Anton spent another week after Anna and her group left for the academy to make sure that the Rose Manor was stable before deciding to go back to delving into the high-level dungeon. His father was in the process of handling his mercenary group by following the plan they had laid out. At the same time, with the help of Elianah, Anton was applying to several medium-level adventurer groups so he could finally start exploring the mid-level dungeons like the Balathar dungeon.

Bruce and Susan's fruit orchard was starting to accumulate the products they were planning to sell in a store they had purchased with the help of Mr. Jenkins. Rodri, who was the elf man they hired to be the manager of the orchard, helped them in creating the different products from the fruits from the orchards that they would sell in the store.

The flower shop was still steadily acquiring gold coins and was now considered a very profitable business. Once the orchard started earning coins, Romina assured Anders and Anton that the two businesses were capable of supporting the Rose Manor's annual expenses.

Romina suggested that they would need a couple more profitable businesses for the manor to grow its wealth without depending on the earnings from the dungeons.

"Then go ahead and seek assistance from Mr. Jenkins, Ms. Noria, Ronia, and possibly Rodri in thinking of which business could help us. It would be best if it could utilize Anton's Mana Water just like the garden and the orchard," Anders suggested to Romina.

Romina assured Anders that she would try her best to fulfill that project.

Luna and Alfred were finally becoming used to living in the manor. Their mornings were consumed by their studies. They had three tutors who were staying in the manor. During their afternoons, they were either wandering the gardens, playing with Laloniah and her friends who frequented the manor because they wanted to be close to the garden, which was the reason they were saying, exploring the markets, or bothering Bruce, Susan, and Rodri in the orchard.

What it all meant was that Anton was sure that the manor was now stable, and he could, again, continue delving into the dungeons. The first thing Anton wanted to do was to go back to running quick dungeon runs he called "gold runs" on the 30th floor of the Corridors of Amuneta dungeon. He planned to do it until he managed to collect enough coins for the manor's treasure room that his family could use for emergencies. After that, he would then go back to challenging himself in the deep floors of the dungeon so he would have more battle experience and, at the same time, level up characters inside his Diablo II system.

Anton told his father his plans, and Anders told him to make sure that he was safe. It was a Monday when Anton left for the high-level dungeons. Everyone said goodbye and wished him good luck.

He returned to his customary behavior of hiring a carriage to travel up to the gates, then spending the rest of the journey flying to the miny city that hosted the Corridors of Amuneta Dungeon. Once he arrived there, Anton didn't waste any more time and acquired a key to the 30th floor.

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As usual, the moment he entered the dungeon floor, he didn't bother examining the details of the floor and immediately summoned all of his summons. He then set up his tent on top of his Dire Bear. He attached his system to the dungeon's system to make sure that his Sorceress character would level up, then he commanded all of his summons to decimate all the dungeon monsters.

While Anton's summons were busy killing the dungeon monsters, he focused on leveling up his Sorceress character inside his Diablo II system while he was inside his tiny tent. For weeks, he neglected his Diablo II system leveling-up process, but his vacation days were over. His system was his only sure way to increase his power, so he planned to focus on leveling up.

By the time all the monsters on the 30th floor were killed, Anton didn't plan to leave the dungeon and would rest inside until the next day, wherein he would repeat the delve for at least three more days.

His Sorceress leveled up to level 29, and that was because he didn't do anything but focus on the game. It also included the previous experience he had earned. Anton truly felt that his leveling process was extremely slow, but he had grown accustomed to it already.

By the time he left the dungeon and exchanged the medium mana stones, he earned a total of 63,000 gold coins, that was now inside his Adventurer Guild bank card. He also received a total of 5 high-level mana stones and several magic items. After that, he requested another key and didn't waste his time, and entered the dungeon again. He did it for a total of four days, earning a total of 240,000 gold coins, 22 high-level mana stones, and multitudes of magic items.

Once Anton returned to the main city, he withdrew all the gold coins stored in his bank account. He planned to store 200,000 gold coins in the manor's treasure room, including all of the magic items that were acquired from the dungeon. The remaining items remained in his inventory. Anton now had around 60,000 gold coins in his inventory. He also now had a total of 186 high-level mana stones.

He still did not know what to do with the mana stones since he still had not started to research the use of mana stones in conjunction with his particular brand of magic. Anton knew that he could be making a mistake by not studying his mana stones, but he felt pressure to increase his character's level since he had been idle for several weeks.

Thankfully, the moment he arrived at the Rose Manor, his father was there. The first thing he did was seek out Anders, and both of them went to the treasure room so Anton could store the gold coins he had recently earned and the magic items there.

"Father, the treasure room now had an additional 200,000 gold coins and more magic items. You can go ahead and ask your men to have the items identified, then swap out the items if you want to. You can also sell those that you don't want to use. Feel free to use the gold coins to buy more job scrolls," Anton told his father the moment they were in Anders's office.

Anders sighed.

"My men said that they didn't want to touch the manor's gold coins anymore and planned to earn the gold coins they wanted to use from the job scroll change. They felt that the advantage that they had received, which was the powerful items that you collected, was tremendous, and they felt ashamed to acquire more benefits from you. The problem is, it would probably take them a long time before they earn 100,000 gold coins. During the days that you were away, they also delved into the dungeon, and all of them only earned a total of 2000 gold coins. That meant that they only earned around 80 to 90 gold coins each. It's a lot of coins for ordinary folks, but you were correct that because of you, they had unrealistic expectations on how much an adventurer could earn."

"What about you, Father? Have you found a group to delve into a mid-level dungeon?"

"Yes, but the plan for delving was delayed and will start tomorrow. Me and my group still needed to learn a lot about adventuring," Anders said while shaking his head.

"Don't forget, Father, that our main purpose of diving the dungeon is not to earn gold coins but to increase our power," Anton reminded his father, and Anders just simply nodded.

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