Ascendance of a Bookworm

Next Zent Candidate

When I tried to leave everything to the reliable Magdalena to go back to the library, Hannelore called me in the manner of "Um, Master Magdalena" and being afraid.

"What could it be? Dear Hannelore?"

"Would you rather hide than continue working in the library, lest Dear Dietrinde and we face each other? Well, shouldn't you be too familiar with the fact that we're minors here to help?

A little Magdalena thinks into Hannelore's words, which take the story of lunch as an example.

"It's not the safest thing to be in the library because I don't know how many escorts Master Dietrinde has and for what purpose he's here, but it's also the best word Hannelore has to say"

No matter how many knights you have, there's only one Dietrinde in the library. If it's the safest part of the library, but can keep you from being known to exist from the beginning, that's the best part.

"I think it would be most dangerous to bowl together on the stairs..."

Everyone gets stuck in the words of Leonore. That's when the Ordnants flew in. The white bird descended on Magdalena's wrist and opened his mouth. Ordnants start talking in the voice of Solange, who lurked a little like he cared about his surroundings.

"It's a solange. We are now going to register Dear Dietrinde of Arlensbach for admission in the office. If it is better not to be seen a minor in the House of Lords, hide behind a closed library. We'll help you get out of another entrance and exit later."

Solange, who knows we're eating lunch in the basement, told us on purpose. If you're buying me time and letting me out, I've never been over it.

"It's better that Master Magdalena doesn't see you much, either, right? Let's hide in a closed library together."

I called out so, but Magdalena said, "No. It's unnatural that this library is open, but no one is there," he shook his neck to the side.

"Besides, I have to find out when and by whom Lady Dietrinde learned of the existence of this library."

Dietrinde could not have known about the existence of a library that the royal family left behind after the coup d 'état did not. If you knew, it shouldn't have meant you didn't have a library registration as a student, Magdalena said.

... maybe if you ask me that.

"Now is such a time that those who have finished lunch have not yet finished their journey. If Dr. Solange guides you out, stay away from the central building. When Dear Dietrinde leaves the library, I will fly the Ordnants."

Nodding at the words of Magdalena, I hand Magdalena the texts I have translated in modern language together and prepare to clear out my writing equipment so that I can go outside. It's a shame because I thought I could be caged in the library all day today.

He then flew Ordonanz, who was going to clean up his lunch, informing his side servants of the situation, and told them not to return to the library until they heard from him.

"Hildebrandt doesn't want to be a nuisance to everyone. I'll talk to Dear Dietrinde here."

When Magdalena laughed at Nicole and entrusted Hildebrandt to the escort knights, she hurried to go to the closed library as soon as possible. We hurry up the stairs. The key to the door between the closed library and the underground library was opened to allow the side servants to enter and exit, so it was not a problem to enter the closed library.

Brother Cornelius, who stood in front of the door coming in through the browsing room, gives instructions as he ascertains where he cannot see if he can hide.

"Prince Hildebrandt should hide behind the deepest bookshelf. Dunkelferger in front of you, please. And please be careful not to step forward of this bookshelf."

Let Hannelore and Hildebrandt, with their proximity, go behind the bookshelves in front of us. The bookshelf in the closed library where the precious books are located has a back plate, so if you hide behind the bookshelf, you won't even see them.

"... hasn't it?

Dietrinde doesn't come even though he's completely hidden. Maybe Solange is buying me time, but it's very painful to sit still without moving a bit.

"The keys are unlocked so the sidekicks can get in and out. Be quiet because you don't know when you're coming in"

... I want to read the book here.

Even though I have a book I have never read in front of me, I have never read a book in front of a bookshelf and it is very painful to stand still.

... Can I read it because I'm keeping it quiet? No, right? I know. I know, but I want to read it.

I wait for Dietrinde to come, contemplating being angry when I put it in my mouth. There was a chatter, the door opened, and a bright light plugged into the closed library.

"Well. So Dear Dietrinde is here in that letter...?

