Chapter 73: Knowledge is welcomed.
The rational part of him, the part shaped by this new body, screamed at him to listen. To shut the book, hide it, and forget this path before it was too late.
But another part, a deeper, hungrier part that had been starved in his previous life of passive observation and was now fed by the discovery of his own latent power, stirred. This could very well be the only opportunity he'd be getting in a long while to increase his strength so as to guarantee his safety in this strange world of his.
'I'm afraid I'll have to take the risk,' he thought, the decision crystallizing with a calm certainty that surprised him.
'I've already spent a hundred gold. What more could I lose?' he joked, his lips arching upwards into a nervous smile.
