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Chapter 72

Anders stopped their carriage during lunchtime and the first thing that they checked was the status of the horses. They had been running almost non-stop since yesterday. Any normal animal would have died of exhaustion.

Lucas and Devon were astonished to see that all the horses were healthier than ever. They looked stronger and full of vitality. The combination of Anton’s Meditation, Prayer, and Vigor Aura plus the mana water that he kept on conjuring to give to the animals kept them a...

Chapter 71

After identifying all the items that they received from the vampires, Anders told everyone to get ready to pack everything since they were leaving.

“Before Anton removed the location magic from the cursed purse, the bag of holding was with me and I’m not sure if whoever cast that spell detected us already so to be safe, it would be better if we were far away from here, the last location where the magic was dispelled,” Anders said.

“I was about to suggest the same thing, Fa...

Chapter 70

The night was dark but the Fire Ball that was floating just above the horses was lighting the road. The horses were still energetic courtesy of the Vigor, Meditation, and Prayer Aura that Anton kept active.

It was already midnight when Anders stopped the carriage beside the road and when Anton saw his father, he thought that Anders’s expression said that he would have liked to continue the journey.

Everyone hastily set up their camp for the night and Anton helped Lucas in taking...

Chapter 69

Anton was woken up by the brightness that was seeping through his tent and when he checked the time in his internet browser it was already seven in the morning. He was surprised that his father allowed everyone to rest more since he was expecting that they would leave early.

When he went outside the tent, he saw that the only people who were awake were his father and Lucas. Anton went to the makeshift toilet, handled his business, and took a bath swiftly enough that Anders didn’t comm...

Chapter 68

Lucas and Devon noticed that their horses seemed refreshed somehow, like suddenly their fatigue disappeared and they knew that it was Anton’s doing. They continued running until lunchtime and that was when Anders stopped the carriage beside the road.

The first thing that Anton’s father, Lucas, and Devon did was to inspect the horses for any sign of injury but as expected they didn’t find any. The horses were not even tired but they could tell that the animals were extremely famish...

Chapter 67

Anton was woken up by his father in the middle of the night.

“Anton wake up we need to leave right now!” Anders shouted urgently.

When he went outside his tent he saw an orange light in the distance where the village they had just come from was located.

“That’s the village and it’s burning. That meant that the undead arrived already,” Lucas said grimly.

Anton gasped when he heard that and he helped everyone in cleaning up the camp.

Everyone was moving...

Chapter 66

Anton went downstairs to look for his family and saw them still sitting at the table in the corner of the common room where they conduct the business of buying worn-out, old, or broken equipment.

The villagers were still looking at his father and his sister like they were fools for buying garbage but of course, they were not voicing those doubts since who didn’t want extra coins for the rainy season?

It was already past noon so Anton thought that the business would have conclude...

Chapter 65

Inside Ander’s room, Anton, his father, Nermina and Lucas kept on standing while they were facing each other.

“What did you want to talk about?” Anders asked Lucas and Nermina.

“Lucas and my son’s contract specified that they will be your guards until the city of Tiande but I would like to apply to be part of your business. My family talked about it and we would like to be with you until the end of your journey. If Sir Anton here doesn’t have any plans of stopping anyt...

Chapter 64

Anton went to his room to rest for a bit after his bath then after about an hour he went downstairs to look for his father since he had told Anders that he would be joining him in their business. When he reached the common room, he saw Anders seated behind a table accepting broken items from the villagers while Anna was at a separate table together with Nermina and Lunelle accepting old and worn-out clothing and things from the women of the village.

“Anton you’re here. Sit beside me...

Chapter 63

Anton spent only half an hour healing all the wounded villagers inside the inn’s common room even though there were many of them. He stopped counting when he reached thirty people and while he was doing the healing which was nothing more than removing the healed people from the party system and adding seven wounded people it only took at most a minute for even the severely wounded to heal.

While he was doing the healing, Anders told him that they had counted the bandits who attacked a...

