“When I was a boy, my father, your grandfather, told me he encountered a Druid with the same skills you have—the ability to summon animal companions. Your grandfather also told me that Druid could change into different animal forms though,” Anton’s father said.
“I have that power as well. I can change into a werewolf or a werebear. It’s just that I didn’t learn it because I don’t want to change into a monster to slap my enemies to death since I do have other spells to defeat them,” Anton said, which made Anders laugh.
“Our father, when he was alive, told us a story once about encountering an Iron Merchant. At first, we thought that it was a merchant who sells iron but he said that it was a very powerful profession,” Belinda suddenly said.
“Our family had a dealing with a Poison Alchemist once who was some kind of a Gnome. I don’t know if it was his job or if it was a profession with specific skills,” Selena said.
“Again, why haven’t I encountered anyone like that?” Anton asked again.
“It’s because even though we’ve traveled to different places, you were always with your family or with other mages, and remember, even though you have been on the road for a while, it actually wasn’t even one year,” Nemina said.
“It’s already November though so in a month, you’ll turn eighteen!” Anna excitedly said and Anton was a little startled when he heard that information.
He kept forgetting that his birthday was supposed to be December twenty-fifth. That date felt a little weird to Anton since it was a special date celebrated all over Earth but he just kept it at the back of his mind.
“After your birthday, father’s next and he will be turning forty-five in January six. I will be turning thirteen on February twenty-three,” Anna continued basically informing everyone of their date of birth and their actual ages.
“You’re turning forty-five?! At first, we thought that you were in your late twenties but then we had to adjust your age to mid-thirties even though you’re so young-looking when we learned that your oldest son is seventeen, but forty-five?!” Norma exclaimed while looking at Anders and even Belue was flabbergasted.
Everyone laughed when they heard the beautiful woman’s exclamation especially together with Belue’s stunned look.
Selena left Anders's side and went to her friends and whispered something to them that made their eyes glow. Anton was sure that Selena informed them of their family’s mana water. Even though everyone was busy, Anton always provided mana water as drinking water during their meals even when they ate in the dining hall, and even if it were not every day, he still tried his best to provide mana water for everyone’s bathing water since the girls would complain to Anna or his father if the bathwater weren’t mana water for several days straight. The main problem was, that Anna was the one who would pester him a lot if she hadn’t bathed in mana water for a while and since it only took a few seconds for him to conjure mana water, he just went to everyone’s bathroom and produce mana water for bathing once Anna pestered him enough.
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“I now understand why I haven’t met any other professional but basically, the main point of asking about different professions was realizing that not all dangerous things that we might encounter would come from someone doing magic. This case for example. The Supreme Adinor mentioned that there’s a chance that the murderers might be powerful professionals. The mistake that I made was being narrow-minded enough to focus my attention on the undead thinking that most of our problems would stem from them,” Anton told everyone.
“You’re right son. We must be aware that the danger could come from anywhere especially now that the ship’s mages asked for our family’s help through the Spirit Wolves. That meant that the majority of those who needed to know would know that we were assisting the ship’s authority in capturing the criminals and because of that we might be targeted so everyone needs to be very careful,” Anders announced to everyone.
Everyone looked a little fearful after hearing Anders's announcement but Anton saw that everyone seemed to take comfort in the eight wolves surrounding them including the floating Oak Sage spirit above them.
“Anton, I remember you also have a very huge monster summons, right?,” Lunelle asked.
“I have two very powerful monsters that I can summon but they’re a bit huge for the ship. One is a big clay golem and the other is a huge bear. I believe you’ve seen them before,” Anton replied.
“Can we see them?” Antonia asked and not only she, but Lucia, Walter, and Phillip were very curious as well, and even Selena and her two friends looked on curiously.
Anton eyeballed the distance of the floor from the ceiling in the suite since he didn’t want to damage anything when he summoned the bear and the golem. He thought that the two monsters might fit and the suite was big enough so he summoned both the Clay Golem and the Dire Bear.
When the two monsters appeared, the suite suddenly looked very small since both of the terrifying summons filled it. Not only that, both monsters exuded a terrifying and dreadful aura that even he, the summoner could feel, which made him a little proud since both monsters were his.
Antonia, Lucia, Walter, Phillip, and even Selena and her two friends suddenly looked terrified but they all calmed down when they saw that everyone else was calm. Anna even ran towards the Dire Bear and hugged it. This time though, Anna couldn’t climb the bear since there would be no space above if the bear stood.
“The bear also has some special skills and could probably defeat a whole army by himself,” Anna boasted as if the Dire Bear were hers.
“Not only that, my son told us if the bear was somehow defeated, he could just summon it again immediately!” Anton’s father boasted as well and that made Anton smile.
Anton’s four rich friends approached the two monsters that were in the middle of the suite and inspected them minutely. When they saw that the Clay Golem was just standing there like a statue and the Dire Wolf was lying down on the floor acting very lazy with Anna hugging it, the four nobles and even Selena and her two friends began touching the two monsters.
Everyone then heard the door opening and Devon, Colin, and Frederick entered with a group of men carrying everyone’s dinner. When the three saw the two terrifying monsters, they were calm since they had seen them before but the sailors who were carrying some of the food were surprised and hugely frightened and would have dropped the food that they were holding and ran off.
Anton thought that the only thing that stopped them was seeing Anna hugging the Dire Bear and Frederick's repeated assurances that the monsters were summoned creatures by the family mage.
Anton told everyone that he was going to dispel the two summons since they were taking up space and the people who were helping the others to carry their dinner were frightened. When the two monsters were gone, all of the sailors calmed down even when they saw that there were still many wolves inside the suite. He guessed that seeing the two huge monsters made the wolves look tiny and tame to others.
Once the food was laid down on the table, Anton saw Phillip paying the sailors a lot of coins, and more than likely he added more tips because of the fright they experienced.