Chapter 16: The great library
Pushing the massive doors open, Cades quickly saw a impossibly great library inside.
There were thousands of books on shelves extending throughout the entire great, underground cellar, the shelves were made of stone and ordered right next to each other in a symmetrically repeating pattern.
As Cades took his first few steps into the library the various artifacts that were fixed onto the walls began brightly shining in a warm light to allow the visitors to read.
Right in front of him, right between the great stone shelves there laid a desk made out of stone, just like the aforementioned shelves.
It was especially lighted up with an inviting and seemingly very comfortable chair in front of it.
The air inside of the ancient chamber was not stale, but instead very cold, indicating that this place had a circulatory system to vent itself with fresh air and with that, fresh oxygen.
Now that Cades thought about it, he realized that he had been lucky to land on a planet with oxygen, but he consequently also understood that he had probably landed on this planet because of its protruding mana, indicating that there had to be sentient life on this planet.
Cades slowly, carefully took a step forward, towards the desk and began looking into some of the books.
He could not read what was written inside of the books as he didn't know the spell of universal translation, that one was a very high ranking and difficult spell after all, but he did see that there were a multitude of different pictures and illustrations in the books.