Chapter 62

Anton was thrilled about getting a four-socketed Voulge weapon. He would be able to create an Insight runeword weapon that his mercenary could equip and that meant that he would be able to use a high-level Meditation Aura which was way better than the level nine Prayer Aura that he had been using from his level thirty Mercenary although having both was welcome since according to the Diablo II wikis both auras stack.

He immediately went to his private stash and took the only Sol rune tha...

Chapter 61

Anton’s family and their guards’ family spent the rest of the night listening to him play the lute and sing. He sang love songs, rock songs, country songs, pop songs. He spent a couple of hours singing and he was impressed that his body could do all those singing without any issue and he guessed that it had to do with his increased stats.

“You know so many songs brother! I was kidding before when I mentioned that if being a wizard doesn’t work out, you can be a bard but honestly...

Chapter 60

Inside the game, Anton continued playing to level up. He proceeded to go to kill Nihlathak and then fully explored the zones. Everything was very easy now since he was level thirty-three and he added a lot of skill points to Frozen Orb and Cold Mastery. He knew for a fact that the Frozen Orb sorceress was very strong during the last part of Normal and the whole of the Nightmare difficulty.

Even though he knew what to expect since he had played the game for so many hours, it was differen...

Chapter 59

Anton entered his tent and lay down on his sleeping mat. He had no intention to sleep since what he wanted to do was continue leveling up. He was level thirty-two and just fully explored the Frigid Highlands.

What he needed to do next was rescue the NPC Anya since the quest reward of plus ten to all resistances was good for him especially since it would be applied to his body in the real world as well.

Since Anton was exploring every nook and cranny of the game, of course, he woul...

Chapter 58

Anton prepared himself to drive the Lucas family’s cart. It helped a lot that the horse that was pulling it was very docile towards him and responded to his commands immediately and Devon said that it was uncanny since their horse had a stubborn reputation prompting an ongoing family joke that their horse was half mule.

“It obeys me since it knew that I was the source of the delicious water that it had been drinking and also the source of magic that was making it comfortable. The ho...

Chapter 57

Anton was watching an anime, one of the new ones that was just released and had glowing reviews when he heard his father talking to his sister.

“Anna wake up your brother. There are bandits ahead,” Anders said loud enough for Anton to hear it so he immediately closed the browser, opened the game, and minimized it.

“I’m awake father. How did you know that there are bandits ahead?”

“There’s a fallen tree blocking the road and Lucas signaled that he saw some peopl...

Chapter 56

“Father, how tall are you?” Anton asked his father through the small front window in the carriage.

“I’m about five foot ten inches why do you ask?”

“I’m just curious. So do you think I’m about six feet?”

“Yes, about that. Last year we measured both of your heights, you, and Anna. You were about an inch shorter then but you should have gained an inch now and all that mana water and healing made us healthy so I think all of us increased our height.”

Chapter 55

Anton and his family started their journey happily since everyone had a full meal and had taken a bath although Anders did tell everyone that they could not take a bath every single day which they understood since it would consume a huge amount of time.

The only person in the carriage was him. Anna said that he was boring since the only thing he did was meditate so she joined Nermina and Lunelle in their cart. She said that she would talk with Devon’s sister about clothes and pieces o...

Chapter 54

Anton saw that his Father and Anna were preparing to rest. Normally at this time, they would spend some time telling him a lot of things like common things that people should be aware of since he lost his memory, and then after that, they would either tell stories or listen to him play the lute but everyone was exhausted due to the excitement repairing the items and equipment brought.

He then told his family that he would rest early and Anders and Anna just nodded. When he went inside h...

Chapter 53

Anton’s family and their guard and their family enjoyed their lunch and he summoned mana water for everyone.

“Lucas, this is called mana water by my son. It would greatly refresh your body and heal old ailments that your body has once you have drunk this water for a long time. Some said that it also made me look younger.” Anders told Lucas and his family.

