The Great Thief - Chapter 1504

Chapter 1504: 1504

After entering the Instance Dungeon, they didn’t immediately see Chromaggus .

Since the Instance Dungeon had been refreshed, they had to clear out the newly-spawned monsters . While they were doing that, Lu Li used this opportunity to introduce the team to Innocent Child .

“Actually, you’ll probably know most of them . Some are from Peerless City and Drizzle Court,” Lu Li said .

“I understand . ”

Innocent Child nodded his head, then greeted the other people .

Old veterans like Moonlight and Mu Qiu already knew Innocent Child well, and vice versa . They had eaten and drank together before . Now that they were all under one club, it was expected for them to have celebrated already . All three of them just needed to exchange a look and they would understand each other .

The main ones were those who hadn’t been on the competitive stage .

This included Azure Sea Breeze . Innocent Child and Azure Sea Breeze seemingly got on well together, as they immediately planned to hang out after .

As for Wandering, Innocent Child looked at him for a good ten seconds . The usually calm Wandering was beginning to feel nervous . Everyone in the game, no matter their age or gender, all called him ‘Brother Innocent’ . It was strangely natural for everyone to call him that, but he couldn’t be gay, right?

Wandering thought that he was quite good looking himself, so it wouldn’t be surprising . He was actually a little mad .

“Ah! These two must be Hachi Chan and Remnant Dream! They’re so adorable . Are you sure they’re in high school already? They don’t even feel like they’re twelve yet!” Innocent Child exclaimed as he looked at those two with a surprised look on his face . The outside world had already heard so many rumours about them .

“Hachi Chan! Kick him!” Remnant Dream was angry . How dare he say that they didn’t even look like they were twelve? Did he mean that they were extremely young?

Being young wasn’t a bad thing, however .

Azure Sea Breeze immediately clenched his thighs together . His balls had been kicked by them before, so he wanted to avoid it .

“Dreamy, didn’t you say that kicking people was bad?” Hachi Chan scolded .

“He’s a Druid! He’s going to be stealing your items,” Remnant Dream whispered in Hachi Chan’s ear and encouraged her to go show Innocent Child what they were made of . Remnant Dream had decided that she was never going to loot any more Druid items .

“Ah! It’s Darkness!” Innocent Child began chuckling when he saw Darkness, not knowing that he had just offended these two girls .

On the outside, he was laughing, but on the inside, he was full of admiration for Lu Li . In the whole Alliance, not even Blood Red War Flag, who was the nemesis of Glory Capital, dared to take in Darkness . Lu Li was fearless in his eyes .

It was said that the greatest enmity rose from killing one’s parents or trying to steal their wealth .

However, what about stealing someone’s wife?

Perhaps, in Glory Capital and Sorrowless’ eyes, Ruling Sword was actually their greatest opponent .

Glory Capital had been through many battles with Ruling Sword . It wasn’t only for Darkness’ sake, but it was also because Lu Li had been extremely obvious when showing his ambitions . The Lu Li now was different to the past Lu Li who only wanted to earn money to heal his sister .

However, Innocent Child didn’t worry about this .

Not even Lu Li worried about it, so what use would it be for him to worry? Furthermore, Lu Li’s ambition was a major part as to why he ultimately chose Ruling Sword .

Innocent Child wasn’t in need of money . After being in the eSports circle for many years and being one of the top players, he already had a lot of money .

The thing he wanted was the glory from being at the pinnacle of Dawn .

Looking at the other clubs, they didn’t even dare to oppose Sorrowless . How could they dream of the pinnacle?

Therefore, he didn’t simply choose Ruling Sword on a whim . It also wasn’t because Lu Li simply called him over, or because of his happiness while playing with him . Although, playing games with Lu Li was actually quite fun .

Chromaggus’ den looked like a laboratory .

Laboratories usually had an enclosed and dark feel, but this place was frighteningly large . There were many humungous corpses lined around the corners of the room with bones protruding from them . The rotten flesh and skin allowed the players to see that each corpse had different skin colour .

There was a crimson red pool of blood in the middle of the room along with other strange tools . The whole laboratory gave off a horrifying feeling, making everyone extremely uncomfortable .

It was a large Dragon – a large, dead Dragon .

Nefarian had made Chromaggus and this was his laboratory . Chromaggus was lying in the pool of blood .

It had the appearance of a twin-headed dog, but of course, it also had draconic features .

Perhaps it was the lack of difficulty from the previous four Bosses that made everyone think that this would be simple too . Therefore, everyone was quite relaxed, as if Chromaggus was already in their grasp .

“You guys have all looted the hourglasses, right?” Lu Li sighed . He couldn’t help but think that they were in for a rude awakening when the fight began .

He had already asked everyone to loot all the hourglasses that dropped from the monsters from before .

