The army of monsters that was heading towards their caravan was truly frightening. Anton even saw Anna’s maids shivering while hugging each other.

“Father, Lucas, you will all stay here and just kill anything that would pass by me.”

Anton’s father and Lucas nodded and he saw his father take out his wand and prepare. Lucas then commanded all the warriors to unsheathed their weapons.

Anton activated all of his auras and made sure to turn on the visual effect so everyone would see him. The main reason was for his people to have confidence in the power of their wizard and for the monsters to focus on him. He then flew up but not too high so that the monsters would not see him. He moved forward and was glad to see that when the monsters saw him, they focused on him instead of the caravan.

Anton then began his spell-casting. He first summoned several meteors so he could target the monsters that were far away. Several huge flaming rocks were summoned from the heavens and landed on top of the army of monsters that caused severe devastation in their midst. Anton saw the monsters panicking since a lot of them were killed outright and some even just evaporated due to the fire caused by the meteors. He kept casting meteors until he was almost deaf from the impact that the flaming rocks were making on the surrounding area.

When he saw that the monsters were still rushing towards him, he then started casting Frozen Orb and Blizzard and the powerful ice spells caused the monsters to freeze and shatter. The destruction caused by his spell was tremendous and Anton almost laughed out loud. He wanted to let loose his inner chunibyo and shout at the monsters “How dare you attack me! I’m a god powerful enough to smite you out of this world!” but he held himself from shouting the stupid phrase.

He kept casting Meteors to the monsters at the back, Blizzard in the middle of the army, and Frozen Orb at the front of the army. After several minutes of casting his spells, the monster army was devastated and only a quarter of them were left.

The monsters then began retreating and running away chaotically back into the parts of the forest that were still not burning. When Anton saw that all the monsters were gone, he cast Blizzards to parts of the forest that were still burning but controlled his mana so the spell would turn from ice into water making it into a regular rain. He did it several times until he was sure that the forest was not burning anymore.

With that action, Anton personally confirmed that he was powerful enough to defeat an army in the real world using his spells. He did know it already since he was doing it inside the game personally ever since he transmigrated into this world but having that confirmation relieved him since that meant that he would have the power to protect himself and his family.

Anton would not be complacent though since the monsters were considered low-level creatures and he didn’t know how he would do against high-level enemies like elder liches or arch-wizards.

He also knew that he was ignorant and that’s the reason why he wanted to learn the magic of this world. What Anton had right now was like a person carrying a very powerful gun but what he wanted was to learn the secrets behind the magic just like the sage Elminster from Dungeons and Dragons or the seven chosen of Mystra from the same franchise or Belgarath and his brothers in David Eddings’s series. They could do magic because they knew the underlying mechanism of their world.

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Anton flew back down, turned off the visual effect of his auras, and approached the caravan. Everyone in the caravan was looking at him in awe as if he were a god but thankfully except for his family and Lucas’s family who were just looking at him proudly.

Lucas suddenly shouted.

“Long live Wizard Anton! As long as he is here we’re safe!”

The shout startled Anton which made Anders and Anna laugh.

Everyone else shouted with Lucas though. When he approached his father, Anders asked him a question.

“Are there any more monsters that we should be wary of?”

“No. Only a quarter of them were left and I saw them running into the forest.”

Anders then told him that he did well then asked Lucas to prepare everyone to leave. His father wanted to move on quickly to avoid any lingering monsters in the area although Anton was sure that the remaining monsters would be terrified to show their head while he was there.

Anton and Anna went to their carriage followed by Frederick, Colin, and Anna’s mage, Ramona, and Belinda. When they got inside the carriage Frederick spoke with him.

“Anton, you’re as powerful as an archmage!” Frederick declared.

“I don’t know about that. What I can do is limited that’s why I wanted to learn magic from you,” Anton replied.

“I’m sure that even after a hundred years, I would not be able to do what I’ve seen you do earlier. You flew! Then cast flaming meteors toward an army of monsters! Then you cast some sort of ice spells that caused the monsters to freeze and shatter. When Anna was telling her story about your escape from the undead army, I had my doubts but now, I believe that you could even destroy that army and the only thing that held you back was your need to make sure that your family was safe!” Frederick exclaimed.

“To tell you the truth I’m not sure about that. The monsters I killed today were weak. The army of the undead that we encountered had powerful liches. I even saw them interrupt a meteor. We only escaped because of a spell I cast on our horses that made them run very fast and untiring,” Anton said, which made the mage’s eyes go wide.

Colin and Anna’s maids were looking at Anton with sparkling eyes. Since the carriage was moving, Anton asked Frederick to continue with their lesson so the mage did. The recent battle made Anna focus on learning what Frederick was teaching. Seeing her brother summoning meteors and destroying monsters with ice spells confirmed her desire to become a sorceress as well and since the maids had nothing to do, they requested to join the lesson. Anton just shrugged and gave the responsibility to Frederick.

The mage looked at the beautiful twins for a few seconds and agreed although the mage announced that he would not repeat the first lessons and that they would just need to catch up on their own. The twins had huge smiles on their faces when they were allowed to learn with Anna.

Frederick stopped his lesson when lunchtime arrived. The caravan continued traveling so they ate their lunch while moving. Anders announced that they would only stop when they camp for the night.

After lunch, Anna taught her maids what she and Anton learned during the first lesson since Frederick told her that teaching was also a great way to learn while Anton announced that he would be meditating. Before Anton meditated though, Frederick asked him how his meditation worked and he gave the mage bullshit information about him gathering energy that allowed him to increase his power while meditating and that the technique awakened due to his bloodline. He then told the mage that that was the only information that he had on the subject.