Walter told Anton, while everyone was talking about the Cosplay party that they would hold once The Return of the King film from the Lord of the Rings was shown to their customers, that a masque ball was a common enough event on the ship, but usually, the only ones who would attend were the rich folks, and at most, they would wear elaborate masks.

Walter then said that usually, the attendees would show off using their dresses and their masks but that was it. What interested Antonia and Lucia was that the attendees could wear whatever costumes they wanted this time, beautiful or hideous, as long as they came from one of the characters from the three movies from The Lord of The Rings trilogy.

“Those who will purchase the tickets must be given enough time to create their costumes so I suggest that the Cosplay party should be held at least a week after the two weeks that the last movie was shown,” Lucia suggested.

Antonia, Lucia, Anders, and Nemina talked about when the event would be held and they finally agreed with what Lucia suggested on when the event would be held.

“You mentioned that the Cosplay Con…something, what did you call it again? The event lasted for more than one night is that right? Can you tell us more about what kind of activities that usually happen during the party?” Antonia asked.

“They call it Cosplay Convention and it usually lasts the whole day for several days. The events that happened during the convention from what I saw were there would be stalls that people would set up decorated to represent the shows or movies they were following and would sell products based on which movie or television shows they were basing their products from. The items consisted of dolls that looked like the characters from the said movies, miniature houses, castles, carriages, animals, and more based on the movies and shows, clothing that contained the images of the characters from the television shows or movies as well as food and snacks that came from the inside the shows they were representing. There were also what they call “Photoshoots” wherein the attendees took images of the people who wore the best costumes using some sort of image recording device based on technology. You could copy those activities and add whatever you wanted,” Anton replied.

“This is an event worthy to be the highlight of the year! Lucia and I will start working on the details starting tomorrow! We’ll need to hire a lot of people to start the decorations and the costumes that we’ll wear!” Antonia kept exclaiming and Anton could see that both she and Lucia were truly excited about planning the event.

“Now since you know the basics of the Cosplay Convention, you should be able to handle it on your own and if you have more questions about it I suggest you think of the solution yourself since this is the first time this convention will occur in this world and anything you will do will be credited to you,” Anton said while trying to sound righteous but everyone looked wryly at him since it was obvious that he was just passing on the responsibility of joining the planning committee for the convention.

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“Fine we’ll handle it so you don’t need to worry,” Lucia told Anton.

He felt a bit ashamed and he made some excuses that he was in the critical junction of his magical training and would not be able to concentrate on anything else.

Anders told him that they would be fine in planning the event and Anton just needed to wear a costume and attend the event once the date arrived. He stared at his father imploringly and Anders finally relented, sighed, and told him that he would also make his costume. Anton told his father that he didn’t care what it was as long as it wasn’t elaborate enough that he would need several hours of preparation just to wear the costume.

His father assured him that he would take care of it. Anton was finally freed from the meeting which looked like would continue for quite some time, probably until the wee hours of the morning.

Anton then noticed that Anna, Ramona, and Belinda were not there anymore and were in their rooms resting. Unfortunately, for Lunelle and Colin, they had to stay and do some secretarial work for his father, Nemina, Lucas, Antonia, and Lucia.

Walter and Phillip said their goodbyes and said they would leave to rest and Anton didn’t know where Devon was. The female bodyguards were not there as well and were probably resting in their rooms as well.

He did notice that there were movements in his mana bar and that meant that the mages in his party system were still practicing their magic in their rooms since he never turned off his auras while he was inside the suite.

Anton entered his room and took a shower. After that, he planned to enter his Diablo II system but found that he was mentally exhausted so he decided to go to sleep immediately.

He woke up early the next day but Anton still felt sleepy so he decided to continue sleeping. The next time he woke up, he saw in his system that it was already nine in the morning and was thankful that no one disturbed his sleep.

More than likely, his father checked on him and saw that he was still asleep since he never locked his door anyway so anyone could enter it, and decided to let him be.

He decided to never lock his bedroom door since anything could happen and it would be a good idea for his family to have access to him anytime.

Since it was late, Anton ate one of the dishes from his inventory as his breakfast and proceeded to enter his Diablo II system to continue leveling up his Paladin character.

He didn’t lie to Antonia when he said that he wanted to concentrate on his magic since he truly wanted to level up his Paladin as soon as possible since he wanted to make sure that his Paladin skills would be powerful. He knew how useful the support spells of the Paladin could be.

Anton did have a question regarding his aura. Why did his system say that his aura would only cover that was anyone in his party system? He remembered in the game that a mercenary could cover all of the summoned skeletons of a Necromancer. Was it because the skeletons were a part of the Necromancer and not a party member? Probably that was it and the only thing he could do was abide by the rule set by his Diablo II system however different it may be from the actual game since he had no choice anyway.

When lunchtime arrived, Anton didn’t even leave his room and ate one of the dishes stored in his inventory, and continued leveling up. He didn’t even do some of the other things that he was supposed to do like practice his spell casting, item enchantments, and his voice and guitar playing.

Anton’s Paladin did reach level sixty so he was happy about that. He planned to farm some gear the next day since he felt that his Paladin could use some upgrade on his items but he wouldn’t focus too much on it since the best level he could start farm gear was when his character reached the upper eighties and early nineties.