The fifth day soon dawned on the secret realm. Within the central area, Elena was currently immersed in the myriad of books lining the walls.
Since Damien had told her about his circumstances before suddenly disappearing, she didn't waste any time worrying about him. As things stood, it looked like he was going to get stronger once again through whatever he was doing.
'But it's not like I'm not the same.' She thought as she closed the book in her hands.
This library was truly something else. Rather than calling it a library, it was more apt to say that this was the main record storage of the Empyrean Dragon Sect.
Whether it be history books, cultivation manuals and martial skills, or even records of the Great War, they were all present within this library.
'Haa…it's a shame. Half of these books are written in the ancient language of the Cloud Plane instead of the universal language. It's a shame that the system doesn't give us an automatic translation skill, but I guess it can't be helped.'
Putting the entire universe under a single language to prevent language barriers was enough to maintain balance. The system wasn't obligated to do any more than that.
Actually, just the fact that a universal language was created and implemented was insane enough.
But Elena didn't mind the small details. She was simply lamenting over the fact that some of the most important books she found weren't written in a language she could read.
'Whatever, I'll just take what I can get. It's not like my gains here have been small.'
"Martial skills" was a term used by those on the Cloud Plane, but the concept of transferable skills wasn't something unique to them.
Skill books, skill cards, these kinds of constructs existed even on Earth. But the quality of skill that could be transferred didn't add up at all.
After all, transferable skills still had to first be created and trained by the one who created them. They also needed to have enough comprehension of the skill to streamline the process of learning it for others. Just describing the process of creating the skill wasn't enough to make it transferable.
As for the one learning the skill, they of course needed to put in effort to do so. Even a beginner-level skill needed to be trained before it was earned.
This was why transferable skills on Earth only amounted to useless skills like a Cooking skill or basic swordsmanship.
But here on the Cloud Plane, a world with countless years of experience that had produced an innumerable amount of powerhouses, things were different.
From defensive techniques, attack techniques, and even more enigmatic supportive techniques that Elena had never heard of, this library had them all.
'If I could loot this entire place, I definitely would, but these skills don't all match with me so it won't matter. My affinities are Light and Life, so I should prioritize skills related to those two elements.'
Elena skimmed through the skillbooks on the shelves. The main problem for her at the moment was that her fighting style heavily differed from others who had the same elemental affinities as her.
For one, most Life or Light element users chose the supportive path rather than the offensive one. Becoming a skilled healer or support was far more useful and made better use of their elemental properties.
But Elena was never one to stay on the back lines of a battle. Plus, with her advancement into 3rd class, her fighting style had gone through another drastic change.
Souls of Valhalla, her main skill as a Valkyrie, was a summoning skill. The more she used the skill and leveled it, the greater the number of warriors she could summon to fight for her.
It was as if the system was subtly judging her that fighting on the frontlines wasn't the role that suited her the best, even if being at the forefront of battle was still her role.
'I can summon around 20 of those warriors now. As for the skill itself, it seems to be connected to my Light element rather than Life, so I should prioritize that element for offensive purposes.'
As for Life element, she didn't actually have many skills or spells related to it. Other than the most standard healing skills, her main skill was Yggdrasil.
'Looks like I'm deeply connected to Norse mythology. I wonder why that is…'
Elena suddenly thought back to her past. The days before the World Awakening, even before she had met Damien in high school.
When she was a child no more than five years old, when both of her parents had died due to unknown causes.
She had been left in an orphanage that day. Even though she went from foster home to foster home for a while, that orphanage was her true home for many years.
As for her parents, she didn't even remember their faces.
But she never minded it. For her parents to have died so early in her life, she didn't feel much connection to them at all.
But after the world changed, she began to doubt some things.
'Damien's father is…quite obviously not someone from our world. The surname Void was enough to key me into that fact after the world changed, but with the kinds of things he's told me, apparently it's all but confirmed at this point.'
So if his father could be someone amazing, couldn't her parents be the same? This was the kind of nonsensical thinking that went through her head occasionally.
But she couldn't shake off the sensation that she might be right.
There were many clues. For one, her talent. Damien was an insane talent that couldn't be categorized like others. His growth being so rapid didn't affect her at all, it was only natural.
But Rose and Ruyue, these two women that had become her sisters, they had both begun their path to strength far before she had.
Not only that, but Rose was also at a far higher level than her when they first met.
But now, the two of them were relatively equal in power. Her growth wasn't something that logically made sense.
If she was a trueblooded Earthling, she should have talent that matched that of a beginner world, not one that matched the geniuses at the peak of a middle world.
Coupled with the mysterious calling she felt from a world only she could enter, it was hard for her to not doubt her origins. Thinking she was a simple character was just idiotic at this point.
'I don't know why I care so much about something like background. Even if my parents are still alive, it's not like they did anything good for me. Even if I have some profound and unimaginable background, as long as it doesn't interfere with my life, I don't care for it.'
Status came from power. Background was its own form of power, but it was one that she despised. Especially after interacting with so many incorrigible young masters and misses during the past year, she looked down on people who were unnecessarily prideful of their background.
Elena shook off her thoughts. 'Forget it, I shouldn't be thinking of these kinds of things right now. I need to take as many of these skillbooks and other useful books as I can before we get ejected from the secret realm.'
With her thoughts back in order, Elena returned to the task at hand.
However, perhaps her focus was why she didn't notice the flickering holographic emblem that appeared behind her as she did so.
