Promising to co to a eting of the Shaless Sect that was scheduled that night, Daneel shooed the fatty off before picking up the technique book again.
Indeed, it was a very interesting concept to use a stance to output more power, but Daneel realized that his own fighting style of using the Hidden Kill Fist as a foundation was too familiar to him.
He had no idea whether changing Fighting technique would have any effects on his overall power output, so he decided to try it after compiling everything in the library.
The ideal thing to do would be to collect everything at once, but Daneel decided to act tactfully.
After all, it would be strange for anyone to run their fingers on all the books, no matter how much they tried to make it look like a quirk.
With no intention to court disaster, he partitioned the library into 8 zones, with each floor divided into 4 zones. It was a very large library, so this was necessary.
Each day, he would be able to cover one zone.
However, Daneel noticed a problem.
If he had to visit the library 8 tis, he would have to give up an entire Ker Gem as fee!
As soone who had grown up from a frugal background, Daneel was loth to waste money. Even that experint with the Ker Gem before had really hurt his heart.
No. There was no way that he could allow this farce of collecting fee, at least from him, to continue.
There were only two ways to get out of paying such fee: One, have a high enough social standing either using background or personal power.
Two, have a side business whose services can be exchanged.
The forr was not possible right now, as a sudden growth in power from Travis Éclair would definitely result in scrutiny from higher-ups.
So, the latter was the only option.
Deciding on it, Daneel took his ti and covered the first zone on the second floor, which had many techniques.
Sadly, he did realize one thing: in the entire library, there were very few history books which pertained to that mythical ti when the Sect of Hedon had seemingly ruled over the continent.
Either the information was lost, or it was hidden to all but the higher echelons.
Daneel had been really looking forward to finding so clues regarding the connections and similarities between the kingdoms in the Central Continent right away, but it seed like he would have to wait.
Nevertheless, the King of Lanthanor smiled to himself, as his opportunities felt almost limitless here.
Corruption was truly sothing that he had seen a lot of back on Earth, so he felt like a fish in water in this place. Even though he abhorred it, he had to admit that he had a flair in getting ideas to carry it out, probably because his mind had been constricted all this while, only being able to think of ’good’ solutions and ideas for the most part.
Hence, looking forward to the eting, Daneel spent his ti taking out random books or touching them in one way or the other so as to feed their information to the system.
....
A few hours later.
As Daneel finally exited the library, he found that he was famished.
Their eting was two hours from now, so he had enough ti to eat and explore a bit more.
While heading to the cafeteria of the sect, Daneel asked the system, "Let know if any important data is collected."
A while back, he had already sat down with the system and clearly tagged all matters that he deed "important", such as information relating to his talent in magic which exceeded the known grades, or anything related to the Central Continent.
The objective of collecting as many techniques as possible was to later have the system extract the best parts to make sothing which suited him, so he didn’t need to ask about it.
The walk to the cafeteria would take 40 minutes, or he could pay an eighth of a Ker Gem again to teleport.
Of course, as a newly ascended Warrior who closely guarded his resources, and as soone who just couldn’t justify spending thousands of precious Ether blocks to just save himself so effort, Daneel chose the latter.
The moon was out, so the surroundings of the sect were suffused in a warm light that brought out a unique beauty the likes of which Daneel had never seen before.
The layout of the Sect of Hedon was in the form of wide walkways paved in among the grass amidst the vibrant trees that were everywhere. The walkway seed to be made of so kind of marble, as it shone in the moonlight with a soft glow.
Each walkway could accommodate at least 20 people side by side, so this made Daneel understand that the Sect must have once had a very large population.
Buildings were in the style of the Withering Leaf Sect: with creeps gracefully augnting their appearance, making them blend into nature.
Daneel couldn’t believe at all that such a beautiful place could be ho to such a rotting sect.
Shaking his head, he finally arrived at the cafeteria and saw to his surprise that no one was asking for a fee here.
Well, it made sense. If even one’s basic sustenance was denied, it was very possible for mass riots to occur.
Only, when he entered, he saw that he had been mistaken.
Thankfully, it was only slightly.
There were 3 different queues for food, with the first having the most mbers.
There was no one near the first queue, but from the envious gazes that were shot by those in this one towards the sect mbers in the other two queues, Daneel understood what was happening.
Back during the episode with the Black Raven Kingdom, Daneel had reared a wondrous type of wheat in the farms in his Kingdom. Apparently, eating them would result in a boost in power, giving the effect of training for a period of ti.
Only, of course, the adverse effect of that plant had been that it ate away at the soil and made it barren.
This was only one variety of the crop, so it only made sense that there might be others with lesser side effects.
The second queue seed to be the living proof of this: along with the food that was served in the first, a perfectly square shaped piece of bread was also given here to each mber.
Only, unlike the first which needed no authentication, each mber of the queue in the second needed to show their trinket with the face and the open mouth.
Seeing this piece of golden bread that seed to shine, Daneel salivated, even though he didn’t understand why he was doing so.
He had a hunch that this bread was made of so type of Energy-rich plant, and he could tell that he was right.
Wait, if this was already being served in the second queue, then what was being served in the third?
Bending his head, Daneel noticed a strange tallic box beside the serving table for the third queue.
The third queue had the fewest mbers, but each ti soone approached the serving table, the tal box would be opened for the briefest of monts to remove a square-shaped piece of at.
It looked like it ca from so kind of fish, and from the steam that escaped each ti the door was opened, Daneel could tell what the cooking thod was.
He was completely entranced by this piece of at, as it was the most perfect piece of food he had ever seen since coming to Angaria.
He hadn’t been that much of a foodie back on Earth, so this trait had carried over the Angaria. However, he really did enjoy the general cuisine in the Palace, which involved dousing ats from various beasts in flagrant sauces before serving them on a bed of bread or vegetables.
This at definitely wasn’t from the beasts found on Angaria, as it was a fact that the at of wild beasts had no beneficial effects for humans. Only their other body parts, such as their teeth and claws, could be used to make weapons or trinkets.
It was pink in color, but it’s hue looked so brilliant that one would feel like staring at it as long as possible, feeling reluctant to spoil its perfection by doing sothing as uncouth as cutting it apart.
It shone with a bright luster, as if it were absorbing all the attention and light in the room.
His eyes followed a woman who had just been served the piece of at, who sat down at a table and picked it up before admiring it for a while.
Yes, this was what it deserved.
Daneel appreciated the woman, but after that, he felt horrified when he saw her swallow it whole.
The juices flowed from the corner of her mouth as she munched on the at with an expression of extre delight, but suddenly, she looked at Daneel who stepped back with shock, as he had just gotten the feeling that soone had tightened their hands around his neck.
His step back made him bounce on sothing soft, making him turn back and notice the fatty who was also looking at the woman eating the at.
Only, he was stealing glances instead of abjectly staring like Daneel.
"The day I get the at of the fish from the endless sea, I’ll save it and eat it bit by bit, for a month. No, make it 6 months. A year it is! No one would be foolish enough to waste food that has more Energy than 100 Ker Gems combined."
As the fatty smacked his lips while saying this, Daneel’s eyes widened.
.....
2 hours later, in one of the rooms in the disciples’ dormitory.
Smacking his hands on the table in between the 5 people, Daneel, as Travis, said, "All right, we have to get an aweso side business to eat that at! If any of you slack off, I’ll bash your heads in!"
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