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Lingwen reverted from her black tiger form to that of a young girl. Looking pitiful yet nervous, she gazed at Lin Qi. Countless characters and magical patterns flickered rapidly in her eyes. After a long while, she finally muttered timidly, "Will the outside... be terrifying? If people from the Order of Penitent Knights catch someone like me, will they send me to the stake?"
Lin Qi blinked several times. It seemed this little girl had read countless related case files in the Royal Library. Lin Qi remembered that the royal families of every nation on the Western Continent had a habit: all the cases handled by the Church's Disciplinary Office and Tribunal Office would be carefully recorded and compiled by the various imperial and royal houses, for future rulers to study and use as reference, lest they repeat the same mistakes.
It was clear that Lingwen had memorized all those case files, which was why she was filled with fear toward so many things. Lin Qi could even imagine that if he had not infiltrated the Royal Library with the Army-Slaying Axe, Lingwen would never have revealed herself before him.
Smiling faintly, Lin Qi began asking Lingwen about her origins.
Though she had committed every book and classic in the Royal Library to memory, Lingwen possessed nothing but knowledge in her head; her experience in dealing with people was practically zero. Lin Qi easily coaxed her into revealing her entire history.
Just as Lin Qi had guessed, the Royal Library of the Gallic Empire was a strategic defensive weapon secretly prepared before the Gallic Empire was founded. The core of the Royal Library was a