Chapter 272: Victory is a Side Reward (9)
Nether stared at the book Keter held out.
—Everything About Problem-Solvers
It didn’t just have the same title. It was undoubtedly the book he had written.
The number of pages, the cover, the specifications... It really is the one I wrote seventeen years ago.
Back then, the technology for binding books had been poor, making mass production impossible. As a result, he had produced only ten copies, and all of them had been made by hand.
Nether himself no longer possessed a copy of this book. He had never been attached to it, and rather, he felt ashamed of it.
I was immature and foolish. I can’t believe I wrote down all of my know-hows.
Nether had sought out and burned every copy he could find. He had realized how foolish it was to publicly reveal the ways of a Solver, which was practically his means of living. He burned eight out of the ten copies, but no matter how hard he searched, he had never been able to find the remaining two. Yet, one of them now appeared in Keter’s hands.
Keter looked at Nether, who glared at the book Keter held out in front of him.
I never imagined I would meet Nether. Especially as an enemy.
The claim that he had become a Solver after reading Nether’s book wasn’t a lie. It was the truth.
Originally, Keter had intended to become a mercenary. However, he gave up on that path because of Cork, the branch manager of the mercenary guild, and began searching for an alternative.