Anton was practicing his druid spells when he heard an anxious knock on his door. When he opened it, it was Nemina, Lucas and his father. Anton saw that Lucas was really anxious and Nemina had tears in her eyes.

“What happened?” Anton asked.

“Something terrible happened to the caravan. We lost all our people except for Devon, Lunelle, and Ecturne and the only reason Devon and Lunelle survived was because of the vampire,” Lucas said.

“Devon lost one of his arms and one of his legs and Lunelle lost an arm. Ecturne had to fly home carrying them.”

Anton followed the three elders while Lucas was telling him what happened to his children. Soon they arrived at a huge room that looked like a hospital wing. Nemina gave up holding her tears and released her tears. He immediately added Lunelle and Devon to his party system and the three powerful auras wielded by paladins that he had received from his mercenary inside the game and from runeword weapons did their work.

Soon Lunelle and Devon were fully healed and their lost limbs regenerated. The two tutors, Mr. Tenor and Ms. Damby, who were there watching gasped when they saw Anton’s powerful healing spells. Lunelle and Devon woke up at the same time and when they saw their bodies fully healed, they gave a relieved sigh.

“We knew that once we reach home, we’ll be fully healed,” Devon said and Lunelle nodded her agreement.

“What happened?” Anton asked.

It was Lunelle who explained what happened to them.

“During our third day of travel, we were in a town buying things when Ecturne suddenly said that we needed to run but suddenly we heard screaming. The town where we were was suddenly attacked by an army of the undead that was cloaked by a powerful lich so Ecturne didn’t notice them. Our guards tried to put up a defense but were swept by a huge number of every mix of undead. There were zombies, ghouls, vampires, and even liches. Devon and I were hit by some sort of blast spell and the spell took my arm and Devon’s leg and arm. Ecturne carried the both of us and escaped. He flew non-stop but we encountered a lot of people fleeing toward Zalnothel. One of the fleeing people was a powerful wizard from the city of Luminence in the North who said that three of the Supremes of the city became liches and then the city submitted to the Undead Coalition. The majority of the population became undead and the mages there became liches.”

Everyone became terrified at what Lunelle had said. That meant that the city of Zalnothel would be besieged by the undead on two fronts. One in the south from where they originally came from and one from the North from the city of Luminence that became part of the Undead Coalition.

Anton wondered why those powerful Supremes chose to become undead since if it was himself, he wouldn’t choose that life even if he was on the verge of death. Now he was thinking that if Supremes in that city chose to betray the living and became undead, what to say that the powerful mages in the city of Zalnothel would not do the same thing.

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He could see that everyone was thinking the same thing.

“I’m going to go get Anna from the school,” Anders suddenly announced and Zenoxus followed him.

“We’ll go ahead and close the store and put all of our assets to storage items,” Nemina said then she left followed by his husband Lucas and Luminetta. It was a good thing that they had a few large storage items.

Then they all went to the living room to wait for Anders, Nemina, and Lucas to return.

After an hour everyone returned at the same time. Surprisingly, the Archmage Voduria and the Archmage Tristan were with them.

Anna kept pestering their father about the reason why he took her from school and Anders finally shouted at her to quiet down.

“Archmage Voduria, Tristan, to what do we owe the pleasure,” Anders finally asked the two powerful archmages.

“We are aware that you already knew what happened with Luminence. Unfortunately, we have more bad news. Five Supremes from Zalnothel betrayed us as well and right now the South Gate is besieged by a huge army of the undead from the coalition.” Voduria said.

Then everyone heard the explosions in the distance. Terrifyingly, the explosions came from different places.

At that moment, Anton realized that their plan of living peacefully in the city of Zalnothel was over. They didn’t even manage to establish a cinema yet and here they were, going to run again. Anton knew that he would not stay and fight. In the grand scheme of things, even though he was powerful, he was nowhere near the level of the ones fighting inside the city which were Legends and Supremes.

“Why are you telling me this Archmage Voduria?” Anton said.

“Anton, we’re fond of you and you are truly young. That meant that your potential was endless. We’re here to advise you and your family to run. We will stay here and fight to the death if need be since this is our home and we’re old. You just arrived here in the city hoping to live your lives peacefully after your gruesome run from your home city that perished because of the Undead Coalition. Some expected you to fight with us but we don’t. We hope that you and your family are out of the city within the hour and it would be best that you leave with a few people to not attract attention,” Archmage Voduria said to him while Archmage Tristan was looking, then both archmages left.

Anton then turned to the two old tutors.

“Are you coming with us Mr. Tenor, Ms. Damby?”

“No, Anton. We’re old and we want to stay in the city until the end. Hopefully, this issue will be resolved without the city getting destroyed since there are still a lot of powerful mages here in the city.”

“I have a favor to ask of you then. As the archmages Voduria and Tristan had said, we would not be able to bring the majority of the people in the mansion with us. I want to leave them with you. We’ll leave the deeds manor and the store and all the remaining items that we were selling including the enchanted items. We will also leave fifty percent of the assets that we acquired from the Blood War gang. You don’t have to take care of them personally but once everything is settled down or even before that you can disperse the treasure to everyone including yourself. You can even sell the manor and the store.”

“We’ll do as you say,” Mr. Tristan said while Ms. Damby who was already crying nodded.

Everyone moved rapidly but Anton stayed where he was. Soon every person in the mansion was gathered in the ballroom.

When Anders went to the front, everyone quieted down.

“Our family is leaving the city but unfortunately, we won’t be able to take all of you with us,” Anders announced.

The majority of the people were confused since most of them were unaware of what was happening.

“We will leave right now. We will also leave the mansion and the store to Mr. Tristan and Ms. Damby to be sold off. We will also leave half of the assets from the Blood War Gang to be dispersed among you. Thank you so much for your service.”

The people were still confused but calmed down when they heard that they would receive a lot of coins from the two old tutors.