Levitation Staff

In the forest, the two galloped on the horse to the nearby dungeon. They had started travelling in the direction of GreenCloud town again.

The dungeon was an E class goblin dungeon overground. Along the way, they had completed many F Class dungeons and grown more experienced. Sadly most of the drops weren't suitable for them and were kept in a bag that was put away in their inventory.

They had gotten a few more Basic Agility Stones and raised their agility to the maximum of five you could raise it using one. Other than that they had gotten weapons, but they were either worse than what they were using or a type of weapon they couldn't use.

Noah hadn't been using Black Wind and still had it in his inventory, He used Steel Magic Gun since it was more than enough in dealing with the dungeons.

Now that they had reached an E class dungeon he took Black Wind out.

"Oh? When did you get that?"

"It dropped when I went grinding alone."

Alice knew Noah would train while she rested. Every other day Noah would be substantially stronger.

The dungeon was a large goblin village, it was similar to the village Noah had been to before, but on a larger scale. That village wasn't a dungeon as it didn't have a dungeon lord while this one did.

They both got on trees and saw over the wooden walls inside the dungeon. It was populated by many goblins. There weren't any towers but rather the wall around the village had enough space to walk on.

"Alice are you sure you can handle that many?" Noah asked.

"I'll try," Alice answered, she was a bit intimidated.

"Wait, is that the dungeon lord?" Noah said as he spotted a strong goblin at the center of the village.

"Make sure to avoid it, I'll keep it at bay, till you kill all the other goblins." The Dungeon Lord wasn't separated out into a room like other dungeons this would make the battle a lot harder.

The two jumped off and got ready. They got closer to the village. Noah then climbed a tall tree right outside the village wall as Alice charged in. He buffed Alice with Strength Boost and then started shooting at the goblins.

[Dark Green Goblins]

E Class

Level 10

The goblins were E class but had a lower level. Even still they were much stronger than the goblins he had fought before. Their weapons were steel whereas all the goblins they had fought before had stone and wooden weapons. These goblins were also covered in light bits of armour.

With the rifle, he had a much longer range and didn't need to enter with Alice. On the tree, he could use it to his advantage to have an overview of the whole battle. His spatial sense worked in tandem with his eyes giving him a detailed look at the whole dungeon.

Alice charged in, she felt this emptiness behind her as she knew Noah wasn't standing there. But that soon ended as the two goblins in front of her had their heads pierced by bullets killing them.

With her dagger out Alice ran into the village, bullets rained out from behind quickly killing the goblins around her. She slashed at a goblin once, then followed out with another attack. She then covered her dagger with mana and killed the goblin in three moves.

Speeding up she fought three at once dodging their daggers and counterattacking with her own. She struck at their necks. Other goblins followed and crowded around her.

Noah stopped focusing on the goblins around Alice and instead onto the archers further away from her. The path of the bullets he shot all missed then bent as they hit at blind spots making them impossible to dodge. With the Lv.2 Mana Bullets, he was able to do more damage taking them out in two shots. The increase in sense attribute did wonders as even at such a far distance he was able to have 100% accuracy.

Keeping a view of Alice on how she was fighting with spatial sense, without turning he would shoot any goblins or arrows that Alice wouldn't be able to dodge. Noah had formed an iron defence around Alice.

Used to being covered Alice fought freely and undistracted, only focusing on taking down goblins as fast as possible. As she sliced down a goblin she saw an arrow coming for her, but before it could reach halfway it was destroyed in midair.

The goblins weren't strong, they were just numerous in number. Alice sensed mana from behind her, she dodged to the side letting a ball of mana shoot past her.

[Goblin Cheiftian] (Dungeon Lord)

E Class

Level 11

Holding a staff the dungeon lord activated another skill. It had formed a protective screen at the angle Noah was shooting from stopping his bullets. The Goblin Chieftain stamped its staff into the ground and rose off the ground levitating.

In the air it got a clear view of Alice, it pointed its staff at Alice and started chanting, a blue magic circle with sparks and ribbons of lightning coming out, formed in front of the floating Goblin Chieftain.

Noah seeing this stood onto the branch of the tree, holding the rifle with both hands he jumped onto the wooden wall in front with a run. This removed the leaves blocking his view. He focused on the Dungeon lord. He shot at the protective screen as he walked along the wall and broke through it. He then activated Black Wind Burst and shot.

A black bullet hit the levitating goblin chieftain pushing him back. It roared out as the spell it had cast had been interrupted.

The Goblin Chieftain cast another shield and then restarted casting. Noah had changed targets to the goblins surrounding Alice, focused back at the Goblin Chieftain.

