Different from the others participating in the event, Alex found herself surrounded by shelves filled with hundreds of books.

-Swish.

There was only enough space for her to move in a square as she was surrounded by wall like shelves full of books on all four sides.

They were too tall so just jumping up and crossing them was not an option and there was a barrier covering the above part anyway, so climbing was not yet an option.

-Swish. Swish.

However, she was not stuck in this place.

Many of the books around here were task books that gave out trials and she just had to find those books.

It was a simple task and she had time.

She was smart as well so she had already read a lot of books present around her right now. All that she needed to do, thus, was find the books that did not have any title or did not belong in the categories they were organized on the shelves.

One of the trials will be about the barrier and about getting out of there, so, it was not that difficult of a task at all.

At least for someone like her this was not that big a deal. She knew how to get out of this test, but that was not what she had come here to do.

-Swish! Swish! Swish!

She was here to get the most stars- to get the best possible reward and the opportunity to get something that this bastard librarian had.

She needed that thing for their future. Their future expeditions all depended on it.

Things would be a little too complex and difficult if she fails to get her hands on that thing and the only way she could get it from this library, from this place protected by someone she could not defeat as she had in the past, was through this competition.

She surely would be fighting against some of the most talented people present in this town, and the trials, by their inherent nature, favored those who had unique talent, someone that was smart and was learning new things through these trials.

Not many people knew it, but these trails were aimed at the growth of the individuals participating in this event.

The main goal of this competition was to help these new players, these stars who were just starting their journey in this new world, these stars who were hot and full of potential grow past their current limitations.

The trails were not random. They were assigned to one after the system analyzed their past achievements, their current talents, and their ‘nature’.

She knew how these trails and quests worked, so she knew they were not going to be any helpful to someone who had gone past the level of a ‘normal’ player already.

She was not the same as the rest of the players. If anything, she was closer to the librarian, perhaps even beyond that person.

-Oooooooooooooooooooooooong!

The only thing she wanted from this place was a certain item that was not in the insignificant treasury of the librarian but on the main display of his very desk– something that everyone saw but none, not even the best players, not even the librarian himself knew the true value of.

She wanted that thing, and the only thing she could get it, was through doing something crazy.

-Crrrr…!

-Krrrak–krrak…!

Since the moment she arrived in this enclosed space, she had started gathering the energy in her body and channeling that energy through a normal sword that her darling bought her yesterday.

She had become unfathomably weaker after falling down to the normal level, but she had not forgotten a thing she had larnet with her hundreds of hours of effort.

She had put her heart, sweat, blood, tears, even soul into learning those things.

She might not have her Aura, she might not access her familiar, she might not have the kind of skills she had until just recently, but she was still someone that every single high ranker of this world recognised.

[Ding!]

[You have successfully integrated three skills and created a new skill!]

[You have earned a great achievement!]

[Granting total accumulated Exp!]

[Granting achievement: Weaver of skills (Rare).]

[Granting achievement: Flawless creator of superior skill (Rare).]

[Achievement boxes will be added to your inventory.]

“{Energy Smash} is effective, as I expected. I should thank him for giving me the skill.”

If he had not given her the {Smash} skill, she would not have been able to create this new skill by integrating her Sword intent, Energy infusion, and the Smash.

The simple sounding task of skill combination was one of the hardest tasks in the game and not many players could do it even if they wanted to because of the limitations of their will, concentration, and incompatibility.

Skill combination was not as simple as Skill creation.

Creating something and combining something existing into one and creating a new thing altogether were totally different things.

Even when it came to skills, it was not easy… at least until you had already done it before. Then it becomes as simple as using that skill.

“Sadly, it consumes an awful lot of energy.”

Her energy level almost bottomed out after using just one skill. Which was bad.

She had supplements to replenish her lost energy but spending all that energy for just one use of a skill was not effective.

Consumables were a temporary solution, as she knew the best. She needed to become stronger and improve her energy levels.

Reaching (Level-50) and obtaining {Aura} was her next goal, but for now, she was going to obtain the most starts in this event.

“The barrier is gone now.”

She took her time, but at the end, she obtained a skill that could shatter even the strong (tier-3) barrier that was blocking her.

“Let’s get going.”

When she destroyed the barrier, all the books that contained the trials, as she confirmed, vanished from the shelves.

“{Blink}.”

The reason she chose to destroy the powerful barrier instead of finishing all the trails present was because of how this place worked.

The system and the librarian helped them get better, but if there was someone that was so good that they could destroy even the barrier that even the guard captain might find difficult to breach, then there was no need to block them there anymore.

She knew the librarian personally so she knew just what kind of person he was, so she knew how he and the designed system would give out stars.

-Swish.

She was the smart one between them. She was not going to slave away and do as the trials and He wanted them to.

She was going to get what she wanted even if she had to do some Unconventional things for it.

On that note…

“Done. Finally.”

Elio was finally done writing his answer to the question that the book of trial had left for him.

“Haaaa.”

Writing on Fifteen shelves with the feather pen was not easy, but he finished it in less than an hour. And, though he did not know how they were going to judge it, he was done with his task.

So he moved forward to the next location on the path of his choice as well…

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