“So you’ve encountered all types of monsters in your travels! I can imagine that if it were my family we wouldn’t have been able to survive,” Torun said to Anton.

“I think that was also why my bloodline magic got activated and I became powerful so fast. The power of the enemies that we encountered was on a level that if I didn’t have the level of power I had we wouldn’t have been able to survive.”

“When you were telling us about the werewolves, I got goosebumps! That was so scary!” Blake commented.

“The army with liches attacking the village was scary as well!” Andrea added.

“I hope I won’t encounter any vampire like you did! Even when you said that you’ve enslaved three powerful vampires, I wouldn’t have been able to calm down in their presence,” Soren, who was with the second group of young people who joined them said. Anton didn’t even know the rest of his group’s name.

“When we settled in Zalnothel I thought we found our new home since a lot of people assured me that with the number of high-level mages in the city, the place would be safe. There were several Supreme Wizards there and according to rumors since I actually hadn’t encountered him or her, there was also an Invincible Mage. The city was the one who gave me my noble name so that’s why I’m considered a noble now. To tell you the truth though, I grew up as a farmer so I still feel like part of the commoner circle instead of the noble circle. But the mages who granted me my nobility said that it was as it should be since I was also an archmage at a very young age which was almost unheard of,” Anton admitted.

“When I was younger, I wanted so much to become a mage but unfortunately, no one in our family had the talent. Now looking at you having the freedom to move in the air and fighting off armies of undead, I will give everything to become a mage,” Torun said and Anton saw that everyone agreed with him.

Anton would have told everyone that there might be a possibility but the experiment that they were doing with Walter and the Coral Comb wasn’t done yet so they didn’t have any definite conclusion if a temporary mana stat would allow a regular person who had been found to have no mage talent to become a mage but once they confirmed it, he might share it with his friends.

They spent the rest of the evening talking about everything under the sun and Anton enjoyed it very much and felt himself relaxing. During their conversation, he saw the middle-aged mage who he had to bribe with two of his enchanted items looking at him. Anton didn’t fault the guy since he did made a commotion the day before but it looked like the older mage was reassured when he saw Anton just having conversations with his friends.

The sun was setting when they stopped conversing to return to where their family was.

“About the tickets to the Cosplay Event, I think they will be a bit costly since there are going to be a lot of entertaining activities and prices but you all don’t need to worry since I’ll give you entrance tickets once they’re available,” Anton told his friends before they separated.

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“Are you not going to be in trouble if you do something like that?” Torun asked Anton concernedly.

“No since one, there’s only a few of you, two, the idea for the Cosplay Event came from me and, three, I’m a powerful archmage!” Anton boasted but his new friends just rolled their eyes which made Anton internally happy since that meant that they were not treating him as someone who should be respected at all costs.

When he returned to the suite, everyone was preparing to go to the Dining Hall to eat dinner and watch the entertainment that was being provided by the ship. Anton would have liked to decline and focus on his Diablo II system but dinner was one of the times that he would be together with his family.

He knew that he should take advantage of that since there may come a time when all of them meeting together would be rare. Even Devon, who kept mentioning that he didn’t need to be there, was forced by his father, Lucas, to join them every night. Besides dinner did not take that long, at most around thirty to forty-five minutes.

After dinner, Anton’s father and the others told them that they would need to the meeting place they were renting to keep on planning the Cosplay Event. Apparently, Antonia and Lucia truly wanted the event to be the highlight of the year and were going to make sure that it was extremely extravagant. Even Colin and the female bodyguards were commandeered to help them and fortunately for Lunelle, even though her mother told her she needed to become an assistant, Lucas allowed him to join the mages in the family to practice magic in the suite. Unfortunately for Phillip, he was also asked by Antonia and Lucia to help.

So Anton, Anna, Lunelle, Ramona, Belinda, Frederick, and Walter went to the suite to continue their “wizardry” while the others went somewhere else. The moment they arrived at the suite, Anton headed directly to his room while the others went to the mini theater set up that doubled as the family’s magic classroom.

They all decided to practice their magic at that location so that Frederick could answer their questions about magic if they had any since he was the most experienced mage there. Even Anton, who was the most powerful, couldn’t compare to the years of experience as a mage that Frederick had.

After taking a bath, Anton checked his status in his system and was happy to see that his Paladin’s level had gone up to sixty-five since he had spent several hours earlier leveling up. He decided to just continue leveling up and will only begin to seriously focus on gear hunting once his Paladin reached the lower nineties.

After leveling up once which took Anton about an hour, he stopped and decided to rest even though it was still early. He decided to browse the Internet for a few minutes before sleeping but to his dismay, when the next time he checked the time, it was already one in the morning so he immediately closed his eyes to force himself to sleep.

Maybe because of the pearl of the ocean, after a couple of minutes, he was asleep. The next time he opened his eyes, Anton was very happy to see that it was only around six in the morning so after taking a shower and eating food from his inventory, he posted a note on his door that he would be busy and to not disturb him until the round three or four in the afternoon.

Anton decided to just focus the whole day on just leveling up so after breakfast, he immediately entered his Diablo II system. He was so focused that even though there was an urge for him to stop and do something else, he kept at it and the only interruption was to eat when he was hungry and to use the toilet when he needed to.