Knowledge shards are awarded when killing something, either a monster, a human, or who knows what else. Plants, eggs, and all those types of weird things can give shards. Of course, it's a little different when it comes to them.
But humans, especially in books, always give shards, whether they have powers or not.
They just don't give a lot, since their class and rank are automatically the lowest; they are Reader Fragments, which is a little weird, knowing that these people he has killed, who barely knew how to wield the blade, were the same rank he was in Frozen Crown.
I mean, he had killed a Breaker at the same rank and class as them, yet they can't even kill him.
Either way, his ego was getting in the way; after all, he was only able to do it because of the situation he was in, and even some luck. Not skill. His path was the reason he was able to kill the Queen, because her shadow betrayed her. And let's not even start with the fact that Praise was helping him
