The Pathway Of Wisdom-Chapter 25: Pathwalker. Part-1.

Although Alex was hoping to find a cheat skill like those protagonists of novels and manga, he ended up finding something completely different.

Holding the book named ’Kreimhild Empire Founding Era Volume-1.’

It was a thick history book in which the history of how the empire of Kreimhild was founded was recorded in great detail.

’Ugh, so even I can only access two layers of the library at most...’

Although Alex didn’t manage to find any cheat skills or powerful techniques, he managed to learn a lot about the library as he wandered through it for an entire hour!

The Grand Library of Ilma was built in a circular hall, and Alex found a map hanging on the side of a bookshelf that seemed to describe the structure of the entire library.

It turned out that the entire library was divided into seven layers!

The layer that Ethan was at was the first layer, which was the outermost layer, and Alex, on the other hand, could access books up to the second layer of the library.

The moment he tried to go deeper, he was obstructed by an invisible and transparent wall, and no matter how many times he tried, he could not move forward.

That situation reminded Alex of how you can’t access the locked part of the map in a game before you do some kind of specific quest to unlock it.

If you try to access it without unlocking the map, you get obstructed by an invisible wall that won’t let you move forward no matter what.

That’s exactly how the grand library of Ilma worked.

After not being able to enter the deeper layers, Alex decided to look through the books available in the first two layers and made a lot of discoveries.

The first layer basically consisted of books that were mostly about art, philosophies, and random fictional made-up stories.

Most of the books there were focused on the mortal world, and there wasn’t anything too high-level there.

The second layer, on the other hand, seemed to store a lot of history-related books everywhere.

There are hundreds of thousands of books related to random time periods and forgotten historical events of the world.

The number of books was in the thousands, and Alex could feel that space inside the giant hall was weird and distorted; no matter how much Alex tried, he kept revolving around the same fixed area.

According to the map of the library, the grand library was not only divided into layers; it was also divided into several ’zones.’

Just like how a round pizza is divided into several slices, those slices in this library were ’zones,’ and Alex could only access two layers of this one zone.

Almost 99% of the library was still inaccessible to him, and yet there were already thousands of books in this single ’Zone’ alone.

With no other choice, Alex decided to read the book related to the empire first; he took the book and walked over to Ethan’s side.

After finding a table and chair to sit at, Alex sat down in a relaxed posture while Ethan stood not too far away from him.

"You can sit too you know..."

Ethan shook his head at Alex’s words and said,

"No, my son was rude to you Lord Saint. I don’t think I am worthy of your kindness-"

Alex ignored Ethan’s excuses and ordered,

"Sit down; the sins of your son are not yours to bear. a parent does not become guilty if their child commits a crime..."

"Moreover, little Jake will get his due punishment soon anyway; you don’t need to worry about it..."

After saying that, Alex ignored Ethan so that he couldn’t argue with him and opened the first page of the book, and after reading the very first line, a look of confusion appeared on his face.

{This is the History of honour, this the tale of a warrior, this is a legend of a great ’Pathwalker’!}

Alex didn’t expect the opening line to be like that, but the most confusing thing was the word ’Pathwalker’; he had never heard about this.

"Ethan, what is a ’Pathwalker’?"

Hearing Alex’s question, Ethan, who was just about to sit, was so taken aback that he almost tripped and fell on the ground!

"What!?"

Ethan barely stopped himself from falling and managed to sit down opposite Alex, but a look of shock and disbelief was painted all over his face.

"L-lord Saint... err... you can’t be joking, right? There’s no way you don’t know what a ’Pathwalker’ is, right?..."

Ethan was so baffled by Alex’s question that his eyes were wide open and his jaw hung wide open as if it would fall on the ground from sheer shock and disbelief.

Even Alex felt a bit embarrassed after being looked at like he was ’stupid’ to ask a question that was very obvious and simple.

"Ahem! Did I allow you to talk back to me? Answer my questions honestly; don’t question my orders, okay!"

At Alex’s words, Ethan could only shake his head in helplessness and start talking honestly.

He took a deep breath and spoke in his usual calm and gentle tone.

"Okay, so I will start from the scratch..."

"A ’Pathwalker’ is basically a person who’s walked the ’Path’ of ’Ascension’ and has at least reached ’Ascension Phase 1’ in their lifetime."

As if noticing Alex’s confused looks, Ethan finally figured out that Alex, who was a spoiled brat, didn’t know anything at all, so he had to talk about everything in detail.

"Every person in the world is unique; every being in the world has a unique soul, aura, life force, and mental energy."

"Every person in the world has a dream, a deep desire in their heart that they want to fulfill no matter what."

Ethan’s calm voice rang out in the silent library and echoed loudly as he said.

"A person’s dream, ambitions, and their goals dictate their ’Path’ in life; a person’s greatest ambition is their goal, and the road that leads them to that goal is their ’Path’!"

"Every person in the world is unique, and everyone has different goals and dreams!"

"In simple words, every person has a unique ’Path’ in their life!"

"Those who are brave enough to pursue their dream and walk on this ’Path’ are called ’Pathwalkers!’.