"Before the messaging department set eyes on me, I had been surviving on the little gold I had with me, so I didn't have to think too much about the benefits I would get." Mei remembered everything in detail, but it was better to summarize most parts of the story. "It was only a matter of time before I gained some fame after I pretty much swept away a lot of the requests, not surprisingly though."
"Ufufu, you don't need to be modest, master. You surely put all your effort into it." Shino was aware of the strength of her master, so those requests she had taken on were surely not as easy as she said.
"Well… Maybe they were a bit tedious to do… I didn't have a real goal at the time, I just worked my way up while making sure to keep a low profile despite my sudden fame, but Shino and the major Marjorie never left my mind, I had the desire to return to Laguz, but after everything that happened, I felt that I should take advantage of my situation to become even stronger so that I would not disappoint you when I see you again."
"At least it seems that your effort has been worth all this time, it seems that you were finally able to touch the land of kings." Marjorie said as she closed her eyes realizing that.
Mei also didn't say anything else, someone who is in the runic royal realm could shake an entire nation, but even Mei felt that that level was still not enough. Shino also remained silent as she too was aware of her master's new strength from the first moment she had met her.
"Sigh… Those days had passed too fast, I had already achieved a stable life, but I knew that if I continued there I would not advance in any way, so I decided to leave the messaging department, but before that, an important request had arrived due to that the smell of war was slowly beginning to appear across the continent."
"It's true, it was around that time that Norad and Sechs started their whole show. So you saw you involved" Now Marjorie understood a little more about everything Mei went through.
"My task was simply to gather information about the Sechs empire, although a lot happened in between as well, in the end I was even able to see the figure of one of the elder dragons interfering in the whole skirmish." Mei was remembering all of that at the same time as she couldn't help but remember the boy who bothered her all the time.
"I'm not surprised you've seen Terrable, the Norad royal family has always had a strong bond with him, and from everything you told me… The boy you brought with you is the son of brat Lawrance, isn't he?" Marjorie asked that question after putting together the important points of her suspicions, plus that she had seen Ragna before and had a feeling that was familiar to her.
"I... Are you even able to deduce that, major?" Mei was sincerely surprised.
"I don't know why you are so surprised; I have my acquaintances in Uruz, little Gilberth needed my help and by chance and I was able to meet the new member of the royal family." Marjorie said that as if it were anything.
But both Shino and Mei had their eyes open for a simple reason, and that was because "little Gilberth" that Marjorie spoke of was the current king of the kingdom of Norad, the strongest and oldest kingdom in all of Futhark. Perhaps that was already enough to surprise many, but his other achievements were just as terrifying since he was a Six-rune wizard, but above all, he was the most famous Earthmate in the entire world!
"Did you already know at that time that I was in Uruz?" Mei couldn't help but ask Marjorie.
"Of course, but I wasn't going to move the sea and the mountains to look for you, it was enough for me to know that you were okay."
"I understand…" Mei had a thoughtful look at that moment, but she shook her head quickly as she was about to finish her story. "The war seemed to have ended abruptly at that time, even though the Sechs empire had taken the losing side, their moves hadn't stopped, there was even a rumor that the emperor of the Sechs empire began to hunt down any Earthmates that were discovered simply to reduce his anger."
"Despite that, relations between Sechs and Norad have never improved, plus if you add the Zzyzx empire to the formula, the tension can be felt across the continent." All the talk was focused on the relationship between these three powers that had shaken the world for many years. In the first place, the Sechs empire had to be taken into account, this empire was almost as old as Norad, at first it had been born as an allied region of Norad, but over the years it had obtained its independence by absorbing more territories until it was feared all over the world.
Although its native land was the Uruz Continent, this had not stopped the empire Sechs from even spreading out to have its own territory on the Gebu Continent, and the reason for his might, aside from his military strength, was that his empire was totally centered on the technological development in addition to making use of runic energy for this purpose.
Despite all aspects of the Sechs empire, it was mostly just aggressive against the kingdom of Norad even though it also had no great affinity for relating to other foreign territories, but it was not averse to sharing its technology with the world making one of the main aspects of its economy based on its international trade through the messaging department.
This was also something to keep in mind about the messaging department, since it would always remain neutral no matter the situation. There was never a lack of some fool who wanted to take control of this organization, but those who tried, both themselves and their territories were reduced to dust sparing only innocent souls.