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Chapter 255
🕑 Added 2024-10-14 02:00:05 +0000 UTCAnton waited several hours and even went outside Captain Robertson’s office to wait for everyone.
Everyone arrived at around eleven in the morning. Anton saw them leading the two dire wolves, the two spirit wolves, and the two horses, Maide, and Bailey. They weren’t carrying anything heavy just personal bags since some of them had their own spatial items.
Anton saw everyone’s expressions were complicated and he could perfectly understand since he was feeling the same way. He was feeling a combination of fear, worry, sadness, and excitement. Fear of the Undead Coalition since they were truly fast in terms of fulfilling their plans to conquer the continent of Rendindura. Worried about their future since it was unknown. Sadness that they were leaving the place that they had lived all their lives and excitement of going to a new place.
Anton met up with everyone and told them to follow him since Captain Robertson had already given him instructions on where they would head next once his family arrived.
“Did you encounter any difficulties?” Anton asked the group.
“No. We manage to sell everything that we can’t carry. Those who bought our carriages are very happy since they looked very clean and new and since we are in a hurry, the buyers thought they had gotten the carriages at an extremely low price but they didn’t know that the price was exactly the same as when we purchased it,” Frederick laughingly said, trying to lighten up the mood.
“I’m said that I will not be able to see Lina and Lisa ever again,” Anna said referring to the merchant’s daughters that she befriended.
Anton didn’t know how to console his sister so he just patted her shoulders. To his surprise, Anna suddenly hugged Anton then started bawling.
Everyone looked at the scene with sadness in their eyes. They knew exactly how Anna felt. They were abandoning their home with tails between their legs. Everyone knew that their actions were cowardly but the Undead Coalition conquered every city they turned their gaze on.
They also heard that the citizens of the cities that were conquered that didn’t manage to escape either became undead, food, or slaves by the monsters of the Undead Coalition.
Anton remembered back then that he foolishly thought that he would contend with the Undead Coalition by joining an organization against them once they reached a city since he thought that he was powerful enough but had learned since then that if had truly done that, he wouldn’t have survived.
Even the Supreme Mages of the powerful cities had to escape them much less him who was only an archmage. Anton even felt like he was a fake archmage since what he had was pure brute force, not learned magic.
“Don’t worry, Anna. We’ll watch a movie later. I have several movies wherein huge monsters attacked ships in the oceans until the ships had sunk and everyone on board had died,” Anton told his sister then he laughed.
When everyone heard Anton’s first half of the sentence, they gaped at him and then they heard him laugh, they realized that just like Frederick, Anton was just trying to lighten up the mood and for some reason, the extremely bad joke made everyone laugh uproariously, even Anna who still had tear streaks on her face.
They arrived at a booth that had been constructed just below the stairs that headed up the ship. When the person in the booth saw their tickets, the man called a group of men to guide them. Anton was amused to see the ship's personnel wearing a sailor’s uniform.
Anna noticed him smiling and asked him what was so funny. Anton, sensitive to the fact that everyone’s emotion was still raw, tried to behave kindly to everyone so he answered his sister’s inquiry.
He informed his sister that the uniform of the sailor was considered a costume in some of the movies that he had seen. Then he heard Anna gasp so he looked at his sister to check what caused her to gasp.
“Are you telling me that you’ve been watching movies behind our back?” Anna shouted.
“Sssh, not so loud. When I close my eyes to meditate, half the time, I’m just watching a movie or a television show.”
“You can watch and hear the shows without us hearing them?!”
“It’s my magic, of course, I can do something like that. Even before I received the spell that allowed me to share my movies and shows from other worlds with other people, I could already access them.”
Anton saw that everyone stopped walking and was gaping at him. This was the second time the group gaped at Anton.
“Are you telling us that the movies and shows came from another world?!” Frederick whispered.
Anton rolled his eyes.
“Where do you think they came from? Are you not wondering why you can understand the language of the shows? It’s because of my magic.”
“Okay, enough of that. We can talk once we’re in our suite,” Anders told everyone.
The men who were guiding them of course stopped as well and were waiting for them. The sailors were extremely respectful to them since they were considered highly valued passengers. Three of the men led the animals together with Devon and Colin since the handlers were still not very sure of the wolves. They also wanted to make sure that the stables were comfortable enough for the wolves and the two horses.
Anton decided to follow Devon so he could pacify the animals by healing them and providing them with mana water.
Admittedly, Anton got lost. He didn’t know which floor he was on since he was just following the sailors but they arrived at a very large room that was full of animals. They arrived at a room where Herbivores are stabled and Maide and Bailey were stabled there. Anton added the two horses to his party system and activated all of his auras without the special effect. Then he filled their trough with mana water. The healing session calmed the horses and after they drank the mana water, they became extremely affectionate toward Anton then Maide and Bailey began resting.
Anton was surprised to see that there was a mini horse track in the huge room and one of the sailors told him that part of the service was to exercise the animals. He was surprised and grateful when the sailor said that so he gave each one of them a gold coin.
Then they went to another huge room but this one was so full of carnivores that it looked like a zoo. One thing Anton, Devon, and Colin noticed was all of the animals were extremely well-behaved just like the dire wolves and the spirit wolves and the sailors told them that all of the ferocious animals were mages’ familiars. Now Anton understood why Captain Robertson didn’t complain when they said that they had animals since it seemed like having familiars on board the ship was common enough.
Anton did the same thing with the wolves as he did with horses. He added them to his party system and activated his auras and mana water but they didn’t become affectionate towards him since their loyalty belonged to the one who summoned them. Regarding the food that the animals would consume, apparently the food for the herbivores like the horses was included on the payment they made as passengers but for carnivore familiars, their food was supposed to be provided by their owner.
They weren’t worried since they did manage to collect tons of meat while they were traveling and not only that, the ships sold meat and fish that they could purchase to feed the wolves although they had an inkling that those would be extremely costly.
