Before seeing Kamar-Taj's collection of books, Rimuru had been intensely curious about everything inside.
Or rather, humans were curious about anything unknown.
But once she actually opened those books, Rimuru immediately found them unbearably boring.
Thanks to the [Magic Sense] skill, Rimuru had no trouble reading. No matter what language or script it was, it would automatically be converted into information she could understand.
But the contents of these books were just too profound and boring!
It was like an advanced calculus textbook. You could understand every word and every diagram, yet the knowledge inside was so boring it made you want to doze off.
As the saying went, do your own homework yourself; let the system do the system's homework.
Rimuru immediately went into idle mode and had Great Sage read on her behalf.
Thus, Kamar-Taj's mages witnessed an utterly astonishing sight: Rimuru frantically "flipped through books" in the library.
Could she really understand what was inside the books like that?
Many mages found it impossible to understand. Was she pretending to know what she did not?
Take the Sanskrit books, for example. Understanding them was incredibly difficult.
Ancient Sanskrit was no longer spoken by anyone and was basically considered a "dead" language.
Even someone inhuman like Doctor Strange, who possessed photographic memory, had to consult a dictionary and work through Sanskrit bit by bit.
There were also Latin grimoires. A single magic incantation could be absurdly long, and it was full of obscure, tongue-twisting words.
These were magic incantations, after all. If you remembered them wrong, either the spell would fail, or it would turn into some kind of magic even the mage himself did not understand.
On the battlefield, mispronouncing or forgetting an incantation could cost you your life!
Rimuru finally understood why Kamar-Taj produced so many