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Chapter 254
🕑 Added 2024-10-13 02:00:03 +0000 UTCThe next day after breakfast, Anton and his father went to the docks to inquire about purchasing the tickets to the Gale Continent. It was very early around seven in the morning but Anton was persistent so Anders just agreed and they left for the docks.
While they were walking, Anders informed his son when Anton asked if they had any information about why the language of the Gale Continent was mostly the same as the language from Rendindura and his father told him that it was because the citizens of the first kingdom that was established in the continent aside from the tribal natives, were from Rendindura.
Because of the somewhat similar background to Earth, Anton suddenly wondered if this planet were a parallel dimension instead of another world but it would probably be a while before he would have the knowledge to truly know.
When Anton and Anders arrived at the dock, both of them were flabbergasted at the sight of the ships. Anton expected their size to be just like regular ships that he had seen in the movies like Pirates of the Caribbean and that was one of the reasons why he was a bit apprehensive at the long journey they would have in the middle of the ocean but the ships in the docks were tremendously huge.
They were as large as the cruise ships that could be found on Earth and Anton was sure that they were made using magic since with the level of technology that this world had, it was impossible for structures like those ships to exist without magic.
Another thing they were surprised about was how chaotic the docks were and the activities worried Anton a bit.
When they tried to stop anyone to inquire who to talk to to purchase tickets, everyone was ignoring them so the father and son were forced to approach one of the ships.
The guards guarding the ships that they approached stopped them and when Anders inquired if it was the ship that was headed to the Gale Continent, the guard pointed at one of the huge ships that was docked in the middle of the three ships.
Everywhere Anton and Anders looked, the people were extremely busy. Mostly they could see them carrying things to bring them into the ships.
When they went to the ship that was supposed to be the one going to the Gale continent, they were again stopped by a guard but when Anders told the man that they were interested in purchasing tickets to the Gale Continent, one of the guards led them to a building nearby.
Anton was surprised to learn that the one they would need to talk to was the actual captain of the ships. The guard then led them to an office and they saw the captain who was a huge man.
“Good morning captain. My name is Anders and this is my son Anton. We’re interested in purchasing tickets to your ships. We want to immigrate to the Gale Continent,” Anders told the captain.
“Good morning. I’m Captain Robertson. You’re lucky that you came this early. We were about to leave. As a matter of fact, all the ships here would probably go before noon.”
Anton and his father were stunned by what the captain had said. At first, Anton was wondering why the captain was talking about the ticket purchase since from what he had read from some novels, this type of transaction was handled by the lower officers, especially for a large ship as the captain was handling.
Then suddenly the captain mentioned that all the ships were leaving.
“May I ask what happened?” Anders asked the captain.
“Homura is now besieged by an army of the undead and we heard that there was sighting of an army from the Undead Coalition heading to this city. It’s a pity. We have been traveling to this continent yearly ever since I was young but I reckoned that we will not be returning to this place for some time.”
Anton and Anders looked at each other for a minute then Anders turned to the captain.
“How much for a ticket to the Gale Continent?”
“Normally, it would only cost a person 500 gold coins each but since this would be the last time we would be earning gold coins from passengers from this continent, it’s now 1500 gold coins,” The captain said.
“That’s ridiculous! That’s three times the price!” Anton’s father exclaimed.
“I know but that’s just how it is,” Captain Robertson firmly said.
Anders was about to agree when Anton whispered to his father to not forget about the two Dire Wolves and two Spirit Wolves and Maide and Bailey then he also told his father to inquire about some sort of suite.
Anders then began negotiating with Captain Robertson starting with inquiring if there was a suite available on the ship. Unsurprisingly, there was since the ship was astonishingly huge. There was a six-room up to a ten-room suite on the ships. Each room in the suite could house two people each and the prices start from forty thousand gold coins up to eighty thousand gold coins but the captain admitted that the prices increased was three times the normal.
Anders agreed to rent the seven-room suite for sixty thousand gold coins and that would include the two dire wolves and two spirit wolves summoned from the golden tablet and the two horses, Maide, and Bailey, that had been with Anton and his family ever since the beginning.
Anton asked the captain if the ship was fully equipped to feed his animals and he said that he was not the only customer who had animals on board with them. Anton also informed Captain Robertson, which surprised his father since he usually didn’t divulge his status as a wizard, that he was an archmage and could assist in the defense of the ship.
Captain Robertson said that they didn’t need customers to defend the ships and that they had mages of their own so unfortunately, no discount for them.
Anders then paid forty thousand gold coins as a deposit and the rest would be paid when they reached the Gale continent. Captain Robertson provided them contract regarding the purchase of the tickets and the tickets themselves then Anders told Anton to stay in the docks and his father would get everyone.
Anders told Anton the night before their total gold coins so the sixty thousand gold coins were just a tenth of the gold coins that they had accumulated.
Anton acquiesced since he actually didn’t have any belongings in his room since everything was in his inventory and private stash. The captain also agreed for Anton to stay at his office since Captain Robertson would remain there for an hour or so to sign some documents.
Anders left immediately riding his dire wolf to go to the inn where they were staying while Anton summoned his Ravens for them to look for everyone and summoned them back to the inn so they would be there when Anders arrived.
While Anton was waiting, he saw the captain was very busy with some sort of office work and he could not help but interrupt the man.
“Captain, may I ask why you were the one selling the tickets? I assume that this type of business was handled by your lower officers.” Anton asked.
“Most are but for special passengers like yourselves who pay top coins, I usually handle those. Please don’t interrupt me again for now, I’m busy since after I signed these documents, I will need to inspect the work of my officers,” The captain reprimanded Anton.
He was embarrassed by the reprimand since it had been a long time since somebody did that to him. He always received respect wherever he went because of his status as an archmage and only Anna and his father treated him as a teenager.
