“What if the performer was terrible?” Anton asked.

“That does happen but rarely. The audience will just boo the performer until they stopped and leave the stage but aside from humiliating themselves, nothing will happen to them,” Antonia said.

Anton suddenly wondered how this audience would react to his singing and some of the songs from Earth. Based on his experience, people from this world liked his voice so he immediately flagged a waiter to order an ale and asked the two ladies if they wanted one as his tread but they declined. Then he asked the waiter to list him as a performer. The two ladies were surprised when they heard Anton asking the waiter to add his name to the list of performers that morning.

“You’re next then after this one since nobody else wanted to play after him,” The waiter said then he went to retrieve his order.

“So you’re a minstrel as well? Don’t you want to wait till this afternoon?” Lucia asked.

“I’m not a minstrel. I just wanted to check the audience’s reaction to my voice and playing,” Anton answered.

He was an introvert but Anton never experienced any stage fright based on his small amount of experience busking in some of the cities that they traveled to.

The next performer was a middle-aged man and just like Lady Blue, he had a very beautiful baritone voice but also selected a song that would not strain a vocal cord. Anton knew that the performers were early, possibly for practice or warm-up before they gave their all this afternoon.

Anton concluded that the performers who performed in this tavern were truly the elite ones.

“The two performers that I listened to so far are truly good. Why are they looking for patrons?” Anton asked the two ladies after the man completed his song.

“A lot of bards and minstrels have a spirit of adventure in their bodies and they sometimes travel for the sake of seeing different audiences that would love them. But of course, just like everyone, they were here to escape the undead. Are you not going to prepare, it’s your time to perform,” Lucia said.

Anton just smiled and after a few minutes went to the stage. He retrieved his guitar from his inventory and made sure that it was in tune. He then started playing the introduction to the Journey song “Open Arms”. The songs by the band Journey were already proven by Anton to be liked by people of this world based on the audience’s reaction when he sang their songs in Leminthor.

Then Anton closed his eyes and belted the high notes of the song “Open Arms”. When he completed the song, he stood up and bowed but then everyone shouted “Encore!” so he started the opening intro of another Journey song that he had already sung in his world which was “Don’t Stop Believing”.

When he completed the song, Anton saw that everyone was standing up and clapping enthusiastically. That meant that the audience liked his performance.

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He joined Antonia and Lucia at their table again while the people he passed by tried to shake his hands.

“You’re a very good singer. If you had sung your songs this afternoon, I don’t doubt that you would have found yourself a patron in no time. You also looked young and very handsome so more than likely more than one patron would be clamoring to hire you,” Antonia said to him.

“I’m not looking for a patron. I just want to know the reaction of the audience to my voice they looked like they liked it,” Anton said while smiling.

“Look no one wanted to follow your performance,” Lucia said while giggling.

The waiter then arrived and gave Anton three pieces of paper.

“What are these?” Anton asked the waiter and the man looked surprised.

Antonia shooed the waiter away meaning that she would take the responsibility of explaining the papers to him.

“Those are patrons looking to hire you,” Antonia simply said.

“But I thought they were supposed to arrive during the late afternoon,” he asked the ladies.

“That’s the normal custom but one can’t control what people would do. That meant that a few of those who were looking to hire are already here,” Lucia said.

The waiter returned and gave Anton another four pieces of paper which made Antonia and Lucia laugh.

“What would I do with these? Again, I’m not really a minstrel and looking for a patron.”

The two ladies laughed and told him to call the waiter and simply asked the man to return the papers and inform those who gave the papers that you’re not looking for a patron so that was what Anton did. The waiter looked surprised again before the man left, he reminded the waiter to inform the patron that was not a bard or a minstrel that’s why he wasn’t looking for a patron.

“What are you then?” Lucia asked.

“I’m a mage and my father is a rich businessman. I want to invite you ladies to watch the entertainment in the dining room tonight. It would be an epic one that would last for three hours so prepare yourselves,” Anton told the two ladies.

“Which hall?” Antonia asked.

Anton was startled and asked, “There’s more than one?”

The two ladies rolled their eyes and called a waiter. They asked him to find where Anton’s suite was. The waiter asked for his name and when he told the man his first and last name, he also used his title as a baron, and that truly surprised the ladies. The waiter then left to find the information.

“Are you sure you’re the baron and not your father?’ Lucia asked.

“I’m the baron. My father doesn’t have a title. Zalnothel awarded me the title for reaching archmage rank at age seventeen,” Anton told the ladies since there was no need to hide what he was but then he laughed.

The ladies were truly startled at first but when he laughed, they thought that he was joking so they rolled their eyes at him again but then the waiter returned and this time it was obvious that the man was behaving oddly which made Anton and the two ladies curious.

“Archmage Sunder, your hallway is Hallway 8-A. Your dining room is dining room A,” The waiter said softly as if afraid of offending him, and this time the ladies gasped then the waiter left.

“So you’re really an archmage?!” Lucia asked.

“Are you really seventeen and not an old man using his magic to disguise himself?” Antonia asked.

This time, it was Anton who rolled his eyes at them.

“That’s the reason I was awarded the Baron title because of my age.”

“So there would truly be a three-hour entertainment later tonight?” Lucia asked and Anton simply said that it would be an epic one and that they would not be disappointed.

They then informed him that they would join the dining room A tonight to what kind of entertainment that would last for three hours. Since there was no one singing, the audience clamored for Anton to sing again, which made the waiter nervous since he now knew that Anton was an archmage. The two ladies just shook their heads but Anton obliged the audience and went up to the stage.

Anton sang another couple of Journey songs which were “Anyway You Want It” and “Faithfully”. He received a resounding applause again then he returned to where Antonia and Lucia were sitting.