*Knock… Knock… Knock…

Tyler’s attention was jolted awake, his thoughts returned to normal as he stared at the door that lead to the hallway. For a second there he had thought the knock came from within the library and almost lost it. ‘That would have been scary…’ He wanted to ask the person that knocked to enter but when he realized the state of the room he quickly got up and walked to the door.

After resting for a while now he finally felt a lot better, his mental exhaustion had been alleviate by the thoughts of his sister and mother. Even though he knew that there was no longer any hope of returning back to Earth. He had investigated it several times in the past and had never found a way back, he had also died on Earth before coming here so his body was probably long gone.

Only heroes that were summoned here were generally able to return back to Earth. He shook the depressing thoughts off as he opened the door to see the aged demon, Albert standing there.

“My apologies for interrupting you my Lord, but the everyone’s a little restless Right now.”

“They are?”

“Yes sir, as freemen, they have never sworn their loyalty to anyone before and had only lived by their own rules. Now that they have lost that title, they are quite unsure of what to do next.”

‘That’s why they shouldn’t have done that.’ He thought to himself while tilting his head slightly. “Anxious huh… If they need something to keep them busy for now, they can try having a bonfire in the ward. There’s nothing special I need from them so they should just relax for now.” He paused and thought for a while.

If he was successful in entering the library, he would spend as much time in there as possible untill he had gotten what he wanted or was forcefully kicked out again. Last time he spent more that 24 hour in there so if he was to base his assumptions off of that, then…

“I might be busy for a while so if for some reason they feel they can’t relax, you can get them to do some stuffs around the castle, they can clean and maintain it for now while getting themselves familiar with the place, it has been a while since anyone’s used it so it’s a little dusty.”

“As you wish, we will get on it right away.”

“Huh, get on it? wait, I didn’t say right now…. and he’s walking away.” Albert had already walked quite a distance away before Tyler could even finish his sentence.

As Tyler watched him leave he sighed and shrugged, if Cleaning made them excited then he shouldn’t stop them.

He turned around to return back to his seat when a sudden jolt of electricity shot through his brain. ‘Huh…’ He turned around puzzled as he tried his best to think of the reason why that happened. He felt like someone with malicious intent had just touched a part of his body. But no one was next to him right now.

Being cautious he activated magic vision but the results were still the same.

Tyler then walked out of the room into the hallway, he stared down the hall for a while but nothing changed. Giving up he decided to head back in, that’s when he heard the sound of a door opening. He turned warily to look only to see Liz exiting the her room, she turned in his direction and saw him staring at her.

She then took slow steps as she headed for him. Tyler felt exhausted waiting for her but he felt like he shouldn’t move or that would be rude. She finally arrived before him and before he could say anything she bowed deeply to him. Tyler was startled and wanted to say something but before anything could leave his mouth she beat him to the punch again.

“I want to offer my gratitude… Not only did you help us in the forest but you also went out of your way to help my friend. If… Sob… if… You hadn’t done anything when my mind was in such a state i might not only have lost myself, I would have also lost my friend.”

Tyler listening to her sincere words of gratitude and could only focus on one thing. ‘That state? Does that mean she remembers what happened in the forest… Perhaps she lacks control whenever she transforms. I supposed if that’s the case then knocking them out was a good thing.’

“It’s fine, no need to bow I was also interested in helping your friend as there is something i lack that both of you may be able to provide me with.” Liz slowly raised her head as she stared at Tyler a little hesitantly.

He knew this was risky. Laying his cards on the table was never without risks, but at the rate things were going, he had a bad feeling the wheels of fate was spinning, and not in his favour. Besides they were bound to figure him out sooner or later, it was best to control the situation now while he had the chance.

Having had some time to think he came up with various ideas as his mind went into overdrive, preparing for any scenario that might happen. As always his main objective was information but Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. Wisdom was also profitable to direct.

He looked at Liz with a calm expression and asked. “How is your friend now?”