“I bathed in it as well and it made my hair and my skin look pretty!” Anna boasted.

“It should be extremely v...

Chapter 52

Every item they had was sorted out very well but it was already midmorning when Anton and his family together with the help of their guards and their family completed the work. Anders checked their carriage to make sure they had not forgotten anything and made sure that all the bills were settled.

Lucas and his family were ready for quite some time. Nermina would be driving their cart while Lunelle was inside it looking after their possession and the cart would follow Ander’s carriage...

Chapter 51

Anton’s father woke him up the next day and when he checked the time in his browser it was seven in the morning.

“Anton, the cook informed me that all of the food that they prepared last night was already packed in sealed barrels. You just need to put them in your magic space. All of the things that we’ve bought like spices, soaps, and more are in your sister’s room. She’s already awake so go to her room and put all of the things in your space as well. We’ve already packed t...

Chapter 50

Anders introduced Anton to Lucas and his family and he saw Anna trying to reign her laughter as she looked at the expression of Devon and Lunelle.

“This is my son Anton. As I mentioned, he is a wizard. You don’t need to worry about any injuries since he could heal any injuries and he can cast spells to fight off monsters. The main reason why we needed guards is for guard duty since we will be on the road for quite a while, we need to have guard duty at night and my son needs to medi...

Chapter 49

Anton’s father and sister finished eating their lunch but before they left to continue their business in the village hall Anders asked his son about his opinion on hiring the man and his son as their guards.

“I’ll abide by whatever your decision will be Father. You know more about these things. What about their traveling situation?”

“According to Lucas, that’s the man’s name, they have their cart. He and his son Devon got their horses, and their cart will be pulled b...

Chapter 48

Anton and his family went inside the inn and in the common area some people were looking at them curiously but most of them with appreciation in their eyes for spending a lot of coins on the villagers.

When they returned to their rooms Anders and Anna must have been exhausted since they retired immediately. Anton decided to spend a couple of hours practicing his mana manipulation of some of his spells outside the Rogue Encampment. He focused mainly on the spell Blizzard since practicing...

Chapter 47

While they were eating Anton thought of the coins that he had in his inventory. He remembered the purses that came from the vampire and he only gave the purse containing one hundred silver coins to his father. The one with the one hundred gold coins was still in his private stash.

“Father, will you need the other purse from that monster we killed?”

“No. I still have the purse of gold coins from the bandits and together with the silver coins from that monster and the gold coi...

Chapter 46

Anton felt that he wasted so much time watching one of his favorite anime. He was tempted to watch more but he felt guilty. He should be leveling up his character so he could become more powerful. They were currently in the middle of a journey and they would need that power for his and his family’s protection. Because of that thinking, he closed the browser, opened his game, and entered virtually so he could continue playing.

Flayer Jungle was completed by Anton and he leveled up to t...

Chapter 45

Anton’s family’s journey to the next village was uneventful so he asked permission from his father if he could meditate so he could become stronger. Anders gave his son the go-ahead even though Anna kept saying that she would like for his brother to stay with her and just play his lute or tell her stories before they arrived in the village.

“Anna I need to meditate. Why don’t you create stories in your head instead and then write them down in your notebook when you have the chan...

Chapter 44

“Can you demonstrate to us your new spells son?” Anders asked.

Anton knew that the main reason why his father would like to know how his spells work was, that they did not want to be surprised by their effects in case he needed to cast them. And also, they were curious.

“Sure Father, I’ll show you Energy Shield first.”

Anton cast Energy Shield then a golden ball appeared floating above his head. He found the effect of the shield weird but wasn’t surprised since a...

Chapter 43

Anton’s father woke him up and when he checked the time it was four in the morning. That meant that just like yesterday, he wouldn’t have the chance to sleep again. He prepared everything that his family would need when they woke up. He did sleep quite a while so he was fully rested. Once everything was prepared like the barrel full of water and their breakfast he also made sure that some of the things that they needed to clean were done, there was nothing left to do and everything looked...