Chapter 44 Virtual Meeting With The World Leaders

"Greetings, Lord McDowell."

A group of old men in the virtual live meeting greeted respectfully in unison.

Since Keith's laptop could only accommodate at least twenty virtual live meeting screens, only the top 20 powerhouse countries in the world under Keith's banner managed to participate in the meeting. As for the rest of the weaker countries, they couldn't attend and could only wait for the news from the main powerhouse countries.

Keith didn't discriminate against his subordinates as he believed that even the weakest and trashiest had some use as long as they were put into this command. But even he couldn't have a meeting with hundreds of world leaders unless it was a physical conference.

So Keith was helpless in this regard. He wanted all of his subordinates to get the best treatment but it can't be done unless it was a meeting held in advance and not abruptly.

With that thought in mind, Keith could only make do with what he had since the meeting was important as it marked the start of humanity's new era.

Keith and the world leaders' decisions would shape the future that humanity would have so no matter what, they needed to hold their meeting even if some couldn't attend it.

"All of you should know why I held a meeting, right?"

Hearing Keith's question, the world leaders nodded in response.

"Yes, Lord McDowell. The appearance of the dimensional gate had allowed me and some of my subordinates to awaken some sort of foreign power beyond the capabilities of normal humans."

The president of America replied to Keith's question.

Reading the expressions of the world leaders, Keith was satisfied.

'It seems that all of the world leaders of major powerhouse countries have awakened their mana and skills. As expected of humans who are worthy to lead an entire nation. None of them are average and mediocre.'

After Keith and the world leaders spent a few minutes worth of greeting and pleasantries, they started to talk about the main topic of their meeting.

"As you have all discovered, the descent of the dimensional gate had allowed us humans to awaken mana in our body, thereby allowing us to access supernatural powers. Our awakened skills are limited by our mana so as long as the density of mana on planet earth increased, we can use our awakened skills more freely."

"From my discovery, our awakened skills depended on our talent and potential. For example, American General Harold had awakened skills relating to his marksmanship which he was very proficient with. So theoretically, a thief can awaken a stealing-related skill and that logic applies to the profession, hidden talent, or potential of a person."

Pausing for a while, Keith allowed them to digest the information he had given them.

Even with the shared information between the world leaders, they didn't know much about the awakened skills and the appearance of the dimensional gate. Even if the American President didn't withhold any information from them, his information was only limited to what he and his subordinates discovered.

Compared to Keith's knowledge, their knowledge about the dimensional gate and mana awakening was like comparing the knowledge of a kindergarten and a college student.

After explaining mana awakening to the world leaders, Keith continued his explanation.

"Now onto the dimensional gate… President John should have already informed you about the monsters that came out of the dimensional gate, right?"

The world leaders nodded in response to Keith's question.

"Yes, Lord McDowell. If not for the lord and his girlfriend's efforts in blocking the dimensional gate, my countrymen near the dimensional gate would have long died from those hateful goblins."

John Smith, the President Of America, replied to Keith's question as he knew how fortunate he was that his lord had intervened in the affairs of America. If not for Keith and Sherry, John knew that America would have suffered casualties in at least four to five digits with the majority of them being dead.

After all, even if the goblins were slightly stronger than humans but could easily be killed with bullets and cold weapons, not every citizen could fight off the huge numbers of the goblins unless it was the police force or the military force.

Not to mention, even if they could kill the goblins, not everyone was a bloodthirsty killer who could easily kill a humanoid living being without batting an eyelid. Even some humans would find it difficult to kill a rabid dog let alone the ugly goblins that had the same stature as a child.

Because of that, John was grateful that his lord didn't abandon the citizens of the country. He couldn't help but praise his lord in his heart that his lord was worthy of being the emperor of humanity.

To be honest, if not for Keith's insistence on being a hidden boss, the world leaders including John wouldn't have minded even if crowned himself as the emperor of humanity and publicized it for the entire world to know.

But since Keith only wanted to be the emperor of humanity in the dark, the world leaders respected his decision and it didn't matter much whether Keith was known by the populace as the emperor of humanity or not. After all, all of them still needed to listen to Keith's command even if Keith wasn't known as the emperor of humanity by the public.

After John Smith retold the incident of the dimensional gate monster invasion to the rest of the world leaders, the world leaders didn't know whether they were fortunate that their country didn't have a ticking time bomb or unlucky that their country had lower awakened humans due to the absence of a dimensional gate in their country.

From what John Smith had told them, America had more awakened humans than the rest of the countries. Even if the majority of the citizens didn't reveal that they were awakened humans, they could still make a rough estimate from the number of awakened humans in their military force.

"Now that all of you have known about the existence of the awakened humans and the dimensional gate. We will proceed to create various implementations regarding this incident."

"For example, creating an awakened human organization or hunter guild."