The next day arrived and after breakfast, Anton and Anna prepared themselves to learn the magic from Frederick. The twins and Colin were by the side with Colin busying himself cleaning something and when Anton took a closer look, the man was cleaning his boots. The twins were reading Anna’s first notebook and they were wholly focused on it.

Frederick arranged a blackboard from somewhere and using chalk wrote down some sort of letters. He then informed Anton and Anna who were holding notebooks and pens about the letters on the board.

Basically, the mage was teaching them the letters of the arcane language used in spellbooks. The plan was for the mage to teach them the language’s vowels first, then the whole alphabet, and then the consonants. It was like English in a way and Anton didn’t know how to describe it so he just concentrated on learning while writing the letters in their notebook and following the mage’s teachings on how to pronounce the vowels and the consonants.

The first lesson was after breakfast until lunchtime and it consisted of several parts. When lunchtime arrived, Frederick told them that lessons would be from morning until lunchtime then a couple of hours before dinner for review. Lunch arrived and the caravan stopped to rest the horses and for them to have lunch. Anton went outside to heal all the animals and used all of his auras including the Vigor Aura so the animals would be full of energy then he joined his father for lunch.

“How was your lesson?” Anders asked while they were eating.

“It was boring!” Anna said and Anton nodded agreeing with his sister.

Anders laughed when he heard what his daughter said.

After lunch, they all went back to their carriage. Anton told everyone that he would meditate but he didn’t mind if they were noisy. If they need his attention, they would need to touch his arm. Everyone nodded and went back to what they were doing while Anton sat in a corner, maximized his game, and entered the World of Sanctuary personally.

Anton utilized all his spells in combat including making sure to learn how to master combining teleport with flying using Telekinesis while fighting. After two hours of fighting, he reached the Arcane Sanctuary.

In the Arcane Sanctuary, Anton decided not to fly because he found the dimension quite scary. Looking at the surroundings was making him a bit dizzy and the thought of falling into the endless void raised goosebumps all over his body. He even avoided using Teleport on the location. He focused on fighting the enemies instead of looking at the surroundings and when he reached the boss of the location, The Summoner, Anton only felt relieved since that meant that he would be leaving the area.

When he was playing the game behind a computer, the Arcane Sanctuary was one of his favorite areas because of its uniqueness. But being in the area personally left him a bit terrified. He never knew that he had a phobia of falling into the void even though it was filled with twinkling stars. A quick search on the internet said that it could be Megalophobia or Kenophobia. He wasn’t sure if he could classify what he was feeling as a phobia since he was actually just exaggerating. He wasn’t really terrified but just uncomfortable.

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After killing The Summoner Anton arrived at the Canyon of the Magi. He was planning to explore and kill all the monsters in all of the tombs not only the one where Duriel was located. By the time Frederick touched his arm to get his attention, he explored and completed one tomb raising his level to sixty-six. He immediately put the skill points on Telekinesis since it was the most useful skill he had for now in the real world.

Anton wondered if he should keep exploring every nook and cranny of the tombs in the Canyon of the Magi or just complete Act II as soon as possible by killing Duriel so he could activate the option of increasing the difficulty using the Player X command. At least, with that option, he could concentrate on leveling up fast and then focus on grinding for items. He knew that more power would mean more safety for him and his family especially now that his father was establishing his business empire.

After parking his Sorcerer beside the private stash in the Rogue Encampment, Anton minimized the game. The review lesson started and he and Anna concentrated on learning as much as they could since they would only be able to learn how to cast spells using spellbooks once they learned the language.

The lesson ended soon after and then Frederick gave his feedback.

“You’re both learning the language very fast so my plan was after several days, we would converse exclusively using the language so you would learn it faster. You would also need more notebooks since writing something, like a poem or an essay using the arcane language will let you learn the language faster,” Frederick said.

“Okay, I’ll tell Father to buy us more notebooks. I did purchase a lot so my brother could write the books by David Eddings. We could use those without any problem,” Anna said.

Soon the caravan stopped so they could eat dinner and rest.

While they were eating, a guard who was on patrol reported seeing signs of monsters in the surrounding area.

“More than likely the caravan would be attacked by monsters before we arrive in the next village, either by tomorrow or the day after so prepare yourselves,” Lucas told everyone.

Devon then mentioned that there was an increase in attacks by monsters in the area since a lot of the monsters migrated to avoid the undead armies that were attacking the cities before the Holy City of Tiande.

“Frederick, after dinner can you tell me more about the monsters that could be found in the surrounding area so we would know what to expect,” Anton asked the mage.

“I’ll give you a rundown later then.”

After dinner, Anton took a bath and also had to provide bathwater for his family and friends, He also didn’t forget to provide the mana water for their drinking water to make sure that his family would receive the benefits of the magical water. Anna of course would complain if she didn’t drink and bathe in the water provided by Anton since it was making her “pretty”. She also implored Anton to include the twins on the daily mana water allowance so her maid would become as pretty as her.

Ramona then quietly asked Anna what was mana water. Anton’s sister explained the magical water and they both gasped when they heard that the water would make them beautiful as time passed by. The twins were then surprised to learn that Anders was already in his mid-forties since they were sure that he was only in his mid-thirties, which made Anton’s father laugh.

“See that Father, you look young now. When are we expecting a new mother?” Anton joked.

Anders just rolled his eyes but Anton saw a brief sadness in his father and sister’s eyes. He knew then he touched on a sensitive matter since they both knew that Anton had forgotten all about his mother.

Anton then vowed to himself that he wouldn’t bring up the topic that would remind his father and sister that he had forgotten all about Annette, their mother, and Ander’s wife.