Anton enjoyed hanging out with Torun, Blake, Andrea, and Soren and his gang. They talked mostly about the movies that the cinema had shown and kept reiterating that all of them were excited to see the last movie which would be in the cinema in a few days.

  “Have you all thought of which costumes you’re all going to wear at the costume event that will be held in a few weeks?” Anton asked everyone.

  “We don’t know if we can attend. We heard rumors of how much the price was going to be and it’s a bit steep for us,” Torun said and everyone nodded.

  “Why do you care about that?! It’s my family’s event so of course you can come and there’s no need for all of you to pay. As a matter of fact, all of your family members are invited and for the ticket, just show anyone who’s going to be assigned as door guard your little raven or family’s Spirit Wolves,” Anton rolled his eyes at his friends.

  Torun and the others thanked him but then they returned to talking about The Lord of the Rings movies. Anton understood why the fantasy trilogy was well-received by the cinemagoers. The trilogy was a well-crafted masterpiece of a movie series but he briefly wondered if the people of this world consider them as fantasy. Since there were magic and fantastical things in this world, would that mean that the movies based on fantasy were actually considered reality or at the least just fiction? What would they consider fantasy then? It was so interesting that Anton couldn’t help but ask his friends.

  “Hey guys, can you all define for me the meaning of the word fantasy and can you give me examples?” Anton asked everyone which interrupted their robust conversation about the films.

  Normally, other customers would have complained at how loud they were but since this was a niche location, there were hardly any people around except for them, and those few that were there were actually listening in to their conversation and were talking about the films themselves.

  Torun and the others looked at Anton questioningly and Anton just kept on nodding.

  “Fantasy means something fantastical meaning a situation that wouldn’t happen normally. Normally it pertains to the workings of the gods like their messengers appearing to an ordinary farm boy,” Blake said.

  “So anything related to gods?” Anton asked.

  “Not really. Just anything that was not supposed to happen normally,” Torun replied.

  “Can you give me an example not related to the divines?” Anton asked.

  “There was this mountain near Ruandelle that was supposed to have a doorway to a fantasy realm. According to the stories, the people of that realm can build ships that can travel on the air or even beyond and go to different worlds and dimensions,” Soren answered.

  That sentence made Anton pause since based on what Soren had said, those he considered Science Fiction were probably the ones being considered as Fantasy by the people of this world. Then he thought that the term Science Fiction might not exist in this world yet since they were still in the medieval era.

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  Or maybe he thought wrong to consider the era as medieval since with the existence of magic, science would have a hard time entering the sight of the people of this world so maybe the correct term was the magical era. Anton then wondered if magic would wane then the growth of science would occur calling that era the science era. That was an amusing thought that could be a premise of a good fantasy, sci-fi web novel.

  “Why do you suddenly ask about the word Fantasy?” Andrea asked.

  “Did you know that in the dimension where the movies came from, magic doesn’t exist? So any stories with magic in them just like the Lord of the Rings are considered Fantasy movies. In our world magic exists so what genre is the Lord of the Rings films? Fiction or Non-fiction?” Anton said to his friends and then asked the question about what genre they consider the Lord of the Rings was.

  “No magic?! How is that possible? How do they fight off powerful monsters?” Torun asked, not believing what Anton had said.

  “In that dimension, there’s no monsters to fight off. Wars are fought using cold and hot weapons meaning knives, swords, and guns which were advanced weapons that can shoot off thousands of small metals.”

  “I can’t imagine a world without magic or monsters!” Andrea exclaimed.

  “The dimension where the movies come from relies on science which is a study of how the world works in its most basic form. Because of that, they were able to create movies that came from their artists’ imaginations and they were able to realize in a movie using the technology that was created because of their hardcore belief in science. That dimension was also able to create ships that can travel the lands and the waters at extreme speed and the story that you mention about ships that can travel the air? They were able to create that as well so they could travel between their continents in mere hours instead of like us taking more than a year. They also manage to create a ship that can travel to their moon. That’s how advanced they are.”

  Anton’s friends were fascinated by what he had said about Earth. He thought that now, they thought of Earth as the land of fantasy which was some kind of funny reverse situation.

  “I wish I could see what their dimension looks like,” Andrea whispered but Anton heard her clearly.

  “You don’t need to worry about that. There are a lot of movies based on their dimension so soon a few movies will be shown based on their reality.”

  “By the way what does non-fiction mean?” Torun asked.

  “Movies are categorized based on their genre. Stories about a love story between people are called Romance. Stories about fighting are called Action and those that tell of the heartbreaking tales of people are called Drama. Non-fiction is stories about real people or real life and since I’ve mentioned that in the dimension where the movies came from, magic isn’t real, they call anything that has magic “Fantasy” and since we have magic, what will our people the genre of the Lord of the Rings?”

  Nobody answered Anton and most of his friends just shrugged and since it wasn’t really that important, Anton just let it go. Anton and his friends then talked about which costume they would wear at the costume party since it was explicit that all the costumes should be based on the Lord of the Rings films.

  After that discussion, Anton finally warned his friends that the problem with the killers wasn't resolved yet so they had to take care and try not to roam around alone.

  “Don’t worry. Nowadays we’re all together and during the night, the three spirit wolves are making our families safe,” Torun said.

  Anton would have liked to tell them some more specific information but they did promise the secretary of the Supreme Wizard Adinor that they would spread the information yet. Not only that, his friends wouldn’t have been able to do anything else but worry so he decided to just keep his mouth shut.

  “Those wolves are so intelligent and obedient! They would follow the commands of our fathers to the letter. They were very diligent in patrolling our areas together with whoever was assigned to them,” Blake said.

  Anton then told them that he was glad that the wolves were able to help them feel calm during these trying times. Everyone had been on edge because of the Undead Coalition so they all deserved some relief from worries while they were in the middle of the ocean.