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Knowledge is like a high wall; this is what the foolish would say.
Knowledge is like the Tower of Babel; this is the path for those skilled at learning.
And knowledge is like the sea; this is what would be said to someone like Constantine Julius, the old curator.
As one of the rare elders in the Sage Sequence who managed to live to eighty, retiring with honor was the most important reason he had survived until now—he had been a prodigy when he was young, becoming a librarian at sixteen. During his most arrogant years, he undertook deep dives thirteen times a year, each time reaping rewards from the Old Era. His greatest haul was an artifact that the Mage Tower had sought for seventy years.
It was also then that he unwittingly became a black librarian.
Fortunately, before his second deep dive, he met the Lord of Justice, who was walking on the earth. This great being saw the problem within him at a glance and intervened to rescue him.
