That night, they continued watching the TV show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys while they ate dinner and were glad that everyone was still enjoying the show. He could hear the men in the group mocking the fight scenes and questioning the choices that the choreographer made when planning the action sequence. They learned the terms from Anton when they asked about the details of the scenes to which Anton just informed them that he didn’t know why those choices were selected since he was not a warrior himself.

They still enjoyed the humor of the show and laughed out loud during the funny scenes. To be honest, Anton enjoyed watching the reactions of the audience much more than the TV show itself.

After watching a couple of episodes, Anders announced that it was time to rest so they all did, expecting the summoned animals to guard them while they were resting, everyone rested well.

The next day, they started their journey early and arrived in the village at around eleven in the afternoon. The villagers were happy enough to see them, or at least their coins. They spent some to purchase some necessities and also the broken and worn-out equipment. The village was truly small since it didn’t even have an Inn and they had to use the village chief’s inn to conduct their business. Since the village was so small, it didn’t take them two hours before they were done so they departed the village that day as well.

When twilight arrived and filled the top of the trees with the golden colors of sunset, they camped in a place that Devon chose, and by then, everyone knew that the man was choosing hidden campsites that wouldn’t be easily found by regular travelers. The places were nice enough but they knew that Devon’s priority was to make sure that they could watch the shows without any disturbance.

While everyone was preparing the campground, Anton began the process of repairing all the items they had already purchased since he didn’t want them to accumulate to a large number. After he was done, Anders stored all the repaired things.

Devon and his father began the process of scouting the surroundings followed by some of the Spirit Wolves that Anton summoned to make sure that they would be safe. After a while, they returned reporting that the forest was safe but they also brought with them some game animals, wild vegetables, and fruits.

During dinner, they began watching the TV show again but after one episode ended, Anton made a suggestion.

“Hercules has an offshoot series. It’s the story of Xena, the warrior princess. I recommend that we watch one episode of Hercules and then one episode of Xena: The Warrior Princess for diversity.”

Everyone greeted that suggestion enthusiastically but they all looked at Anders since it was going to be his decision and when Anton’s father acquiesced, Anton began playing the first episode of the said series.

Everyone loved Xena and Anton laughed when he heard Devon, Frederick, and Colin talking about Xena as the woman they wanted to become their wives. The women in the group mocked them saying that Xena would not look at them since she deserved someone strong and powerful.

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When Colin said that Anton was strong, Anna gave Colin a disdainful look.

“Xena wouldn’t like Anton as well since he’s a baby!”

That comment made everyone laugh especially when Anton protested. Anton knew that he didn’t have much to stand on since he did still have some baby fat. He was still seventeen, or at least his body was, even though he was considered an archmage.

Lucas announced that the next village was also going to be a small one and that they would arrive in that village after three days of travel. Nemina suggested that they should stop early the next day since it would be better to prepare all the game animals that they collected in their spatial items. They would need to butcher them properly so they could throw out the parts they didn’t need to keep. It would also be better in the long run if the meat in their inventories were already prepared so that their cooking time every night would lessen greatly.

Lunelle added that it was also a good idea to spend a large amount of time cooking so they actually didn’t need to cook during emergencies and could just retrieve the cooked items from their inventory since their spatial items would keep the food as fresh as the day they stored them.

Anton volunteered that he could keep the majority of the cooked food in his inventory since he did have a large amount of space and Anders and Nemina agreed.

The next day, they left early but while they were traveling they were stopped by a log on the road which was indicative of a bandit ambush. Anton sighed and summoned the five Spirit Wolves and gave the command of the summons to Lucas. Then they just waited for news inside the carriage.

Anton was amused to see that there was no fear on Anna, Ramona, and Belinda’s faces and they just continued talking about Xena. Ramona said that she wanted to learn how to wield a sword just like Xena since she can’t learn magic and Belinda said that she would like to as well. The three girls then giggled and talked about asking Devon. They were treating his presence as air and Anton could understand why.

During their travel, he basically ignored everyone in the carriage whenever he entered his game system to level up his character or performed experiments on enchanting so his sister and her friends learned to adapt to his presence.

After a few minutes, Lucas arrived to report what happened. Anton was flabbergasted to learn that two of the Spirit Wolves died. He knew how powerful his Spirit Wolves were since he was already a level 54 druid.

“There’s two powerful warriors and a mage on the bandits’ side. The mage managed to escape when one of the warriors sacrificed himself but the wizard cast a powerful spell towards Devon while he was running away thankfully, the spell was blocked by two of your Spirit Wolves,” Lucas said calmly but Anton could see that the man was furious.

“Those bandits tried to harm one of us! They will need to pay.” Anton said feeling angry.

Anton then went outside and summoned three Dire Wolves and commanded the wolves to follow the mage that tried to kill Devon. Anton flew up in the sky so he could track where the Dire Wolves were going and it looked like they were going deep into the forest.

The only reason he could still track the Dire Wolves was he had a connection with them but he did fly lower until he noticed a hidden structure. The Dire Wolves were already engaged with some of the bandits but it didn’t take long for the summons to kill the people there.

The dire wolves were being blocked by a warrior with support from the mage at the back but to Anton’s eyes, the dire wolves were just toying with the two remaining bandits. The dire wolves didn’t kill them because he commanded his summons not to yet.

Anton then activated the special effects of his auras and defense buffs and when he flew down, the warrior and the mage noticed him. What surprised Anton was that the moment the two saw him, the warrior threw away his weapon and both he and the mage kneeled.