Anton had to stop his experimentation with the defensive tablet that he was creating since it was already four in the afternoon. He was successful in etching the mana structure of the Frozen Armor on the silver tablet and had also created the mana pathway that supplied the mana to the structure from the mana storage that he had drawn at the bottom of the tablet.

The tablet was overly large for now since Anton planned to draw the Frozen Armor spell at the top left side, then the Cyclone Armor at the top right side, and the Bone Armor spell at the middle part. Then the mana storage which was drawn at the bottom would be connected by an extremely complex mana pathway to the three spells.

This was the first time Anton tried something like this since all of the magic items that he had made consisted of just one spell although some of them were modified to take in less or more mana or even modified to change the structure of the spell like the Ice Bolt to water.

Anton was a little proud of himself for completing the first part and when he activated it by turning on the switch it worked adequately. The difficulty of the item that he was making was making sure that the Frozen Armor would work together with the other two armor spells.

He stored everything in his inventory and then exited his Diablo II system. When Anton went outside his room, everyone was done with their magic practice and was eating pastries that were brought by Antonia and Lucia.

Anders and the others were also there eating snacks. Based on the conversation that Anton was hearing, everything went fine that day.

“Where’s the golem?’ Anton asked since he didn’t find the golem inside the suite. Of course, if he wanted to, he would know immediately where the golem was.

“It’s outside the door. It’s too cramped in here with two giant monsters staying in the middle. At least the Dire Bear, when lying down like that looked like some sort of sofa that one could sit in,” Nemina said and Anna and Lunelle were indeed sitting on top of the bear.

“The bear is so soft and warm! I would like it to be my bed during winter,” Anna commented while hugging the bear.

“The Dire Bear is one of my most powerful spells and I could probably create a summoning tablet for it but you’re going to encounter severe logistic problems. Once it was summoned by anyone using a tablet, it would exist in the world and that meant that it would need to be fed a lot, and I mean a lot of meat. Not only that, as you can see, it would require a lot of space. At least as my summon, I can dispel and summon it anytime I want and it didn’t need to eat or defecate,” Anton said.

“Can you change it so that we can store our summoned animals back to the tablet?” Anna asked.

“For now no. The material that I’m using for the summoning spell is gold and as you can see the moment you use it, the tablet disappears. If there are more powerful materials that could hold the summoning spell without disappearing, I haven’t encountered them yet and once I do, maybe I can modify the spell so you can summon and unsummon the animals but for now, that’s just a guess,” Anton replied.

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“I’ve heard of powerful magical materials like mithril or orichalcum but I haven’t actually seen them yet,” Frederick said.

“I know of them but from what I’ve seen, if you construct your enchanted item with those, the cost of the tablet would skyrocket, possibly at least a hundred times what it costs you to make it,” Walter said and Antonia, Lucia, and Phillip nodded since based on what they had said, their families did deal with some magic resources for the mages in their families.

Anton then told everyone that he had a meeting with some of his friends and he was late already. They were supposed to meet at that tavern where he stayed with Torun’s group before. He didn’t know what the others would do once he left but they could manage. Everyone should be safe since five wolves and two huge monsters were guarding them.

It was already five in the afternoon when he arrived at the Common Rabble, which was the name of the tavern that Torun and the others stayed in most afternoons if they were not doing anything important. The tavern wasn’t big so he saw Torun’s group immediately.

Torun and the others joined a couple of tables and they were now busy talking to each other in very loud voices. When they saw Anton they all greeted him so he sat beside them without any flare.

“You’re late!” Torun said and because it’s an opportunity, Anton replied with one of the most beloved lines on Earth.

“A wizard is never late, he arrived precisely when he meant to,” Anton said then he laughed.

The others just rolled their eyes at him since they also knew where the line came from.

“Our magical practice usually ends at four in the afternoon. My family then talked to me first that’s why I’m late.”

“That’s fine. We’re not doing anything important anyway, just hanging out,” Blake said while he and his sister were playing with the tiny raven.

“Actually, I want to purchase a tiny raven from you as well,” Torun said and Soren shouted, “Me too!”

Anton asked the two why they sudden interest in the little raven.

“It’s now very famous. Andrea and Blake, well, basically everyone in their family is using the raven to send messages to everybody even those that are not important. I even received a small letter with nothing on it but “Good Morning!”. They’re just showing off the bird!” Torun said looking aggrieved.

“Did you know that somebody tried to capture the bird? According to our investigation, Meno’s group caught it and then locked it in a cage but according to some of his friends who ratted him out, the bird disappeared from the cage and appeared beside Andrea!” Soren said.

“What happened to that Meno?” Anton asked.

“We beat him to an inch of his life, of course!” Blake said and Anton just smiled since based on everyone’s reaction, that Meno was probably fine.

It was interesting though that the tiny raven had that capability. Anton actually didn’t know that. He knew that it would happen on his summons if they got too far away from him but not to the summons from the tablet. He didn’t even know the raven’s range. The only thing he knew was it was very significantly larger than the other summons, which was understandable since it was a flying animal.

“I can give you and Soren tiny ravens but I would need written confirmation from your patriarchs that they are allowing you to purchase the ravens. It will be the same price as Andrea’s and you can pay once you can pay just like with the wolves,” Anton said to both Torun and Soren.

Soren looked worried but Torun looked determined. Anton knew that there would be discussions that would happen later in their families. Based on his calculations, their families could afford the price of both the wolves and the ravens, it was just, that they were wary of overspending since they didn’t have incoming funds while they were on the ship. Their finances should stabilize once they re-started their business in New Drennor and based on what they had said, it would not be too difficult for their families to do that since they had connections in the city.

“Okay, we’ll go to your suite tomorrow afternoon!” Torun said and Anton replied that it should be after four in the afternoon since there was magic practice in the morning.