Confusion

Arjuna placed another book into the table joining the stacks of books already on the side of the table with a loud and heavy sigh.

He looked over to see Alanis attempting to read a book upside down with no finished books on the side of her table.

Arjuna let out a tired sigh and reached over to Alanis. Alanis's face gave off a red tint as Arjuna reached out closer and closer to her. She closed her eyes half in expectation and half in fear. And she felt the book in her hands be yanked away.

And when she opened them she saw in front of her Arjuna placing the book back into her hands this time the right side up.

Arjuna let out a small snicker as the realization slowly dawned on Alanis's face.

She then promptly buried her head into her arms, she could almost hear the ridicule in the one tiny snicker that Arjuna let out.

Arjuna looked over Alanis who refused to lift her head from her arms and let out another big tired sigh.

They had been stuck in the library for what seemed to be eons. Arjuna had poured through book after book about the history of the Nightshade empire and the elven kingdom. Boops had recorded everything though so perhaps Perseus could use it for his information site that he was planning to make.

But to Arjuna currently, the information had almost no value. Arjuna checked the class mission again for the Nightfall Archer.

[you have proved your strength to Sninkkaakac, but a Nightfall Archer must not only be strong, but they must also be knowledgable you must now prove your knowledge to Sninkkaakac by unveiling the meaning of a Nightfall archer, only then can you truly start your path to succession.]

[mission completion requirements: impress Sninkkaakac with your knowledge]

[uncover the mysteries of the Nightfall Archers in the City Library]

[rewards: dependant on the rank of completetion]

Arjuna looked over each of the missions over and over again. The wording meant that the answer was in the City Library, yet even after a few hours in it, nothing could be found. The words Nightfall Archer weren't even seen in it.

Arjuna looked over the book that he had read in the past few hours.

[history of Aanora the elven kingdom]

[the interesting and turbulent relationship of the Nightshade empire and the Aanora Kingdom]

[the specialties and significance of the Aanora Kingdom]

[the culture of the Aanora Kingdom]

There were so many other books like those that Arjuna had selected and taken. And each one gave him nothing about the Nightfall Archers.

Arjuna was internally dying, he needed to find information about the Nightfall Archers, yet nothing could be seen and his partner was currently buring her face into her arms. The only book she tried to read sitting untouched on the side.

Arjuna reached over and picked it up, perhaps an elf could find the best information about her country.

He looked at the cover and squinted in confusion. The book was a simple one, with an old brown cover bound together with string that seemed like it could fall apart any second.

The title was written in some language Arjuna didn't know.

[ᛏᚨᛚᛖᛊ ᚨᚾᛞ ᛊᛏᛟᚱᛁᛖᛊ ᛟᚠ ᚦᛖ ᚠᛁᚱᛊᛏ ᚲᚢᛖᛖᚾ ᛟᚠ ᚦᛖ ᛖᛚᚢᛖᛊ ᛗᛁᚾᚢᚢᛇ ᛈᚨᚠᛁᚱ ᚲᛚᛖᚱᛁᚲ ᛟᚠ ᚦᛖ ᛗᛟᛟᚾ]

He squinted at it in confusion and opened the book. The entire thing was written in this strange language. He looked over at Alanis and asked

"do you understand this language?"

Alanis peeked ever so slightly to look at what Arjuna was pointing at and said in a soft and embarrassed voice

"it's some sort of elfish runic language"

Arjuna sat up and looked at the book more carefully.

"This seems important" he mussed to himself as he carefully turned through the pages.

He called for Boops who was still traveling between him, his twin, and Jason.

Arjuna suddenly heard Boops's nonchalant yet calm voice call out

'you called Arjuna?' Boops asked

Arjuna nodded and showed Boops the book he held in his hands.

"yes, you know what language that is?"

Boops fell silent at the sight of the language and seemed to be closely analyzing it. After a few minutes, he said to Arjuna

'alright, so this is slightly similar to a runic language that Jason kinda knows, but it's still very different with some characters that I can only guess are seen in the elfish language. It kinda looks like an elvish twist on rune language. I think I can figure it out since I already have some information on the regular rune language, but I need to know the elvish language first in order to correctly translate it into anything'

Arjuna quietly asked

"which means.."

Boops finished

'you either need to learn the Elvish language or I got to Jason and he gets it for a few points in the shop'

"he can do that?" Arjuna asked in a surprised voice

Boops laughed and replied

'the system and the game system in WOW have kinda merged, not completely or enough to make Jason like, you know a God in this game, but enough to glean some basic information off each other, things like that can be bought at a price, just like the wolf language that Jason bought'

Arjuna nodded while Boops said to him

'okay I'm going to go and ask Jason if we can do the purchase really quickly, ill be right back'

And saying that Arjuna felt the floating orb Boops disappear from his headspace.

Arjuna looked around to see Alanis staring at him with a confused expression. She had just watched Arjuna shake his head, smile, nod his head like he understood something, and make a confused and happy expression at the same time. She was kinda stunned, she hadn't seen those emotions on Arjuna very often, in fact, it was extremely rare to see an intense emotion on Arjuna's face. She felt happy that she saw those emotions, but was a bit sad that she wasn't the one causing them.

Arjuna didn't see the conflicting thoughts in Alanis and looked around the library. They were on the 3rd floor, right sitting on a table that was right next to the edge where what seemed to be a hole dug right in the middle of the cylinder-shaped library dipped off.

Stairs climbed up and down that hole, and Arjuna peeked out over the glass divider that separated him from falling down the hole. He looked at the two floors underneath him.

On the second floor directly across from him, he could see large rows of shelves with players and NPCs alike picking books off the shelves leisurely to read. The tables and seats that were closer to the middle where the hole that ran through the entire library was.

Arjuna could see numerous people reading just how he was. He looked up to the upper 4th and 5th floors.

The 4th floor seemed much more different than the other 3 floors, first of all, it was much less crowded. Only the occasional noble or rich-looking merchant strolled through it. The furnishes were much nicer with most of the tables being set with treats and other delicious-looking desserts and most of the people on the 4th floor had their own servants trailing behind them.

The 5th floor, seemed like it was empty though it looked like the most luxurious Arjuna could see hundreds of rows of books all with what seemed to be the highest quality, left untouched.

Arjuna was separated by a large distance from the 5th floor of the city Library, yet he could feel something mysterious and strong emanating from it. His mind raced as what it could be. Skill books could be found in here, or at least that's what Perseus told him, so that could be it. Or maybe some information on an event that was going to happen in this game world? everyone knew that something was going to eventually happen to what seemed to be a peaceful world.

Or it could be something more dangerous and useful. Only time could tell.

Arjuna could feel Boops enter his mind space.

Boops greeted Arjuna and then gave him an update

'Jason said yes, so I'm going to buy the elvish language for you it's going directly to your brain, so be warned and grit your teeth'

Arjuna nodded and closed his eyes in preparation for the pain.

[implementing (elfish language skill)]

And it hit, Arjuna's eyes snapped open and he quickly sucked in his breath as he tried to desperately combat the searing pain in the back of his head.

Only after a few minutes did it pass and Arjuna was able to take a small sigh of relief. Boops immediately went onto translating understanding the text in front of him.

Arjuna checked on Alanis to see that she was still hiding underneath her arms in embarrassment. While Boops let out a small cry of joy.

'hey, nice! I think I just successfully translated the title, here let me show you what it is'

Arjuna looked at the title that was displayed

[Tales of the first queen of the elves, (Minuvae Pafir) Cleric of the Moon]