“She is fine, the healer said… Hm… I mean, Erin said she just need to rest for a full day or two to recover completely.”

“I see… Hmm that’s good then, I guess I’ll tell you what I need and you can fill her in when she wakes up.”

“…”

“Mmm… Well I’ll just sum it up for now. Like I said before i have been asleep for a long time now and while I’ve been away things around here have changed greatly.”

“Asleep? how long.”

“Roughly a thousand years.”

“…”

Tyler saw the look of surprise on her face changed to one of instant realization and confirmation. He could guess what she was think and surely she had come to a wrong conclusion and he wasn’t going to correct her. This was one of the reasons he was telling her this based on the reactions of everyone when he touched the barrier.

He later heard from her and the ogres that freemen stood against the ruling class of this continent and they were only here because this region was unruled. Based on this facts he wondered why an high level demon like her and a dark elf of similar strength would be here. Moreover they had taken a dangerous route through the forest instead of going around it.

He came to the conclusion that they were also trying to hide from high ranking demons just like he was. If anyone could understand his situation even with a misunderstanding, it would be them. They were probably criminals or outcasts that ran away from home in search of a safe haven or something similar.

Whatever the case, it made no difference to him as long as they were of use to him. As the silence continued, Liz was the first to break it as she spoke softly.

“Why were you asleep for so long.”

“That’s of no consequence to you, so don’t mind it, besides you should be a little aware of what happened a thousand years ago. I had no choice but to enter a state similar to sleep.” He said trying to affirm her misunderstanding even more, which seemed to have worked.

“Okay… what do you want to know from us.”

“Everything.”

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With that his most dire need for information was solved. Although he hadn’t gotten the information yet, as the girl still wasn’t in the right frame of mind to give a detailed description on what she knew. Just like him, she was also mentally exhausted. Now that her friend was out of the danger zone. ‘Hehe… Danger zone.’ He asked her to rest up and would get the information from her both of them were awake.

As he locked the door to the demons king’s Chambers he took a deep breath to calm down and walked to the strange door in the room. He finally had the chance to test the door to the library. Although he had also come up with various ideas and theories on how the library worked.

He still had to test it before he could come up with other ideas and maybe find a solution. Perhaps he would have to tell someone about this place in order to get a more informed solution. Someone like Erin might be more knowledgeable on concealment spells than a novice like himself.

Thinking of this he immediately shook the idea off his head. He had no intentions of revealing his most valuable trump card to anyone no matter how long he had to wait. Since he now knew he was most likely the only one that could enter the castle freely he would camp here for as long as it took. Besides he really had no where else to go.

He soon arrived at the door to the library and a familiar feeling started to swirl within him. Rather than being nervous he was more hopeful, what’s the point of a trump card if you can’t use it. He twisted the door knob and pushed…

A slight creaking sound could be heard as the door slid open slowly. “It opened! It really did open!” The emotions he felt was indescribable as he watched the door open before him. He was relieved, he was ecstatic and he could barely contain these emotions. Why it opened now was a mystery, did the connection between dimensions stabilized? or was this an effect of the spell itself.

So many questions ran through his mind and as usual he had no answers for them. What he knew now was the answers to this question lay within the library. Without hesitation he walked inside the room and the door closed behind him.

The bright light from within almost blinded him as the view from within settle in his eyes. Tall wooden bookshelfs as far as the eyes could see, filled with books of different colour and sizes in different section of the hall. He saw the walls that were lined and designed with gold, the strange symbols and drawings carved on the tall walls, and even though there were no coloured crystals to light up the room the place was still as bright as if it was under the sun.

The familiar place he had only entered once in his life almost brought a tear to his eyes. He was finally able to enter the one place that had most of the answers he needed, well except the information he wanted on the current situation in the demon continent.

Although he didn’t know how long he could stay here and learn, he still took a moment to absorb the emotions within him as he looked a the majestic sight before him.

“Finally Back!”

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