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Chapter 129
🕑 Added 2024-06-10 02:00:07 +0000 UTCAnton was getting tired of always running from the undead. He was angry at the monsters for making him and his family afraid that they needed to run. He decided then that once his family settled in a safe place, probably inside a powerful wizard city, he would join the fight against the Undead Coalition.
Of course, that decision wasn’t set in stone but right at that moment, he was truly angry. Colin told him that the next village was three days away but Anders informed everyone that they wouldn’t stay there as well and would only purchase food and necessities, collect water, and move on immediately.
More than likely, they would need to do the same thing to the several villages they would pass before Anders decided to stay at a place for more than a day.
According to Lucas, the Merchant City of Ruandelle was a month away from where they were right now and that meant that it would be an exhausting journey on the road.
Frederick continued tutoring Anton, Anna, and her maids in the arcane language and informed them that they would be ready to memorize one cantrip after a week more.
During those three days of travel before reaching the next village, Anton kept on playing the game after lunch until dinner and a few hours before sleeping. The people in the cart that he was staying with were thankful that he didn’t care if they were noisy since it seemed like whatever they did or whatever noise they produced, it didn’t interrupt Anton’s meditations.
Anton was so focused that during those three days, he didn’t even open his browser to watch any movies, shows, or animes. He concentrated on playing that he completed Act V of the Nightmare Difficulty. He earned one level and that was it so now he was level sixty-eight. As usual for him right now, he added the skill point to Telekinesis. He also reserved a couple of hours a day practicing his spells outside the Rogue Encampment to make sure that he mastered manipulating the mana of his spells.
He kept trying to find inspiration for new applications for the sorceress spells that he could learn by manipulating the spell's mana. Good examples of those were his mana water from ice spells, his ability to convert Blizzard into a gentle rain spell, his Fire Ball light, and his ability to fly using Telekinesis.
The spell that Anton was trying to adapt was some sort of Wall of Ice using his cold spells. He already knew the intricate mana composition of a wall spell which was Fire Wall and he was trying to adapt any of the cold spells to conjure a Wall of Ice.
Anton knew that the ability to conjure a Wall of Ice strong enough for defense would be helpful but this time, he was having difficulty. But he was sure that soon, he should be able to do it.
He was also trying to experiment with making a spell permanent like attaching it to an item. Anton had the Enchant spell from the Fire Tree and he thought that studying its mana composition would assist him in learning permanent enchantment but that one was truly complex and would probably take a very long time.
The caravan reached the village before sunset on the fourth day so Anders announced that they would stay the night in that village and would leave the next day. Everyone got busy purchasing things from the villagers like food and other necessities. Anders also decided to spend a few hours purchasing things from the villagers to make sure that they had plenty of items they could sell on Ruandelle.
Anton was exhausted so he slept early in his room at the inn and only woke up when Colin woke him up the next day.
They left that village early and proceeded to continue their journey. Colin told him that the next place would be a fairly large town and it would take them five days before they arrived there.
Frederick continued teaching Anton, Anna, and her maids, and after that, Anton planned to start playing the Hell Difficulty of his Diablo II game.
Before he entered the game though, Anna told him that they were almost finished with the Belgariad and she requested for the next series.
“I’m in the first part of the fifth book and the others are already in the last parts of the fourth book of the Belgariad series. I already prepared the notebooks that you’ll need to write down the second series of books,” Anna wheedled Anton and since she was very good at not pestering him regarding watching movies using his spell, Anton spent that afternoon writing down the five books in the Malloreon Series of David Eddings.
During those five days of travel to the town on their way to Ruandelle, the summer had arrived, bathing everyone in humid hot temperatures making everyone feel miserable inside their carts even with the windows wide open.
“Frederick, don’t you have a spell that can make us comfortable here?” Anna asked the mage.
Unfortunately for everyone, the mage informed them that he didn’t have that kind of power. When Anton asked if there was any possibility of them finding something magical in the next town that would assist in lowering the temperature inside the cart, the mage informed Anton that he would try his best to look but he doubted that he would find any.
Anton could and did cast a very weak version of Frost Nova to alleviate the heat but its effect didn’t last long and he couldn’t keep casting it and enter the game at the same time.
One huge advantage that Anton discovered was once he entered Diablo II, he could ignore the heat.
Instead of playing the Hell Difficulty of his Diablo II game, Anton tried very hard to find a way to adapt one of his cold spells that could help him lower the temperature inside a room and after several hours of practice, the best thing that he could do was cast Frozen Orb but just like Fire Ball, control it enough so it would only spin in place and produce very cold air in the location where it was cast.
It took him several hours, meaning the whole four days of travel to the next town since Anton needed to make sure that the spell wouldn’t go rogue and suddenly spew deadly Ice Bolt at everyone.
The problem with his Frozen Orb Air Conditioner as he called it was, even though he was successful, he needed to keep a part of his mind aware of the spell or else it would dissipate just like his Fire Ball light.
At least, he was successful enough in creating the spell that it would only dissipate if he forgot about it and not spew icy death on everyone.
Anton wanted a spell that he could cast and forget and after a certain duration, would dissipate and the only thing that he could think of was incorporating the mana construction of Enchant so he could attach the Frozen Orb Air Conditioner to an item but unfortunately, even though he spent an ungodly amount of time, not able to start playing the Hell Difficulty and even browse the internet, he was unsuccessful.
He did feel that he was on the verge of learning how to do it but at least for now, once he cast it, It could lower the temperature of their cart to the delight of everyone with him.
Anton did inform everyone that he could only do it if he was not meditating meaning that the spell would need his attention and once he entered meditation, the spell would dissipate.
