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Chapter 557

Chapter 557

Anton was relieved when he saw his sister behaving childishly, like being jealous of Luna, the sister of Selena, who was one of their father’s lovers. Anna had been behaving maturely, even though she was only 13 years old. He knew that it was inevitable for his sister to grow up so fast. Their past experiences running from the scourge that was the Undead Coalition would force anyone to grow up beyond their years.

Luna was two years older than Anna, and from what Anto...

Chapter 556

Chapter 556

Anton saw his father looking at him in surprise.

“Why did you keep them?” Anders asked, talking about the magic items.

“I don’t want to take the effort to sell them. I haven’t even identified most of them yet, and since you mentioned that you formed an Adventurer or Mercenary group, I thought that it would be best to keep them for you to give to your people so they would have powerful items they could use. You will need to hire someone to identify them,...

Chapter 555

Chapter 555

Anton was a little grateful to Anna’s teacher, her classmates, Elianah, and her sister and her sister’s friends for giving them privacy to meet up with Anton and Anna’s father.

After waiting for a couple of hours, several carriages arrived. When the carriages stopped in front of the manor, the first one who stepped out was Anton and Anna’s father. They both ran and hugged their father.

“Thank the divines that you’re back, Father,” Anna cried, and ev...

Chapter 554

Chapter 554

Anton noticed while they were idling about in the salon overlooking the beautiful garden that some of the girls were looking at him with calf eyes. In his opinion, it was understandable that the girls would have a crush on him. He was young, good-looking, and sang like an angel, but he wasn’t interested in little girls.

The most beautiful of them were the elves, and they were just children. Besides, no ordinary girls could compare to the girls in the Angels Palace. A...

Chapter 553

Chapter 553

Lunch was long, as all the girls kept talking about the film they had just watched. After several more minutes, the girls were not done, but Anton, Elianah, and Anna’s teacher, the Supreme Munetta, was long finished. The indulgent faces on Elianah and Supreme Munetta turned into exasperation.

“Girls! Finish eating, and we can continue talking in one of the manor’s salons!” Supreme Munetta scolded the girls, which made Anton smile.

Because of Anna’s teac...

Chapter 552

Chapter 552

Anton and Anna arrived at the entrance of the treasure room. He then instructed Anna on how to activate the defensive array, which required her to place her hands in the center of the door, where the array was located. Once Anna activated the array, the door of the treasure room opened for her.

They both entered the treasure room, and Anna gasped at the huge number of weapons and armor placed inside.

“Are they all magic items? Did you make them?” Anna asked.<...

Chapter 551

Chapter 551

“I haven’t drunk and bathed in mana water for a while. I’m thankful, though, that the effect of the water didn’t seem to fade over time. My hair remained luxurious and my skin remained fair and flawless,” Anna said softly while looking at her arms.

“Are you sure? Your hair and skin could be because of your youth,” Anton scoffed at his sister, and Anna threw one of the chair pillows at her brother.

“Your teacher and your classmates still hadn’t a...

Chapter 550

Chapter 550

Raymond Jenkins, Anton’s butler, explained to him that some of the rich merchants, nobles, and even wizards normally would keep a mistress or several ladies on the side apart from their official wives, and it was an acceptable and normal behavior for Ormunda’s upper crust. Since it was acceptable for married men to do something like that, it was more acceptable for a young single bachelor like Anton to do the same thing.

The only thing that would stop someone from ...

Chapter 549

Chapter 549

Anton rolled his eyes at his butler.

“Do you expect to behave like some stuck-up noble brat while walking in the middle of the street of Ormunda?”

Mr. Jenkins, of course, denied it, but Anton could see that the butler really would prefer for him to behave that way. He just sighed and rode the carriage that Mr. Jenkins purchased for a whopping 1000 gold coins. Raymond Jenkins said that it would be out of the norm for someone who lives in a manor such as his wi...

Chapter 548

Chapter 548

Anton returned to his room after showing Ms. Noria and her minions some of the recipes from Earth by letting them watch cooking guides from the most famous streaming website. They repeatedly assured him that, given time, they would be able to master the different foods they had seen.

He couldn’t wait to taste some of them once Ms. Noria was able to cook them. Anton truly missed some of them, especially pizza and ice cream, and he couldn’t wait to let Anna have a ta...

