The 4th floor contained a lot more information than the 3rd floor. It took Zhou Fan 2 days to finish it even with his new reading speed. The most information was on the 10 biggest empires.
The boundless empire ranked 5th in the world. The truth empire was ranked 4th. However, even though the truth empire ranked higher, its overall combat strength was not much more than the boundless empire. In fact, except for the first-ranked empire, the top 10 empires were fairly equal.
The first-ranked empire, however, was on a different level. The first-ranked empire, also known as the empire of mortaniel, was twice as strong as the other empires. Even if the 2nd and 3rd ranked empires were to combine their strength, they would at best be on par with the empire of mortaniel.
Luckily for the entire world, the empire of mortaniel was a peaceful empire. Their main focus wasn't even battle! Instead, they focused more on knowledge in general. When going to war with the mortaniel empire, the most fearsome thing wasn't the amount of soldiers, but their strategies and weapons.
Each kingdom in the mortaniel empire was said to have a library the size of the Lang Yang city library. They alone ushered in a new era of literature and science.
Now that Zhou Fan was done with the 3rd and 4th floor, he went to the inn and went to sleep.
When he woke up again he did not take an off day. Instead, he headed straight to the 2nd floor of the library. After asking around yesterday, he knew that the 2nd floor contained knowledge of literature and science while the 5th floor contained the research of science. As for the ground floor, it contained biographies and life experiences of many of the world's most influential people.
When he arrived at the 2nd floor, he counted 450 bookshelves. This time, the floor was split into two sides, or categories. Fiction and non-fiction. They equally took up half of the available space on the floor.
Another thing worth noticing was the round table in the middle of the floor. There were a couple people there, arguing about who knows what. They were whispering and Zhou Fan didn't understand half of the words they were using.
Soon, Zhou Fan tuned them out and headed to the non-fiction section. After all, he was here to study for a job. It took 15 hours to read the non-fiction section due to the fact that the books were much larger than before. Of course, throughout this time many people cast weird stares at him. After about 5 minutes, most people just tuned him out and went on with their reading.
After finishing the non-fiction side, Zhou Fan headed over to the fiction side. It only took 10 hours to finish that side. Zhou Fan was actually looking forward to the fiction side. He was hoping that it contained some theoretical information on Qi. Alas, not to mention Qi, there wasn't even mention of a magical energy in the world. Most of the fiction side was fantasies of taking over the world or a kingdom.
Even more involved marrying a pretty girl. At some point, it was hard for Zhou Fan to continue reading them. They were mostly about the same two ideas. Zhou Fan had no more interest in another round of reading those fantasy books.
While walking out of the library, Zhou Fan noticed that there were much more people at the round table than before. In fact, out of the 150 seats, only 8 were unoccupied.
Now that Zhou Fan had read every book on this floor, he was able to understand what they were saying.
"It is clear to any intelligent person that wuksen was arguing for peace through war. It would have only caused more harm in the end."
"Nonsense! He was arguing that killing the few would have saved the many. If not for those assassins, he would have brought world peace."
After listening for a while, Zhou Fan recognized what they were arguing about. In the non-fiction section of the library, there was an entire bookshelf dedicated to one man. Agregot wuksen. Perhaps the most influential writer in the world's history.
He was alive in the biggest war throughout the world's history, the war for peace. Although it sounds honorable, there was no clear good guy or bad guy. Although they both agreed on war for peace, many disagreed with the idea. Agregot wuksen was the biggest spokesperson for ending the war.
He was so influential that the war was almost ended by him alone. However, once he came to power, he immediately sent out an army of a million. Neither of the alliances were expecting the man who was the biggest advocate for peace to send an army.
Therefore, the two biggest empires at the time, the rising sun empire and the falling moon empire, were destroyed. If it wasn't for the assassins, who knows what would have happened.
In his last book, Agregot wuksen wrote, " I ended the war in one fell swoop. That one action will bring peace to all who live."
Many, however, viewed wuksen as a hypocrite and were close to banding together in order to kill him before the assassins ended his life.
Zhou Fan actually agreed with wuksens actions. Every year that the war raged on, millions died. It was estimated that half of the world population was culled during the war. If it wasn't for wuksens attack, perhaps millions more would have died.
Many others believe that even if he didn't attack, the war would have stopped with his words.
It was after that war that the empire of mortaniel took over. Some say that his inspiration formed the empire itself.
Walking past the arguing group, Zhou Fan had no more interest in their discussion. Unless time rewinded, no one will know what could have happened. All the knowledge and opinions were purely theoretical.