'Besides, Laurene's skill doesn't work through magic projections, not at stage one or two.'
So, the young hero had no qualms in telling the Emperor this fabricated story, not knowing that Emperor had most likely deduced Evan was lying about the issue and had acquired his information from another source.
He still wasn't aware that Rudeus knew he was a hero after all.
After telling the Emperor to send his regards to the Duke and Duchess, Evan left the magic tower and boarder a carriage to the adventurer's guild building, intending on submitting the materials for the quests that his group accepted before entering the dungeon.
"There are two sets of materials, though the states of one set is nothing to write home about.,"
The receptionist at the guild bluntly told Evan as she sorted through the frost boar king corpses that Evan had popped out of his inventory in the guild warehouse.