Because most of the books had been tampered with or destroyed, the All Things Library had no choice but to mobilize a massive amount of human and material resources to recollect, organize, and categorize information, and to compile new books.
The All Things Library itself was not profitable before.
Its operation relied mainly on social donations and the wages earned by library members who worked outside.
After the war ended, many chambers of commerce or families, pressured by their own nations, shifted their focus to national reconstruction, with no spare funds to support the neutral library.
That was the library's most destitute time.
Countless library members scrimped and saved, went here and there, but the library's recovery was always just the tip of the iceberg. More financial and material resources were needed for the library's restoration; otherwise, it was an indefinitely long wait.
