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Chapter 133
🕑 Added 2024-06-14 02:00:03 +0000 UTCAnders’ merchant caravan arrived at a very small village after three days of travel. The village was really tiny consisting of only a few families so Anders decided to move on after stopping there to resupply for a couple of hours.
The last three days of travel were spent the usual way. During mornings Frederick would continue teaching them the arcane language and then after lunch, everyone would spend their time any way they wanted.
Frederick used one of the wooden tablets of air conditioner to practice his magic and increase his power by spending all of his spells recharging the item and then memorizing his spells again so after lunch, after recharging the items, the mage was also stuck on his spellbooks memorizing his spells.
Frederick did mention that due to that exercise, he felt that he could add one more cantrip to the number of cantrips he could memorize at one time and was especially excited that he felt that soon, he would be able to start memorizing a level one spell.
The mage was thankful to Anton for lending him the wooden tablet of air conditioner.
“I don’t understand. Isn't it the same thing if you just cast all of your spells outside and then memorize your spells again?” Anton asked the mage.
“That’s how we usually novice mages practice but some of the spells would need a target to be cast and for some reason, I feel like recharging the wooden tablet was especially effective compared to just me casting the spells. There are some mechanics involved that I don’t understand for now like maybe the siphoning of the mana by the artifact was draining all of the mana from the spell causing my mana storage to fully empty and then when I memorize the spells again, somehow, the spells were becoming subtly more powerful. I’m not really sure and more than likely, only a learned wizard would be able to answer this question.” Frederick replied.
“How do more powerful wizard practice to increase their power then?” Anton asked and Frederick shrugged.
Anna and her maids spent their afternoons reading their books and talking about their content. Lunelle also joined them sometimes when her mother allowed her to and she joined their conversation regarding Garion and the rest of the characters in the world of Belgariad.
Soon the girls completed the series and Anna clamored for Anton to write the second series of David Eddings but instead, Anton spent a couple of hours writing the books Belgarath and Polgara.
Anton was surprised at himself for how fast he wrote, not affecting the quality of his handwriting, and thought that it was only possible due to his high stats.
Anna was delighted about the two books when she learned that the books were about the beginning of the world of Garion and Belgarath and Polgara’s childhood and growth.
He also reminded his sister that they did purchase a lot of books from the town that they had just been but Anna complained that the books were stupid and shallow. She said that it was all about stupid noble ladies waiting for their knights to rescue them when they were perfectly capable of rescuing themselves.
Anton then asked why she purchased those books and Anna answered that she thought that they would be full of adventure and romance but each one of them was awful. He laughed when he heard Anna’s complaint. He was just glad that his sister wasn’t clamoring on seeing more movies from him and honestly, it wouldn’t have been a problem to show her some but he was wary of showing the people in this world a lot of his previous world. He thought that he should learn more about this world before sharing his culture with everyone.
Anton was also incredibly busy. He was busy leveling up and was busy in trying to improve the wooden tablet of air conditioner so he spent half of his time playing his Diablo II game and half of his time researching enchantment but if he was honest with himself, most of the past three days that he should have been spending completing the Hell Difficulty was spent on his experimentation on enchanting.
He found that creating enchanted items was truly entertaining and learning the mana pathway of spells that he could incorporate into items was highly addicting. Anton felt like a craftsman and he realized why artisans could spend their lives in their crafts.
During the past three days, Anton only completed Act I of the Hell Difficulty of his Diablo II game since he spent the rest of the time trying to improve his very first enchanted item. He was successful though. He improved the tablet until its duration increased to a full twelve hours and that the mana storage would be full by mana worth of two casting of Frozen Orb, which was reduced from three casting of the said spell.
That meant that Frederick would be able to fill half of the mana storage capacity of the tablet using all of his seven cantrips but he did have to spend seven hours memorizing those cantrips so in Anton’s thinking, it wasn’t worth it to use cantrips to fill out the mana storage of the tablet but Anton was guessing that level one or higher spells would be much more efficient.
The moment he was successful in increasing the duration of the wooden tablet enchanted item, he created more of them, kept one for their carriage, and gave the rest to his father to distribute so everyone could travel and rest comfortably during the heat of the summer.
Now, instead of the people camping outside to sleep, everyone was sleeping inside the carriages since the temperature in the carriages was comfortable.
Anton did announce that he would recharge the wooden tablet every breakfast and dinner so they could use it the whole day and anyone who missed that had to wait for the next recharge session.
He did discover that Charsi could also recharge the wooden tablet of air conditioner but since the speed was almost the same as when he recharged it by casting spells on the tablet, Anton decided to just charge the tablets himself since there were only about seven of them.
Anton and the rest only really began to enjoy the benefit of the wooden tablet of air conditioner on the day before they arrived at the small village since that was when he was successful in increasing the duration of the spell to twelve hours. During his first experimentation on his first artifact, his trial and error testing only gradually increased the duration from two hours, then three, and so on, and only reached twelve hours duration before they arrived in the village.
He thought that the wooden tablet had room for improvement since Anton felt that with further research, he still could increase its duration and mana efficiency. But right now, he was focusing on finding an alternate source of power to recharge the tablet since he couldn’t spend all of his time recharging his enchanted items.
It was too bad that he didn’t have a mana stone with him to experiment. Frederick informed him that they were only available to be purchased from the wizard cities and they cost exorbitant amounts of gold coins. So Anton focused on Solar Power.
But before that, he noticed that he was stagnating in playing the game and leveling up so he made a promise to himself that he would spend three-quarters of his personal time playing his Diablo II game and the rest on researching enchantment.
