The Kraken Grand Library's usage time came in four-hour sessions.
In other words, the Sea Shepherds' free time amounted to exactly one full session, while outsiders who got in through connections also received one four-hour session after paying.
Jiang Han, meanwhile, had definitely been in the library for more than half a day—an entirely natural outcome.
Even the Witches who had gotten in through connections to read couldn't utter a single sour remark, because the library's owner was sitting across from her with a tablet in her arms, wearing the battle-ready posture of someone prepared to keep her company until dawn!
In Kraken's Grand Library, whose connected guest could possibly outmatch hers?
The two of them settled into a strange sort of harmony:
"...Tentacles need so many materials."
"I'll sell them to you cheaply."
"...Aah, why? Necromancy and tentacles are clearly two completely different systems—how can they be expressed through energy forms?"
"I can give you the research materials."
After a brief silence, Jiang Han lifted her apple tea and took a deep drink, then asked with a smile:
"The Sea Shepherds' camp is built on a Sky Island above the sea. When I came in just now, I already felt especially cold. What do you do once night falls?"
Feeling that if they kept chatting, she was about to get flirted into a corner, Jiang Han sensed danger and changed the subject, dragging it toward the weather.
The Sea Shepherds' camp—their main base was built atop a coastal Sky Island. Its location and elevation were even one or two hundred meters higher than the inland Sky Islands. Moreover, the island itself was a ring, with mountain peaks on both sides and the suspended Grand Library and residential district in the center. With such a hollow structure and an intentionally