The streets of Saint Yewal were extremely broad, lined on both sides with various shops, among which shops selling spellcasting materials dominated.
Among the bustling crowds, a large proportion of people were clad in robes and hoods—practitioners of the arcane arts. Besides humans, there were also many strange races, cyborgs, biomechanical beasts, and mutated creatures. The sight was so bizarre and colorful that it seemed like entering a monster exposition.
Of course, under the control of the Council and numerous wizard towers, even the most vicious and evil creatures and sorcerers had no choice but to obey the city’s rules and conduct transactions peacefully.
“Is the entire city constantly under surveillance by the wizard towers?” Wu Ming thought to himself, fully aware of the situation.
Although Saint Yewal appeared extremely free and open, in reality, every outsider was under extremely close surveillance by the wizard towers—subtle yet highly effective.
Of course, with his identity and cultivation level, what was shown to those watching wizards was merely an ordinary high-level spellcaster, someone insignificant to the entire Saint Yewal.
The Grand Wizard Library was located at the heart of the city, covering an extremely large area, built in the style of an ancient Greek temple. The first thing that caught the eye was a flight of ninety-nine marble steps, exuding a solemn atmosphere.
“All spellcasters value knowledge greatly. Anyone who starts a fight or damages public property within the library will inevitably be thrown into the anti-magic prison!”
Marsha reminded him repeatedly: “My library card can temporarily be used by you, sir. However, if you plan to conduct long-term research here, it’s better to go through the procedures yourself. It’s very simple—just prove you are a spellcaster with no criminal record or outstanding warrants.”
“Mm!” Wu Ming nodded lightly and walked into the Wizard Library together with Marsha.
The massive doors towered into the sky, over fifty meters high, making one doubt whether they had arrived at the palace of giants.
Inside the library, the space was vast and immense. Many spellcasters moved hurriedly among the various reading rooms, yet not a sound was made.
“Beep!” At this moment, two black floating spheres—magical servants—suddenly appeared before Wu Ming and Marsha.
“These are the alchemical servants of the library. They’re very useful!” Marsha explained to Wu Ming while swiping a crystal card in front of them.
“Apprentice Alchemist Marsha, welcome! You have twenty points remaining and no overdue books to return!”
After identification, a mechanical voice came from the alchemical servant.
“Intelligent management?!” Wu Ming looked on with genuine interest. “It seems that within the core of this wizard library, there must be a tower spirit-like entity that oversees all the book collections and borrower information. If one could fully control the tower spirit…”
Unfortunately, such an act would inevitably draw the attention of spellcasters as powerful as deities.
Wu Ming had come to research and travel, not to wage war.
“Points?”
He caught on to something: “Do you need a lot of points to borrow high-level literature?”
“Quite a lot!” Marsha blushed. “For example, even a simple improved spell model requires over a hundred points. The higher the level of the material, the more terrifying the point requirement becomes… and points are extremely difficult to obtain. Although there are many ways to get them—even the option to buy directly with money—the cost-effectiveness is too low. Completing city tasks or exchanging books that the library hasn’t collected yet are widely recognized as the most suitable ways!”
“I need information about other planes!”
After explaining to Wu Ming, Marsha turned to the alchemical servant.
“Beep… This is advanced academic knowledge. Please proceed to Reading Room 35 for inquiry!” The alchemical servant’s voice was devoid of emotion: “Serious warning: For apprentices whose fundamentals are not yet solid, pursuing advanced academic knowledge recklessly is extremely dangerous—Legendary Magician, Dragon Slayer Meiler!”
“Let’s go!” Marsha rolled her eyes.
Researching other planes was an insatiable money pit, even more so than alchemy. Although some lucky wizards might find prosperous demi-planes, build wizard towers, and turn them into their private kingdoms, more often than not, people either found nothing or after consuming massive resources, discovered the other side was merely barren land with no value whatsoever, resulting in devastating losses.
Even if she became a high-level alchemist in the future, she would never consider exploring other planes.
“Reading Room 35!”
The two followed the alchemical servant to a small booth inside the library.
After closing the door, the outside world was completely sealed off, no sound penetrating inside, as if they had entered a completely different world.
This reading room was quite small, with only a central obsidian table and a crystal ball on it.
“Mr. Wu, I can only provide the access credentials. As for the required cost, I’m afraid I can’t help…” Marsha smiled bitterly and inserted her crystal card into the array on the obsidian table.
Even the most basic knowledge about other planes was still priceless!
