Anton enjoyed flying so much while hurling Frozen Orb, Chain Lightning, and Meteor to his enemies. It was different casting spells personally since it was much faster and easier. He just needed to think of which spell he wanted to use and the mana would respond to his desire and the spell would gather at his fingertips.

He was enjoying plowing through several groups of monsters while they tried to reach him but the fact that he was high above gave the sense that Anton was invincible. He tried to carry the mercenary with him using Telekinesis but the NPC flailing around was awkward so he immediately brought the non-player character down and just made sure that he was only high enough not to be out of range of the mercenary’s aura.

Then Anton thought of the idea of casting his spells without using his hands so when he completed all the outside zones up to Tamoe Highlands, he went back outside the Rogue Encampment to begin practicing casting spells without using his hands.

He first tried practicing what he was now calling gestureless casting using the Ice Bolt spell since it was the spell that he mastered manipulating its mana first. At first, gathering the mana of the spell in front of him was extremely difficult. It was like the mana was looking for something to anchor the spell structure. He needed to imagine an invisible hand before he was successful in gathering the mana and successfully forming the spell then hurling it into the distance.

It actually took several hundred tries before he was successful and the spell structure sometimes exploded on his face. At least Ice Bolt's spell structure was small enough and the ice or water element was harmless enough that he didn’t receive any injury from the backlash.

All that flying adventure and gestureless casting practice took him several hours so when Anton checked the time, it was already noon. He went inside the Rogue Encampment, parked his character by his Private Stash then minimized the game.

At the very least he earned one level up from the flying adventure so he was now level sixty-four. He put the stats to energy to increase his mana and the skill point to Frozen Orb before minimizing the game.

When Anton arrived downstairs, he saw Anna, Fenix, Lunelle, and Devon already seated at a table eating lunch. He joined them and ordered food from one of the waiters. Anton noticed that the waiters were especially respectful to him and he guessed that everyone in the inn already knew that he was a wizard.

While he was waiting for the waiter to arrive with his food, Anton asked Anna what they did during the morning.

“We watched some of the performers and Fenix brought us to other places where we could see unique things. Did you know there’s a theater here? They’re only open during the night and only if they have some play that they are going to show the audience. Fortunately, there’s going to be a play tonight so we should watch one!” Anna said, excited at the prospect of watching a theater play.

“Fine by me. I’m interested as well so I’ll ask Father to let us go tonight.”

Anna cheered and Anton knew why. Since he was the one who was going to ask, they were almost sure that Anders would allow them to visit the theater.

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“I will go ahead and visit the adventurer’s guild with Fenix after lunch to look for a beginner wizard to be our tutor.”

“Can I join you? I don’t want to stay here,” Anna said.

“You don’t have to stay here. You can roam around with Lunelle and Devon,” Anton said.

“I want to see the adventurer’s guild as well.”

“Okay we’ll go as a group then,” Anton acquiesced.

After lunch, before leaving, Anton cast Frozen Armor and Energy Shield, activated the visible buff spell option, and turned on the option to make sure that the Meditation aura was visible as well then, he lifted himself using Telekinesis.

“let’s go to the Adventurer’s Guild!” Anton said while laughing loudly like a villain.

What he didn’t expect was that everyone at the inn gaped at him including Anna then the crowd except for his sister, Lunell, Devon, and Fenix ran outside the inn as fast as they could with pure panic on their faces.

Anton immediately turned off the option to show the visual effect of his buff spells and then floated back down.

The innkeeper rushed from the kitchen to gape at him as well then almost fell cowering back together with his attendants.

Anton regretted what he did. He didn’t expect that the people’s reaction would be that severe. He, of course, was aware that everyone in the inn already knew that he was a wizard so at most he thought that they would just stare a bit but the panic running was unexpected.

“I’m sorry. I was just joking around. I’m not going to do anything,” Anton looked at Lunelle, Devon, and Fenix pleadingly so the three started to talk to everyone calming them down and Lunelle talked to the innkeeper to pay for any damages that occurred.

Anton heard his sister saying “Idiot” to him and for once, he agreed.

After about thirty minutes, the people calmed down and the innkeeper boldly went to Anton and asked with a trembling voice not to do something like that again.

“Again, I’m really sorry sir. I’m just joking around with my friends. I didn’t expect that that performance would garner that huge of a reaction from the crowd,” Anton apologized profusely.

Calling the innkeeper sir must have brought something positive since the innkeeper forgave him then the man couldn’t stop smiling. Everyone could hear the man saying to his attendants that the wizard called him sir.

Anton and the rest sat back down on the table to wait for a few minutes to make sure that everyone was calm down before leaving. What they didn’t expect was Anders and the rest rushing from outside. Anton’s father was holding his wand ready for battle while the rest of the bodyguards had their swords unsheathed.

“Anton, Anna, you’re okay! We heard that a powerful wizard was attacking the inn!” Anders shouted.

Anton heard Anna calling him stupid again.

“I’m sorry, Father. There’s no one attacking the inn. I just cast some spells as a joke and when everyone saw it, they panicked and ran outside the inn,” Anton said to Anders.

“Some spells! You surrounded yourselves with floating snow then summoned a glowing golden ball atop your head then some glowing clouds on your feet while you floated up!” Anna snorted.

“You did what! I should go ahead and get a switch to thrash you!” Anders scolded his son.

The scolding brought something that Anton didn’t expect. It calmed all the people that were left further. They saw a kid who did something stupid and was now being scolded by his father instead of a terrifying wizard.

The bodyguards all started laughing while sheathing their sword and Anders went and put his magic wand on what Anton saw as a brand new wand sheathed. Anders sat opposite Anton while the rest surrounded the table.

“I was talking to a rich merchant about to sell off the rest of our stock for a healthy price when we heard someone shouting from outside that our inn was being attacked by a wizard so we had to stop our talk and rush here. What made you think that it was all right for you to cast your spells where normal people who were not ready to see could view you?”

Anton considered his father’s scolding and thought deeply about how to answer without angering Anders further.