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Chapter 278
🕑 Added 2024-11-06 02:00:02 +0000 UTCThat day, Anton was grateful that nobody disturbed him. He even ate some of the cooked food stored in his inventory. His family and friends didn’t even disturb him about the Kraken tentacle meat that they were supposed to have for lunch, and he was guessing that even though the sea monster’s meat was truly delicious, everyone was probably busy with something else.
Because of that, he managed to concentrate on leveling up his necromancer. Even though he planned to focus on farming gear, when he researched the best-in-slot items for a summoning necromancer in Diablo II, he found out that his level was a bit low. Hence, he decided to concentrate on leveling up until he was in the upper eighties where he could wear all the best-in-slot gears.
Anton kept on farming levels for five hours and only took a few minutes for lunch. He did level up to seventy-six and knew that it would probably take a couple of days before he reached the ideal level to truly start gear farming.
To avoid burning out and getting bored, after five hours, Anton decided to practice his spells to make sure that he was familiar with the mana structure of the spells wielded by necromancers. Not only that, he also tried to learn how to manipulate the mana flow of some of the necro spells.
He only stopped and exited his system when it was about three in the afternoon and practiced his guitar and voice for an hour. The only thing that he did not do that day was to create enchanted items but that was because he needed some more inspiration on what items he should create next.
Since they were in the middle of the ocean, Anton thought of items that could save their lives aside from the floating hoverboard. He also thought that creative offensive and defensive items would also be needed but he wasn’t truly worried that he would lack the inspiration since if he focused on it, the internet was there and the netizens would surely find a way to inspire him through reading web novel and Diablo II players forums.
At around four in the afternoon, Anton exited his room and was surprised to see that everyone was there.
“I thought that you would all be roaming until dinner,” Anton commented to everyone.
“Some of us were doing the roaming thing but some needed to concentrate on business,” Anders told his son.
“We wanted to rest before dinner,” Anna said.
Anton was surprised that Antonia, Lucia, Walter, and Phillip were still there. He thought that they would be bored with his family by then so he directly asked them.
“We’re interested in the results of the movie recording and your father, his secretary, and Ms. Nemina were testing them,” Antonia said.
“To be honest with you, we’re also interested in watching the television show as well so we have a proposal for you and your father. Allow us to rearrange your suite so that you can have a mini cinema in the corner that you’re using to watch the shows so that we can all sit more comfortably. It wouldn’t take a long time. Then allow us to arrange for someone to deliver the food that was supposed to be delivered to your table in the dining hall here so we can watch the shows while you’re eating,” Phillip suggested.
“That meant that you don’t need to take your time to prepare and just be comfortable here in your suite while eating the dinner provided by the ship,” Walter added.
Anton just shrugged and looked at his father, throwing the responsibility towards Anders.
“That’s a good idea. We can attend the dining hall if we get tired of staying here anyway right?” Anders asked.
“Of course. You can always switch back and forth anytime you want,” Lucia answered.
The moment Anders gave his approval, Phillip hurriedly went outside and called Harun who was always hovering nearby. After a few minutes, Harun and a few people returned bringing some very comfortable chairs with them. They then started attaching the chairs to the section in the suite that they were using as the mini cinema.
While Harun and the other men were busy, Anton asked his father about the quality of the movie using a recording magical item.
“There is a decrease in the quality of the pictures and sound but I’m sure that it would only be noticeable to the people who were used to watching movies using your spell. I’m sure that all the other people including the ones in the dining hall that have seen them before wouldn’t notice the drop,” Anders answered Anton’s question.
“When are you going to start the cinema and have you finalized the ticket prices?”
It was Nimena who answered Anton’s questions.
“Your friends are still doing market research, especially the capability of the poorer passengers to pay for the cost of the tickets. They made a point that the prices should be low enough so that every single one of the passengers can afford to watch a new movie that will be shown every two weeks at least once since that will be the best advertisement that we can do. Once we’re in New Drennor, the passengers will be the best ones who will spread the knowledge about the movies through word of mouth. They are also making some flyers and posters that will show a brief synopsis of the movies we will show, so probably the cinema will start three days from today.”
Soon, Harun and the other workers were done nailing the chairs that were facing the wall where they would hang the white blanket that would work as the projector’s screen. The furniture needed to be permanently fixed in place to avoid accidents during the times when the waves were strong enough to move things around.
Anton commented once to his four new friends from New Drennor about being glad that he wasn’t experiencing any seasickness but according to Antonia, they were still fairly near the continent of Rendindura since it had only been a few days. She said that Anton would know for sure once they were in the middle of the ocean which would be at most a month in their travel and not only that, the experience would be different during a storm.
Lucia added that Anton should prepare for the worst since according to her those who experience ocean travel for the first time did experience a bout of seasickness without any exception.
Anton was hoping that his three auras from his paladin mercenary, the Insight Runeword Weapon that his mercenary equipped, and the Vigor aura that came from the runeword bow that he had in his alternate weapon slot would be enough to offset any form of seasickness but, to be honest, he wasn’t truly worried since if his auras did not work, Anton still had the Telekinesis spell that would let him fly in place to avoid the ship’s movement and the hoverboard enchanted items.
Harun and his team of workers said their goodbyes and because the mini-cinema was ready, Phillip persuaded everyone that they could start watching the television shows and that Phillip would handle everyone’s dinner.
Anders agreed so after Colin hung the white blanket, Anton cast his globe of browser-sharing and they started watching the first of the television show they planned to watch that night which was an episode of Star Trek. After that, they would eat their dinner and then proceed to watch the next one which was an episode of Hercules and then an episode of Xena.
