The Great Thief - Chapter 555

Chapter 555: The Treasure Chest On The Cliff
Like any other competition, there were some players who had done well . Veteran players like Deadly Gold Underpants and Unforgettable Maple had amazing performances and the new teams were flourishing .


Fat Monkey, Half a Smoke, Vegetarian Mosquito, Windy and the other talented club reserves were also showing promise .
In terms of professions, Hunters were becoming more and more valued .
Vast Silence and Vegetarian Mosquito were among those players, along with Hot Twitch and other veterans . These players come into the spotlight by making use of classic strategies .
However, that was ultimately their flaw as well . As expected, Peerless City were defeated by Ruling Sword .
The champions, Peerless City, lost at the hands of Ruling Sword .
If it wasn’t for the fact that the champions were decided by the number of points, Peerless City definitely wouldn’t have emerged victorious .
Ruling Sword had only lost those two points because of Lu Li’s absence, and had ended up in second place . They were followed by Gale Legion in third place, while Seventh Heaven had lost their position in the top three and was now in fourth place .
The 500,000 dollar prize and the ticket sales from the matches totalled several hundred thousand dollars of income .
This money would mainly be used to manage the guild with the leftovers being distributed among the players . Lu Li had missed out on a few games which reduced his portion, but he was also an important part of the games he had played in which increased this . In the end, his portion was still about the same as everyone else’s .


It was a total of $700,000 .
They had so easily made an amount that he couldn’t even have imagined in his past life .
Although they didn’t take the championship, everyone was quite satisfied . The Magic Cup was small and could only have around 100 guilds participating . Many of these guilds had been long-established, so for such a new guild to take such a position made them many times better than Peerless City .
There was only one person who wasn’t happy .
Fat Monkey!
In this competition, Fat Monkey was named the second-best newbie and best newbie Mage . From the perspective of a newcomer, this should have been a satisfactory result .
However, this was his problem – without Fat Monkey, could Ruling Sword have achieved the same result?
Lu Li’s response was simple . Without Fat Monkey, they probably wouldn’t have even entered the final four . This was affirmed through his portion of money .
As for whether Fat Monkey would actually listen to him, Lu Li didn’t have the energy to bother with that .
Lu Li didn’t join the post-competition interviews either . He realized that he didn’t really like doing that kind of thing, and also found all sorts of reasons to reject endorsement offers .


This was the benefit of being his own boss . If he was an ordinary player that rejected offers like this so boldly, he would have been fired long ago .

He planned to find a skill book that was an area-of-effect attack . Dawn’s Thieves didn’t usually have area-of-effect attacks; they were professions with high damage and high mobility . Area-of-effect attacks didn’t really fit the archetype .
As such, these kinds of skills were rare, but they did exist and Lu Li knew a few ways to obtain them .
He hadn’t thought about this before because the skill he had in mind was garbage . It had really low damage and a squishy Thief couldn’t fight a group of monsters anyway .
Now, Lu Li had decided to get this skill book so he could upgrade the Book of Ur .
The low damage didn’t matter as he planned to time his attacks for when the monsters were close to dying . If he was able to rush into a group of monsters that were low and take the last hit, he would receive the EXP and the opportunity to upgrade his equipment .
The first place he travelled to was Thousand Needles .
This place used to be a river, but it had dried up after topographical and weather changes, gradually forming a unique landscape .
Thousand Needles was mostly dominated by Taurens . They were split into two separate factions – the friendly Cliff Walkers and the combative Grimtotems . Regardless of how they were normally, they were unfriendly to Alliance players .
Lu Li couldn’t even be directly transported to the location; he had to go through Rattan City .
Lu Li’s direction was clear and he didn’t need to search around . His target was the Silver Treasure Chest that was above a steep unclimbable cliff . There was a great probability for this chest to drop a Thief and Druid area-of-effect attack skill book .
If he was lucky, there was even the possibility of finding a Gold Paladin weapon .
That particular weapon didn’t have the best stats and probably couldn’t compare with any Dark Gold weapon, but it looked really cool . There were many tycoons who would be interested in flashing this weapon around; the record sale price for it was over one million .
When Lu Li entered the map, he was cautious .
In a place like this, danger was self-explanatory . He had to scale a cliff that was guarded by level 50 Grimtotem Shamans and Warriors that would attack regardless of whether he was an Alliance or Horde player .
In his previous life, those that wanted to open the chest needed to send quite a few players to help . Some players were needed to pull the Grimtotem away while the others would attempt the scale the cliff .
It was only until players had learned to fly or were able to defeat level 50 mobs that they would finally be able to open this chest alone .
Actually, flying didn’t completely mitigate the risks either . Thousand Needles were the Wyverns’ paradise and they had nests all along these high cliffs .
There was once a group of egg robbers that tried to steal eggs from these nests, but it was said that their fates were miserable .
The Centaurs regarded the Wywern as sacred creatures and burned the thieves who stole the eggs alive . Some of the thieves even took out some meat to cook while they were in the fire . Fortunately, when they had lost all their HP, they would just return to the Revive Point . Otherwise, they would have been eaten by the Centaurs .
Lu Li hoped that he wouldn’t attract the attention of the Centaurs or the Wyvern . Ideally, he wouldn’t even alert the Grimtotem Shamans .
Conservative actions could make you rich; he was really only here to steal some items .
There were monsters here in the Thousand Needles, but they were sparse . Even when everyone was the right level, no one would come here to farm . This situation was convenient for Lu Li as he was able to walk right through this level 42-45 area to his destination .
After finding a hiding place, Lu Li squatted there and waited .
Wyverns whistled through the sky from time to time and the Grimtotem Warriors looked depressed . They occasionally threw their javelins into the sky in an attempt to attack the flying dragons .
However, those attacks were quite weak . Some of the dragons would fly off with a grunt while others would even reduce their altitude .
Lu Li quietly watched as the Grimtotem tribemembers attacked again . No one else knew, but that there were always a few Wyverns that died in Thousand Needles every day .
Most of the times, it was at the hands of a Centaur .
As a result, the Tauren and Centaurs had a long hatred for each other . How could the Centaurs allow them to mess with such holy beasts?