Nope. His father was never high on the royal hierarchy and only became Zent because everyone else got killed. After that, the family was barely keeping the country from falling apart after the civil war. It's perfectly normal that an expensive personal library wouldn't be high on his agenda. And since everyone is trying to keep Rozemyne's personality under wraps, especially towards the royals, it's understandable that they don't know what the right bait would be to hook her.

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No excuses! A bookless scrub is a bookless scrub!

Surely a member of the royal family no matter how far from the top would have some books?

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Hello Bookworm! I looked it up, and the Library in Alexandria — which just so happens to be the greatest in all of Yurgenschmidt, nay... even the entire world — has the following entries:

Ascendance of a Bookworm by J-Novel Club: 📖 Vol. 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 11, 12; 🖥️ Vol. 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 11, 12; 🎧 Vol. 1, 2

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I'll just copy a part of my notes from The Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1 here:

soooooooooo many stupid plot holes. I get it, not everything can be Bookworm, but at least remember what you wrote just one or two pages back. Or keep an list with items a character possesses when writing so they don't suddenly have items out of nowhere. Another example from very early on would be MC using his Eye of the God (or whatever) ability, which is basically appraisal, to look at the levels and stats of a group of soldiers. He mentions that many of them are only level 1 to 3 and that their stats are even weak for level 1. Then he does something that needs to stay secret and he he now has to brainwash them. After that, he laments that if only he knew how low-level they were he wouldn’t have to brainwash them. Like… I mean… didn’t he just appraise all of them in the very same chapter and even wonder why they are so low?! The very same chapter!! Next, the power levels are all over the place. As an example, there is a mage who is considered the greatest of the great, a genius, and who dreams of reaching untold heights of human possibilities by casting the highest spell in the Grade 2 tier. Right now he is able to cast the first Grade 2 spell and is considered among the greatest of humanity. A couple of pages later MC is going to pick up a slave girl (obviously) with cat ears (obviously) and she casually tells MC that in order to heal her he would need to go someplace to get Grade 3 magic cast on her. In her back story, her parents (living in some small village) are also casually casting middle Grade 2 spells. So what is it? What is the top of the line here for the people in that world? Power levels are fluctuating to whatever sounds cool at the moment with no other rhyme or reason, I guess.

Another glaring example is Fake Saint of the Year:

There are also some moronic and glaring plot holes. For example, the Saint and the Witch are invulnerable and can only be attacked by each other, but they have an entire academy just to produce knights to protect the Saint. And during a tournament, the Saint asks to sit closer to the ring to see better. She then gets this gem said to her: “I apologize, Lady Ellize. As you know, your security is the most important thing. We cannot run the risk of you getting hurt if a student performs a spell badly or throws a sword in the wrong direction. Please watch the competition from a safe distance.” Again: The Pro- and Antagonist are completely invulnerable to everything except each other.