Wizard: You can become stronger by living life to the fullest.

Chapter 181: The Library

"Warning! Warning! Intruder detected! Intruder detected!"

"Warning! Warning! Intruder detected! Intruder detected!"

Although it had been crushed into a lump of scrap metal, the tin man was still stubbornly making sounds.

Curious, Luo Xi pulled it closer and, after lifting the metal head on top, quickly found a generating device inside, which was quite ingeniously designed.

"So that's how it is. Is this the core of the driver?"

"Soul Crystal. It seems it should be fused through a human soul, right?"

After briefly learning about the alchemical golem's structure, Rosie casually tossed it into her spatial ring. There was a soul rune on it that seemed interesting; she'd study it more thoroughly later.

After dealing with the Tin Man, Rosie walked smoothly into the library.

The huge library was completely deserted at this time, but that makes sense; at a time like this, probably no apprentice would have the mind to read books here.

"So many books!"

Looking at the bookshelves filled with books, Luo Xi felt a pang of envy, after all, each book represented a valuable amount of knowledge.

"I wish I could collect them all."

Thinking of this, Rosie couldn't help but feel a little regretful. Strictly speaking, these books were all spoils of war belonging to the Alliance, and the Alliance's wizards would definitely come to confiscate them afterward.

Taking a few books to get some freebies is fine, but if he takes them all, the alliance will definitely investigate afterwards. If they find out that he's a thief who took advantage of the chaos to fight instead of helping, and then sneaked in to steal things, I wonder what they'll do.

"Forget it, there's no need for that. Anyway, most of the knowledge can probably be made public later."

There are not many confidentiality requirements for apprentice-level knowledge. Most of these books will end up filling public libraries after the Alliance takes them back. Only a small portion of the more "dark wizard" knowledge will be controlled.

All you need to do is filter out this part of the knowledge and take it away in advance.

That being said, it is not easy to do so. Although it is not difficult to determine whether a book is under the control of the Alliance, it is generally possible to tell by spending half an hour reading a chapter.

But one or two books are one thing, but there are hundreds or even thousands of books piled up here. If each one takes half an hour to read, it would take at least half a month to sort them all out. It would be impossible for other wizards to select them before the battle ends.

However, this wouldn't be difficult for Rosie.

He casually picked up a few books, placed them on the table, and opened them, while simultaneously activating the system.

[You begin reading "Mondelof's Third Rune System," "Cardigo Necromancer Construction," and "Juven's Fire Element Analysis," completely absorbed and neglecting sleep and meals.]

A day has passed, and you've looked at some of them.

[Gain: A little knowledge.]

A slight throbbing sensation came from my head, followed by a flood of unfamiliar knowledge about the books in my hands.

"Not bad luck, I've already made some progress!"

Rosie immediately selected the book on the necromancy of Kediago. This book involved some of the more profound knowledge in the field of necromancy, and it would definitely be controlled by the Alliance if it fell into their hands.

The remaining two books are much more ordinary, containing only very basic information, and will likely be available in public libraries in the future.

Using this method, Luo Xi then followed suit and read through all the books in the entire library.

It would take other apprentices at least half a month to go through all of the more than a thousand books, even just a cursory reading. However, Luo Xi finished reading them in less than twenty minutes.

After gaining a general understanding of these books, Luo Xi selected more than a dozen of them. He was quite certain that these books would fall into the hands of the Alliance and become controlled. If he didn't organize them in advance, it would be difficult to access them later.

Next, Rosie took out a mirror crystal that she had prepared in advance.

He handed the crystal to Alice and asked, "Do you know how to use this?"

Alice nodded: "Mirror Crystal, I know it."

Luo Xi pointed to the books he had selected next to him: "Help me write down all of these books."

If all these books are taken away, the Alliance will still become suspicious, since the apprentices inside the tower are still there, and it will be easy to find out later that the book list is incorrect.

Therefore, Rosie prepared the Mirror Crystal in advance, recorded the information through it, and then later erased all traces of Alice's knowledge. This way, no one would know that he had stolen knowledge, and it would all be done without anyone noticing.

Alice took the mirror crystal to record knowledge. It's worth mentioning that under normal circumstances, this kind of thing would definitely not be done. Copying knowledge without permission is a serious crime no matter where you are. In a place like the Black Witch Domain, it would be even more serious, as it would lead to being put on the experimental table and becoming a test subject.

However, the tower is now in complete chaos, and the library's only guardian, the Tin Man, has been crushed into a lump of iron by Rosie, so naturally no one can stop it.

After leaving Alice in the library to record knowledge, Rosie then headed to the wizard-level library.

The Wizarding Library is located above the Apprentice Library, and the two are connected by a spiral staircase.

However, this place is off-limits to apprentices. Even Alice, who is only a junior apprentice, has never been up there and dares not go up there. She says that she can instinctively feel danger whenever she gets close to that spiral staircase.

After getting directions, Rosie quickly arrived at the spiral staircase at the innermost part of the library. Just as Alice had described, he felt a strong mental fluctuation as soon as he arrived.

Unlike Alice, who could only sense danger, he, as a wizard, could clearly see the energy path of this mental fluctuation. Judging from this energy reaction, there must be a special defensive magic installed here.

"Defense magic. Is it dangerous?"

After thinking for a moment, Rosie took out the Grim Reaper's Scythe, raised her hand, and summoned a skeleton warrior.

"Go, go up and scout ahead for me."

As soon as he gave the order, the skeleton warrior immediately and obediently walked up the stairs. The bare bones made a "clack-clack-clack" sound as they walked up the smooth steps, which was particularly clear in the library where a silencing spell was in place.

Soon, the skeleton warrior disappeared from Rosie's sight and went up to the top of the stairs.

However, at that very moment, the mental connection between the skeleton warrior and him was suddenly severed, just like a cell phone losing signal. No matter how much Rosie tried to respond, there was no reaction whatsoever.

Before Luo Xi could react, there were several clanging sounds as pieces of broken bone rolled down the steps.

The original skeleton warriors were now scattered all over the ground.

(End of this chapter)