章節 22: Kills In Ten Steps
編輯: Halcyon Translation
“I’m very sorry to have to tell you; my kinsman has found himself in trouble and has sent me to deliver this letter.” Lu Li took out the letter Tap gave him, using the game function to organise his sentences.
In the previous life, there were countless experts who wrote guides which all basically said: Interacting with an NPC in this way is the best way to garner approval, thus resulting in more quest clues and bigger quest rewards.
For example, if an NPC had a piece of Steel equipment and Silver equipment in hand, both could potentially be quest rewards.
To them, they would be equally worthless, but to the players, these two items were significantly more valuable.
Carolina’s gaze only stayed on Lu Li’s hand for a moment before she started to open the letter.
“I’m surprised those low life Cynocephali could hurt Tap; it looks like the Sacrificial Altar in the mines could summon something else. Thief, are you willing to help me?”
“Esteemed Carolina, your wish is my command,” Lu Li said without hesitation, though he knew this could be troublesome.
Other people might have thought that Carolina was just a Sentinel Captain and a beauty of the Night Elves, thus not issuing any good quests. Lu Li knew better because of his rebirth.
In two years’ time, a band of Orcs would enter the Whispering Forest with the intention of invading Darnassus, but on the way there they would run into the sentry team of the Moon Shadow Valley.
This was a team of three that could vanish with the wave of a hand. Together they almost destroyed the entire Orc band.
Carolina had summoned a Moon God!
Moon God Elune, was one of the Gods that the Night Elves believe in. There were many Gods that appeared in Dawn, but a large majority of them were demigods or demons. There were only a handful of real Gods like Elune.
If it weren’t for the fact that Elune never killed, there wouldn’t be a single Orc that would have left the Whispering Forest.
Speaking of which, the Supreme One Ring on Lu Li was actually forged by the Moon God’s son, Cenarius - a demigod with supernatural power.
Some people say that Carolina was actually Tyrande Whisperwind- the Night Elves’ great leader and wife of Malfurion, a strong Druid. However, this has never been officially confirmed.
Carolina smiled at Lu Li as she said: “My subordinate is stuck in a dangerous situation, but I have a quest that I need to complete so I am unable to save him. Can you go and bring him back?”
System: Accept Quest: A female Priest’s request: go to the Cynocephali mine and escort Explorer Tap back to Moon Shadow Valley. Time Limit: 24 hours. Reward: Unknown.
As expected, Lu Li bowed without hesitation: “Moon God on high, Esteemed Female Priest, as an Elf I will pursue this wholeheartedly!”
This quest was going to be difficult because Lu Li was only level 5, but needed to fight level 8 monsters. In addition, he would need to get through a forest that was densely packed with monsters.
However, this wasn’t the end of the road. It was not an Instance Dungeon, so he could ask for others to help him.
“@#*!@!...” Carolina said something in Elven that was incomprehensible to Lu Li before mysteriously leaving.
Lu Li respectfully took two steps backwards, before fading out of sight.
Where he was standing was now covered in arrows and signs of magic.
The formalities took so long that members of the Imperial Secret Service had received news that he was with Carolina.
When Carolina was there, no one dared to do anything, but once she left, no one could wait any longer.
The dozens of members of the Imperial Secret Service immediately attacked, but Lu Li also immediately withdrew. To stave off evil required constant vigilance; if he was 2 or 3 seconds late he would have been killed.
In the previous life he didn’t play as a Thief, but he experienced a lot of PVP, so this ability to hide and escape was one that was very convenient to have.
“Everyone spread out and search, but be careful. The moment he shows his face begin attacking” The commander directed his subordinates, while also loudly exclaiming to the surrounding players: “The Imperial Secret Service is performing its duties. Those who don’t want to die, leave the area immediately”
“Crazy, thinking you’re so great,” Soy Sauce Party scolded, but only loud enough for the 2 to 3 people near him to hear.
“Don’t mumble, and quickly get out of here. The Imperial Secret Service are the most unreasonable. If we aren’t careful they might attack us.”
“I don’t even know how the Thief from before offended these people, but it doesn’t look good at all.” Most people who were watching joked about it; only some people were sympathetic with Lu Li.
“With so many people searching, they’ll find him sooner or later” a busybody said. “I bet this Thief won’t last more than 5 minutes”
“Rubbish. If you want to bet on something, bet how long it’ll be before he gets killed,” another busybody said, rummaging around for a copper coin to gamble with.
