On Tuesday evening, after a lavish dinner, Sno took Heavenly Punishment to Mr. A's residence and began playing the piano for it.
This performance lasted longer than usual, not because Heavenly Punishment was no longer satisfied with an hour of music each day, nor because it had begun refusing to listen to records, but because Sno needed something from it.
That very morning, Dawn of Wisdom had delivered a Traveler's Beyonder Characteristic. Though he could not keep it, he had extracted two Sequence Six Scribe Characteristics from it. It truly was an enormous surprise.
After some consideration, Sno ultimately felt that a Scholar was best matched with a Scribe. Following an afternoon of experimental forging, he obtained an exceptionally fine Sealed Artifact.
Like Laimano's Travel Notes from the original work, it was a hardcover book capable of recording Beyonder Abilities and actively releasing them. Unlike that notebook, however, it could not release the abilities it recorded.
As the authority formed from the Scholar Characteristic, it would analyze the recorded Beyonder Abilities and forcibly teach them to whoever opened it. It was only responsible for teaching; whether the reader could learn them was another matter. As for its negative effect, anyone reading it would be unable to do anything else until they had completely mastered one ability. Eating, drinking, sleeping, using the toilet—everything was prohibited.
Of course, for Sno, who already possessed a pair of Scholar's Learning Glasses, that restriction merely meant drinking a few cups of sugar-salt water.
Without question, this was an extremely powerful Extraordinary Item. Although the combination of recording and scholarship reduced the analyzed spells to less than one-fifth of their original power, it could greatly expand Sno's spell pool.
Naturally, he rarely fought, and even when he did, he seldom used spells. His spell pool was