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Chapter 271
🕑 Added 2024-10-30 02:00:04 +0000 UTCAnton woke up the next day wanting to join his family for breakfast since there was a chance that he would not be able to see them until dinner. He planned to start his goal of spending eight hours a day focused on his Diablo II system leveling up, hunting for gear, practicing his spells, and practicing his item enchanting, and then after that, he would explore the Amelia.
His goal was to achieve a balanced work life that would prevent him from being anxious about not leveling up enough or not enjoying his life enough. Anton also thought about finding a girlfriend but since he was young, his body was only seventeen, meeting a girlfriend was not a priority and he was not interested in girls within his body’s age group. That meant that he would have to wait a few years before turning his focus on relationships. At least he had the “action” movies that would comfort him at night, anime or otherwise.
Anders would not even let him go with Devon and Frederick to visit the ladies of the night so that meant he could only focus on increasing his power and helping his family make a lot of gold coins. One good thing about the people in this world spending their time in the company of working ladies was they were not afraid of sexually transmitted diseases since with coins, they could pay a priest or a mage for healing spells that could cure them of any ailments.
When he went outside his room, Anton was actually expecting that not all of his family would attend the breakfast buffet in the dining hall since all of them rested late at night due to the movie that was shown last night but surprisingly all of them were awake already and was preparing to go to the dining hall. He guessed that the breakfast buffet’s draw was bigger than he expected.
“I thought you’d sleep in today since we rested late last night,” Anton said to his sister.
“I was planning to do that but when I think about the breakfast omelets and sausages, it woke me up,” Anna replied to Anton, and he could see his sister almost drooling about the breakfast menu, and based on the others’ reactions, they were thinking the same thing as Anna.
They all went to the dining hall and when they returned to their suite after breakfast, each one of them began their day by doing what they planned to do that day. Anton up the sign that he already prepared at his door that said that he would only be available at around three in the afternoon but that he could still be disturbed if it was an emergency.
Anton entered the world of Diablo II and started the process of leveling up his necromancer character to the maximum level. Up until then, his family didn’t know that he could summon undead creatures and he might never share that information since the hatred that the undead garnered from the citizens of Rendindura which he shared was truly massive. It was inevitable since the Undead Coalition destroyed their cities and tore and killed families from the continent.
Even right then, Anton felt averse whenever he looked at his undead summons even though he knew that the necromancer character summons was different from the Undead Coalition’s.
While Anton was busy leveling up, he heard somebody knocking on his door. He felt a little irritated but he did portal back into town and exited the game. When he opened his bedroom door, he saw that it was Devon who was knocking.
“What are you doing here? Why are you not out?”
“You’re father told us that starting today, there should be people here in the suite who can receive messages from visitors, and before everyone left, a schedule was created. Even your sister wasn’t spared but it shouldn’t bother us much since it was only a few hours a day based on the scheduling. Some foppish men and rich-looking women are looking for you. I told them you’re busy doing “wizardly” things but they insisted,” Devon said.
Anton laughed when he heard Devon’s comment about Phillip, Walter, Antonia, and Lucia. They went to the living room in the suite where the guys were waiting.
“Devon, you can go out and I’ll take over your shift since we’re going to stay here anyway to talk,” Anton told Devon and the man smiled and left immediately.
“What do you mean you’ll take over his shift?’ Walter asked when Devon left and Anton joined them by sitting in one of the sofa chairs.
“My father told everyone that there should be a person waiting here in the suite to receive messages from quests,” Anton answered.
“Why don’t you hire a person to do that? It will only take you a few coins,” Phillip said and Anton knew that everyone would favor that idea so he planned to suggest that later.
“So, what can I help with guys?” Anton asked the group.
“What was that last night?! It was the most beautiful show I have ever seen in my life. I have never cried so hard even when my great aunt died who took care of me,” Antonia said.
“I cried as well and I’m known in our circles as the man with the heart of stone. Especially during the scene when the captain of the Titanic sank with the ship. I took a glance at Captain Robertson’s table and I saw him tearing up as well during that scene,” Phillip added.
“One of the scenes that I cried so much for was when the music band kept playing amidst the chaos,” Walter continued.
“I cried on all of the tragic scenes but I remember the scene where a mother kept telling bedtime stories to her children while the ship was sinking. I miss my nana so much. She died a few years ago but I remember she loved telling me made-up stories,” Lucia said.
“I want to see it again! Are there any plans of letting us see that show again?” Antonia asked.
“Where did it come from and how was it made? During the first few minutes of that show, it let us see some machinery that I don’t recognize, and based on the context, it was from the future?” Walter asked.
“My magic is a bloodline magic and whenever I achieve a level in my power, it presents me a spell that I can use and one of them is the spell that allowed me to open a window to other worlds but the show that you’ve seen, which is called a “movie”, is not the actual lives of people but a play that was made by actors. In those worlds, they have magic and machinery that let them record those actors doing their plays that were based on a script. They can do the scenes over and over again so in case there are any mistakes or something needs to be redone, they can re-shoot the scenes. They’re calling those machines that let them record scenes a camera.”
“It looked so real though,” Phillip commented.
“I don’t know the details but I’ve seen some videos of the behind-the-scenes of how the movies were made that showed me that those sceneries were some sort of illusion magic combined with advanced technological techniques and the scenes were a combination of an actual set that was constructed and there, the actors would shoot the scenes then some more special effects like the ship hitting the iceberg and the ship sinking would be added in what they call a post-edit. It was all so technical and magical and based on what I’ve heard, every movie would cost the filmmakers a massive amount of coins to make but the returns are humongous as well, and based on what I’ve seen so far, the filmmakers, directors, and actors enjoyed the most fame and wealth in those worlds.”
