The Arcane Archer - Chapter 44 Second Floor

Author’s Note- Short chapter as I’ve been busy with writing a entire research paper and after doing that for an entire day, I just felt burnt out from writing and couldn’t bring myself to write. But hey, here’s a chapter at least.

Next chapter will be world building or something, I don’t know. Don’t ask me cause I’m literally making stuff up on the spot to try and get to my end goal plan for the story.

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Heading down to the second floor, it was pretty much exactly the same as when we first entered the dungeon. But this time, the starting minion, while still a goblin, looked healthier and had what appeared to be better gear. If I were to take a guess, it was also smarter as well, meaning it would be a much harder fight as it would be able to think of plans and such.

Before we got to close to it so that it would hear or smell us, whichever one came first, I stopped Ava and indicated to my bow. She nodded in understanding and stood in front of me with her weapons out and ready.

I did the usual stuff and fired the arrow at the goblin, aiming for its head as it had no armor on that part of its body. The arrow flew through the air and hit its mark and swiftly killed it before it even knew we were there.

Once the body disappeared, it left a crystal that was about 2 times the size as the small eraser crystals the 1st floor goblins dropped. Putting it into my inventory and making it look like I was putting it into my pocket, we continued onward to the next group of enemies.

Standing there talking to each other were what appeared to be two goblin fighters and a singular magic caster of some sort. I was unable to tell what kind of magic caster they were, but if I killed it quick enough, it shouldn’t really matter.

Aiming by bow, I once again aimed for the head, knowing that aiming for the arms and legs would be a horrible idea, the arrow nearly hit its mark but just before it did, it instead hit some sort of invisible barrier.

The magic goblin turned our way and indicated to the other two goblins about us while it also started casting a spell. Ava rushed forwards with both daggers out and closed a good distance between them.

The fighters followed suit and started running forwards as well, nearly getting in close enough to hit each other. The magic goblin in the background sent a bolt of ice towards me while all this was happening.

Being to focused on Ava and the two goblins, I didn’t notice the bolt of ice as it stuck itself into my shoulder. Looking down at it, I noticed that it was more of a dagger made of ice instead of just a bolt and saw that while it did indeed hit me, it didn’t go to deep to the point of it being lethal.

It hurt a bunch, but I grabbed the dagger with my left hand and pulled it out. Already the dagger was melting in my hand as I looked up to the magic goblin who I noticed was smirking at me while preparing to cast another spell.

“Ava!” I called out, “You think you can handle those two goblins by yourself?”

She responded back with a quick yes before getting back to fighting.

I shot back at the goblin with a quick fire bolt followed up by two shots from my bow. The fire bolt should’ve hit its side but instead seemed to hit the barrier once again. One of the arrows flew right over its head bit luckily the other one didn’t.

The arrow hit it in its leg and the goblin screeched out in pain. It looked at me with hate in its eyes before it reached into a bag on its back and pulled out a small ball of something. I quickly shot a few mana arrows towards it now that I was out of regular arrows and watched as it hit him both times.

Blood was flowing all around the goblins body, but it seemed determined to finish casting this spell. After a few seconds, it grinned before a small red circle appeared at my feet. I knew well enough from what it looked like to know what this spell was.
for visiting.

The goblin was casting fireball.

I tried thinking of a spell to cast to avoid getting hurt or to just cancel it out entirely and eventually thought of counter spell. Using that quickly in hopes that it would end the spell, I saw my mana leave as it dimmed out the fireball beneath me before it quickly glowed even brighter and exploded.

Fire roared around me as it burned me as much as it could. It ended a few seconds later but the damage was done. A good majority of my body and gear was burnt and I was very low on health.

The goblin just continued to grin as it jumped around in joy before seeing that I was still standing and started preparing to cast another spell. I didn’t give it a chance to finish as I casted a super charged version of fireball as well by just doubling the amount of mana that would normally go into the spell.

It quickly exploded around him with a bright red color with a small amount of purple as well. After the spell went away and I was able to see the goblin again, I saw what appeared to just be a very burnt creature standing there as it let out a singular puff of smoke before falling to the ground dead.

I gave a small cheer to this but noticed that Ava was still fighting one goblin. As I didn’t have any mana left to use and was about to fall unconscious from going into the negatives with my mana. Instead I pulled out a throwing knife and threw it at the goblin.

It didn’t really do much damage or hurt it that much, but it did catch its attention which gave Ava enough time to finish it off.

“Thanks for the help Leo!” She said before turning to me. Once she did, she looked me up and down and said, “You look a bit Crispy. Should we go back to Chance?”

I nodded before coughing a bit of smoke out. “Yes please.” And then fell unconscious from using up way to much mana.