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Chapter 229
🕑 Added 2024-09-18 02:00:03 +0000 UTCAnton knew that crossing the ocean was just his desire to explore the world and not just to escape the Undead Coalition. He knew that there was a chance that they would encounter an equal or even greater danger in the lands across the ocean and if he was alone, he wouldn’t hesitate to go ahead and continue without stopping.
Anton’s plans were all tentative anyway so he didn’t focus on them too much. The cities that they would arrive in would inform them of what their final decision would be. The only that made him happy was because of his power, even though they were on the run, they were healthy and well-fed. They had things that made their travel extremely comfortable and he even overheard Frederick telling Colin that he didn’t mind their journey since he was truly enjoying the adventure since there was hardly any hardship.
The next day, they left Numan town early which surprised the innkeeper since Anders mentioned that they would be staying for three days but Anton’s father just made some excuses about receiving some news that made them need to leave the town immediately.
According to Lucas, their next stop would be a village which was three days away from Numan Town. During the travel to that village, every night, they watched one to two episodes of the TV series that they were currently watching which was Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
Anders decided though that if there were somebody with them in their chosen camp, they would avoid watching the show to avoid spreading their actual location to anyone who might be interested.
Anton felt like they were fugitives on the run even though they were just like any of the regular citizens of Zalnothel who chose to flee Zalnothel cowardly instead of helping the city defend itself. Admittedly, their action was indeed cowardly and the only excuse that Anton could give to pacify himself was they were not truly citizens of Zalnothel yet since they only spent several weeks in the city.
He thought at first that he would treat the city of Zalnothel as his home and that he would try his best to defend the city from the undead with all his power since he thought that he was powerful enough but the Archmage Voduria gave him hints that it would be best for him and his family to run so he would have the time to grow into his power.
To the delight of Anna and the others, there were no other travelers who joined them in the camp chosen by Devon and Anton had an inkling that Lucas’s son chose those sites that were out of the way of regular travelers.
Their nights were restful since they were guarded by Anton’s summons and not only that, their tents and beddings were comfortable since they chose to purchase those that were extremely comfortable regardless of how inconvenient it was to bring them on journeys since those bulky things were stored in their spatial items anyway.
Not only that, everything they have was almost always clean since Anton kept using his Cleaning spells to clean everything. Not only that, anything that broke or torn was immediately repaired by Anton as well so all of their possession looked new.
Anna and Frederick even said that once they were in the city, they would also purchase the Cleaning spell since it was truly a convenient spell.
All of them also didn’t experience any suffering associated with extended journeys since Anton’s auras and his mana water made sure that everyone was healthy.
During those three days of travel before reaching the next village, Anton also leveled up his druid to level 54 and he completed Act I of Hell Difficulty. He might have to start grinding for items since he was beginning to experience difficulty in proceeding with his summoning druid but grinding for items would be easier for him since he could do it using the on-screen option and didn’t have to actually enter the world of Sanctuary personally.
Before reaching the next village, Anton also successfully completed the golden tablet of Dire Wolf summoning. On the night before they reached the next village, Anton presented the three golden tablets to his Father, Lucas, and Devon.
“These tablets would allow you to summon your own Dire Wolves and this is a one-time use enchanted item. As I’ve mentioned before, the Dire Wolves from the tablets would only be 30 percent as powerful as my Dire Wolves and their size would be smaller. Once you’ve summoned the Dire Wolf from the tablet, the summon is permanent but they would be basically magical creatures beholden to you but they will need to be taken care of like regular animals. The moment they receive a fatal injury, they would die and I haven’t tested yet if the one that was killed will be the same if you summoned a new one using a tablet but I’m guessing there’s a high chance that it would be the same one. Their intelligence should be the same as my Dire Wolves so that’s a comfort. So do you want them or do you want to continue using my summons?”
Devon only needed to think for a few seconds before replying.
“I want them. Even though they’re much less powerful and a bit smaller, at least the wolf will be my own. They can travel with me even though I’m separated from you as you’ve mentioned. Your Dire Wolf is truly powerful but there’s still a wall between me and the wolf and that’s the knowledge that he’s not truly mine.”
Anton shrugged and gave the tablet to Devon. Lucas’s son immediately used the tablet by turning on the switch and the tablet disappeared and coalesced into a dire wolf that was a tad smaller than Anton’s summons. It was still big enough to be ridden though.
Devon transferred the saddle that he was using from Anton’s Dire Wolf to his new one. Everyone could see that the dire wolf was not as fast and not as silent but there was still a delight in Devon’s eyes and more than likely, it was the knowledge that the wolf was his and not somebody else’s summons.
Upon seeing the happiness on Devon’s face, Lucas and Anders also asked for the remaining two tablets and they both summoned their dire wolves. Once the wolves manifested, Anton dispelled his Dire Wolves so they wouldn’t be present for comparison.
Lucas and Anton’s father did the same thing as Devon and rode their dire wolves to scout the surrounding area. In the meantime, everyone else busied themselves in preparing their camp for the night of rest.
Ramona, Belinda, and Lunelle were in charge of cooking with Anna helping them, Nemina was taking inventory of their items while Frederick and Colin were doing any lifting that needed to be done.
Anton prepared the white blanket that they would use to watch the TV show. But after a while, Frederick and Colin approached him.
“Anton, can we have our own dire wolves as well?” Frederick asked.
“Of course, it was just that I only completed three of them. Once I make more, I’ll give one to each of you.”
“What about us? When are you going to give us our tiny Ravens and tiny Spirit Wolves?” Anna suddenly asked.
“I just completed the Dire Wolves summoning. It’ll be a while for those.”
After a few minutes, Devon, Lucas, and Anders returned carrying game animals and Devon reported that even though his Dire Wolf was weaker, it was powerful enough and would soon get used to the changes.
