"This is truly admirable. At my monastery, the collection barely has a double-digit number of books."
Eric felt a pang of pity just thinking about the dismal state of King's Bridge Monastery.
Several successive Abbots of King's Bridge had paid no mind to the library's collection.
He hoped Philip would be able to make some improvements in that area.
"Alas, those days are gone like smoke. What is the point of having countless books if they are locked away in a dark room? A long time ago, this was a meeting place for scholars from the Land of Three Islands, and even the entire Catholic World.
This place used to be filled with cultivators from all over the world. Some would only stay for a short while to copy manuscripts unavailable elsewhere before taking them back to their own monasteries. In turn, they would bring other precious manuscripts for us to copy, causing the treasures of our Monastery to grow with each passing day.
