Catastrophe Card King

Chapter 1495: 458 Chapter 1495: 458 Time flew by, and before he knew it, several months had passed.

Leonard Churchill came to the Royal Academy mainly for the Transcendent knowledge in the library.

So, he almost gave up all unnecessary activities, with no balls, no banquets, and no participation in any Transcendent clubs or social interactions…

Every day, his life revolved around just the library and the teaching buildings.

He immersed himself daily in a sea of books, voraciously absorbing vast amounts of Transcendent knowledge.

However, the collection at the Royal Academy was indeed too extensive.

Even if he had clones, Leonard felt it might take him hundreds of years to finish reading everything.

Fortunately, though the Royal Academy had countless books, they were also very well organized.

This was the result of the efforts of countless predecessors over more than two thousand years.

It wasn’t chaotic like sand, but rather structured like a “tree.”

The library’s billions of books were divided into various categories.

Each category was like a big tree.

For example, fire element Spells were a major category, like the “trunk.”

Then it branched into many “branches” like elements, Techniques, Curse Seals, Curse Script, Barrier, Mystery… etc., major categories.

Finally, there were various “leaves” of colorful Spells.

The entire library was a forest of knowledge.

Each category had detailed notes and explanations from card masters who were authorities in that Domain, along with librarians’ tags guiding readers on how to choose the direction they needed.

This greatly enhanced the reading efficiency of the students visiting the library.

And Leonard’s Enlightenment was exceptionally high, and his own realm was also high.

Reading those foundational Classic Books was almost like understanding one opened up understanding to a hundred.

For many categories of books, often after reading the general theory and finding a few representative works, he could fundamentally grasp the framework of that kind of knowledge.

Moreover, with his photographic memory and the ability to read multiple Classic Books simultaneously due to his Multi-Heart and Multi-Use ability, he had flipped through volumes of books in these months.

He had briefly touched on almost every category in the library.

In areas where he saw his weaknesses and had interest, he delved deeper to understand, even if it was literature, arts, history…

It was said that the Southern Continent was the origin of the Card Master Civilization, and although it didn’t have a brilliant empire like the Taren Empire of the Old Continent, in terms of historical depth, it far surpassed the Old Continent.

These Classic Books contained a vast amount of knowledge about discontinuous civilizations that Leonard had never heard of before.

The Dokxi Civilization, the Lordaeron Civilization, Altranc Ruins Civilization, Ancient Lordami River Civilization…

These were all ancient documents he had seen while strolling through the Adventurers’ Marketplace and could be found in the library.

This history was as if lifting the mysterious veil that shrouded the world, layer by layer.

Visibly, Leonard came to understand more about this world.

…

As Leonard spent a long time in the library, gradually, he almost faded from presence in the academy.

Meanwhile, the other members of the Landon Sixteenth Squad, especially David, Garfield, and Serli, were becoming increasingly renowned among the academy’s freshmen.

After successfully changing professions, their strength and talents had a truly explosive growth.

Due to their “S-rank” trial assessment at admission, they were constantly challenged by others.

Such brutal challenges gave them invaluable practical experience, and with the rewards from the beginning of school, the Demon God Secret Skill, and one hundred thousand credits, their growth rate was astonishing.

Even Jessica, the nun, and Assassin Gael, attained a first-class combat power in their Professional Sequences.

That day,
Leonard walked out of the library.

At the library’s entrance, the five teammates who had been waiting eagerly greeted him, “Hey, Allen!”

Serli teased, “You really are something, soaking in the library even today when we have the term trials. Aren’t you preparing?”

Leonard laughed, “Trial is just a trial, nothing special to prepare.”

Despite his reptilian face, he had a purer heart than most humans.

Hearing this, Jessica, beneath her black and white nun’s headscarf, showed a slight smile and said, “That’s true. For others, such trials definitely require thorough preparation. But for a [Scholar], reading in the library is the preparation.”

Leonard gave a noncommittal smile at this.

This “Scholar” was both a tease and a serious comment.

Now, the teammates were quite familiar with each other, and there was no strangeness in their tones.

With this remark, the teammates laughed and responded.

“Yeah.”

“Haha, others might think that our Landon Sixteenth Squad is strong because of David or maybe Serli… but if you ask me, I think Allen is the impressive one… He knows everything, I don’t know how he could lose. Too bad no one challenges him…”

“He’s always in the library, finding him would be the weird part. But speaking of which, we really need to perform well in this trial, I heard there are generous rewards for the top performers. Come on, let’s hurry to the back mountain and assemble, otherwise the instructor might punish us…”

“No need to rush. Allen coming out at this time means he’s calculated the timing perfectly, we definitely won’t be late.”

…

Listening, Leonard simply smiled.

As his teammates said, the truly most formidable member of their team was indeed him.

But his teammates didn’t really see his strength, it was more about the team’s understanding.

Only teammates who had participated in group trials knew how fortunate it was to have a teammate who “knows everything.”

Starting from being ambushed during the entrance trial, to later award competitions, team training…