Rowan did not spend long deliberating on this aspect, since he understood that everyone that came into this library would spend their time browsing through the books, and when they saw the information they wanted they would 'download' it into their Spirit.
Except for Archmages, even a Rank 9 Mage would find it very difficult to collect more than a hundred books at once when they were inside the Ancient Library. It was well known that the Spirit, hence memory depended on the soul, and only an immortal soul could hold so much information.
There was also the aspect of the sort of books that could be collected, as some books contained far more power and knowledge than some other books, making the strain of acquiring them that much harder, and even an Immortal soul could sometimes spend decades or even millennia trying to digest the knowledge in a single book if that book was special.
The Ancient Library had a unique feature where any elements of knowledge placed inside of it would be transformed into 'books.' In a manner of speaking, nothing here was a book, but everything here was also a book.
The Ancient Library was massive, nearly infinite in scope, so it would be impossible to locate a particular book you wanted in a short time, and it would be possible for one to spend a million years inside this place without getting the information they wanted.
This Library worked by using the thoughts of the individual, and all the information about that particular subject that they sought would be delivered to them.
There were no restrictions placed on any information here, and if you thought you could handle the knowledge you called upon then that decision rested entirely with you, although many Mages had perished for seeking knowledge beyond their power, many had also profited a lot from here.
Rowan knew that Andar might be monitored while he was inside this place, even though there were countless assurances that this was not possible, he would be foolish to believe it to be so.
So whatever he needs to do, he must be careful and play his cards right. He must not implicate Andar in any of his affairs, at least, for now.
It helped that Andar was interested in all the fields of studies under the Magus Civilization. This was a great help here, for he could search for random and diverse pieces of information and it should not raise too many eyebrows.
It would only be considered as a young Acolyte trying to broaden his knowledge base.
Rowan had a burning desire to search for the Term—Singularity. The Primordial Record was his greatest source of strength, yet it was also filled with mysteries, but he quickly rejected that notion, for there was no way he could justify the reason why Andar would search for something like this.
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