Chapter 547

Chapter 547

Anton, Raymond, Ronia, and Torbin went to Raymond’s office to continue talking about the manor’s business. Inside the butler’s office, they all sat on the sofa while Ronia served tea to everyone.

“You know what, Anton, I preferred these very informal settings that you wanted from your servants,” Torbin said while drinking a mug of ale. Anton had no idea where Torbin got the mug of ale from.

“I’m still very uncomfortable with this behavior. Once his ...

Chapter 546

Chapter 546

Anton spent the rest of the afternoon and early evening reading a web novel slowly, savoring it while stopping every now and then to appreciate the beauty of the flowers in the garden. Every so often, he would cast the Blizzard Spell that was changed into a Mana Rain by manipulating its mana structure towards the garden.

That spell caused the flowers to emit their scent in a magnitude that caused everyone in the manor to be intoxicated by the sweet smell. The smell of ...

Chapter 545

Chapter 545

The next day, Anton left the Rose Manor early to head to the Corridors of Amuneta Dungeon. He planned to delve the 30th floor of the dungeon for four days since his father would only arrive in Ormunda after a couple of weeks. He wanted more coins and magic items in the treasure room to boast about to his father, Anna, and his new relatives.

Anton wondered why he was already treating Selena, Belue, and Norma’s relatives as his own. Maybe because when Anders told him t...

Chapter 544

Chapter 544

“Did you already receive  your compensation?” Anton asked Felicity Orwells after the tour of the manor was done.

It was Ronia who answered.

“Yes. Ms. Orwells has already been compensated. It came from the furnishing and decoration budget that you have provided.

“Well, I’m very happy with the job that you’ve done, Ms. Orwells. As a bonus, please receive this health potion. This potion will heal any wounds rapidly. You can apply it to any wou...

Chapter 543

Chapter 543

Anton thanked everyone for welcoming him back, then he went to the treasure room, followed by Mr. Jenkins, the manor’s butler, and Ronia, who was currently functioning as his secretary. He deactivated the defensive array and then retrieved the two chests filled with gold coins and placed them beside the two chests that were already there.

Anton was pleased when looking at the four chests that were filled with gold coins. In total, each chest contained 100,000 gold co...

Chapter 542

Chapter 542

The next day, Anton spent the first half of the morning finishing all the pieces that he needed to enchant, and after he gave them all to Ms. Orwells to be arranged in the manor, he felt satisfied with a completed job. During lunch, he informed everyone that he would return to delving in the Corridors of Amuneta the next day and, as usual, would return after four or five days.

“Are the gardeners done planting flowers in the garden facing my window?” Anton suddenly ...

Chapter 541

Chapter 541

“I apologize for that thoughtless request. I realized immediately how unreasonable it was, so just disregard it,” Elianah said, and the elven woman even blushed, which mesmerized Anton.

Anton tried his best to cover his reaction, but he had forgotten that he was just an 18-year-old young man, and every bit of reaction that he had was very obvious to a mature and experienced woman like Elianah.

Elianah smiled at Anton and regained her confidence. After a few m...

Chapter 540

Chapter 540

Anton was supposed to spend the rest of his evening after dinner enchanting all the items that Felicity Orwells had purchased earlier. The manor needed the enchanted items. Unfortunately, he wanted to continue reading the web novel that he had found, which was the “Black Tech Internet Café System”.

He decided to compromise and enchanted around 10 of the items, and after that, he continued reading the novel until he was too sleepy to continue.

The butler woke...

Chapter 539

Chapter 539

Anton finished a movie that he was planning to watch before Mr. Jenkins knocked on his door to inform him that they were done arranging the treasure in the treasure room. While they were walking, the butler informed him that they were unable to categorize the items since they didn’t know the details of each one.

“We don’t need to bother with that. My father will be the one who’s going to identify them. Not only that, there’s a chance that those items would no...

Chapter 538

Anton spent the next two hours reviewing the notes that the butler, Raymond Jenkins, and Ronia had made regarding the coins they had spent the last few days. There were very few expenditures in Mr. Jenkins’ budget since it had only been four days. Most of the spending was for food and uniforms for the newly hired employees.

What Anton liked about the butler's notebook was the budget plan for the next couple of months. It was extensive and detailed.

