Castle Center

I waited for some time and soon the most obvious happened, a monster was born from me because I had received the semen of the librarian, it was a bit painful since it was a plant monster and it hurt my intimate parts a little.

The librarian devoured that little monster and it was a bit disturbing to see that, but it's not like I didn't know he would do that, since he also did it with the first monster that was born from me.

After that, he threw me a white dress with small black embroidery to replace what I was wearing and told me to go quickly to the place I want to go, the place is a complex path that leads straight to the center of the castle.

The center of the castle is not really the center of the castle structure, but rather a place that controls the magic that shapes the castle, basically the place where the magic that regenerates damage in the castle and moves the corridors is located.

Without help, I can't get to this place, and I'm sure this place has the biggest secret that this castle could hide, since it's the safest and hardest to find place in the castle.

After I had dressed up enough, the librarian began to take me to the place, the corridors had clearly changed, the castle corridors are usually very beautiful and chic.

However, the path we are taking has strange and twisted corridors with a totally strange design, in addition to being made of an obsidian-colored stone and purple crystals.

The angle of the corridors themselves is strange, as if it were twisted, and as if the straight line had been drawn completely wrong, as if they had taken the rectangular shape and given it a slight tilt to the side.

"Miss, can I know what you want in this place?" The librarian asks as we turn a corner, the doors in this place are in an extremely smaller amount than in the normal corridors.

"I'm just curious about the castle's architecture and what's in it, there are many fun and beautiful places to visit, and I'm trying to pass the time," I tell a lie mixed with truths.

I'm a terrible liar, but if I lie and tell the truth in the same sentence, it seems more credible and they end up accepting these answers.

"Can I ask my question since you've asked yours?" I ask, looking at the librarian.

"Of course, ask whatever you want, but I don't guarantee I'll answer anything," the librarian says, making it clear that he may not answer me.

"What will you do with the mana you took from me?" I don't know what she could be useful for, even though I have a good amount of mana, but it's not like the librarian needs my mana.

"I'll be using your healing affinity for some things, I've noticed that you're very good at it and I already have some uses for your mana, now all I need is to get something from the Demon Lord of Wrath and I'll be able to do it," the librarian says something that fits with what he had asked me before.

Before going back in time, he had asked me to stay with the Demon Lord of Wrath in exchange for a favor, so it seems he has a fixed goal.

"Miss, you seem happier, could you say the reason?" The librarian says, changing the subject.

"What do you mean?" I ask to better understand what he wants to say.

"When you arrived at the library, you seemed sad and even apathetic with a vacant look, but now you seem better, I wonder what caused your change, it's just a small curiosity of a librarian," the librarian says with a slight laugh.

"..." Of course I'm a little happier, I got a unique weapon with a very good ability, with it I'll be able to take the reins of my life again as long as I use it without making mistakes.

Just having it with me already gives me great hope that I will hide from everyone, I won't let them fragment this little hope I have, I'll hide it until those little embers become strong enough flames to no longer be extinguished.

"I liked the sex," I say only that as if it were the reason I'm excited, when that is not the real reason.

"Oh? Is that so? How curious, you didn't seem very satisfied when we stopped," he says, referring to my disappointment that we had stopped, but I don't say anything else and he decides to remain silent.

Soon all the doors in the corridor disappear, showing that this is another area, I also feel a lot of mana in the air and see several magical stones on the floor, there are so many of them that they don't even seem like rare things.

"Why is there so much mana in the air?" I ask with genuine curiosity, new feelings resurfacing because of the little hope I've gained, although the world is still too gray and opaque.

"It's because we're reaching an area with a powerful barrier that has an extremely high amount of mana and that no one can pass through, not even the 7 Demon Lords can pass this barrier," when the librarian says this, it's obvious why he's letting me in here.

This barrier, he probably thinks I can't pass through it, but I have a strange confidence that I can, if Aurora made me have to figure things out on my own, then there won't be places I really can't go.

I'm almost certain that this is where the secrets I need are hidden, and I think I'll be able to pass, it's as if the place was made just for me.

"Librarian, is it still far?" I ask, wanting to know if we'll still take long or if we'll soon arrive.

"No, this place is relatively small, we'll soon reach the barrier area that's before the center," the librarian responds without much interest.

"I don't recommend you try to pick up those magical stones, they have so much mana that they're unstable and will explode as soon as you try to touch them, and luckily it will only explode after you try to use them," the librarian says as I stop trying to pick them up.

'What a shame...' There are so many of them, I wanted some, they are very useful for various different things, it's truly a shame that they are unstable.

'Wait...does that mean...' I look fearfully at the stones, moving away from them and getting closer to the librarian.

"It seems you've noticed, the answer is yes, if one of them explodes, all the others will also explode in a chain reaction," the librarian says, but in a way that seems more to scare me than to inform me of the danger.

I decide to just follow silently close to him in case everything explodes and he makes a barrier to protect me, since I doubt he would just let the damage happen and could protect himself.

And I also doubt he would protect me, he would probably just protect himself and let me be blown up.

I also take extra care with where I'm stepping to avoid exploding on one of them, and after 10 minutes of walking, we arrive at a place with a translucent light purple "wall".

"This is it, with this I fulfill my agreement, do you need time to observe the barrier?" The librarian asks, proving that he thinks I can't enter.

Of course, nothing says I can enter, I'm just being very positive and maybe I can't even enter, but I feel I can and I'll do it, I approach the barrier as if it's nothing.

I don't want to be stopped by the librarian, so I get close to it and stare, staring and pretending to be thinking about how I could enter, when I'm right in front of it, I jump inside.

Hoping not to run into the wall and closing my eyes, preparing for an impact that I don't know if it exists.

"..."

Nothing, I passed through completely as if there was nothing, I sigh with relief that I really managed to pass and look back, seeing the librarian looking at me in shock.

"...How did you do that..." He asks only that, but I look at him with a mixture of courage and audacity, I stick out my tongue while using my finger to move the lower eyelid in a gesture of mockery and boldness.

"...Come back to this side now," he says, hiding his anger, but I can see the vein that appears on his forehead and notice how his hand tightens angrily and he even seems to turn a little red with anger.

"Come get me and I'll go with you, but otherwise I have things to curiously explore," I say with courage and audacity, knowing that he can't pass.

"One day you'll get out of there," he says only that as he leaves, and he's right, one day I'll get out of here, but I don't regret what I did, because for the first time in a long time I feel relief and a sense of control.

Control over my own life and my own choices, I just decide to continue exploring the place to find something important, I'm sure there's the biggest secret this castle can hide here.