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Chapter 131
🕑 Added 2024-06-12 02:00:04 +0000 UTCThat night after dinner, Anton decided to repair all the items that his Father and Nemina purchased from the town since it would only take him about an hour and he didn’t want to do it later while they were traveling. After completing the repair, Anton went directly to his room because he wanted to continue doing his leveling up and enchantment research, he planned to continue the Hell Difficulty of Diablo II game for a couple of hours then switch to enchanting research for two more before going to sleep.
In the two hours of adventuring in the world of Diablo II, Anton only managed to defeat the countess. He received a fairly rare rune and thought about grinding some runes from the countess first but then he decided to stick to his plan of completing the Hell Difficulty before starting any form of grinding.
He then spent the last two hours of his planned game time outside the Rogue Encampment continuing his research in enchanting.
On the wooden tablet, he etched the mana pathway of allowing a spell structure to adhere to the item, then he etched the pathway for the mana reservoir that would allow the wooden tablet to store mana that would power the spell and would also govern the spell duration.
Then Anton etched the mana pathway that consisted of the spell structure of Frozen Orb and lastly, he etched the man a pathway that would gather the ice elements.
After all of those were etched on the wooden tablet, the next thing that he would need to do was to create a switch which was basically something that would allow anyone to break the pathway and restore it as they wanted so he created a simple carving that would allow a movable part to be rotated to break a line by turning it and vice versa.
When everything was done, he slowly filled the mana reservoir with mana but only filled it halfway through. Anton then switched it on by rotating the switch so the mana pathway that connected the mana reservoir to the rest of the pathways would be connected.
Suddenly a rotating Frozen Orb appeared on top of the wooden table looking like an ice planet and the temperature surrounding it plummeted severely then the mana that was collected in the reservoir was exhausted after only three seconds then the Frozen Orb exploded destroying the wooden tablet and the table that Anton was using.
As far as Anton was concerned it was a success. The only thing that he would need to do was to tweak the spell structure of Frozen Orb so that it would consume little mana and would only cool down a room, not freeze it. He would also need to tweak the mana pathway for the reservoir so it would be able to control the amount of mana it would dispense to the spell structure. He also needed to make sure that the mana pathway for the ice element gatherer was tweaked so the elements that would be gathered would not be great enough to cause an explosion.
What all of this meant was that it would take him several more hours of trial and error before he fully succeeded in creating the Frozen Orb Air Conditioner Wooden Tablet.
Anton then slept when he checked that it was already midnight since they would continue their journey early the next day.
While they were eating breakfast, Anders excitedly told his children about the specialty of the town that they purchased.
“The town’s wine had this flower smell and the wine itself was very sweet so I’m sure that it would sell well on Ruandelle. If it sold especially well, I might need to establish a merchant route to this town to gather their wine once the war ends.”
Anton tasted the wine and it tasted very sweet and the smell was truly fragrant. Anna clamored to taste the wine as well but Anders forbade her daughter to drink it and even Anton was only allowed a taste not to actually drink the whole glass of wine.
“Once both of you are adults, then you can drink wine!” Anders told his children.
“What is the age that one would be considered as an adult?” Anton asked curiously and it was Frederick who answered.
“It varies from location to location but generally it’s sixteen years old.”
“That meant I’m an adult now since I’m seventeen,” Anton told his father.
“From where we come from, the age you’re considered as an adult is eighteen so you need to wait one year more,” Anders said stubbornly and Anton just smiled and obeyed his father.
“You’re only seventeen?! I thought you were in your early twenties!” Fredrick was startled to learn Anton’s age.
After breakfast, they continued their journey. Colin informed Anton that they would reach the next village in three days.
While Frederick was teaching Anton, Anna, and her two maids, Anton wondered what the situation was with the war between Leminthor and the Undead Coalition and wished the city the best but he hoped the Fenix and his clan left the city.
Anton was really bothered by the heat inside the carriage even with the windows opened and Frederick apologized again for unsuccessfully finding any magical items that would help in lowering the temperature.
“You don’t need to worry about that since I’m on the verge of solving that,” Anton told the mage.
They ate lunch while they were on the move and Anton kept casting a weak Frost Nova to lower the temperature inside the cart but it only lowered the temperature for several minutes and after that, the heat would return with a vengeance.
Anton went inside the game after lunch but instead of continuing his run through the Hell Difficulty, he immediately proceeded to continue his enchanting attempts. He hated the temperature in the carriage and would like to resolve it as soon as possible.
After five hours of gruesome trial error and Anton successfully created his prototype for the Frozen Orb Air Conditioner Wooden Tablet inside the game. Based on his calculations, the prototype would be able to lower the temperature of a small room, or the inside of the carriage, to around twenty-four degrees Celsius, and with its reservoir full of mana, it would last for two hours. The mana required for the prototype to be full was the same as the mana cost of three Frozen Orbs.
Anton reckoned that it would take several more hours of trial and error before he could have something that would have a longer duration.
Once he exited the game, he retrieved the wooden tablet from his inventory that contained the spell structure of his Frozen Orb Air Conditioner and filled its reservoir with mana.
“Tada! I’m successful in creating my first enchanted item! The Air Conditioner Wooden tablet! Unfortunately, it would only last for a couple of hours then it would need to be recharged.” Anton showed off his new item to everyone.
“How does it work?” Anna asked while looking at the wooden table that looked like it wasn’t anything special since she didn’t see any carving or drawing in it.
“Once it's full of magical energy, you need to put it on a flat surface then just switch it on.”
Anton then put the wooden tablet on a small table then turned the switch that he carved on it. Suddenly a small glowing Frozen Orb appeared on top of it. The small Frozen Orb was rotating and spewing out very cold air. It looked like a beautiful ice planet that was in space and since it was glowing, it could even serve as a dim lamp or a night light.
The temperature inside the carriage lowered until everyone felt comfortable but Frederick was looking at Anton wearing a complicated expression.
