Anton checked the time and it was only around seven in the evening so he decided to continue his adventures in the world of Sanctuary so he could reach the Hell Difficulty of his Diablo II game and begin grinding for items and levels.

He wanted to become as powerful as he could using his Diablo II system before they arrived at a wizard city. Anton wanted to make sure that he could protect his family from everyone, even high-level wizards.

Inside his Diablo II game, Anton decided to rush the game. In an hour, he reached the Travincial and killed the council members. When he checked the time, it was already eleven in the evening. He decided to quit the game and watch a sitcom. After an hour more, Anton decided to sleep.

Anton heard knocking on his door and when he quickly checked the time, it was three in the morning. When he opened the door it was Colin.

“What happened?”

“Monsters attack during the night but they were handled by your father and the guards. Young Devon was reckless though and got injured so your father was calling you to heal him.”

Anton followed Colin and his assistant led him to the village hall. He saw Devon with an injury on his leg so he immediately activated all of his auras and added the man to his party system. Devon noticed that his leg wound was immediately healing and then the young guard saw Anton enter the village hall.

“Why did you get injured?” Anton asked the man.

“This stupid git got used to being a reckless warrior due to your powerful healing spell,” Lucas said sternly while glaring at his son.

“I wasn’t there why would he be reckless?’

“It’s because he’s a stupid git!” Lucas clearly was very angry with his son.

“So how many monsters attacked the village?”

“There were around fifteen of them, three trolls, and the rest were kobolds. We were able to defeat them as fast as we could because of my wand.”

Anders then gave his two wands to Anton so he could recharge the items which he immediately did and returned them to his father.

Seeing that Devon was okay he asked his Father if there was still a need for him to stay and Anders told him that everything was all right now so he immediately went back to his room to continue sleeping.

The next day Anton joined his family for breakfast and Lucas and Nemina were still angry at Devon since the couple was glaring at their son while Anna and Lunelle kept laughing at the young guard.

“When are we leaving this village?” Anton asked his father.

“Tomorrow morning.”

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“Lucas, can you announce to the guards to not be reckless until I inform anyone that they are under my healing spell? And please remember that my spell has limited spots during battle so I would prioritize you and Devon and the frontlines just like what I did when we attacked the monsters besieging the town.”

“I will. Actually, it was a mistake to behave like a berserker so from now on we will fight like we used to, being careful not to get hit.”

Anton was glad that Lucas was a clear-headed guy and knew what to do, which he should be since he was an experienced mercenary.

“That’s a good idea so from now the guards should rely on your healing spells after battle instead of during,” Anders added.

After breakfast, Anton left everyone and went back to his room to continue leveling up. He didn’t even ask what the others were doing and they didn’t inform him of anything.

“Brother are you not bored not doing anything in your room?” Anna suddenly asked.

“I’m doing something. I’m meditating to increase my power. The problem is it's going to take a long time now for me to increase my power since my spells have advanced. Not like before when I kept earning new spells with just a few hours of meditation. Now it would probably take months before my power increased. Also, it wasn’t boring for me since time flies while I’m meditating.” Anton replied.

Once he was back in his room, Anton entered the game and continued playing to complete Act III of the Nightmare Difficulty as soon as possible. He entered the Durance of Hate and the gloomy atmosphere of the area was truly frightening but since he was used to it already and had encountered it before during the Normal Difficulty, Anton just soldiered on.

Anton was overpowered in the area so he wasn’t afraid that any monster would be able to defeat him. At first, he was a bit worried since his skill points were scattered to different spells instead of putting all of it into the most useful spells for leveling up like concentrating on Frozen Orb and Cold Mastery but the fact that he was there personally and able to cast spells with just a thought made it easier for him to do battle.

He was able to utilize Teleport and the ability to Fly using Telekinesis without any problem and even though it would take more spells before the enemies died compared to a character who had min-max spells, the challenge was making his adventure in the world of Sanctuary much more engaging.

After three hours of playing, he reached Mephisto and after an hour of battle, he was able to defeat the Act III boss. His mercenary died after a few minutes and that meant that he needed to drink an endless amount of mana potions. He was glad that he stored a huge amount of it in his inventory since his inventory was now huge.

Anton was glad that he was not going to encounter the same thing in real life since his mercenary would not die while he was outside the game and he had access to the mercenary’s auras in real life.

Mephisto died after a long battle but the boss monster did not drop any notable equipment. Even though Anton was a bit disappointed, it was expected. He would only receive items once he began grinding by killing the bosses over and over and would probably do it using the on-screen option since it would be faster that way.

He was so glad that he had access to the Internet since he could view the guides created by gamers on famous streaming sites and that Diablo II was so popular that a lot of gamers were still covering the game especially since the developers of the game resuscitated it by releasing an enhanced version called Diablo II Resurrected.

The moment Anton completed Act III of Diablo II, he minimized the game to rest. He opened his browser to watch some anime. While watching an episode of an anime, he wished that there was some way he could share it with his sister or his father. Anna would really be amazed to watch some of the movies and shows that he had access to so in a fit of whimsy, he prayed loudly.

“Oh god of system, my Diablo II system, please allow me to share my browser with my family so they can enjoy watching movies and shows with me.”

Anton laughed at himself believing that nothing would happen but then he saw a flashing red notification in his view.