Solange's soft voice echoed the closed library. I can see Solange asking us why we're visiting the library.

"Yeah, it is. I received an unwritten strange letter from the sender...... It said that he wanted to help me just so I could be the next Zent. The library of the House of Lords is asleep with the knowledge necessary to become a Zent, he said. It must have been given to me by the gods."

... Wait a minute. Did you come to the library to believe such a suspicious letter from an unknown sender?!? Dear Dietrinde's behavior is not as far-fetched as it could possibly be as a Lordship Candidate!?

Dietrinde is often scolded with all sorts of things too. I wouldn't want to be told, but I think it would definitely be like being thundered off Ferdinand if I did the same thing. Most importantly, the sidekicks usually sort letters, so much so that I'm not even sure if such suspicious letters will get to me.

... I'm surprised Dear Dietrinde is grasping the right answer, even though he can't be a Lordship candidate.

"There wasn't enough magic and the magic team didn't start," Ferdinand said, "but if you're serious about your next Zent, you have to read the literature in the basement library.

"It said that the library was open during the Lords' Conference, so we decided to take a trip. There will be more and more meetings and tea parties scheduled, so if you miss today, you don't know when you'll be able to take your feet next."

Appointments are rarely tightly packed from the first day of the Lords' Conference. In the first few days there will be a meeting where all the Aub and his wife can gather, during which they will invite each other and arrange appointments. As a result, they're going to be getting busy, although they still have plenty of time to spare as soon as it starts.

My adoptive father told me that Aerenfest had no plans when it was a bottom territory with little invitations from the rest of the territory, as soon as he wanted to cut them up and go home, but now the plans are startling from day one.

"Prince Gigisvalt glowed the magic formation during the star knot ritual, and the royalty would go into and out of the underground library during the Lords' Council, wouldn't it? I'm not the one who ran for it first. Don't you think so?

Altancia laughed bitterly and said, "… such a way of speaking was considered disrespectful to the royal family." But Lady Dietrinde laughed cunt.

"Isn't it strange to call a royal who doesn't even have a gluthris height a royalty? I am the one who is chosen by the gods to be true Zent."

I don't know how I can be that confident, but Dietrinde's high laugh echoes in the closed library.

"Isn't Dear Dietrinde the next Aub Ahrensbach"

"That's true, but I, I'm sure you'll get Gluthris Height before you're Aub"

Do the closest people say nothing because they think Dietrinde's words are right, or is it troublesome and flushing to resist them? Ferdinand is going to be in a coalition without jokes as it is.

"Dear Dietrinde, I'd like to ask you one thing..."

Altancia coughed up with Cohon, blocking Dietrinde's high laugh. And cut it out as if it were for us here to hear it, and ask it out loud with a heart.

"Will the Schlartraum flowers bloom beautifully again this year?

"What flower could it be?

"Don't you know Master Dietrinde? They say it's my husband's favorite flower, only available in Arlensbach. Ask Master Georgine."

Take Dietrinde and his side down the stairs while Altancia says so.

... What's a Schlartraum flower? Master Dietrinde doesn't know, and if you ask Master Georgine, you'll know flowers? Ortancia's husband was Raoblut, chief of the Central Knights, wasn't he?

Probably a hint of something. It must be a word like the code used by the noblemen when they don't want to be big, when they want to pierce irrelevance, if only someone who understands.

... Can you tell if I consult Master Ferdinand by letter?...... Ugh. But can I talk to you?

Shortly after you tell me to stay out of contact, can I send out a letter? But it's too heavy for me to hold it alone. The names of Georgine and Ferdinand, both of whom were suspected of taking Aerensbach for Aerenfest, appear at the same time. I know what's disturbing.

... Dear Georgine, I am going to talk to my adoptive father for now...

I don't know if my adoptive father knows Raobrut. My personal contact with Laobrut came when I ate the call in the House of Lords and showed the Bible, and when I came to the library to confirm to Ferdinand that it was the fruit of Adalziza.

... I wish I could explain it well while hiding the fruit of Adalziza.

