Anton immediately entered the world of Sanctuary when he reached his room. This time he would rush to complete the Act IV of the Nightmare Difficulty of his Diablo II system since he wanted to reach the Hell difficulty and begin grinding for levels. He wanted to choose another class so he could add more spells to his repertoire.
He thought of what class Anton should choose next. He could only choose either the Necromancer or the Druid but more than likely, he would choose the Druid even though he liked the Necromancer better.
The situation of the Undead Coalition attacking the surrounding countries made the people wary and averse to the undead and if he chose Necromancer, the undead summons would probably cause him to be looked upon by everyone as a traitor.
Even though he was rushing, the very fact that he was inside the world and was traveling the zones personally was causing the gameplay to take longer. Anton knew that using the on-screen option would make the rushing to move quickly but the advantage of playing by entering the game personally was huge.
Anton planned to complete all the acts personally and then after that use the on-screen option for grinding. Then he would continue mastering casting his spells for a couple of hours a day by entering the world of Diablo II in person.
It actually took him an hour to pass the Outer Steppes then another hour to clear Plains of Despair and kill Izual. He put the skill point that he earned in Telekinesis since the spell was proving to be really useful.
Looking at his skill tree, Anton could not help but sigh at the scattered skill points and knew that once he began grinding using the increased difficulty brought by the console command “Players X”, it would be tedious due to the weakness of his spells. The fact that he could only respecialize once a week meant that he couldn’t use the min-max strategy since his spells were useful in real life and he would need to prioritize making sure that he mastered all of his spells. That meant that he couldn’t unlearn any of them.
After a couple of hours of adventuring inside the world of Diablo II, he began to feel exhausted so Anton finally slept.
The next day, Colin woke him up by knocking on his door and after taking a bath and providing mana water to his family and friends, and eating breakfast, they started their journey on the road again.
On the road, Frederick started teaching Anton, Anna, and her two maids again the arcane language and Anton was beginning to become frustrated with the lessons. He found the magic language incredibly difficult and knew that Anna shared his thoughts but the siblings persevered.
After four days of travel, they reached a fairly huge town and Anders announced that they would stay in the town for three days to rest and do some business. During their travel, Anton repaired all the items that were purchased from the last village so the caravan was full of products they could sell but Nemina mentioned that even though the town was larger than average, they probably would not be able to unload much of their products.
Anders told him that they would also purchase broken items from the town as well since their caravan still had more space and Anton just nodded.
Also during their travel, Anton made sure to enter his game several hours a day making Anna frustrated since Anton never used the spell that would allow them to see another show. He kept reiterating to Anna that he needed to meditate since he was on the verge of a breakthrough.
Anton also made sure to practice his lute for at least an hour every day to make sure that his fingers were very dexterous. During his hour of practice, he would play the scales for a few minutes then play several songs after that, and at least that was some sort of entertainment for his sisters and her maids.
Anna also began focusing on reading the Belgariad series since that was the only entertainment they had aside from talking about clothes and stuff with her maids. They were already on the third book of the series.
Frederick also assured the siblings that they were learning the arcane language fast and then more than likely after a month more of tutoring, they could begin memorizing one cantrip.
During those four days of travel, Anton also managed to reach and defeat Diablo in the Act IV of the Nightmare Difficulty and also increased his level by one reaching level sixty-seven. He went and put his stats on vitality and his newly earned skill point to Telekinesis again. This would make repairing the carts in the caravan easier since he would be able to lift them without any problem using his Telekinesis spell and would also allow him to fly easier as well.
They also encountered some bandits on the road but those were easily handled by the guards and Anders’s wands. Anton didn’t even need to heal anyone.
Everyone was also beginning to feel the bite of summer so Anton asked if there was some sort of magic item that they could purchase to control the temperature of a room.
“You can buy a magic rune plate that does that. It would cost you a lot of coins though and something like that is only usually available in large cities.”
“How does one power up a runic item?” Anton continued asking the mage.
“It’s usually recharged by a mage using the mage’s mana. I could only recharge one very small runic item. Something like a rune that can control the temperature of something cart would need to be recharged by an intermediate mage. Those wizards that could cast third-level spells and above. Another way to power up a runic item was to use a mana stone.”
“Where do mana stones come from?” Anton asked, wondering if such stones came from the inside of monsters just like in the web novels and if he wasted some by not taking them from the monsters they killed.
“They were mined from certain locations steeped in magic that they formed mana crystal vein and those locations were controlled and guarded by powerful nations,” Frederick answered.
“So there are no mana stones inside the monsters?”
“Not that I’m aware of.”
Anton was a bit relieved that he didn’t waste any mana stones and that he didn’t need to dig the inside of monsters that he killed in the real world. That would have been so gross. Although, Frederick mentioned that high-level monsters like a basilisk or a dragon body parts were really valuable since they were used to create weapon and armor artifacts.
During their stay in the town, Anton concentrated on playing the game to make sure that he would reach the Hell Difficulty as soon as possible. He really wanted a second class so he would have more spells.
He began rushing the Act V of the Nightmare difficulty but it was still very slow. Between the traveling time and killing the monsters, Anton only cleared the Frigid Highlands on the second day of their stay in the town although he only did play during the afternoon and a couple of hours before sleep since Frederick continued tutoring them in the morning.
Anna and her maids guarded by some of the mercenaries roamed the town but Anton heard his sister complaining that there was nothing to see and that the town was very backward. Anton finally relented to his sister’s pestering of letting them see another movie so he promised Anna that they would watch a movie the night before they left the town and his sister and her maids cheered.