Anton’s family and their guards traveled non-stop for two days, only stopping to eat and for bathroom breaks. They were traveling at the horses' maximum speed, which was amazingly fast indeed due to the buff provided by the Vigor Aura.

Anton’s father, Lucas, and Devon were making sure that the horses were not suffering due to their gruesome journey every time they stopped and as expected, the horses were fine, even healthier than before.

Lucas informed them that the next village was the last before they arrived in the city of Lementhor. The distance they traversed on those two days was awe-inspiring and it was only possible due to Anton’s auras.

They arrived in the village around dusk and Anders informed them that they would stay tonight and the entire day the next day since Anton’s father was planning to resume their business of buying worn-out or broken equipment from the villagers. Anders wanted to have more products that they could sell in the city since he was planning to stay in Lementhor for at least three to five days before continuing to the merchant city of Ruandelle.

Anton didn’t care since he just wanted to rest somewhere that was not moving for a few hours. In the village inn, Anders talked with the innkeeper about what they would need and then somebody led them to the rooms they rented so they could keep the luggage there and then they were led back to the common room so they could eat the dinner that was just cooked by the inn’s cook. The innkeeper was extraordinarily proud of their cook, which was his wife since he kept mentioning that his wife was a chef from the city before they got married and settled here to run an inn.

When the food arrived, everyone began to eat.

“Well, the innkeeper’s not lying. The food here is delicious. You should order a lot of food from the innkeeper, Father,” Anton said.

“I’ll oversee it,” Nemina volunteered, and Anders just nodded.

After their dinner, somebody led them to the baths, and as promised, Anton provided the mana water to everyone and heated them as well. The attendant who led them to the baths was in awe when he saw that Anton was a wizard.

Anton was a little surprised since he thought that wizards would be more common this near to the city, but Devon enlightened him that aside from the wizard cities, wizards were rare everywhere.

After providing the mana water and heating the water in the women’s tubs, Anton and Devon left the women, went to the men’s bath, and joined Lucas and Anders who were waiting. He filled the bathtub with mana water and just like women’s bathtubs, he heated the water using his spells, and everyone removed their clothes and sank into the hot mana water.

“This is luxurious, and I can feel the magic of your mana water seeping into my body. The hot water was supposed to relieve aches and pains from the rigors of the journey but amazingly I don’t have any aches and pains due to your healing spells Anton. My body feels even younger and I’m glad that Nemina and I had our own room.” Lucas sighed.

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The head guard’s comment made everyone laugh and Anders was surprised that the ribald comment did not make Anton shy.

“As if you know what Lucas is talking about,” Anders said to his son which only made Anton snort.

The snort caused Lucas and Devon to laugh some more.

“Your son is not as innocent as you think, Anders,” Lucas said.

“We will talk later,” Anders said to Anton, and he just ignored his father and sank deeply into the water.

Anton headed directly to his room to rest after their baths. He wanted to relax tonight by watching some anime before sleeping. Since his father would conduct their buying worn-out and broken equipment the next day, that meant that he would have the time to continue leveling up tomorrow. He was then surprised that his father followed him inside his room.

“Do you need something, Father?”

“I wanted to talk to you about what happened between a man and a woman when they decided to be together since based on your reaction to Lucas’s comment you had some sort of experience in this?”

Anton was a bit shocked. His father wanted to talk to him about the birds and the bees.

“Father, did you forget that I lost my memory? I only knew what Lucas meant because the information I received together with the way to make me a wizard was very extensive, and it included details about the birds and the bees.”

“Birds and the bees?”

Anton rolled his eyes.

“You know, the thing that you wanted to talk about. Things that happen between a man and a woman. Believe me Father I already know that.”

Anders blushed.

“I forgot about you losing your memory but I’m glad you already know some things a man ought to know. Okay, I’ll leave you to your rest. I still need to talk to the innkeeper about our business tomorrow.”

Anders exited the room and Anton lay on the bed and opened his browser. The first thing that he did was read up on the news about the state of the pandemic in his world. According to the news sites, it was still ongoing but there were signs that it was beginning to subside, and the world was beginning to recover.

Out of morbid curiosity, he searched for his name, which was the first time he did and there was actually news about him. The news stated that he died due to the virus of the pandemic and that was it.

Anton felt melancholia descend on him. His life in his previous world was sad. He was born to a poor family who died because of a drunk driver who died with them so he didn’t even have anyone who was living that he could blame back then and then he died before he could lift himself out of poverty from a sickness that caused deaths to millions of people but only to those who were poor since if you have the money, you should be able to buy food and medicine that could keep you healthy to survive the virus.

He made a vow that he would become powerful and wealthy in this world so he and his family would survive, and even thrive in this world. He knew that it was a mistake to look up his life in his previous world. Anton allowed himself some tears one last time and made a second vow that this was the last time he would cry about the life that he previously had.

After a few minutes of pathetic self-pity, he closed the news sites and opened a site for animes. He watched some episodes of his favorite animes and a bit later, he was laughing at the antics of the anime characters.

If somebody saw him then, they would think he was insane since previously he was crying, now he was laughing so hard about an anime called Nichijou until tears came out from his eyes. After the emotional roller coaster that he experienced that night, Anton slept deeply to rest his exhausted mind.