Nobody thought that Lu Li could run away, let alone kill anyone.
On the other side, the Imperial Secret Service had over 20 members present, all wielding weapons. They were densely packed and swinging all over the place, hoping to flush out Lu Li from hiding.
After 2 minutes, when the Imperial Secret Service players were about to lose their patience, a miserable cry came from behind a tree.
Several nearby Imperial Secret Service members rushed over, but all they saw was a corpse that was disintegrating into data.
Everyone looked at each other in dismay, trying cast some area of effect spells, but to no avail.
“Look, on that side!” Soy Sauce Party who was nearby called out, pointing in the direction for his friend.
His companion saw where he was pointing, and saw a Warlock player with his head low, completely still. Behind him was a Thief wielding his dagger; there was a spray of blood and in one burst the Warlock was killed.
The entire process took less than 10 seconds!
But this the 10 seconds was enough for the Imperial Secret Service players to discover where Lu Li was.
Seeing a Thief rush at him, he smiled before rushing towards him as well.
The Stealth skill was on cooldown, so both Thieves directly confronted each other. Neither of them cast Stealth.
System: Successful parry, damage caused is reduced by 50%!
System: Shadowstrike Skill Completion 81%, causing 92% damage, target will be stunned for 1 second.
When the skill had been cast, the dagger was put back into its sheath. As it was sheathed, a bloodstain appeared on the back of the other Thief. Before he could even draw, Lu Li had turned and plunged the dagger into him.
During the stun duration, Lu Li performed 3 normal attacks. When the other Thief finally came to, he could only feel the coldness in his throat before falling to the ground.
Lu Li picked up some equipment that fell on the ground while the person underfoot disappeared. Before he even stood up, he had faded away once again.
The viewers around who were whooping were now speechless, with shocked expressions on their faces. Most of them were staring at the body of the Thief who was taken down in one shot as it faded into light, returning to the spawn point.
They were the same occupation; was the disparity between a master and an ordinary player so large?
The shock was unexplainable.
They all knew that masters would be very strong, but they had never seen one battle in person.
The uniformed commander of the Imperial Secret Service roared: “Mages, spread out and cast Blizzard. Warlocks cast Charm. Those who have the Charge skill don’t save it. All Thieves go into Stealth and wait for an opportunity”
After several minutes, the members of the Imperial Secret Service hadn’t done or said anything and the viewers surrounding were getting impatient.
Could the Thief have secretly run away?
章節 23: Tutorial
編輯: Halcyon Translation
Even if Lu Li had secretly escaped, no one would blame him.
In Dawn, the specialties of the Thief occupation was hotly debated, but most people would concede that these dishonorable moves were definitely one of them.
Kills in ten steps and travels great distance with ease!
The former describes the burst potential of a Thief while the latter describes a Thief’s mobility.
“Come out if you’re worth anything!”
“This hiding business takes no skill, come out and fight…”
“Go home to your mother, stop pretending to be Sun Tzu!”
The Imperial Secret Service members were clamoring, but neither Lu Li nor the surrounding players paid attention to them.
After a good few minutes, the Thief still hadn’t shown his face.
Some people thought that he had already left, and yet some were still here foolishly searching.
They may as well have used this time to go and surround Carolina once again.
The surrounding players were watching and laughing as they slowly left, as the Imperial Secret Service members continued with shame and resentment. They didn’t have a choice in all this; they wanted to train instead of wasting time too, but this was a greater priority.
“Let’s return; this one person isn’t worth the trouble. We’ll wait for another opportunity to take him,” the commander ordered, but politely this time.
There were 30-40 members of the Imperial Secret Service that turned up so quickly. Even with this many people, they weren’t able to drive Lu Li into a corner and had instead turned into a laughing stock. No one wanted to continue this futile effort, and upon hearing the instruction, they started to take out their Hearthstones and activate them.
The activation time for the Hearthstone was 15 seconds with a cooldown of 30 minutes. It allowed the players to return to their designated village or city.
While the Hearthstone was being cast, light is shone around the user to signal their return.
The commander watched the changing sight before him as he teleported and in his vision, buildings materialized before the trees of Moon Shadow Valley. After relaxing, he found himself tired, letting out a sigh. This was truly a failed task.
