Mark and his family reached their RV almost immediately and everyone was too excited by the recent fight that they were talking about endlessly. The twins were particularly excited and kept telling everyone that their dragon was mighty and would have won if Mark hadn’t commanded it to not attack Hamil and his group with severe damage.

The dragon was following them while all the plant golems were long gone since their duration was short. Mark remembered that he was planning to add the rest of his skill points to his summons if he didn’t distract himself with his new void dragon.

“Mark, can we play with the dragon with our friends?” Isaac asked.

“Sure. Milena, can you watch over them? I’ll handle our lunch for today.”

Milena nodded and followed the twins who were already running with their friends and asking the dragon to follow them. The dragon ignored the kids and just lay down on the clearing beside the RV.

“Mark, can you command the dragon to fly us?” Aaron asked.

“Not yet. It’s too dangerous. What if one of you fall? We’ll wait until the seat that’s being constructed by the halfings and the dwarves are done.”

Mark went inside the RV while the kids climbed all over the dragon. Milena and a few other adults were watching the kids but most likely they were there to watch the dragon. The dragon was truly beautiful and it was scarce for anybody to get near one without danger.

He was planning to spend his remaining skill points before lunch and then he would prepare food for his family but before he started, Mark heard someone knocking on his door.

When he opened the door, he saw Hamil, Linuel the leader of the actors or should he say the director? Nedertu, Lorendo, Dozon and Mosalan.

“Hi, guys! Please come in. How can I help you?” Mark invited everyone to the RV and he served them pizzas and beers.

“This is what I liked about visiting you, Mark. Your food is one of the best I’ve tasted,” Hamil said with a mouth full of pizza while everyone else vigorously nodded to indicate their agreement, not stopping stuffing their mouths with pizza.

Mark had to conjure several more boxes of pizza. He was proud of his pizzas because as mentioned before, his food was all gourmet prepared by the best chef so even his fast food like his hamburgers, pizzas, tacos, hotdog sandwiches, Subway sandwiches, French fries, and more were all highly elevated from the normal usual fast food.

After everyone was full, Hamil went back to the reason why they came.

“When you showed us the video clip of the...what do you call that ride again? Roller Coaster? We got a glimpse of your land’s circus and we want to know more.”

“Well in our land, we do have traveling circuses but most of our circuses and amusement parks are now located in a single location. Almost every family in our land has a television; its main function is not for films or shows but for advertising. Merchants use them to advertise their products between or in the middle of shows so consumers would be aware of what product to buy. Circuses and amusement parks also use advertising to invite their customers instead of traveling around.”

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Mark paused to drink some beer then continued while everyone listened raptly.

“Since circuses and amusement parks stay in a single location, they built huge rides and attractions and most of them were based on movies. An example is a fun ride that looked like mini spaceships from Star Wars which were the movies we recently watched. The constructions were also massive and sturdy since they didn’t want any accidents. A good example of attractions aside from rides were places that customers could visit and explore like haunted mansions full of fake ghosts with the sole purpose of scaring the customers for entertainment.”

The circus leaders' eyes glowed with the ideas that Mark presented to them. Some of the ideas were not viable like the huge sturdy constructions but some could be adapted.

Mark then showed everyone video clips of amusement parks and the different rides and attractions that could be found there. After that he let them watch the movie that he’d seen once called Action Point which was a 2018 movie starring Johnny Knoxville. He watched it together with the others since he couldn’t remember the details of the movie.

They finished watching the movie before lunch and Hamil asked for a copy of the video clip that they had seen about circuses and amusement parks.

“I will conduct a meeting with the others and check what attractions we could adapt. Our circus is going to be huge!” Hamil said excitedly then they all left without waiting for any words from Mark which only made him smile since it indicated how truly excited everyone was with the new ideas for circus attractions they had seen.

Mark didn’t know what would result from their meeting but he was looking forward to it. A few minutes later, the twins and Milena came back for lunch and Mark assumed that Nedertu would not join them since they just ate but he was wrong. Nedertu came back with a smile on his face saying that he couldn’t wait for lunch.

Mark gaped at the cat man but just shrugged.

“What do you want for lunch?” He asked everyone.

“I smelled pizza! I want pizza and soda!” Isaac shouted with Aaron repeatedly saying “Pizza.”

Milena nodded agreeing with the kids’ choice for lunch and Nedertu shrugged indicating that he didn’t mind eating pizza again.

Mark conjured a lot of pizza and soda for them and they all overate so when the twins asked if they could continue playing with the dragon, Mark said he would join them so he could digest the food in his stomach sooner.

When they went near the dragon, Mark saw that the dragon was still full of kids and some adults as well while the massive creature just stared at nothing while slowly blinking once in a while. It looked powerful and adorable at the same time lying there being played at by the circus people.

Mark joined the kids in playing tag above the dragon for a few minutes then stopped and told the twins that he would check the seats being created by the halfings and dwarves. The twins just nodded and then ignored him, continuing to play with their friends. He also saw Milena was with the other adults talking to them about something so he left and looked for the halflings and the dwarves.

He found them in a clearing near Mosalan’s cart and saw that Eilintraee was with them casting some spells on the wood that somebody gathered from the forest. Mark just watched the halfings and the dwarves constructing the seats and he was impressed by their speed. He also noticed that the wood they were using looked like it was processed already and remembered a fact that they needed to use aged wood which was what Eilintraee was doing.

Mark wondered how the halflings could be so strong given their small stature. It defies the laws of physics then he remembered he was in a world of sword and sorcery which by its very nature defies the laws of physics as he knew it and follows a different set of laws.

He just shrugged and went back to the RV after waving his goodbye to Eilintraee, the halflings, and the dwarves.