Chapter 442: Book World
As Jia Na's consciousness gradually returned, she finally saw the scene within the so-called Book World.
Vast, immense, boundless—looking at the world entirely composed of colossal bookshelves and the various books and scrolls piled within them, Jia Na's first reaction was that she had arrived at some library.
“Bang—”
With the sound of a heavy object falling, a red-covered book on the far right of a bookshelf suddenly dropped and then began to flip rapidly.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—”
As the pages turned faster and faster, in a moment, the red book's pages stopped on a page displaying a certain apprentice's personal information.
“Hmm? That is—”
Looking at the rather familiar name on the page, Jia Na's eyes couldn't help but narrow.
“Is it Louis Tor-Turan?”
Hum—
Light flashed, text appeared. As a soft white light emanated from the red book, a tall, slender figure wearing a red wizard robe appeared beside the book.
“It really is him—”
The one who appeared in the Book World after Jia Na was indeed her former competitor in the Andrew-Gump Transformation Trial, Louis Tor-Turan.
“Where are the others?”
After glancing at Louis Tor-Turan, Jia Na quickly shifted her gaze from him and began searching for Vivian and the others.
“They are not here.”
After searching around, Jia Na found that besides He Sai-Jin from Black Bone Forest, she hadn't seen any other apprentices from the Turin Wizard Gathering Place.
“Everyone here is an apprentice who has already comprehended a Law Fragment. Besides He Sai-Jin and the later arriving Louis Tor-Turan, Jia Na also saw Hai La - Herheim, Kunbu-Poison Spine, and Maguire-Storm, these ‘acquaintances’.
Like Jia Na, they also had a book-like “Guiding Spirit” following them.
“Hello, One, may I ask where the other Turin apprentices who entered the Book World with me are now?”
Jia Na, who vaguely had an answer in her heart, also turned her gaze to the “Reception Emissary” who called herself One.
“They are currently in ‘Song of the Brave’.”
‘Song of the Brave’?
Hearing One's answer, Jia Na's expression couldn't help but freeze.
If she remembered correctly, the ‘Song of the Brave’ that One mentioned was actually a book that told the story of a knight with a terminal illness who constantly adventured in various secret realms in search of the secret of immortality—
“Then why are they in ‘Song of the Brave’ while we are in this world?”
“Because the Lord of Wisdom decreed that anyone not acknowledged by a Wizard's Will must participate in the Brave Trial, and you, as well as the others here, are all acknowledged by a Wizard's Will—”
One's words confirmed Jia Na's thoughts.
Just as Lily-Meg had informed Jia Na before, the rules of this year's White Tower Trial had indeed changed.
One of the changes was that Wizard Apprentices who had mastered a Law Fragment no longer needed to participate in the trial with those who had not.
“This rule change is also a good thing for Vivian.”
After all, compared to Wizard Apprentices who had not mastered a Law Fragment, those who had mastered a Law Fragment possessed overwhelming combat power.
If Vivian were to encounter Wizard Apprentices such as Maguire-Storm or Louis Tor-Turan at the start, her outcome would inevitably be a “one-shot” elimination. “Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—”
As the sound of books flipping continued, many Wizard Apprentices unfamiliar to Jia Na also appeared in this Book World, entirely composed of books.
“How strange.”
Looking at another unfamiliar apprentice who appeared right after Louis Tor-Turan, a hint of confusion arose in Jia Na's heart.
“When I arrived, I didn't encounter any other apprentices near the White Tower, yet the time they appeared in the Book World was no more than a minute after I appeared here—”
Thinking of this, Jia Na also relayed her question to One.
“Because the flow of time in the Book World is different from the Primary Material World; one minute you spend here is equivalent to one hour outside.”
It could be like this?
Hearing One's words, Jia Na was enlightened and also surprised by the time flow within the Book World.
“Could it be that the Law of Time exists here?”
Victor-Wanzhi, as one of the most powerful wizards in the current Wizard World, Jia Na was not surprised that he could master the Law of Time.
“If the time flow in the Book World can be sped up, that means it can also be adjusted to be slower than the time flow in the Primary Material World. This is a good way to use time efficiently.”
As time passed little by little, the number of books falling from the shelves gradually decreased.
Ultimately, the number of Wizard Apprentices in the Book World settled at “thirty-two” and did not continue to increase.
“It seems that the number of apprentices who have mastered a Law Fragment this year is only thirty-two. That's quite a bit more than I had previously expected.”
In previous years, the average number of admissions to the White Tower was around sixty people, among whom, those who had mastered a Law Fragment were less than twenty.
However, judging from this year's numbers, the Wizard Apprentices who have mastered a Law Fragment are roughly 1.5 times more than in previous years.
“This means that although Turin is only a medium-sized Wizard Gathering Place, the number of apprentices who have mastered a Law Fragment in the past two years is not small—”
For example, Richard-Eva, who mastered the Blood Law Fragment last year, and Jia Na and He Sai-Jin this year, all came from the Turin Wizard Gathering Place.
Just these few account for approximately six percent of all apprentices who have mastered a Law Fragment. This is a very good achievement even for other large Wizard Gathering Places.
Especially for the Turin Wizard Gathering Place, which had a gap in new students for several years, it was a record-breaking achievement.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—”
Just as Jia Na was still thinking, suddenly, the sound of pages flipping sounded once again.
And this time, what appeared in the Book World was not a Wizard Apprentice from another Wizard Gathering Place, but a Formal Wizard with a powerful aura.
