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Chapter 313
🕑 Added 2024-12-11 02:00:03 +0000 UTCThe dinner was very enjoyable since Antonia, Lucia, Walter, and Phillip arrived. Thankfully, Anton provided enough Kraken tentacle meat to Harun so there was enough for everyone. Since there were a lot of people, they decided that dinner would be buffet style and everyone could sit wherever they wanted.
Anton’s father and Selena sat by the sofa in the suite’s living room and Anna sat beside their father’s new lover. Anna kept talking to Selena non-stop while they were eating and everyone was impressed at Selena’s knowledge about the upper echelon of New Drennor.
She was well-versed in everything from politics to fashion and was candid enough to admit that the reason for that was she was trying to find a good husband to avoid plunging her family into severe poverty.
Anton noticed though when the four young nobles from New Drennor arrived, Selena was intimidated by them. He had an inkling that his four rich friends were the true upper nobility and that could be intimidating for people who were trying to stay relevant in the noble circle and that included Selena and her friends.
When Anders introduced Selena as his new lady friend, the four became friends with her. During one of the conversations that Anna was having almost one-sided with Selena, Ander’s new lover admitted that she fell in love with the movies.
“Anton, can you show us a new movie after dinner?” Anders asked his son.
“Sure! What kind of movie do you want to watch?”
When his father said that he should decide, Anton did not know which movie to show. He then remembered one of the favorite actors his father on Earth had when he was alive was Kevin Costner so he listed the movies that Kevin Costner did that were set in a time that would not shock his current audience. There were a few of them like Dances With Wolves, Wyatt Earp, and more but the two that he liked for his father to see were Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Waterworld.
Since they were in the middle of the ocean, Anton mischievously chose Waterworld. He had not seen it yet or if he had, he couldn’t remember so Anton would enjoy watching the film as well. He asked everyone to go to the home theater that was set up inside their suite after they cleaned up the used dishes which was just everyone gathering them on the table and Anton casting the cleaning spell on them.
When everyone was ready, Anton started the Kevin Coster film Waterworld. It was a movie that was supposed to be so far in the future set in the ocean wherein the sea level rose and there was no more land. The people of Earth learned to survive by gathering scavenged materials that were formed as tiny islands they call “atolls”. The people there considered a land made of dirt as a myth and the most valuable thing one could own was dirt.
Kevin Costner, the protagonist was called The Mariner. A lone drifter who went on one of the Atoll to trade dirt with the locals but they discovered that he had gills which was a sign of being a mutant and they accosted him killing one of the locals in self-defense. He was then imprisoned to drown in compost but then savage raiders came on the Atoll and the heroine of the movie tried to escape with her ward and her inventor friend but she and her ward were left alone accidentally by the inventor friend.
The heroine then rescued Kevin Costner on the condition that he would take them with him. The adventure and battle in the ocean that followed soon was mind-blowing and everyone looked entertained.
When the protagonist showed the heroine how he got the dirt by diving deep into the ocean, everyone saw that the cities were under the water and they were all amazed at the scenery of cities deep in the ocean when everything was covered by water due to the Earth’s ice cap melting.
During the ending wherein the protagonists found an actual land, it was a bittersweet moment since the hero of the film couldn’t stay in the land and decided to travel to the ocean again.
It was a nice enough film and everyone was entertained by it. After the movie, Anton’s four friends from New Drennor requested to watch more television shows.
“I’m tired and I need to do some “wizardly” things early the next day,” Anton told them so they reluctantly left.
Anton, while entering his room did overhear them planning to go to the Patron Bar which was surprisingly open twenty-four hours and Anders had to reprimand Anna when she asked to go with them to the bar.
Inside his room, he took a bath and then spent a couple of hours thinking about how to go about his plan of combining different skills of different characters in a single spell. He had to reset the skills of his Necromance though since he still would not be able to show the undead summoning skills of the Necromancer character outside the game since it would result in suspicion due to the negative reputation of the undead.
Since he would not use the Necromancer for leveling and hunting gear, he decided to concentrate the character’s spells on the Curses skill tree. Since it was going to be an unconventional build that would be useful in real life instead of the game, there would be no guide available so he would have to build it himself.
The first thing that he did was put a single point in Clay Golem and Golem Mastery. He didn’t put a point in the other golem skills since Blood Golem looked hideous, Iron Golem required him to waste an item and Fire Golem could hurt an ally due to its area of effect fire skill.
He didn’t put any point in any of the Skeleton summoning skills or the bone and poison spells since they were truly questionable if the folks outside the game saw them.
Anton then put a single point on all of the curse spells. After that, he would need to review them one by one and think of scenarios that would allow him to use the spells in real life. He did maximize the Clay Golem spell and the Golem mastery spell since that would make the summoned golem overpowered.
After reading the description of the curse spells several times, Anton watched videos on the famous streaming website on how to use the Necromancer Curses but then he felt sleepy. He immediately opened the shell that was holding the pearl of the ocean that was given to him by the pink dolphin since that would make his sleep truly peaceful and would allow his mind to relax and achieve true rest and after that, he slept.
The next day, Anton took a quick shower and cleaned his room and his clothes using his Cleaning Spell then joined his family for breakfast in the dining hall. While they were eating, Anna asked Selena to join them later so she could select clothes and other accessories in their remaining inventory which was still considerably huge.
Anders complained a bit that Selena was supposed to go with him to manage the cinema.
“Father, that’s boring and Selena needs more things! After that, Anton will need to clean and repair all of her things as well so they will look new. Brother will also need to give her a tiny spirit wolf and a tiny raven. She needs to do many things so let us have her today and you can have her tonight and be lovey-dovey again later!” Anna said to their father.
That comment made Selena and surprisingly Anders blush. The only thing that Anton could think of was that the soundproofing of the rooms in their suite was truly excellent and wondered if magic was involved. He realized that even though the suite was not that large, he couldn’t hear anyone when they were inside their room and based on his father and Selena’s expressions, they were very busy last night.
