Laurene had done very little to hide the fact that she fancied Arnold which now caused problems in the political scene.

The issue was that Arnold was currently not the Eris Duchy’s heir.

Royal Family Supporters were saying that if Laurene was to marry into the Eris Family, then she should at the very least be wed to the heir to the Dukedom.

Currently, that was Evan.

Hence, it wasn’t too hard to figure out what they were trying to say.

The problem was that Evan had a significant other in the form of Eliza and wasn’t looking any other girl’s way, much less Laurene whom he treated like a little sister.

A noble had dared to speak of this when Evan was within earshot and the glare the boy gave the noble made the grown man nearly piss his pants.

That feeling of existential fear that gripped all those within the hall that day shut all of them up and prevented them from voicing such thoughts.

But this didn’t mean they didn’t have such thoughts anymore.

All would be fine if Evan’s position as an heir could be transferred to Arnold, however, there was now the issue of the Eris Dukedom vassals.

These nobles were no less powerful than the Royal Family supporters and they didn’t want Arnold to be the head of the family because he lacked the Paladin skill that the last 5 Dukes all had.

Evan had taken some time to figure out why Arnold lacked this skill and tried to get it for him but he always drew up blanks.

He had even straight up told Artemisia to give him the skill if she could, but all the goddess said that things ‘couldn’t just work that way’.

Unfortunately, he had a more pressing issue to attend to at the time so that conversation was never concluded.

“The ‘Paladin’ skill, huh?”

“It may have been the original reason, but it has changed over the years.”

Evan spoke up after David did and hearing this Laurene glanced at the giant magi-electronic board displaying the Beach Restaurant menu, with a portion of the screen showing a video of Evan in a dungeon as she replied.

“I’m guessing your current Influence plays a part.”

At the end of the War with Wolfen last year, Evan had reached a level of Influence where he could ‘order’ small countries to do things and they had to oblige.

This influence of his had only grown in the past year, to a level where he was almost on par with Duke Roger’s international Influence.

Which was a lot, given that Roger was the GWE Prime Minister and held more power than some Presidents and some Kings!

As such, the Vassals of the Eris Duchy wanted Evan to become the Duke so the Eris Duchy would be able to share this influence.

Evan would also boost the Duchy’s prestige as he’d be a Duke while also being a Hero.

They were simply thinking about the benefits Evan could bring to the Eris Duchy, and there were some pretty stubborn ones so it wasn’t a situation where Evan could just use force to make them back down.

Of course, if they pissed him off, he would, and they knew this so they made sure to not cross his bottom line, keeping themselves to the level of a ‘mild annoyance’.

No one wanted their whole family to Vanish from the GWE’s history books overnight!

They were that scared of Evan because one of them had accidentally discovered the fact that Blealand’s Parliament was secretly dancing in the palm of Evan’s hand.

The now Deceased ‘Ninth Finger’, Maude Gilatryd, was a member of the Country’s Parliament on the surface, and Evan was leveraging the fact that Blealand’s government did not want to have any involvement with the Organisation responsible for Osto, Cheverton and Lacertilia’s incidents which could have claimed hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of lives.

Weighing the scales with the GWE and the Beast Kingdom on one side while Evan was on the other, the Prime Minister willingly handed their leash to Evan.

The extra blackmail-worthy information that Maude had was all taken by Evan and he used it to make his life a ‘lot easier’ in the past year.

It did end up with a few dozen High nobles living in constant fear, but hey, some successes always had minor sacrifices.

Laurene glanced back to the drink board and muttered something about wanting one. This prompted Evan to call out to the waitresses nearby and right before his very eyes, he witnessed the most intense rock, paper scissors tournament ever, held between the six free waitresses to decide who was to attend to Evan.

The victor made a small guts pose before dashing over at near-sonic speed.

‘…Girl you don’t have the necessary agility stat to reach such speeds, how did you achieve it?!’

Laurene could see Evan’s thoughts written all over his face, turning to David and seeing a similar expression of surprise on his face as well.

Shaking her head lightly, she spoke.

