Two days later Long Yu woke up from his unconsciousness with a terrible headache he felt as if someone had cracked open his skulls, he tried to sit up but failed due to feeling of nausea and dizziness his lips were parched he slowly took out his bottle in order to drink water from it only to vomit it out soon, he quickly searched his backpack and found some pills which he used to fight against his illness. After another hour or so he felt a lot better he looked back towards the stone tablets which had lost its glow and pressure looked like some form of decoration piece. He did not know how much time has passed but he felt fresh as if he just came out of bath strangely suspicious, he then searched the room to see if he could find any other hidden surprises but he did not find any inside the room, he checked the room many times before he went towards the door, a shiver ran down his spine as he thought back to his experience with stone tablet and it was now official, 'Library is evil', he suddenly felt a feeling of dread wash over him and a pair of all too familiar pair of eyes glaring at him appeared in his vision as new thought propped up in his mind, 'Libraries are awesome, I love reading books I wish I had a personal library', the feeling ceased to exists as he gave out a sigh of relief. He walked towards the door and left the room unknown to him three shadows followed him while one stayed back who touched the floor in front of the tablet an array suddenly sprang to life before giving up a whitish glow before the stone tablets vanished, the figure promptly vanished from the room itself.
Meanwhile back in Ayindril,
Celestia had a vein sprouted on her delicate forehead as her beautiful face was marred by a scowl she does not know why but she had a sudden urge to give another lecture to Ryuu about libraries only to suddenly dissipate.
Nuwa: "Really sister you are still collecting stuffs from ruins. We do not see any reason to collect anything from the private library."
Celestia just shrugged at that, "meh it was just collecting dust lying inside the private library as there was no one to use it, as such I had Shamiran order her subordinates if they have some spare time to empty all the Vaults and Libraries of the Sect head, staffs and Core region of 'Nine Headed Dragon School'."
Long Yu made his way from the top floor to the one at the bottom of the top floor, which unknown to him was the real top floor of the tower, there were few books but none caught his eyes as anything unique as such he copied a few before leaving the room, even if did not need them his teammates might he repeated the same process over and over again but every time it took some time more than the floor above it as the number of techniques had increased, and soon he reached the 3rd floor of the tower, during the entire time he did not find any other contestant until he reached the 3rd floor, he found a few dozen people there. He went inside as a few eyes looked glaring towards him watching his every move like a hawk. Library was safe heaven to many as fighting was not allowed inside it in fact any of those halls did not allow fighting as the offenders were all paralyzed the only way to be freed from one was the staff of the school to free them but unfortunately they perished millennia ago, the scariest part of this school is that until someone is registered within 20 days time they were thrown out of the school but those who were inside the library were stuck here until the trial which will not happen for the next half a decade, he felt pity for all those skeletons who were still frozen in their places even after so many time has passed. He quickly scanned the room for any signs of his teammates he frowned when he saw no familiar visage. Soon he finished his search as he reached the reception area of the library where he found his teammates waiting for him there, they had picked up a corner a little away from other groups they were waiting for him, and a warm feeling rose from his heart.
With the biggest smile in his face he ran towards them, "Hey guys I am back."
Long Yu's group jumped up on their feet as they went to greet him with happy smile.
Jack: "Well well look here who decided to show up after three long days of absence."
Long Yu was startled, 'what does he mean by three days.', seeing his confused face Bashista deduced something was wrong as such he led the entire group to the place of their camp, as he made Long Yu use a silencing array to make sure no eavesdropper can listen to them.
Long Yu asked worriedly, "What do you mean by 3 days?", as far as he knew he spend an entire day trying to copy those skills but another 2 days were concerning to him.
Ruth: "Kid 2 whole days have passed since we each went our separate ways, we were waiting for you the whole time we feared something bad happened to you", he spoke in voice filled with concern, Long Yu flinched hard at that he could not warp his mind that he was missing for two whole days because of the horrific place.
Tina asked with concern laced on her voice, "Long Yu are you alright did something happen to you."
Long Yu gulped as he spoke with a shaky voice, "The top most floor had a stone tablet, when I entered the pressure of it made me prostrate in front of it before I got used to it then …..", Long Yu continued his story as everyone was enraptured by his tales.
Long Yu shuddered as he recalled the event which followed next, "It hurt so much I wanted to just die to end my suffering but I couldn't move a single muscle, I do not want to feel like that it felt as if my whole body was torn before being put together, it was so painful I do not want to relieve it again.", he shuddered as fresh tears appeared in his eyes.
The others were alarmed at that, 'to think such a deadly place exist here.', as they tried to console Long Yu.
After sometime Long Yu finally calm down he needed it after such horrifying ordeal he needed to vent out the frustration building inside him, before he opened up the backpack as he handed them multiple scrolls, "Please take this scrolls they contain some of the techniques I managed to copy for you all."
Kyouki could not help but protest, "Thank you for your gesture but I cannot accept such generous gifts.", only to be stopped by Long Yu as he raised his hands to stop their protests.
Long Yu: "Please I have earned plenty plus these are all from higher floors as such they are of better quality and hence I wanted to share it with all of you."
Seeing Long Yu's insistence they quickly decided to divide those skills in a blink of an eye. Long Yu sweat dropped at that, 'this people are shameless neither did they think too much nor did they protest too much before tearing through this skills like hungry pack of dogs.'
It was a good think this hungry people could not hear his thoughts or they would have beaten him silly, after all only a starving person understands the true value of food, the skills which looked as trash and unimportant in Long Yu's eyes were Heavenly in these people's eyes, as such they behaved so rashly while dividing those skills shamelessly. After all unlike Long Yu this people may never gain such an opportunity again without risking their lives.