1463 Free Reading Hour
Date- 13 April 2321
Time- –/–
Location- Southern Region, Southern Capital, Southern Royal Palace, Royal Guest Palace No.1, Seed World, Inter-Realm City, Sector DS0909
“Wyatt, there are about 180,456 books on basic microarray formations and 117,678 books on intermediate microarray formation in your preferred languages. That is a total of 298,134 books matching your request,” Dredre informed me after going through the Infinity Library index.
“Please share the list of titles and the synopsis of the books, that were left after removing the other language copies of the same books, with my demon merchant codex,” I asked Dredre to remove the duplicate books with the same title but in different languages of the sixteen dark languages I set as my preferred language.
“That leaves us with 118,978 books of basic microarray formations and 78,576 books of intermediate microarray formations. A total of 197,554 books meeting your request, I shared a list of their title and synopsis with your demon merchant codex,” Dredre replied after a fraction of a second.
“Okay,” then I along with my Hive AI went through the list of 197,554 book titles and synopsis to sort out those that weren’t relevant to my current need.
I could just read all the nearly 200,000 books on basic and intermediate microarray formations but I only had a certain amount of free reading period and I saved until the last day of validity. Because one can never know what they want to learn next.
And also because the hour of free reading time given by the Infinity library to its members only gets refreshed once every month, so due to the time difference between Sector DS0909 and card world I will have to wait ten months to get another free hour of reading if I exhaust my current free reading time, therefore, I had to be clever about how I use my free reading hour.
Therefore, I decided to stick only to the books that will make me adept in microarray formations and also be relevant to help me with the creation of the VR-Slime cards.
The number of books soon went down to 5,989 books. Most of these books were mostly the basics of microarray formation, I could not skip them if I wanted a solid foundation in the topic.
After creating a list of these 5,989 books I shared it with Dredre ordering, “You know the drill Debra, bring me to those books.”
Soon the space surrounding me warped and I appeared in front of a familiar area with a simple layout filled with an expensive set of tables and chairs which were surrounded by bookshelves. Pointing at the books Dredre said, “These are the books you requested. And like the previous time, will you prefer four tranquillity drinks before you begin reading the books?”
“No, this time around give me twelve tranquillity drinks. Here 24,000 low-tier Soul Jades worth of phantom sword mushroom, this should cover the twelve tranquillity drinks,” The last time I was here, my mutated soul only had four consciousnesses but today my mutated soul has 12 consciousnesses, one original and eleven mutants.
This was why I was not worried about reading 5,989 in the least possible time frame. Twelve of me equipped with Hive AI can easily copy all 5,989 books in under 5 minutes.
“Here are your 12 tranquillity drinks,” with the way of Dredre’s tiny cute hand 12 glasses of tranquillity drink appeared on the table beside me.
“Thank you, Dredre,” my spiritual body split into twelve identical spiritual bodies and each of us grabbed a glass of tranquillity drink and slammed them on the table after emptying them in our stomachs. Then we all rushed toward our designated bookshelves and began to copy the books using the Hive AI.
Each of my eleven clones and I included had to copy nearly 499 books each to completely copy the 5,989 books on the bookshelves. Considering that it took me and my three clones about 4 minutes to copy nearly 2000 books the last time I visited the infinity library I estimated that it would take nearly 4 minutes for me and my 11 clones to copy all of the 5,989 books.
So far I have spent about 10 minutes of my free reading hour, leaving me with 50 minutes of free reading hour.
I used 4 minutes of the free reading hour to gain knowledge about the intermediate soul energy/rule power gathering and enlightenment arrays along with the books on how to cultivate phantom sword mushrooms.
A little over a minute on Myriad Realm Myriad Race Records and nearly 5 minutes on the books listing the price of various ingredients and items in the devil merchant code market.
“Dredre, I am done reading all the books. Stop my free time,” I yelled, informing Dredre that I was done reading and she should stop the clock.
Four minutes and a second, that’s how long it took me and my 11 other spiritual bodies to copy all 5,989 books.
“Wow, this a new record,” Dredre cheered as she stopped my free reading timer. Then added, “At this pace, you will run my boss out of business.”
“Run the Librarian out of business, yeah sure!” I brushed off Dredre’s joke and did not take her words seriously. The Librarian had so many copyrights in his hands that as long as devil merchant code was there nobody could run the Librarian out of business. Let alone my neat little trick to copy as many books in as little time as possible.
Honestly, considering the Librarian’s predatory business model which solely focused on praying on poor and ill-informed newbies, I was surprised that ‘the Librarian’ was letting me use my cheat to continue and copy their books exploiting the loopholes in their law.
I do not know why the Librarian had not called me out yet but I decided to continue using my cheats to exploit the infinity library as long as I can.