My Favorite Game Followed Me!

Anton and Fenix enjoyed the food they ordered and after they were done Fenix led him to a shop that serves as a pawnshop and money changer at the same time. The gypsy boy also whispered to him that the shop also buys stolen items discreetly. Anton thought that he should stop using the term gypsy since it’s a term from his old world.

The seventeen silver coins were exchanged for copper coins that were put into several purses. When Anton received the purses, he kept most of them in his inventory and just kept one and put it into his pocket.

“I think I’m grossly overpaying you!” Anton said when he saw the amount of copper coins that he received.

Fenix looked at him anxiously.

“I’m worth it! I’ll make sure to guide you while you are in the city, and you will experience things that no other foreigners would experience.”

Anton laughed and assured the boy.

“You don’t need to worry about me backing out from our deal. Just make sure that if you talk to my family don’t mention to them the amount that I’m paying you.”

Fenix nodded and led Anton back to the square since he wasn’t done watching all of the acts there but this time, he could see that the performers were relieved that he was tossing out copper coins instead of silver coins.

There were so many different acts and so many good singers, but Anton reckoned that he could compete with the singers if he wanted to. After a couple more hours of watching the performances, he told Fenix that he was ready to go back to the inn and told the boy to follow him so he would know where he could find Anton.

“By the way, our family would like to hire a magician or wizard tutor for beginners. Do you know where I can find one? Preferably one who is willing to travel with us to the city of Ruandelle.” Anton asked the curly-haired boy.

“I know someone who can lead you to one but hiring someone like that would cost you a lot of coins. I underestimated your wealth then if that’s the case.”

Anton just shrugged when he heard Fenix’s comment about their family’s wealth. They arrived at the inn after several minutes and he led the boy directly to the second floor. He remembered that there were a lot of items on the floor of their suite so he paused a bit and then told Fenix that he was staying in the second-floor suite and should meet him after lunch the next day.

Fenix looked at their suite’s door curiously then said his goodbyes to Anton and promised that he would return the next day.

When Fenix was gone, Anton knocked on the door and said that it was him. Devon opened the door and when he entered the suite, he saw that his Father, Lucas, Nemina, and Colin were not in the suite.

“Where is father and the others?” Anton asked Devon.

“They brought some items to sell to check what price they could get. They will also check if they can purchase broken and worn-out equipment from the shops or hire someone to assist them in buying those items.”

Anton nodded and saw that Anna and Lunelle were both reading the notebooks where he wrote the first and second books of the Belgariad Series.

“I’ll go to my room to meditate. Please call me when we're ready to eat dinner,” Anton told Devon and the guard nodded.

Inside the room, Anton maximized the game and spent an hour hunting for runes from the Countess in Black Marsh. He didn’t enter the game virtually but was using the on-screen option to make sure that he could run the Countess as many times as he could before dinner and that earned him a lot of runes. After a while, he went to the Rogue Encampment, minimized the game, and opened his browser to research what items he should hunt for and what runeword weapons and armor should be his goal.

He remembered to prioritize the fact that he shouldn’t focus on what a sorcerer would need in the game but on what would make him powerful outside the game as well.

Anton wished that he had a way to communicate with the netizens of his old world since a forum discussion about the items that he could use that were also practical in real life would energize the netizens to provide worthwhile information.

He also wanted to share some of the picturesque environment that he had seen on something like an Instagram account and would pass it off as an Artificial intelligence-generated fantasy scene. Besides, even if he told someone on the internet about his experiences he would only be treated as someone who was creating some ideas for a web novel or a webtoon and at worst one of those lunatics that populate the web.

Anton took some notes on which items he would search for and where to hunt them. Unfortunately, the majority of those could only be hunted in Hell Difficulty. Anton kept saying that he was in no rush, and he wondered if that was true. Although he was able to handle all the challenges that they had encountered so far without any issues, he had to admit that the monsters that they had faced were arguably low-level monsters. What if he encountered someone or something very powerful like an elder lich?

Still, he was doing his best and he did not want to go insane by rushing too much. He also wanted to live a balanced life in this new world and just wanted to be happy. He already experienced a miserable life; this time he made a vow to himself that he would live an interesting and promising life.

Since no one was calling him, Anton thought that maybe his father and the others were not back yet, so he switched to watching a movie. He rewatched one of his favorite chick-flick movies about a man who fell in love with a girl who kept losing her memory after a night's sleep. Before he saw the end of the movie, which was his favorite scene, Anna called him for dinner, so he closed the browser and joined his family.

Anton saw that his father and the others were excited.

“What happened, father?” Anton asked Anders.

“We earned a ton of gold coins! The merchant that we went to was surprised at the quality of the items and paid a lot of gold coins, so he only managed to buy a few from us. We went to another merchant, and it was the same!”

“Are we not going to encounter any problem?” Anton asked.

“Lucas advised me to hire more guards so after we sell more of the items, we will arrange our merchant caravan and then hire a few more guards. We may need to spread the fact that there’s a powerful wizard in our convoy to avoid trouble.”

“That’s fine with me, Father as long as it could keep us safe.”

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Two high-ranking vampires entered the majestic but dark and gloomy hall and faced the three members of the council that were seated.

“Did you capture the wizard who killed the group that we sent out?” One of the elder lichs who was seated on one of the council chairs asked the vampires.

“We didn’t find him Grand Elder and the last news that we received about the wizard was in a village near the city of Tiande. More than likely he reached the holy city already.”

“No matter. It was not a huge disruption. Go ahead and continue with our plan,” The elder lich said.