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Chapter 224
🕑 Added 2024-09-13 02:00:02 +0000 UTCAfter a week of travel, Anton and his family and friends arrived in the city of Greton. The city was smaller than Zalnothel but it still boasted huge walls. Although Greton’s walls were impressive they were nowhere near as impressive as the walls of Zalnothel and Anton could see that everyone realized that the city, when attacked by the Undead Coalition, wouldn’t fare any better than the previous cities before Zalnothel.
During the week that they were traveling, Anton spent a huge amount of time repairing all the things that everyone purchased from the towns and villages that they passed through. They managed to collect a lot of weapons, armor, pieces of jewelry, and other knick-knacks that could be valuable but curiously Nemina avoided purchasing clothes.
“Cities are beholden to fashion so clothing, even though it looked good and brand new wouldn’t sell if they don’t conform to the current fashion,” Nemina said and Anton laughed at that since it was the same on Earth.
Anton also spent the majority of the time leveling up his druid character and studying the mana structure and mana pathway of his druid’s summoning spells. He wondered why he took it upon himself that it was a good idea to switch to an elemental druid. He realized that having more spell varieties would ultimately help him since the mana structure and pathways of the summoning spells were extremely different to elemental spells and the variety would allow him to master enchantment more compared to studying the druid’s elemental spells which had similarities with the sorceress spells.
His druid character completed Act II of the Nightmare Difficulty and leveled up to level 42. Anton could feel himself becoming very powerful in real life because of that. That week, he didn’t truly focus on just leveling up but spent several hours studying the minute details of the mana structure and mana pathway of his summoning spells. He focused on the Dire Wolf spell since he saw his father, Lucas, and Devon getting attached to the Dire Wolves and he wanted them to truly have their own.
After several days of studies, when he thought that he was familiar enough with the mana structure and the mana pathway of the Summon Dire Wolf Spell, he began the process of enchanting it into a wooden board. Anton needed to etch the mana structure on a larger piece of wood since the mana structure of the Summoned Dire Wolf was extremely complex and he needed a larger surface area.
Unfortunately, wood could not contain the mana structure of the spell since halfway through engraving the mana structure, the tablet made from wood exploded. Anton wasn’t hurt since his defenses were high enough but that meant that he would need to choose another material and take extreme care while engraving the mana structure and should stop the moment he felt that there was a sign of instability to avoid the materials exploding.
Anton tried again using a steel tablet. He was able to complete the mana structure of the spell but when he etched the mana pathway and structure for the mana storage, he could feel the instability of the steel tablet and knew that if he continued, the tablet would explode as well.
That stopped him from further testing out the enchantment. He decided to continue using silver or gold but he would do that after they sold the accumulated items that he repaired in the city of Greton. He was embarrassed to ask for materials from his father since silver and gold were expensive.
Anton wondered what other materials he could choose for his enchantments. When they entered the city, they chose to stay lowkey and stayed at a nondescript inn so Anton dismissed all of the summons except for two Dire Wolves to act as their guards and the Ravens to act as their scouts for danger and guards as well.
Anders needed to register the wolves with the guards in the gate and it took them a lot of time but at least it was affordable enough that it didn’t bother them too much.
Anders was resolute in his decision to only stay in the city for just three days so the moment they rented the rooms, Anders, Nemina, Lucas, and Devon began the process of selling their items to different merchants. Anders and Nemina discussed that they should purchase broken or worn-out items from the city since doing so would take them a lot of time and they only have time to sell.
Lunelle, Frederick, Ramona, and Belinda, followed by one of the Dire Wolves as their guard were the ones in charge of purchasing things that they would need, and the storage pouches for the High Wizards from the Blood War gang were useful. They planned to purchase soaps, spices, uncooked food that couldn’t be found in the wilderness, grains, and cooked food.
They planned to purchase the things they would need and once their storage pouches were full they would return to the inn and give the items to Anton so he could store them in his inventory then rinse and repeat.
Anton obviously needed to stay in the inn because of that but he was surprised that Anna chose to stay in the inn as well. She began practicing her magic since she said she wanted to become proficient as soon as possible.
When the day ended, they gathered in the common room to eat. Anders announced that they managed to sell a third of the accumulated things they received from the towns and villages and they should be able to complete everything either by tomorrow or the day after.
Lunelle reported that they also managed to purchase a lot of the things they would need during their travel.
Lucas said that he planned to purchase some of the things that they would need as well like the map that contained the towns, villages, and cities to the East.
“Do we need to hire a guide?” Anders asked Lucas.
“No. I think a map would suffice,” Lucas answered.
“Lunelle, can you purchase better mattresses and blankets?” Anton asked and Nemina’s daughter nodded.
After dinner, they went to their rooms to rest and even Anton slept straight away. Even though Anton made sure that everyone was healthy, traveling non-stop did take its toll on them.
The next day, everyone did the same thing. They sold all of those items that needed to be sold and purchased items that needed to be purchased but this time Anna went with Lunelle and the others. After lunch, Lunelle said that she had purchased all the things they would need so they stayed at the inn to rest.
Anton then said that he wanted to explore a bit so stepped outside the inn to explore the city of Greton but his main goal was to earn the coins needed to create the summoning enchanted items.
He was pointed at a bazaar by one of the city people and the merchants were helpful enough to inform him of items in their inventory that would be valuable if it wasn’t damaged or even new. Most of the items that he purchased were still weapons since they were the easiest to sell and some were pieces of pieces of jewelry ranging from a ring to a tiara.
Anton did it for three hours and he earned a whopping five hundred gold coins. He knew that might have gotten some attention from some low-lives of the city but he didn’t care. Then he went to a blacksmith and asked the gold coins to be forged into thin tablets. The blacksmith did it without complaint since he did pay the man a lot of coins. He managed to collect ten tablets made of gold and those would be the materials that he would use to form the summoning enchanted items.
