Richard continued reading in the library, even having lunch there by ordering from a restaurant across the street.
Besides books about powerful figures, he also read through the personal experiences of those figures in their cultivation of magic.
From the Aether Will Realm, Life Aether Realm, World Realm, Grimoire Realm, Lord Realm, and finally the Ruler Realm.
It seemed there were only six Realms, but the higher one climbed, the longer the process took, and the power of each stage became increasingly unimaginable.
For Richard, who needed to find his own way of becoming one with the world, the experiences of others were something he had to gather.
Understanding the world was easy enough—the difficult part was understanding oneself, and then uniting both.
This wasn't something one could ask about. It could only be discovered slowly, step by step. There was no magical shortcut that could directly help someone understand themselves.
