The next day after breakfast, Anders Merchant Caravan started traveling again. During the morning, Anna practiced her magic by casting her two cantrips to a wooden tablet of air-conditioner to spend her spells then she would memorize them again and then rinse and repeat. The fact that she was able to learn a second cantrip immediately filled her with motivation.
Regarding her maids, they tried so hard to memorize the first cantrip but they weren’t successful and Frederick sadly informed them that they might not have the talent for wizardry.
Anton spent the morning playing his Diablo II game. He planned to spend the mornings playing to make sure that he would level up and complete the Hell Difficulty then he would grind for items and levels. He was still excited to get the second class but he was not that anxious anymore. The fact that he was now able to see, manipulate, and carve the mana pathways and mana structures to items opened up his magic system to endless possibilities and he had just started with a few sorceress spells. He hadn’t even experimented with creating new spells based on the original sorceress spells.
Of course, having more spells from the other class would immensely help in his research regarding enchanting items and creating new spells and the spells from the other class would make him more powerful. Anton even had this idea of not entering the academy and becoming a recluse so he could concentrate on playing the game and enchanting items but the thought of becoming a NEET even in this world gave him the heebie jeebies.
Besides, Anton becoming part of the academy and graduating from it will ensure that he would have the prestige and power of a graduate of the city and would ensure that his family would be somewhat safe in this dangerous world. It would also allow him to possibly enter the world of politics in that city but he wasn’t interested in playing that convoluted game.
Another good thing about entering the academy was he would find people and friends who would look at him equally or be looked down upon as a simple student. Being looked up to by the people surrounding him as someone untouchable because of his power was becoming tiresome real quick.
Anton managed to reach the last waypoint before the Chaos Sanctuary when he was interrupted by Anna calling him so he exited the virtual mode and minimized the game.
“Anton, Colin brought more lantern wood thingies that you need to enchant your mage light into.”
Colin then handed him a sack and when he looked inside, it had around seven or eight lanterns. When he checked the time, it was about an hour before lunch so he decided to enchant all of the lanterns with the Firebolt Light and was able to complete everything before lunch was served by Colin.
After lunch, he practiced and played the Lute for about an hour then entered the game again but this time he went directly to the Rogue Encampment and began studying enchantment again outside the safe zone.
He began by applying the mana pathways that he learned from the Warmth passive spell to the wooden board that contained the air-conditioner enchantment but even after two hours, he was still unsuccessful.
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The three mana pathways from the Warmth passive spell still kept on distorting the other mana pathways that were already carved into the wooden tablet. He kept repeating the experiment, trying to find ways that would allow Anton to incorporate the pathways to the wooden board without distorting the other pathways from the Frozen Orb spell but after destroying several wooden tablets, he was still not successful.
To contain his frustration, Anton switched to studying the magic wand that he bought that had the magic missile spell but after studying the wand minutely using his mana senses, Anton was dismayed to see that the magic system in the wand was completely different from his.
There were magical runes that were in the wand that looked like his Diablo II runes but were different. They only looked like Diablo II runes but when he studied them minutely, there were no runes that had the exact appearance of any of the few runes from Diablo II.
Anton could study the new runes by isolating each one and then through trial and error, learn what they were but that would be a massive undertaking of a lifetime and he would rather concentrate on his magic.
He felt a bit sad that he would not be able to utilize the enchanted items of this world to his brand of enchantment that meant that he would need to find ways to activate his enchantment on the items apart from a switch or else, he would not be able to create a magic wand.
Anton could still make use of the switch to make a magic wand and even a magic sword but it really felt awkward to him to have the users of his enchanted items keep switching their items on and off.
He then thought that people who would be able to use an enchanted item wouldn’t mind having to utilize a switch to activate the magic in the items since it would still make them powerful.
Then he thought of the possibility of using a switch and a button to activate the wand that Anton would make. He thought a switch would activate the spell on the wand and the button would release the spell. He thought that it might work so he started making a wand from one of the wooden tablets immediately. He noticed that he now had fewer wooden tablets that he could use for enchanting so later he would need to ask Colin for more. They didn’t even have to be wooden tablets since he could carve any general shape that he wanted using his telekinesis but then again having the wooden tablets would make it easier so he decided to just ask Colin for more.
When the wand was ready, Anton carved the switch first then he thought of how to create a button but since he didn’t have any sort of spring, he decided to use a second switch. Basically, the first switch was the one that would connect the spell structure to the mana storage, therefore activating the wand but the second switch would be the one that would allow the user to release the spell, sort of like a trigger.
After carving the mana pathways for energy storage, the mana pathway for gathering the elements, and the pathway for the level one Ice Bolt spell, he connected the pathways to the two switches. The way he made the switch for the wand was different from the air conditioner and the light. The switch for the air conditioner and the light was a rotation switch but for the wand, it was a slide switch. The user would just need to slide the button up to activate it and slide the second switch up quickly to release the spell and switch it down to stop the spell.
Anton laughed at how awkward it was but that’s the only thing that he could think of at this time. He would definitely change the way to activate the wand once he was experienced enough. The wand was still destroyed after the tenth Ice Bolt but that was because of the material that was used. He still decided to show off his prototype to his family though since it was sort of a success.