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Chapter 281
🕑 Added 2024-11-09 02:00:03 +0000 UTCEveryone could conclude that the cinema was a success but no one was expecting otherwise. The quality of the Titanic film was already proven on Earth based on how much it earned. The movie would run for two weeks and for three days a week, and then after that, they would change the film to the next one which was one movie in the list that Anton had given to his father. All of them were movies that were already seen by the family including some of the Disney animations they had watched.
Anton decided that he would only show new movies to his family and friends first before presenting them to their customers since his family and friends’ reactions would determine how the ship’s passengers would react to the films.
When the movie ended, Anders allowed Anton to leave and Antonia, Lucia, Phillip, and Walter went with him. The family had to stay to oversee and manage the cinema but since his new friends from New Drennor were their partners, they provided a few men they trusted to help the family.
The family had to manage the people who would enter the cinema for the next scheduled viewing but before Anton and his friends left, Anders reminded Anton that he would need to record the movies on the two recording magical items as back-ups in case something happened to the item that was being used. That would free him up from having to be in the cinema on a normal business day.
Anton also decided to speak with Captain Robertson and his entourage to pay his respects. The captain kept saying that the movie was truly entertaining but fortunately, the captain seemed aware that most major decisions were being handled by Anders so soon Anton and his new friends were free to leave and the captain, his officers, and the mages talked to Anders.
They went to one of the many cafes in the Amelia but the one they went to seemed to be one of the most exclusive based on the decoration and the quality of the clientele. The window alone covered the one of walls and the whole wall was the window so that meant that the customers could see the ocean.
“Your movies are truly wonderful Anton and the fact that you have thousands upon thousands of them boggles my mind,” Phillip said.
“Based on the glimpses that I’ve seen on the window of reality that my spell brought me, the world that it was opened to was focused on creating entertaining things, not only movies or shows. They also had what they call the internet, which was a network that allowed each one of their people to connect to a worldwide database and that database contained all the knowledge they had gathered in their world. That included all the movies, shows, novels which were fiction or otherwise, poems, historical documents, and more,” Anton paused his explanation since the waiter brought the beverages they ordered.
After a while, Anton continued.
“They use this internet to communicate as well and they use different devices to do so. Some were as large as the screen that we’re using to watch the shows but some were as small as a palm.”
“How did they achieve that?” Phillip asked and Anton saw that each one of his new friends was truly intrigued.
“Based on my research, their world focused on developing their technology instead of magic. This allowed them to create devices that would fly above the sky and circle their planet. They call them satellites and these satellites allow their devices to connect to the worldwide database. It’s highly technical and only the most knowledgeable scholar or sages would be able to understand them. I conferred with one of the scholars in Zalnothel about it and was informed that it wasn’t possible in our world since many beings would destroy any devices, magical or otherwise that could inspect their territories.”
“That’s a pity. I would have liked to have something like the “internet”, even though I don’t truly understand them,” Lucia said.
“They also had a device called computers that allowed them to access the Internet and play computer games and I’ve seen their games. They were highly complex and addictive. Because movies, shows, novels, and games were easily accessible, one of the downsides their planet developed was their youths became so enamored of the internet that they didn’t leave their rooms and spent all their time watching shows and playing games. Admittedly, those only happened to the youths from rich countries since those who were located in the poor ones still had to work to feed themselves.”
“What kind of games could be so complex and addictive?” Walter asked.
“I’ll show some of the infrastructure of the world that my spell poked a window through including the devices and games on the screen where we watch shows in our suite,” Anton said and his four friends smiled.
They paused their talk for a few minutes to savor the delicious beverages that were served while they were hot. After a few minutes, Antonia suddenly said something important.
“We were attacked by pirates last night.”
“What! Why wasn’t there an announcement?” Anton asked.
“The ship wouldn’t bother if the attack were something trivial and it was. The mages handled the attack in just a few minutes,” Phillip added.
Based on what his friend told them, there were no survivors in the pirate fleet that attacked the ship. Anton didn’t feel any pity for them since Phillip shared some of the atrocities that pirates would do to a conquered ship and he knew it as well based on the news report that he had read when he was on Earth about modern pirate attacks.
Not only that, it was incredibly stupid of that pirate group to attack the Amelia since everyone knew that a huge ocean ship like theirs was well defended by powerful mages. Phillip speculated that the attack was probably led by a newbie Pirate leader wanting to establish his prestige but instead led his group to their demise.
After several minutes of contemplation about the foolishness of people, Antonia suddenly asked him something peculiar.
“Anton we wanted to speak with you regarding the method you use to keep your family young. I was shocked when I learned about your father’s and everyone else’s ages. Your sister even boasted that the method allowed the girls in your group to have smooth and fair skin and luxurious hair.”
“When I became a mage, I learned a spell that allowed me to cast Ice Bolts and I studied the spell in detail allowing me to memorize and manipulate the mana structure and the mana pathway of the said spell. This allowed me to control the Ice Bolt spell and manage to control the temperature enough to turn it into water. I also noticed that the water that came from one of my ice spells was charged with magic. I tasted it and it was extremely delicious and refreshing so we decided to drink it exclusively to refresh ourselves and soon we noticed the health benefits that the mana water, that’s what we call the water, gave us. It made my father younger looking and all the scars in our body disappeared. My father’s hair turned black and my sister’s skin turned fair and smooth but the effect wasn’t instantaneous. It would take a few months before the effect was noticeable,” Anton was being candor with his friends since it was something that didn’t need to be kept a secret.
“I also noticed that if I used a much more powerful ice spell, the effect was also maximized,” Anton continued.
