Ritualist by Dakota Krout

Author:Dakota Krout [Krout, Dakota]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2018-03-15T06:00:00+00:00

~ Chapter Twenty-one ~

Joe pulled the brightest, shiniest book he could find from a shelf, excited to see what was inside of it. To his horror, it was a book on simple mathematics. So the glow was not about how important the book was? Joe flipped through the book until he noticed a single dark spot. It took him a moment to realize the significance of the dark spot, but by adding up the numbers, he found that the provided answer was incorrect. So… he was able to see at a glance how accurate the information contained in a book was? It made sense that a math book was almost perfectly true, even if you could craft a spell to crack a world in half, one plus one equals two.

With a sigh, Joe put the book down and ignored it as it flew away. What would be the best use of his time then? If he wanted to get and level the lore skill, he should focus on the books that were shining with correct information. There were a surprising amount of books that were dim, outnumbering the books filled with truth by three to one at least. So, if he wanted to find magical artifacts, quests, and ways to get more powerful… his eyes jumped toward the fiction section. Myths, fairy tales, books others thought were just ‘fun’ reads. Joe wandered over and began pulling likely books from the shelves, stacking them on the nearby table.

He was glad that there was a note-taking interface in his character screen; paper was fairly expensive to purchase in small amounts. He typed away at a keyboard which only he could see. Any onlooker would have found it very strange to see, since it seemed he was just wiggling his fingers in midair while flipping the pages of the book in front of him a few times.

The data he could find was… disjointed. There were nuggets of truth in these fictional books, but they didn’t relate to each other in any real way. Before he could get frustrated after the fifth book, he found something interesting. This book had also reiterated some information that had been in the second book, and together they started to form a slightly clearer picture. He kept going, able to ignore large portions of the text as he continued to write down only the true parts.

Grouping all of these chunks together was similar to creating a jigsaw puzzle, and he found out more about his skill as he tried to piece the words together. When he put the information in an incorrect order, the words would dim. Placing them in the correct order would make them grow a bit brighter. He spent an hour trying to put a quest together with what he found, but his mind began to wander eventually. There simply wasn’t enough information here. After a short break, he began parsing a few books about people who had used rituals in the past. Unsurprisingly, he started to ascertain that most of the contents were false.

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