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Chapter 273
🕑 Added 2024-11-01 02:00:03 +0000 UTCAnton together with his new friends from New Drennor talked about a lot of things. They talked about movies and the different genres of films. Anton made sure to whet the appetites of his young friends by describing the glorious films he could show to everyone and as expected, based on everyone’s sparkling eyes, he had truly captured their imagination.
He noticed long before that it was mostly normal people who would truly become addicted to the shows that were presented but the mages, although they would be entertained momentarily, would not lose themselves in the movies. Most of those wizards that he was acquainted with were firmly focused on increasing their magical aptitude.
“Did your family test all of you if you can learn magic?” Anton asked Antonia, Lucia, Phillip, and Walter.
“Of course. It’s expected that all families that have money in the Gale Continent have their children tested for magic capability since mages are still the true backbone of any powerful family but unfortunately, all four of us weren’t capable of learning spells. The ability to wield magic is truly rare,” Antonia said.
“There were even experiments among the rich families to check if magic is tied with bloodlines but the results were inconclusive so the higher-ups concluded that the talent was truly random,” Phillip added.
“Really? My sister can learn magic as well,” Anton said.
“It does happen and our families concluded that if a family were able to produce more than one mage, they were just truly lucky,” Walter commented.
“I’m still of two minds if I’m lucky or unlucky to be unable to wield magic since if a family discovers that a scion has that capability, that child will no longer be a normal part of the family. He or she would no longer inherit any of the businesses and no longer be required to work to earn coins for the family. From the moment they discover that a child can cast spells, the family would make sure that the child would focus on learning them and when I looked at my sister’s life, I don’t know if I’m horrified or envious. It’s like they have no life at all outside of magic,” Lucia said and Anton could see that the others somewhat agreed with her.
“The weird thing was, they were proud to just focus on magic. My cousin told me once when I asked him about it, and he said that why point your gaze at physical things like mundane wealth when you can turn your attention to the secrets of the universe that will allow you to live a life that has the possibility of becoming a god,” Walter said.
“We’re not saying that our relatives who are mages were some sort of ascetic, it’s just that you can’t truly compare them to normal people anymore. Their wants and desires are truly different. They still have hobbies like this cousin of mine who liked to gamble even when were children, when he became a mage, he still liked to gamble but you can feel that it was not his priority anymore,” Phillip said.
Anton contemplated what his four new friends told him about magic and their relatives who became mages. He could completely understand what they were talking about. Right now, he still had access to the internet and that meant that he had access to countless sources of entertainment and with his personality, it was easy for him to become an otaku but because of his ability to learn spells from the Diablo world through his system, he knew that he would still focus on that until he reached the peak of power that his system would be able to give him and he knew in his heart that the moment he reached that peaked, he would switch to another magical system to continue his pursuit of power.
Anton was glad that he was still able to learn the spells of this world since that meant that he was able to continue his magical growth even if his system could not increase his power anymore. Of course, he was not belittling his Diablo II system. He had read countless web novels on the internet and the thing that he learned from there was systems were truly overpowered. That was the reason why he was focusing on his Diablo II system instead of continuing to learn the conventional spells of this world.
“What about you? Are you also like our relative who’s completely focused on increasing your power?” Antonia jokingly asked.
“Actually, I’m the same as them. I like movies but if I’m asked to choose, I will still focus on my magic. It’s just that I care about my family and I want to make sure that we all live comfortable lives and the best way to do that is through the magic that I learned about showing the movies and shows. The good thing is my father and his assistants are capable people so I can leave the business side with them. Unfortunately, my sister is also a mage so she’ll probably focus on magic as well.”
After that deep conversation, they focused on a more lighthearted conversation like different businesses in New Drennor that focused on entertaining people and his new friends admitted that once their family opened a cinema, there wouldn’t be too much competition.
Soon Anton’s father arrived together with Nemina, Lucas, and Colin.
“Father! These are my new friends, Antonia, Lucia, Walter, and Phillip. They’re very rich young people from New Drennor who wanted to talk to you about the movies and the cinemas. Can you speak with them please?” Anton said to his father.
“Of course! We actually were talking about the stage manager of Dining Hall A regarding the movies and we haven’t concluded anything yet,” Anders said.
“Oh, you don’t need to continue talking with him. You can do business with us since I have more authority than him. My uncle owns the Amelia,” Antonia proudly said and Anders was surprised.
Anton just shook his head and told everyone that they should continue talking since he would need to leave to focus on his wizardry. He was glad that everyone was fine with him leaving so he entered his room and then entered his Diablo II system.
He had not earned a level that day yet since during the first few hours, he was practicing his spells outside the Rogue Encampment, figuring out the mana structure and practicing the mana control of the spells of his necromancer character.
After a couple of hours of leveling up his necromancer, Anton reached level sixty-two. He decided that the next time he leveled up his character, he would increase the difficulty by using the player X command. He would choose to increase it to Player Three. He knew that he was being cautious to the point that he was being pussy but he wanted to take it slow. If he found that Player Three's difficulty was still easy, he would then increase the difficulty.
Anton had not died yet in the game since he remembered one of his favorite isekai anime, Log Horizon, wherein when the players died, they lost some of their memories and he didn’t want to find the hard way that there was a condition like that in his system. Honestly, the only way for him to die in his Diablo II system was if he was careless and he didn’t want to enter into the habit of being careless so he was always extremely careful.
He knew that he should have experienced dying once in the game but Anton just didn’t see the need to experience it.
Comments
Joey McGowan
I really hope his first death unlocks another part of his system. Maybe some further form of meta-progression.
