whenever you want.”
Sebe felt that having a library that nobody used was a waste, so he convinced his father a long time ago to obtain the rights of management for the library and started to have meetings with their friends there. Moreover, Sebe also liked reading a lot of books, so the library was one of his favorite places.
After ending the conversation with Sebe, Yale called Aiwai and asked her for looking Shirk in his absence. She accepted in exchange for suffocating Yale with a hug for three minutes; she thought that Yale with the white lab coat he was wearing for the research was too cute.
Yale stored that lab coat after leaving the house; he had forgotten to store it before meeting with Aiwai because he forgot he was wearing it. That lab coat was something Sebe had gifted him as he said it was the right clothing for doing research and as it was very light, Yale usually forgot that he was wearing it.
Yale reached the palace and followed Sebe into the library where there were already some people seated, some of them had books in their hands while others were just speaking.
“Guys, he is Yale. He is also my friend and reached the city about a month ago.”
The others looked towards Yale; they knew who Yale was due to the rumors about the Twin Eunuchs.
“So, you are the brother of those two girls that the Twin Eunuchs offended before getting punished. Sebe really did it well there. Maybe he would be your brother-in-law in the future.”
A man with a peck instead of nose and mouth was the one saying those words and receiving a deadly stare from Sebe and Yale.
“Stop that; you know that I was only protecting the family of my friend; it was a matter of time that those two got punished by their acts.”
No one else joked about the topic after that; they know that Sebe was tired about the matter of the Twin Eunuchs. Sebe and Yale seated with the others and Sebe started speaking. However, Yale wasn’t paying attention to the conversation.
Yale’s friend was only Sebe, he didn’t know the others nor would open to them just because they were Sebe’s friends, the topics they were speaking were also topics he didn’t have any interest.
Thus, Yale just picked up a random book and started to read; there were some others doing the same, so he didn’t feel that he was doing something wrong. Moreover, Yale always loved reading, so he would rather spend his time reading some books than socializing with Sebe’s friends.
“Oh, that book is about how the Anpaes Kingdom was founded, Sebe, this friend of yours has good taste.”
A woman with cat ears stopped reading her book when Yale picked up that huge book, that book was the most complete version of the kingdom’s history and was very valued by those who liked reading books.
“That is indeed a good book, my grandfather made a great effort to create this kingdom, and there are only a few books which depict his feats correctly.”
The story of the Anpaes Kingdom was very long, and most books only spoke about the last thousand years; books that explain things since the day the kingdom was founded could only be found in the library of the palace which was full of ancient books.
“If I remember correctly, the kingdom was founded after a great war. I hope I can also fight in a great war someday, that is the only way you can turn into a hero.”
The guy who said that had a horn on his nose, and his body was quite bulky; Yale guessed that he should have some kind of rhinoceros bloodline.
“Don’t joke about that. I heard that even grandfather almost died in that great war. If such type of war happens again, you won’t be a hero; you will be a corpse.”
Sebe knew more about that era than most people, he had always been interested in the history of the kingdom, and he had asked the king for some stories that Anpaes had told to him in the past.
Although Sebe had never met his grandfather, the king remembered perfectly the stories told by Anpaes and was glad to explain them to Sebe.
“Sebe, do you know more about that great war?”
Yale knew that his past life was implicated in that war, so he was hoping that knowing more about it would help him to unlock some memories.
“I don’t know a lot, that was even before my father was born. All I know are things my father had heard from my grandfather.”
Yale didn’t mind about that; any information was good for him. Sebe saw that Yale was alright with it and that his other friends also seemed interested in hearing that story.
There weren’t any books with information previous to the creation of the Anpaes Kingdom in the library, so the topic was extremely interesting for them.
“Alright. Remember, this is an ancient story, so I don’t know how much it differed from the truth. After all, that great war happened more than thirty thousand years ago.”