"Alright, please wait here for a moment," he says before disappearing into the towering shelves of the library.
I fidget with excitement, bouncing on my heels as I wait. Within minutes, he returns, holding a small book in his clawed hands. He hands it to me with a polite nod.
I glance down at the cover, reading the title:
Arcane: Chapter 1
"Huh?" I blink, tilting my head.
"What's wrong, Miss Felicia?" Karven asks.
"Oh, nothing!" I laugh sheepishly. "It's just… smaller than I expected. And it looks so new!"
For some reason, I had imagined a magic book to be a massive, ancient tome—its pages thick with dust, its leather cover cracked with age, and heavy enough to knock someone unconscious if dropped. But this? This is just a regular book. Small, neat, and barely a few hundred pages long.
Karven chuckles, amused. "Ah, that's just the first chapter copied from the original. The full volume is so large it takes two people to carry it."
