The Great Thief

Chapter 1288: An Upset

Translator: Halcyon Translations Editor: Halcyon Translations

“Lu Li hasn’t arrived yet! Focus fire March Rain,” Sorrowless called out.

This was Glory Capital’s strategy, and it couldn’t be faulted as incorrect. He also saw Lu Li appear in the distance, but he was still a long way from the fight. It would probably take more than 10 seconds before he would arrive.

It wasn’t impossible for them to kill March Rain in these 10 seconds.

Even if they couldn’t do it, as long as they disabled her, there was not much Lu Li could do. A single Thief couldn’t do much to stop March Rain from being killed.

As such, the players from Glory Capital didn’t pay much attention to Lu Li.

Moonlight had noticed something that Glory Capital didn’t – the swam of snow monsters behind Lu Li.

Some said that the place where someone was born would determine the way they would act.

For example, if a billionaire was born in a very poor family and would often stare at the scallion pancake stores with his mouth watering, even after he had become rich, he would still remember the scallion pancake and occasionally buy it for himself.

Lu Li had once been somewhat of a gangster struggling to survive. His origins influenced the way he acted. In the eyes of a moral person, Lu Li might be considered unscrupulous.

He had no problems attracting a group of snow monsters and didn’t consider whether this tactic would disappoint the members of the audience. However, Sorrowless seemed to be completely ignoring this threat. He had his back turned to Lu Li and was asking to be attacked.

March Rain had all sorts of skills to protect herself, and she had no chance to save any of them.

Moonlight also cast Intervene on her at the right time to help her tank some of the damage. Moonlight and the others choose not to deliberately focus fire anyone. If they wanted to do so, they would have to find a particularly vulnerable player from the other team, but right now, it wasn’t a good idea.

Moonlight cast Whirlwind, its purpose was not to kill anyone, but to disrupt the opponent’s attacking rhythm so that they couldn’t focus fire March Rain.

The others were doing similar things with their skills.

This was because Lu Li had only given two orders – protect March Rain and stall their opponents.

These two orders were not at odds with one another. As long as they protected March Rain, they would be stalling Glory Capital. Once Glory Capital’s players killed March Rain, they would likely retreat and regroup, especially since they had more players.

The first players to discover the presence of the snow monsters was White Westhill.

His ID was White Westhill, but he also looked like the way he was described by his ID. In fact, his face must have turned even whiter when he saw what had happened.

“Quickly, retreat!”

“Retreat? Why?”

When Sorrowless saw the March Rain was almost dead, he didn’t understand why White Westhill, who was usually very reliable, was proposing a retreat.

“Look!”

White Westhill had not time to explain and just pointed. Sorrowless saw a crowd of snow monsters behind Lu Li. There was at least a dozen of them, which was why Lu Li had arrived later than expected. It was because he wanted to stay in aggro range, and if he ran too quickly, the monsters would stop chasing him.

“Dammit!” Sorrowless couldn’t help but curse before commanding a retreat.

At this time, they wouldn’t be let go so easily. Moonlight, Fat Monkey and the others were all using their crowd-control skills to stall them. Even March Rain wasn’t healing herself, but strove to crowd-control the Glory Capital players, especially the ones with the snow monster buff.

When Lu Li drew closer, the snow monsters began to move into action.

They quickly discovered the three players with the scarlet halo around their feet and naturally abandoned Lu Li. Moonlight and the other players were ignored as the three players with the buff were the only targets in their eyes. Three of their brethren had been killed.

The three Glory Capital players that had the status buff were Sorrowless, Blood Dagger and Demigod Asura.

Sorrowless’ snow monster buff increased critical damage and reduced ice magic channelling time by 20%. Sorrowless hadn’t expected to receive such a good buff from the first snow monster that died, and he even felt like the game was over when it happened.

Blood Dagger’s snow monster buff gave him speed and he could confidently say that he could move faster than any other Thief.

However, even if he was fast, there wasn’t much he could do. He couldn’t really intercept Lu Li, as he would then have to sacrifice himself and pull away the monsters from the others.

The only blame that could be attributed to him was for focusing too much on March Rain and losing his awareness.

Demigod Asura’s buff was increased damage. His base damage was increased by a third, but it was useless here as he still couldn’t quickly kill the snow monster and had no way of escaping quickly.

Lu Li personally ran up to intercept Sorrowless.

The opponents who most expected to face each other did not meet in the individual rounds, but on the map of the team competition.

Lu Li didn’t hold back nor did he engage in any formalities before engaging with Moonlight.

The rest of the players were intercepting Demigod Asura. As for Blood Dagger and the other two who didn’t have the snow monster buff, they were completely ignored. However, they couldn’t just leave either. If they left, Sorrowless and Demigod Asura would be dead. If there were only three of them left, then what was the point of staying alive?

This was exactly the effect that Lu Li wanted!

Lu Li was very determined, but he was still somewhat worried that their opponents would escape.

