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Chapter 351
🕑 Added 2025-01-18 02:00:04 +0000 UTCAnton left his room and saw that everyone had stopped doing their business and were relaxing. There were some pastries and drinks at the table. Lucia said that they asked Harun to deliver food to them. They thought that the sailors should be safe enough from attacks since the general staff of the ship seemed to be safe. When Devon, Frederick, and Colin were attacked at the restaurant where they tried to order lunch, the attackers didn’t attack the staff there.
Anders and Lucas mentioned that they shouldn’t assume anything since they did not know the motivation of the attackers but Anton saw that they were glad that Harun arrived in their suite safely with the other men who brought the snacks.
Anton was truly livid at the fact that his whole family was terrified of going outside their suite and terrified that the people who associated with them even as so far as just delivering them food would be hurt. He decided that he wouldn’t rest until he captured some of those attackers alive so they could question them and finally root them out of the ship.
“So, what are we going to do? Do you all want to watch something?” Anton asked everyone since watching a show might take their minds off from their fear.
“I’ll not be able to enjoy whatever movie or show that we’ll watch so instead of wasting them, let’s just relax a bit then go back to work. Since we had a lot of time concentrating on the Cosplay Event, I’m proud to say that we are ironing the details intensively,” Antonia said.
All the mages just wanted to go back to practicing their magic. It was as if the situation made them realize that they truly needed to rank up their power as soon as possible and all of them couldn’t wait to practice, especially Walter.
The man knew that he only had a limited time to have exclusive access to Anton’s auras which allowed him to memorize spells in the shortest amount possible for his talent since without the auras, the length of time he had to spend to rank up was abominable. At least that was based on what Frederick had told him and according to Walter, based on his gut instinct, the mage was right.
Walter said that he needed to rank up as soon as possible so that his family would consider him as a mage who could support the family and would then allow him to concentrate on magic and siphon magical resources to him.
Anton felt a twinge of sadness when he saw Antonia, Lucia, and Phillip looking at Walter with a mixture of mild envy and acceptance at different times. When Phillip saw him looking at him, Anton made the mistake of showing his pity so the noble approached him.
“Don’t pity us, Anton. The four of us would have preferred to become mages since being a wizard is the only true strength that everyone recognized. It’s the doorway to the true mysteries of this world and according to my great grandfather who is an archmage, is the only way to becoming a god. But fate already dealt us the path of being regular people and even if we’re part of the mundane, we have incredible wealth, and that in a way is also power. Some lower-rank mages even had to bow to us. I’m glad that Walter can follow our childhood dreams of becoming a mage but all of us knew how incredibly difficult the way would be for Walter moving forward and Antonia, Lucia, and I chose not to follow that footsteps.”
Phillip smiled at him and continued.
“We actually made some calculations. Based on what Frederick had said, while on the ship, if Walter weren’t under your aura, he would have probably reached at most wizard rank two but that was if he were incredibly diligent, practicing his magic day in and out but more than likely he would only be able to reach rank one. Under your auras, there was a chance that in a year he would reach rank 4 or 5 which is already very powerful and the family would value him but only Walter wanted to try that path. Once we leave your company, it will be very hard for Walter to rank up anymore. The three of us would just remain rich nobles using our wealth to increase the family’s wealth and enjoy our lives to the fullest.”
After that conversation, Anton assured Phillip that he understood and respected their choices.
Anton stayed outside his room and conversed with his family while the mages practiced their magic. Norma, Belue, and even Selena kept thanking Anton for the things that he fixed and also thanked him again for allowing them to stay in the suite.
He assured the women that they didn’t need to thank them again and if they consented to become his father’s girlfriends, he would welcome them with open arms which earned him a knock on the head from his father and made everyone laugh except Anna who was looking at him with an indignant face after stopping her magic practice briefly.
Selena, Norma, and Belue looked shocked when Anders hit Anton on the head even if it was only a playful hit. They knew that Anton was a very powerful archmage and from their experience and what they had seen in New Drennor, no archmage would allow themselves to be treated with such indignity. They kept forgetting that he was only seventeen years old and about to turn eighteen in December, which was less than two months away.
The three women then talked about their lives in New Drennor which everyone considered valuable information because the ladies' insights were different from Antonia and her group. Their stories revolved around the ordinary to the middle-income families of the said city and Anton knew that his family’s main customers for the cinema would be them.
After that the meeting for the Cosplay continued and Anton listened in for a bit but soon, their meeting revolved around Anders and Nemina’s plans when they reached New Drennor. Anton then shared some business insight like creating merchandise based on the movies that they could sell to the customers.
He gave some examples like creating clothing, mugs, plates, and other ordinary paraphernalia that were designed to look like they came from movies or even containing the images of the protagonists or even some of the sceneries from the film.
That suggestion excited Anders, Nemina, and even Antonia, Lucia, and Phillip so they devised plans that they could implement once the cinema theater was open in New Drennor. Even Anton who grew up on Earth was impressed by his family and his friends' plans and couldn’t wait to reach the new city so the plans could be implemented. Everyone had excited faces since everything that they were planning was new and exciting.
It was not so much for the coins that they would earn, but they did expect to earn a humongous amount of it, but the lives that would be brightened with excitement because of the movies. With the movies and shows, people didn’t have to gamble their life away as adventurers to experience exciting lives since for the length of the movie, they could partake in the lives of different heroes and experience their joy and sadness. They knew it would happen since everyone in the room, including Anton, experienced it while watching movies and shows.
