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

"You!" Alice stomped her feet and glared at Vance while Sally giggled at the side.

"Alright! All joking aside, we should check it out. Do not enter the room until I give the okay. Also, get a pile of rocks from the side there. We will need them for testing out the room." Vance knew a cheat that most would figure out when it came to these types of rooms. The door would open, and many would just rush inside to see what loot they might get, but if you are smart and use rocks, you can do two things. You can test the floor for traps to see what kind of trap room it is, and you can use those same rocks or any ranged attack spell to attack the treasure chest itself. After all, if you damage a mimic to start with, they will attack you back.

For those who followed this simple rule, they would easily be able to get the treasure inside. While sometimes things might be a bit harder based on the room, one can get a decent grasp of things by using the rocks. Vance did not hesitate to open the door and look inside. He saw this treasure or trap room was a basic room which was normal for the lower level dungeons. There was indeed a treasure chest in the middle of the room. But there were also quite a few things that stuck out to Vance. One was the old rusted armor lying on the sides of the walls. There were even a few rusty swords there as well.

The second thing was the position of the treasure chest. It was off center from the room. Normally a treasure chest would be perfectly centered, but this one…. Was off centered and slanted. All of these small details were things Vance instantly picked up on and knew right away this was not a treasure room but a trap room and a mimic trap room at that. But that did not mean that all was lost. Once you defeat a mimic, the object they had consumed and turned into will change back into its original state. This included anything inside of it. So if he was still lucky after defeating the mimic, he could still get something out of this.

"Here are the rocks." Alice and Sally had collected quite the pile and placed them on the ground next to Vance.

"Thanks. Now I want both of you to take a look at this room and tell me if you see anything off about it." Vance planned to teach the girls what they need to look for when checking treasures or trap rooms.  First, he would see what they can see without saying anything, and then he would go over everything in detail so they would understand. But the main thing was for them to look at the room and figure out what is wrong with it on their own first.

Sally and Alice both looked into the room with furrowed brows as they looked around. They seemed to be trying to take in what they were seeing. "Alice, you first."

"The room has many rusty armors and swords as if this was some kind of armory. Or it could be one of the trap rooms you were talking about." Alice could not tell exactly what kind of trap room it was, but it did not seem safe to her.

"I agree with Alice. I think this is a trap room as well." Sally came to the same conclusion as Alice. Although she still felt something else was off about it, but she did not know what.

Vance smiled and nodded his head. "You are both right about it being a trap room, but to be more precise, the type of trap room is a mimic room. Look at the treasure chest. Treasure chests are always flushed with the wall to the right of it. This one though…."

"Ah!" Alice cried out. "It's slanted!"

"Correct. This treasure chest in front of us is a mimic, but this is also good. If we kill the mimic, we may still get treasure. but …. We need to be careful because this could also be a double trap room." Vance still did know if there were other traps or not. He picked up a pile of rocks and began tossing them into the room, being careful not to hit the mimic. Mimics barely moved and would never leave their original position by more than a foot. So if they wanted to kill it, that was easy with long ranged weapons, but to loot, they would still need to enter the room.

"So?" Alice asked impatiently as she watched Vance toss rock after rock into the room.

"I am not seeing any floor traps, so we may be able to enter, but this time around, I will enter alone. If something happens, you should both return to the safe zone, got it? I will be back as soon as I can." Vance did not want to risk anything just yet. For now, they can kill the mimic without issue, but he did not want to risk Alice or Sally being transported anywhere because it could really cause one of them to die.

"Mmm… But Vance, you  better not die…." Alice was worried about this the most. While Vance worried about his two wives' lives, they worried about him. He knew this, but he was sure he could escape alive no matter what, even if he had to give up on the treasure. He did not want to test out any respawning theories. Especially if that theory proved to be wrong and he never respawned.

"I won't die, but just listen to my words. For now, shoot the treasure chest to make the mimic show itself." Vance stepped out of the way while Alice took aim. When she had a good shot, she let her arrow fly. It flew through the air and stabbed into the wooden side of the chest, causing the mimic to roar out in pain. This was followed up by a sense of fireballs and more arrows. Only when the mimic's health dropped to zero did the girls see a mimic suddenly disappear into balls of light and then an actual treasure chest to appear.

"It's good it turned back into a treasure chest but just what is a mimic?"