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Chapter 223
🕑 Added 2024-09-12 02:00:04 +0000 UTCAnton and his family and friends continued their journey the next day. Devon was particularly active in roaming around since he enjoyed riding the Dire Wolf due to how fast it was. Devon said that it felt like he was flying when he moved about with the wolf and Anton could see that Lucas’s son was becoming truly besotted with the dire wolf.
Anton thought that maybe he should warn the man that the wolf was still his summon and tied to him but he just left Devon be. He wondered if he could craft an item that would allow one to summon their own animals from the druid skill tree. He decided to try it out later.
There were two Spirit Wolves that were running beside their carriages. One of the Spirit Wolf was the one Anton assigned to Frederick and the other was the one he assigned to Colin.
The presence of the wolves alarmed the travelers they encountered on the road and Lucas had to spend several minutes each time explaining that the wolves were tamed by their mage.
They stopped briefly during lunchtime to eat and Anton took the time to give everyone mana water including the animals. He also took the time to heal everyone using his three auras and the horses seemed like they truly appreciated that gesture since they were particularly close to him.
Anton was amused to see that everyone was especially enamored with the animal summons that he assigned them and even Anna kept braiding things on her Raven. Soon Anna’s raven was full of ribbons and the Raven just accepted it.
“Isn’t Star looked pretty?” Anna asked everyone. Apparently, she named her Raven, “Star”.
“You shouldn’t do that to your Raven. It can hardly fly now,” Anders told his daughter.
Anna pouted but did remove the ribbons she tied to her Raven. One good thing that Anton could say about the summons was that they were very clean since they were not true animals.
During their travel, the summoned animals also answered their question about them needing to eat since they saw them eating one of the animals they hunted. Thinking about it, it was logical that to exist, they would need energy since if they didn’t eat, they would only consume Anton’s energy.
After they ate though, Anton assumed that they would almost become true animals and that meant that after a while, they would stink so they everyone would probably need to learn how to groom the animals assigned to them.
Anton could have commanded the summons not to eat and then they would just use his mana to exist and because of his Insight Runeword weapon, the mana that would be drained from him was negligible, but then again he thought that it would be better for the animals to be self-sufficient.
When they left the city of Zalnothel, Anton only entered his Diablo II game system a few minutes each time since he wanted to remain vigilant while they were close to the city which was currently being besieged by the Undead Coalition.
He couldn’t help but think of the possibility that if he committed to playing his Diablo II game during their travel while they were near the city, some powerful undead would suddenly attack and he would be surprised since he wasn’t vigilant enough so he decided that he would only truly entered the game to play once they were far enough away.
The good thing about the Dire Wolves being extremely fast and truly ferocious was that nothing in the forest would confront the three men who were riding the wolves. They could roam the forest with impunity. With Anton being there, they weren’t even afraid of venomous animals and insects since he could heal those without any issues.
Devon not only hunted game animals that they could eat, but he also started bringing wild vegetables, herbs, berries, and fruits, and when Lucas and Anders saw that, they also did the same thing. Anders was particularly glad that their storage items would allow them to store a lot of things without worrying that the food would spoil.
When night arrived, they would camp somewhere where it was convenient and to be honest, any clear space would be convenient enough since they had enchanted items that could produce water and they had enough food. The inside of their tent would also have a comfortable temperature due to Anton’s enchanted items.
That night everyone took a bath using Anton’s mana water since it’s an opportunity for everyone to be able to bathe using the magic water while they travel due to Anton’s presence and it was simple enough for Anton to produce a huge amount of mana water for everyone.
Anton’s cleaning spell also made cleaning everything a lot easier so everyone’s things were cleaned regularly. Even the carriage and the horses were cleaned once in a while. The twins were glad that they didn’t have to wash clothes.
To be honest, their journey was comfortable. They had plenty of food and water, their beds were soft since they could be stored in storage items once they needed to clean up, they could take a bath with magic water anytime they wanted to and they received regular magic healing and stamina boost from Anton.
When they reached a village, they only stopped for a few hours so Anders and Nemina could purchase essentials from the villagers like salt, spices, and grains but of course, they didn’t stop purchasing broken items from the villagers as well.
Anton also repaired the items immediately since he didn’t want the items to accumulate that it would become extremely tedious to repair them once there was a huge amount of them so every time they stopped in a village and purchased things, he would repair them immediately when they stopped to camp, and then Anders and Nemina would store them.
After a week of traveling, Anders announced that they managed to collect a fairly large number of items they could sell in the next city. That was also the time that Anton decided that he would go back to entering the world of Sanctuary either to level up his druid character or to continue his research in enchantment since he reckoned that they were far enough away from the city of Zalnothel that it should be fairly safe.
The only enemies they encountered were the regular monsters like goblins, kobolds, and such, and Devon, Lucas, and Anders only did so while they roaming inside the forest and none were on the road.
Lucas also informed everyone that they would reach the city of Greton in a week. Anders also said that they would stay in the city for just a couple of days of rest then they would continue since they wanted to truly get far enough away before establishing themselves. Frederick joked that they might have to cross the ocean to do that and Anders didn’t deny that possibility.
That comment of Frederick sparked a sense of adventure in Anton but he didn’t show it. He imagined traveling the seas journeying to another country like One Piece or Pirates of the Caribbean or all of those movies that consisted of a journey through the ocean. He wondered what kind of wonderful things he would be able to see and experience in that travel.
Maybe they could go to the East to the equivalent of China or Japan and experience the Ninja life or the Chinese empire if the East were where they were located or maybe they could go to the West and experience the life of magical cowboys or something like that. The possibilities were endless.
