Meanwhile, Evan, who was making his way to the Chief Grand Magus's office while sipping his favourite strawberry juice, heaved a sigh of exhaustion as he thought about how much mental energy that he had to expend to keep a straight face throughout the time he was talking with Eliza.
The young hero knew his crush wasn't exactly averse to the idea of being a 'thing' with him so he knew he had a chance.
'Her expression when she realised was quite cute though.'
A small smile unconsciously formed on his face as he thought about Eliza, but he remembered he was in public and quickly adjusted his expression so he won't look like a weirdo smiling to himself while walking.
Upon reaching the Magic Tower and informing the personnel at the reception that he had an appointment with the Chief grand magus, he took a seat and waited as he went through the list of people he wanted to contact using the chief grand magus' connections.
'If I use him to send more info to Laurene about the Dulhan issue and the demonic hand, it would make things seem a lot more credible and give her an easier time in explaining the matter to the Duke and the Emperor.
I can also use him to contact Amelie in Bonas, her Breath of light skill would be effective. Then I can use him to send a message directly to the Duke too but I'd leave convincing the Duke to Laurene. She's sure to do a better job than I could.'
As the young hero's thought got to this point, he started considering other forces he could enlist to help in the battle against the tens of thousands of undead that the 'Eighth Finger' was currently brewing in the domains of the traitorous nobles under Duke Cheverton.
'The adventurer's guild, the mercenary guild, the Duke's knights and some of the Imperial Knights too.
If Laurene succeeds in getting Ralphie and that old idiot to come, then they definitely would not come alone.
Using the Chief Grand magus' title to send a message to the Emperor would definitely improve Laurene's chances of succeeding.'
He then finally decided to think about the last force that would be helpful.
'The Church of Artemisia.'
Evan had been purposely ignoring anything that had to do with the goddess because of his personal thoughts towards her, but it did not change the fact that her believers would be helpful against the undead.
'Using a god's power against the undead is basic stuff. If the churches of other gods joined in, it'd be good.'
The young hero decided to see if he could get Amelie to appeal to the higher-ups of the church since she seems to be an important one among the bishops, or maybe get Artemisia to do that too.
'Though that would possibly mean revealing I have a connection with the goddess. Even so, that's not an issue.
In fact, I hope to spread that information to the Holy Empire somehow so my movements there would be easier.'
He clicked his tongue as the multiple conjectures he had over the past few weeks and had been pushing to the back of his mind resurfaced all at once.
I knew that from the start but I didn't think much of it, after all, it was a given that she'd hide stuff from me.
But remembering how I flipped out in the Graveyard of the Arrogant is what's making things worse.
If had such a reaction, why could I not remember a single bout of it afterwards? And why did Artemisia make me forget I did?'
The young hero obviously thought that him miraculously forgetting about having such an explosive reaction was strange as hell. And Artemisia's reaction afterwards, saying that she wanted to remain silent was another strange thing.
'It is very possible, that Artemisia may have manipulated my memories. If she could make me forget one thing, then it is possible she could make me forget a lot more.
Then there's also the issue with my race revealing itself too, and that new unique skill that temporarily surfaced.'
He was about to sink deeper into his thoughts when a senior mage came and called out to him, saying that Gavin had confirmed his appointment.
'I'd dwell on this later.'
Evan thought as he stood up and followed the senior mage, deciding to deal with the immediate issues first, before dwelling on matters with higher dimensional beings who may or may not be reading his thoughts.
After contacting the necessary parties using the Chief Grand Magus' connections and sending a few messages to a few others, Evan left the Magic tower while covering his mouth, trying to prevent his laughter from spilling out.
'The look on the Emperor's face when I showed up in Gavin's magic projection, it was priceless!' The most update n0vels are published on novel·fıre·net
Apparently, major powers like the Great Western Empire and Kasteblum had direct magic projection lines that connected to each other, allowing them to contact each other in the case of emergencies.
However, it was hardly used as the cost of the magic stones required to power such long-distance magic projections for extended periods of time was enormous.
Even if they were rich enough to afford it, there was no point in doing so when it was not needed so it was usually deactivated.
As such, Gavin had to first send a message using a system similar to that of the Adventurer's Guild cards, informing the Emperor about his incoming magic projection and waiting a few minutes for the Emperor to activate his own projection artifacts to be able to receive the incoming projection message.
'It's like texting someone using your mobile network, telling them to go online on their social media so you can video chat.'
This was precisely what happened and when Evan showed up in the 'video call' that the Grand Magus and the Emperor had, the world leader was quite surprised, to say the least.
He used this chance to inform the Emperor about him sending a letter to Laurene via Suzanne beforehand and telling the world leader not to be too surprised when Laurene comes up to tell him about the incoming disaster.
Of course, he was probed for the source of his information, but Evan blamed it all on Xakon and said he was the reason why he found out about the plans for the Dullahan Attack.
He then further went on to say that Xakon tried to kill him to prevent said plans from being exposed, hence the Geto City incident.
This was obviously a lie but Evan still said it anyway, it wasn't like the Emperor had Laurene to confirm if his words were true.
'Besides, Laurene's skill doesn't work through magic projections, not at stage one or two.'