“So that’s animation,” Antonia said ponderously after the movie Finding Nemo ended.

“It certainly is different,” Lucia added.

“It’s different from the previous animation we’ve watched,” Anna said.

“There are many types of animation and this one is called a three-dimensional animation. The previous ones that we’ve watched are called two-dimensional,” Anton informed them.

Anton then had to give a brief explanation and history of animation when Phillip asked how it was made and he was sure that instead of understanding, his garbled explanation probably confused his four new friends more. He was a bit tired though so he didn’t elaborate and told everyone that he wanted to rest so he said his goodbyes and entered his room. It was truly late so the moment the pillows touched his head, he fell asleep.

During the next two days, Anton’s routine was the same. In the mornings, he would join his family for breakfast and then return to his room in their suite to concentrate on leveling up his character for at least five hours. Then he spent the rest of the time practicing his spells to make sure that he understood the mana structure and mana pathway of his necromancer spells.

He also spent time practicing his voice and guitar a few minutes a day and also spent time thinking of what next enchanted item he could create. That part was a failure since he couldn’t think of any other items.

Anton thought of starting his talisman project since creating talismans looked simple and easy enough to create. They were supposed to be for one-time use and he already had some success on that since his golden tablet of animal summoning based on the druid’s summoning spells was a one-time use but when he tried to do it he discovered that paper couldn’t hold the mana structure of his spells and would always burst into fire.

The only solution that he could think of was to use small pieces of wood but using something like wood defeated the purpose of carrying a talisman since they were supposed to be light and convenient to carry.

Talismans were supposed to not take time to create since it was supposed to be highly cheaper than an actual magic item but the complexity of the mana structure of his spells would not allow him to create the talismans as fast as he wanted it to be so he might as well create an actual item like a wand or an accessory.

Anton decided to dispel the idea of creating talismans since his main motivation to create them was for money-making purposes and to increase the variety of magical items they could sell in their family store but since they decided that the main business they would focus on was the cinema, Anton decided to just create magic items based on what they might need in the future.

During those two days, Anton also kept his plan of stopping his dive into his Diablo II system around three or four in the afternoon. He explored the Amelia and checked what the ship could offer in terms of entertainment but was a bit disappointed since it was limited.

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He wasn’t interested in brothels or gambling and wasn’t interested in becoming a drug or alcohol addict. Even though Anton was assured that the swimming pool was cleaned by the mages using spells, the idea of swimming in a pool that was used by a lot of people still gave him the hibbi jibbies. It might be different if it was the sea, ocean, or river so he didn’t force himself to swim in the pool.

The libraries on the ship, although contained a large number of novels didn’t interest Anton since he had access to the internet, and when he tried to read one of them, the stories were sub-par.

The only entertainments that Anton truly enjoyed were those that presented live performances of singing, playing musical instruments, theater plays, and dance halls.

Anton still tried his best to join other people in those hours after he spent a huge amount of time in his Diablo II system since he didn’t want to just hole up inside his room all day long. He was afraid of developing a twisted personality if he did that.

After two days, his necromancer character reached level eighty-five and that meant that it was high enough for him to focus on finding the best-in-slot items for the necromancers so he decided that he would focus on that until he found all of them.

They didn’t stop watching the television show in the evening while they were eating but Anton insisted that they would only watch one show per day.

During those two days though, Anton heard the advertisement for the cinema on the ship’s announcement speaker and he marveled at Antonia’s influence on the ship. He also saw the posters for the cinema that were posted everywhere and he could see that people were truly interested. He could understand that since the entertainment on the ship was limited.

They also received praise from everyone since the cost of the tickets was considered truly affordable. They did discover one thing though. The recording magic item could only be used up to five times a day but to prevent the recording magic item from degrading, they decided to show the movie only three times a day.

His father told Anton that the initial schedule they had decided on was one and five in the afternoon and nine in the evening and only three days a week.

On the cinema’s opening day, Anders asked Anton to not stay in his room since his presence was needed in the theater to make sure that he could take over if something happened to the recording magic artifact.

Anders also asked him to fill the other two recording magic items with the current movie that they were going to show so there would be a reserve in case of an emergency like the magic item failing. It didn’t bother Anton too much since he could still access his Diablo II system while recording the movie and that meant that he could farm gear during the recording session.

Since there were only three hundred seats in the cinema, they decided to use wooden tokens for tickets. The wooden token simply contained the seat number and the time the customers were supposed to enter. The sale of the token was scheduled every morning until noon and when the moviegoers entered the cinema, they would need to surrender the token to the people assigned to receive them.

On the cinema’s opening day, Anton and the rest of the family and friends entered around noon. The seats were exactly three hundred and twenty and the twenty seats were reserved for family and VIPs.

Antonia informed him the cinema would be open on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays but Fridays were only open exclusively to the passengers in the suites. The schedules after that could be purchased by any passengers on the ship.

At around half past noon, the cinema was then opened to the customers, and in a few minutes, all the seats were taken and even the VIP seats were filled. The VIP seats which were deemed the most optimal place to watch the film were near the screen and Anton was surprised to see Captain Robertson, some of his officers, and mages joined them.

Anton guessed that most of the customers were the ones who had already seen the movie before but he expected something like that to happen. He guessed that some of the passengers would probably repeatedly watch the movies.