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Chapter 239
🕑 Added 2024-09-28 02:00:03 +0000 UTCWhen the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ended, everyone was still contemplating the show they had seen. Anton was surprised to see Anna and the Twins had tears in their eyes.
“The huge powerful beings were so full of joy and gratefulness that even though their power is like that of a god, they communicated to that beautiful woman who can read feelings, of their joy and gratefulness,” Anna had said while sighing.
“Are those two beings so large that they are larger than the Starship Enterprise that can house possibly hundreds of people?” Frederick asked and Anton simply nodded.
“What is that powerful being in the start? What was his name again? I think it was “Q” or something like that,” Devon asked.
“Q is not a human being. It’s a powerful advance being from the universe probably comparable in power to someone above a Supreme. Please remember guys that this show is not real and just a story from the imagination of the TV show creators,” Anton reminded them and that statement actually startled everyone.
“It would be wonderful to travel the dimensions with that kind of mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and civilization, to boldly go where no one had gone before! That mission statement is truly inspiring!” Lucas said and by the looks of everyone, they agreed with the man.
“That was the main reason I presented that show to everyone. I wanted us to think that our journey was somewhat the same since I didn’t want us to wallow in despair. Our lives are just beginning and we have a lot to look forward to. Yes, we are on the run now but I’m planning for us to cross the ocean and maybe in there, we will see things that would astound us just like the two huge beings that the Star Ship Enterprise encountered.”
“Now I understand why you are suddenly cheerful and full of positive motivation. I’m proud of you because of that and doubly so for sharing that kind of thinking with your family and friends,” Anton’s father told him which made him blush so red that everyone laughed.
“As I’ve said, I planned for us to watch the shows alternately. Tonight we watch Star Trek, tomorrow night, we’ll watch Hercules and Xena,” Anton said.
“Can we watch Star Trek again tomorrow night? We can start alternating after tomorrow night,” Devon requested and by the look on everyone’s faces, they wanted the same thing so Anton agreed.
After that, they rested peacefully in their tents. The next day they left their camp early and continued their travel. The journey to the coastal city of Whaling would take them a couple of months and Anders announced that they would continue their business of buying broken things, repairing and selling them in cities. Everyone didn’t expect otherwise since whatever they decide, they would need a huge amount of coins to make sure that their lives would be comfortable.
“I think that it would also be best that we add your enchanted items to the products that we would be selling,” Anders told Anton and he said to his father that he would start buying art sculptures in the villages and towns that they would pass through and enchant them.
During the next seven days, they pass through two villages and one large town. They manage to collect a lot of broken and worn-out items and surprisingly they even manage to get a hold of an enchanted sword from a very old farmer who was living alone in one of the villages they pass through.
It was actually Anna who noticed the magical energy swirling around the sword and when Anders called Anton, he asked the old farmer to wait a bit who suddenly looked anxious. Lucas had to pacify the old man.
Anton had to pay a lot of gold coins to Charsi to have the sword repaired but what he didn’t lack was the game gold coins. When he checked the stats of the sword, Anton was flabbergasted. The sword was called Bloodborne Sword. Its stats were comparable to a unique sword from his Diablo II game. It said that it had 30 percent enhanced damage and its regular damage alone was twice that of a regular sword. It had a 20 percent chance of Open Wound which was a magic property that would cause an attacked enemy to bleed uncontrollably for the set duration. It had 10 percent life stolen per hit and had a plus three to light radius.
“Father, give the old man fifty gold coins and ask him to leave,” Anton whispered to his father.
The old farmer was shocked when Anders gave him fifty gold coins but fortunately, the old farmer didn’t ask too many questions and left immediately.
“Old man, I advise you not to tell anyone about this transaction,” Lucas told the old farmer before the man left.
“I didn’t grow this old because I’m dumb,” The old farmer said to Lucas which made everyone laugh.
After their transaction was done in that village they all left immediately and when they camped somewhere when night came, Anders asked Anton why they paid the old man so much gold.
Anton retrieved the now glowing sword from his inventory and asked Devon to unsheathed the sword. When the man did, it seemed like the whole area brightened. He then told everyone about the enchantment of the sword and everyone gasped in amazement.
“That is a legendary sword!” Lucas said excitedly.
That was the first time Anton saw the man excited.
“How much do you think we can sell that off?” Anton asked.
“Are you daft?! We can’t sell something like that! Not only it will attract attention but that is a very powerful weapon that we can use for our defense,” Anders scolded Anton.
‘I’m not saying that we sell that off. I just wanted to know its value,” Anton mumbled.
“Young sir, we can’t put a value on something like that since usually, legendary swords like that are heirlooms that are passed down through generations,” Lucas said.
Anton couldn’t then say that based on his Diablo II system, the sword was considered a low-level item. Surprisingly, Anders asked Lucas to wield the sword for their defense since he’s the oldest swordsman among them.
“Why give it to father?!” Devon complained.
“Because everyone knew that the first thing that you’ll probably do is boast about it in a tavern!” Lucas scolded his son.
“I’m not daft! I’ll not do that,” Devon also mumbled and this time, Anton laughed with everyone else.
During those seven days of travel, they kept watching the three shows on alternate nights which were Star Trek: The Next Generation, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and Xena: Warrior Princess. Anton had to admit that old-school TV shows from the 90s on Earth were wonderful.
In those seven days of travel, Anton leveled up to level 90 so his druid was becoming powerful. He also managed to hunt some unique items but honestly, he was focused more on leveling up since he was stupidly satisfied with the items his sorceress was wearing.
What Anton truly couldn’t wait for was creating the necromancer character. That would increase his power a lot but he planned to use the summoning tree to level up which meant that he couldn’t show any of the powers of the necromancer character to avoid trouble. He thought of focusing on the other skill trees like the Curses spells or the Poison and Bone spells but either way, that kind of magic would probably be still considered as dark magic.
