Arc 2 - Swing
Ch. 3 - Impatience
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"Can't wait!"
I skipped around the streets, happily humming along the beautiful tune sang by birds across the purple-orange dawn sky.
I tightened my fingers around the black-cased book I received from Rack. My thoughts shifted to that book as a grin kept widening on my face.
Finally reaching my house, I barely said hello to my family and Ash as I ran into my room, shutting the door with an audible bang. Silence is a must when reading.
Throwing my bag on the corner of the room and plopping down in bed, I quickly grabbed the thick book and opened it with hunger.
As my eyes danced across the pages, the obvious presence of a titanic quantity of knowledge made itself clear in my mind—but that didn't matter.
Time became nothing to me as the pages kept flipping endlessly. Countless words and phrases kept coursing through my mind continuously.
The dawn outside dimmed down, and the room's light began to die. Before I knew it, the moon was high up in the sky. I held a small gemstone to light up the book's pages.
After a couple of hours, I had reached the middle of the book, however, on one of the pages, something caught my eye.
Familiar symbols were drawn on that page, each followed by an explanation. The author had probably spent years of his life in order to gather enough knowledge to write this alphabet-ish structure.
"Those symbols, where have I seen them before..."
As a sudden rush of realization hit me, I picked up that small, velvet-colored book and opened it side-to-side with the black book.
Its small, yet recognizable symbols were clearly similar to the ones in the book I bought, however, the velvet book had a lot of symbols that the other one didn't have.
Of course, the author couldn't gather every piece of knowledge. It was unrealistic thinking.
Also, what was that underground library? I know that it possibly had a tie with the burnt library because of the connection between these two books. This doubt will probably sit on the back of my mind since there's no way to answer it.
"Ugh... "
As I was recollecting my thoughts, the tiredness finally reached me.
I put the books away and plopped down on the bed. Ash nuzzled against me as my mind drifted away.
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"Silence!" The teacher sighed in annoyance. "I need to go over some important things, so listen carefully."
Her words echoed throughout the school's yard. We were preparing ourselves in order to leave for our trip.
As she explained to us how we should behave, I couldn't help but jitter in excitement over the prospect of meeting new beasts.
Apart from that underground cave and Ash, I haven't had many opportunities to see new beasts.
Of course, Beast Studies will eventually cover some of the most common and important-to-know beasts, and that's really exciting for me.
Although I'm sure once I translate more pages of that book I will find more unknown and interesting things. It's been really slow though, with only a few number of words translated in two weeks.
"We will meet some weird, odd, and dangerous beasts at the Bestiary, so don't overreact. An official beast knight will assist us while visiting," the teacher interrupted my thoughts.
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Talentless Beast Knight - An Original Novel
Fantasy» What is talent? « » Can I become like them? « » Is effort enough to defeat talent? « All-powerful, mighty and titanic - Beasts lived and fought with people, providing them with their power. Those that held the strongest power were called 'Beast Kn...
