Anton, his father, Frederick, and the three vampires returned to their caravan so they could enter the city of Zalnothel together with their companions. He saw that his sister, Anna, was worriedly waiting for them and had obvious relief on her face when she saw her father and brother return safely.

“What happened father, brother?” Anna asked.

Lucas and Nemina were with Anna but the others gave them privacy.

“They just asked me questions to confirm I’m not the Undead Coalition’s spy under some sort of orb of truth item,” Anton told his sister.

“It also confirmed that your brother is an archmage,” Frederick said wryly.

Lucas and Nemina gasped when they heard what Frederick had said so their eyes went directly to Anders who nodded. It had been an ongoing joke amongst them about Anton being an archmage since he’s very powerful but deep inside, they didn’t believe it since he was just too young at seventeen years old.

“Apparently, in the history of Zalnothel, only two people could compare to Sir Anton. Their founding father became an archmage at the age of fifteen a thousand years ago and another one who became an archmage at the age of nineteen and Lurien here said that it was about five hundred years ago,” Frederick added while Lurien nodded.

After that, they all went inside their carriages and entered the city. The moment they entered Zalnothel, Anton couldn’t help but gasp. The place was truly magical and invoked a severe longing to explore deep within Anton and not only that, it brought forth a deep sense of satisfaction since the city fulfilled his dreams of seeing a magical city that grows inside the minds of otakus but usually hidden deep within to avoid mockery from those who didn’t share the otakus’s passions.

Anton could see the seven very tall towers that he could only call wizard towers because of the different magical effects that one could see surrounding the buildings. The seven towers were equally tall but the design of each one of them was so different from each other that one of the towers alone could be considered as a pride of a city much less seven of them.

Based on the novels that he had read, Anton thought that those towers were probably headed by archmages and corresponded to different factions like maybe something political, bloodline, or even based on the elements. He made a bet with himself that it was about the elements just based on the color of the magic that surrounded the towers. He would have asked Lurien but the high wizard joined his father in their carriage and Bolat already left to go somewhere else.

Aside from the seven towers, several magnificent buildings could only be called palaces and he wondered if they were government buildings or even guild headquarters or something along those lines.

With how huge the city was, the towers and the palaces looked tiny in the distance but this only made the city much more attractive since that meant that there would be endless places that he could visit.

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The roads were not straightforward and looked almost like a maze but he guessed that it was because of how huge the city was. Anton’s eyes were roaming everywhere at once and he didn’t care if others would call him a rube for doing such a thing but when he checked, everyone else was doing the same thing. Anna’s mouth was even open and when he brought attention to it and laughed, his sister just glared at him briefly and went back to looking at the surroundings.

Anton knew that this time, he would have to hire a guide to be able to tour the city since he knew for a fact that he would get lost if he attempted to roam the place alone.

The next thing that Anton noticed was the diverse species of people that roamed the city. Looking at all the elves, dwarves, halflings, people who looked like serpents, people who looked like gnolls, people who looked like different animals from animes, and even some who looked like undead made his blood boil in excitement.

Now Anton knew why his vampires would not cause too much commotion since there were already undead here in this city and he knew that he made a mistake assuming that all undead belonged to the Undead Coalition. It was like him accusing all humans were evil if one human city caused atrocities.

Of course, he knew that some of those undead were probably spies for the coalition but the archmage Voduria had already said so. Anton also planned to ask the vampires later if the main cities of the Undead Coalition were as big or bigger than Zalnothel.

Anton didn’t even know where he could compare the city size to since he came from a very small city on Earth and he didn’t even have the chance to explore that city. All the size perspective that he had was from watching shows and those couldn’t be compared to seeing the real thing. He then thought of the fact that it was very simple-minded of him to plan to join an organization to attack the Undead Coalition since that plan put him in a very narrow pathway but he was thankful that the city opened his mind.

Of course, Anton still considered himself the enemy of the Undead Coalition but he decided that for this second life, he wouldn’t focus too much on revenge since it would only lead to his death and to be honest about it, he personally didn’t lose anything valuable due to the undead attack. Now he was in front of one of the greatest cities in this magical world and it contained endless possibilities.

Anton decided to talk to his father and inform him that he had rethought his decision to join an organization to fight the Undead Coalition and would hold off on doing that. He would help his father consolidate their position in this city so he would have a stable base of operation then he would think about his next move.

Looking at this giant of a magic city, Anton couldn’t imagine it falling into the hands of the undead. It was just too big and too magical but of course, he knew that he shouldn’t assume since he did lack key information and didn’t even know the information that the three vampires had since he wasn’t interested in knowing them.

While observing the surroundings, Anton wished that he joined his father in his carriage so he could ask Lurien questions about the city.

“Everything looks magnificent,” Anna softly said and Anton saw her two maids nodding fully agreeing with her.

All of their eyes were opened very wide as if they were afraid to miss anything. Anton was glad that his father took the time for him to repair and clean their carriages so their caravan didn’t look dilapidated. They looked like a respectable merchant caravan.

Lurien led them to a respectable inn that could all of them and with the high wizard’s assistance, their caravan was led to a huge courtyard that allowed them to park all of their carriages without any issues. As a matter of fact, there was still room for two or three more caravans in that huge parking space.

After that, all of them went inside the inn and because of Lurien’s presence again, the innkeeper was very respectful towards them.