Inside the Library, Remi and Socrate were in their elent.
The entire building was full of technical manuals, fiction novels, and history books. So, no matter what they were in the mood for, they could find sothing, and it might even be sothing that they didn't know yet.
Naturally, both had gravitated to the botany section of the technical manuals, while Dana was perusing the history books, looking for one with a map and a list of local Clans.
That knowledge would be very useful when they were travelling, as they didn't have the years of knowledge that the Elders did about who lived where, and who held grudges with each other.
That might be sothing that they could only find inside the Clan, but it seed useful to everyone, so she might find it here as well.
She was skimming through a book entitled "Cachian Clan Leaders of the Modern Era" when she caught sight of sothing fluffy stopping next to her.
The sothing turned out to be a small Lycan girl, bipedal with a wolf's head and mostly furred.
"May I help you with sothing?" She asked, as the girl was clearly staring at her.
"Yes, please. My father would like to know if you are an Inscriptionist as well as a Golem Mistress. My big sister just awakened the mage class, and he would like a [Golem] skill book for her."
Dana was about to ask why he didn't just ask himself instead of sending the child, but when she saw him, wearing heavy plate armour and standing nearly two hundred and fifty centitres tall with matted black fur, she understood.
He was not what one would consider easy to talk to.
He had likely just finished a dungeon run, going by the state he was in, while his size, combined with his bestial appearance, would frighten many people.
"Yes, I can trade him a skill book of [Golem]. You can tell him that I will trade it for raw crafting materials, or a book of equal value."
The little Lycan hugged her waist, and then ran back to her father.
Now, Dana was going to need a table to write at, as the Golem spell would take so ti to complete. Fortunately, Libraries and Inscriptionists went hand in hand, and there was a fully stocked writing area off to one side.
"Might I use your supplies for a skill book? I have a request from one of the warriors." She asked the Librarian standing near the roped off section.
"Of course. It will be twenty gold coins to use the supplies for one skill book. If it should fail, it will be fifteen for the next and any further attempts."
Dana nodded, and converted a Clan Credit to get coins for the Librarian.
She handed them over, and the Librarian looked a bit startled as he saw the Darklight Host markings on the coins. Not many Clans would mint their own money like that. But the System said that it was pure gold, at precisely seven grams each.
That was precisely the standard for gold coins, no wear and no signs of prior
use.
So, either her people had just finished making these coins, or she had a System function to have her money co out in perfect condition. Both were possibilities of great interest to the Librarian.
The knowledge and technology to strike perfect coins, not a tenth or a hundredth of a gram off, was rare in this part of the world.
chanical balance scales could theoretically do it with ease. But most minters wouldn't put in the work to get individual coins perfect, and would simply balance batches.
If one hundred coins weighed seven hundred grams, the batch was correct and the small flaws in the coins could be forgiven, as long as they all looked right.
That was how they would be accepted by rchants as well, because of the usual mix of origins and minting standards.
Quietly, he pocketed the coins, and swapped them for twenty coins from his own inventory so that the Library wasn't shorted their writing materials fee. "Might I ask, what book are you intending to write? I can bring over additional materials, if they're in stock," he offered.
"I will be writing the [Golem] skill book. However, I have what I need. You see, I am a Runecrafter, not an Inscriptionist. The outco is the sa, a functional Skill Book, but I don't need fancy materials for most of the works. Just quality papers and a proper ink."
The Librarian nodded. "Wonderful. The boss always appreciates when the resource cost is low."
Dana laughed quietly as she took her seat.
The cost of the materials she was using were unlikely to exceed two gold coins. But she would at least use an Immortal Grade ink, infused with a strong elental resource.
Only, she had forgotten to ask what Elent the other sister resonated with.
The Lycan girl was standing by the door with her father, who was explaining sothing to her in a low and intense voice. Dana's guess was that they were discussing the paynt, but the little one wasn't awakened, and the father was a warrior, so she couldn't use them as reference.
So, she went with the default for all things golem.
Earth Elent.
It likely wouldn't change the effect of the book once it was written, but so spells worked better with certain elental affinities in the materials than
others.
Her own basic golems were made of stone, so there should be no issues using Earth Elental materials to make the book. The Librarian, on the other hand, was taking detailed notes of everything she did.
From the choice of ink, to the placent of the blank parchnt pages, he was recording everything.
And now it was ti for Dana to blow his mind.
Because when you had [Runecrafting], [Skill Book] didn't require the user to
physically write the whole thing. She could just touch her quill to the page and
the skill would fill it in so she could move on to the next.
It was a much more efficient process than simply writing, like the
Inscriptionists would do.
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