My Favorite Game Followed Me!

Anton was highly amused at his father’s irritation at him. They both knew that the reason why Anders was having a bad temper was because Anton’s father was working extremely hard under a very hot temperature while his son was inside a very cool and comfortable tent. They also both knew that it had to be done, and there was no sense for Anton to suffer with him when he was not even battling monsters.

When Anton set up the tiny house, after both father and son had eaten dinner and had taken a bath, Anders pointedly told Anton that he would be resting inside the house while Anton would continue using his small tent.

Anton just laughed, which made Anders snort. Since the setting of the dungeon floor was a desert, it was extremely cold during nighttime, but it wasn’t a problem for both Anton and Anders since they switched from using the Frozen Orb air conditioner to the Firewall stove.

During the next few days, Anders battled with desert snakes, desert wolves, desert vultures, and all types of dungeon monsters styled after desert animals. In all of those battles, Anton remained inside his tiny tent on top of his Dire Bear, focused on leveling up his ladder Necromancer.

Anton’s summons was still holding off all other monsters except the one that Anders was battling. At the very least, after a while, Anders spent with every monster group decreased from 20 to 30 minutes to 10 to 15 minutes.

It took them six days to complete the floor because, first, Anders’ battle took time. Second, Anton’s father was conscientious in harvesting quest items from monsters, which was understandable since Anders also wanted to increase his Adventurer Rank. The fun part for Anders was how incredibly helpful Anton’s summons were. They obeyed Anders’s every word since Anton commanded them to do so.

That meant that after every battle, Anders did not have to do anything but command the Shadow Master and the Valkyrie to do the harvesting of the quest items while Anders was watching them. Not only that, the summons were also the ones who harvested the mana stones and the ones who would take the effort to find where the magic items were being hidden.

Since Anton was not interested in any of the loot, Anders was the one who managed them by storing them in his spatial amulet. The amount of mana stones and magic items brought a smile to Anders’s face. Even though the riches were not the priority for their family, receiving the loot gave them some form of satisfaction comparable to completing achievements in games.

After six days, they exited the dungeon. Anders leveled up from level 10 Arcane Warrior to level 15. Anton had no idea about job or class levels, but Anders assured him that the speed at which he leveled up his job was unprecedented. Anton’s father also mentioned that he now had two kinds of skills that were exclusive to the Arcane Warrior class. The first skill was the basic Arcane Slash; the second skill was the one that Anders learned when he reached level 10, which was Arcane Eyes.

Anders said that the Arcane Eyes skill was a combination of some form of weakness identifier and a control skill that induces hallucinations in his enemies. Still, according to Anton’s father, the majority of his fighting strength still came from the legendary items that Anton gave him, which were the Heart of the Oak mace and the Enigma armor.

After six days, Anton’s ladder Necromancer leveled up to level 75. Because of the effect of the Meditation Aura, Anton and Anders had decided that the next legendary item that Anton would produce was still the Insight Runeword item. Anders still hadn’t decided how he would use the legendary weapon, though.

The moment they returned home to the Rose Manor, the first thing Anton did was to cast the Blizzard spell converted into mana rain toward the garden and the orchard, even though Rodri assured him that both fields were still fine and were still exhibiting their magical characteristics. Based on the elf’s theory, it would take up to a couple of months before the garden and the orchard returned to being ordinary fields.   

Raymond reported to Anton and Anders that everything in the manor was stable and that no issues had occurred. Even their businesses weren’t encountering any issues. When Anton admitted to his father and Mr. Jenkins that he was expecting their two businesses to be targeted due to their successes, Raymond assured him that the success of the flower shop and the fruit orchard wasn’t considered noteworthy in the eyes of the wizards of Ormunda.

First off, both products were consumable and not related to magic, even though both the flowers and the fruits were results of spells. Even though both businesses were successful enough to support the Rose Manor, both businesses and the Rose Manor were still considered part of the commoners’ properties. Wizard’s politics only target each other. They considered those not part of their circle beneath them, and not only that, you would only be considered as entering their circle once you reach the Supreme Rank.

That was one of the reasons that even though Anton was sure that he would reach the Supreme Rank once the ladder season was complete inside his Diablo II system, he wouldn’t share it with anybody would allow everyone to believe that he was still an archmage. Considering his age was only 18 years old, even though Ormunda was a kingdom of wizards, an 18-year-old Supreme Wizard was still noteworthy. Anton did not want that attention.

Bruce, Susan, and Romina busied themselves in managing the Rose Manor and its businesses, and according to Raymond, they looked happy enough. Luna and Alfred were also settling into their life as part of a rich family in Ormunda. They would spend their mornings in their studies and in the afternoon, they would roam the nearby places, sometimes meeting with Laloniah and her friends. Alfred even met some playmates his age who were the sons and daughters of their nearby neighbors.

Anders shared with Anton that the loot they received from the 10th floor of the Balathar dungeon reached 15,000 gold coins. At the same time, Anders’s Mercenary group’s earnings only reached a total of 2000 gold coins.

Anton’s father shared with him that once he gave the Insight Runeword weapon to Anders, they would start creating an exclusive group that consisted of the members from Anders’s group only, and no outsiders. They would then start delving into the deeper floors of the beginner dungeon, and once the members’ levels equalized, they would start with the medium-level dungeons. Once they earned enough coins, they would start purchasing unique job scrolls.

What it all meant for Anton was, he could now return to challenging past the 60th floor of the Corridors of Amuneta Dungeon. Anton had to admit that concentrating on leveling up his characters inside his Diablo II system was still the fastest way for him to “power-up” and running the gold dungeon runs might be better in terms of leveling up his characters. But actual battle experience was the important thing that the deeper floors of the high-level dungeon were giving him, and he needed that battle experience.

Anton decided that he would switch between gold runs and what he now called “challenge” runs. He planned to run the gold runs twice a week, and for the rest of the week, he would run the challenge runs. Once he got tired, he would rest for a few days, then rinse and repeat.