“Mm!” Wu Ming casually placed his hand on the crystal ball. Immediately, a light screen appeared before his eyes, displaying a cascade of book titles and information:
[Searching for information about other planes!]
[Some titles are not accessible due to your low clearance!]
…
After these two lines of information, many book titles appeared before Wu Ming:
[“Overview of Other Planes”—authored by Dennis, borrowing requires 1000 points! Summary: …]
[“How to Use Other Planes for Teleportation”—authored by Ador, borrowing requires 1500 points! Summary…]
[“Advanced Anatomy Course—Creatures of Other Planes”—authored by Lilith, borrowing requires 3000 points…]
…
“They’re all just very basic books…” After reading the summaries, Wu Ming frowned. “After all, being just an alchemy apprentice, being able to see these already means the library is incredibly open-minded.”
“How do I increase my clearance?”
He directly asked Marsha beside him.
“Huh?”
Marsha looked at those book titles, especially the borrowing costs, swallowed hard, and then stammered: “Improving your spellcasting level has the most significant effect on clearance changes. Also, if you provide books that the library doesn’t have, your clearance can increase rapidly!”
“Oh, then let me borrow your library card for a moment!”
After operating a bit, Wu Ming quickly became familiar with this semi-intelligent device: “I want to donate books to the library to increase my clearance!”
[Ding!]
The light and shadow inside the crystal ball immediately changed: [Please input the book. If the database finds no existing record or a similarity below 50%, it will be accepted and rated for clearance and point rewards.]
“They’ve even developed to the point of mind-writing books? Makes sense, considering that high-level spellcasters’ brains and thoughts are no different from computers, since they have to memorize three-dimensional spell models…”
In terms of vision, knowledge, and accumulated experience, having traversed numerous worlds and crossed the universe, Wu Ming had no match in this world.
Especially knowledge and spell materials from other dimensions, which were certainly not collected by the wizard library.
As Wu Ming transmitted his will, a prompt box popped up instantly:
[Ding!]
[“Five Dragons Devouring Qi Method”! Confirmed not in the database, originality 100%! Categorized under Eastern Taoist Techniques! Contains supernatural attributes, rating increased!]
[Ding! Respected Magician, you have earned 10,000 points, clearance upgraded to Full Magician, eligible to access most of the library’s resources!]
…
“Reaching the level of a full magician?”
For Wu Ming, this technique was merely a casual collection, practically useless to him. Being able to exchange it for these resources was already quite good.
And the books and Taoist techniques he remembered were not limited to just this!
“The Golden Body Technique,” “Five Thunder Supreme Technique,” “Blue Dragon Bloodline Purification,” “Complete Explanation of Yin and Yang Arts,”…
How swift was the mind of an eighth-tier being?
In almost an instant, Wu Ming sorted out dozens of books casually recorded during his previous travels and sent them to the library’s tower spirit.
With each successive “beep” sound, his clearance and points rapidly increased.
Beside him, Marsha watched this scene in a daze, her expression nearly numb.
After an unknown amount of time, the tower spirit’s mechanical voice finally sounded: “Beep! Respected Magician, your clearance has reached the peak of High Magician!”
“Oh? There’s even this limit?”
Wu Ming rubbed his chin thoughtfully: “It seems this is also a kind of restriction. Ordinary low-level magicians, even with a vast database, cannot access truly advanced and core literature… However, did they really think I couldn’t handle it?”
A gleam suddenly flashed in his eyes.
For someone who could dismantle even the main temple, after some initial testing, breaking into the tower spirit without drawing attention might be somewhat difficult. But creating a backdoor for himself and raising his clearance a bit was extremely simple.
In almost an instant, his mind followed the information channel and infiltrated the core of the entire Wizard Library, creating a backdoor for himself.
“I want to access ‘Exploration of Other Planes,’ ‘Comprehensive Analysis of Multiverse Anomalies,’ and ‘Legendary Plane Transformation!'”
[Ding! Clearance verified!]
The tower spirit mechanically replied, displaying a large amount of graphic and textual information.
The truly advanced materials could not be borrowed from the library; one could only read them on-site.
Yet these documents, which were originally accessible only to legendary-level wizards, were now directly retrieved by Wu Ming, with Marsha completely unaware.
…
Deep beneath the Wizard Library, in an unknown depth, a wizard tower stood out.
At the center of the tower, numerous wizards stared at the central monitor, performing routine surveillance.
“The library is all normal!”
A wizard rubbed his eyes, feeling puzzled as he thought the green dot indicating safety had moved slightly before nothing happened at all, furrowing his brows slightly.
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