Olmedo's answer was unexpected, yet it made perfect sense.
Annan had seen her working in her office through countless days and nights. He had tried several times to get her to take a few days off, but she had always refused, saying she had too much to do.
Rather than marrying her work, she had married Free City.
Annan didn't think that was healthy.
"Don't worry. I have a key to your room. If I need anything, I'll come find you."
"That's good... Wait, what?"
What did she mean by that?
In any case, Annan felt for Olmedo and tried to handle some official business. But the dense blocks of Common Tongue were hypnotic. After forty-five minutes, he was nodding off. In his daze, he seemed to see a Demon Lord beckoning to him, and jolted awake.
Since managing Free City wasn't his strong suit, Annan turned to something he was good at. He got the Skeleton King's detailed account from Evelyn and pulled out the key points.
And so a new issue of Voice of Freedom came out, featuring the Skeleton King's research.
The discovery of a new Source was like dropping a Mushroom Bomb into a still pond. It sent waves through the mage community.
Some mages argued that Humanity did not exist. Otherwise, why had no one discovered it, from the countless Medieval Arcanists of antiquity to the mages of today? Others accused Voice of Freedom of sensationalism and called for the Newspaper Office that published the story to be arrested.
But most mages waited to see. Mages were staunch "materialists." Before they believed something invisible and intangible objectively existed, they had to see it and experience it for themselves.
Most thought the Skeleton King might be right, but that Humanity belonged to another world, not the