The next day, the circus caravan continued to their next village or town destination. Rendira told Mark that it was time for the twins to go back to learning and even though the boys were full of complaints they joined their teacher in her cart so they could carry on with their learning. Mark consoled the twins that it would just be for three hours and they could join Liriel, Milena, and her three new assistants on top of Yoda’s back.
In the meantime, Mark continued teaching Nedertu to drive the SUV and he reckoned that after a few hours, the catman would be ready to learn how to drive the RV and after that, they could travel in style inside the recreational vehicle. Although with the number of resources that he could conjure and the variety of lifestyle spells he had he really couldn’t say that they hadn’t traveled in style before and if he weren’t lazy about driving the RV, he could have driven it himself while traveling with the circus.
At around lunchtime, Mark and Nedertu saw a couple of men riding mounts carrying the twins. They were riding towards them so Mark commanded Yoda to land and asked Nedertu to stop the SUV.
“Mark, it’s lunchtime! Our lesson is over and we could join you now,” Isaac shouted even before the riders reached them.
When the riders arrived, Mark invited the guards for lunch and they happily accepted knowing that lunch with a wizard like Mark would always be a feast.
They arranged a table and chairs on the side of the road and Mark asked everyone what they wanted to eat. Nedertu ordered roast chicken and garlic bread, Milena ordered some grilled fish with rice and the twins both wanted fried chicken and rice with ketchup. As usual, Mark replicated their order first and then asked Liriel and the guards what they wanted. Liriel pointed at everyone’s food again so he laughingly replicated everyone’s food and put it in front of the little girl who was looking at the food with big eyes. The three assistants chose to copy Milena’s order and the two guards asked the same thing as what Nedertu ordered but they boldly asked for two whole chicken roasts and Mark just laughed again and replicated their order.
Nedertu then told his friends that they didn’t have to order two whole chickens immediately since Mark would have replicated more if needed but his friends told him that they liked looking at the golden roasted chicken while they were eating and with that, they started eating their lunch.
After lunch, the twins happily joined Milena and Liriel on top of Yoda and Nedertu began driving the SUV while Mark watched. He could see that the catman was a careful driver checking everything that needed to be checked and was driving at a regular speed that they almost caught up with the circus caravan.
Mark decided after an hour to start teaching Nedertu how to drive the RV so he asked the catman to stop driving.
“Are we doing something else?” Nedertu asked.
“We’re now switching to the RV. I think you’re ready to learn how to drive it.”
He stored the SUV and took the RV from his inventory. Nedertu sat behind the driver’s seat and Mark taught him the difference between the SUV and the RV. Since the difference was minimal, after a few minutes, Nedertu started driving.
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Nedertu was driving the RV smoothly and Mark reckoned that the catman was ready to start driving them using the mobile home vehicle starting the next day and all other things that Nedertu would need to learn could be learned on the job.
The good thing about Nedertu returning to driving them was that it would give him the freedom to continue dungeon diving to increase his level, and even Liriel was getting used to being looked after by Milena.
That night, Mark summoned two RVs and Milena was the one who cooked dinner for them. One disadvantage of letting go of their cart and using the RV was all the food and spices Milena bought, all their clothes, and things that were usually stored in the cart were now stored in the RV and that meant that he couldn’t just store the RV in his inventory anytime but at least it was going to be manageable since Nedertu would be the one handling driving the RV and soon after the catman taught Milena how to drive, both of them could drive it. It was a good thing that the RV had a huge storage compartment for all the things they had.
While they were eating dinner cooked by Milena, Mark asked Nedertu a question.
“What happened to our cart?”
“The halflings bought it from us for a tenth of what you paid them to make it.”
Mark shrugged indicating that it was that it was okay with him what happened to the cart.
“When are we going to arrive in the next location?”
“Three days from now we’ll arrive at a small village and we’ll stay there for two days. Then after that, there’s going to be a five-day travel until we reach the next town.”
After dinner, everyone was still energetic but no one wanted to go outside the RV. It was starting to heat up due to the summer season approaching and the air conditioning inside the RV was comfortable. The twins asked for something to watch and Mark thought that it was time for him to introduce his family to one of the greatest media entertainment of all time. Animes.
He thought of which one to start first then he thought of Naruto, one of his favorite animes growing up.
“Everyone we’re watching something that I watched when I was a child. It’s from a town in my country famous for creating great animations which we call animes.”
Everyone then prepared themselves to watch the show that Mark was recommending since everything that he had recommended so far was truly great.
Before he started playing Naruto, he explained to everyone the concept of anime. They were not totally unfamiliar since they had seen animated films but he told them that one of the main differences was the length of the show and that it was separated into episodes and that some animes consisted of few episodes and some had hundreds of episodes.
After three episodes, he announced that it was time for the kids to sleep and the boys loudly protested saying that they wanted to watch more. The way the boys were pouting made them really look cute and with Liriel copying her brothers, it was a fatal attack so Mark relented and let them watch one more episode.
While they were watching, Mark gave Milena a laptop that had all the movies that they had watched so far and told her that since they had their RV, they could use the television there to watch movies and they could even invite their friends. When Milena and Nedertu heard that Mark gave them the freedom to do whatever they wanted on their RV they were excited.
Looking at their excited faces, he then asked them if there would be a need to relocate the RV somewhere away from his RV so they could make loud noise however they wanted and the two looked at each other and resolutely nodded.
Mark then told Nedertu to drive the RV somewhere away from theirs since the catman knew how to drive already so after watching the last episode of Naruto that they had agreed to watch, Nedertu, Milena and her assistants went to their RV and Mark saw the RV drove somewhere away from theirs.
He then prepared the kids then brought them to their bunk beds. Mark was glad to see that as soon as they laid them down to their beds, the children were fast asleep, which was really understandable with the excitement they had during the day.