Reincarnated Hero System

Chapter 215  Sleep Deprived Mage

"Nice to meet you. Vice-Chief Grand Magus, Joanna Ritz."

Hearing her name from Evan's mouth, she narrowed her eyes as she stared at him, her gaze then moving towards Eliza and then to Pride.

She looked at Pride a bit longer, tilting her head to the side as a look of confusion flashed in her eyes momentarily.

Turning back to Evan and Kayla who was floating beside him, she finally opened her mouth and spoke.

"Black Hair, grey eyes with golden symbols in them. Side by side with a spirit.

I only came to see who was resonating with my skill but I didn't expect to meet the old man's target here too."

She spoke slowly, as if the mere act of moving her mouth was tiring for her, however, her words were clear and distinct, allowing her listeners to hear her properly.

"You're...What was the name again?

Ah!

Evan? Was it?"

"That's definitely me. And by old man, I'm guessing you mean the chief grand magus?"

"Yes, yes. That old man who has lived too long for his own good."

Evan chuckled as he heard her address the Chief grand magus just like she always did in the game, in a way that never failed to surprise the other mages of Kasteblum.

"Gimme a sec."

She opened up one of her magic pouches and pulled out a small device, a communication artifact with her seal as vice chief grand mage inscribed at the back.

It looked like a pocket watch and had multiple buttons around it, with a long golden chain that she wrapped around her arm before pressing one of the buttons repeatedly.

*CLICK! *CLICK!! *CLICK!!!

She kept on pressing the button repeatedly until an annoyed voice rang out from the speaker of the device in her hands.

[Oy! What the hell's wrong with you brat?! Do you thi-]

The voice of an obviously pissed-off grand magus rang out but Joanna didn't even wait for him to finish before speaking.

"Hey old man, remember that kid you told me to look for?"

[For the love of all that is good and just, stop interrupting me when I'm speaking. And yes, I remember, I'm not senile.]

"Oh, sad. Anyway, I think I just found him."

[What do you mean by 'sad'?! And if you've found him then bring him here already!]

"k."

[Yes, an-!]

Before the grand magus could even say anything more, Joanna already cut the connection and turned to Evan.

"Um...you heard him, right?"

Hearing her words, Evan facepalmed and replied with a sigh.

"You know. One of these days, you're probably gonna be the first person to achieve the feat of making an Epic-level existence die from a stroke."

"Hmm? Can that old man even get sick?"

"He will if you keep treating him like that."

Evan's reply made her place a hand on her chin as she thought to herself for a moment before saying.

"If he gets sick, then he'd have to step down. If he does, his position would come to me?

No, not good.

I'm already low on sleep as is, if I take his post, I'd barely be able to sleep at all."

"Then try not to be the reason he falls sick in the first place."

"That sounds troublesome. Should I just go permanently home after all?"

"Sadly, Miss Joanna, if you did that then Kasteblum's power structure would temporarily collapse."

The vice chief grand magus ran her hands towards her hair as she shook her head and replied.

"That's even more troublesome."

Evan who had begun walking with her while engaging her in a conversation turned around and signalled Pride and Eliza to follow before replying to the obviously sleep-deprived woman.

As for Eliza and Pride, the two of them looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders before deciding to follow the young hero and the vice chief grand magus who had somehow become fast friends.

'Even so, this is a little bit too fast, isn't it?'

Those were Eliza's thoughts as she watched the woman turn her dark eyes in the direction of an incoming group of blade wraiths, seconds before they were swallowed up by golden lightning and turned to ash.

She then turned back to Evan before asking a question that would make a certain red-robed mage who was currently in the Chief grand magus' office, tremble with fear.

"Perhaps I should train the old man's personal assistant, that way he'd be able to take the position when the old man croaks."

"Why are you talking like his death is a certainty...?"

"Isn't that what happens when normal humans reach a hundred years of age? Oh, but he's strong, even more so than I am, so he'd probably live about five times that without issue.

Too bad...

So much for betting on his old age."

And that was how the weird conversation between the two series skill holders went as they made their way outside the dungeon.

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With Joanna in tow, it didn't take the group more than an hour to find their way back to the surface.

They were met with a city filled with snow-covered buildings and roads, making them remember that they were currently in the winter season.

'I almost forgot because there aren't any seasons in the dungeon.'

Their unexpected emergence with the Vice-Chief grand magus shocked the hell out of the adventurer's guild officials who were present.

They quickly handled the checking out process for the group without even waiting for them to say a word and sent them on their merry way.

However, they did give Evan weird gazes when they saw him actually keeping up a conversation with the lazy eccentric woman.

The young hero was unaware of the fact that he had become a living legend to the people of Kasteblum who knew just how much their vice-chief grand magus liked to mince her words.

"You guys can go back to the inn for a while, I'd go find out what the Grand magus wants with me."

[I'm coming too!]

Kayla's excited voice rang out as she wanted to meet the earth spirit who Evan said was with the Chief grand magus and see if it was a spirit she knew.

The young hero agreed and Kayla jumped onto his head like usual as the unusual group of three made their way to the Magic tower standing in the middle of the City state.