Black Wind Burst had a cooldown for two minutes and wouldn't make it in time to interrupt the spell a second time. So he decided to move closer and have the dungeon lord focus on him. He jumped from the wooden wall onto the roof of a goblin hut as his finger continuously pulled the trigger and shot at the goblin chieftain.

He broke the mana screen again but the goblin chieftain was able to finish its spell.

Lightning Strike!

Just before the spell was cast, Noah activated Cold Mind' and Death Dance onto himself. A lightning bolt came right at him. In his buffed state, he was able to react to the lightning bolt and used Flash Step to appear on the roof of another hut.

Critical Hit Eyes was active, Noah's eyes landed on the deep red spots on the light red floating Goblin Chieftain in a colourless world. All Weaknesses of the dungeon lord were visible. His rifle releasing one bullet after the other, each zooming near then rebounding off of air, changing directions to target from all angles.

Alice struck down the last goblin on the ground. She looked up to see Noah jump from hut to hut while the Goblin Chief shot balls of mana. Alice moved back and started casting. The fireball formed then shot out.

The Goblin Chieftain noticed the influx of mana. It tried casting another mana screen but was interrupted by a Black Wind Burst. The fireball was launched. The Goblin Chieftain moved back dodging it but immediately after four bullets Noah had shot hit it. Not letting it rest Noah continued the stream of bullets.

[You have slain the Dungeon Lord]

The Goblin Chieftain fell to the ground with a burst of light. Everything it dropped formed a small pile around it.

Silver coins dropped, with it a staff, two skill books and an enhancer.

The two skills were Mana Screen and Staff Explosion.

[Lv.1 Mana Screen]

F Class

Form a protective screen of mana allowing you to block physical and magical attacks. Durability is dependent on the amount of mana used.

Cooldown: 1 minute.

[Lv.1 Staff Explosion]

F Class

Sacrifice your staff to kill your enemies by causing the mana inside of it to explode. Must know staff mastery to learn.

Noah looked at the skills and liked Mana Screen. Bullets could only do so much defence wise, being able to form a screen to protect Alice from a distance would work great with his current style of combat. He then focused on the staff.

The staff was made of wood. It was like a wooden branch of a large tree with irregular bends. At its top, it curved over and around a blue orb.

[Levitation Staff] (E Class)

A staff crafted with a special orb giving it the ability to levitate over the ground.

Intelligence +26, Willpower +20, Sense +10, Mana +40

50% increase in magic damage

50% decrease in mana usage

Active Skill: [Levitaion] Allows one person touching the staff to enter a weightless state and be carried around as the staff levitates. Mana is constantly used to keep the staff afloat.

The attributes of the staff completely outclassed all the weapons that had dropped until now, it was an E class weapon just like his Black Estoc. What especially stood out was the high Mana attribute. His low Mana attribute was limiting him during combat.

Death's Dance used 5 points of mana using up more than half of his total mana. He would then have to save up mana for Strength Boost and Black Wind Burst. Making sure to never finish it so he could always use Flash Step. He didn't have mana to fit in other skills into his arsenal so this staff was a godsend.

After discussing it with Alice he took the staff and the Mana Shield skill book. Alice wasn't too keen on taking either of them.

He learned Mana Screen and equipped the staff, switching it out with Black Wind. He didn't have Staff Mastery but he was willing to equip the Levitation Staff for the boost in Mana attribute it gave. His Ambidextrous trait let him equip two weapons at once. He wanted to equip the staff instead of the gun.

He would still use Black Wind as he fought. Luckily Gun Mastery still worked on it even when it wasn't equipped.

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Lv.2

Name: Noah Sinfero

Age: 18

Race: Human

Attributes-

Before

[Strength 38] [Agility 44] [Physique 19] [Intelligence 20] [Willpower 20] [Sense 40] [Mana 12]

Now

[Strength 38] [Agility 44] [Physique 19] [Intelligence 36] [Willpower 30] [Sense 30] [Mana 47]

(Bonus Attribute Points: 0)

Awakened Talents-

Guardian of Love (C++ Class)

Blessed Mind (A+ Class)

Truth Seeker (E Class)

Spatial Sense (A Class)

Genius Martial Combat Body (D+ Class)

Traits-

[Ambidextrous] [Insomnia] [Explorer]

Skills-

[Lv.1 Flash Step (B+ Class)]

[Lv.1 Four Season Style: Winter (D++ Class)]

[Lv.5 Strength Boost (F Class)]

[Lv.1 Death's Dance (D++ Class}]

[Lv.1 Mana Screen (F Class)]

(Skill Points: 0)

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Noah was thrilled, the mana attribute was now the highest. He now had two E class weapons equipped with the Black Estoc in his inventory. He wore the staff on his back and hung his rifle over his shoulder as they started moving on.