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Chapter 70
🕑 Added 2024-04-12 02:00:04 +0000 UTCThe night was dark but the Fire Ball that was floating just above the horses was lighting the road. The horses were still energetic courtesy of the Vigor, Meditation, and Prayer Aura that Anton kept active.
It was already midnight when Anders stopped the carriage beside the road and when Anton saw his father, he thought that Anders’s expression said that he would have liked to continue the journey.
Everyone hastily set up their camp for the night and Anton helped Lucas in taking care of the horses. When the horses were settled down with their food and water, he removed the animals from his party system and added everyone else.
Letting all of them be affected by the three auras would make sure that no one was injured. Anton was not afraid of the Vigor Aura keeping anyone awake since one peculiar thing about the aura was even though it would keep off fatigue, you would still be able to sleep because it seemed that the spell would allow the body to remember that it needed sleep once you lay down on your bed and after a while, you would be able to sleep without any problem. It was a side-effect of the spell but in Anton’s opinion, it was a good side-effect.
The Vigor Aura would let you be active, keeping your stamina full and keeping your fatigue away but it was not harmful in any way. It was a beneficial aura by a holy paladin so of course, it would not harm those who were affected by it. The moment you wanted to rest, the aura would let you rest and sleep and if you wanted to wake up, you would wake up as you desire.
Anton was thankful that he was able to form the runeword bow Harmony allowing him to use the Vigor Aura.
He did not forget to set up their toilet and water far enough away for privacy and then he joined the others beside the campfire. Anton took the food from his private stash and allowed Nermina and Lunelle to serve everyone some hot food and bread and Anton conjured mana water for everyone.
While they were eating, Anton remembered the loot that they had taken from the two vampires.
“Father don’t forget to give me all the things that you have taken from the vampires. I will need to make sure that they do not have any magic that will locate us,” Anton said to his father.
“I forgot about that,” Anders said and he immediately gave the purse, the wand, and the bag of holding to Anton.
After dinner, everyone waited for Anton to reveal what the loot from the vampires was. He checked his inventory and the magic wand said that it was a wand of Fire Ball with ten charges but only three charges remaining. The purse contained seventy-three gold coins and the bag of holding said that it was a bag of holding containing one cubic meter of space.
Just like the Horadrim Cube, he could not see what was inside the bag of holding but unlike the cube, when he tried to mentally right-click on the bag of holding, it remained closed. Anton had Charsi repaired the wand before telling everyone what the loot was.
“The wand is a wand of Fire Ball with ten charges. The purse had seventy-three gold coins and the bag of holding had one cubic meter of space. I don’t know what’s inside the bag of holding. You will need to take them out first.” Anton then gave the wand, the purse, and the bag of holding back to Anders.
Lucas and his family gasped when they heard what they had gotten from the vampires. Anders then opened the bag of holding and took all the items from inside it so Anton could inspect them for any magic that could pinpoint them.
Anders was able to get five books, two purses, and a few sets of clothing from the bag of holding and he gave them all immediately to Anton. He then put everything in his inventory and inspected them.
One of the purses had a rotten green color so he inspected it first and saw that it had a label that said it was poisonous and had a magic that would make the caster trace the purse to its location. The description made Anton gasped and he immediately activated all of his auras. He got goosebumps when he saw that his mana decreased meaning that Anders was injured by the poison from the purse since he was the only one who handled it and Anton’s defenses were too high for him to be affected.
Anton then checked if the tracing magic and the poison could be removed if he let Charsi repair it so he did. He was so grateful that the blacksmith was able to remove the tracing magic and the poison from the purse and it confirmed the fact that his Diablo II system was very powerful. The purse then said that it contained two hundred gold coins which was a massive amount of wealth.
He guessed that the owner of the purse was not afraid of the purse getting lost because of the poison and the tracing magic.
“Father one of the purses was cursed with poison and its location would be traced by the purse’s owner. I think that the vampire we killed wasn’t the original owner of the bag of holding. I already cured us of the poison and removed the tracing magic so we would not be traced anymore.” Anton said which made everyone gasp but they were relieved when they heard the second part of his statement.
He then told everyone that he would still need to inspect the items so he did. The other purse contained fifty silver coins. The books were three spell books and weirdly, two romance novels. The spell books were Charm Person, Mage Light, and Mage Armor. He was guessing that the vampire used Mage Armor to save himself from his Frozen Orb earlier. He also had Charsi repair the vampire's clothing since it looked high-end then told everyone what the other items were.
“The books were three spell books and two romance novels. The spells were Charm Person, Mage Light, and Mage Armor. The purse that had the poison and tracing magic contained two hundred gold coins and the other purse contained fifty silver coins. I also cast a spell on the vampire’s clothing so it’s now clean and free of any enchantments.” Anton then gave everything back to his father.
“That’s a massive amount of wealth that you receive there,” Lucas commented.
“Father can you give me the two romance novels that brother mentioned and can you give me your wand of magic missile and you can use the new wand of Fire Ball,” Anna coaxed his father.
Anders snorted when he heard what Anna said then he gave the two romance novels to Nermina to have her inspect their contents first to make sure that it was safe for children’s eyes.
“You can’t have the wand for now it’s too dangerous,” Anders then kept the wand of Fire Ball. Anton could see that his father was happy about having two magic wands. Anton’s father then kept the purse with silver coins and gave the purse with gold coins to Anton for safekeeping.
“Father I’m going to give Lucas thirty gold coins as a reward,” Anton said to his father and counted thirty gold coins from the purse and gave it to Nermina.
“Please don’t. We didn’t help you defeat the vampires!” Lucas said but he saw that his wife already kept the coins.
Anders just smiled and told Lucas to not worry about it since it was his son’s decision.
