"After eating and drinking their fill, Frieren and Fern followed Annie down a stone staircase somewhere in the estate, heading underground."
"The staircase wound beneath their feet as if it had no end. Only the floating magical orbs on the walls to either side gave off an eternal, icy light, illuminating the path beneath the three of them."
"After an unknown length of time, when Frieren and Fern finally reached the bottom and saw Annie push open an ordinary-looking oak door that was as heavy as a thousand jun, time seemed to freeze at that moment."
"!!"
"Even Frieren, who had traversed the continent for a thousand years and witnessed countless miracles, widened her usually weary, indifferent, and distant emerald eyes in astonishment at the scene beyond, frozen by its grandeur."
"This!!"
"Fern, following behind her, instinctively covered her mouth and forcibly swallowed the gasp that was almost about to escape."
"Looking closely, it was not hard to see that the depths of her wide-open violet eyes reflected the boundless sea of books beyond the door, a sight that surpassed imagination!"
"Yes, a sea of books!"
"The sea in the ocean!"
"Here, the first thing to overwhelm their senses was the infinity of space."
"The inside of this library had no visible boundaries. It far exceeded the area occupied by the estate, surpassed even Barum, the trade city of the Central Kingdoms, and perhaps was so vast that even describing it as the breadth of the sea seemed inappropriate?"
"Anyway, wherever their eyes reached, there were only towering bookshelves that rose into the "clouds," one after another, row after row, column after column, all layered upon one another!"
"Moreover, they were not motionless. They slowly shifted and rearranged themselves in silent order, like a living forest of enormous trees, or