That day was the first day of the week, which meant the cinema was closed. Anton’s father and the others would be free to rest or do whatever they wanted to do for that day. It had been several weeks already since they were on board the Amelia and all the members of Anton’s family already had some routine that they had already been doing every day but that changed when he shared the information that his Meditation Aura which would allow mages to memorize spells a tenth of the time they usually take to memorize a spell.
That was one of the most incredible discoveries that Anton had made about one of his auras since that would allow mages that were in his party system to advance at an extremely fast pace comparable to magical prodigy. That would be incredible in terms of allowing their family to become more powerful in terms of magical might since it would allow Anna and the rest of the mages in the family to advance in leaps and bounds.
It had been a few weeks since they left the continent of Rendindura and Anton was starting to feel safe in terms of clashing with the Undead Coalition but he wasn’t allowing himself to be truly confident that the business with the Undead Coalition was over. He and his family had been disappointed over and over again. He kept reiterating to himself that the only thing he could do was to increase his power as soon as possible and now his sister and the others joined him in doing that.
Anton wondered if he should ask his father to learn magic since that would allow their defensive capability to increase but when he opened that subject to Anders, his father wasn’t willing since he said that he wanted to focus on acquiring wealth for the family since that would allow him and his sister to focus on wizardry.
He could understand that since wizardry truly needed a lot of resources to progress. Although he was an exception since he could progress without using any coins since his Diablo II system did not require him anything, it would still be nice to be able to buy any stuff that he wanted.
The family still gathered together during breakfast with Devon notably missing. Apparently, their young guard spent the whole night with Anton’s four noble friends partying according to Lucas. At first, Lucas planned to punish his son but Anders mentioned that it was needed for the family to have a tighter relationship with Antonia, Lucia, Walter, and Phillip since they were scions of powerful families from New Drennor and were worth cultivating relationships with.
Anton returned to the family suite on the ship after breakfast and he didn’t know what plans the rest of the family would do that day. The only thing he knew was Anna and Frederick would be attending some sort of magic class while Lunelle, Ramona, and Belinda would join him in the suite practicing magic.
Inside the suite, Lunelle and the other ladies went toward the small theater setup that they had made inside and were planning to use it as their magic classroom while Anton headed inside his room. He would be entering his system virtually and he didn’t want anybody staring at him while his consciousness was busy leveling up his character.
He planned to reach the maximum level for the Paladin character since he wanted to reset his character to acquire all the skills that would be useful in real life. According to the guide that he had read, the best build that he could bring out to reality was the Fist of Heaven build but Anton knew that he would still modify it to truly fit the world.
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Another plan he had was the moment he reached the Paladin’s maximum level, he would spend a considerable amount of time to get the “Best in Slots” gears for all of the characters then he would make sure to wear the most powerful ones that would be truly useful in the real world.
He knew that when it was time to choose the gear that was most useful in real life, it would probably be a mixture of different gears from different characters but that was still in the future.
Anton spent all the hours available to him in the morning until lunch just leveling up and when noon arrived, his Paladin reached level fifty-three and was happy that he was able to reach that. He didn’t go outside his room and ate one of the prepared food from his inventory then he switched to practicing combining his spells.
He still had no idea what to do to properly combine two spells in one cast since all the practice that Anton had done only led him to cast two different spells one after another and the only success that he had was to shorten the delay between the two.
He knew that it would probably take a serious study on the mana structure and mana pathway of the spells but he delayed that so far since it would truly be a serious undertaking but without success in rushing through learning spell combination, he began studying the mana structure and mana pathway of his most basic sorceress spells which was the Ice Bolt and Fire Bolt in terms of adding a mana structure to the existing structure of either spell. As he expected, it was exceedingly hard.
Anton pushed through though but the complexity of studying an existing spell mana structure and changing it to add another existing mana structure was so huge that he had to spend the rest of the afternoon doing nothing but that. He had to skip practicing item enchantment and his voice and guitar lessons and practice.
After a few more hours, even though Anton was still not successful, he began to get an inkling of what he should concentrate on but he learned that it would be a while before he truly learned even the most basic of spell combinations. After learning spell combination spell, he would then need to learn how to manipulate the mana structure so he could change it like increasing the amount of mana that the spell would consume since that would allow the spell to become more powerful.
It was truly a huge undertaking but when four in the afternoon arrived, Anton stopped. He knew the advantage of having a balanced life so he planned to rest and entertain himself the rest of the evening so he wouldn’t burn out but if he was honest with himself, the wizardry that was practicing was making him excited and he was interested in what he was doing so Anton wasn’t seeing any burn out in his future.
That meant that he could truly focus on his Diablo II system and his magic that he could probably survive in not going out of his room but he wanted to have a good relationship with his family and friends. He didn’t want to be a psychopath mage that loved no one.
When he exited the room, Anton was happy to see that everyone was gathered already including Antonia, Lucia, Walter, and Phillip and they brought some delicious-looking snacks with them.
He headed directly to the table to eat since Anton was beginning to become famish and asked what was going on.
“Nothing much. We’re talking about reaching the Islands of Norbuna after a month,” Phillip said.
“What are you talking about? I thought that the ship wouldn’t stop anywhere and would directly head to the Gale Continent?” Anton asked Phillip startled by the information that the man just shared.