My thoughts were cut off by the sound of Solange closing the door that leads to the basement. Solange turns around and looks back once he closes the key to the door.

"Ladies and gentlemen, are you there?

"Yeah, Dr. Solange."

"You can get out of here."

And Solange said so, and sent us out from the likes of an emergency exit. Suddenly out of the dark enclosed library bright, his eyes dazzle and his vision tickles.

"This is the back of the library. It's just the opposite of the central wing, so I don't think it's going to be easy on people unless they get on a horseback.... Why don't you take a little walk until Dear Dietrinde gets home? It wouldn't be good for you to be caged in the basement all day, would it?

Solange says so, turning back inside to unlock the basement library door. Face-to-face with Dietrinde was avoided. But it is not for me to take a long walk until Dietrinde returns.

... At least you should have borrowed the book.

Don't stand in regret. I shudder in the library backyard. Hannelore also looked around the backyard like she was in trouble.

"If this is all the weather, it's just right for a picnic, but you've left the tools to make tea and the tea treats in the basement library. How do we spend our time?

"Dear Hannelore, I do have a good picnic, but in case you think about it, you might want to move a little"

Artur, near Hildebrandt's side, looks around with a tense face.

"So why don't you take a walk over there? In the woods, it's hard for people to see."

I pointed to the woods spreading to the south side of the garden. In the woods, where the leaking sun shines and paints a complex pattern on the ground, it seems easier to spend more time than in the library yard where the sun hits with you as hard as your head.

"Right. Master Rosemaine should put out a horseman for one and go into the woods a little. 'Cause too much sun will make you sick."

"This still got a little sturdy..."

In the words of Otilier I point my lips. After I immersed myself in Jurevé for the second time, I became quite sturdy. Even in the House of Lords, he was away, and I don't think Otilier has grasped my physical condition, which he spent most of his time in the temple even after returning to Aerenfest.

"We know Master Rosemaine is getting a little tough, but it's forbidden to be alarmed. If you get sick, you won't be able to go to the library for a while."

... That's right, but don't say it in front of Master Hannelore and Prince Hildebrandt!

In the words of Otilier I glimpse how Hannelore and Hildebrandt are. The suggestion was that the two traumatized men who suddenly collapsed at the tea party and their proximity turned their faces bright blue and pointed to the forest.

"Rosemaine, let's go to the woods. Because you can use a horseman. If it comes down to letting you help the royal family, I..."

"Prince Hildebrandt is right, Master Rosemayne. If you keep going straight south, there should be a Dunkelferger dorm. You might see it if you put it in the woods a little bit."

You can't even say "I'll walk for health" with permission from Hildebrandt. When I get in with a single Lesser Bus, I go to the woods with everyone. I resent the current situation where everyone is walking but riding the beast only on their own.

... If I were as fast as Prince Hildebrandt, I could walk.

Brother Cornelius flew the Ordnants, and by the time Darmuel and Angelica rendezvous, they were in the woods.

I was a little dissatisfied while riding the beast, but I am very comfortable with the fact that there are plenty of negative ions in the woods where the sun was blocked by the growing trees. It feels like the head that I've been thinking about is going to break a little bit.

"It feels strange because this is the first House of Lords with no snow scenery, but it's a very comfortable forest"

"Yep. I didn't think it was such a beautiful place. It's very bright to see green and colorful flowers in white buildings."

He was just like me, who only knows the House of Lords covered in white, and Hannelore was also amazed at the beauty of the House of Lords in spring. After praising the beauty of his surroundings, Hannelore begins to give his thoughts on the Fernestine story he had refrained from because Magdalena was there.

The two volumes of the Fernestine story were livestock specifications that continued into the next volumes where he was depressed by the despair of arrowheads, opposition of kings, or daughter-in-law in conspiracy of his mother-in-law, who thought he could be happy following the Prince's proposal.

"I'm really concerned about the continuation already, and I'm sorry to bother you. If this doesn't make Fernestine happy, Dunkelferger..., no, what am I supposed to do..."