In that case, the dozens of snow monsters would kill Sorrowless and Demigod Asura, but after killing them, they would turn to the ruling Sword players. Once the three players ran away, Glory Capital actually still had a chance.

If Lu Li could think of this, then Sorrowless would be able to think of it as well.

Unfortunately, his head was in a mess right now and he wasn’t thinking about anything. He thought that he would have the upper hand, but he was completely defeated by the dozen snow monsters led in by Lu Li.

How did this happen?

Demigod Asura was caught by Moonlight’s crowd control, surrounded by a few snow monsters and simply died.

After the snow monsters killed Demigod Asura, they marched up to Sorrowless and White Westhill, who had attracted the aggro because he tried to heal Demigod Asura. As for Blood Dagger, he tried his best to pull the snow monsters away, but until the other players with the snow monster buffs had been killed, they simply ignored him.

This situation was lost! They had been completely defeated!

Sorrowless’ skills were very potent, especially after the snow monster buff, so it was easier to deal damage to Lu Li. However, the snow monster was getting closer and closer to him…

Sorrowless died and White Westhill also died. Blood Dagger rushed away, but Shadowfang was killed by Kitty Likes Meat and Fat Monkey.

Now, Glory Capital was only left with Blood Dagger and the new player that was their substitute.

Blood Dagger felt like he still had a chance. It wasn’t going to be easy for Ruling Sword to deal with all the snow monsters. The other Hunter that was with him was quite slippery as well. Perhaps they could get in there and cause some chaos. He had no intentions of winning the competition, but he felt like he could at least even the scores.

The closer they got now, the easier it would be for Glory Capital to make a comeback in the next game.

“Kill whichever has the least amount of HP.”

After dealing with their opponents, Lu Li began to kill the snow monsters. It was difficult to kill many of them at once, but focusing one at time was much easier. After all, they weren’t Bosses.

When the snow monster died, it dropped the buff.

This buff increased mana regeneration. If you had it, you would never run out of mana and you would be able to freely cast your skills. This was especially good for healers.

However, Lu Li didn’t give this buff to March Rain.

Now that the match had gotten to this point, there was no longer any pressure on March Rain

to heal. Lu Li had killed the snow monster that dropped this buff, and he needed to continue managing the monsters’ aggro. So naturally, the most appropriate person to do that was himself.

They couldn’t just casually fight these dozens of snow monsters because more and more would arrive as they summoned their companions.

They couldn’t just run away either, as not everyone was fast enough to escape.

Lu Li took the snow monster buff and singlehandedly led all the monsters away. This meant that the remaining four Ruling Sword players didn’t have to worry about them and could just deal with the two remaining Glory Capital players.

Blood Dagger, who wasn’t very far away, was dumbfounded. This wasn’t how he thought it was going to play out.

How could the two of them fight those four players? Even if they targeted the healer, he and Ethereal Wind wouldn’t be able to kill her fast enough.

If that was the case, then this was it.

Blood Dagger quickly ran in front of Lu Li and tried to crowd-control him. Lu Li also had the snow monster status, so they wouldn’t give up Lu Li to attack Blood Dagger.

However, Lu Li was obviously prepared for this, and immediately began to fight back. Both Thieves tried to kill each other and didn’t go run away or go into Stealth. They were trying to make their opponents as immobile as possible so that they would be attacked by the snow monsters.

The snow monsters chasing them had finally caught up and both of them were targets.

The end result was a miserable fight as Lu Li and Blood Dagger were both beaten to death by the snow monsters. There was no way you would last very long when standing among so many monsters, but what made it worse was that there was someone else who would pull you back in if you tried to escape.

At this point, the match was almost over. There were six players in Glory Capital’s team but only one Hunter, Ethereal Wind, remained. Ruling Sword still had five strong players – Moonlight, March Rain, Mu Qiu, Fat Monkey and Kitty Likes Meat. It was an unwinnable fight and although Ethereal Wind did his best, he was defeated as well.

Glory Capital had the advantage at first with it being five to four.

It had to be conceded that they were indeed very powerful when it came to raw talent. Master Huang said that the previous match would be his last and he was replaced by Ethereal Wind in this one. In fact, Glory Capital still had plenty of players that could take his place.

There were some star players that might not even be as skilled as he was. After all, everyone had to take care of their own in the clubs and you couldn’t have too many star players in a club.

The standard for Glory Capital was much stricter than the other clubs.

Knowing this fact made the people speechless at the result of this team round; it was a score of 6:1. This was also a team round at home and the League had not seen a result like this in years. As the game progressed in the second round, both commentators were dumbfounded.

There were some in the audience that were just sitting in complete silence and others that were clamouring, unable to accept this result.

Even Ruling Sword’s fans didn’t think that this was normal.

Some people even began to question the rationality of the map. The inappropriate interruption of the snow monsters had ended in this result of the competition. In fact, Glory Capital hadn’t done anything wrong and Ruling Sword hadn’t done anything amazing to win in such a manner.