Boy Who Ruled the Monsters: Volume 4 (eBook)

Sin Guilty (Autor)

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2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-1349-1 (ISBN)

Infos

With the spectacle of angels and dragons of the Oratorio Tangram over and the human world now in his hands, Sol decides to take a moment to enjoy some time off on an island resort that was gifted to him to curry favor. It's an opportunity to lay off the theatrics for a while and simply enjoy being a group of teenagers hitting the beach.

At least, that is until Sol's group receives word that the Floating Continent is making a reappearance, bringing with it Alshunna, the Vacant Demon Lord, who was bound to it.

A showdown between two mythical monsters from a thousand years ago finally goes down in volume four of this relentless epic of the greatest supporter and his party. It's sure to reshape their very world!

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There was a certain beauty in the surrealism of seeing countless books lining stone shelves submerged in water and illuminated by a wavy light. It brought to mind the idea that this was a separate world that had once been connected to the world above but had since been cut off, leaving behind through some miracle all its accrued knowledge here at the bottom of a well, unbeknownst to anyone.

Being creatures of the sky and the land, the All Dragon and the Elven Queen were as excited as kids visiting an aquarium for the first time.

“If Lady Frederica were to see this, I bet she would lose her mind,” said Luna.

Sol chuckled. “I can see it.”

It was rare for Luna to bring up their companions of her own volition, but as she said, if Frederica had been there, her usual efforts to act like a princess would crumble in the blink of an eye and she would go full-on history nerd. The impact of having so many books lined up and the sight of how they were disappearing like magic at a simple glance from Sol were both stimulating enough to cause what Luna was imagining.

The princess knew about Storage and would therefore understand that these books, which contained knowledge accumulated over an unfathomable amount of time and sealed away where no human hand could pick up a single volume, were falling into Sol’s hands—and by extension, her own hands. There was a certain intellectual satisfaction in sitting down and letting oneself imagine what had happened in the distant past, building on that picture one discovery at a time. As someone who knew the luxury of such sophisticated entertainment, Frederica would have been overwhelmed in a moment if she had been here.

Since Sol was laughing cheerfully, Luna did the same. With the two people she was most attached to being happy, Aina’noa made the clear, high-pitched note that she always made when she was happy. In place of the fish that would’ve colored their vision at the bottom of a normal ocean, the vigorous motion of the rapidly disappearing books entertained the three as they continued their underwater journey.

Sol gasped. “Well, now, this is just...”

When they passed a certain depth, the space suddenly grew much larger, as if the way so far had been a cylinder connected to a giant sphere at the bottom. Sensing the first-ever visitor in probably a thousand years, all stone cubes in the space came to life, revealing walls much farther away than what a normal human would have been able to see with the naked eye.

A massive white whale that was likely there to fend off unauthorized trespassers slowly drew near, saw Luna’s eyes, and promptly swam away. Sol figured that there was a possibility it could understand humans or was the boss of this place. If not for his desire to speak with the whale afterward, he would have killed it in one blow and reduced it to materials. At the very least, that was what Luna had intended. If Gawain knew about this, he would probably have been greatly disappointed.

The outer walls of the sphere, like those of the passage above, were also covered with countless books. At the center floated bookshelves clumped together like little islands. Closer inspection revealed that each clump was dedicated to a single subject, indicating that it was some type of sorting system. These shelves alone contained more books than Sol thought he could read in his entire lifetime.

“Does your Storage have enough space for all this, my lord?”

“That’s not a problem...though the total number of volumes has already passed three hundred million at this point.”

The number was so astronomical that Sol had trouble wrapping his mind around it. If he read one book a day, it would take him 300 million days, or 820,000 years, to get through them all. Plus, they were written in all sorts of languages. If one was to not simply read them but understand them, even the pace of a book a day would be unrealistic to meet. In other words, he had already gathered far more knowledge than a single human could ever learn in their life. And now, he realized he still had a few dozen times more than that number to pick up. It was little wonder he was at a loss for words.

“The tenacity of humanity’s desire to pass on fragments of themselves to future generations is a terrifying thing indeed,” said Luna, the dragon who herself had a lifespan nearly as long as eternity, in wonder.

“It sure is...” Sol sighed.

