Sumeru, the Akademiya, the House of Daena.
As the largest library in Sumeru, it was open only to scholars employed by the Akademiya or students enrolled there. Some general-knowledge books could be borrowed for research.
However, certain books in its collection were available only to senior scholars, to be used as documentary references for their papers.
In Sumeru, the nation of wisdom, published papers were a reflection of one's standing in Sumeru City, and the things people valued most. All resources were readily tied to scholarship; academic resources were equivalent to social resources.
Some scholars would cross oceans to foreign lands in search of suitable material to complete their papers. Some even went so far as to form family ties with others to obtain material for their papers.
For precisely this reason, the countless materials and documents housed in the House of Daena became highly coveted by students and scholars. Every day, large numbers of them spent their time there, quietly studying and researching until closing.
Compared with the overcrowded first floor, the top floor of the House of Daena was not much smaller. Though its shelves were likewise filled with all manner of materials and documents, the value of the documents here was far beyond that of the books on the first floor.
Most of the documents housed on the top floor were extremely precious, rare, or even dangerous. To apply for permission to consult them, one had to hold at least the title of Havak.
For students and lower-ranking scholars of the Akademiya, never mind reading the documents on the top floor of the House of Daena-they were not even qualified to go up there.
That was because this was the office of Azar, the Akademiya's current Great Sage.
Apart from that, the place was exceedingly quiet, with