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Chapter 128
🕑 Added 2024-06-09 02:00:06 +0000 UTCThe night before they left the town, Anton fulfilled his promise to his sister to let them watch a movie. He couldn’t think of what movie to let them watch but since Anna was just a little girl and they had already started with Disney’s The Little Mermaid, he decided to let them watch Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
Anton asked Colin to talk to the innkeeper and reserve the common room for their people and of course, with coins, the innkeeper agreed.
They also had to reassure the innkeeper that they were just going to watch a play that was going to be conjured by the wizard and as instructed, Colin informed the innkeeper that he and his family could watch as well.
“Tomorrow we will leave early. The next village will be four days away from here at our current speed,” Anders informed Anton.
“We could reach it in a day if we traveled the same way before when we were running from the undead,” Devon said while smiling.
“I don’t want to do that again! Even though we're not truly exhausted due to Anton’s spells, I was mentally tired,” Lunelle said quietly and everyone who was there on that journey smiled.
“What play are we watching tonight after dinner?” Anna asked excitedly.
“It’s a surprise. It’s also an animated film. I decided on that show when we started on The Little Mermaid. The people who made that also made the play that we will watch tonight.”
After dinner, Anders instructed everyone to arrange the common room like a theater with one of the walls as a screen. The innkeeper and his family joined the caravan people and soon the common room arrangement was complete.
Anton summoned his Globe of Browser Projection and adjusted the screen size and volume using a short video clip from a famous streaming site showing neon lights and punk music. After he was content with the size of the screen and volume of the sound, he loudly announced that the show would start in five minutes so they should go ahead and complete everything they wanted to do first like going to the bathroom and stuff.
The innkeeper arranged for someone at the door to announce who was coming in and that the common room was reserved.
Anton’s family and friends were seated in the front row and when everyone else was ready, he started the movie. He wasn’t seated with his family but by the side watching the people’s reaction to the film.
Everyone was focused on the animated film and their expressions were so exaggerated that Anton almost laughed out loud. When Belle sang the song “Belle”, everyone had a look of amazement at the vocal prowess of Belle and the villagers.
Anna’s maids were clutching each other watching the scene where Belle was being chased by the wolves.
Anton was truly entertained watching the reaction of the people instead of the movie and the inevitable tears came. He was half-expecting that since this was the second movie that most of the people from Anders’s caravan had seen.
When the movie ended, the applause that came was thunderous. Anna, Lunelle, and Anna’s maids were talking to each other about the love story of Belle and the prince and how handsome the prince was and how magical was the castle. The innkeeper and his family had a shocked look on their faces.
Anton kept hearing from the girls that they wanted to marry someone like the prince and live in a magical castle.
“It was a wonderful show, Anton. Thank you for sharing it with us,” Anders told his son.
“You’re welcome, Father. I’ll go ahead and go to my room to meditate.”
Anton played the game by entering the world of Sanctuary personally when he reached his room and after two hours of playing, he was able to rescue the barbarians in the Frigid Highlands completing the quest of Qual-Khek. He also reached and killed Nihlathak. He was also saving the quest reward that he received from Larzuk once he thought of the best items that he could put slots into.
After a couple of hours of playing the game, Anton minimized it and opened a browser to watch some anime. He wasn’t sleepy yet but he was exhausted doing his adventures in the world of Diablo II.
In a fit of curiosity, he checked the account balance of the banking and credit account that the system assigned to him to use in signing up for different streaming websites and saw that Anton was a rich man since the money on his account was equal to the gold that he had on the Diablo II game. Unfortunately, the only thing that he could use the money for was to sign up for streaming websites.
If he had any living relatives left, he would have made an effort to find some way to transfer funds to them but there was no one left.
The next day, the caravan left early after breakfast. In the next three days, Frederick's tutoring continued. Anton and Anna were beginning to converse in the arcane language with their tutor. Anna kept pestering Anton into showing them some more movies but Anton needed more time playing the game. He kept saying to his sister that he was on the verge of a breakthrough and couldn’t take the time to show her more movies. Anna kept bothering him so Anton told their father that Anna was becoming a nuisance.
He didn’t know what Anders told Anna but Anton’s sister did stop pestering him and concentrated on reading the Belgariad series and discussing it with her maids, Lunelle, and Frederick.
When they reached the next village, Anders saw that it was small so he announced to everyone that they would only stay for the rest of the day and the coming night and would travel again the next day.
While they were preparing themselves to stay at the small village only tiny inn, someone on a horseback arrived. It was a messenger who loudly announced that an army of undead from the Undead Coalition attacked Leminthor and soon a cohort of soldiers would arrive to recruit soldiers for the war. The messenger further informed everyone that the war of the undead to Tiande was still ongoing so they weren’t expecting any assistance from the holy city, not until Tiande defeated their enemies.
Everyone knew that it would probably take a long time for the war between Tiande and the Undead Coalition to finish in either victory or defeat since the Coalition was powerful enough to have a second army to fight other cities.
They were also thinking that if the Coalition had a second army, what to say that they didn’t have a third or a fourth since it was easy for a powerful lich or a necromancer to raise undead from the dead citizens of cities, towns, and villages they had already conquered.
Anton sighed and knew that they would begin running again but this time they would not be able to do what they did before of forcing themselves and the horses to run non-stop since the caravan was huge.
Anders then announced that they wouldn’t be staying in the village so everyone prepared to travel again. With the help of a large amount of coins, Anders and Nemina bought plenty of food from the villagers and the villagers happily sold off whatever they could as if they had not heard the messenger’s announcement regarding the war.
Lucas told Anton that the villagers were probably thinking that the war would not reach them since Leminthor was very far away.
