Anton and the others stayed in Norad town for five hours and in that time, Nemina was able to purchase a lot of things. Based on what he saw, there would not be a food problem anytime soon for their mini caravan but Nemina said that they were still planning to purchase a lot of necessities and things that could be purchased from the villages and towns that they would pass through on the way to the city of Greton.

Anders said that it was reasonable for them to do so since it would allow them to fully utilize their storage items. Most of the food items they purchased were uncooked so that meant that they would have to take the time to do some cooking every time they stopped for camping.

According to Lucas, their next stop would be a village and they would arrive there after a day of travel. Lucas also warned them that once they arrived in Greton, they would need to purchase a map since the man wasn’t familiar with places after Greton.

They left soon after, leaving the town of Norad far behind. Anton dismissed the Spirit Wolves and the Grizzly Bear but left the three Dire Wolves with Lucas, Devon, and his father. He could see that those men were truly enjoying riding the monstrous Dire Wolves.

Anton also completed his plan of assigning one summoned Raven to each of the ladies. The women were highly impressed at the Ravens’ power and intelligence since they could obey even some of the more complex commands.

Anna even came up with the idea of using the Ravens to send messages to each other and they amused each other by sending little messages to the other carriage.

The only problem that Anton could see was that the Ravens were huge so the summoned birds would need to stay outside the carriage.

“There’s something peculiar about your summoned Ravens. They don’t smell anything,” Anna said and Anton just shrugged.

It was expected since the summoned animals were not true animals. They would probably only smell if they killed something and even then, once they were dismissed and resummoned, the smell would be gone.

The ladies busied themselves in coming up with names for their Ravens and also did their best to make sure that the birds were personalized by copying what Devon had done which was putting colored ribbons in the necks of the summoned birds.

Anna being a teenage girl that she was inevitably chose a pink ribbon. The twins, Ramona and Belinda chose red and blue ribbons. He didn’t know what color Lunelle and Nemina chose and he would probably notice when they stopped for the night.

Looking at the beautiful scenery outside, one couldn’t imagine that behind them lay a city that was being besieged by horrifying undead monsters and further behind were places that were already decimated by the monsters. The forest was green and teeming with life and one could expect to see magical animals like unicorns and sprites but instead, they were wary of encountering monsters.

Soon the forest was awash with the colors of the sunset and since twilight was coming upon them, Lucas, Devon, and Anders began searching for a camp where they could stay for the night.

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Anton was glad that his father was amusing himself with riding the Dire Wolf and he thought that Lucas, Devon, and Anders were probably intrigued at the fact that they were traveling soundlessly on top of monstrous predators.

The Dire Wolves were so fast and powerful that Lucas, Devon, and Anton’s father were able to hunt animals in the surrounding forest without any issue. According to Anders who was taking a few minute's breaks inside the carriage his storage items were accumulating boars and deer and it was a good thing that they purchased a lot of herbs and spices that they could use to cook game animals with.

One advantage that they had during their travel was everyone went back to drinking mana water during every meal and that wonderful magical water was keeping them refreshed. It also helped that Anton was healing everyone every time they stopped using his auras.

Even the horses were beginning to look healthy since Anton was allowing them to drink mana water as well and healing them using his auras. Anton even suspected that their original horses, Maide, and Bailey were becoming spirit animals. They had this wisdom in their eyes and according to Colin, the two horses were beginning to be able to follow even the more complex commands.

Devon announced that he had found the perfect campsite and led the two carriages there. It was in the middle of a copse of trees.

Colin and Frederick parked the two carriages and everyone got busy in preparing their campsite including the tents that they would use to rest. Nemina, Lunelle, and the twins were busy preparing their dinner and the other were preparing the fire and the tents, as usual, Anton was idle which was making a bit embarrassed.

Anton offered to help but Anders said to him that it would be better for him to meditate so he could increase his power. He saw Lucas and Devon were butchering a boar each but looking at them, there were not any worries on their faces regarding attracting any predators.

The Dire Wolves and the five Ravens were already patrolling the area so everyone was assured. The wolves even brought in game animals once in a while until Lucas, Devon, and Anders had to command the wolves to stop.

Anton was amused to see that Devon, after butchering a boar and giving the parts to his mother, was brushing the Dire Wolf’s pelt.

“Anton, does your summons get hungry?” Devon suddenly asked.

“You know what, I actually don’t know but I don’t think so. The Dire Wolves though have this ability wherein they can eat corpses but they would only do that if they were injured and wanted to heal their bodies and they’re the only ones who have that ability. Usually, I don’t bother with that since if a summon got injured or even killed, I would just summon them again.”

“Do you summon the same animals or is it different each time?”

“I don’t know. Let’s test it out.”

Anton dispelled the Dire Wolf that Devon was brushing and then summoned it again. When the Dire Wolf appeared, they were sure it was the same one since it was wearing the rope around its neck that Devon used to identify his wolf from those of his father and Anders.

“Well I guess that answered the question,” Anton said to Devon.

They tested the theory again by Anton dispelling all of the Ravens and summoning them again and when they appeared, each of them had different colored ribbons on their necks. Each of the Ravens also responded to the names that the women assigned them and that fact greatly relieved the girls. Even Nemina and Lunelle’s Ravens wore ribbons and they chose the color yellow and green.

Anton wondered if it was a mistake for the others to become close to his summons but then he shrugged. Everyone was a little melancholy because of what happened with their lives in Zalnothel and a companion animal was a great therapy for everyone.

“Colin, Frederick, you don’t have animals of your own. Do you want Spirit Wolves?” Anton asked.

Unsurprisingly both men nodded and both of them were excited when Anton offered so he immediately summoned a couple of Spirt Wolves and assigned them to Colin and Frederick after giving the same instruction as he gave the Dire Wolves and the Ravens to follow their new master obediently.