“Harun! I’m so glad you’re here. My family needs to celebrate something. Can you help me find someone to cook these three kilos of Kraken meat?” Anton gave the meat and several gold coins to the sailor who told him that he would be happy to help and to wait for an hour for the food to be served.

  Anton knew it was bothersome since it was only around four in the morning so he added more gold coins which made Harun thankful.

  When Anton arrived at the suite, he made enough noise that everyone woke up.

  “Anton, what happened?!” His father asked looking alarmed.

  “I asked Harun to cook us some Kraken meat so everyone wake up and let’s celebrate! Soon the issue with the attackers should be resolved. I captured three of them and the Supreme Adinor said that those prisoners were enough for the enemies to be rooted out from the ship. The supreme also said that they would inform us of the results of the interrogation,” Anton happily announced.

  “Why are we celebrating early? What if they found out more problems from those enemies that you captured?” Anna said.

  “Then we will resolve them and we can celebrate again! There’s nothing wrong with celebrating multiple times,” Anton retorted.

  Soon, Harun arrived with other men bringing with them multiple dishes made from the Kraken tentacle meat. Anton was truly glad that he still had a lot of them in his inventory since he considered the tentacle of the Kraken as a miracle meat. What was supposed to be an inedible animal was turned into an out-of-this-world delicacy because of magic and he still had tons of it.

  Soon everyone was enjoying the dishes that were made out of Kraken meat. Antonia, Lucia, Phillip, and Walter were still staying in their suite and Anton knew that they were only using the attackers as an excuse since their places were secure enough. Anton was just happy that his friends wanted to be near him and his family and that meant being with them made them happy, which was in his opinion a good thing.

  Selena and her two friends had only eaten the Kraken tentacle meat a few times so they were particularly voluble in their appreciation of how delicious the dishes were.

  The sun was already up when they finished eating all of the dishes and completed their celebratory meal. The mages wanted to start practicing their magic so he added all of them to his party system and activated his auras. Anton was a bit tired himself so he told them that he would sleep first so he went to his room to rest. He did waste an hour surfing the internet before sleeping but before he did, he happily looked at the pearl that was placed on the bedside table.

  He woke up after a couple of hours and Anton felt fully rested even though he only slept for two hours. When he checked the time, it was only around nine in the morning so after showering, he entered his Diablo II system to continue his project of completing the item that would contain the Frozen Armor spell. He also decided that once he was successful in constructing the mana structure and mana pathway for the Frozen Armor, he would start tackling the mana structure and mana pathway of the Druid’s Cyclone Armor spell since he felt that Frozen Armor alone wasn’t enough protection.

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  Anton thought of his other defensive spells and wondered if they were viable to be etched into an item but for now he would complete Frozen Armor and Cyclone Armor first.

  He thought of the Bone Armor spell but the users might be weirded out by the bones that would float around once the spell was activated. Anton thought that his enchanted item probably would not have the option that he had to turn off the special effects of the spells.

  When lunchtime arrived, Anton paused his research and joined his family for lunch. Everyone was eating already.

  “Hey, why didn’t you wait for me?”

  “I saw that you’re busy with your weird meditation so I thought that you’ll just eat once you’re done. Your magic practice is still so weird. You just sit there doing nothing and then your power increases,” Anna said.

  “You’re all doing the same thing. You sit there doing nothing as well,” Anton retorted.

  “We’re memorizing and casting spells!” Anna replied.

  “How did you know that I wasn’t doing the same thing? Maybe my spellbook for my bloodline magic is in my mind and I’m practicing my magic by memorizing my spells using my mind and casting them in my mind as well,” Anton said with a serious face.

  “Is that what you’re doing?” Frederick asked curiously and everyone at the table looked curious as well.

  Anton laughed and said no, which made Anna say that he was hateful but Anton just continued laughing.

  “I can’t explain my process to all of you since it’s truly different and it would not help any of you, believe me.”

  After lunch, all of the mages returned to practicing their magic but he noticed that they were now using the small table mana power bank that Anton had made. He would probably need to create a new one soon.

  Before he entered his room, they heard some weird knocking on their door since it wasn’t so much a knock but some sort of tapping noises. When Frederick opened the door, a tiny raven entered with a small letter attached to its feet.

  Anton knew that it was Andrea’s raven. The letter was about their group inviting him to hang out later in the afternoon at the common tavern. He wrote a reply that he would be there, tied the letter back to the tiny raven’s feet who was now wearing a scarf that had a cute pattern design on its neck. When he was done tying the letter, the small raven flew off, returning to its owner.

  “Who was that raven from? I know all the holders of our tiny ravens,” Anna curiously asked.

  “It’s from Andrea. She’s one of my friends who lives in the commoner area who purchased the tiny raven.”

  “She’s that rich?”

  “No. Their family was from a merchant family from Ruandelle. They plan to relocate to the Gale Continent just like us,” Anton answered his sister.

  “Is she your girlfriend? If she’s not rich, how can she afford the raven?” Anna teased him.

  “Their family purchased a regular Spirit Wolf for protection and a tiny raven so they can send messages and no, she’s not my girlfriend. I can’t afford a diversion right now since all of us are still not truly safe. I need to continue pursuing power since the only way for us to continue living happily was to make sure that we have enough power that no enemies could harm us,” Anton said seriously.

  Anna looked at him and without saying anything went back to where their home theater system set up where they usually practice magic and continued memorizing her spells. What Anton had said was a bit of a downer and he regretted it a little bit. He didn’t want to pressure his sister to disregard everything but her magic. He would have consoled his sister but Lunelle just tapped him and shook her head.

  He knew that he could trust Lunelle to handle the situation since she had become some sort of an elder sister to Anna and she would also tell him everything that Anton needed to learn.