Ronia’s notes regarding the ...

Chapter 537

Anton liked the middle-aged mage's suggestion regarding the type of defensive array that he could put in his treasure room. He liked the fact that it was non-lethal. He didn’t want to kill people for mere gold coins or enchanted items since it was easy for him to get them. His enemies were the undead, not regular folks. Once the array’s sleeping spell captured any thieves, he could let Ormunda’s authorities handle them.

Besides, according to the butler, Mr. Jenkins, and the maid, ...

Chapter 536

Anton thought of the fact that he was resting inside the dungeon instead of renting a room in the hotel outside. Even if it was costly since it catered to high-level adventurers, the price was negligible for him. He felt that his behavior was a little psychotic.

The fact was, he liked the idea of just continuing his goal of killing the dungeon monsters immediately once he was done with his breakfast and not wasting time. If he were tired of the dungeon, then he would return home to rest...

Chapter 535

Anton exited the 20th floor of the Corridors of Amuneta dungeon at around six in the morning. After breakfast in a nearby tavern, he headed directly to the Adventurers Guild branch and sold off the medium mana stones to the people there. Then he requested a brand new portal key for the 20th floor again. He would spend the next two or three days farming the same floor for coins, items, and level.

He wanted to have a lot of gold coins that he could keep in the treasure room in the Rose Ma...

Chapter 534

Just like with the Beginner Dungeon and the dungeon of Balathar, the Corridors of Amuneta also had a queue in front of the dungeon portal, and Anton wondered what the total population of adventurers was here in Ormunda. When he decided to transfer to the high-level dungeon, he thought that he would encounter fewer adventurer groups, since he thought that high-level adventurers would be rarer.

Surprisingly, it seemed to Anton that the number of adventurers was the same across all levels....

Chapter 533

“So what do you think of this skill of mine that allows me to open a window to another dimension and steal their art? I know that it’s a viable business because our family earned a lot of coins from what we call “movie goers” while we were on the ship, even though we only charged very little because of the lack of funds of the passengers.”

“What was your business model, and how many movies have you stolen so far?” The butler, Mr. Jenkins, asked.

Anton liked the strai...

Chapter 532

Anton saw that the white curtain that they would be using as the projector screen was pristine enough for his purpose, but it was slightly fluttering from the wind.

“Mr. Jenkins, can you put something heavy beneath the white curtain so it will not flutter about. I need it to remain very still.”

The butler nodded and worked on Anton’s suggestion immediately with the help of some people. He also had seen Ronia activating four Frozen Orb air conditioners statuettes located at t...

Chapter 531

Anton paused for a bit while the new butler, Mr. Jenkins, and Ronia waited for him.

“I think the problem is I don’t know enough about Ormunda to try to establish a business. I don’t know the different types of people living in this kingdom and what kind of products they might like to buy. Another issue is that coin-making is not a priority for me, since I can earn them through the dungeons,” He told both of his employees.

Both Mr. Jenkins and Ronia carried an expression th...

Chapter 530

The master bedroom that was assigned to Anton was huge and beautifully decorated with what looked to him like antique furniture. The only thing that he could say about the decorator, Ms. Felicity Orwells, was that she had taste. The bed, the cabinet, the office table, and chair located near the doors, the carpet, and the curtains, and all the other decorations like the paintings and sculptures were lavish but not tacky.

Ms. Orwells managed to capture the understated elegance that he pre...

Chapter 529

“You don’t need to worry too much about that, Anton. Ms. Noria and I will abide by your father’s decision. We just have to prove our capabilities before he arrives, so there would be no reason for him not to accept us,” Mr. Jenkins, Anton’s butler, said.

“Thank you. I will give you 20,000 gold coins for a couple of months' budget. I will be diving back into the dungeon again tomorrow, so I will not be here for the next three or four days. Ronia, please ensure you get the bes...

Chapter 528

Anton thought of several things as he waited for all the people that Ronia, Mr. Jenkins, and Ms. Almida had hired to tend and guard the manor to gather in the living room so he could talk to everyone. The first thing that he thought was that he had made a mistake in creating another root in this kingdom.

Every time their little family made a home, they had to run away after a while because the kingdom or city would be conquered. Every time they left, they could only allow a few people t...