Chapter 438: Debate About Books
Travelling through the library became almost a blur for Elin. They'd walk past countless shelves through the days, stopping at various 'rest' locations when they were starting to get tired, and taking a trip to the cafeteria while they were at it. They'd even started collecting a lunch from the cafeteria before they started out each day.
Elin was happy to have gotten the book she'd wanted and was content to let Elmo study it in hopes that he'd be able to decipher it so it wouldn't count as one of the books they wanted to trade. As it was only two bits out of the entire book that Elin and Elmo wanted.
Though, from the looks she caught of when Elmo was able to look at the book, it wasn't going as well as she'd like. Even as they found other books, such as a few from the swordplay section that Elwin picked out, Elmo looked like he was struggling with the book.
Assuming that he was able to find where the spells that were needed for the effects that Elin and Elmo wanted, or however the magic worked, Elin hoped that he'd be able to tell that that's where he was rather than passing by because of his inability to fully understand the language the book was written in.
Of course, Blot wasn't willing to help them. He told Elin each time she asked, that he wasn't allowed to do anything. That if they wanted to be sure that they understood the things written in the book, that they had to make the trade. Which would then make the book able to be understood as if it was written in their own language.
Or at least that's how it sounded to Elin. She suspected that it wasn't quite that simple. That there was more to it than just how it sounded.
Elin wasn't sure how long they'd been traveling through the library, but she was starting to get the sense that it was larger than she had originally expected. Especially with how long it took them to reach the stairs to take them up to the next level. Which, naturally, looked almost exactly the same, with the only difference being that the color of the bookshelves were different for some reason. Which even Blot wasn't able to explain a reason for.
If Elin was to give a number of how many times they took a rest, by the time they'd finally reached the section with the book that was supposed to contain information on how to travel between worlds, she'd estimate that they'd rested at least six times. Though, when they did reach that section and got the book, it was nearing the time when they'd be taking a rest.
Even still, Elin felt like she was going to drop herself. She wasn't sure that she'd have been able to go much farther when they did pause to collect the book.