The next day was the start of a new week and Anton and Anna were busy were busy receiving lessons from their tutor. Anna’s schooling hours were particularly long since the start of the semester was in a week and after a few days, Ms. Damby would accompany Anton’s sister to the magic school to register.
Mr. Tenor asked Anton again if he was sure of not attending the academy this semester and Anton reiterated that their family was truly busy. They had to consolidate their position in the city and they were about to open a huge shop. Anders was also beginning to plan a merchant caravan but that was superseded by their plans to build a theater once they found a magical artifact that was capable of recording the movies without any decrease in the quality of the video and sounds.
During their lessons, Anton was learning a lot from the old tutor, Lessons that he badly needed since he was truly ignorant of this world, and during the past few weeks, they were busy running and surviving for him to be able to learn anything. He valued the tutors so much that Anton kept providing mana water to them every time they wanted to quench their thirst to make sure that the two old tutors would remain healthy.
Anton also added the two tutors to his party one time so he could heal them of any ailments they had due to their age using his three auras, the Prayer, Meditation, and Vigor Auras. The two tutors were greatly surprised when they received the healing and told Anton that they had never felt so young and so healthy in a long time.
During lunchtime, it was only Anton, his sister, and the two old tutors dining in the dining room since the others were outside the manor busy with business. Anton wanted to laugh when he saw his sister since she looked harried. Anna had no choice but to cram a lot of knowledge since she didn’t want to appear like an ignorant country girl when she entered magic school in a week and even Mr. Tenor said that he would be assisting Ms. Damby in teaching her during afternoons.
After lunch, Anton went to the warehouse but was surprised to see that there weren’t a lot of items that needed repairing. Colin said that his father, Nemina, and Lunelle were still in the process of collecting broken and worn-out items for him to repair. He then headed directly to his study and told Colin to tell him once the warehouse was full of items that needed to be repaired so he didn’t have to go to the warehouse every day. He also asked Colin to bring the items that Eric completed and stored in the warehouse to his study so he could enchant them there and to ask for help from the people from Manor for help if he needed it.
Aside from that, Anton also asked Colin to bring all the wands that needed repairing to him in his study once they reached above ten and his assistant said that he would.
Anton worked on enchanting all of the items that Eric made and after he was done, let it remain in his private stash. He would transfer them to the shop that his father would open. He also told Colin to tell Nemina to purchase sculpture decorations for every room in the mansion even the smallest room like the servant’s quarters, that would hold all the enchantments that he knew like the lantern, the air conditioner, the stove, cup of cold water and the water spout, and the water heater.
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Colin said that he would tell Nemina his instruction and would inform Anton once all of the necessary sculptures that would hold the enchantment were placed in the rooms.
Anton also gave all the mana power bank that he had made so far to Ignomus and told him to make sure that all the enchanted items in the house wouldn’t run out of mana. That meant that he would need to create more of the mana power bank and asked Colin to tell Eric the carpenter to prioritize creating the power banks.
When all of his responsibilities for the day were done, Anton saw that it was already around four in the afternoon. He thought of playing his druid character but he was feeling a bit burnt out so he decided to practice his guitar for a few minutes and would spend the rest of the time until dinner reading web novels and watching animes.
He knew that because of this behavior, Anton wouldn’t truly become super powerful since he was lazy and prone to doing his hobbies every time he felt a bit stressed or burned out. Anton knew that he should be driven like the protagonists of those Korean and Chinese web novels who could concentrate on diving into dungeons or concentrate on cultivating for hours on end without stopping but instead, he was wasting several hours a day watching animes, television shows, movies, or reading web novels. Heck, if he could play other games aside from his Diablo II he would have done that as well.
After a while, Colin knocked on the door of his study to inform him that his father and the others were already in the dining room so he minimized the browser that he was using to watch an anime and followed Colin to the dining room.
While they were eating dinner Anders announced something important.
“We have successfully completed the purchase and the paper for the shop and we will call it the Oak Sage Store so everyone will know that the store was owned by our family. We will begin renovating the store tomorrow and since there wasn’t too much renovation to be done, all of the items that were currently stored in our warehouse would be transferred to the store by tomorrow. I’ll tell you Anton when you can transfer your enchanted items there.”
“We will make sure that everything runs smoothly so in actuality, the store wouldn’t open this week but probably next week. We’re also in the process of hiring more people that would help us in managing the store,” Nemina added.
“We’re also arranging a six-carriage caravan that will go near the towns and villages to the North to purchase broken and worn out things and this caravan will be headed by Ecturne,” Anders continued.
“I found a shop that contains the item that we were looking for but I need Anton to check it out first before we purchase it to make sure that it’s the one that he would be satisfied with since the item cost a lot of coins,” Frederick said and Anton told the mage that he would follow him tomorrow afternoon after his lessons with his tutor to check it out.
Anton knew that his father and Nemina were rushing to open the store since ever since they entered Zalnothel, they only spent coins and there were no incoming coins. They did still have a lot of coins since about a third of their total wealth was still in his father's storage ring but if they didn’t earn coins soon, they would experience a deficit and it was embarrassing for an archmage like Anton to have no funds but no one was truly worried since once they started selling their items, a lot of coins would come in. Especially since the items they would sell cost them little to acquire but they would be able to sell them for a lot of profit. Both repaired items and Anton's enchanted items cost them very little to make and they knew that once they sold them they would be hugely popular to the citizens of Zalnothel.
The main draw of their items was their cheapness compared to other products in the market but of course, Anders and Nemina knew that it shouldn’t be too cheap that it would affect Zalnothel’s economy. It was only cheap enough to make sure that people would prefer to purchase their items especially if the quality was guaranteed.