[Bonus thanks to TheFallofAllThings :)]
In all the time Sylas had spent in the libraries, he actually hadn't wasted a single Merit. The libraries were the one thing in the guild that were free. The only restriction was taht without being at a certain level of Rune Mastery, you couldn't enter higher level libraries.
However, as someone who was now a Spark Master of the E-Grade, Sylas was able to enter higher level libraries than he had. He had just chosen not to.
As much time as it had taken him to go through all of the F-grade libraries, it would have taken even more time to go through the E-Grade ones.
For the time being, he chose that this wasn't the best use of his time and chose a different approach instead.
There was one thing that Fanelei was correct about. This Cryst Emperor would be an extreme problem. Though Sylas had improved his Combat Matrix Index by a ridiculous margin, there was still not even a 10% chance of winning.
