The Great Thief

Chapter 45: What Kind of Experts Are These?

Translator: Halcyon Translation Editor: Halcyon Translation

On the same day that Lu Li had achieved the first clear of the Elite Spider Lair, Azure Sea Breeze sold the strategy to Blood Red War Flag. Blood Red War Flag then sent out their elite teams under the godlike leadership of Indifference in Dawn and shortened the record to 1 hour 12 minutes and 32 seconds.

This record was created yesterday and given that most players had only levelled up once since then, no one had beaten the record yet.

Now Drizzle Court had invited Lu Li to set a new record, at the price of 3 Jade Spider Webs and all the loot in the Instance Dungeon.

There were two types of public dungeons in Dawn, those that were open to everyone and those in a restricted area that required a payment before entering. The Spider Lair was in the Whispering Forest, an area where everyone could enter.

The three mages from Drizzle Court, Lin, Ling and Beautiful Moonlight, were standing by the transmission area, waiting for Lu Li and Azure Sea Breeze. Someone who had money obviously wouldn’t need to save the few copper coins required for transmission.

Among the three of them, Lin and Ling looked exactly the same: they were both twins. This was the first time Lu Li had seen twins in a video game and it was a strange sight.

These three Mages were all at level 7, making Lu Li the lowest level member of the party. He was still 10% of EXP bar away from reaching level 7.

The highest level was Azure Sea Breeze, as he was only a few monsters away from reaching level 8.

“Is it alright to not have a healer? Stopping to drink pots is a waste of time,” Beautiful Moonlight asked.

“In order to break a record like this, there an aspect of luck, but it is also important to shorten the time taken to do things wherever you can,” Lu Li said affirmatively, “We won’t be needing a Healer for this round.”

Since Lu Li insisted, no one else protested. Beautiful Moonlight seemed to be high-ranking within the Drizzle Court, as she immediately added Lu Li and Azure Sea Breeze to the guild.

“Have any of you learnt crowd control skills?” Lu Li asked.

All three of them shook their heads, with a look of shame on their faces.

The point of Mages in Dawn was for Area of Effect attacks. Blizzard was one of the skills that a Mage could learn, which enabled them to attack large groups. However, Area of Effect crowd-control skills were gained based on luck.

If Mages were all capable of area attacks and area crowd control, why would anyone bother playing the other classes?

“That’s okay, you guys just have to manage your damage. Don’t worry about not having an off-tank; Sea Breeze’s skills and equips are good enough. Even if you guys wanted to play off-tank you couldn’t,” Lu Li spoke the truth, but the girls were offended and secretly talked amongst themselves. They vowed to give it their all to deal as much damage as possible.

After entering the Instance Dungeon, Lu Li asked for the rewards of his services.

“We always pay our debts.” Beautiful Moonlight was angered.

Female gamers were no longer a rarity, but in the virtual world, everyone appeared like their real selves. A beautiful woman like her, one who was part of a top ten nationwide union – Drizzle Court, would never have been questioned like this before.

“I can’t relax until I’ve got it in my hands,” Lu Li spoke plainly and without thought.

Beautiful Moonlight traded the three Jade Spider Webs to Lu Li, who internally breathed a long sigh of relief. When he was doing the first clear, he had received one Spider Web. The Grand Hegemony had then given him another and Azure Sea Breeze had given him 4 more. Now, with an additional three, he had nine spider webs in total.

He needed 7 to upgrade his Ring and 2 to study the Trade Skill. This was perfect!

“Make sure you bring enough potions, but control your mana consumption. Try to minimize your time spent taking potions.” Lu Li was formally giving out orders, “You don’t need to carry too many HP potions; everyone should only need 3. Trade the rest to Sea Breeze, as we don’t have a healer…”

You said we didn’t need a Healer, but now you’re using it as a reason to take our HP potions?

The girl’s hearts were indignant, but for the sake of the record, they gave Azure Sea Breeze the potions.