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Chapter 214
🕑 Added 2024-09-03 02:00:03 +0000 UTCSunday arrived and it was the grand opening of their store, the Oak Sage Store. Their store wasn’t that large, at least compared to the other mega stores in the city of Zalnothel but what separated them from the others was the cheapness and high quality of the items that they were selling.
All regular items like swords, armor, shields, other weapons, clothes, pieces of jewelry, and other accessories and knick-knacks were at least twenty-five percent cheaper compared to their counterparts and sometimes even more.
The enchanted items were also affordable at least compared to other enchanted items and there was a brand new novelty item that the people from Zalnothel were surprised to see which was the mana power bank that would allow them to recharge their enchanted items using the power bank alone without the need for a mage. That meant that they could avoid the expense of paying expensively for a mage to recharge their enchanted items. They were a bit disappointed though that the mana power bank would only work on the items that came from the Oak Sage store.
After a few hours, everyone in the city saw how popular their items were but the only reason why other powerful families who were in the same business as them didn’t complain was the amount of items they were selling was extremely limited in number.
There was actually detailed information at the entrance of their store that the store would only remain open while supplies last and once they were exhausted, the store would close down. The family would then acquire more items then they would reopen the store again to sell items.
Anton was showing his presence at the store and with his recent shenanigan with that gang, everyone was respectful of him. His presence also made sure that there was no trouble in the store.
The archmages Voduria and Tristan also came to congratulate Anton and Anders for the opening of their store which was an open support towards Anton by the government. But based on the questions of the two archmages, they were interested to know when the planned theater would open and Anders openly admitted that they hadn’t found the magic artifact yet that would allow them to record and present the movies to the customers with the greatest video and audio quality.
Anna then told the two archmages that they were going to watch a Disney movie later tonight as a celebration and when the two archmages heard that, they shamelessly invited themselves to attend. Anders of course, unhesitatingly, and happily told them that they were welcome.
They close down the store at around four in the afternoon since the evening would be spent restocking the items in the store.
When they arrived home, everyone was happy with the success of the store. They ate dinner earlier than normal since they were still going to watch a movie that night and Anna would need to rest early since she would need to go to school early the next day.
At around six in the evening, everyone was surprised to see guests coming in. They were expecting the two archmages which were the Archmage Voduria and Tristan but there were actually six archmages who arrived. Not only that, some rich merchants and nobles arrived as well who were the ones who attended the movie viewing before.
Anton’s father was thankful that the ballroom turned into a theater was still set up the way it was when they showed the three films from the Lord of The Rings Franchise. At least the visitors arrived, knowing that the family didn’t prepare food for them, kept informing Anders that they had already eaten and would only watch the movie.
They all headed directly to the theater and Anton was still thinking of what movie to show them. For a second, he thought of movies that would shock them like modern movies or superhero movies but decided to keep his promise to his sister of showing a Disney film so he decided to show Sleeping Beauty. At first, he thought of showing the animated film The Sword in the Stone but since the people here didn’t know the story of King Arthur, some of the scenes would probably lose their meaning due to the audience not knowing what their context was but of course, he wasn’t one hundred percent sure.
He solved his doubt by just choosing Sleeping Beauty. When everyone was ready, Anton started the movie and they all focused on the film.
Disney’s Sleeping Beauty was a good, animated film. It had a love story, adventure, and magic, and the best part was, that the setting of the film would not confuse the audience of this world.
After the movie ended, the audience clapped and praised the film. Some asked how something like that was made and Anna proudly gave a confusing explanation based on Anton's explanation of how animations were made. Anna even showed them a crude animation she made using the corner of her notebook which was a stickman walking. It was basically the same as what Anton had shown her before.
Even though the explanation was crude, everyone still focused on her. Anders was proud of how confident her daughter was in explaining how animation works to powerful people and even her tutor had a proud smile on her face.
Several more minutes passed and after that, their guest left one by one. They kept complimenting Anders about how wonderful the movies were and kept inquiring when their family would open a theater.
After all the guests left, the family went to the dining room to have something to eat and talk about the happenings during the day. Anna was informed by their father that she didn’t need to join and to go to rest since she would need to go to school tomorrow. Anders would also accompany her so he could check the school to see if it was a good idea for Anna to stay in the dorms there.
During the meeting, Anders reported that the items stored in their warehouse would be able to keep the store open for at least three more days but their people were already in the process of purchasing items from different sources. Lunelle and Devon guarded by Ecturne and some of the family guards would also leave the next day in a five-carriage caravan to the north towards the nearby villages and towns to purchase items like broken weapons, armor, clothes, and other treasure. They would be gone for five days.
Anton reported that the magical item that could record and show the movies that Frederick found yesterday had good enough quality that they purchased it. He would still need to do further testing but once it was confirmed that it was good enough, they would begin the planning of acquiring a site for their movie theater.
Of course, they wouldn’t stop with just one item recorder. They would need a lot more so Frederick would need to search for more. The mage would also contact high-level alchemists or enchanters who could create that magical recorder item.
Anton suggested that they should only start a theater once they had more than three of such devices and his father agreed with him.
Luminetta the vampire and Ignomus the butler were still not done cataloging the treasure they acquired from the Blood War gang and the butler said that it would probably take them several more days.
