In front of the rainy window, the golden light trace once again spread along the leaf veins, until all the light entered Shard’s eyes.
He groaned and closed his eyes, digesting the complex, scattered information. It took him a while, holding his head, before he raised it again, making the cat beside him very worried.
"Is it really this complicated?"
Shard already knew the rules of the "Silvermoon Library", divided into different permissions based on the thod of entry. This ti, he finally learned about all the types of permissions.
Firstly, low-level access, by pushing open the Gate of Silvermoon through a one-ti ritual, requiring the three stone tablets in Shard’s hand as keys. Entering the library this way not only has a "once a year" restriction, but although you can browse the library’s collection records, the content that can be viewed is actually limited.
These limitations, even Miss Danester does not know about.
Secondly, interdiate privilege, the ancient Moon Goddess Sect, mastering rituals and moon worship to gain access to the library. This is a gift from the Ancient God - the Sage of Silvermoon, to the believers.
But this thod is almost impossible to realize in the Sixth Era now. The site requirent can be fulfilled at the "Night Shrine" in Randall Valley, but the problem is that to open the Gate of Silvermoon, a devout High Priest of the Order and a set of standard ritual activities are required.
The knowledge Tree Father provided includes descriptions of the rituals and prayers. Although incomplete, at least it covers the general content. Shard even glimpsed the worship scenes of the ancient Moon Goddess Sect. The simplest requirent among them is several hundred devout Moon Devotees, which Shard completely doesn’t know where to find.
Of course, this thod also requires at least one of those three "Moonstone Tablets" as a key.
"Can I be considered a devout High Priest of the Moon Goddess Sect?"
He looked at his reflection in the rain-soaked window glass and asked in his heart.
[Are you devout to the Moon? Or is it not devotion, but...]
"She" smiled gently, not saying the word they both knew.
Thirdly, high-level authority. The way to obtain this permission, which is also the one Shard is most familiar with, is to find the real door left by the Ancient God leading to the "Silvermoon Library"—just like the five doors currently in his ho.
Accessing the library in this way requires eting basic requirents, naly "Spirit Rune", "Spell Words", and "Artifact".
Among them, "Spirit Rune" naturally corresponds to the Moon. The scarlet, yellow, and holy silver three moons and related spirit runes are all acceptable, but if the aning deviates too much, the authority might be lowered, but this has nothing to do with Shard.
Shard also knows the "Spell Words", which were used when Miss Danester perford the ritual to call the portal. Moreover, Tree Father’s knowledge also includes this part:
"May the Primordial Silvermoon protect under the starry night."
He softly recited to the window, and the only response was a "ow~" from Mia.
The last corresponding "Artifact" has different requirents for different Ancient God relic sites.
For example, those Shard has encountered include the witches’ gold jewelry, "The Upside-Down Judge"’s Holy Emblem, "Primordial Rift"’s statue, "Crawling Darkness"’s black robe fragnt, Breath of Death, Sage’s Glowstone, and fragnts of the Heart of the Earth.
As for the "Silvermoon Library", unsurprisingly, the corresponding artifact is naturally those three Moonstone Tablets.
"But there’s no word on which power in the Material World holds the entrance to the ’Silvermoon Library’. Otherwise, Miss Danester wouldn’t be searching so painstakingly."
Mumbling to himself, he then thought of the high tower on Karas Mountain that collapsed, the tower he suspected he might fall from in the spring of 1853:
"Could it be there?"
But Miss Danester had investigated there more than once. She is a Thirteen-Ring Sorcerer of the Moon System; if such a door really existed, she would have no reason not to find it.
"It’s really tricky."
Actually, the best way to find the space left by the Thirteen Ancient Gods is to wait for the appearance of the corresponding Chosen One. For example, as soon as Iluna beca the Chosen One, she imdiately knew how to enter the "Inquisitor’s Court".
And even if the Chosen One and he are not aligned, he can seal the "door" in the corresponding Impermanence Card by killing the Chosen One and then place it in his own ho...when dealing with the Chosen of Darkness, Shard did just that.
"But as for the Chosen of the Moon, I don’t know when they will appear."
He recalled the conversation he witnessed between Ciris and Long-Haired Luviya during his three-minute "illegal crossing" at the Night Shrine. In an unknown instance of the Sixth Era, Ciris ntioned that the Chosen of the Earth appeared second, and before that, Luviya had already witnessed the legend of the Silvermoon’s Chosen.
