Returning to the library, this time Richard stayed for three months.
Three months of relentless, sleepless effort allowed Richard to review the entirety of the library's content. Most of the outdated and useless information was deliberately forgotten by him, but the parts he found useful were all memorized.
Simply finishing the reading was just the beginning; Richard immediately embarked on the process of assimilation and absorption.
Of course, during this process, Richard was not oblivious to the outside world. Ulysses regularly compiled the Church's developments into documents for him.
After discovering that two companions had gone missing, the Protector Knights squad immediately began searching the East District. The Miracle Sect naturally came under their scrutiny, and Richard's solution was to kill them all and then disguise the act as being perpetrated by someone from the Royal Court Faction.
