Chapter 547: Books, making heads or tail of it
“This must be the actual time limit…” Cinthia said, watching her fingers progressively becoming shadows.
“At least it only looks different, doesn’t feel like much else is happening. Still, at the speed it’s going… Ten minutes to reach our chest, five more to reach the head, maybe? So that’s what we’re working with. Let’s try to uncover more rules.”
“Yeah the lights changed section right when you guessed a rule out loud, so it might be linked. If we’re forced into a new section of the library every time, though, we need to get the most information out of each section,” Cinthia recapped, talking quite fast as they were pressed for time.
“Let’s grab another book each.”
Leveraging her fast reading, Sofia quickly scanned all the book titles until she found something truly interesting: The undead giants of the north.
It was quite high so she jumped up to grab it, but when her fingers touched this new book, they were repelled back, and a sharp, acute pain coursed through her left hand which was still holding onto the Dimmerion book.
“Ouch, what the hell?!”
Cinthia was about to grab a book of her own, but she stopped when Sofia cursed. “Did the book hurt you?”
“Yes? It’s weird. Let me try again.”