Chapter 50 A Trap!?

"You are too soft as king…." The old man sighed as he waved his hand. "Just don't come crying to me when you lose your daughter. But I can say that that boy is a good lad. You can trust him to take care of her."

The king could only nod. He knew his father didn't speak highly of people often. But now here he was praising the daughter stealer. But for him to say this, he must have seen something in him. Not that he planned to make his daughter mad at him.

"What did my father ask you?" Alice asked as they walked out of the palace.

"He just wanted to know how sure I was about dealing with your brother. And then I scolded him for not being a proper father." Vance replied nonchalantly as if what he did was nothing at all, leaving both girls looking at him in surprise.

"Leave it to Vance to scold the king of this kingdom." Sally sighed. For some reason, she could actually imagine him doing such a thing.

"Let's go back to the inn,"  Alice said as she hooked her arm with Vance's.

"We still have plenty of daylight, and we can still make it to…." Vance had a finger pushed against his lips as Alice looked at him sternly and said: "We are going back to the inn!"

"Alright…." Vance replied helplessly. He could tell this minx was probably planning to do something. She seemed to have become addicted to sexual acts!

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The next morning, Vance and the girls headed out of the city. Luckily this time, no players tried to stop him. But seeing them reminded him of his quest system. While he was a little curious about the whole quest system he had gotten, he did not have any rewards at this time he could give out. And with his current level, he could not offer much.

"Where are we going today?" Alice asked.

"We are just going to level off low level monsters. We do not want to seem like we are too strong at this time. Now that we have people following us, it would be a good idea to use this as a means of getting them to make a move. They think they have the upper hand, but we will use their stupidity as a way to capture one." Vance answered. Alice only nodded while saying: "Oh."

The group moved forward into the forest but did not move too far. The girls were getting anywhere from one experience point to zero, while Vance got none. And they were also pretending to struggle against these monsters, even though they could easily defeat them.

As the hours passed, Vance began noticing the people who were following them were getting closer and closer. But for some reason, their movements were slightly hesitant. In a low voice he whispered to Sally: "What do you think?"

"They are being cautious. I think it's because I am here. They do not want to make a move until they are sure I am unaware of their attack." Sally replied.

"That's fine. Alice and I will break from you in a few minutes and pull them towards us. You pretend to struggle with a single wolfgoon while I get three to chase Alice and me." Vance explained his plan. Sally did not like it, but she still nodded, knowing this was the best method.

A few minutes later….

"Ahh! We pulled too many!" Alice screamed and began running away.

"Alice! Don't run!" Vance chased after her while using a minor taunt spell to taunt three wolves at the same time. Minor taunt was the only taunt magic any class could learn. It was perfect for lower levels or for secondary tanking mobs. But if a mage hits the monster taunted with a powerful attack, it would break the taunt spell on the target, and they would end up taking aggro. This made boss battles quite hard with many enemies because one area of effect when there are lots of adds would cause the secondary tank to lose aggro on whichever monster they were trying to hold back, and then the mage would need to run around like an idiot.

Vance had seen many of such scenes when he watched people do world boss fights. There would be thousands of adds and some mini bosses that accompanied these world bosses, and there would always be that one stupid mage who would use a massive area of effect spell and grab aggro. What was funny about this was that the mage would normally yell at the secondary tank for losing aggro in the first place, as if it was his fault when the mage broke a game mechanic.

But for now, Vance was currently running like a newbie trying to save his life as he chased after Alice, who was doing a very good job of acting. Sure enough, the men who were following them all took the bait. Once Sally felt this, she quickly killed her wolfgoon and gave chase as well.  Alice was currently leading them to a certain spot they had already decided on. A small rocky moon shaped area in the forest that acted as a kind of natural wall. Alice and Vance both arrived quickly and turned around, readying their weapons to kill the wolfgoons. But no wolfgoons came, only four men in black clothing wielding swords. One of the men raised his sword and let out a low laugh as he said:  "Heh… We can finally finish the job we were entrusted with."

But to his surprise, as they walked to the center of the small clearing in the moon shaped inlet, They only saw Vance and Alice smiling. "Earth wall…." Vance called out as the ground shook and the entrance to the inlet was sealed off. Behind them was a young woman with a dagger resting on her shoulder. "Vance, your idea was definitely ingenious."

"You!? What is going on!?" One of the men yelled out. He was confused. The situation had changed from them chasing the princess and the man to them suddenly being trapped!

Vance's cold voice filled the air as he said: "It's just as you see. We already knew you were following us, so it was nothing out of the ordinary to know what you were going to do. Now that you have shown yourselves, we can now kill three of you and bring one back. Whoever wants to live, raise your hand."