As Mind had said, the emperor was indeed feeling the pressure; Alex’s growth was beyond the realm of abnormal. In just two years since his arrival in this world, he went from a nobody to one of the top experts in the world. It was too baffling, so he did that but unexpectedly, Alex did not let himself get intimidated and executed his move in retaliation.
”Oh?”
It was the only one word he could say before a huge grin found its way on his face. He was thinking of fighting Alex, a simple exchange, but first, they needed to talk; besides, someone else wished to talk with him; he must not waste too much time.
”Spar me from the greetings. Just sit and let’s talk.”
Alex nodded and sat across from the emperor.
Clap! Clap!
Immediately after Alex sat, the corners of Julius’s mouth lifted into a smile. He extended his hands, clapped twice, and soon after, a ghost-like figure in a maid’s outfit drifted toward them and served them tea before vanishing.
Alex was not surprised by this, but the moment he drank the tea, his eyes widened, all his pores opened, and mana gushed through them. The 400 mana he spent to cross the distance of 300 meters were replenished instantly. His eyes zeroed on the tea; apart from its color, dark green, there was nothing noteworthy about this seemingly simple tea, but he knew it was nothing but simply because a simple tea could not have that effect.
”How is this tea called?” Lifting his head, Alex inquired.
The emperor chuckled and answered, ”It’s called the Everlast tea, it can shortly replenish your mana, but you can only drink it once a day. You might consume more than once, but it wouldn’t work, only once a day.”
”I see, even so, it’s a great tea. I wonder where the emperor found the leaves for this tea?” Alex didn’t stand on ceremony and directly asked, besides replenishing his spent mana, this tea can strengthen his body, even if it was to a negligible extent, the effect of strengthening could not be denied, if the girls were to consume it daily, it would increase their physics and defense.
As if he could read through his mind, the emperor immediately dissuaded Alex from hoping.
”It’s extremely rare; I took it out because I wish to congratulate you. I only have two leaves left capable of brewing four times. As for their origin, it came from the elven continent, but even the elves could not acquire it so easily. Forget it, let’s talk.”
Alex sighed and decided to drop the matte,r at least for now.
”You must have heard everything from your daughter. I want you to contact the Pope and pressure him. It went without saying that he would deny any involvement in Luna’s kidnapping, but the goal was to harass him. The other emperors and the empress will do the same thing.”
”Yes, my daughter told me everything. I know that Lucius had a screw loose, but not to this extent. Whatever controlling him must have gotten rid of his brain for him to act so desperately. But boy, he is by no mean weak; he is the second strongest in the world if we rule out Elseria, the mysterious woman. Even I’m not sure about beating her; she seems to be hiding her strength; Lucius is afraid of her more than anyone. It’s because she went missing in the mission against the Chaos organization that he got the courage to act like that. Be she was present, he would need to think twice before acting; it doesn’t matter if there was a so-called goddess backing him. He is the cautious type, so your better act prudently or else you will die.”
Finally, Alex knew the name of the Pope and learned a few more things as well; he felt grateful for this information.
”Thank you. I know it’s dangerous, but I don’t have the choice. My woman is in danger, be it was Artemia in danger, I would have taken the same risk; they are priceless to me after all.”
Julius rolled his eyes at Alex and spat. ”Peh! Don’t sweet talk to me. I’m not your woman. What is in for me to earn?”
Alex chuckled, and his eyes narrowed dangerously as he declared.
”Your reward is that you might get you are after seeing a long time. If I succeed, it’s a good thing for you. While it would be impossible for me to kill the Pope if a miracle didn’t happen, after successfully rescuing Luna, they would be weakened. Using this opportunity wisely, you might replace some of their members, you can even put a higher chess piece in their rank and who knows in the future this chess piece may become a cardinal or even the Pope.” He was smiling as he said those words, but Julius was not in the mood to smile.
He felt an unknown emotion rising inside his heart, it is called fear, not that he feared for his life, but because of Alex’s way of thinking, it gave him to chill. His mind was that of an old schemer. Who would have thought that he thought of all these things in his vendetta against the Holy Crux empire? He wished to crush them totally. No wonder why he asked to talk to Julius, especially, it was to propose this solution. It was true that he such design but admitting was another matter entirely, besides he was not the only one, the other empire was eyeing each other like a hungry mishap, his empire might be the strongest but once it showed sign of weakening it would get swallowed.
The Holy Crux empire is the second strongest, if Alex really does succeed in rescuing Luna and dealing damage to the empire because from what he knew he would deal severe damage to the Holy Crux empire, they would be weakened afterward, and he could use this opportunity to plant his men in the higher echelons of the empire.
”You should have done politic.”
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