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Chapter 134
🕑 Added 2024-06-15 02:00:03 +0000 UTCThey left the tiny village after they purchased as many food items that the villagers could spare and it only took them a couple of hours. The caravan did manage to fill their water tanks from the spring near the village and was glad that the villagers didn’t complain.
During lunch, Lucas informed him that the next town would be four days from the village, and then two villages after that, they would reach the Merchant City of Ruandelle.
Everyone was grateful for Anton’s enchanted wooden tablet since it allowed them to travel comfortably even during the hottest part of the day.
Once they left the village, Anton entered the world of Sanctuary and continued completing the Hell Difficulty. He entered Lut Gholein and proceeded to complete the quest in the sewers.
While Anton was battling the monsters in the sewers, he was also thinking about his first enchanted item. He thought of the need to experiment on how to find a mana pathway that would allow an enchanted item to gather the ambient mana in the environment to fill the mana storage but unfortunately, he didn’t have a spell that had a similar function of which he could think. Basically, what it meant was, that he couldn’t create a brand new mana pathway. The only thing that he could do right now was adapt an existing pathway from the current spells that he knew.
Anton thought hard about which spells had a similar function that would convert an existing energy like solar power to mana and he was doing this while fighting monsters. He was glad that his defenses were powerful enough that even if he were hit, his mercenary’s aura would be able to heal him immediately.
He thought that he should be able to find the mana pathway or adapt an existing one from one of the spells in the Fire Spell Tree and then he remembered the passive spell Warmth.
Warmth was a passive spell that increased mana regeneration but where did the mana come from? Was it from the environment? Anton was highly excited at the prospect of studying the mana pathway of the said passive spell.
Anton then thought of other items that he could create like maybe an enchanted lamp that would summon a floating Fire Bolt and since the people would only use them during night time, if the pathway of the Fire Bolt lamp were efficient enough, a full mana storage could last a long time. If he was successful in getting the pathway from the passive spell Warmth that would allow an item to gather the mana from the surrounding, then he wouldn’t need to recharge an item and they could even sell simple enchanted items and from what Frederick had told him, they would allow his family to become extremely rich.
When Anton first started playing his Diablo II game when he transmigrated to this world, he just cast the spells and didn’t even notice the spell structure and the mana pathway of spells. He only noticed them when he first started to learn how to manipulate the mana of spells so he could adapt the spells for other things like getting water from his ice spells or controlling the fire from his fire spells. Now, he was so glad that Anton took the time to study the spell structures of the spells from Diablo II. That meant that the spell trees from the Sorceress tree alone would be able to provide him spell structures and mana pathways to create untold different enchanted items and soon, when he was familiar enough with the structures and pathways of the spells, he would be able to create his own personal spells.
Not only that, once he managed to get the other classes, the spells and abilities from those skill trees would also provide him countless mana pathways. Anton was glad that all the spells in Diablo II were powered by mana, unlike the other Diablo games that came after where the spells and abilities could be powered by something else like “Rage”.
That meant one thing. He didn’t need to learn the spell system of this world since his Diablo II system alone would probably consume an entire lifetime to explore but since he already started learning the arcane language, he was curious enough to continue until he was sure that he wouldn’t need to learn it.
Anton also thought of the fact that once he learned enough of this world’s magic, he could use it as a cover for his Diablo II system so that mighty archmages would not be curious enough to capture him for experimentation. Of course, he only imagined that archmages would be curious about his Diablo II system but it wouldn’t hurt to be careful.
After he completed the sewer quest, he added the skill point to Telekinesis and proceeded to keep playing until he reached the Halls of the Dead and there he stopped since he noticed that someone was calling him outside the game. He immediately portalled to town and once he camped his character beside his private stash, he minimized the game.
It was Colin who was calling him trying to inform him that the caravan had stopped for the night. He had seven wooden tablets with him which meant that it was time for the tablet to be recharged so he spent a couple of minutes recharging the wooden tablets.
Frederick was still in awe at how fast Anton recharged a wooden tablet of air conditioner since if the mage did it, the process of charging the items wouldn’t take long but learning the spells again would take him several hours.
“I don’t know if there’s much difference between what you do when you memorize your spells or with Anton staring stupidly in the air for countless hours on what he calls meditation,” Anna commented.
Anton laughed when he heard what his sister had said though Frederick was appalled.
“The difference is, I don’t really need to “meditate” and I can cast my spells anytime I want. I only meditate to increase my power. Frederick would need to memorize his spells or else he wouldn’t be able to cast his spells.”
Anna just snorted and they all went outside to join their Father for dinner. Colin gave six of the wooden tablets to Anders and kept one.
While they were eating, Anton informed his father that soon, he would be able to craft an enchanted item that they could sell, and that made his Father happy.
“What item is that?” Anna asked.
“The first item that I’m considering creating for us to sell is an enchanted lamp but it would probably take longer to create that because I’m still researching a method of recharging the item using the ambient mana in the surroundings, meaning that no one would need to recharge it and it would just collect the energy to power it up from the surrounding area. I’m also researching a way for the lamp user to choose the brightness and possibly even color of the light they would prefer.”
“that’s a good idea son but remember that you don’t need to think of items that we can sell since once were successful enough as a merchant, you don’t need to be the one who will always provide items for us to sell,” Anders told his son.
“I understand. It’s just that I find creating enchanted items highly engaging and I now understand why artisans are focused on their crafts. I’m also continuing my research on the wooden tablet of air conditioner. I would like the user to be able to control the temperature they wanted and also would like the item to be able to collect mana from the environment to fill its mana storage.”
After dinner, Anton took a bath and provided mana water for his family and friends and went back inside the cold carriage to continue leveling up then he would rest for the night.
