Surprisingly, the local food was still the same as in any restaurant in Rendindura. Considering that the Isnds of Norbuna were a couple of months away from Anton’s original continent by ship, he was expecting them to be different, but the fact that the local buildings were almost exactly the same as one could find in Leminthor or Ruandelle, Anton should not have expected that it would be different.

  “Why is everything here the same as in Rendindura?” Anton asked Harun, who joined them for lunch. He couldn’t help himself and asked the question that had been bothering him ever since he explored some of the local areas.

  “A friend from here told me that the founder of the city here was a mage who was the son of a merchant from Leminthor. He modeled everything when he was building this city from his home city,” Harun answered.

  “The dresses are different, though. It’s like those dresses that Ms. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy wore in that movie Pride and Prejudice,” Lunelle said.

  “Oh yes, that was it! The clothes of the locals were bothering me somehow,” Anna commented.

  “Those clothes are worn by the well-off, I think, since when I arrived at the normal poorer areas, the clothing was the same as in any city in Rendindura,” Anton told the girls.

  After lunch, Anton was about to pay the two boys who guided him back to the hotel where his family was staying, but the boys declined, saying that they were satisfied with the high-end meal that they had tasted. He was a bit impressed by the boys' principle, which was uncommon to commoners in a normal city. After that, the boys ran off back to where he met them.

  “Are you coming with us to check the location where Antonia and the others are setting up the Cospy Event?” Anders asked his son, and Anton nodded.

  The whole group then followed Harun, who led them to the warehouse that was owned by Antonia’s family. When they arrived there, it was so busy that they all thought that it was a mistake to visit the venue while everything was undergoing construction for the party. Antonia, Lucia, and Philip were there though.

  “Don’t mind the chaos. I assure you that the pce will be ready by tomorrow! I’m so excited! This will be the event of the year!” Antonia excimed excitedly.

  Anders and the others promised to stay and help with the preparation. Even Lunelle, Ramona, Belinda, and Frederick had to stay and help. Many things needed to be done, like preparation for the prices and stuff. That meant that Anna had to stay as well to help since she couldn’t explore on her own.

  “Can I join Anton instead?” Anna asked her father, who looked at Anton.

  Anton nodded to his father, and Anders nodded at her daughter’s request, which made Anna cheered.

  While they were walking away from the warehouse that would turn into a convention location for the Cospy party, Anna kept asking Anton where they would go next. They left all the summoned animals there, though, but Anton informed them that if they went somewhere far enough away while shopping, the wolves would disappear. Antonia and Lucia assured him that the pce was well-guarded, so he didn’t have to worry too much.

  At first, he thought of dispelling the summoned animals, but with how wide the area of effect his summoning skills had, there was a chance that they might not go far enough away that the summons would appear by his side. If it did that, he could just dispel them then.

  At the very least, the summoned wolves from the tablets by his father, Lucas, Devon, and Colin, would remain by their side.

  “We’ll go shopping, of course!” Anton told his sister, which made her cheered again.

  They had the whole afternoon for themselves, so the first pce that they went to was a magic shop that sold magic items and spellbooks since Anna asked him to visit that pce first. Anna purchased a couple of Spellbooks, but the other items in the shop didn’t interest Anton and his sister.

  The second pce that they went to was the one that sold sculptures made from different materials as well as other arts like paintings and vases. They spent a much longer time there since Anton wanted to purchase a lot of items that he could enchant and sell when they reached another pce. To make sure that his sister wouldn’t get bored, he actively asked her opinion on the best-looking pieces of sculptures. Anna even suggested where Anton could pce the enchantments on the sculptures.

  The owner of the gallery gave them a huge discount since they purchased a considerable number of art pieces, almost sweeping off all of the store’s sculptures, regardless of the material it was made from. The smile on the store owner’s face grew very wide by the time their shopping spree ended.

  The only mar in their shopping experience in that store was the obvious gleam of greed in one of the attendants who was helping the owner. Even when they stored all of the items they purchased in Anton’s inventory, instead of getting scared, the attendant’s greed became more obvious since he probably thought that they had storage rings or something. By the end, Anton was tempted to capture the man and flung him to the ocean using his Telekinesis spell.

  He would have to lecture Anna, though, since she remained oblivious to the evil intention that the attendant was showing towards them.

  “Anna, didn’t you notice that store attendant’s expression?” Anton asked his sister the moment they stepped outside the store out of earshot from the store’s personnel.

  “What do you mean?”

  “I’m quite sure that the man, possibly together with some of his cohorts, would try to rob us,”

  “Don’t they know that we’re wizards?!”

  “Probably not, not even when I used my magic to store all the items that we purchased. It probably added to his greed since he was sure that we owned spatial items.”

  “What are we going to do then?”

  “Continue with our shopping, and if or when they attack us, I’ll let you handle them first so you’ll have experience in defending yourself using your magic and your wand of Ice Bolt.”

  Instead of getting scared, Anna became excited. While they were running away from the Undead Coalition when they were in Rendindura, all the battles that they encountered were handled by Anton, his father, Lucas, and Devon, and the women were just bystanders. Since they had been through several battles, Anton knew that his sister’s mettle was sturdy. She just needed an actual battle experience, and even though she’s just a level one wizard, with the help of the wand of Ice Bolt and Anton’s Magic Belt, which was the very powerful defensive item that he constructed for his family, she should be able to go through her first battle without any problem.

  The next store they went to was the one that sold women’s clothes, shoes, hats, and accessories. There they spent a couple of hours since Anna had to try everything in the store, and Anton couldn’t even enter his Diablo II system to browse the internet since Anna kept asking for his opinion, but he made sure to keep an interested and happy face since it was very rare for him and Anna to enjoy themselves together.

  The store attendants were very helpful, probably because of how the siblings looked. They looked like nobles with their fair skin and rich clothing. Sure enough, Anna spent an ungodly amount of coins to purchase a huge amount of items from the store that she promptly stored in her spatial ring. One of the salesgirls even gasped when Anna used her storage ring since a spatial item was a sign that a person was extraordinarily wealthy.