Chapter 296.1
Kasser consistently received the news of the kingdom while he was in the Holy City. The messenger pigeon that carried a report from the chancellor arrived once every couple days, but, since the messages on the pigeon couldn’t carry any secrets or complicated reports, another officer had to go between the kingdom and the Holy City to handle the finer details.
After the meeting that afternoon, Kasser called the officer in. He was tasked to leave for the kingdom at dawn the next day.
“Give it to the chancellor,” the king said, handing the officer the message. “You have to do it personally.”
The officer bowed, taking the message with reverence. “I’ll do my best, Your Majesty.”
When the officer had left, Kasser leaned back in his seat and began to calculate the days in his mind. He tried to figure out when the chancellor would receive the message and when he would start working on it.
A month at most, he thought. It shouldn’t take much longer.
Before he left for the Holy City, he thought that there was a good chance that Sang-je was going to hold Eugene there, so he had to make sure that he and the chancellor were on the same page. He had placed Verus in charge of sending an urgent message as soon as Kasser sent the signal—he would make an excuse so that the king would have to return to the kingdom.
The message that the officer took was that signal, in itself it was just a series of standard orders. Even if another person got a hold of it, they wouldn’t find anything suspicious.
With the officer gone with the message, it wasn’t long before a servant came in and reported that a warrior wanted to see Kasser. The warrior in question was the one that received an order to investigate the magician’s route; he announced that people from the village had come.