My Favorite Game Followed Me!

When Lucas told Anton that it would only take three more weeks before they reached the coastal city of Whaling, he got excited. Whaling City represented the gateway for him to reach the other continents and he could not almost wait to find out what magical adventures he would encounter there together with his family and friends.

Listening to the others talking, specifically Anna, Ramona, and Belinda, they too were extremely excited to begin their adventure on the other side of the planet. Belinda said that she felt that they were the crew of the Starship Enterprise with Anders their captain. She felt that they were also following its mission of exploring new lands, seeking out new friends and new cities, and boldly going where no farmer or maids like them had gone before.

Everyone inside the carriage including Anton laughed at the changes that Belinda made to the Starship Enterprise mission statement.

During the next week, they pass through two villages and one town. Anton still kept buying wood and metal art sculptures and enchanted them with his magic. He then started giving most of them to his father so that Anders and Nemina could sort them out and put a price on them. They planned to sell the majority of them in Whaling since whatever their decision would be, they would need a lot of coins to wherever they ended up.

Anders, Nemina, and Lunelle were also diligent in collecting items that Anton could repair that they would sell in Whaling and Anton made sure to repair everything as soon as possible so that once they arrived in the city, everything would be ready to be sold off.

During those days, their group had seen a lot of the episodes of the three shows that they had been watching and Anton was sure that his family and friends had already acclimated to the possible bizarre situations that they could see in a television show and that meant that Anton could already show them anything and he was sure that his family and friends would be able to accept them.

Sometimes, Devon and Frederick talked to Anton secretly about allowing them to watch porn and they were so persistent that he would have given in but the fact was, their group was so small, and they were almost always together that there was simply no opportunity.  Anton could see that they were mostly driven by curiosity but men would be men and there’s no changing that fact. It didn’t help that he teased them a lot regarding some of the scenes he had already seen and that amuses Anton so much that he wasn’t planning on stopping anytime soon. Of course, there was an unspoken agreement between them that Anders and Lucas would not be aware of the porn talks.

Unfortunately for the three of them, Anna overheard them one time and tattled to Anders and because of that, they received a severe scolding from Anton’s father, Lucas, and Nemina. The girls kept giggling at them.

Anton plotted his revenge which was to show them a movie that had a somewhat risqué scene like Titanic so after a few days, he did just that.  

While everyone was watching the movie, Anton could see that everyone understood why he chose the Titanic film since it was an adventure journey to the other side of the ocean which they would probably do once they reached Whaling.

As expected, the girls fell in love with Jack but when the scene came where Jack was painting Rose nude, Anders almost stopped the film but compromised by just asking Belinda to cover Anna’s eyes. Anton’s father glared at him for a bit but he didn’t care since Anna was pouting during the scene and that was his revenge.

When the movie ended, almost all of them had tears in their eyes and Anton had to admit that the movie was a tear-jerker, especially during the parts when the Titanic ship was sinking.

Anton then suddenly thought that it might be horrible for him to show a movie about a sinking ship while they were planning to travel the ocean.

During that week of travel, he also leveled up his necromancer to level 12 and reached the monastery in Act I of the Normal Difficulty. Honestly, Anton was having fun leveling up his necromancer since his skeleton army was truly overpowered. He didn’t even need to do anything and just stand there and his skeleton army would annihilate every monster in sight.

Anton’s leveling up was very slow because he spent more than half of his time researching a new enchanted item which was a floating item that contained the mana structure of the Telekinesis spell. He thought that since they were planning to travel the ocean, it would be best if they had enchanted items that would allow them to survive the waters if worse came to worse and the ship they were riding was destroyed.

At first, Anton thought of creating an enchanted item that would allow the user to use Telekinesis to fly but the mana structure of that kind of enchantment was incredibly complex and the mana consumption was prohibitively huge that he shelved that project and thought of other ideas to use the Telekinesis spell so he arrived at the idea of creating a hoverboard. A board would be huge enough that it would contain the complex mana structure needed for the Telekinesis spell, the Warmth spell, and the mana structure for the mana storage.

Since the floating board needed to be large enough to be able to hold a few people, the mana storage should be equivalently large enough to support a huge amount of mana that would power up the spell that would be able to lift the board with a huge amount of weight.

After a few days, Anton realized that it would probably take longer before he would be successful in creating the enchanted item. The only consolation that he could think of was at least the materials for the hoverboard were not costly, not like the materials for the summoning of the druid animals.

By his rough calculation, it would probably take him at least a month before he was successful in creating a good enough prototype for the large hoverboard.

Anton told everyone about his current enchanting project which was welcomed by everyone and they all assisted him in gathering the necessary huge wooden boards for his enchantments. They didn’t want to experience the Titanic scene of dying while the ship was sinking and that comment from Anna made him realize that it was a mistake to show the movie Titanic right before they planned to travel the ocean.

While resting in one of the campgrounds that Devon had chosen, Lucas announced that they would reach Whaling in two weeks.

They did encounter a bit of a problem during their journey. The number of bandit groups attacking them exploded and Lucas said that most of them were refugees from the cities that were conquered by the Undead Coalition.

“Why didn’t they go to Homura, Whaling, or any other cities for that matter to look for a proper job?” Anna asked and Lucas answered her.

“Most of the bandits realized that their status as refugees in the new cities placed them as the lowest of the low and could only do the lowest jobs and some couldn’t accept it. They then decided that banditry was an easy way for them to get the coins to survive.”

“That’s why Father told me to just drive them away and not kill them,” Anders said to his sister.

One good thing about being a wizard was that Anton or even Frederick or Anna just needed to show a bit of magic and the new bandits would run away immediately.