The Great Thief - Chapter 584

Chapter 584

The monsters were quickly cleared out and they soon reached where Theka was .

It was an open space among the rubble, but there were scarabs packed tightly everywhere . Those who were afraid of enclosed spaces could now rejoice, but those who were afraid of bugs would be terrified .

Among the scarabs, there were also a couple of Sandfury monsters, but Theka was sitting by a slate .

This was Theka’s Slate, and was required in a Horde Quest . The quest had decent rewards, but it was inaccessible by Alliance players .

"Kill the Sandfury Mobs, but don’t use area-of-effect skills . Turn off anything that can damage in an area . " Lu Li had been silent while they cleared out the other monsters, but now that they were before the Boss, he started to exercise his responsibility as a commander .

If this was on Elite Difficulty, the scarabs would be easy to kill, even if the Sandfury mobs were mixed among them . They could just use area-of-effect skills to solve the problem .

However, they had to be extremely careful on Nightmare Difficulty . If anything went wrong, their entire team would be instantly wiped .

There was a monster called the Sandfury Soul Eater that had a unique ability called Exploding Corpse . It waited for a pile of dead Scarabs to collect before raising its hand and exploding them . This ability was fully capable of wiping an entire team .

As per Lu Li’s requirements, they led the mobs over one at a time .

The three Sandfury Soul Eaters were specially taken care of by Lu Li to make sure that they were dead .

As this was on Nightmare Difficulty, the Sandfury Soul Eaters, which were elite monsters, actually dropped some exquisite Silver equipment . The properties were very good, and at level 35, it was stronger than level 30 Gold equipment . Sesame Rice Ball was happy to take the equipment .

A special effect on the equipment was the legendary Exploding Corpse .

This was a one-use that allowed the player to explode up to ten monster corpses, dealing 300% of their damage . This effect alone would double the value of this Silver equipment, and made it better than most Gold equipment at the same level .

The only problem was that this was more suitable for players who levelled often . PVP players would never have so many bodies to explode .

Moreover, it could only detonate up to ten monsters . Compared to the Sandfury Soul Eater’s skill, this was obviously a weakened version – the monster had no such limitation .

After the few monsters had been dealt with, they prepared to kill the scarabs .

"Flower, use Arcane Explosion and run all the way down and back . Be careful not to pull the Boss," Lu Li indicated at Lonesome Flower after everyone had rested for a moment .

In fact, the Scarabs had a chained-aggro mechanism, which meant that as long as one of them were attacked, they would all flock towards the attacker .

Lu Li told Lonesome Flower to run because the Scarabs needed to be hit by a few Arcane Explosions before they were killed and he would be attacked by too many scarabs if he stayed in one place .

Lonesome Flower didn’t say anything, and just raised his hand to release an Arcane Explosion .

The scarabs were rather weak and immediately dropped to a third of their HP when hit by one Arcane Explosion . This meant that Lonesome Flower could deal with a group of scarabs in three to four seconds .

However, what they thought was a perfect plan turned out to have a few flaws .

Lu Li noticed that Lonesome Flower wasn’t running fast enough and that he also needed to stop every time he wanted to cast a skill . As such, he was slowly being surrounded by more and more scarabs .

His HP was obviously dropping quite quickly, but what was more troublesome was the Scarab Plague that was being stacked onto him .

The Scarab Plague didn’t deal high damage; it was just 4-5 damage for one stack, but they stacked up quickly . This, in addition to the Scarab bites, meant that Lonesome Flower couldn’t last for more than 3 seconds .

Lonesome Flower died!

March Rain struggled to break free from Lu Li’s hand .

He had stopped her from healing, and made her helplessly watch as her brother died within the swarm .

"You don’t lose EXP in an Instance Dungeon," Lu Li said quietly . "You can Resurrect him now . You died to a couple of bugs . Are you sure you’re not messing around Flower?"

Lonesome Flower was silently revived before he sat down to eat some bread to recover his HP and Mana . He wasn’t angry at Lu Li at all, and instead calmly responded, "I just got the skill yesterday and haven’t had the chance to use it yet . When I use it, it feels a little clunky, but that might be because of the Skill level . "

"It’s not because of the Skill level; it’s an Instant Cast skill . Next time, try casting the skill like this," Lu Li had learned a bit about Mages and how to walk while asking Arcane Explosion .

Of course, he couldn’t cast Arcane Explosion, but he could imitate the action . When Lonesome Flower saw him, his eyes lit up .

Lu Li knew how to use Mage skills too!

What Lu Li was trying to show was simple . He wanted Lonesome Flower to lift his Magic Staff a bit before he cast the skill, so that when he did cast it, he wouldn’t have to do it again . After casting a skill, the Magic Staff would automatically be pressed onto the ground, but at this point, he would immediately cast it again .

This was actually a trick for Half-Manual Mode for Mages . Lu Li had studied a few of these skills in his previous life .

Instant Cast Skills didn’t technically exist for Mages or Thieves, as the release of a Skill required an action . These actions were assisted or forced by the System .

However, if you completed the action before the System forced you to, it would greatly reduce the time to complete it .

All true Mage experts were always exploring the actions that were required for their skills .

"You can go and find a space to practice . We can wait for you . " Lu Li saw that Lonesome Flower already understood and decided to give him some time .

If they didn’t wait, they might just fail again, so why not wait and let him get better at it?

Lonesome Flower practiced for a few minutes and was ready to go again . He once again started attacking the swarm and performed much better this time . He didn’t pause for as long as wasn’t being surrounded .

The Scarab Plague was released at close range, so as long as they were killed before they got close, he wouldn’t need to worry too much about them .

After successfully dealing with the Scarabs, Lu Li and the others went to pick up what the monsters had dropped .

The Scarab Shell was a quest item that paid out a lot of EXP . In fact, this quest could be completed multiple times as the NPC was always willing to accept the players’ scarabs .

It was around this time that a new phenomenon began to emerge – the sale of Scarab Shells .

Those who didn’t have money would fight these Scarabs for their shells to sell for gold . They would then convert that into real money for rent and food…

Those who were rich bought Scarab Shells for the quest which helped them continually gain EXP . They could only hand in 20 a day, but they could usually only gain half a level each day anyway . As such, this greatly accelerated the levelling of the rich .

Lu Li didn’t mind this industry and had made a small fortune with it in his previous life .

Everyone started in this game with nothing and was placed in a relatively fair environment, but naturally, the game could never be completely fair .

The world was never really fair to begin with – those who were rich had the resources to make it easier for them to succeed . But did that mean that the average person should just give up?

Lu Li never gave up on himself, and was sure that he would become rich sooner or later .

As the saying goes, "I am not part of the rich second generation, but I hope to be a father of the rich third generation . "