Chapter 699
Uh, Myriad? What the hell is all of this?
That’s one word for it I guess.
There had to be a thousand people waiting outside the library when he arrived that day, all of them either locking onto him out of recognition or else seeing him for the first time but picking up on the reaction of others, with the only thing that kept him from being swarmed being some of the guards and librarians having come outside to bring order to things, with the highest ranked among them coming over to greet him.
“While I don’t personally mind, in the future I’d appreciate some notice if you’re planning to host an event here,” Killi told him as she surveyed the rest. “Although I suppose any enthusiasm they have to learn is exactly what the building is for.”
“Ah, sorry Killi, I really wasn’t expecting this when I said I’d be willing to give some people some help. I thought there’d be maybe twenty again, not this.”
“Ha, you’ve underestimated by quite the amount but thankfully we got some heads up. The head of the mage’s guild reached out to me after word started going around, it seems the people you spoke to almost all had major breakthroughs in their spell development, with a couple even getting levels.”
“I can’t take credit for that second bit.”
“Why not? Knowledge of magic has a direct tie to use of magic. If you helped with a person’s understanding and it led them to doing more, why wouldn’t that qualify as you contributing?”
“...Okay, point taken. So that’s why so many showed up?”