Anton was thankful that his family pointed out Frederick as the archmage in their group. That meant that the merchants didn’t bother him and went to bother the mage instead. This allowed him to concentrate on leveling up and studying the magical hoverboard item project that was based on the Telekinesis spell.

He actually had a prototype of the enchanted item already and the only thing that he was doing was perfecting the item like making the mana storage more efficient so that a full mana storage would last long. He also adjusted the best height that he thought it should have and he thought that six feet was about right since it was high enough to hover above the ground effortlessly but low enough that it shouldn’t consume too much mana.

Anton also made sure to incorporate the Warmth spell since the Telekinesis spell was mana-intensive and the passive mana regeneration brought by the Warmth spell would assist in making the hoverboard float longer.

The main reason why he did not share the project with the group yet was even with the Warmth spell, a full mana storage would only allow the hoverboard to last for thirty minutes but that was the initial prototype.

Around four days before they reached Whaling, his hoverboard item could now last two hours with full mana storage but the good thing was, if the one that was using the board was a wizard, he or she could supply the mana needed to last for a long time and based on his calculations, continues supply of mana would allow the board to fly for a month before the hoverboard got destroyed.

He also made sure that all of them would fit the hoverboard if worse came to worse that they had to use the board while they were in the middle of the ocean. He also, of course, would create more than one hoverboard. Anton also made a lot of mana power banks so that any one of them could fuel the hoverboard and not only a wizard.

To be honest, Anton’s hoverboard magical item was the most ingenious enchanted item that he had developed so far since it could in theory revolutionize the transportation for the entire continent but because of the situation, it would probably remain in his inventory until they reached a new place.

Anton was so focused on his system that Anna teased him that some of the merchants in the caravan thought that there was something wrong with his head. Some of them actually asked Anders about his situation whether he hit his head or something. Of course, Anders just ignored those questions which solidified the idea that he had some sort of mental disability. Everyone in his group was amused by that but he didn’t care enough to correct those who were mistaken about him.

Right at that moment, Anton was truly focused since he wanted to make sure that they had enough power and items that would allow them to survive an ocean journey.

Based on what he had read when he was on Earth, Anton knew that there was a possibility that they had to stay in the ocean for at least two months and there was a possibility that it would be more than that.

At least, when they joined the caravan, no bandits disturbed their rest since the caravan’s guards looked ferocious, and looking at them, Anton had an inkling that those guards probably sidelined as bandits.

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To intimidate them, during one of their rest, Anton summoned his Grizzly Bear and his Clay Golem and his father told the merchants that their archmage, who they thought was Frederick, wanted to practice his summoning spells.

One good thing about joining the caravan was Anna met a couple of girls her age and they became friends even if temporary. It helped that after the merchants had seen one of the shows, Anna, Ramona, Belinda, and Lunelle entertained the merchants’ questions about the shows especially the never-ending questions of the children that the merchants brought with them.

Anton was amused to learn from Belinda that some of the girls in the caravan were eyeing Devon as a prospective husband and that drove the man to leave them with an excuse that he would scout the surrounding area especially when Nemina casually mentioned that it would be good to have grandchildren.

Of course, everyone knew, except for Devon apparently, that Nemina was not serious since it would be a bit irresponsible for them to bring new life into this world without having a stable home.

During the last few days before they arrived in Whaling, Anton reached level 24 on his necromancer character. He still had not shown anyone any spell from the necromancer character aside from the golem summons since he didn’t want to be known as a necromancer. A lot of people would probably look at anyone wielding necromantic powers with hostility and given the situation, it was understandable.

He also asked to speak with Anders and Lucas inside the forest where no one would see them.

“What did you want to talk about?’ Anders asked curiously and Lucas looked the same.

“I created a brand new enchanted item and I wanted you to see them and no one else since it’s a bit special.”

Anton then retrieved the huge hoverboard from his inventory and turned on the switch. The enchanted hoverboard switches would allow the user to select the height of the hoverboard between three feet and six feet.

“This is my magical hoverboard. The user will be able to use this board to travel while flying. A full mana storage will last for two hours. Unfortunately, it’s a bit mana intensive so the mana power bank that I’ve made can only charge it once but if a wizard is using it, they could continuously charge it and the flight and movement of the board can last for a month before it’s destroyed.”

“I understand why you wanted that item to remain a secret. This will allow the people to create flying carriages. How do you control it?” Anders asked.

“I made what I call a joystick that had five directional settings and one can use those to select the directions. There’s only one speed which is just as fast as a fast man can walk and I made a switch that stops and starts the board. So basically there are two switches and one joystick. One switch to turn it on and select the height, another switch to start and stop the board, and the joystick to control the direction.”

“I know why you made that. Just in case the ship we’re riding went full on Titanic.” Lucas jokingly said and that made Anders laugh heartily.

Anton was surprised at Lucas’s humor since that was the first time he saw it and it was grim but thinking about it, Lucas was a mercenary all his life so the humor he had probably tended to be for older mercenaries, and his father could relate since Anders was also a mercenary before.

“Actually, you are right. I focused on making it just in case worse comes to worse while we’re in the middle of the ocean.”

“So you’ve decided to truly leave this continent?” Lucas asked.

“There’s no place for us here. That meant that we need to prioritize learning what continent is the best place we could go to once we reached Whaling,” Anton said.

After their talk, they returned to the camp and Anton set up the blanket that they use for watching television shows. He saw that the people from the merchant caravan were already setting themselves up to watch the shows and that made Anton smile.