Three days passed in the blink of an eye. Their knowledge could be gauged by how they fared while browsing the scrolls.
President Lisper was completely unfazed. After Borne explained things to her, she immediately grasped the key. She stopped resisting, which extended the time she spent digesting the knowledge and made it easier to absorb.
Lehman began falling behind the scroll's transmission speed by the time he reached the seventh volume, and had to rely on passive knowledge transfer. Fortunately, he had a solid foundation, and managed to force his way through the remaining three volumes.
Passive knowledge transfer did cause some damage to the brain—in other words, it could harm one's mental power. Of course, as long as the damage didn't exceed a certain level, mental power could recover through meditation.
Once he had fully absorbed the scroll's knowledge and turned it into strength, Lehman could still advance another level. This would lay the groundwork for browsing the scrolls again in the future.
Borne then realized that the Nether higher-ups had stored the scrolls separately, apparently for this very purpose. But if they knew about this mechanism, why hadn't they made it public?
There was no time to think about that now. Time was almost up, and Borne didn't want Rodney showing up here.
The barrier at the Coastal Cliff Laboratory could keep the academy's students out, but it couldn't stop the Archivist.
"I've got it!"
Borne's lips curled up as he thought of a good place.
Lehman and the president exchanged a glance. They both knew Borne fairly well, especially the former. The moment he saw that look on Borne's face, he knew the man was up to something.
Now that they had finished reading the scrolls, they had to leave. One was the head of a