Chapter 260: The Underlying Lesson
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Slowly but surely, the other yers started to discover this secret as well.
When a Mold was dropped, there would necessarily be some bloodshed. This trick was used during these times of conflict.
There was a clear advantage for the Horde yers as they would immediately stay close to the Warpriest when a Mold was dropped. This forced the Alliance yers to keep their distance.
They had no other choice, as approaching the Warpriest was basically the same as dying.
This put the Alliance yers in a miserable situation. It wouldn’t bother them too much if they couldn’t steal the items that were meant for the Horde yers, but even the items that were meant for them were being stolen away.
“Mold!” Remnant Dream happily danced as she finally looted a Mold from a Centaur’s body.
Immediately, the figure of a Thief appeared behind her and started attacking her without a second thought.
This Thief’s attack was high; he was able to deal significant damage in spite of Remnant Dream’s exquisite equipment.
At the same time, two other thieves also joined in to attack her.
It would be difficult for a single Thief to kill Remnant Dream due to her good Chain Mail armor, but the situation was vastly different with two or three thieves.
No one could survive against all these attacks and crowd-control, no matter how strong they were.
Without a skill like Gale Steps, even Lu Li wouldn’t stand a chance against these thieves.
Fortunately, Remnant Dream wasn’t alone!
The first person to react was the battle-hardened PVP yer, Moonlight. He charged at the nearest Thief and left him stunned, then swung his axe and took out 20% of the Thief’s HP while simultaneously applying a Bleed.
If a Thief was affected by Bleed, the only way to sessfully enter Stealth was by using Gale Steps.
Lu Li’s cloak shed and he instantly appeared behind another one of the Thieves.
Cheap Shot!
Thest remaining Thief was shocked; these yers’ reactions were far too quick. The original n was to have three yers attack the Hunter and quickly kill her. One of them would then take the dropped item and retreat while the other two...
The Thief suddenly came to a realization – if he didn’t escape now, it might soon be toote.
But in fact, it was already toote. Lu Li had no intention of attacking the Thief that was affected by Cheap Shot. Instead, he ran straight at the remaining thief.
In a head-on engagement between thieves where neither had an advantage, technique alone would prove the victor
The moment they engaged each other, the other Thief’s heart sank. He had attacked twice, but one attack missed while the other was blocked. The opposing thief had sessfully hit him twice, with both attacks dealing a significant amount of damage.
‘I really should escape,’ he thought to himself.
However, just as he was about to, he found himself unable to move.
Gouge!
Now that he had been crowd-controlled, there was no way left for him to recover.
Lu Li followed up with a string of skills which uneventfully finished off the Thief.
Unfortunately, they only dropped Steel equipment and not the Silver Molds like they had hoped. It looked like this business of robbing other yers wasn’t so easy after all.
Lu Li turned his head to see that the other two assants had also fallen.
The one that Moonlight was fighting had been easily dealt with. Berserkers were recognized as one of the strongest professions in PVP, especially against other professions that used leather armor. There was simply no contest.
As for the one who had been stunned by Lu Li’s Cheap Shot, his fate was worse, as he had to face eight of the top ten yers on the level rankings.
No matter how good he was at PVP, he was still up against yers who would never miss a skill on a stationary target.
At first, a few other Horde yers had turned their attention to this scuffle. They wanted to help out their fellow yers and potentially gain something out of it too.
However, when they saw that the three Thieves had been utterly annihted, their hearts grew cold and they ran away.
As they were running, they waved for the others to retreat as well.
“Humph. How dare they attack me.”
Remnant Dream had be pale in shock and her hands were still shaking, but the moment she saw her attacker’s dead body, she immediately ran up and kicked it.
The few Horde yers started to run even quicker.
Mum, help me. These guys are heartless. Not only do they kill people, but they even beat their corpses.
“Stop kicking it and check if it dropped any equipment,” Sakura Memories said as she pulled her away and held her hand...
“Oh yeah, do you think it’ll drop something good?” Remnant Dream threw off the female shaman and knelt down to shake the body of the thief.
What she found was a piece of Silver equipment.
Lu Li looked at it and shook his head. “It isn’t better than what I already have. You can y with it, but give me the Mold,” he said.
“It’s a crossbow. It’s mine! Give it to me!” Remnant Dream refused to let go of it. It was quite an exquisite crossbow for a Mold, and had a beautiful green color.
Lu Li wasn’t a God; he didn’t know what kind of attributes every piece of equipment would have.
“I’m watching out for people robbing you for it,” Lu Li said as he grabbed it. “And you’ll be giving it to me eventually anyway – you don’t even know Forging.”
Remnant Dream thought about it for a while and eventually agreed. She then peacefully allowed Lu Li to hold on to her equipment.
“Lu Li, you should just go around killing people for their equipment.”
Azure Sea Breeze stared at the corpse at his feet as he suddenly realized how dangerous of a situation they were in.
“Haha,” Lu Li drylyughed, before rushing into a group of archer Centaurs.
The level 25 archer Centaurs were killed in three hits and didn’t evenst ten seconds.
He had been really lucky this time; both his Ambush and Backhand Backstab had been critical hits.
Now, there was nothing within a 30 yard radius around the Xin Xin Mercenary Group.
Not only were the Horde yers far away, but the Alliance yers had also distanced themselves. Lu Li surveyed his surroundings and saw that the closest yers to them were cowering in fear.
They were afraid that Lu Li would rush over and cut them down.
Lu Li wanted to tell them that he wasn’t that kind of person, but he was worried that he would frighten them even further by walking towards them.
He actually wanted to go and kill them for their equipment – his profession was perfect for it.
However, he dismissed that idea as soon as he thought of it.
The rise of the inte had really lowered the moral standards of most people; it had allowed many people to loosen their moral convictions.
Killing, snatching equipment, stealing Bosses...
Lu Li wasn’t some do-gooder either – he had stolen Bosses from big unions before. But usually, he kept the interest of the ordinary yers in mind.
The kinds of yers that were killed by him lived a specific kind of life. They lived a life of extravagance, a life without worry about food or clothing, unlike he, who had lived a life of poverty. Although he would never go back to his previous life again, he still understood the desperate struggle.
Lu Li would always remember his despair after he had been cheated out of his equipment.
To someone else, getting equipment was an unexpected bit of fortune. However, to him, it was thest hope and lifeline for his sister.
Wealthy people didn’t really care about the loss of one or two pieces of equipment and regr people would at most feel a little depressed, but those who were poor simply couldn’t afford to be robbed.
There were always yers who were particrly vicious and preyed on the weak. Lu Li felt no remorse in killing this type of yer.
However, he didn’t know who, amongst the millions of yers in the Barrends, he should kill.
He was afraid that he could identally remove someone’sst hope. As such, he resigned himself to only taking drops from the Centaurs.
As he had scared the nearby people away, a few more mobs had gathered around Lu Li and the others.
Fortunately, these mobs were no match for them. With three te Armor professions stubbornly holding the frontline, Lonesome Flower and Sesame Rice Ball were free to attack as they pleased.
Sesame Rice Ball had acquired ‘Rain of Fire’, although it was bought at a high price.
The mobs in front of the Xin Xin Mercenary Group experienced an ice and fire double attack, which was apanied by attacks from both Lu Li and Sakura Memories in between.
Soon, the second Silver mold unexpectedly dropped, then a third, followed by a fourth...