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As the building shook and the door glimmered both Isaac and Val stood there wondering what was happening when suddenly the door and building began growing in size. The door slowly grew to around 12ft tall. Once it reached that height it stopped growing as the building also stopped growing and shaking around the same time. The glimmer of the door increased and after a couple of minutes the doors opened as a massive green snake slithered in. The snake nearly hit the top of the door frame and when they were fully in the building they were around 40ft long.
As the snake came fully in both Isaac and Val were shocked at the sheer size of the creature they were witnessing grow closer to them. Isaac suppressed his shock as he put on his customer service face and approached the desk. William showed him a book which explained how to go about registering a new member and how to make their library card along with other things like library rules and membership levels.
As the snake finally reached the desk they stopped and looked down at Isaac in curiosity. Isaac smiled at the snake and was about to speak but the snake beat him to it.
"Hiss! (Excuse me sir but can you tell me what this place is?)"
Isaac ignored the fact that he could understand the snake thinking he would just ask William after this was done and began talking.
"Welcome to the library! We are a repository for knowledge that exists outside of the many worlds and universes. You have been given the opportunity to join and use our services."
"Hiss? (How do I go about joining and what are the benefits of joining?)"
"We have some paperwork for you to fill out in order for you to join but before we begin I must ask if you are able to take a human form. You don't have to as we are able to accommodate members of other species but it will just make things a bit easier on us. We recently reopened and are quite short staffed at the moment. As for the benefits we don't have much to offer at this moment since we have just reopened but soon we should have some. In the future we will offer cultivation rooms, lessons on different side occupations, classes on cultivation and more."
The snake nodded its massive head before beginning to coil up. Once they were completely coiled up they began to glow with a dim green light. Their body slowly began to shrink under the glowing light and after around a minute the glow vanished and what was left was a beautiful lady with the lower half of a snake. She had long emerald green hair that matched the patches of scales showing on her arms and neck. Her eyes were a bright red that seemed like they could pierce through you and she was wearing a long dress on her human half that was decorated with flowers and vines growing around the dress. While in this form she was a lot shorter being only around 8ft tall her tail was still quite long at around 15ft.
Isaac smiled and started gathering the paperwork for her to fill out while he explained what it was on.
"It is just some basic info like your name, age, energy type, rank and your elemental affinities. Oh it will also ask the name of your world and your species." He passed the pages to her and then continued. "On the second page it has a list of rules that we require you to follow such as don't cause damage to the library on purpose. Don't attack other members of the library or the keepers/ sub keepers and so on. Don't try to steal from the library and finally don't make any copies of books without permission. It is a soul binding contract and failure to uphold it can lead to punishments based on the severity of the rules broken."
The lady nodded and quickly filled out all of the paperwork before passing it back to Isaac. He accepted it and quickly looked over it making sure everything was okay before picking up a stamp and marking it as approved. Right after he stamped it the paperwork began to shimmer before a globe of light flew out of the pages and went into the book on the back of Isaac's hand . Then the papers shrunk into a small white card with the lady's info on it.
"Alright just one more step. Just inject some of your energy into the card and you will complete your registration becoming a copper ranked member of the library. "
Taking the card and injecting her mana into the card it slowly turned from white to a dark copper color before melting and reforming as a ring which she slipped on to one of her fingers before asking Isaac a question.
"What do you mean by copper rank?"
"Well here we have different ranks you can ascend through. Since creating the doorway to one of the many worlds in the various universes is quite costly energy wise we have to limit how often you can come to the library. By upgrading your membership it allows us to strengthen the connection to your world making it cost less energy for us. Eventually we will be able to create a permanent gateway from the library to your world letting you bring more people along with other things. Currently you are at the copper rank which allows you to visit the library once every 3 months. By upgrading to bronze rank which is the next rank it will allow you to visit twice every 3 months. "
"How would I go about upgrading my rank then?"
"It all really boils down to energy. Anything that contains energy you can trade with us and we will give you Energy Coins or EC for short. That is the libraries currency and how you will be able to purchase things or upgrade. If you would like to do an exchange we can take you to the exchange counter. You can also pour your energy into the card to upgrade it. The color will get lighter and lighter until it finally goes to the next rank. Also EC can be used as a cultivation resource since it contains a more purified version of the energy and can help boost your cultivation speed. If you forget about any of this you can just think of a quick guide while holding your library card and it should pop out. Is there anything else I can help you with?"
"Can you point me towards your books on mana please."
"Sure thing! They are right over there." Isaac said pointing to a row of bookshelves. "And if you need anything else don't hesitate to come ask."
"Alright thank you." The lady said with a smile before slithering off towards the bookshelves Isaac pointed at.
"You handled that wonderfully." William said smiling at Isaac. "Now how about I teach you both about how to cultivate energy."
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Sorry for the big info dump I just thought I would get it out of the way before I forget. The next chapter will also probably contain a large info dump as well but hopefully it isn't as bad. I hope you all enjoy reading!