It was only about a week before the Amelia would arrive on the islands of Norbuna. There was a feverish atmosphere inside the ship. Everyone was excited about reaching the islands since it was the first time in a few months that the people on the ship would touch land again. Not only that but there was a major event that would happen, which was the Cosplay Event that was based on the Lord of Rings movies. Not only that, the economy inside the ship would be injected with new blood from the people of the islands.
Every businessman on board the ship expected to earn a lot of coins from the people of Norbuna since the Amelia would be one of the last ships that would travel from Rendindura to their lands because of the Undead Coalition’s attack.
Not only that, during the last week before they arrive in the islands of Norbuna, Anders, with suggestions from Antonia and Lucia made the showing of the three Lord of The Rings movies free of charge, which greatly excited all the passengers especially those who were without means to watch the films repeatedly.
Each one of his family members and his friends were now also carrying Anton’s Magic Defensive Item. He couldn’t call it Anton’s Magic Belt anymore for some of them since the items the others brought for him to enchant were different things. Aside from the belt, they brought in metal corsets, breastplates, and other pieces of armor. The main difference was, that the ladies brought very aesthetically pleasing items filled with glittering jewels while the men brought something that would be considered “manly”.
In Anton’s opinion, the men were the ones who were over the top on what they brought since the items they brought were too “masculine” which was the only description that he could think of. He thought that they might have seen what the ladies commissioned or brought and wanted to separate their items from theirs. The only thing he could say was that the item that his father chose was fitting for a wealthy nobleman which was a belt but Selena was the one who chose that for him. That meant that the first four Anton’s Magic Belts that he had made inside his Diablo II system were now inside his inventory, unused.
Another funny thing that happened was, that all of his family members and friends who had the magic defensive items kept needing to recharge the mana storage all the time because they kept activating the defensive spells to show off to others. The spells were impressive and beautiful to look at that’s why everyone kept boasting them off and for a while, all the mana power banks were being drained off to recharge their defensive items, even the coffee table mana power bank.
Not only that, Nemina informed Anton that they had received several inquiries about the defensive items but as per Philip’s advice, they decided to hold off on selling them, at least until the assassin issue had been resolved. The good thing was, that Anton was not the one who dealt with prospective customers, and there were a lot of them, but his father and Nemina so he remained undisturbed while leveling up his character inside his Diablo II system.
During the weeks before they arrived on the islands, the family celebrated two major events, which were Anna graduating from being a Novice Mage to a Level One Mage and Frederick reaching Level Two. At first, Anton always confuses the official rankings of the wizards. He usually thought, though it changes from time to time, that the starting point of wizards was level one so he always thought Anna was already a level one mage. Apparently, the rankings start with zero.
Regarding Lunelle, Ramona, Belinda, and Walter, they would probably reach level one in a few weeks or so.
When Anton briefly checked the internet for the rules of magic or spell casters in the DnD franchise, the spells start at the Cantrip Level although he knew that the magic system of this world somewhat resembled DnD, it was just “somewhat” so he knew he shouldn’t refer to the gaming rules of DnD for knowledge about this world magic system.
If he really wanted to learn about the magic system, it would be best for him to actually study it under a mage or a school but with his own Diablo II system, that was not a priority. Maybe someday when he milked all he could from his own system, then he could turn his attention to the magic system of this world.
Anton doubted that he would outgrow his Diablo II system though since based on all the web novels that he had read, which again, he didn’t know if he could count on them for knowledge, that systems would grow with the holder infinitely and that meant that his Diablo II system would be able to grow with him as well.
For a while, Anton thought of the possibilities that his Diablo II system would grow into. Would it allow him to create specialized characters like a modded Diablo II or would it branch out to other Diablo games like Diablo III, Diablo IV, and even the mobile game Diablo Immortal? If it did branch out to other Diablo games, he would have to learn the games since the only Diablo games that he was familiar with were Diablo III and Diablo Immortal. He then wondered why his system did not start with Diablo I. Of course, he wasn’t sure that would happen since his system did name itself the Diablo II system so if it was based on that, he doubted that it would lead to other games but the only thing that he was sure of was anything could happen to his system so he shouldn’t assume.
Anton managed to gather the “Best in Slot” gear for the Paladin character and then after that, he concentrated on leveling it up until he reached the maximum level. He then reset the skills of the Paladin to the skills that would mostly help him in real life but as tradition had it, which started from his Sorceress character, he did put a single skill point on all of the skills even those that he was not using so if he needed them in real life, it would be available. Not only that, with a single point on the skills, he could use them in crafting items.
Anton planned to level up the assassins next. At first, he wanted to level up the Barbarian since that would allow him to have great physical strength and skills but since the Assassin group from the Undead Coalition was hiding in the ship and was patient enough to not take any action for weeks, they were like the Sword of Damocles that was hanging on their head all the time. That meant that knowing the skills of the assassin character that he could use in the real world might be beneficial for him in dealing with that Assassin group.
At around four in the afternoon, after he reached the maximum level of his Paladin, Anton wanted to celebrate by roaming around the ship. He had been closeted in the suite for weeks on end and he was feeling a little stifled. He didn’t even join Torun and the others during the past few weeks but focused on hunting gears and leveling up his Paladin. He was surprised at how long it took for him to hunt all the items that he would like his Paladin to have. Not only that, after hunting the best items for the Paladin, he did the same with all of his characters and that took a while as well but the good thing was that all of his characters now had the best gears and that was the main reason why he only reached the maximum character for the Paladin a week before landing to the islands of Norbuna.