The next day Anton woke up early and took a bath. He was especially thankful that his room had its bathroom and even though it was not needed since he did have magic that could produce water, he was still amazed that the bathroom had plumbing so clean water for bathing and cleaning the toilet was always available.

He did learn from Harun that the private bathrooms with plumbing were only available at the suites and that the water was sea water converted and purified by the mages on board. The rest of the passengers had to settle with public bathrooms but at least those came with water as well although there was a strict schedule for when water was supplied.

Those passengers with coins but were not rich enough for a suite could still buy water. Anton suddenly wondered what kind of spell allowed a mage to convert seawater to fresh water. He thought about the Cleaning Spell, the only spell outside his Diablo II system that he kept using, and wondered if that would do the trick so he planned to experiment later and he thought that it wouldn’t be difficult for Harun to get him a bucket of seawater but it was not immediate since he did have a spell that allowed him to produce water. He could even create a magic item that would allow a person to produce water so water wasn’t a problem.

Everyone in Anton’s family was still using the mana water for bathing and drinking since the benefit of his mana water was truly wondrous. Anton didn’t mind since it only took him minutes to fill out every bathtub in the bathrooms.

Nemina told him that his friends, Antonia, Lucia, Phillip, and Walter couldn’t believe Anders, Nemina, and Lucas’s ages when they told them their ages since they couldn’t believe Anders had a seventeen-year-old son despite being so young. They thought Anton’s father was in his early thirties and were flabbergasted that Anders was already in his mid-forties.

Anton’s rich young friends were highly interested in what made them look young especially Lucia and Antonia, and Nemina just informed them to talk to him about the magic that caused its effect. Nemina even boasted a bit about her smooth skin and luxurious hair and when the four rich young people from New Drennor became aware of that good tidbit, they looked around and Nemina knew they noticed that everyone in Anton’s group was sporting the same smooth skin, young looking bodies, and luxurious hair, even the men.

He still wanted to check though if the cleaning spell could convert seawater to freshwater and if it couldn’t, he would find an opportunity to trade or purchase that spell. It wasn’t a priority but it was a good spell to know and maybe it could be applied to do something else.

After taking a bath with mana water, Anton supplied everyone with mana water for bathing and then waited for everyone to get ready so they could go to the dining hall for the breakfast buffet.

While they were eating breakfast, Anton was a bit surprised that his four new friends joined them. He thought that they would miss the breakfast buffet since they had spent a long time in the suite the night before talking about the television show so he expected them to rest some more.

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“We’re just too excited! You’re family’s mage Frederick, and the girls told us some information about the previous episodes of the television shows that you’ve all seen and was informed that your family usually watches Star Trek: The Next Generation, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys every day and usually the shows were watched in alternating days so we wanted to ask you if we can join your family during your television time,” Phillip asked.

“I don’t care but you still have to ask my father,” Anders simply said which made Anders wear a smug smile.

Anton knew that comment solidified his standing of mostly focusing on magic and not the day-to-day business of the family and that meant that the business was firmly in Anders’s hands.

While they were eating breakfast, Antonia asked him what he planned to do that day and Anton told his friends that he would be busy with magic and only planned to explore the ship and everything else after four in the afternoon. He saw that that comment made his new friends aware of the fact that they couldn’t just rope Anton in with their business of becoming an idle rich nobleman while they were on the ship since they knew that he was a mage through and through.

While they were eating, he asked Harun, who was nearby if he could find a chef to cook several kilos of the Kraken tentacle meat for their lunch and their sailor guide assured him that it wouldn’t be a problem.

“Oh, I forgot about that. We were supposed to eat that yesterday. Or was it the day before?” Anna asked.

“We’ll eat it today and believe me, all of you would say that it was the most delicious thing that you’ve ever eaten since it was the most delicious thing I’ve ever eaten when I tried it. The Kraken meat was so tender that when it entered my mouth, it almost melted immediately. The meat also absorbs all the taste of the other ingredients and spices included in the dish it was mixed in but it still retained its unique fresh seafood taste so remember to return to the suite during lunchtime so everyone could have a taste,” Anton said to everyone.

After breakfast, Anton saw that Antonia and Lucia invited Anna, Lunelle, Ramona, and Belinda to somewhere exclusive for women and the two new female bodyguards followed them. Phillip and Walter invited Devon and Frederick and based on their lascivious expressions, one of the topics that they would probably talk about was the porn movies.

Although Anton told them about porn for his amusement, he wondered why they were so interested since the ship did have brothels that catered to all gender, even to those of Walter’s preferences and Anton had the opinion that the live ones were much better than what one could see in movies but he was guessing that the novelty of seeing something like porn in a show was what drove the curiosity of the men.

Antonia and Lucia looked at the men in disdain and snorted then all the girls separated from them while Phillip and Walter ignored them.

Unfortunately for Colin, he had to accompany Anders as his father’s secretary but based on what Anton had overheard, they were not spending all the time in business. They were also enjoying themselves exploring what Amelia could offer.

Anton headed directly to his room in their suite after providing Harun with several kilos of Kraken tentacle meat. He was eager to reach the maximum level of his necromancer character to the point that he wasn’t gear farming but was just leveling up since he wanted to start a paladin character since he knew that the character’s support spells would be truly useful in real life.

He knew though that once he had the paladin character, he would need to spend a huge amount of time theory-crafting about the spell combination of the different characters that would bring out the most powerful, devastating, and useful spells that he could concoct. He also needed to start studying the spells of every character in detail since in theory, magic items with spell combinations from different characters would probably bring out unexpected and wonderful results.