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Chapter 301
🕑 Added 2024-11-29 02:00:03 +0000 UTCThe payment for the lecture did not take long and soon everyone a group of people entered the hall to place temporary chairs so the listener could listen to the lecture of the old High Wizard. Anton wondered why the old mage only reached High Wizard status and did not manage to reach the archmage level so he asked Frederick softly since the lesson had not started yet.
“I know you didn’t realize that reaching the archmage level is one of the most difficult goals that a mage could dream of. Before meeting you and your family, my dream was to reach level three and now I’m hoping that before I die, I will be able to reach the archmage status. Your situation is unique and to be honest with you, the main reason I stick with you and your family is I want to be in the vicinity of a legend in the making. I know for a fact that you have the chance of reaching beyond Invincible and I want to see for myself how it will look like,” Frederick whispered back.
After Frederick said that cringy sentence, they did not continue conversing since the lecture had started.
The high wizard Tormalin’s lecture was robust and Anton was impressed. Because of the lecture, he learned that his Diablo II system was able to provide him with a notepad tool that allowed him to type so he utilized it to type in the details of the high wizard’s lecture about the different spells a mage could use regarding the spell level and the situation. He was just glad that he did not have to physically move his arms and fingers to type into a keyboard since he could utilize his mind to type in the keys to his system virtual keyboard.
Anton should have expected that there would be a notepad in his system given that he already had a virtual keyboard which was what he was using to search the Earth’s internet. He just wished that his system also had a recording function that would allow him to record things so that his system would truly act as a smartphone or a tablet connected to the internet.
After an hour, the lecturer paused and gave everyone a ten-minute break and during that time, Anton was surprised to see a notification appearing on his system interface. While most of the wizards utilized the break time to do their private business like maybe going to the toilet or buying snacks, he opened the system notification.
He was mostly unsurprised to see that his Diablo II system added two functions. It was the notepad and the recording function. Anton had been expecting that to appear ever since the appearance of the recording magic item. He knew that with the system’s power, adding that function would be too easy for it. It almost felt like his system did not want him to look down on it for not having that function.
Anton read that the camera recording function worked just like the camera of a smartphone gadget. This meant he could take pictures and videos but he would have to summon the globe spell that he used for the browser-sharing spell. Another added function was the globe could turn invisible but the range was still limited to 300 feet which Anton thought was far enough since he knew that he would mostly use it within his vicinity.
If Anton wanted to scout somewhere far away he could use his Raven spell for that.
He decided to put the camera app at the back of his mind since the lecture was about to start again and wanted to focus on it since Anton was learning a lot.
The lecture was a whopping three hours but he was grateful for it. Anton planned to purchase all the spells that the high wizards mentioned and he would memorize all of those spells so they would be recorded on his personal spellbook.
Anton did decide to focus on his Diablo II system instead of the magic system of this world but it was still a good idea to have a working knowledge of this world’s magic. He would only spend a few hours a week on it anyway and he knew that as time passed by, he would be able to accumulate the spells on his spellbook even if he just memorized one spell a week.
When the lecture ended, a lot of the mage went towards the high wizard.
“What are they doing?” Anton asked Frederick.
“They are hoping that they can entice the old wizard to give them private lectures,” the mage answered.
“Are you not going to try your luck?”
“I’m not at the level yet to want to have a lecture from a high wizard. I will need to increase my level first.”
The group of people who arranged the seats before the lecture returned to get back the seats but after waiting for a few minutes, the whole area turned into a magic bazaar which greatly amused Anton.
“Frederick, can you help me get these spellbooks? This purse contained two thousand gold coins. Tell me if it isn’t enough” Anton gave Frederick the list of spells that he had gotten from the old high wizard’s lecture then gave the mage a purse containing a couple of thousands of gold coins.
Anton was very open about his actions of giving the list and the gold coins to Frederick. He noticed the mage giving him a wry look and saw that the other five mages were looking at the purse with wide eyes. He remembered that low-level mages were not that rich and a couple of thousands of gold coins was a huge amount to them but to be honest about it, he was not overwhelmingly rich. He only had about a couple more thousand gold coins left aside for the ones he gave Frederick that came from the private business that he did during the last couple of cities that they had been to.
Of course, if he truly needed it, Anton knew that his father would give them the gold coins that he might need and they did manage to recoup some of the losses they had made when they rented the suite due to the coins they earned from the cinema but he was embarrassed to ask for coins from Anders.
Since Anton felt that he was lacking coins, he decided to join in on the bazaar fun.
“Can I set up a stall here?” Anton asked.
Frederick’s friends were surprised when they heard Anton’s question.
“Let me ask for you,” Frederick said then he immediately went to find someone who could help them.
“What are you planning to sell, Anton?” One of Frederick’s friends asked.
“Some of the enchanted items that I’ve made.”
“You can make enchanted items?!” One of the ladies that accompanied them asked but Anton didn’t answer and just smiled.
After a few minutes, Frederick returned and he led him to one of the corners that were not occupied. The location was not ideal and was out of the way but Anton did not care since he wanted to sell items to have fun.
“Do you need me to stay to help you?” Frederick asked.
“No, you can go join your friends. I want to play as a magic item merchant,” Anton said while smiling and Frederick just shook his head and left to join his friends.
Anton retrieved a table from his inventory and a nice enough tablecloth. Then he retrieved five sculptures containing the Frozen Orb air conditioner enchantment, five sculptures containing the Fire Bolt magic light enchantment, five stoves enchanted with the Fire Wall spell, Five cups that contained the Ice Bolt spell that would turn into water, and as the piece de resistance, he retrieved a hoverboard and displayed it prominently beside his table.
