Magic Books were extremely precious, and some rare ones were even more valuable than the Book of Esoteric Arts. This was common knowledge in supernatural circles. After all, knowledge was priceless.
The Black Castle might have had plenty of books available for its students to read, but that collection was the accumulated legacy of the Dilga Empire's centuries of dominance. Few other places could preserve Magic Books on such a scale.
A Magic Journal, however, was a new concept. At least, neither the old man nor the young man had ever heard of one, though they could imagine what it was.
The old man looked at a man seated beside him. The man suddenly frowned, then rushed to the side of the boat a few seconds later and began vomiting violently.
"He's seasick. Please, sir, have a seat. Let's discuss this Magic Journal in detail."
Mulan watched the man retching over there. Well, that was one way to do it.
Still, Mulan didn't mind. He sat straight down, and the old man asked in detail about the content usually published in Truth and Magic, a Magic Journal. Once he understood exactly what this publication was, he asked more pointed questions about the article on elves.
From the birth of elves, their growth, their attitude toward the world, and humanity's explorations of them, to the formation of the Great Vortex and the elves' disappearance...
Unlike the old man's expectation of a few passing references to elves, a third of the second issue of Truth and Magic was devoted to them. It cited numerous descriptions of elves from documents and Magic Books, expanding on some and refuting others. It was an exceptionally long paper.
Even with Mulan using "what he remembered" as an excuse to give only a rough account, the boat