A Legendary Thief - Chapter 39

Chapter 39: The Night Jade Necklace

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

When he recalled the scene of the fight, Xiao Yu still felt it heart-wrenching. He believed he had just been one step away from death.

“Thankfully, the lovely underworld god brought me back from the clutches of death,” he thought.

He pressed the notification panel of the system by accident and saw the indicator for the combo attack of reversed backstabbing and backstabbing. He was shocked for a while. He had no idea that he could use combo skills in this way. He had completed 102% of the backstabbing skill.

With a beam of light in his eyes, Xiao Yu realized that 100% of a skill was not its peak. It turned out that he could cause a more damage than that.

Mulling over the process of his fight, Xiao Yu found that he had used the combo skills unintentionally. If he were to do it again, he might not be able to have the same feeling he had earlier. As far as Xiao Yu was concerned, combo skills were very difficult to use and probably not very practical. Furthermore, the magnitude of the damage was not that impressive. After he had done the combo successfully, the damage value was merely increased by 2%. It could easily be imagined just how hard it would be to boost the damage further.

“I’ll figure this out later.” Xiao Yu was aware that he could in no way use the difficult skills at his current level. He realized that he had to lay a solid foundation first and improve one step at a time. He shouldn’t set his eyes on something that was beyond his ability at the moment. After a good foundation was set up, he would be able to perform those difficult skills with ease.

Xiao Yu let out a small smile when he saw the corpse of the dark ghost on the ground.

“It was a fierce fight. I feel bad about my health potion. I’m not sure what kind of item I’ll get. Hope I didn’t use the health potion for nothing,” thought Xiao Yu as he walked toward the corpse of the dark ghost.

The dark ghost was a special lost spirit monster that often came out at night to sneak-attack lonely and weak players. If it encountered a player who had a much higher level, the creature would flee as fast as it could. As such, few players could capture them. In addition, they only came out during the night, so few players had actually managed to kill a dark ghost.

The special monsters of this sort had a high chance of dropping special items. Xiao Yu searched the corpse of the dark ghost for a while and finally found a necklace.

Night jade necklace: special item; dark vision +5.

It turned out to be an item that could help increase night vision. His hand that was holding the necklace trembled a little. Boosting his night vision meant that he could kill monsters at night more easily.

Xiao Yu’s night vision was already at five points, and this night jade necklace could help double that.

“I’m not sure what effect it has in reality,” Xiao Yu thought as he put on the night jade necklace.

After putting on the night jade necklace, Xiao Yu found that his surroundings seemed to have become brighter all of a sudden. He could see objects five meters away from him now. Though the visible distance was still a bit short, the item could undoubtedly assist his nightly activity.

“That vial of instant health potion was not wasted after all since I gained this necklace.” Xiao Yu fumbled on the ground for a while and found two silver coins underneath the corpse of the dark ghost. There was no way he would forget to get all his loot.

Xiao Yu stayed in the same spot to recover his health. The corpse of the dark ghost had gradually vanished without a trace as if the creature had never been there.

He thought he would be in big trouble if he met another creature like the dark ghost. He had used up the instant health potion, and he would die for sure if he met another dark ghost.

“My luck shouldn’t be that bad.” Xiao Yu knew that such a gambler’s mentality was very dangerous. After some thought, he decided to find a place where he could hide himself and challenge the monsters.

After searching for a while, Xiao Yu found a tall, thick bush near the Black Holy Spring. He could jump into the Black Holy Spring to escape if necessary. However, he didn’t wish for the incident that had happened last time to occur again, so he was slightly apprehensive of the Black Holy Spring.

Hiss!!! Hiss!!!

The first sand lizard appeared before Xiao Yu. Since his vision had improved, he could see the creature five meters away and found the sand lizard charging at him.

Seeing the incoming sand lizard, Xiao Yu used the reversed backstabbing skill.

The success rate was 95%, causing 200% skill damage. The sand lizard was hit and dropped to the ground with 220 points of damage popping up over its head. The sand lizard could no longer get up.

Killing a sand lizard didn’t seem so hard, but it was nighttime, and so he had to battle with caution. He didn’t go to other places to look for more powerful monsters. Instead, he stayed in the bush, waiting for the sand lizards to show up and then kill them.

He had stayed in the bush for five hours. He checked his own experience bar and found it stood at 67% now, which meant it had increased by 27%. Though it was not fast enough, he was content with the result. Apart from gaining experience, he had also gotten close to one gold coin. In addition to what he had won earlier, he ended up with 12 gold coins.

Xiao Yu was patiently searching for sand lizards. As he cast his sight to one side of a bush, a beam of light flashed in his eyes. He saw a medicinal plant growing desolately by the bush.

He went over and examined it and recognized it was a stage-one magic medicinal plant. It was suitable for making instant magic health potions.

“The instant magic health potion is much more expensive than the instant health potion. I’ve found a treasure this time, and it’s totally worth my effort.” Xiao Yu bent down and began to collect the medicinal plant.

Currently, on the market, one vial of instant magic health potion was worth about 15 gold coins, which was equal to three vials of instant health potion. Some people might wonder why the instant magic health potion was worth so much. The reason for it was simple, which was that the instant magic health potion was only afforded and used by certain teams. Moreover, the instant magic health potion was mostly used by black wizards and shamans for treatment, and the magic value of the instant magic health potion could automatically turn into health points for professional players engaged in close-range combats. One vial of instant magic health potion could be used like six or seven vials of instant health potion. The price of 15 gold coins for one vial of instant magic health potion was pretty stable so far on the market, and the price might go up.

However, he couldn’t make the medicine without a formula for it even though he had the medicinal plant. Though he could take the magic medicinal plant to the market to sell it for five or six gold coins, he would fetch much less than selling it as a medicine.