Anton and his family started their journey happily since everyone had a full meal and had taken a bath although Anders did tell everyone that they could not take a bath every single day which they understood since it would consume a huge amount of time.

The only person in the carriage was him. Anna said that he was boring since the only thing he did was meditate so she joined Nermina and Lunelle in their cart. She said that she would talk with Devon’s sister about clothes and pieces of jewelry.

Once they were on their way, Anton entered his game virtually to continue leveling up. He was not worried since Lucas and Devon were with them and they were vigilant since their family was with them and he was confident that they would make sure that they were safe as well. Anders was also on the lookout not totally dependent on their new guards since from what Anton observed of his father, Anders also wanted to make sure that his family was safe as well.

He was now level thirty and in Harrogath. Anton started his journey in the Bloody Foothills and he felt that it was easy since the spell Frozen Orb was demolishing every monster in sight. It was weird to see barbarians fighting monsters looking very real but when he tried to engage one after a battle, the barbarians still behaved like NPCs ignoring him as if he was air.

At first, Anton was worried about them and was trying to hurry so he could assist them so the barbarians would not die among the many hordes of enemies but since they behaved as NPCs, his worries dissipated.

Anton enjoyed slaughtering the enemies in the Bloody Foothills because of how easy it was and he didn’t rush. He made sure that all the corners in the zone were explored just like what he did when he first started playing the game when he was younger. This brought his level to thirty-one and he immediately put the newly earned stats in vitality. Since he had four remaining skill points, he put one to Frozen Orb and one to Cold Mastery. Now he had three skill points remaining.

When he added a skill point to Cold Mastery he felt some sort of knowledge and experience enter his mind about manipulating his cold spells so he immediately went to the Frigid Highlands, activated the waypoint there, and went directly to Act 1 Rogue Encampment. He wanted to practice his spells to check what Cold Mastery had added aside from the usual lowering the resistances of all hostile to him.

Surprisingly, the Cold Mastery level thirty passive skill added a lot of practical mastery of his mana manipulation to all of his cold spells and he wondered why he only felt it now and only with Cold Mastery since he also added one skill point to Fire and Lightning Mastery. He then reckoned that there was a breakpoint in the skill level when it came to the three masteries and it could be that it was skill level five since only Cold Mastery reached that due to circlet that has plus one to all cold skills, the Ring of Jordan and a staff that came with plus one to cold skills as well.

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All of these were just his conjecture and not actual fact because usually his Diablo II system would inform him of something like this but he realized that the knowledge that he gained was only relevant to the real world and the game mechanics wouldn’t care if he could manipulate the mana of his spells really well. He practiced his cold spells for a while and when he exited the game, he realized that he spent several hours leveling up and practicing his spells since the carriage already stopped for their lunch and to rest the horses.

Anton joined everyone for lunch and gave them mana water from his Frozen Orb spell to make sure that all of them were refreshed. He also activated the Prayer Aura skill that he received for having a Combat Mercenary from Act 2 and he did this to relieve every one of their aches and pains even the tiniest ones.

Lucas and his family were startled when the Prayer Aura was activated and Anders explained to them that it was his healing spell. Anton saw them feeling out their body and Lucas especially since he was an experienced veteran and probably sustained a lot of injuries when he was younger working as a mercenary or a guard.

“Your spell sir feels wonderful. All my old injuries are disappearing,” Lucas said and even Devon nodded since he probably had old injuries as well.

Anton was aware of them healing because his mana decreased indicating that some injuries were being dealt with by the spell. He only stopped the Prayer Aura when his mana stopped decreasing.

“Now I want to sleep. This was the first time in a long time that my body was relaxed. It’s as if I received a massage from a high-level priest while he was applying his healing spell,” Devon said.

“We appreciate what you did Sir Anton. Thank you so much,” Lucas said directly to him and the family echoed his sentiments which made Anton blush.

The blush prompted a laugh from Anna and it made Lunelle’s eyes twinkle because Anton didn’t know that the healthy food, his constant drinking and bathing of mana water, and constant Prayer Aura transformed him into a very handsome young man with dark hair and his magic made his blue eyes especially vivid. Anton was only seventeen in this world and had not achieved his full height but he was already taller than his father who he reckoned was about five foot ten inches so he was about six feet. He hoped since he wanted to be a tall man this time since as Anthony Saunders in his previous world his height was only five foot eight inches.

Anton went to the horses next and let them drink mana water as well to make them healthier. He also activated his Prayer Aura so he could heal them of any possible injuries they sustained. He needed to remove everyone from the party system so he could add the horses so they would be affected by the Prayer aura. This made all the horses a bit skittish but it also made them fond of Anton.

Of course, he included everyone's horses and after a while, he turned off the skill, removed the horses from the party then added everyone to the party system back again.

After lunch, they continued their journey but this time Anton did not enter the game immediately. Instead, he practiced his scales on his lute first and then played some songs. He then sang loudly so he could entertain his father.

He chose old country and Western songs since it looked like his father preferred those types of songs and he was glad that whatever magic brought him to this world had translated the language perfectly. He then wondered if the videos that he was watching and the website that he was reading were in the old world language or using this world language.

Anton shrugged and thought that as long he could understand them perfectly, he wouldn’t worry himself about it.