Anton farmed the Forgotten Tower until he had a few more runes but knowing that his inventory space was limited since his private stash was being used for real-world items, he decided to stop farming and continue to the Outer Cloister zone.
Clearing out the Outer Cloister brought his level to level sixteen. One more level and Anton would be able to wear his first runeword armor which was Stealth. Normally, early-game items were not important but since the equipment stats would reflect in the real world, even low-level items would become crucial in his and his family’s survival during their travels.
The somber fact about the sorceress spells from Diablo II was that all of them were for the protection of the player like the Energy Shield, Frozen Armor, and Teleport and all the others were for killing monsters. There were no spells that he could cast that would assist his family. At least the Paladin characters had spells that could heal others. He could have picked Paladin, but he wanted to become a mage.
At around ten in the evening, his father tapped Anton’s shoulder and told him that they were done with packing. He put the remaining barrels, boxes, and sacks in his private stash. He did take note of where their food was so he could take it out immediately when they needed to eat.
Anders then asked everyone to rest since they would need to wake up early the next day to leave. Anton noticed that there were bags and some barrels on the table.
“What are those?” He asked his father.
“Those are the things that we would be putting on the cart for appearance's sake.”
Anna went to her room to sleep, and Anton and his father went to their room. At first, he decided to keep playing but when he lay down on the bed, sleep took him immediately.
The next day, Anton was shaken awake by his father.
“Crap! What time is it?” He asked Anders.
“It’s five in the morning,” his father answered.
“Can you give me thirty minutes? I fell asleep. I was supposed to stay awake up to midnight to consolidate my spells.”
“Okay. We will put our things in the cart, and we’ll call you once we’re ready to depart.”
Anton would have liked to reach level seventeen for him to be able to wear the runeword armor Stealth, but he ran out of time. He went ahead and reset his skill points. He then put a single skill point on Frozen Armor, Ice Bolt, Frost Nova, and Ice Blast under the cold spells tree. He switched to the lightning spells tree and put a single point on Charged Bolt, Static Field, Telekinesis, Nova, and Lightning.
Finally, under the fire spell tree, he put a single point on Fire Bolt, Warmth, Inferno, Blaze, and the remaining skill points to Fire Ball.
Anton figured that once he turned level nineteen and wore the runeword staff Leaf, he would become powerful. In the meantime, he was wearing the staff that he bought from Akara which had plus one to Fire Bolt and plus two to Fire Ball. His Fire Ball was now level five and he thought that it was powerful enough for leveling purposes. He would miss his level fifteen Charged Bolt though.
After a while, his father called him.
“We finished putting all of our things in the cart. Our horses Maide and Bailey will pull the cart for us without any problem. Before we leave though, we would like to see your new spells so we would know what to expect if you have to use them.”
Anton just nodded but he could see that his father and Anna were excited. When they reached the woods behind their house, it was still dark.
“The first spells that I will show you are from what I called the cold spell tree, You have already seen my Ice Bolt, Frost Nova, and Ice Blast. This is called Frozen Armor,” Anton told his family.
He cast Frozen Armor and swirling cold energy gathered in his body and formed what looked like swirling snow rotating around him.
“It’s beautiful!” Anna said, mesmerized by the swirling snow.
“The next ones are from my lightning spell tree.”
Anton cast Charged Bolt first and swirling electrical energy came from his hands and moved forward to the ground and randomly moved forward to the direction he pointed. Then he cast Lightning and a loud lightning bolt formed from his hand and was rapidly hurled to the tree that he pointed it to, and the tree was destroyed by the lightning energy. Given that the tree was small, everyone still didn’t expect that the power of lightning would be enormous.
“I will not show you Nova since it’s dangerous. You’ve already seen my Frost Nova so imagine that it’s the same but instead of the cold elements, it would be lightning elements,” Anton said.
“The next spell tree is very dangerous. I call it the Fire Spell tree. You’ve seen my Fire Bolt and Inferno. The next two spells that I know are called Blaze and Fire Ball. I will not cast them here since it could cause a forest fire, but Blaze basically will summon fire to the places that I walk and Fire Ball will let me summon a ball of fire that once hurled at a group of enemies, will explode, and bring forth tremendous damage.”
“I wonder why your spells are geared toward war but in these times maybe that’s the kind of power that you will need that’s why that was the power that was given to you,” Anders told his son.
“I’m aware of that Father that’s why I would also like to learn the magic of this world so I can learn more spells with diversity.”
“I don’t care. The fact that you can kill those undead monsters with a wave of your hand makes me feel safe and I’m glad that you’re powerful,” Anna told her brother loyally.
Anton smiled when he heard his sister say that. After the spell showing, they all went back to the house to eat their breakfast and after that to begin their journey to escape the doom that was coming.