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I’ll finally be able to see her again .

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Soo Hyuk read the last passage and closed the book .

The white glow of the book disappeared, and a message appeared .

[Your satiation had dropped below 50%]

“Hmm?”

Soo Hyuk, who was expecting a wisdom increase, was left flustered at the sudden notice .

‘Was the book too thin?’

His wisdom probably didn’t increase because the book was too thin . Soo Hyuk stood up and went to lounge area to refill his satiation .

When Soo Hyuk arrived at the lounge area, he opened his inventory to eat his soft bread . As he brought out 2 soft bread, he thought .

‘Looks like I have to buy more bread . ’

In his inventory, there was enough bread left for one more reading session .

‘I’ll buy them tomorrow . ’

He wasn’t going to buy them today, as he was planning to just spend the day reading comfortably . Soo Hyuk started to eat the bread calmly .

When he finished eating the last crumbs, his satiation rose to to 90% . After he checked his satiation, Soo Hyuk exited the lounge area and went to a bookshelf .

Soo Hyuk thought as he pulled out a book .

‘Is that person waiting outside?’

That stranger had followed him out the Central Spire and had also come to the library almost two hours later .

‘It’s likely from the way he followed me all the way here . ’

Around 1 hour had passed since that strange man had come to the library and pestered Soo Hyuk, but Soo Hyuk still had a feeling that the man was still close by .

‘Well, it doesn’t matter . ’

Soo Hyuk thought that it didn’t matter anyway . Even if the man was going to harass him outside, rather than stubbornly not answering, he wasn’t going to exit the library at all . Soo Hyuk pulled out six books from the bookshelf and returned to his desktop read .

“When is he going to come out?”

Adilo said to himself while frowning .

“It’s already been an hour . ”

Adilo had patiently waited for an hour, yet there was no sign of the young man coming out at all .

“Is he just really slow at reading?”

Adilo wondered .

“Let’s just wait a bit more . ”

Adilo decided to wait a bit more for the sake of the mysterious envelope .

30 minutes passed again . Adilo was still outside, waiting . But one could tell he starting to get irritated from his scary expression .

‘He should’ve finished that book by now . ’

No matter how slow he was, Adilo thought that it would be enough to finish that one book . Eventually, Adilo couldn’t endure anymore and went inside again .

“Here you go . ”

Adilo slapped his token at the NPC and stomped inside the library . When he entered the library, he immediately spotted the young man, who was surrounded by books again .

Adilo approached the young man while trying to look intimidating . However, the young man didn’t even glance at him again . Adilo had already sort of expected this, so he then checked the books that were piled up on the desk .

‘This crazy bastard . ’

They weren’t the books from 1 hour and a half ago .

‘He’s reading again . ’

They were new books . This made Adilo wonder about whether there were some important secrets in book .

‘Is there something like a big secret in the books?’

The books did give you wisdom, but it was terribly inefficient . All the users already knew that the levelling was more time efficient than reading .

This man probably also knew about it as well, and yet, he was reading a book with five others piled around him .

‘No, even if there were……he’s reading too many books for there a to be a secret hidden in them . ’

He had five books before, but now, there were six . Were they somehow all related?

‘But the titles are all different . ’

They weren’t a series or even about the same topic .

‘Then is it for the wisdom?’

Then there was only one reason left . The wisdom bonuses . (TL: But what about the reason why people read this book? Webnovels like this doesn’t even make you smarter . )

‘Isn’t that pretty dumb?’

Adilo thought that it was too foolish .

‘Argh……’

Adilo’s face scrunched up . He thought that his head was going to explode from the sheer stupidity of this man .

‘Such a waste of time . ’

Adilo was waiting for the young man to come out of the library to get his envelope . He had waited for than an hour by now .

‘I can’t just give up like this . ’

By now, Adilo wanted the envelope not because of Kim Hyuk, but to satisfy his own curiosity . He had never thought of being so close to the realm of the special class users until now . That was why he wanted to know so badly .

‘He will most likely leave if I stop him from reading . ’

Just because PK was impossible didn’t mean that other aggressive actions were, so Adilo covered the young man’s book with his hand again .

When his book was covered, the young man looked up with a hostile glare .

“What is it this time?”

The young man asked with a low voice .

“Tell me . ”

Adilo asked with a ‘polite’ smile .

“……No . ”

The young man then slapped away his hand and started reading again .

Adilo covered it again .

The young man looked up again with intense anger written on his face . He then questioned menacingly,

“Are going to keep doing this until I tell you?”

“Yep, are you going to tell me now?”

The young man didn’t say anything for a while . After glaring at Adilo like he was his most hated nemesis, he just stood up silently .

‘Is he leaving now?’

Adilo thought while smiling . Was he finally going to leave? But his smile quickly turned into a frown as he watched the young man . The young man was not going outside .

‘……The private room?’

The young man was headed towards the private reading room . Although it charged 5 gold for 1 hour of use, they wouldn’t get interrupted by other people .

‘Sh*t . This f*cking son of a b*tch . ’

Adilo swore crazily as he glared at the young man entering the private room . He couldn’t even watch him now .

‘Sh*t . I have to log out soon . ’

It was almost time to log out . Although he could hold out for longer, the young man couldn’t be interfered now, and he had to go to work early tomorrow .

‘If only I didn’t have to go to work . ’

This was too unlucky .

‘You better be here tomorrow . ’

Adilo glared at the young man one more time and logged out .

* * *

[5 gold have been spent]

[Time left: 60 minutes]

Soo Hyuk was smouldering inside while he entered the room .

