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

*Boom!*

The floor shook as the giant stone golem slammed its fist down, trying to squish Vance. Sally shot forward and used her daggers to cross cut it, only for sparks to fly. "Sally, use wind magic!"

"Yeah, sorry!" This was their third mob since stepping onto this floor. And the girls were still getting used to the change in tactics. But they were still learning quickly. Vance was very happy with their progress even though they were getting little to no experience points at this time.

"It's dead! Loot and let's keep moving!" Vance wanted to pick up the pace a little. He did not want to be late for the first event. Well, technically, the second event as the no fee inn event, was still considered an event but Vance never saw it as one.

On this whole floor, there was not a single bird person to be seen. This was normal for Vance. He remembered that the first level and even the first mini boss was nothing but a stone golem. The girls quickly got accustomed to fighting the stone golems by the time they got to the boss. This made the boss fight just that much easier.

With The first boss down, they found a few more pieces of armor which were given to Sally as they were leather armor with agility and vitality. Which was perfect for her class.

Fight after the fight, they continued forward until halfway through the level when an arrow suddenly came flying through the air piercing into Sally's shoulder. "Ah!"

"Careful! Alice!" Vance called out as he quickly ran to defend Sally as she fell back. Alice helped Sally behind a wall and quickly pulled the arrow out before healing her wound. Vance was trying to see where they were being shot from. Vance had forgotten one thing about the bird people. They were mostly long ranged attackers and used bows and arrows. Only a few used a sword. This would normally be fine if the bow users were not hiding all the time, making them hard to keep track of.

"Sally, you okay?" Vance called out. He was scanning the areas around him, looking for the bird person to stick their head out.

"Yeah… Thanks to you and Alice moving quickly my health dropped quite a bit from that attack." Sally replied.

"Sorry, this was my fault. I forgot to mention that bird people are normally ranged attackers, so we need to be careful. Alice, I will go ahead. I want you to keep an eye on where the arrow is coming from and fire an arrow in that direction." Vance normally would just rush forward and try to get lucky, but since he was with two people, he could become bait while the girls attacked. "Sally, you protect Alice."

"Got it!" Both girls answered. Vance lowered his body slightly and ran out towards the direction of the boss. He could hear an arrow slicing through the air. He waited until it was upon him to finally react. He twisted his body as the arrows passed just over his nose. He then reached up, grabbed it, and then rotated around, and threw it back in the direction it had come in. At the same time, Alice was already unleashing a volley of arrows herself which caused a yell to come from behind one of the stone pillars not too far away. Vance got his foot and shot towards the pillar!

He ran to the opposite side of where Alice's arrows were landing and quickly caught up to the bird person who was trying to find a new position. His sword swung out, but the bird person raised their bow to block the attack. This was another thing he hated about humanoid mobs, and that was their ability to do stupid things like block!

Vance had no choice but to send a fireball at the bird person's stomach catching it off guard and making it stumble backward. Where he then kept his momentum and swung his sword out once more by spinning his body. The sword, this time, connected with the bird person's neck.

*Splash!*

Blood sprayed, and the bird person fell to the ground. Vance looked at the dead bird person and sighed in relief. It took a lot to kill just one of these! He picked up the loot and quickly yelled out: "Let's go!"

The group continued forward, trying to push out the bird people who were in hiding, shooting arrows at them. This made things slower than Vance really wanted to go, but they had to be cautious. One wrong move, and they could end up dead for good. Vance knew if he was not as good at this game as he was now, he would have never left the village he started in in fear of dying, but for Vance, who knew how to fight and was levels above the monsters in this dungeon, this was not much of an issue. He just wanted to keep the girls alive more than anything.

When they finally got the mini boss of this floor, they were faced with two archers with higher health than the others and a few extra abilities. In other words, the fight was only longer with nothing new.

This continued floor after floor until they finally reached the stairs leading to the tenth floor. They rested up a little before heading down the stairs, which had a huge archway. The boss was a much bigger version of the bird people who stood on top of two huge stone golems. The thing about this boss that Vance was not really wanting to deal with the most was the party wipe skill it had. He looked down at the boss and then at the girls and was trying to decide on what he should do. If they were to risk it and the party wipe skill was cast, it would leave them without much hope. It was also not something the boss only cast once but multiple times.