The Great Thief - Chapter 892

Chapter 892
At the beginning, the Druids immediately started sprinting, but Lu Li was jogging at a leisurely pace . The road near the start was very smooth and almost completely straight .


Jogging consumed very little stamina, but he was quickly overtaken by nearly everyone .
After running for a few minutes, the road began to roughen up . It wasn't just a bumpy road – there were piles of rubble which forced the players to run around them . The Druids' ability to sprint was no longer an advantage .
Without any other alternatives, they had to revert back to human form to reduce their stamina loss .
Lu Li then summoned his Headless Paladin's mount . These Undead Warhorses were very suitable for this terrain as they could almost hover . Even if Lu Li couldn't fly, his mount could easily avoid the pits .
The difference in mounts was obvious here .
The velociraptor had the strongest jumping ability and had the greatest advantage in this terrain . There would also be a variety of flying mounts in the future .
The previous gap between Lu Li and the others had now greatly reduced, but he had significantly more Stamina than them .
Once they had passed through the rough road, they were presented with a section of water .


A marathon in the real world was nothing like this . People who attempted an exercise this strenuous might actually end up dead .
Normal players would use an Underwater Breathing Potion to swim through the water . There was also some high-end equipment that could increase their swimming speed, along with a fishing rod that was awarded in the fishing competition that transformed a player into a fish . This gave them unlimited underwater breathing and swimming .
Druids didn't have any trouble here, and simply transformed into Seals .
The same was true of Lu Li, but he was much faster than an ordinary Druid, despite his Stamina consumption remaining the same .
After they passed the body of water, the path became relatively smooth again . Lu Li was no longer jogging this time – instead, he transformed into a crow and flew in a straight line .
Although this section of the road was smooth, it snaked around several mountains .
As was common knowledge, the shortest path between two lines was a straight one . The constantly twisting and turning path was not nearly as efficient as the straight path in the sky .
However, Lu Li discovered that there were actually other players who could also fly . One of them had a pair of red wings, but they flew much slower than him .

If Lu Li's flying increased his movement speed by 60%, the long-winged person had only gained 15% to 20% .
At this stage, Lu Li finally managed to make it into the top group of players and had become the leader of the pack . Almost none of them were faster than him, yet all of them had sprinted past him at the beginning . Their initial efforts had definitely not paid off .
The mountain section was quite long, and after a while Lu Li no longer had the Stamina to fly . He didn't even have the Stamina to sprint .
Dawn was a virtual reality game, which meant that movement speed was really just data . This piece of data could change according to a person's choice of movement . However, it was divided into three categories, which were made especially evident during a marathon – walking, jogging and sprinting . Sprinting consumed Stamina the fastest and walking the slowest, but you could recover stamina while walking .
While the players around him were jogging, Lu Li decided it would be better for his Stamina to walk .
Sprinting could of course give him a quick burst of speed, but it consumed Stamina too quickly . On the contrary, walking was slow and most players could overtake you . As such, experienced players knew how and when to alternate between the three states .
In the later stages of the race, Lu Li kept up his lead and didn't suffer any more significant losses in position .
Even if someone could increase their speed to reach him, it was only a matter of time before their Stamina was exhausted and they would fall behind once again . Lu Li didn't even need to change into leopard form; he won the race by making sure he maintained his Stamina .
By the time he crossed the finish line, his Stamina was almost exhausted and had been used almost perfectly . This competition wasn't about beating the other players; this was something Lu Li now knew from experience .
Of course, there were many other marathons running at the same time .
The temptation of an Epic equipment was quite strong, and most players didn't mind trying if they thought they had even the slightest chance of winning .
It was human nature to try and leave it up to luck, even when they weren't particularly good at something . Most players were unlike Water Fairy, who knew herself well enough to skip the competition .
It wasn't just Druids who won in the different matches either .
There were Mages who had learned flying skills, Paladins with special auras or even some with flying mounts . There were Warlocks who could summon Flying Gargoyles, and a few special pets that could increase their owner's speed .
Lu Li had been very conservative in today's game .
He didn't even need to use any of his skills, despite knowing that skills and equipment effects did not cost additional Stamina .
Even by the time that the first marathons concluded, it was still too early . High school students like Remnant Dream, Hachi Chan and Sesame Rice Ball still hadn't come online .
The virtual game was almost like a second world . Game companies designed every aspect of their game in an attempt to make it something more than just a levelling game .
From Christmas to the Spring Festival, there was some kind of activity almost every day .
No one had the energy to participate in all the activities, even if all of them had great rewards .
Lu Li had decided to join a murder game today . He was put into a modern city with numerous other players who were participating .
There was a large number of local people in the city who looked no different from the players and were almost as intelligent as them . According some posts Lu Li had read in his previous life, many players suspected that the NPCs here were controlled by people in the real world .
After entering, Lu Li quickly found an NPC that was similar to him and Stunned him .
This poor guy was carrying a piece of bread that he had a bite taken out of it and a laptop book . He looked exactly like a person who worked in the city .
After changing into his clothes and fixing his hair, Lu Li picked up the laptop bag and bread . He carried the laptop bag in one hand and the bread in the other, strolling down the sidewalk . Not too far from him, a player was surrounded by the NPCs and killed .