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Books are one of the best ways to level up Henry’s skills inKingdom Come: Deliverance 2. The only problem is that books can be pretty hard to find through Trosky and Kuttenberg. InKingdom Come: Deliverance, players could rely onfinding books at certain merchants, but that isn’t always the case in the sequel.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2has scattered books throughout the map, so finding them isn’t always straightforward. Yet, playersmust find and read booksto gain XP in certain skills quickly. If players want to start unlocking the hardest locks, for example, they’re going to need to boost their Thievery skill as fast as possible. Reading a book can help them accomplish that goal.
Best Places To Get Books in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
When it comes to finding skill books inKingdom Come: Deliverance 2, the following are the best places to look:
Not every place of interest or chest will have a book inside it, but if players notice one, it’s worth investigating. Most often, the chests that have books in them are locked,so players will need to work on their Thievery skillto gain access to some books.
Where To Find Scribes in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
One of the best places to get a lot of skill books inKingdom Come: Deliverance 2is a scribe. Players may remember a handful of scribes inKingdom Come: Deliverance.That isn’t quite the caseinKingdom Come: Deliverance 2. There areonly three scribesin the entire game. Each has a different collection of books, too, so it’s worth visiting each.
Players can encounterthe first scribe in the starting village, Troskowitz. His name isScribe Gaibl, and he works in the Rathaus. Players can buy the following books from him:
When players travel to the Kuttenberg region,there are two scribes available. Both scribes live in the city of Kuttenberg, and conveniently enough, they reside across from each other. Players can easily visit one, and then head across the street to visit the other shop.
Scribe Tietz Vetteris on the western side of the road. Players can purchase the following books from him:
Janek the Scribblerresides on the eastern side of the road in Kuttenberg. Players can buy the following books from him:
Clearly, although Scribes have a good number of books for players to buy and use to boost Henry’s skills,they don’t have a complete collection. To get all the books, players will needto explore the worldofKingdom Come: Deliverance 2.
Where To Get Books in the World in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
Since scribes only offer so many books, players will need to head out into the world to find others. Players should alwaysinvestigate specific landmarks and cheststo see if books are in them.
These are locations on the map that have some sort of name or description attached to them. Players can sometimes find a book out in the open or carefully hidden in these areas. For example, if players head to the “Bench Under Trosky” place of interest to the east of Troskowitz, they’ll findThe Art of Demosthenes IIjust lying on the bench, which is great forleveling up Henry’s Speech skill.
Places of interest typically have a treasure or something valuable within them. Players may just needto spend some extra timein these locations to see if a skill book is stashed away somewhere.
The other place players should always look for a skill book is insidelocked chests. There are dozens of locked chests scattered aboutKingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Skill books can sometimes be one of the valuable items that Henry can find in them.
The problem is thatlocked chests can vary in difficulty. If players don’t have Henry’sThieveryskill leveled up, then gaining access to some of the skill booksmay be impossible for a while. One way around this bottleneck is to try to pickpocket keys from villagers who own the chest. If Henry’sThieveryis too low even for that, then players may need to trya more aggressive approach.
To ensure the villager doesn’t catch Henry,players should sneak up behind themand knock them out. Once they’re unconscious, players shouldsteal the keys to the chest, and then quickly unlock it before they awaken. It’s a last-ditch method for those who don’t have time to wait around and keep leveling theirThievery.
Keep in mind that villagers will notice that their keys are missing. Players will want to grab the items in the chest before the villager switches the lock out with a new set of keys.
While not every locked chest will have a skill book in it,it’s always worth checking just in case. Players who can quickly grab these skill books and have Henry read them will boost his skills fast, making some of the later challenges and quests inKingdom Come: Deliverance 2just a bit easier.
