71 The Necromancer and the Priestess 5 (1/2)

Yin Mei was currently lying on the garden grass, her hands folded over her stomach as she looked up at the sky. She wasn't watching the eternally blue and beautiful sky of the church's inner sanctum, but looking at the system's surveillance screen.

The person on the screen was the space mage that Yin Mei was thinking of drawing to her side. This space mage was a frivolous, but handsome, looking man. He looked to be in his potential mid twenties, the same as the male lead. Yin Mei really wanted to say something about it - wasn't this age gap between him and the female lead a little bit too big? But, well, she realized that a lot of novels had male leads with hundreds of years of age gap between them and the female lead, yet it was still acceptable because they looked young and handsome.

So what was the age gap between the space affinity mage and the female lead in the face of that? Plus, the age gap between Rosella and Kai would also be slightly questionable then - in fact, it would be outright illegal in Yin Mei's original world. But maybe because the era was different, the level of acceptance for this sort of thing was also different?

This space affinity mage was a well known personage on the continent who went by the name of Leon. He was well known in part because he was in possession of a rare space element infinity, and in part because he was a truly skilled mage. Plus, he was also the son of a duke and the son of a princess.

A highly desired bachelor and well known playboy who didn't like being tied down, he only got serious when it came to the female lead... She shook her head at this, feeling slightly speechless. She could never understand why it was that only the female lead was so special that all these people would fall for her so easily. At the very least, he was not the type that was unreliable during important moments, or she would really give up on having him on her side.

After all, she wouldn't want a pig teammate dragging her down.

Yin Mei looked at the screen and sighed. He wasn't a pig teammate... probably? She watched as he flirted with the prostitutes at the high class brothel he frequented and really wondered how much she really wanted to go through with this summoning plan.

Whatever! It was an interesting concept, and she was committed. Plus, it would be a good project to pass the time with... In the first place, for the matter of El, even if she didn't give him any clues about his research, he would still be able to complete it within the next year or so, giving him the method.

It was just the matter of his death that she worried about.

She would still also have to interfere with the Knights Templar in similar ways that Celestina had done in the original plot line as well, in order to give El the time and space needed for him to continue his research.

Ah! She then suddenly realized something. Taking Rosella away from his side wouldn't have too big of an affect on the research, right?

She thought about any points where Rosella might have contributed. A few months from now, if they were still following the original plot line, El would have Rosella begin to help him with his experiments. She would be filled with guilt and disgust over herself, but still end up participating, as she couldn't disobey El's orders.

She had slowly gained El's trust not only through her obedience, but also through her small but useful contributions toward his experiments. If Yin Mei recalled, she had been the one to accidentally stumble upon one of the key ingredients for the spell circle, a black flower found in Gloom Forest - coincidentally the same forest that the Bishop had mentioned the other day. She had also discovered an old spell book at a small bookshop in the capital that had allowed El some significant gains.

Aside from those two, that should be it? Yin Mei reviewed the information with a critical eye and nodded. Those two should be the most important points.

So, she would probably need to send Rosella out to find at least the flower? Maybe the book as well. She felt that even though she knew the vague location and descriptions of these items, they would be hard to find without the aid of the protagonist's aura, which was just filled with good fortune. It was an aura that tyrannically claimed all treasures present in the area. As long as it was a good treasure, it would fall into the hands of the protagonist.

Therefore, though Yin Mei was reluctant, she thought that she would still need to send either Rosella or Kai to go look for these two items. She didn't want Kai to leave the inner sanctum, but Rosella was still okay - she said this because Rosella had no combat capabilities and was lacking in experience in comparison to Kai. So in other words, if the situation took a turn and for some reason the protagonist encountered El, or something happened that would lead them to El, it was better for Rosella to be the one to be there instead of Kai.

Yin Mei wondered if she was thinking too much into things, but then shook her head. Considering the power of the protagonist's halo, it wasn't pushing it to assume that if Kai or Rosella went out, they would come across some sort of clue pointing them toward El's true identity.

She decided to make a little checklist in her mind.

Pulling over the space mage Leon to her side.

Sending Rosella to fetch the black flower and magic book.

Researching summoning.

Preventing El's death.

Now she would need to plan out how to do each of them. The most important issue was probably El's death, but that was also something that wasn't going to happen all that soon. There was a year left, so for now, she could put it off. Plus, she didn't know what exactly she could do to prevent this in the first place, other than keep a tight reign on Kai and Rosella.

The next important thing then would probably be sending Rosella to gather ingredients for the unsealing.

The book shop was in the capital, so that could happen at any time. Yin Mei decided that to increase the chances of success, she would specifically send Rosella at the same point in the timeline that she would have originally gone. As for the black flower, Yin Mei would need to ponder this. The best way would be to probably send her along with a squadron of Knights Templar when they go on expedition to the Gloom Forest. This was a regular event, but because they had just left to go, it would probably be several months before they went again.

But if Yin Mei requested it, it may be possible to shorten the time in between the expeditions. She decided that she would mention it to the Bishop next time.