Chapter 024 (1/2)

Volume 1

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 1 Chapter 23

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「Alva……huh.」

If they were to do a full-fledged investigation, there was a limit with the method of gathering rumors that they had used up until now.

Just exactly where and when did they start appearing.

Just how far has research on them progressed.

Did some sort of law exist for them.

And then, one more thing.

Just why did the Humans know of the Dark Continent’s existence.

Shion thought that if he was going to do research, then he wanted to research everything.

However, books that had that sort of things written down weren’t sold in the town’s bookstore.

──The library.

If one was researching something, that word would probably be the first thing to come to mind.

However, a library that a member of the general public could enter did not exist in the Shutaia Continent.

The reasons for that were simple, and one of them was for the purpose of protecting bookstores.

The other reason was, because it wasn’t needed.

The things that could be bought at bookstores were pretty much simple books such as the legend of the Hero, and were fundamentally oriented towards nobles.

Since paper was expensive, books, which were a bundle of paper, were even more expensive.

And since pointlessly extravagant binding was preferred, the price increased even further. Merely, it wasn’t like one couldn’t live their life without it.

If one wanted to hear the legend of the Hero, the minstrels at bars and restaurants would sing of it regardless of the time of day.

Even if one couldn’t read or write, there were plenty of possible jobs, and if one wanted to learn how to read and write, they would require a private school or a private tutor.

In other words, books were a luxury item, and a facility that would go out of its way to gather and arrange such things for the sake of the general public did not exist.

This went even more when it came to the technical books that Vermudol wanted to read, and only existed in places that were oriented towards those that were anxious about the country’s future and that could be securely deposited and managed.

For example, the royal palace’s archives.

For example, the chivalric order’s archives.

For example, the temple’s archives.

For example, the Adventurer school’s archives.

Naturally, there was no way they would simply show it to him just from him visiting.

Books are assets.

Therefore, unless there was trust, it was reasonable to be turned away at the front door.

Unfortunately, Shion didn’t have any connections anywhere.

And if he didn’t have any connections, he had no choice but to make them trust him.

And to make them trust him, he needed a referral from a person that the other party trusted.

And to get that referral──connections were needed.

It was truly an unproductive loop, but there was no helping that this was the reality of it.

In that case, what should he do.

First, the royal palace is impossible.

He didn’t have any acquaintances with royalty.

Next is the chivalric order.

Many of the knights were people with a lot of pride, and Shion, who was a mere Adventurer, didn’t have any acquaintances among them.