“All done,” Remnant Dream reported . She was the specialised looter in the team . While she didn’t really have a part to play when they were all clearing monsters, her lucky little hand was not only applicable to Bosses . If other players could loot one roll of cloth from the monsters, she would be able to loot two .

From the First Clear on the Nightmare difficulty of an Instance Dungeon of this calibre, she would be able loot Dark Gold items from the smaller monsters . A considerable number of the Dark Gold items in the guild’s storage had been dropped from smaller monsters .

“Wow! There’s quite a lot!” Lu Li exclaimed as he looked at the trade window and saw that there were around 300 hourglasses . He was a little surprised . Fortunately, the hourglasses were in stacks of 100, otherwise, he wouldn’t have enough storage slots .

The words on the hourglasses were fairly simple: “Use: Heals user from Brood Affliction: Bronze . ”

There were five debuffs that Chromaggus could inflict on the whole team .

Firstly, there was Brood Affliction: Bronze, which immobilised the target for 4 seconds . This debuff wasn’t like a Sickness or Curse, so they had to use the hourglasses to dispel the effect .

Lu Li gave ten hourglasses per Main Tank, five hourglasses per Priest, then distributed two or three hourglasses to the rest of the players .

Only 30 to 50 hourglasses in total were needed, but this meant that they only had five or six attempts at this Boss . As soon as they run out of hourglasses, they wouldn’t be able to continue fighting .

Although the monsters were being refreshed, the refresh speed was slow . Even continuous grinding for a few days might not even let them acquire this many hourglasses .

Brood Affliction: Black . Target receives 100% more damage when hit by a fire-based attack .

This was a Curse, so Mages and Druids could dispel it .

Brood Affliction: Red . Causes 50 fire damage every 3 seconds . Stackable .

This was a non-lethal skill and was a Sickness, so Paladins and Priests could dispel it .

Brood Affliction: Blue . Decreases target movement speed to 70% . Decreases casting speed to 50% . Decreases 50 mana per second .

This was the debuff that was the most annoying, especially for Hunters . The Blue Affliction needed to be dispelled immediately by either a Priest or Paladin and was useless against melee classes .

Brood Affliction: Green . Deals 250 poison damage every 5 seconds . After being afflicted with this debuff, the victim’s HP would quickly drop, so they needed to immediately dispel it .

These five debuffs posed the biggest problem .

Besides these debuffs, the Boss also had five AoE skills .  These were Time Lapse, Frost Burn, Ignite Flesh, Corrosive Acid and Incinerate . It would choose two skills out of these five every battle . Each skill had a 1-minute cooldown .

These AoE skills dealt fairly high damage, so the other classes had to escape besides the Main Tank .

The one that required the most attention was Time Lapse . This skill would immobilise the target and reset the aggro in that time . When the Main Tank was hit with this skill, it was likely for the Boss to run towards the long-ranged DPS players or healers .

This was why they needed more Main Tanks if the Boss had Time Lapse .

No one knew the skills that the Boss would have, so more Main Tanks were placed in the team just in case . In Lu Li’s previous life, Chromaggus had already been nerfed multiple times, so they only needed two Main Tanks .

Lu Li had read that four Main Tanks were required in the earlier versions of the Instance Dungeon, but the current team didn’t need that many . They already had Azure Sea Breeze, Wandering and World’s Best Friend – three top-tier MTs with exquisite items and good mechanics . These three Main Tanks would outmatch any four Main Tanks in any other guild .

Lu Li needed to protect the Priests, Paladins and Druids, since they were responsible of dispelling the debuffs .

Chromaggus’ damage from his AoE skills was terrifyingly lethal . The healers were required to heal while also keeping an eye on the debuffs, so there was immense pressure on them .

As for the DPS classes, they were not as powerful as yesterday . After all, they had the Dragon Slayer’s Roar yesterday and also didn’t have as many Thieves and Berserkers this time . They only had two Berserkers, and as for Thieves, excluding Lu Li, there was only Water Fairy, Scarlet Red Moon and Cain’s Left Hand .

One other class that was worth mentioning would be the Hunters . If they didn’t have Hunters to use Tranquilising Shot, then this run would have been impossible .

Lu Li had given the team six chances in total . The first three times would be to test out the Boss’ skills, then the next two attempts would be to try and work together the best they could . Then, they would try to clear the Boss in the final attempt . If they couldn’t clear it in these six times, then they couldn’t do anything else .

Prior to this, Lu Li had asked the teams that were running through the Lower Blackrock Instance

Dungeons to collect Spider Web Glands, which could dispel a poison effect .

The Spider Web Gland was not only used to deal with Brood Affliction: Bronze, but it was also effective against Brood Affliction: Green .

However, the drop rate of this was simply too low . It wasn’t like the hourglasses, which dropped in bunches . Ruling Sword had so many teams clearing Lower Blackrock, but they only had around 100 in the guild storage . It would be generous to say that these could last them two runs of this Instance Dungeon .

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