The Great Thief

“Did they ask you for help?” Lu Li asked.

“Of course. They tried to get me to join their guild. They made it seem as though not joining was a terrible loss for me,” Azure Sea Breeze said disdainfully.

“If you want to join, you can join them. Big guilds treat their experts well,” Lu Li joked.

“My bro, don’t joke around with me. What sort of future would I have there? No matter what they say to me, they’ll definitely give the good equipment they find to the tank that they raised. I’m familiar with this sort of thing,” Azure Sea Breeze replied.

“Since you’re not leaving, let’s all keep our eyes out for suitable people to join us. We need to find another 5 people for the Wailing Cave, which is a 10-person Instance Dungeon. It’ll be impossible for us to clear it with 5 people,” Lu Li said. What he had said earlier was a joke – none of the people in his team liked the style of the big guilds.

“Leave it to me,” Azure Sea Breeze said as he proudly patted his chest.

“We need to test any potential people for a week. If any of us aren’t happy with them, they have to leave,” Lu Li said, as he started to clear out the smaller monsters.

Upon hearing this, Azure Sea Breeze smiled bitterly. He also went to draw the aggro of the monsters, muttering, “Teams take time to grow together. How can you send someone off in a week? I’ll lose a lot of face.”

“Since we’re forming an important group, we need to have strict requirements,” Lu Li explained.

One reason was because he had too many secrets. The other was that he knew what sort of person Azure Sea Breeze was. He was extremely extroverted and friendly, as well as incredibly skilled. It would be no problem for him to lead a group. However, he had a fatal flaw; he trusted people too easily. He was the type to have a multitude of friends, but not a single confidant.

From what Lu Li remembered, Azure Sea Breeze had been fairly famous when he had entered the game. He was well-loved, was on the Level Rankings and had set records for Instance Dungeons…

However, someone had betrayed him after he had obtained the Supreme One Ring. It was all downhill from there.

In order to upgrade the Supreme One Ring, he had spent an incredible amount of time on searching for materials. His Semi-Permanent Party had disbanded and he had been hunted down for the ring. Some of his ‘closest friends’ had asked to keep the ring safe for him, then joined the groups hunting him down when he refused.

Although Azure Sea Breeze was dissatisfied with the restrictions set by Lu Li, there was nothing he could do.

After all, the core of the group was Lu Li and he had absolute faith in him. After all, without Lu Li, they wouldn’t even be together.

While discussing their new team, they continued to push on and quickly arrived at the first Boss, Glubtok the Foreman. There were rumours that he secretly loved the long-legged Vanessa. However, because of his demonic appearance, he could only be a doorkeeper for his goddess.

Azure Sea Breeze didn’t him at all and immediately charged.