Anton entered his bedroom after breakfast but he kept his door open so he would be able to get to his family fast enough if something happened. The suite looked like it was filled with wolves but there were only eight wolves. Five were Dire Wolves and three were Spirit Wolves. Two were lent to the ship’s mages so they could assist in finding the attackers that killed the two families.

  It would have been three families by now but he was proud of his two Spirit Wolves who detected the attackers in time to prevent the attackers from killing more people. It was also then that the mages discovered that there was more than one perpetrator and that they were wearing some sort of uniform black clothes. If Anton had seen those people, he would have known that they were wearing what looked like ninja costumes.

  He did come to that conclusion when one of the mages who saw the attackers described what the perpetrators were wearing. Anton didn’t think much of it since black tight clothes were standard wear for someone who didn’t want to be noticed during nighttime.

  For several hours he concentrated on leveling up his Paladin Character but at around ten in the morning, he heard someone shouting outside so he immediately exited his Diablo II system and hurried out from his bedroom.

  When he saw the look of celebration on his family and friends’ faces, Anton was relieved since it wasn’t some sort of attack.

  “Anton, I finally memorized the Cantrip Light! I’m now a mage!” Walter exclaimed and then the man suddenly burst into tears which surprised Anton.

  Since Antonia, Lucia, and Phillip were there as well, they all hugged Walter. They had been friends for a long time and based on what Anton could see, the three probably understood Walter’s emotion. There were times in their lives when they desired to become mages since their family would then truly consider them the backbone of their respective clans but alas, they didn’t have the talent. But now one of them finally passed the hurdle of being an ordinary person and became a mage they all knew that even if Walter had become a mage, he would probably be considered as one of those who had very low talent and would probably encounter a very difficult time in climbing up the wizardly ranks.

  Although, given that they had one year in the ocean, with the help of Anton’s aura, he should be able to climb fast enough that when he arrived in New Drennor, they might allow him to receive the resources of a standard mage. The miraculous thing about Anton’s auras was that if a mage was diligent enough under his auras, what should have taken a mage seven to ten years of effort to increase their rank could take them just one year.

  That was also the reason why everyone received strict instructions from Anders not to share the information with just anybody.

  It took Walter three days to memorize the Cantrip Light which was the average time a not-so-talented mage could memorize their first cantrip. It proved their theory that a magic artifact that added total mana to a person would allow them to memorize a spell and become a mage. It probably remained undiscovered because if a regular person attempted something like that without Anton’s aura, it would probably take around fifteen to twenty days before they were successful in memorizing a cantrip. That usually meant that at around four or five days, people would just give up and say that it was impossible.

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  While everyone was congratulating Walter, Frederick kept advising Walter that he had to be more diligent in exercising his magic capability while he was under Anton’s auras and Walter just kept nodding while crying which made Antonia, Lucia, and Phillip laugh.

  “Are the three of you not going to give it a try of becoming a mage?” Anton asked Antonia, Lucia, and Phillip curiously.

  “You mentioned that you only had one spot left in your system that would allow a mage to practice and I don’t want to take up that space since you might need it and from the looks of it, Lucia and Phillip were the same. Besides, I’m used to being a regular person since I do have power as well because of my wealth,” Antonia said while Lucia and Phillip were nodding.

  “I also think that I wouldn’t be able to take the effort of just staying in one place memorizing a spell for several hours,” Phillip said while shuddering but Anton knew that the three were just giving excuses.

  If anyone there was honest, they would have said that they wanted to be mages as well but time and some things were limited.

  Anton laughed when he heard what Phillip had said and he was thankful that he wasn’t also doing something like that since his way of powering up was leveling his character by playing his Diablo II system but to be honest, he was an otaku enough that if there was no choice but spend an ungodly amount of time memorizing spell to increase his power, he would have done it.

  After several minutes of celebrating, they all returned to what they were doing before. The mages went back to memorizing their spells and casting them to the mana power banks to empty their spell slots and memorize spells again. Walter didn’t cast his spell onto the mana power bank but cast the Cantrip Light and summoned a mage light which brightened the area where the mages were practicing.

  Walter’s eyes were full of wonder of the magic that he cast and he resolutely began memorizing the spellbook that he had for the Cantrip Light. Anton knew that once Walter was able to create his own grimoire, Frederick would assist him since Walter was paying Frederick a lot of coins.

  Everyone went back to what they were doing but Anton stopped again during lunchtime. His Paladin character leveled up to level seventy-six. His Paladin’s build was still catered for gaming and not for real life since he could only tweak his character build for real life once he reached the maximum level for that specific character but it shouldn’t take too long before he reached the Paladin’s max level.

  When Anton went out of his room, he saw his father asking Frederick, Devon, and Colin to go get lunch while they were guarded by one Dire Wolf and one Spirit Wolf. While everyone was waiting for the three to bring their lunch to the suite, he followed Selena, Norma, and Belue to the room that Selena’s two friends were using.

  The two ladies wanted all of the things to be “spelled” into becoming new and even though there were a lot, it shouldn’t take Anton long so he immediately worked on it and after thirty minutes, he was done. Norma and Belue, and even Selena who experienced it before looked at their things with wonder. Everything looked like they were newly made and they were also very clean.

  After thanking Anton several times, Selena, Norma, and Belue began inspecting their things one by one excitedly. Anton joined his family at the table waiting for Devon and the others for their lunch. He could have eaten one of the stored foods in his inventory but it was a time for him to be with his family so while they were waiting everyone talked about anything they were interested in.

  Suddenly, the door was opened with force and a bloodied Frederick entered together with a severely wounded Devon and Colin followed by the Dire Wolf while the Spirit Wolf was inconspicuously absent.