Atahualpa had arranged for Byron and Violet to stay in equally sumptuous chambers, the highest level available among all guest rooms.
Lying on a large bed carved with llamas at each corner, Byron held a tome bound in gold-leaf pages, his mind elsewhere as he flipped through it casually.
Here, paper had not been invented yet. The Divine Descendants used thin gold leaves to record transcendent characters, while common folk used a knot-tying system of record-keeping called quipus.
The transcendent book that Byron held, a part of the *Book of the Beast Kinship* (Volume II), was placed on the bookshelf in the guest room for visitors to peruse at leisure.
In the Hundred Beasts Paradise, this was clearly not some secretive tome of precious Black Sorcery.
Instead, like the Silver Law that covered the entire Silver Continent, the *Book of the Beast Kinship* (Volume II) was also firmly anchored in the Spiritual World.
