The next morning, after preparing his spells, Zhao Xu arrived early at the Floating City's Scholarship Library to claim a spot and read.
This library was a common destination for mages seeking to improve their Knowledge Skills. It was divided into more than a dozen book sections, directly corresponding to the categories covered by Knowledge Skills.
The library was enormous, both in area and collection size. However, most mages simply found a quiet corner and stayed there, wearing expressions that warned strangers not to disturb them.
Since yesterday, Zhao Xu had followed Antinoa's instructions. After setting his skill preferences on his Character Card, he had been reading in peace.
He could leave once he had raised all ten categories of Knowledge Skills to rank 1.
That was why Zhao Xu could not help being shocked when he heard Antinoa's words.
Even if Knowledge Skills were incredibly useful in adventures, he still could not endure this much reading.
After a Knowledge Skill was upgraded, it could be used for associative searches through the information panel.
As long as the check succeeded, one could obtain some intelligence, depending on the skill rank.
It was the Arthurian equivalent of an academic Baidu search engine.
Even so, many martial classes still would not invest skill points in Knowledge Skills.
Every profession had its own specialty. Knowledge was a mage's class skill.
He could spend 1 skill point to gain 1 rank.
But for a Fighter, Knowledge was a cross-class skill. Raising it by 1 rank required 2 skill points, making it twice the effort for half the result.
After casting the zero-level spell Read Magic on himself, Zhao Xu hurriedly opened the book on occult studies he had borrowed and began reading, cherishing every second.
Zhao Xu had complained about this countless times yesterday.