Breakfast was a festive affair as far as Anton was concerned. The addition of Selena and his four rich friends from New Drennor made the meal lively. For that matter, Anna kept telling Selena, and everyone else for that matter her plans for the day that she would do for their father’s new lover.

Of course, everyone could see that Selena was indulging Anna and it was understandable since Anna was her new lover’s daughter and she was a promising young mage. Anna also reiterated to Anton that they would be disturbing him later to repair Selena’s belongings.

“You don’t have to worry Sir Anton. We will not be disturbing you,” Selena whispered to Anton.

“No worries Selena and please don’t call me sir. Just call me Anton just like everybody else in the family.”

Selena smiled at him and Anton knew why his father was smitten with her. She was truly a gorgeous girl with an air of innocence and nobility. She did admit that she cultivated that aura for the purpose of finding a husband who could support her and her remaining family members and her being candid was one of the reasons Anton was in favor of her so far.

“Anton, you have to let us watch an episode of the television shows we’ve been watching later! It’s been a couple of days already,” Antonia said to him and Anton simply nodded.

After breakfast, Anton headed directly to his room in their suite to enter his Diablo II system while the others went somewhere else. When he entered his system, the first thing that Anton did was to create an enchanted tablet for a tiny spirit wolf and a tiny raven for summoning since they didn’t have any left. Anton knew that Anna would pester him about that for Selena so instead of prolonging the irritation he would feel with his sister annoying him, he might as well create the items and give them to his sister later.

At around eleven in the morning, which was three hours of intensive leveling up for his Paladin character, Anton heard Anna’s voice from his door. He exited the system but he felt glad that his Paladin was now level sixteen.

When he opened the door, Anna together with Selena and the other girls were outside.

“Anton, I’ve laid out all of Selena’s things in their room so go ahead and repair them,” Anna said while Selena looked on curiously.

Anton went to his father’s room where Selena was staying and all her things were already laid down there. He saw that Anna had taken steps to damage everything a bit so he could ask Charsi to repair them. It did not take long and everything was repaired.

Selena was looking at all her things with gleaming eyes. Everyone in the room could understand since they felt the same way the first time Anton repaired all of their items. Everything looked brand new and who wouldn’t want new things?

Anton saw that there were a lot of things and they couldn’t fit in Selena’s two suitcases so more than likely, the others were from the items left in their inventory that had not been sold yet.

He remembered Antonia and Lucia telling them that most of the dresses they had were out of fashion already so he wondered why they still wanted those clothes repaired.

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“Once we arrive in New Drennor, of course, we’ll have seamstresses alter them to fit the current fashion. They’re good dresses and it would only take minor alteration before they would be like they were created for the current season,” Anna said to him when he asked.

“Selena still needs a lot of things so we will shop after lunch,” Anna said then they all went outside the suite to eat lunch and Anton followed them.

They all went to a nearby restaurant and after lunch, Anna, and the other girls, followed by the two female bodyguards went to start their shopping spree that afternoon. Anton went back to his room intending to continue his “wizardly” things.

When he entered his Diablo II system, the first thing that he did was to practice the newly acquired skills from the Paladin character. He wanted to make sure that he was familiar with the mana structure and mana pathways of his Paladin’s skill. Then he proceeded to continue adding skill points to the Necromancer curses until all the points were spent. He was a bit excited about it since combining the curses with his sorceress elemental spell was a good way to boost the power of his spells.

Anton then spent another couple of hours practicing the necromancer curses and since there were a few of them, he was aware that it would take a lot of time before he was truly familiar with the curses' mana structures and mana pathways.

At around three in the afternoon, Anton exited his system since he had promised his friends that he would let them continue watching the next episodes of the television shows that they had been watching. When he went outside his room, he saw that everyone was there already except for his father, Nemina, Lucas, Devon, and Frederick.

“Since we’re not complete, we will be watching the next episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and a new show,” Anton announced.

Anton briefly searched the internet for the show he would present to everyone and stumbled on to Merlin, the British television show. He thought that it would be a good show to watch since the setting would not shock the audience too much and he had not seen it before so he would also enjoy watching it as well. He just wished that it were a good show.

They watched Avatar first and even though Anton had already seen the show, he enjoyed rewatching it. After the cartoon ended, Selena exclaimed that it was a good show but she had a lot of questions. The people surrounding her explained what cartoons were based on what Anton had told them then they briefly recounted to her the contents of the previous episodes.

Anton would have liked to start the new show that he planned to present but they talked for so long about Avatar that the others arrived first. Anders went directly to Selena and kissed her. Anton was surprised at how bold his father was and how uninhibited in showing his desire for his new lover. He then wondered what could have been if his mother was alive.

To be honest, he didn’t feel much since he really didn’t know his body’s mother. Anders then announced that they would be eating in the dining hall so they all went there. The dinner that was served was nice enough but Anton was impressed with the show that the entertainers did during the meal.

They returned to the suite and by request, they all watched television shows for the whole night. Anton ran the next episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Xena: Warrior Princess, and then Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

In the middle of watching the television series, Anton suddenly felt that he was wasting his time. He should have been concentrating on leveling up because he knew that the Undead Coalition would probably not stop with Rendindura and would go to other continents. Even if something like that didn’t happen, there was a huge chance that more enemies might appear in the future since this world appeared to be dark enough that powerful beings here allowed grim things to happen.

But then, Anton knew that these peaceful moments where he could enjoy the company of his family were needed in these dark times and there was a chance that it would be very rare in the future if the place that they went to was chaotic so he went back to enjoying the television shows together with everyone.