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

22 Entering The Capital Part 1

"This is the end!" A light blue dress fluttered while a pair of black shorts could be seen underneath as the bottom of the skirt fluttered up into the air. The young woman with black hair raised her hand and created a magic circle, and sent out an ice spear at the last tollgoon that had blocked their path.

"Not bad." The young man next to her watched as the young woman landed on the ground with a smug smile on her face.

"See, I can be useful! I don't always need you to protect me." The girl's lips curled up into a smile as she elbowed the young man.

It had been two days in game time, and they were only a day away from the capital. Vance and Alice had actually become quite the team who worked well together. Alice had also become more open. "What I do not get is why are you running from those men if you had this much ability?"

"It's because I barely had mana left at that time. When I was first attacked, there were around thirty men. I got rid of twenty of them, along with my two guards, who ended up falling. But my mana reserves diminished. When my guards fell, I ran but still fought as I did. It was not easy, which caused me to end up in the state I was in. When I had little to no mana left, I used everything to create an ice wall to escape. Then I ran into you." Alice explained everything in detail. Vance had not heard any of this until now. So he was quite surprised by everything he was being told.

"Well, it is nice to have someone who knows how to fight along on this journey." Vance really was glad that Alice was able to fight as well as she could, or else it would have been hard to deal with a group of tollgoons. They were grayish humanoids that stood around three feet tall. They used sticks and rocks as weapons and would kill anything for food.

"So are you saying you would leave me alone to fend for myself if I couldn't fight?" Alice asked with a snort. She had her hand on her hips as she glared at Vance.

"Well… I do not know how well the fights would have been if it was just me fighting. You might have gotten hurt." Vance explained, ignoring the fake anger Alice was acting out.

"Oh? So you are saying you would let a delicate girl like me get hurt?" Alice reached out and pinched Vance's waist. This caused Vance to furrow his brow and slap her hand away.

"Anyway, We should keep going." Since the last group of monsters destroyed his cart and killed the scaled horse that was pulling it, Vance and Alice were now forced to walk. Vance quickened his pace causing Alice to have to jog to keep up since her legs were much shorter. She had no choice but to hold up her dress and give chase as she yelled out: "Slow down!"

Vance and Alice continued down the road. Road traffic began to pick up as they got closer to the capital. There were many merchants, but there were some adventures from the guild as well, coming and going as they made their way to and from doing their quests. The adventurers guild was a good place for players to pick up some easy quests when they needed money. While these quests only gave cheap items and money, they were normally quick, and you could stay within your level range and go solo or with a team. It gave Alantina Online a bit of an extra thing to do which was trying to raise your rank to S rank.

Vance only ever did the quests there at low levels for cash and never cared about his rank because it was just something to slow him down. The quests never gave experience points except for the monsters you killed during the quest, so to him, they were not worth it unless he was broke. Which just so happened to be now. While he still had a good sum of money, he expected to use most of it by buying a house for Ricky and Maybel. But he still needed money to bring them to the capital. This meant renting another cart which cost him ten silver with the insurance so that if the cart is destroyed, he would not have to pay an extra fee. Luckily, he did that, or else he would have been stuck with a much higher fee.

"By the way, Vance, why are you going to the capital besides helping me?" Alice asked as the two walked slowly down the road.

"I planned to get my father and stepmother a place to settle down and retire in. I just never would have expected that there were many more fees than I had hoped for." Vance felt sour every time he used money. But for his quest, he was willing to do it! He just needed to hurry as fast as possible back to the village once it was complete. The last thing he wanted was some player trying to rob Ricky and Maybel.

"I see…" Alice put her hands behind her back as she snuck a peek at Vance. "Then I will set it up as a reward. How is that? You can give your parents a decent place to live and even have a secure allowance which will allow them to live without working ever again."

Vance turned and looked at Alice in shock. This was now such a bad idea, but would it work? If she decided to do something else, would the current king be willing to do such a thing? Or would the next king be willing? Vance did not know if he should be relying on the crown or not….

"What about the price of a small house in silver so I can buy it out right…. I worry for when I am not around, and something happens. Not that I am doubting you, but I worry that if the king changed at any given time that my parents would lose their place of living and even income." Vance answered. His worries were not unfounded, so this is something he did worry about.

"You will see." Alice smiled and leaned over, and bumped into Vance before happily continuing on her way.

Later that day, they arrived at the city gates.

[Name]: Vance

[Age]: 20

[Level]: 13

[Race]: Human

[Evolution]: Common Mortal

[HP]: 210/210

[MP]: 90/90

[Attack Power]: 170

[Magic Power]: 100

[Status Points]: 10