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

"I learned it!" Alice jumped up and down as she finished casting an earth wall. Sally had already learned it after four tries, but for Alice, who had concentrated on ice magic for so long, was having a hard time with the other spells as her class path was obstructing her. Why this was Vance did not know since he had never played any of the other classes. He could only guess that while she could learn other spells outside of the system, it was much harder due to her picking the ice element for her main element.

"Alright, I will set up the first earth walls. If you are repairing a wall, yell out: Repairing left for the left wall, repairing right for the right wall, and repairing front for the front wall. We will be leaving a space near the ceiling for the batgoons to come in. " Vance wanted to make this as easy as possible, and he had witnessed many world boss raids, so he knew how these kinds of things worked in teams. Having a call out system when dealing with certain mechanics was best.

Vance waved his hand and created a funnel at the entrance to the hall with a small space at the top that would allow Alice to shoot at the ceiling and aggro a bunch of batgoons. When everything was set up, Vance finally turned to Alice and Sally and asked: "Are you ready?"

"Ready!"  Alice replied.

"Ready here." Sally answered with a nod of her head.

"Then Alice if you would." Vance watched as Alice drew an arrow back and let it go. The arrow flew through the air towards the hole, passed through the hold, and into the mass of batgoons hanging from the ceiling.

"Creeee!" Multiple cries were heard, followed by the sound of flapping wings. Vance quickly got ready and waited for the batgoons to pass through the hole before using minor taunt on them. This was where the hard part came in now. With the batgoons all moving towards him, he made a signal for the girls to retreat before creating another earth wall in front of him.  While the batgoons were still low on health, the ability to keep these batgoons in a confined space was hard. But once the box was set, Vance built a set of stairs that allowed them to get to a window that Vance had cut out of the earth wall to allow them to still attack from, but the monsters could not get to them.

"Fireball!" Vance was the first to stick his hand through the window and fire a fireball into the batgoons. At another small window, Alice was firing ice needles, and not too far from her, Sally was firing off wind blades. The combination of the attacks was quickly killing off the batgoons.

"Repairing the right side!"  Alice yelled out.

"Good job! Keep attacking!" Vance was excited to see all the experience points batgoons were floating into the room, so all their attacks were actually hitting multiple batgoons at the same time. They just needed to keep the walls up, and things would go smoothly. The only problem was mana consumption. This was something that Vance did not factor into his plan. He wanted to level up quickly, but he had no mana potions to keep their mana up!

"If you run out of mana, let me know! As soon as one of you is out, we will retreat back to the safe room!" Vance cried out as he fired off another fireball.

"Understood! Oh! I leveled up!" Alice cried out.

"Nice!" Vance saw Alice's happy look and couldn't help but smile. While it was a small amount of experience, the sheer number of them was making this worth it. Soon not only Sally but also  Vance leveled up as well.  They kept going until Sally finally ran out of mana. "I'm out!"

"Alright, retreat!" Vance gave out his order and began casting multiple earth walls to block the batgoons from breaking through the wall and chasing after them. The trio quickly ran towards the safe room, where they all stopped and looked at each other with smiles on their faces.

Vance sat down near the entrance and let out a long sigh. "While it is not very efficient, we still each gained a level. If we keep this up, we can get some more free levels."

Vance was counting on this dungeon to keep them all ahead of the players. As long as they got enough levels, no one would be a threat to them in game, at least not the players. Monsters and bosses were still a different story.

"So what now? We can't keep this up like this." Alice was worried. She was afraid they would run out of mana and end up being killed.

"I did not think this all the way through, but luckily we are not down and out. Remember how I stopped off and got a ton of vials?" Vance had stopped off at the general goods store to buy nothing but empty vials. He brought up the entire stock for five gold.

"Yeah, I remember you bought like a thousand vials or something like that," Alice replied while pursing her lips.

"That is because of what I wanted to use them for. Give me a bit, and all our mana problems will be handled." Vance took out the vials and then his alchemy kit that he had bought earlier. He then began to go through all the herbs he found as they traveled. It had always been a habit of his to collect all herbs because they would always come in handy at some point. And now they have.

He quickly processed enough materials for one mana potion before crafting it. Within minutes he already had an entire blue potion sitting on his hand.  Seeing how his mana was almost empty still, Vance drank it to test it out. "Perfect filled my mana right back up!"