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Chapter 355
🕑 Added 2025-01-22 02:00:03 +0000 UTCAnton focused on creating the Frozen Armor enchantment on the silver tablet that he made by manually melting silver coins using his Fire Bolt spell on a hastily created mold that he made using his Telekinesis Spell.
It was simple enough. He retrieved sand from the desert outside the city of Lut Gholein, put it in a wooden container, stamped a wooden tablet on the sand layer then poured the molten silver on it. After a few minutes, voila, he had ready-made silver tablets. He did it for around thirty minutes until he collected enough number of them for his enchantment creation. He knew that he would probably need to do a lot more silver tablets before he gained success in creating the enchantment. He would also need to convert some of his gold coins to silver through the ship’s merchants but for now, he had enough.
For the next three hours, Anton focused on the enchanted item research but there were already glimmers of success, and more than likely, if he still focused on it the next day, he would have a prototype by the end of the day tomorrow.
Anton exited his Diablo II system and joined his family for dinner. That night no one complained when he told everyone that he would be turning off the spell that allowed them to practice their magic.
After dinner, they watched a couple of television shows which were then the next episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Then Anton announced that he would be resting since he wanted to continue his “baiting the enemy” plan later that night. The good thing about the pearl that the pink dolphins and the blue whales had given him, whenever he wanted to rest, he could do so since the pearl would allow him to fall asleep whenever he wanted and the magic of the pearl would make sure that the sleep would be a restful one. In fact, even if it was noisy outside his room, which it was since everyone was still awake and conversing, he didn’t want to close his door because of the situation, he would have had a hard time sleeping and that’s why he loved the magical pearl.
Anton woke up from the alarm that he set up in his browser in his system. The good thing about his alarm inside his Diablo II system browser was that he was the only one who could hear it so he didn’t disturb anyone else.
He cast all of his defensive spells and proceeded to exit out of the suite to begin roaming around. While strolling along the hallways of the ship, Anton felt like he was a ghost. He would have then levitated forward by using his Telekinesis spell which was an intrusive thought that entered his mind but he held off in doing that since that may alarm his would-be attackers or may even frighten the ordinary passengers that sometimes appeared.
Anton found that traveling for a year in the ocean was a bit weird. It felt like your life suddenly would stop like it was frozen in time especially if you’re a regular person. The other people on the ship wouldn’t be able to continue to cater to your business if you have a business on the ship since no incoming coins were entering their family. Everything was probably on a budget and only the very rich could be extravagant.
The people who found their wealth through traveling the ocean could probably explain it to Anton like what Antonia, Lucia, Walter, and Phillips’ family were doing but he wasn’t interested. Once they reached their destination, Anton would prefer not to travel the ocean again if he had any choice on the matter.
The funny thing was, At first, Anton thought of this world as Earth’s parallel world. He thought of Rendindura as Europe and thought of the Gale Continent as America, especially when he found some cultural similarities in some of the people in those continents like the cowboy costumes or the Indian apparel that some of the people were wearing that he found when he was roaming around Whaling City but when he carefully studied the known continents it was very different and he was guessing that the reason why there were similarities in culture and clothing was because of the environment.
If Anton was an academic or a learned scholar, the subject would have been very interesting in his opinion but he was not so he decided not to fall into the trap of thinking that this world was Earth’s parallel. He couldn’t fault himself though because aside from the Americas, he also found the same culture in Whaling that resembled the old India, Japan, Korea, and more.
Anton thought a lot of things while he was walking around but he finally reached the exclusive deck for their hallway again and entered it. While he was there, he thought of who could the attackers were. He was guessing that it was still a part of the Undead Coalition’s attacks because even though the ninja wannabes were not undead, who was to say that the organization did not employ the non-undead?
He had to admit that the attackers could be from some other malicious organization that had a very specific goal but thinking about that depressed Anton since that would prove that this world was truly dangerous. The Undead Coalition’s bid for world domination was depressing enough, now there were more evil organizations? So Anton was hoping that the ninjas were still from the coalition since that would make him focus on just one enemy.
Anton had been staying on the deck staring at the dark ocean for less than a couple of hours when he felt malicious gazes on him and that made him happy. That meant that those ninja wannabe took the bait.
All of his auras and all of his defensive spells were active since Anton had been renewing the spells whenever they lapsed. Then he heard some clanging sounds. When he looked around, Anton saw daggers on the floor meaning they probably threw those at him and the daggers were not able to penetrate his defenses.
Anton then saw five ninja wannabes appear and for a brief moment, he felt sad about the two sailors who were guarding the door to the deck since they were probably dead if they were truly staff of the ship.
He kept his buffs and auras special effects turned off since he wanted to make sure that the attackers would continue to think that he was some sort of defenseless youth and not run off. Anton wondered if he would be able to capture all five of the ninjas and decided to try.
Just like those Kungfu warriors, they kept jumping around, throwing things at him. It almost looked funny since to Anton, the ninjas looked like monkeys. One of the ninjas saw that their thrown weapons were ineffective so one threw some sort of smoke bomb. The smoke was probably either a sleeping smoke or a poisonous one and Anton thought that his defenses and vitality were probably powerful enough to protect him but he didn’t want to take any chances so he teleported out from the center of the smoke bomb and tried to capture the ninjas using his Telekinesis spell.
Anton managed to capture three of the ninjas and was about to do the same thing to the last two but those two suddenly jumped from the deck and he wasn’t fast enough to capture them since he was already using his Telekinesis in multiple ways, holding three of the ninjas tightly. He also forcefully added the three that he captured in his party system since that would prevent them from dying since the auras would forcefully heal them.
He was just glad that his party system didn’t require the consent of the people he wanted to add and that made it convenient for Anton since he wanted to make sure that those ninjas would remain alive even if they tried to commit suicide.