When Hannelore looked at me with a puffy tremor and said so, Hildebrandt smiled and shook his neck sideways, apparently reading the Fernestine story in the same way.

"Hannelore, you don't have to mourn like that. The prince will always go to help Fernestine. We love each other as deeply as that. You can't give up."

"Really, Master Rosemaine?

I am stared into the eyes of two hopeful people, and I laugh unexpectedly.

"Read the next three volumes to see how it ends with your own eyes. I have it with me today."

"Well, is it true? I'm looking forward to it.... Now it's complete and definitely, isn't it?

He asked me so that Hannelore could sit down for a moment. The Fernestine story will definitely be completed in three volumes. When I smiled and nodded, Hannelore finally laughed as relieved.

"... what would that be? You can see some white building."

Angelica's voice descended from the tree exploring what was ahead. They have buildings that we can't see from our position, but they're not that big.

"Maybe it's not Dunkelferger's dorm?

"No, you don't. Dunkelferger's dorm is farther away, and not as small as that. It's a building so big that you can bury it in the trees and fly over it with a horseman, you can't see it."

Others also seem to have no buildings that come to Angelica's mind, tilting their necks. The dormitories in each territory are basically higher than the forest trees. The basement, the basement where it works, the first floor where it has a dining room or multi-purpose hall, the second floor where it has a men's room, the third floor where it has a women's room, and the fourth floor or attic are used as storerooms. It's not very tall to hide in the woods.

"Look at what it's like. If the perimeter of the building is open, I'd like to take a short break there."

Angelica uses physical strengthening in my words to move forward in a light movement from branch to branch. Two of Dunkelferger's escort knights also took Hannelore's word for it and went after Angelica.

"The door was locked and closed. It's a much dirtier building, and it doesn't look like it's been used for more than a decade."

"It's a building that we don't even know about, so I don't think we're going to catch anyone taking a break"

When we hear from the reconnaissance team, we head to the building. As reported, there is a secluded white building surrounded by forest trees. If you look at the way the surrounding grass grows and the condition of the unmaintained building, you can see very well that no one is visiting here.

"If anyone manages and instills magic, the white building will not deteriorate. I'm sure there's no visitors here."

"That's a really small building. Is it a forest management cabin?

Altur returns the words "The management cabin is smaller," to Hildebrandt's words. It is smaller than a dorm or castle, but bigger than a managerial cabin in the east or woods. I can't find the window, so I can't see what's going on inside. Although an unusual building, the atmosphere with stone statues lined left and right across the door somehow reminded me of the gates entering the temple from the lower town.

"... maybe a shrine"

"Huh?"

"Once upon a time, my uncle broke a temple in the middle of a treasure theft ditter in a despicable part of the House of Lords. Besides, you've heard from Dr. Solange twenty wonders that there were bad students over here in the House of Lords who were all pranking at God's shrines, right? This could be the temple."

Talking about the similarity of the stone statues placed to the left and right of the door to the gate of the temple, I leave the Lesser Bus and approach its building. We can't just leave the temples where the gods were worshipped so dirty.

"Master Rosemaine?

"In the meantime, let's clean it up. I can't even sit here and rest like this."

I was on a horseman, but both Hildebrand and Hannelore walk quite a bit. You'll want to sit down and take a break. And I took the magical devil's paper out of the leather bag of my hips, as I would work the portion I had ever rested.

"What is that?

"It's a magic formation to assist Clarissa with the wide-area magic she was researching. With this, it's very easy to use wide area magic."

I will put out a stamp and put magic into its magic formations. If you chant "Vashen" as the flutter and paper floated and stared out the light, the next moment, the water enveloped the entire building. After a few seconds, the chunks of water disappear. Dirt had fallen off and it had become a shiny white building.

"Now you're beautiful"

"Ha, this is the first time I've ever washed a building whole with Vashen"

After Entovickern, Ferdinand was washing the whole of Lower Town, so he thought it was a relatively major way to do it, although he would need a lot of magic. But if you look at the reaction around you, apparently it wasn't.

