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

In front of Vance and the girls, the two people started fighting with everything they had. Vance sat down in the grass, cutting a bit of it so that they could get a clear view of the battle in front of them. 

Alice sat in Vance's lap while Mina sat on his head. Sally sat to his left while Miri sat to his right. Both were hugging his arms. Cynthia, who was too slow, ended up having to hug his waist from behind. 

"I wish I had popcorn," Alice mumbled as she leaned her head back against Vance, looking up at him.

Vance took out an apple and handed it to her. "Just make do with this for now."

"Okay…." Alice pursed her lips. Ever since she had popcorn that Vance made one night, she had been asking for it ever since, but the coroonets to make it needed to be dried and cooked. And Vance could not do that at this time. He took a few more applets out of his inventory and handed them to the other girls. He even handed a small grapet to Mina.

Vance, who was not hungry, just sat and watched the show in front of him. He found it quite amusing how these two were fighting. Neither one had any kind of style. It was just a bunch of flailing about with their weapons.

"TwoFisting, I will kill you and take all your coins!" The young man yelled in anger as he took a heavy blow from TwoFisting.

"LordRad, you have a wonderful name! It fits you well. A young master with an inferiority complex who must always look down on others. Why do you think I targeted you specifically!? You always act like a bitch! You spoke so highly of me being a street thug earlier, but what about you!? Every time you go out, you are harassing other players and stealing their loot. You have ks'd more kills from people than anyone else in the game!" TwoFisting was not going to let LordRad go. 

The bastard talked so much earlier that if anyone who did not know heard it, they would have thought he was the bad guy here. Although this was an event, he would not have targeted newer players who were forced to join the event. He was finding coins like the others until he saw LordRad; only then did he decide to target someone.

"You! I do not know what you are talking about…." LordRad looked over at the two girls behind him and shook his head. "Don't listen to him. I have never done such things."

  "Then what about the people from earlier?" One of the girls asked, causing LordRad's face to pale slightly. He had really attacked another group earlier!

Vance and the girls all let out a sigh at the same time. "This LordRad is a hugve idiot. He makes Eternal Virgin look like a god." Cynthia couldn't help but comment.

"It's true. At least that pervert doesn't lie about things." Sally agreed before adding: "I would still kill him, though."

"Yeah, I would, too." Cynthia readily agreed on this point. All the girls nodded as well.

"This LordRad is hiding his abilities." Vance suddenly spoke up.

"What do you mean?" Adel asked.

"LordRad keeps stopping himself from pivoting his right foot to dodge attacks. He is purposely trying to act like he is bad at fighting against TwoFisting." Vance explained.

"But why? I do not see why he would go out of his way to  do such a thing." Sally was very confused.

"It's a common tactic that many PKers use to make their opponent think they are winning. They want their opponent to think that they have the advantage when they really do not. This tactic is risky, though, because if they slip up even a tiny bit, they will end up dead. The fact that I can even see any of this is because I have dealt with people like that before. But then again, I just blew them up, so they never got a chance to act all high and mighty in front of me." Vance could remember being attacked by a player who thought he had the advantage. He did not wish to use magic right away since he was busy trying to see what items his attacker had.

During the exchange, Vance had noticed the person's footwork. It seemed a little too refined for someone who was at a disadvantage. Not to mention that Vance, at that time, was not even trying to kill the guy but scoping out his gear before killing him. After about five minutes, the attacker finally changed his attack patterns and tried to put Vance into a corner, but sadly for him. Vance blew him away with a ball of lightning without a care.

This happened on multiple occasions, and after a while, Vance started seeing a trend between those who love to make their opponents think they are winning so that they can come back and crush them while making fun of the fact that they lost. 

"Kind of stupid if you ask me." Alice did not like people acting like that. She would rather just kill a person if she knew she was stronger than them. 

"It is an asshole thing to do, but there will always be people like that," Vance replied. He himself can be said to have done the same thing to the attackers, but he was not doing it to make fun of them. He was just trying to scope out their gear! He had to make sure he did not damage anything worth money!

Back on the battlefield, both TwoFisting and LordRad were starting to grow tired. It was then that LordRad suddenly made his move. His fighting stance changed, and he quickly shifted gears and began to attack. Each strike was aiming for a vital point and was causing TwoFisting's HP to fall quickly.

It was not until TwoFisting only had five HP left did LordRad stop and stare at TwoFisting with a  mocking smile. "It seems you were not all that good after all. Look at you!"