Chapter 183: Something To Do
This time it wasn’t a question of where he wanted to spend his time, it was a matter of how he wanted to spend this life, and Simon spent several days considering that question. At this point his lives were stretching for decades rather than ending in weeks, so in a way, he was picking what kind of play-through he wanted to have. Maybe picking my major would be a better choice, he added as he reflected on his previous life.
It was that thought that made him decide he definitely wasn’t going to do what he’d planned. Once he finished recording every fact worth remembering into his ever-expanding personal library, he’d thought about going to Liepzen and living a similar life for as long as he had the last time in a different library. It was sensible. The facts were all fresh in his head, after all. Surely, he’d be able to learn the most by comparing what he’d read in Darndelle and the Broken Tower.
But it sounded incredibly dull. He’d spent years reading and tinkering, and right now, he wanted to do what? Besides seeing Elthena, he wasn’t sure, but seeing his sword leaning against the wall, called to him more than a little, and he wondered what enchantment he might put on it when the time was right.
Strangely, though, he didn’t feel like enchanting anything. He wanted to in theory, but he knew exactly how much work that was. It would be weeks and months to set everything up, depending on what he wanted to do, and right now, that all just looked like more waiting to him. Truthfully he was chaffing at spending so much time just talking to the damn mirror for day after tedious day, but he knew if he stopped, he’d never pick that back up again, and he’d forget an awful lot.
“You know, you do a terrible job and holding up your side of the conversation,” he told the mirror at one of the points he felt like giving up on this part of the project.
‘I do not understand the point you are making,’ the thing said after only a slight delay.
“Exactly,” he laughed. “That’s the problem.”
Simon managed to put up with the boredom for almost two weeks before he gave up. In that time his only real entertainment was hunting, fishing, and thwarting the increasingly aggressive goblin raids.
Simon had never tried to stay on this level for so long. Indeed, he remembered a time when he regarded staying here for five days as impossible. This time, though, he looked forward to the sunset raids that only intensified day after day.