“You two need to understand just how desirable you are for the opposite gender.”

They placed their orders afterwards and Laurene returned her focus to the magi-electronic board as she questioned Evan.

“You really took this ‘Live Dungeon Stream’ thing to the limit, huh?”

She was referring to the video of Evan clearing a boss monster in a dungeon that was playing on it

Televisions had made their Advent on Aidos during the past year, it went without saying that the No. 1 contributor to their success was the boy sitting right next to her.

Magic Projections were usually very expensive and required a lot of equipment and tools, from the magic projectors themselves, the magic stones, and the projection boards and they consumed a ton of energy to send information over long distances.

Televisions, however, were cheaper to obtain, required only one square or rectangular-shaped box device, and used similar signals to already existing Radios, costing far less to transmit info over long distances.

Magic projections were still in use and would still remain as such for a long while, and with TVs being brought into the mix, similar technology could be applied, making it so that they would only get better.

Of course, the TVs on Aidos for now were still a bit ‘boxed’, but they were surprisingly light.

Since Aidos already had Radios and could use Radio signals with magic, it wasn’t too hard for them to turn that ‘Audio’ to ‘Audio Visual’.

In the same way that they had Live Broadcasts on Radio, they now had the same on TV, making it much easier to disseminate information with them.

More news stations were popping up, and it was much easier for Evan to get his name out there.

Radio Stations that were already in the business decided to branch out into the rising TV industry, and all the major TV Stations were of this kind.

As they already had popularity on Radio, it wasn’t hard for them to gain popularity on TV.

For people unable to afford TVs, cities had viewing centres where one could pay a small amount of money and go in to watch whatever was showing up at the time.

They had a lot of customers in the form of Dads who wanted to watch that 9 pm news broadcast daily.

‘Movies’ were also becoming a thing now on Aidos. A lot fewer people went to theatres to watch plays since you could now sit back at home and watch it through your TV.

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In the end, the people who really loved plays would still go to theatres so they were NOT going out of business anytime soon.

“How did you get the knowledge to use those things? Arlan’s memories?”

Laurene was curious since Evan had stuffed a lot of ideas into the heads of the guys in Kasteblum and the Technicians from the Beta Continent.

He had also forged a good relationship with the Utraria Republic as they had now become the biggest manufacturers of TVs worldwide.

The ‘Barbarians’ of the Beta Continent once again made people wonder why they were even called that when they took the TVs to their continent and came back with Digital Billboards.

Evan hadn’t even planned to tell them about Digital Billboards yet, and those guys somehow created it with just their knowledge of TVs alone.

Despite appearing and acting like they were ‘Primitive’ those guys had the best technology on the planet!

“I just pieced together a few things.

Besides, you guys knew about TVs already due to Yvonne and Ellisar. With that and a few touches I got from acertain goddess, we ended up with what we have.”

Just as he said that, their drinks arrived and Evan couldn’t help but notice the waitress was different from the one who took their order.

He questioned why and he was told the other one had been called up by their boss and was busy. This one also came along with an autograph which she wanted Evan to sign and the boy saw no reason to decline.

Those who saw this, ended up staring at the girl like hawks watching their prey—the ‘prey’ in this case being the autograph she just got.

Some others wanted to ask Evan for theirs but they saw he had returned to his conversation with Laurene and didn’t dare interrupt his talk with the Princess.

“Look at those adventurers who were watching your dungeon raid. Now they’re eyeing that poor girl like she’s holding a pound of gold.

I feel that thing might get stolen from her.”

David commented as he sipped his drink while looking at the waitress who rushed into the locker room, probably to safeguard her recent acquirement.

As for the Dungeon Raid he spoke about, well we’d have to talk about how Evan had madestreaminga thing on Aidos.

The Alpha and Beta Continent’s top technology-savvy nations put their heads together and were working towards making Audio-Visual Magical Signals capable of passing through the barriers of Dungeons so there were no ‘Live Streams’ yet though.

For now, it was just powerful adventurer parties recording their Dungeon Clears and having it broadcast after they left the dungeon.

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