Hearing that his members had been killed by the same person who got the first clear in an Instance Dungeon, he immediately set out to take revenge, hoping to also gain some respect from the players in the area. This had backfired badly, and now the reputation of the Union had been destroyed.
The members of the Imperial Secret Service didn’t stand a chance against the guy who took the first clear of an Instance Dungeon!
If he was able to take the first clear, he must have received good equipment. He also must have cleared the dungeon a few more times after that.
Who thought that they would find themselves in this kind of situation?
As he was muttering these reasons for his defeat to himself, a cry could be heard from his members.
“It’s that Thief, he hasn’t left!”
“Help, I can’t move!”
“Dammit, my return port was disrupted. Everyone don’t return yet, quickly come and help!”
There were 3 people; one was hit by Sap, another by Cheap Shot and the last was kicked, so all of their return ports were disrupted. The others had started their ports so early that they had all returned to Moon Shadow Valley.
What is this!
How can you play like this?
The return point was densely packed with members of the Imperial Secret Service. In such a small space, this was enough to display their strength, causing ordinary players to keep their distance.
But today, there was a chill in the air around them.
Until now, there were members who were arrogant about their ability, even though they hadn’t done anything. Numerous members had this mentality, however, now that they had faced that Thief, they were too ashamed call themselves experts.
He was the real expert.
He first killed an entire party, and then, under the noses of dozens of other members, he had butchered another three!
Can we not play with you anymore?
Nope!
They had to ask the expert whether they could leave!
Lu Li kept 3 Mages behind. He didn’t need to manage the ones that had been hit by Sap or Cheap Shot because of the stun. The one he was facing was the most important; he needed to finish the fight in 20 seconds before the other player returned from the effects of Sap.
Mages learned a teleportation skill at level 10 called ‘Flash’. Before they cast it, their movement would be significantly reduced. If someone were to come into close range, they would have no hope of escaping. Their only option was to keep at it.
What Lu Li found was strange was that the target that he was attacking right now was not only in a complete mess, but didn’t know how to retaliate at all.
Lu Li didn’t know how strange what he had done to the other player was. After disrupting his port and immediately attacking his face, he had no idea how to respond.
After 6 seconds, the second player who used Ice Arrows woke up. Lu Li had already dealt with the first Mage.
The Ice Arrows hit Lu Li’s body, exploding into shards of ice and dealing 35 damage. It also applied a 20% movement speed debuff (it was a debuff spell, the opposite of a buff).
This didn’t matter, as Lu Li was already close by and could easily approach the Mage. He stabbed the opponent in the stomach like a viper and immediately pulled back. Lu Li then disappeared as he tumbled and reappeared behind him, casting Shadowstrike!
The other player had just finished loading the next Ice Arrow when Lu Li had disappeared from view. He then felt like he had been stabbed, which interrupted his skill and stunned him.
This Mage that had been stunned was not bad; the moment he recovered from the stun he knew exactly what he needed to do and immediately began his attack when the opportunity presented itself. It was too bad that his opponent was Lu Li. It was as if his mind was read, and when he quickly turned around after he recovered, Lu Li was already behind him again.
With your back to a Thief, this was one of the most brainless ways to die!
Immediately after Lu Li had killed his target, he immediately entered Stealth.
The last player that woke up was nervous, brandishing his Magic Staff and calling out: “Don’t come over here, don’t come here…”
After a few seconds, a light shone behind him and the Cheap Shot skill was successfully cast. He was stunned for 4 seconds!
The result had already been determined/ Lu Li quickly dealt with this kid who was scared out of his wits and picked up the items that were dropped before fading into the shadows…
This time he really left.
It sounded like this all happened over a while, but the process of Lu Li interrupting their return ports and killing them actually occurred in under a minute.
In the return point, the three unlucky kids appeared. Their faces were sullen and restless.
The others were completely silent; no one made a sound in that return area.
The commander looked at everyone and shook his head as he said: “Forget about today, everyone should go back to training. If you see this Thief then run away and wait for a later opportunity. However, we should all pay extra effort to gather more information about him.”
The morale of the troops was lost, so any further attempts would only be humiliating.
“Boss, quickly check the forums!” Just as he was about to tell them to disperse, someone called out.
In Dawn, you could directly access the game forums. You only needed to instruct the interface and it would appear before your eyes on screen.
The hottest post currently on the forums, with a hit rate increasing at over 1000 per second read:
Moon Shadow Valley God level Thief, tutorial included!
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