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Chapter 162
🕑 Added 2024-07-13 02:00:02 +0000 UTCEveryone was happy to see that the next village on the way to Zalnothel was still thriving. The villagers welcomed the caravan but were surprised at the amount of travelers that were walking beside it. The village was as small as the village where the refugees came from and Anton saw Anders and the others talking to who he assumed as the village chief and elders.
Anton went near them to listen in and he heard his father telling the village leaders what happened.
Apparently, the village leaders recognized the village chief of the refugees and were confirming everything what Anders and the others were saying.
“We saw the undead army! It had liches and vampires and thousands of zombies, ghouls, and wraiths. It would have reached our village and destroyed all of us if the caravan’s mage didn’t stop them,” The village chief of the refugees said.
The village elders had looked horror on their faces when they heard what Anders and the others were saying.
The village chief of the refugees urged them to join them in fleeing to Zalnothel since the Undead Coalition intended to destroy all of the villages and towns along the way.
Anders told them that it was just their advice and wouldn’t force them to flee but Anton’s father reiterated the fact that soon the undead army would be coming.
Anton was highly impressed at the decisiveness of the village leaders since they immediately ran towards the village. The remaining person told them that the village elders would urge and even command everyone to flee with them but this time, since they had enough time, they would try to bring as many items and food as they could.
Anders informed the man that they would stop and wait for three hours before the caravan would move again. The village chief of the refugees joined the man from the village so he could answer any of their questions.
Anton’s father then told everyone that they would stop for a few hours and to prepare lunch. Since there were still a couple of hours before lunchtime, Anton decided to heal the horses using his auras to make sure that they were at their peak. The animals welcomed his presence and they were very affectionate towards him as if they were aware that their healthy bodies were because of the young wizard.
When he joined his father, Anders asked him to fix the carriages so Anton became very busy in the next two hours. The caravan people would remove all the items from the carriage then Anton would store the carriage briefly in his inventory to have Charsi repair them and once he took them out, the carriages would become brand new.
The caravan people were aware that Anton had a repair spell but they were still amazed when they saw it happening.
After the repair was done, he joined his father at the lunch table and ate with them. After that, he went inside the carriage since it was more comfortable inside them due to his air conditioner enchanted items.
He noticed that Anna and her maids didn’t follow him inside then he remembered his request to his father about a blacksmith. Anton went outside again and asked his father to have someone go find a blacksmith from the village or at least find someone who could create metal rods that resembled a wand.
Anders assured Anton that he would do it so he went back inside his carriage. Anton then entered the game to continue grinding for levels. He decided that once he reached around level ninety-five he would begin the quest that would allow him to get the unique charms and was glad that his game resembled those modified Diablo II games that would allow him to fight Uber Diablo in the fields and some of the quest that required him to connect to the online servers.
After a few hours, he leveled up once so now Anton was level ninety. He then noticed someone calling his name so he parked his character in the Rogue Encampment and minimized the game. He saw Colin calling his attention and his assistant saw that he was now responsive and gave the metal rods to him.
Anton was impressed at whoever made the rods since they did look like wands and they were not that heavy to hold but they felt very sturdy.
Colin then mentioned that the caravan was about to leave and he just nodded. He then saw Anna and her maid entering the carriage.
“Where have you been?” Anton asked his sister.
“We roamed the village to check if we could purchase anything but unfortunately, the villagers were keeping everything since they would flee with us towards the wizard city of Zalnothel.”
Anton then turned to Colin.
“Can you tell my father that I wouldn’t heal the villagers every other night anymore since there were a lot of them now and would only do so to those who are in need?”
Colin nodded and exited out of the carriage to inform Anton’s father what he had just said.
‘Brother, I think by tomorrow I could add another cantrip to my list of spells! I really felt like a sorceress now!” Anna boasted.
“Do you feel that you can start learning first-level spells?” Anton asked his sister.
“No, but I feel like once I’ve memorized around three or four more cantrips, that would be the time that I could start learning first-level spells,” Anna answered.
Anton then remembered that he hadn’t examined the loot from the elder vampire yet, so once he felt the carriage moving, he began to examine them.
There were ten first-level spells, eight second-level spells, six third-level spells, five fourth-level spells, three fifth-level spells, two sixth-level spells, and one seventh-level spell which was the Blizzard spellbook that he had shown the others.
There were four magic wands, three enchanted armor, three enchanted swords, and ten miscellaneous enchanted items. He was about to examine the individual items one by one but then the carriage stopped again.
Anton thought that there was some sort of emergency so he immediately went outside to check but then he saw that the caravan was just setting up for the night. He felt relieved and then knew that he was still worried about the undead suddenly attacking them.
That was the main reason why Anton couldn’t fully enjoy their journey. There were still threats lurking behind them and knew that he would not be able to relax until they reached somewhere truly safe.
When Anton joined his father followed by Anna and her maids, he saw Anders storing the animals that the guards hunted in the surrounding forest in his ring tied to a metal chain that he was wearing on his neck. He noticed the ice attacks that the dead animals were sporting and knew that they were hunted using the wands that he had provided.
Lucas gave the spent wands to Anton and reported that two wands were destroyed since two guards mistakenly allowed their wands to cast the twentieth Ice Bolt. Lucas mentioned that it was the guards’ fault since the indicator would clearly inform them how many Ice bolts they already spent.
There were already twenty Ice bolt wands but now it decreased to two because of the destroyed ones. After recharging and repairing the wands, Anton told Lucas to not admonish the guards too much since he had created the wands as disposable items. Lucas just nodded but he did request more of them and Anton just replied that he would create more.
