Anna was thankful that at least her mage friends still discussed mundane things like clothes and accessories even for a little so after talking for a bit in the Wizards Hall, they decided to release the stress brought by the ghosts' attack by spending the rest of the afternoon shopping. Thank goodness that her brother and father were very generous when it came to giving her gold and she still had a huge amount left even after spending most of it for her magic supplies.

They went to the section of the Amelia where several merchants opened stores and boutiques to sell different products. Anna loved this section of the ship and she, Lunelle, Belinda, and Ramona spent considerable time browsing the clothes, hats, pieces of jewelry and accessories, and more.

Lucia and Antonia did warn Anna and the rest of the girls not to purchase so many clothes because they would probably not wear them again when they reach New Drennor due to them being out of fashion and her mage friends reiterated the same thing telling her that once she enroll in the magic academy, she would be wearing the designated uniform robes.

Even though Anna and the girls in the family knew that, they couldn’t stop themselves from purchasing more clothes, especially since all of them had storage items. Her storage pouch came from the first vampire that her brother had killed and it had a huge space within it. She forgot where Lunelle’s spatial item came from but more than likely, it was provided by her mother. Belinda and Ramon’s spatial items were purchased from one of the magic shops in one of the cities they passed through and her father spent a considerable amount of coins for them. She knew that all of them in the family had a storage item and they were filled with food and other necessities that would allow them to survive as per Anton’s advice.

For some reason, Anna’s brother was obsessed with making sure that each one of them would be able to survive if they were stranded on a deserted island or something which was a bit funny to her. Anton even made sure that each one of them was carrying each of his enchanted items, which was weirdly enough, geared towards making sure that an individual would be comfortable surviving alone in a deserted place. Each of them was even carrying several magic wands and tablets that would allow them to summon the regular-sized wolves, not the miniature ones that Anna was currently carrying.

Anna loved her tiny spirit wolf and tiny raven. Her miniature spirit wolf was so fluffy and adorable and not only that, according to her brother, it was able to detect enemy spirits and would be able to attack enemies to defend her even though its power was tiny due to its small size. Not that she would allow her baby to attack enemies.

Anna was annoyed at Anton when he told her that even if the tiny wolf died, she could summon a new one and he would provide her with a new summoning tablet. She loved her wolf and was certain that it was different from the others even though Anton kept telling her that they were all the same. She was sure that the personality of her tiny wolf was truly different and the others were saying the same thing.

Anna also loved her tiny raven. It was very useful in sending tiny written messages to her friends. Her friends were considerably jealous of her tiny spirit wolf and tiny raven but unfortunately for them, her family was not selling the summoned animals while they were in the Amelia.

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Frederick told her that the possible reason that her father and Nemina decided to not sell them was because there was limited wealth on the ship so they would probably not earn so many coins while they were in the Amelia. Even the price of the ticket for the cinema was extremely low in her opinion and the reason was the same.

The spontaneous shopping activity that she and her friends did were fun but Anna did not let it get to her head. Before Anton became a very powerful mage, their family was just a peasant family and their situation would be very different from what they had now but she decided to forget about it since it would only make her depressed. She was aware of the situation in Rendindura and knew that the chance that all of her friends in their village were probably dead or enslaved by the undead was almost one hundred percent.

After they were done with shopping, Anna said goodbye to her friends and returned to the family suite followed by her bodyguard. At first, she did not want a bodyguard following her since she thought that the ship was fairly safe, especially in the section where the rich passengers were staying but after the ghosts from the Undead Coalition attacked, she was happy that someone was guarding her.

It was already seven in the evening when she returned home and everyone was there already. Well, almost everyone, except for her father. They were waiting for Anders to arrive so they could all go to the dining hall and eat dinner there.

Several minutes had passed and Anna’s father soon arrived. She greeted her father immediately but stopped when she noticed that her father was carrying two large suitcases and a beautiful woman was following him.

When Anna heard her father’s announcement that the woman beside him was his new “woman” she was flabbergasted and when she briefly looked around everyone was surprised as well but not greatly which puzzled her. Even her brother, though a bit surprised, had the expression that it was expected.

The first thing that entered her mind was how could her father betray her mother and then after briefly thinking about it, she realized that her mother had died a long time ago and her father looked young. Back in Zalnothel, she and the other girls even briefly discussed this very situation happening and she even told them that it would be fine with her if her father found her a new mother.

It was just that she was expecting someone as old as her mother when she was a young girl. Someone motherly that she could treat as her new mother not this extremely beautiful woman.

Her father said that the woman’s name was Selena and she looked as young as Lunelle. For one brief moment, she thought that the woman was a witch who cast a love spell on her father but discarded it as ludicrous.

They all sat at the dining table and while Selena was introducing herself, her father invited Anton to his brother’s room presumably to talk about Selena but before that, he asked Colin to call Harun so they could ask the man to find someone to cook the Kraken meat for them.

Anna then learned of Selena’s family situation and she thought that Selena was very pitiful after she told her story, so she hugged the woman to welcome her and told her that Anna would treat her as her new sister and her family in New Drennor as her new family even though technically, there was a chance that Selena would become her new mother. Soon, Anton and her father exited her brother’s room and joined them.

They kept on talking, introducing themselves to Selena and when their dinner arrived, they enjoyed the Kraken meat and Anna was happy that Selena was enjoying the food. Even though Anna still had some misgivings, she was a bit glad that her father looked happy when he looked at Selena.