"If you don't have a magic team to assist you, you just can't do it. Thanks to Clarissa, right? Ho ho ho ho..."

I laughed and tried to delude myself, but could it not be Ferdinand's fault that I lack aristocratic common sense?

"It's beautiful now, so let's just sit back and take a break. Prince Hildebrandt and Lady Hannelore must be tired, huh?

Hildebrandt smiles when I ask him to sit in the front steps of the door and rest.

"It's sweet of Rosemaine to say, but if it's this far away, it's fine. I'm working out too."

Though royal, Hildebrandt is a man who draws Dunkelferger's blood. Apparently, he's pretty well trained. They're not tired of traveling this far. Hannelore is apparently not tired of something else either, and I'm thinking about whether or not to bring the side service back to the dorm to prepare the tea.

... I might have been right to ride the beast.

"Dunkelferger's dorm is relatively close from here, so should we prepare some tea?

"It's better not to be conspicuous, so don't worry. It will also be difficult to serve the side of preparing tea with a horseman."

Hannelore nods at the words of Hildebrandt's proximity and walks over here for a break, "Then I will rest a little too".

"Master Hannelore, please come this way. Let me know what you think of the Fernestine story until the arrival of Ordnants from Master Magdalena"

I will poke my hand at the door and call upon Hannelore. At the next moment I was sucked into a door that was supposed to be closed.

"Ugh!?

As soon as I blinked, my vision had changed from a forest landscape to a temple where statues of the gods were worshipped. Although there are no windows, it is never dark because the clear blue tablet held by the stone statue in the center of the temple shines light and illuminates the interior of the temple.

There are 13 statues of the gods lined up inside about 12 to 13 tatami tatami. Seeing an array of magnificent statues around the sturdy with spears and blue stone slabs, it turns out that this is the temple dedicated to the god of fire, Ryden Shaft.

"I've never seen a temple like this before"

Although there are stone statues of the Supreme God and the Great Gods of the Five Columns on the altars of the temple and the House of Lords, this is the first time I have seen a temple where only the attributes of fire were worshipped, with all the families lined up.

"Wow, something's going to help us grow"

I raised my hand with Ba and became a prayer pose. And I'm going to pray to the families here.

"Rydenshaft, god of fire, Air Vaclaren, god of guidance, Arnvax, god of nurture..."

... please grow into a crowd!

When I pray, pah and magic are sucked into the blue tablet that Ryden Shaft has. Looking at it, I saw the blue stone slab gleaming and the lettering engraved.

... what is it?

I approach the blue tablet that I see for the first time and read the letters.

"Their prayers reached me. I acknowledge them and give them words to get the book of Mestionora over Rydenshaft..."

So the sentence was interrupted by being blocked by Ryden Shaft's fingers. I don't know what the hell the key "word to get the book of Mestionora" is. I said, "You can't read it this way, Master Rydenshaft!," he took the blue tablet in his hand complaining about the stone statue.

"My words are not enough yet. Candidate Zent gets more words than all gods."

The moment I finished reading the last word, the blue tablet sucked into me. It assimilates to the Starp that is inside me. I found that this blue tablet was a mixture of the magic of prayer I had ever offered and the "will of God". At the same time, as if the name of the god of darkness and the goddess of light were engraved in his head, the words given to him by Rydenshaft come to mind.

"Kreftalk"

"Then I will sit here."

Hannelore smiled and approached me, lowering her hips in front of the door. I look around unexpectedly at the odd feeling that time has not passed at all. I stood outside the temple the next moment the words given me from the Lydenshaft came out with my mouth shut. It is as if Lydenshaft had called me for the purpose of giving the word.

"Dear Rosemayne, what's wrong?

"No, it's nothing."

Nicole laughs back at Hannelore. The surrounding scenery remains unchanged. No one even realizes that I was inside the temple. But the words that come to mind have not disappeared.

... words to get the book of Mestionora?

Book of Mestionora, goddess of wisdom, it was a sweet temptation that was hard for me to resist.