The Retribution of the Ice Cold Maiden

19 - Do I have that kind of face?

"Are you freaking crazy?!" Soul asked in a panicked tone after seeing the sheer size of the library.

Selena and Soul's goal to go to the library was to record the books present inside so that Selena can access the huge information whenever she wanted so that she can pass the Aristocrat Exam with at least a Second-Class grade.

However, contrary to what Soul expected, the library was too huge. To make a comparison, it was the size of 4 basketball courts, and to add insult to injury, the building had multiple floors. The number of books present was definitely in the tens of thousands.

"Didn't we agree to test your memory capabilities? If you can't even complete such a minor task, what use are you to me? I might as well just wear the ring again." Selena replied nonchalantly as she picked a random book from a shelf. Since this was a library and there were many aristocrat children present, she had to pretend to read a book while Soul recorded them otherwise she would look suspicious.

"You are a slave driver...!! Expecting me to build freaking pyramids out of nothing...!! Where's Moses when you need him?" Soul felt like crying. Even though he was fully capable of recording every book in the library, it was not an automatic process. He had to manually approach a book with his radar and scan every page himself. It was like when one uses a photocopier. Sure, the machine can duplicate the pages, but one has to manually turn the pages per scan, and in Soul's case, he has to do this process for at least ten thousand times. Similarly, his speed was impeccable, but that was only in comparison to the real world. He himself would feel the speed as normal and so, one can see the reason why Soul felt like crying.

Selena plopped the book she was holding on the reading table with a thud. She sat down on her chair and flipped the book to a random page and replied to Soul, "If you do this... I will allow you to scan a beautiful lady with your radar once as you asked of me when I told you to scan Baron Turner."

"Slave Soul pays respect to Master." Soul suddenly had a change in his tone. If he had a body, he would have bowed down on all fours as a sign of submission.

The drastic change made Selena almost stumble from her chair.

"Ugh... Men." She thought to herself as she began reading the book in front of her.

*Fifteen minutes later...*

"Alright, I am done with these bookshelves, sit somewhere else. My radar is limited so I can't record the entire floor in one go." Soul informed Selena.

"How much of the floor did you cover so far?" Selena asked.

"Roughly... around 1/4th. You may have to change your seat at least three more times if you wish to record everything on this floor." Soul replied after pondering about it for a bit.

"Wait, before we go, did you read the books on the herbal plants in those previous shelves?" Selena asked.

"I... Yes, I did." Soul replied after checking his memory.

"Okay, then I like to take a test. According to what I know, In order to make a fever-reducing potion, one needs two major ingredients, the Darkmist Mushroom and the Silver-spotted Leaf, am I right?" Selena asked Soul.

"Hmm... Nope, Wrong...!!" Soul replied after a quick search that did not even take a second.

Selena clenched her fists. It seems Ex-Teacher Claire Walker really filled her head with garbage.

"So what is the right answer?" Selena asked, after calming herself.

"To make a fever-reducing potion, one indeed needs to use two ingredients, but one is a White mushroom with green veins on it and the other is the Bird illusion leaf. The latter gets its name from the shape of its leaf that looks like an origami bird from a certain angle. To make the potion, you will need to boil the mushroom in water from a pond filled with Crimson-scaled fish. One should drop the Leaf only after the water reaches the boiling point. If everything is done right, the water should turn a light shade of green, and also blah blah blah...." Soul continued vomiting out all the information he gathered about the potion.