This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!-Chapter 63 - 0: Inhuman Knowledge

Chapter 63: Chapter 063: Inhuman Knowledge

He wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but the corpse with the mustache seemed to emit a faint blue glow. Chen Ke had initially thought it was the reflection from the candlestick in his hand, but when he extinguished the candlestick, he found that the glow on the corpse had not dissipated.

“Holy Relics?”

Thinking so, Chen Ke gently circled around the long table, approached Hu Changzi’s remains, and hesitated for a moment. Still, he couldn’t help extending his hand to touch the faint glow on the body.

…

“Giles, Master… today is the day I bid you farewell…”

The orange flame of the candle illuminated a corner of the parchment, and the quill that had been writing suddenly halted.

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Giles looked up at his most prized student without speaking.

“I know… I know… this is no longer a hall of knowledge…”

Giles nodded and continued to bury himself in his writing, the quill making a scratching sound on the parchment.

“We should not become the covert operatives for the Pope’s manipulation of history.”

The young man turned and left, leaving behind these words before exiting.

The door slammed shut, causing the candle to flicker.

Giles stopped writing, crumpled the mostly-written parchment, and threw it into the corner.

“Your Majesty, oh, Your Majesty… please awaken…”

He murmured to himself, turned to a new page, and began to write again…

…

“Using lifespan to replace lost sanity.”

“-5 hours”

Chen Ke snapped back to reality, feeling a rush of madness enter his mind, as if a person’s knowledge of nearly a century had been poured into his brain all at once. The lifespan countdown was dropping rapidly; he stumbled backward a few steps, leaned against the bookshelf, and saw rows of small text jumping rapidly in his peripheral vision.

“Acquired: Scholarly knowledge of Giles, the Great Tutor”

“List of Scholarship:”

“Fan Hede Kingdom”

“Bestowed by: Giles, Great Librarian of the Royal Archives”

“Adding related Holy Relics memory association information”

Chen Ke steadied his breathing; after closing his eyes and brooding for a long time, he managed to suppress a wave of inexplicable panic and tension. His eyes scanned over the candlestick in his left hand, and the information box surprisingly expanded with additional content.

[Glowing Black Ring Candlestick]

[Durability: Intact]

[Mysterious Attribute Amplification: Arcane power increased by 20%, Illusion Technique range increased by 20%, Magic duration extended by 20%]

[Mental Resistance: 70% increase in resistance to mental attacks for the holder](Cannot be triggered: Intelligence deficiency)

[Illusion Dispelling: After lighting, dispels low-level illusions within the range of the candlelight](Cannot be triggered: Intelligence deficiency)

The priests of the Black Ring Sect used candelabra, holding the teachings of the Black Ring Sect close to their hearts, to disperse the flames of darkness.

The Fan Hede Kingdom was afflicted with an incurable Dark Plague. The wandering priest Mazville used a magic never seen before to alleviate the symptoms of the old King Fan Hede, earning his trust, and established the Black Ring Sect in the Fan Hede Kingdom.

He then glanced at the Fire-igniting Broadsword in his right hand.

[Fire-igniting Broadsword]

[Durability: Normal]

[Flame: When ignited, damage converts to elemental]

[Ignition: When there is combustible material, flame effect can last indefinitely]

[No matching knowledge]

It seemed that the memories, and with them the knowledge of the skeletal remnant he had absorbed just now, had expanded the usable information in his life archives. Not only could he derive information from the prefixes of monsters, but now he could even extract the memories of the Inheritors based on the Holy Relics.

But the cost was staggering; nearly half of his lifespan was used to counteract the loss of sanity from the process of knowledge absorption.

The candelabrum had been looted from the beasts he had slain in the Great Void, so he could access related information. But this Fire-igniting Broadsword belonged to Violet, an agent of the Administration Bureau, evidently from another Great Void.

So there are differences between Great Voids?

It appeared that Chen Ke’s understanding of this world was still not comprehensive; he had presumed too much. He naturally thought that the Great Void was just another world. But when faced with “chronological anomalies” and “parallel universes” one after the other, he dared not use his previous knowledge to ponder this world.

He took out his Nokia E63 again, opened the notepad, and jotted down his insights and discoveries about the Great Void.

“Through the knowledge gained and analysis of Holy Relics’ information, it can be determined that there are multiple Great Voids, each one a separate world.”

“The Great Void seems to have some sort of time distortion and stasis effect. What appear to be intact shelves and books turn to ashes upon touch. Intruders seem to be able to break the time stasis here, which requires further observation.”

He stuffed the Nokia E63 back into his backpack. Chen Ke’s pants were also about dried, and he looked towards the pair of double doors on the other side, striding over.

If what the message carved on the cliff face said was true, then Si’s consortium’s team should also have arrived at this library; it’s impossible that they wouldn’t have touched anything here.

Yet, it seemed no changes had occurred here, either they truly hadn’t touched anything… or they had, but soon after, everything was restored to its original state.

But none of these were the main points. Chen Ke knew that since they had been here, they must have passed through the door, and gone deeper into the building.

He tried turning the wooden door handle and suddenly laughed at himself. Given the era this place represented, it was impossible for there to be door locks, so he tried pushing the door instead.

The wooden door creaked and groaned oddly, and fine dust fell through the gap. Then, Chen Ke pushed hard and flung the door wide open.

A biting wind hit him head-on, and a circular staircase exposed on the cliffside appeared before Chen Ke’s eyes. Below the cliff, the Fan Hede Kingdom was in full view—the library was actually built into the cliffside.

Chen Ke didn’t dare get too close to the spiral staircase’s handrail for fear that the wooden, white carved railing would turn to ash at his touch, causing him to fall off the cliff. Therefore, he carefully descended on the inner side.

Halfway down the staircase, he noticed an ancient bell exposed on another part of the cliffside. He then looked back at the mountain wall behind him and was surprised to find the platform path where he had previously exploded the monstrous wolf, over a hundred meters away.

It seemed this was the church embedded in the cliffside he had seen before, and the library was just a part of the church.

Chen Ke followed the winding stairs down and quickly reentered the embrace of the cliff. The pillars of the staircase had carved candelabra as lighting devices, but now they were all empty. He couldn’t help but imagine the scene when the priests, in the faint light of candles, made their way to the library.

The staircase was somewhat lengthy; looking at the countdown of his lifespan, Chen Ke took at least one minute to finish. The second half was completely surrounded by the dark cliff—if it weren’t for illumination means, it would be quite easy for a person to develop claustrophobia…

Chen Ke had originally used the Black Ring candelabrum for lighting, but in this environment, the blue light was too unnerving. In the end, he ignited the Fire-igniting Broadsword, as its orange glow was more comforting.

Finally, he reached the end of the staircase where stone steps continued downward. The surroundings were no longer the cliffside, but walls made of brick and stone; Chen Ke had walked back into the building.

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He extinguished the Fire-igniting Broadsword and, at the end of the corridor, rushed towards the orange glow. He found it led to a spacious central hall of the church.