"I wonder if this ti, the Chosen of the Moon will appear as number...surely not the last one?"
Fourth, beyond low-level, interdiate, and high-level privileges, there exists a "special privilege." To possess special privileges, the thod of entering the "Silvermoon Library" must also be very special.
The knowledge imparted by the Tree Father is quite limited, and Shard interprets it according to his understanding. The gist is that the Ancient God [Sage of Silvermoon] personally left so gateways, such as the moon during the Night of the Eclipse. These gateways are only open to special entities.
Special privileges do not necessarily offer more choices than high-level privileges, and high-level privileges do not an entering the library will instantly grant access to all knowledge. Regarding that library established by the "Sage of Silvermoon," which encompasses all records of the material world, Shard didn’t walk in himself, and relies solely on the knowledge given by deities, thus understanding little.
He pressed his finger against the glass in front of him, sliding down alongside the droplets of rain:
"Moreover, my goal is not rely to enter the library. Touching the original moon remains in the library might allow contact with..."
There is no need for Shard to ponder; he already knows that the moon remains in the library is not sothing he can touch whenever he wishes. Likely, similar to other special rules left by ancient gods, Shard needs to sacrifice a drop of divinity or another special item to achieve this goal.
Furthermore, the hint received upon leaving the library last ti was, "You might see it," implying that it also depends on luck.
In this way, the difficulties Shard faces are more nurous than mountains. Even if he has three drops of divinity now, the difference between actually seeing "Him" is still like that between a cup of water and the ocean.
[So insistent on eting ’Him,’ what will you do once you et?]
"She" suddenly asked at Shard’s ear, to which he didn’t imdiately reply, but instead picked up the cat on the windowsill:
"That would be..."
Thunk, thunk, thunk!
The door was knocked from the outside, and the Grand Witches who went to the eting finally returned.
Miss Sylvia and gan who entered looked a bit tired. After they sat down, the awaiting maids soon served hot tea and pastries. They didn’t imdiately talk business with Shard but asked him to wait a while until Miss Benanis was brought here through the portal by Miss Sylvia after so rest, while the Duchess was on her way:
"We’ll discuss it once we’re all here; this ti it’s going to be a significant event."
"Your etings are always this long?"
"This ti was even shorter. So ti ago, there was a eting that lasted until five in the morning. It was only after Galina complained to His Excellency the Speaker, saying poor rest affects one’s skin, that he allowed for a recess if the eting ran too long, putting non-crucial agendas to the next day when everyone has ti to discuss."
Miss Sylvia explained, and gan helped to clarify:
"But we usually don’t have that many things to discuss; such situations are very special."
Shard was curious about what exactly was discussed in today’s eting to cause such tension. But since he had to wait for Miss Benanis and Galina to arrive, he had the patience.
The witches’ maids brought pastries and tea, while the cat in Shard’s arms struggled and indicated it wanted to eat:
"Speaking of which, I’d like to ask a question. In the Fifth Era of 1576..."
He calculated the ti backward, as Mrs. Miles seed to be in her sixties or seventies around 1576:
"Was there any major event in the material world between 1500 and 1577 of the Fifth Era, especially related to demons?"
It’s quite shaful. Ever since realizing the ti adventures orchestrated by the Tree Father wouldn’t be recorded in history, Shard lost interest in investigating the era background before using the Ti Keys. Thus, for the "Black Mist Camp-1576" key gifted by gan, he used it without conducting any investigation.
Though it seems now that not investigating doesn’t hinder anything, he still has so curiosity about the tribulations Mrs. Miles and Mr. Jackman went through.
Miss Sylvia didn’t respond but looked at gan. "Knowledge and Wisdom" Grand Witch pondered for a mont:
"Interesting question. Before answering, Shard, can you tell why you asked this?"
"Of course, it was because of the Ti Key you gave ."
He briefly described his unique "Ti Investigation" experience, which Miss Sylvia was aware of, hence she supplented so details while holding her teacup.
It was gan’s first ti hearing such matters:
"Never heard of it... So during the Battle of Pantanal, those ancient witches, and your Saint Byrons founder Miss Mana Feliana... Wait, Galina mysteriously told she has a secret to ascend to Demigod Witch, is it not a joke? Is it because of you? Such unique talent in ti... Are you Ti’s Chosen One?"
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