Anton was a bit happy for the work that he did that day leveling up his necromancer character and creating a plan of utilizing his system. He was feeling antsy but now it felt like there was an itch that he successfully scratched.

He prepared himself by taking a bath with mana water and changing his clothes. While doing so, Anton felt that the owner of the ship was truly extravagant by putting a bathroom in every room in the suite, and based on what Harun had told them before, the water that came out of the spout in the bathroom was ocean water converted to fresh water by one of the ship mages.

Still, everyone preferred Anton’s mana water. When he left his room, he saw two muscular women seated on the sofa where the mini living room set was placed. He could also see that those two woman had their bags near their feet.

“Hello, I’m Anton and Anders is my father,” Anton introduced himself to the two warrior women.

Anton suddenly felt the urge to continue watching Xena: Warrior Princess.

“We know sir. Mr. Sunder told us who you are and that you are an archmage at a very young age. He also mentioned that it was because of your magic that your family survived the invasion of the undead. My name is Esther and this is Fronta,” The woman with the dark hair said.

The brunette was named Esther and the red-head was named Fronta and Anton found their names a bit weird. One was so normal that it didn’t fit the brunette and the other sounded a bit lewd to him for some strange reason that he put it at the back of his mind. He was also a bit startled when Esther called Anders Mr. Sunder since he had almost forgotten the last name that he received when he was awarded the title of a Baron in Zalnothel.

Soon everyone exited their rooms wearing new clothes and the ladies wore their pieces of jewelry and accessories.

“So you met the two mercenaries that we hired to guard your sister and the others,” Anders said to Anton.

“Esther will be sleeping in Anna and Lunelle’s room while Fronta will be with Ramona and Belinda,” Anton’s father continued.

“I think that’s not allowed, Father. I read in the contract that the rooms in the suite could only hold up to two people,” Anton told Anders.

“Then we’ll just upgrade. We’ll talk to Harun later after dinner.”

“I’m thinking that it will not cost a lot since a third of the suites are empty, Let me handle the negotiations,” Nemina added.

The two new women bodyguards remained silent and Anton was amused that Devon, Frederick, and even Colin were eyeing the fierce women.

“Before we continue, if anyone in the group is not welcoming your advances, please stop immediately!” Nemina said while looking at her son, the mage, and Anton’s assistant. The three behaved like the reminder was not for them.

“You don’t have to worry, Ms. Nemina. We can handle ourselves. I even cut off a man’s genitalia once. He attempted to accost me while we were on a mission,” Fronta said.

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All of the men, including Anton, gulped and Anna looked at the warrior women admiringly.

“You two are like Xena! Can we watch them later Anton? I miss watching them,” Anna said.

“Who is Xena?” Esther asked.

“Xena is a warrior princess. She even fought with gods!” Anna excitedly told her new bodyguard.

Harun arrived to guide them to the dining hall and noticed the two new warrior women.

“Uum sirs, the two new guards are not allowed to join you at your dining table,” Harun softly advised Anders.

“We’re planning to upgrade. Can you lead us to your captain?” Harun excitedly nodded and Anton wondered if their guide would earn a commission.

Harun led them to the captain’s office which took a whopping twenty-minute walk. Anton wondered anew at how large the ship was.

“Mr. Sunder, how can I help you?” The captain asked Anders.

Only Anton and Nemina joined Anders at the captain’s office. The others waited outside with Harun.

“We want to upgrade to an eight-room suite since we hired a couple of new female bodyguards for our girls,” Anders said.

“You don’t actually have to upgrade since you can allow them to remain in their rooms and they could just join you during their work hours,” Captain Robertson said.

“How can they guard the girls if they’re not living with us?” Nemina added.

After that, the negotiation started. It was fierce since the captain and Nemina were both experienced hagglers. Anders became a bystander and Anton was fascinated by the captain and Nemina’s battle.

In the end, Anton felt Nemina won since they only needed to pay the captain an extra thousand gold coins to have their suite upgraded to the eight-room suite.

Anton knew that what made Nemina win was that she pointed out that the suites were empty anyway and that because they would be living in a larger suite, the coins that the ship would earn from their daily expenses would increase as well. Nemina waxed eloquently on how much coins Amelia would earn from them since not only the daily expenses because the two new mercenaries would receive compensation, and the two new bodyguards would also spend their gold on the ship. She also added more and that defeated the captain but the root of the matter was the suites were empty anyway.

After around thirty minutes of negotiations, the captain called Harun and informed the guide to lead their group to the new dining table assigned to the eight-room suite that they would transfer to.

Anton was impressed at the new female bodyguards since even though they were nervous, they didn’t show it too much.

That night, the show on the stage was some sort of play and the whole group was watching the play while eating. Since Anton and his group were used to watching shows, they didn’t care too much and continued eating and talking but the two new bodyguards almost forgot to eat while watching the play.

After dinner, Harun led them to the new suite so they would be aware of its location and their guide told them that he would show them the exclusive areas for their new hallway the next day.

Since everyone could just store their things in their spatial items, it was simple enough for everyone to transfer. When they arrived in the suite, even though everything looked clean, Anton was tasked to use his Cleaning spell on every area of the suite until everything was gleaming.

Then everyone selected their new rooms. Anton was still assigned alone to a room while the eighth room was given to Esther and Fronta.

After everyone arranged their room, everyone took their soiled clothes to the dining table and Anton cleaned them using his cleaning spell, and that took him no time at all.

He also offered to clean Esther and Fronta’s belongings and since the two new bodyguards saw that Anton only took a few seconds to clean everything, they gave everything to Anton but this time, he used Charsi so that their belongings would be repaired.

When all of their belongings were returned to them, the two women exclaimed at how everything looked new. They focused more on their leather set armor and their sword and shield and their eyes gleamed at how their weapons and armor looked like they were newly forged.