Daneel soon reached his cottage and found it empty.
On the way, the Sect Members had been looking at him various expressions on their faces, with the most prominent one being one of anger and vexation.
Understanding that these people must be part of those who despised him because he was from the Central Continent, Daneel had continued on his way.
Searching around in the house, he found a note addressed to him in Elanev's room.
"My training is beginning. The old man says that I will only be able to e out of it for the Legacy Battle, so I'll see you then. And remember, if you can find the identity of that f*cker because of whom I can't go to the village, intimate me at any cost. I don't care if the old man said that I shouldn't be disturbed. This is too important a matter to be ignored!"
Daneel could see the anger that was still in his elder brother due to the incident before. Chuckling, he burnt up the note and sat down, wondering what he should do next.
The answer was simple: the initial idea behind ing to the sect had been to collect all the information it held, before he had bee distracted by other things.
So, Daneel recalled the route they had taken before, and went back to the Secret Archives where he was directly allowed in again.
Except for the core techniques of the sect which weren't present here, he could access everything else, so he began to store it all in the system.
Many people shot him strange looks when they saw him casually browsing through all of the shelves, while making sure that he touched at least the spine of each and every book that was present.
This couldn't be done continuously, as it would arouse too much suspicion, so Daneel took constant breaks during which he continued his perusal of all the Champion Paths that he had obtained from behind the third seal.
He would look as if he was poring over the book in front of him that he randomly selected without even seeing the title, but in reality, he would be arguing within himself about things such as the inherent weaknesses that Emotion-driven paths had when pared to all other types of Paths.
The Fortress actually held a lot more books than the other sects, and Daneel had found this out from a journal of one of the previous sect leaders who had written about how this Fortress supposed to be the last Bastion of Angaria. Hence, it only made sense that all the essential information should be recorded here, in case a similar apocalypse occurred which might result in the loss of all the cumulative knowledge of the continent.
Along with that, general information about how Angarians should handle multiple situations was also given, that had apparently been researched thoroughly by scholars who had contracted to do so.
All in all, this place reminded Daneel of the famous Georgia Guidestones back on his home planet, which existed to help humanity in the event that an apocalypse wiped out most of the population of the Earth.
Daneel recorded it all anyway, as he never knew when it might e in handy. Even if it didn't, he wasn't willing to let any piece of information go, as he knew that it would leave him with an unsatisfied feeling.
This, in itself, took two days, and on the morning of the third, he was finishing up the last section.
The same building that had the Secret Archives also had the library behind it, where Daneel currently was.
He had been having his cool-down time in order to not irritate everyone and have them demand that he should be thrown out as he was simply passing time instead of seriously utilizing all the knowledge gathered around him. He had just been about to get up and begin another final round all over the place to make sure that he hadn't missed any book.
That was when he saw two familiar people enter through the doors of the library and look around, before finding him and heading in his direction.
They were Tall and Snake, and they were actually a funny sight to behold as Snake was half the height of Tall, although Daneel still believed that he was the more dangerous one.
Soon enough, they were in front of him, and they sat down as if it was the most casual thing in the world.
This made Daneel raise an eyebrow, but he simply remained calm and waited to see what they would say.
The two of them looked like they were struggling with something, as hesitation and unwillingness could be seen on their faces.
They even started to look around casually, almost as if they wanted to put on an act that they hadn't e here to speak to him. Daneel had no idea what the objective behind something like that could be.
While absorbed in this, Snake looked at the book in front of Daneel, and this made him pause and then smile slightly, as he had found a starting point to begin the conversation.
"I didn't know that you like romantic stories. I tried reading them, too, but I couldn't stomach even the first 10 pages. Tall here, though, is widely known as someone who is an expert on all the romantic novels present in the sect. In fact, when he goes to the village, the women request him to quote their famous lines from these books, and it is said that he even enacts out certain sequences from them."
Daneel had no idea what the f*ck this guy was spouting, but when he looked down, he understood. The book he had in front of him was titled "Unrequited, Yet Endless."
He hadn't been paying too much attention to the books he had been picking up, so he was now pretty startled when he saw that these kinds of books were also present here. What was the point behind that?
Daneel almost asked the two in front of him, but he decided that that would be too strange. So, he asked the system and got his answer.
[Romantic novels were introduced into the library by Sect Master Brutus, who was famously known to have romanced the Sect Master of a different sect. It took 20 years for his relationship to succeed, and when it did, for a period of time, he was in "incorrigible puddle of goo
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