Of course, the All Dragon and the Elven Queen probably could read all the books here and make the knowledge theirs. However, the intended audience was humans, not monsters who could live forever. Despite knowing how limited human lifespans were, the brilliant minds who had written them still desperately wanted the conclusions they had dedicated their lives to forming—or perhaps the work they had only finished halfway—to become building blocks for future generations. Thus they’d left behind pieces of themselves in the form of books.

It didn’t matter if no one actually picked them up and used the knowledge within. The accumulation of that desire was itself the purpose of Biblioteca.

“But if I do this...”

As it turned out, the library’s first visitor in a long while was not a normal human. He was an anomaly possessing Player, a talent that gave him near godlike powers, among which was a capability for analysis beyond even dragons, elves, and other long-lived races, let alone other humans.

Countless windows were floating around him, not only displaying the books that he had thrown into Storage but also rapidly sorting them by categories such as heading, field, and author. As most of the books were written in languages that Sol didn’t know, the contents were also being translated and reedited while leaving the original text intact. It was as if Biblioteca were an archive of knowledge that existed solely for the benefit of the person who served as Player’s host.

Despite being translated, however, there were many titles that Sol still couldn’t comprehend. Development Log of the Avrio Galaxy Star System. Memorandum on the Theory of Space-Time Travel. Milky Way Space Records AD 3487. Until Earth Became Inhospitable to Man. The Pioneering of Mars. And so on and so forth.

Sol didn’t understand them, but he got the nagging feeling that some of these books shouldn’t exist in his world. The fact that they did gave him a strange blend of apprehension and elation.

Luna cocked her head quizzically. “Is something the matter, my lord?”

Managing an awkward smile, Sol replied, “Nah, it’s nothing. Let’s get to gathering all these books.”

“Yes, my lord.”

Sol figured that the best course of action was to simply grab everything now, then go back and get help from Frederica, who probably knew more than he did about this kind of thing due to being a princess. There was also Fritz, a former emperor; Ishli, the next pope in line; elves, who’d lived so much longer; and perhaps even the Emelian royal family. It was clear that he wasn’t going to get any answers thinking about this now, given his own meager knowledge and experience, so there was no point in doing so.

Having decided on his course of action, Sol continued diving deeper and deeper, collecting books nonstop along the way.

“Guess this is the very bottom,” said Sol.

“Which makes this part of Biblioteca almost a perfect sphere,” said Luna.

“Yep. And...there are no more bookshelves down here.”

The walls had started getting narrower again after a certain point, confirming the hypothesis that this space was a sphere. When they neared the bottom, the bookshelves had petered out, leaving the walls smooth and featureless. The clumps of bookshelf islands had also faded from view. There was nothing else in the tranquil water save a spot in the center illuminated by magical light.

“What’s that over there?” asked Luna.

“A...reading stand, it seems,” replied Sol. “But there’s no book on it.”

The stand, more correctly called a lectern, was undoubtedly supposed to hold the Holy Scripture that served as the core of the Holy Church’s doctrines. It was the only thing that made sense, given that this was a sacred place at the very heart of the Church’s faith, all the contrivances involved, and how it seemed like every book from every world in existence had been here. However, as Sol was pointing out, that Holy Scripture was nowhere to be seen. All that was left was its stand. And around that stand, connected to the surrounding wall, were countless torn chains floating aimlessly in the water. Though these were much smaller, they bore a great resemblance to the chains tied around the All Dragon’s Augoeides that Sol had seen when using Summoning.

“What on earth happened here?”

To the best of Sol’s knowledge, no one had visited Biblioteca in a thousand years. That meant the Holy Scripture had already been lost when the events reported by the Kuzuifabra happened, involving the Bound All Dragon, the Captive Elven Queen, the Lifeless Divine Beast, the Vacant Demon Lord, and the Cursed Hero.

Who had stolen it?

There was as yet no way for Sol to know.

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Bubbles started appearing on the surface of the water that served as the entrance to Biblioteca. Of course, after Sol’s group had dove inside, Ishli’s group couldn’t just...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.9.2025
• Reihe/Serie: The Boy Who Ruled the Monsters
• Illustrationen: Sin Guilty
• Übersetzer: Sin Guilty
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: dragon girl • ELF • Game elements • Harem • Magic • Overpowered • Princess
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-1349-7 / 1718313497
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-1349-1 / 9781718313491