“How much bread is five gold?”

The main reason he couldn’t do the skill quests was because of gold . After all, he didn’t need to spend gold on a skill that he wasn’t going to use now .

Soo Hyuks stingy about gold that way . But now, he was spending gold for a completely nonsensical reason of hiding from a stalker in a game . Soo Hyuk flipped open the first book and thought .

‘That weirdo wouldn’t still be outside, right?’

But what if he was still there?

‘I can’t just stay in here forever……’

It was impossible to stay in here for long . It was possible for one or two hours, but he needed to pay an unbearable amount of gold that could be used for buying more bread .

‘Do I have to read next to the NPC?’

The private reading room wasn’t the only way to be uninterrupted . Users wouldn’t be able to be violent around the librarian . In that situation, the librarian’s eject ability will be activated and that person won’t be able to enter the library for a month .

‘What if he comes back after an hour?’

There librarian wasn’t completely foolproof, because he didn’t always stay in one spot . The librarian would be wandering around the library most of time, and now was one of those times .

‘No, let’s not worry about it . He can’t keep waiting for me . Let’s just read . ’

Getting rid of his worry, Soo Hyuk dived into the book once again .

* * *

– Kim Hyuk: I’m busy today so I won’t be able to log on today .

“Nice!”

Park Kyung-Ho exclaimed .

“I’m free from that nightmare today! HAHAHA!”

Park Kyung-Ho laughed crazily . The reason Park Kyung-Ho was so excited was because he didn’t have to teach that little bastard today .

“Now, he should be at the library, right?”

Park Kyung-Ho had something to do . He had thought that accompanying Kim Hyuk in Pangea would complicate his schedule, but it looked like his worries were unfounded .

Park Kyung-Ho put down his smartphone and climbed into his capsule . He thought while he connected to Pangea .

‘Will he still be at the private room?’

When he logged on to Pangea, Park Kyung-Ho no, Adilo went straight away to the library . When he entered the library, Adilo dashed straight to the private rooms and checked if they were available .

‘He’s not here?’

The young man wasn’t in the private room today . After checking the private rooms, Adilo headed to the common reading area to see if he was here .

Adilo found the young man not long after .

‘Where is he going?’

Adilo had just caught him walking outside the library . Adilo didn’t know where he was heading, but that wasn’t important right now . What mattered was the fact that he was heading outside . Adilo followed the young man outside at a distance . When they came outside, Adilo quietly closed the distance while planning his next move .

‘An electro ball should be enough to one-shot him . ’ (TL: think pokemon)

The young man’s level was not that high . The reason Adilo thought that was because the young man’s equipment only consisted of common clothes and a low-grade leather armour .

It was the gear that you got from the tutorial village . Literally no one except the newbies would wear them .

Adilo thought that no matter how high his level was, it was level at most . Level 40 coupled with a Magician’s low vitality and his low-level equipment would be instantly killed with just an electro ball from Adilo .

“Electro ball . ”

Adilo conjured an electro ball as soon as he was close enough . When the electro ball was fully formed, he dashed madly towards the young man and threw the electro ball .

‘What will he drop?’

Adilo wondered with a sinister smile as he watched the electro ball fly towards the young man . In his mind, the young man’s death was already guaranteed .

‘He better drop envelope . ’

[You have attacked user ‘Soo Hyuk’ . ]

[Your relationship user ‘Soo Hyuk’ has fallen to ‘hostile’ . ]

The electro ball exploded .

‘So, his name is Soo Hyuk . ’

Adilo found out Soo Hyuk’s character name from his attack .

‘What will he drop?’

Adilo stared at the explosion while he tilted his head in thought . What items would he drop?

“……?”

But when the dust cleared, Adilo could still see Soo Hyuk safe and sound .

‘What? He didn’t die?’

He was convinced that the attack had hit Soo Hyuk . But he didn’t die .

‘How……?’

Adilo quickly shook his head to clear his mind and activated electro ball again .

“Electro ball . ”

Although he didn’t know why Soo Hyuk didn’t die, he quickly aimed the electro ball at Soo Hyuk again .

The spell cackled with electricity as it flew through the air . But as it was nearing Soo Hyuk, something completely unexpected happened .

As the electro ball was about to hit Soo Hyuk, green gas filled the air instantly . The electro ball exploded at the moment it hit the green gas, but the explosion was nullified by the gas .

‘……What is that?!’

Adilo panicked at the sudden appearance of the mysterious green gas . When he was desperately trying to figure out his next action, the green gas engulfed Adilo and messages started to appear .

[You have been poisoned by the Blood Troll’s Poison . ]

[You have been inflicted bleed for 1 minute . ]

[You have been poisoned by the Red Snake Kapouri’s Poison . ]

[You have been paralysed for 5 minutes . ]

* * *

The Tower of Poison .

“He still hasn’t arrived yet?”

Pavian asked .

“……Yes . ”

Kale answered . He was at a loss as well .

“Didn’t he get the envelope?”

“Yes, he did . ”

“Then why isn’t he coming?!”

Kale was trying to come up with reasons as to why the new talent still hadn’t arrived as Pavian fired off question nonstop .

“Well, he did leave the Spire……”

The Central Spire had contacted them and said that the new talent had left already . Did something happen on the way?

“Haa……”

Pavian sighed deeply .

“The Central Spire isn’t even that far from here . Enough time should’ve passed for someone to arrive at the tower with plenty of time left over . So why wasn’t he here yet?!

“Wait,”

‘Could it be……’

Pavian suddenly froze . It was like he had been struck by lightning .

“Kidnapped?”