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Chapter 285
🕑 Added 2024-11-13 02:00:03 +0000 UTCAnton learned something important from his friends from New Drennor during one of the times he joined them after his Diablo II system sessions. The Amelia would stop twice. The first one was on an island in the middle of the ocean which was on usually the fourth month of the travel from Rendindura to the New Gale continent.
The island would provide the necessary food that would refresh the food supply of the ship. Even though the storage items of the people on the ship were gigantic, it was still a good idea to top it off with fresh supplies from the citizens of the said island.
The Amelia would stop on that island for three days to give the passengers time to rest their feet on solid ground and to explore the island and three days was enough to explore it fully since it was a small island. The islanders would always welcome any ships that stopped there since they would receive a considerable amount of coins from the ship and the passengers.
The islanders would also prepare a lot of items to sell to the passengers like arts and crafts and Anton was interested in that since he could use them as the base for his enchanted items. Anton put the information at the back of his mind though since that was a long way from where they currently were since they had only been in the ocean for a couple of weeks.
After a week of showing the movie Titanic in the cinema theater, which was just three days a week, the rich passengers were tired of it so it was the turn of the poor passengers to enjoy the movie and their reaction was a bit extreme in Anton’s opinion. They never stopped talking about the film and he had even heard some fights about the movie. Some were reported to take the death of Jack, who was the protagonist of the film, seriously causing depression and the ship had to make an announcement several times that the movie was not real but made by actors just like a theater play.
Antonia explained that because the cinema tokens were cheap enough that even the poorest passengers could afford them, they indulged themselves which normally, they wouldn’t since they would usually spend their hard-earned coins to expand their business or to support their family.
That meant that the poor usually hadn’t even seen the live theater play so the movie was a shock to them. The fact that the movie looked like a window to another life, it was like every one of the viewers were having adventures by becoming the protagonists of the film even just for a little while.
Anders had to utilize several air conditioner magic items that Anton had made to make sure that the moviegoers were comfortable inside the cinema since a huge gathering of people did generate enough heat that it was offsetting the magic that the ship’s wizards were using to control the temperature inside the ship.
Since Anton had gathered the best slots gears for a necromancer, on the first day of the third week that they had been traveling in the ocean which was also the first day of the second week that the movie Titanic was being shown at the cinema, he returned to leveling up his necromancer.
During that day, Anton was extremely focused but he still stopped when it was time for him to practice his spells and for lunch. Then he also practiced his music and to be honest, the music practice wasn’t about improving his guitar playing or his voice. It was about soothing his soul since music had that effect on him.
There wasn’t much progress on his attempt to create a magic item that would allow the user to cast Frozen Armor since to be honest about it, he spent so little time in enchantment.
After his time with the Diablo II system, he went outside the room to rest and explore the ship but was surprised to see that everyone was there including Antonia, Lucia, Walter, and Phillip. The only ones who were missing were his father, Nemina, Lucas, and Colin.
“What are you all doing?” Anton asked everyone.
“I just arrived from my studies as well and everyone was here resting,” Anna said.
“Since you’re out early and none of us want to explore the ship, why don’t we watch a few episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys?” Phillip asked.
“We can’t watch those without father and the others. Why don’t we watch something else? What do you want to watch, romance, horror, adventure, sci-fi, animation…?” Anton asked.
Anna shouted animation since she was curious how animated television shows worked since they had seen animated movies, while the other suggested the other genre. Curiously, no one chose the horror genre.
Anton then suddenly thought of the animated show Avatar: The Last Airbender. It was one of the best animated shows in his opinion and he knew in his bones that everyone would love it.
“I have decided what show we will watch next. First, we have to ask Harun to ask someone to cook the Kraken meat for our dinner,” Anton said.
Phillip said that he was on it and immediately went outside the suite to look for their sailor guide. After a few minutes, Phillip returned with Harun and Anton gave the guide a few kilos of Kraken meat. After that, they went to where the projector screen was set up. Anton then started the first episode of season one of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Anton was happy that everyone seemed to enjoy the animated series since he liked it so much and did not mind watching it again. After the first episode ended, they decided to pause watching since everyone knew that Harun should arrive soon with the food so they discussed the first episode and he was impressed at the imagination of his friends and family. Of course, he didn’t provide any spoilers so everyone decided to talk about the magic system of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and not only that they also discussed the possible scenarios that could happen in the future.
“That animation was a bit different from the one we first saw,” Antonia commented.
“Finding Nemo is what we call a three-dimensional animation while the show that we just watched is what we call a two-dimensional animation. The major difference is the budget spent on creating the shows. Movie producers would usually spend a huge amount of wealth in creating them but television show budgets usually would be so much lesser,” Anton said.
“I noticed that! The quality of the movie Titanic was greater than Star Trek, Xena, or Hercules,” Lucia added.
“The magic of the show was weird though. They cast spells by dancing.” Frederick said.
“It’s not dancing. It’s called martial arts. Based on my research using my ability to peek into other worlds, some worlds don’t have magic at all so they usually fight using cold weapons or hands and feet and they developed a set of special moves that would maximize their attack power and those set of moves were called martial arts. Remember that Avatar is a fiction story meaning that it wasn’t true and it came from the imagination of the makers of the animated show and they imagined that specific martial arts unique to specific cultures would produce the power of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air.”
“So Katara and Sokka were from a northern place and their martial arts would produce the power of water?” Anna asked and Anton nodded.
“The imagination of artists never ceases to amaze me,” Antonia said while shaking her head.
Soon Harun arrived with others bringing the dishes that contained the Kraken meat. Even though it was only around five in the afternoon, they decided to eat an early dinner and would just eat again late at night. Anton made sure to keep plenty for Anders, Nemina, Lucas, and Colin.
