Alantina Online: The Greatest Sword Mage Reborn As A Weak NPC

The next morning Vance and the girls were eating breakfast while Alice was looking over her bow. "Vance, why does this say rare?"

"Because there are different item qualities that drop from these kinds of monsters. There is  common which is what your old bow is. Those normally have a white name to them. There is uncommon which will give a few stats but normally only two or three. Then rare which we have here. Which gives a decent amount of stats for the item.

"From there we have superior items which give many stats and are much more powerful than the rare items. This is followed by legendary items and each item quality after that, the items get more and more powerful." Vance explained.

"Vance, how do you know all of this?" Sally couldn't help but ask.

Vance was quiet. He did not wish to say anything just yet until he was sure if this was truly a game or not. Because if he logged out at some point and returned to the real world, he would leave all this behind. Hell, he even could be in a coma for all he knew. He could have had some kind of a weird shock to the brain that put him in a deep sleep, and was now dreaming of this world and living here while he lay in a bed in some hospital.

Just the thought of this was holding him back on a lot of things, but he had to admit in the short time he has known these two girls, they have really pushed their way into his heart making him not want to leave them for any reason. He felt bad for his mother, but at this point, he felt that if he was suddenly given the option to go back to his world, he would say no. He would stay here and live out his life like he has been for almost a month now in game.

Seeing Vance go quiet, Sally decided to change the subject. With a clap of her hands, she asked: "where are we heading next?"

"Well, our main goal is to become stronger, so we should go to someplace that will allow us to grow strong, right?" Alice looked at Vance who slowly nodded his head as he came out of his thoughts.

"We will head to the Cave of Wonders," Vance replied.

"Cave of wonders?" Both girls asked at the same time. They had never heard of such a place.

Vance had a feeling that dungeons did not actually exist to NPCs, at least not as of yet. He felt maybe these places would not begin to be seen by the NPCs until players came across them. For people to even reach level 20 when he was playing, it took almost a whole month, and this was a crowning achievement. It was only a few weeks after that that dungeons were discovered. And the cave of wonders was about three weeks' travel in game, but it was a perfect place to level up at their current level.

"It's a dungeon with stronger monsters, and each one has a chance to drop items like in your hand," Vance replied. These dungeons were instanced dungeons, so they could easily take their time and work their way through the dungeons. The biggest thing about the cave of wonders was it was multi floored. Each floor was short, but it had a mini boss at the end, which had a good chance of dropping rare item sets. There were also fifty floors to this dungeon. The floors progressively get harder as well. The first five floors of level 18 elite monsters with a level 21 mini boss. After that, there were five floors of level 19 elite monsters. With a level 22 mini boss. This continued until you reached floor fifty. Every five floors, the monsters got harder.

Vance had worked hard for almost two months in game time to clear the dungeon solo when he was level 25 and was able to get to level 38 just through this dungeon alone. It might not seem like a lot of levels, but when he walked out of the dungeon, he had an almost full set of gear on, which allowed him to quickly progress through higher level areas.

While they might disappear from the world for a while, when they come out of the dungeon, they will be stronger than the others. He figured that if they could reach the fiftieth floor before the start of the second month of release in real world time, they could join the Token Gathering Event. The very first event in Alantina Online. The prize would be a guild deed. A guild deed would allow them to get a guild house that they could access from anywhere. This will allow them to come and go as they please around the world and never have to go to an inn again, but the only problem is they would need two more people to make a guild. You needed five people for a guild. He actually wondered if he could get the White Knight Cynthia to help create the guild.

Those who help create the guild do not need to stay in the guild. They can help create it and then leave at any time if they so wish. Vance just wanted the guild house early because it gave a few perks that were helpful, mainly storage and the teleportation from anywhere. Now that he was thinking of this, he wished he had put the White Knight Cynthia in his friends list.

"Hmmm… more items like this?" Alice pursed her lips as she looked at her bow. She wondered if she could really get stronger items or not. "Then we should get going!"

"You are right. It will take a while to get there since some of the areas we need to cut through are not going to be easy." Vance frowned. If he was correct, the road to get to the dungeons was covered in bandits and other monsters that liked to stick close to the road in that area. Why this was Vance did not know, but it was annoying.