The first part of their journey to the city of Zalnothel began and Anton noticed that Frederick wasn’t in their carriage.

“From now on, the mage will be joining Father, Lucas, and Nemina so it will just be us in here,” Anna said to his brother.

Colin also left the carriage since he was assigned a task by Anders and it was for him to assist someone in creating more of the lantern woodcraft so Anton would have more to enchant. The lanterns that he enchanted last night were supposed to be used by the caravan but since they were sold to that magic shop, he would need to enchant some more so the caravan would have something to use.

In the meantime, Anna was practicing her magic by casting her sole cantrip on an empty wooden tablet of air conditioner and then memorizing the cantrip again so he joined her by memorizing all the books that he purchased.

Anton was surprised to learn that he was able to memorize the three first-level spells that he purchased in less than thirty minutes and was also able to memorize the two second-level spells that he bought in less than thirty minutes as well.

He then started making his grimoire since according to Frederick, the process of creating a mage's personal grimoire was for the mage to write down the spell in his grimoire while the spell was memorized. Once the spell was written, he would need to activate the spell by casting the spell on the grimoire while looking at the spell that was written while holding the original spellbook where he learned the spell. After that, the original spellbook would be consumed and he could memorize the spell from his grimoire.

That was the main reason why spellbooks were valuable. The good thing about the mage’s grimoire was nobody else was supposed to be able to read it not until the mage who owned it died but normally mages would attach a spell to their grimoire that would consume it once they died. Anton then wondered why the vampires he killed dropped spellbooks and according to Frederick, those happen sometimes. Wizards who acquired spellbooks and hadn’t had the chance to enter those spells in their grimoire would keep those spellbooks with them.

Anton then asked the mage how did one create a spellbook and Frederick didn’t know.

After memorizing all of the spells that he purchased, Anton still hadn’t felt the feeling of fullness that Frederick and Anna said that one was supposed to experience once they reached the maximum number of spells one could memorize and that meant that he was supposed to be still capable of memorizing more spell and possibly higher level spells.

It took a couple of hours to complete his grimoire and memorize all of his spells again. Suddenly, Anna shouted.

“I can feel it! After I wrote down my first spell in my grimoire, I memorized the spell again and then cast it and after memorizing the spell again I felt in my mind that I could add another cantrip to my repertoire! A good thing I purchase a few of them.”

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Anton then knew that he probably made the mistake of not purchasing more spellbooks from the city since he was now planning to enroll in a magic academy together with Anna.

“By the way Anna, study your magic hard while we’re traveling since Father and I decided to enroll in one of the magic academies in Zalnothel.”

“I can understand why there’s a need for me to join the magic school but why are you joining? Your magic came from something else,” Anna asked.

“I can use the magic in this world so I will disguise myself as a regular mage. As for the reason, it is to increase our status in the city since Father’s initial plan was for us to stay there in that city. According to Lucas and Nemina, Zalnothel is a very powerful city guarded by several archmages so even if the Undead Coalition reached there, it was fully capable of defending itself from the invaders.”

Anton then thought to himself that he was getting tired of running as well so it would be a good thing for them to stop in that city and if the undead did reach that city, he would fight with them with all of his power.

After lunchtime arrived, Anton and Anna stopped their magic studies and Anna went back to reading her fantasy books. The carriage was still comfortable since they were using the metal butterfly sculpture that was enchanted by the air conditioner that Anton gave to his sister. Colin arrived with five newly created lantern-like woodcraft so Anton started enchanting them with the Fire Bolt light and soon they were done.

Colin then said that they were still crafting some more lanterns and would give him more once they were done. He gave the completed lanterns to Colin to be given to his father to be distributed.

Anton then went inside his Diablo II game but instead of playing, he went directly to the Rogue Encampment to begin studying the Warmth passive spell. After a couple of hours, he finally managed to pinpoint the mana pathways that would gather the ambient mana from the environment to be stored in the mana storage. There were three known pathways that Anton discovered. One for the suction of the mana in the air, one to filter and convert to general non-elemental mana, and the third one to direct the converted mana to the mana storage to be stored.

Once he discovered the mana pathways, Anton then proceeded to add them to the wooden tablet of air conditioner that he prepared. Unfortunately, even after three hours of trial and error, he was still unsuccessful since the wooden tablet’s mana pathways were being distorted by the mana that was sucked from the environment. After hours of experimentation, Anton stopped since it was getting late but then he felt that he was on the verge of becoming successful in adding the mana regeneration pathway to his enchantments so he knew that he would persist later after dinner.

The caravan soon stopped and Anton joined his family for dinner. The table where they set up the food was very bright due to the enchanted lanterns that Anton made and everyone felt the feeling of cheerfulness in the environment. Anton wondered how a simple thing such as a bright light could alter an environment’s aura.

After dinner, he went to the animals to heal them and provided mana water to them to make sure that they were all in their peak condition. All of the horses were still affectionate towards him as if they recognized Anton as the one who was making sure that they were healthy and the one who was providing them delicious water.

Anton then went and took a bath after providing mana water to his family and friends and then went inside the carriage. Everyone was truly happy to stay inside the carriages since it was comfortably cold inside and for a moment, he pitied the guards who were supposed to patrol the caravan during the night.

He then suddenly remembered his resolve to befriend the people in the caravan to prevent anyone from thinking that he was some sort of a snob. He didn’t even know the name of the person who was driving their carriage and the only excuse that he could give was that he was truly busy every day.