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Chapter 206
🕑 Added 2024-08-26 02:00:02 +0000 UTCSunday arrived and everyone in the mansion was running around like headless chickens. Anders kept commanding everyone to make sure that everything was decorated nicely and everything was clean. Anders kept asking Nemina to make sure that the kitchen would have plenty of food so that they could serve food to a lot of people for the whole day and even Anton wasn’t spared.
Anders commanded his son to cast his cleaning spell on everything and when Anton tried to tell his father that he already did when they moved to the manor, Anders just told him to do it again since he had nothing to do anyway.
The two old tutors were highly amused to see a powerful archmage and a baron being commanded by a farmer to clean the mansion and that “powerful” archmage couldn’t even talk back to the one giving the command.
When Anton saw the two old tutors laughing at him, Anton retaliated by telling his teacher and his teacher's colleague that his father was already forty-four years old that year and that he was only voluble because he was a mercenary before and so old already.
“He looks no older than thirty-five!” Ms. Damby said.
“I know the reason why!” Anna exclaimed.
That was all planned. Anton, Anders, and the others planned to disclose the effects of mana water to the two old tutors and by extension to the city’s higher-ups. It was because they couldn’t keep it a secret and trying to would only give them headaches. The fact that there’s a two-hour shelf life for the mana water and that Anton was powerful enough was the deciding factor to inform the tutors and by extension the city about the mana water. They didn’t want anyone to covet things that they couldn’t provide and mana water was one of them.
Anton was even willing to allow the mages of Zalnothel to study mana water if they wanted to.
“Are we allowed to know what caused your father to look young?” Mr. Tenor asked Anna.
“My father doesn’t only look young! Frederick and Lucas said that he was also as healthy as someone as young as less than thirty-five years old. That magical thing also made me very beautiful! Before my skin was as dark and as rough as any farmer girl in the countryside but now, Ramona and Belinda said that my face, skin, and body were as fair and delicate as a lady who had never known work in her life. It’s the mana water that my brother conjured! Didn’t you notice that special pitcher that my brother gave to us during dinner? It contained mana water.”
“I noticed it but it looked like regular water to me so I kept it out of my mind. So it’s called mana water?” Mr. Tenor asked.
Anton looked on but didn’t stop his sister from telling their tutors about the mana water.
“Yes, mana water. My brother has this spell that would produce that and drinking and bathing in it would cause old people to turn younger, make one healthier, and make women beautiful! The problem was, the moment it was produced, the effect of the water didn’t last long. After two hours, the water would turn into regular water. That’s a pity since Anton is so busy we could now only enjoy bathing in it once a week. We still drink them every breakfast and dinner though. Do you want to experience it?” Anna asked the two old tutors and Mr. Tenor and Ms. Damby nodded.
It was around eight in the morning and the event was supposed to start at around ten. When Anna and the tutors turned around to look for Anton, he was busy casting his cleaning spell in the dining room.
“Anton! Mr. Tenor and Ms. Damby want to taste the mana water!” Anna shouted at her brother.
Anton completed casting his cleaning spell and the dining room became spotless. Then he walked towards his sister and the two tutors, retrieved a pitcher from his inventory, and filled it with mana water from a Frozen Orb spell with mana controlled enough to produce water. He then retrieved a couple of glasses from his inventory and gave them to their tutors.
He then filled the glasses with mana water from the pitcher and the tutor drank them.
“This mana water is so refreshing! It felt like my body was being filled with healthy energy!” Mr. Tenor said after drinking a glass of mana water.
“It does taste like water but somehow, it’s sweet. It reminded me of the spring water that I tasted when I traveled to a remote village in the mountains when I was younger and everyone in that village was healthy! This water was tastier than that based on my recollections,” Ms. Damby said.
Anton refilled their glasses with mana water.
“Everyone who had experienced the mana water fell in love with it, especially the women since it made us very beautiful!”
“Can we drink this during meals as well?” Mr. Tenor asked.
“I don’t know. You have to ask my father though since it would be his decision,” Anton said.
That was also planned by them since they wanted to check if they could get the tutors' loyalty by using the mana water.
“Father is also building a hot spring for men and women in the basement that was probably used as either a storage area or an actual dungeon. Once that hot spring is completed, we’re planning to use it once a week so those who are used to bathing with mana water can do so once a week since that’s the only time I can spare with my busy schedule,” Anton said to the two tutors.
Anton knew that they were probably successful in igniting the two old tutors’ curiosity about the effects of mana water on their bodies and Anders would probably receive a request to talk from the tutors.
After that talk, Anton cast his cleaning spells on the main hallway, the bathrooms that were going to be used by the guests, and finally the ballroom slash theater room.
At around nine in the morning, guests began arriving. Anton and his father were at the door together with the butler to welcome their guests. The people from the manor who were allowed to watch the films that day in the ballroom slash theater were already seated in the chairs there.
They actually prepared three hundred seats in the theater and were thankful that the ballroom was large enough. They placed enough enchanted air conditioner items that even if the theater were full, it would still be very comfortable.
The first guests who arrived were the archmages and Anton was surprised about that since from what he had read, the most important guests were supposed to be the last ones to arrive. When the Archmage Voduria saw Anton’s confusion, she admitted that all the archmages were excited about seeing the films that why they were early. They didn’t want to be late and missed the opening scenes of the movie.
The Archmage Voduria brought four with her even though she requested three seats. The two were archmages and the other two were the High Wizards who greeted them when they arrived in Zalnothel.
The Archmage Tristan brought six people and based on his introduction, they were all archmages and Anton wondered if archmages were common in Zalnothel. Two of Tristan’s guests were Archmage Drenor and Archmage Monet who presided in Anton’s appointment as a Baron.
After Anton greeted the archmages, Ignomus led them to the theater. From nine until ten in the morning, the quest arrived nonstop but then Anders told Anton to go to the theater since they would need to start the film showing since the event was scheduled for ten in the morning.
