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Chapter 344
🕑 Added 2025-01-11 02:00:04 +0000 UTCAnton saw Andrea hesitate when she received the golden summoning tablet from him, although it was much smaller.
“I can’t afford this, Anton,” Andrea said although she was looking at the tablet with eyes filled with longing and the others were looking at it covetously.
“That tablet will allow you to summon a petite raven. You can use it to send messages by tying a small letter to its legs and as long as the bird encountered that person before, it would be able to find it. We haven’t tested the longest distance that it can travel yet but the whole ship shouldn’t be a problem. You can send a message to me during emergencies and you can send a message to the ones guarding your family. That meant that even though you will be considered its master, anyone can send a message to anyone as long as you allow it. It will only cost you a third of the price of the Spirit Wolf summoning tablet and your family can pay me once you’re settled in New Drennor,” Anton told Andrea but he saw that the others were listening closely.
“I saw some beautiful noble ladies sporting a tiny black bird and tiny dog in their hands and I thought they were stuffed animals! Are you saying that those were real summoned animals?” Blake suddenly said.
“Those people should be the girls in my family. They all have the tiny ravens and tiny spirit wolves summons.”
“Those beautiful ladies are part of your family?! Are they all your sisters?” Soren asked.
“Why are you asking?” Anton glared at Soren which made the young man stumble but then Anton laughed.
“Don’t worry, I’m not going to do anything to you. Besides, you’re just admiring them right?” Anton asked and Soren nodded rapidly.
“If you saw a group of four young ladies, they should be my sister, who was the youngest one and also a mage, her two maids which to be honest, we already consider family members, much like my sisters and the oldest is the daughter of my father’s secretary,” Anton said while smiling.
“The two beautiful twin nobles are just maids?!” Soren exclaimed and Anton glared at him again.
“Idiot! Anton just said that they’re considered by him as his sisters so that meant their nobility.” Soren said defending himself.
“I know, I know! It’s just that they’re all so unbelievably beautiful, like princesses from the stories!” Soren said.
“Yes! Every time I see them, their clothes look new! Their skins are so fair and their hair is so gorgeous,” Andrea added.
“Oh, that’s just the result of a magic that I’ve discovered. I told you before that our family were farmers and that meant that we had the rough hair and skin of farmers but because of one of my spells, our skins became smoother and fairer and our hair became silky and more luxurious. The effects are mostly much noticeable on women,” Anton told them since it’s hardly a secret but he didn’t mention the anti-aging effect since that would be more information that his friends needed to hear.
As expected, the boys ignored that information even though Andrea became interested but then she remembered the golden tablet she was holding. When Anton saw that, he told her to ask her father.
After several minutes, the three patriarchs returned with their wolves and Andrea approached his father. Martin listened to what his daughter was saying about the smaller golden tablet that she was holding and after a few minutes of contemplation, he finally agreed, which delighted both Andrea and Blake. Then the siblings argued who would summon the raven but that argument did not last long since Andrea pointed out that the tablet was given to her and a tiny bird seemed fit to be with a girl instead of a boy.
Everyone then watched Andrea use the tablet which was simply turning on a switch. Anton was a bit embarrassed about that part since he felt that just turning on the switch seemed tacky to him but that’s the only way most of his enchanted items were activated.
The small golden tablet disappeared into golden particles in Andrea’s hand and a tiny raven appeared in its place. It immediately flew and perched on Andrea’s shoulders hiding itself in her hair. When Andrea commanded it to fly to her hands, it immediately flew there.
Andrea gushed and kept on saying that her new raven was the cutest animal in the world even though in Anton’s opinion, ravens were hardly cute. As a matter of fact, he found them a bit scary.
“You will have to bring it around everywhere so it will recognize the people and places on the ship so you can command it to send messages to anyone you like but remember that since it’s tiny, it’s not very strong and could easily be destroyed and once it dies, it's gone but normal people will probably not be able to hurt it since it should be agile enough,” Anton warned Andrea.
“You mean our summoned animals are not immortal?” Borun, Torun’s father asked.
“Of course not! Nothing is truly immortal, even the gods. Even my summons would die if they received a fatal attack although I can just summon them again,” Anton said exaggeratedly using a sentence that he had read from a novel before. That phrase impressed him a bit so he used it since it’s a good instance to use it.
Andrea was worried when she heard that her summoned raven could die but then gained confidence in her tiny bird when Anton said that normal people shouldn’t be able to hurt it due to how fast it could move.
“Thank you so much Anton for all the favors that you’ve given us,” Martin said to Anton and he just smiled at them.
The others thanked him again but then all of them were startled when a tiny raven wearing a small blue scarf with a letter on its legs suddenly flew to Anton. He then read the letter and informed everyone that it was his father asking him to go home. Everyone smiled in relief and said their goodbyes to Anton.
All of his friends followed him outside their family rooms and even followed him up until he reached the hallway where their family suite was located so they would know where he lived but when they reached the area where the rich folks were living, Torun, Blake, Andrea, Soren, and a couple of his friends looked intimidated.
Anton couldn’t fault them since some of the people walking around, basically, the rich nobles and their guards, were eyeing them although they stopped when they saw him since he was beginning to become famous as the young son of the owner of the cinema and a mage.
He knew that being the son of the cinema owner probably had more clout than him being a mage since no one wanted to antagonize the owner of the new groundbreaking entertainment that kept them highly entertained during the long voyage.
His friends noticed that when they saw the people's gaze change when they them with Anton, they knew that just being with Anton lifted their status and Anton and everyone in their group could actually see some of the people eyeing his friends with speculation probably wanting to know who they were and if they were people who could assist them in forming relationship with Anton’s father.
Anton knew that they would probably tell their fathers and their patriarchs would probably advise them to make sure that their relationship with him remained strong. He expected something like that to happen since he was an archmage and a noble so he didn’t really mind it.
