The Great Thief

This topic had been unconsciously brought up, but Water Fairy and Lu Li started to talk about the development of the club.

Her bad mood was quickly swept away.

It was then that Lu Li found out how Water Fairy was planning to integrate a number of small clubs into a one big club that was comparable with Drizzle Court and Peerless City.

However, because of the outstanding performance of Blue Universe this season, this plan had been stalled.

Blue Universe was currently in the top 16 at eleventh place. They had been playing well beyond what they were expected to, so Water Fairy had decided to keep Blue Universe intact. There was a real possibility that they could become the next Peerless City.

“Do you think I should merge the remaining clubs?” Water Fairy asked.

“You must have another Blue Universe somewhere in there,” Lu Li said. He remembered in the early days of Glory Capital, they had split their club into three to participate in various competitions.

This kind of large-scale operation brought huge benefits, but it was a tremendous use of resources that couldn’t be afforded by every club.

Lu Li had no plans to split up Ruling Sword yet because didn’t have the financial ability to do so, but the club was going to be an important tactic in the future.

Water Fairy farmed for EXP while Lu Li practiced his Engineering, but both of them were having a good time while chatting.

If the players at Drizzle Court saw this scene, they would be dumbfounded. They had have never seen a person who was able to talk to Water Fairy like this before.

It was now the second day of the New Year.

Most people should have been very busy on this day with visiting their relatives.

However, the Lu siblings had no friends or relatives at all. The guild members who were still in Jiangnan City sent a message to Lu Li that they were free, so they all met up in game.

There were also in-game events during the New Year.

Whatever they did, whether it was fighting a monster, completing a quest, fishing, or training their Trade Skills, they would receive dumplings as a reward.

Some dumplings would give bonus Attributes for a period of time, while others could regenerate a certain amount of HP or mana during battle. These could be used even after the event was over.

Dumplings were an extremely worthwhile item. No one really understood in the first year, but from the next New Year’s Day onwards, almost all players would hoard a batch of them by doing quests and farming monsters.

The key characteristic of these Dumplings was that they couldn’t be traded, so you couldn’t buy them no matter how much money you had.

For Lu Li and his low Charisma values, triggering a quest was difficult. Even if he did trigger a quest, the quest chain would be more complicated than for someone with high Charisma. As such, he simply went out to fight monsters.

If he kept fighting the same monsters in the same place, the probability of the drop would get higher.

This was just common sense, but Lu Li was the only one who currently knew that.

He chose to inform a few trustworthy players, but he didn’t expect this to last long. Sooner or later, someone would write a strategy guide for the wider player base. After some hesitation, Lu Li decided to tell Water Fairy.

Theses multi-legged monsters were a type of spider that ranged from level 45 to 55, and were distributed all over the walls of the canyon.

The Spiders were very squishy and could be dealt with by one round of Lu Li’s attacks, but that didn’t meant they were easy to farm. After all, they were poisonous enough to kill a Main Tank. Even Azure Sea Breeze supported by a Healer wouldn’t dare to farm here.

Not only was the poison quite potent by itself, but it could also stack and continued to deal damage even after the player exited battle.

Detoxification Skills had no effect, and only high-end Antidotes would work against them. However, because there were few high-end Antidotes and the multi-legged monsters didn’t give that much EXP, this place was an unpopular training destination.

After Lu Li entered the canyon, he applied an attack speed buff onto his dagger and chose a position to start farming the monsters.

If he could sneak past their keen detection, he would have the initiative to attack. He could then deal with the monsters with a few attacks and skills.

Backhand Backstab!

The spider he had struck screamed just before Lu Li went up to loot it. In addition to acquiring a multi-legged monster carapace, he also acquired a dumpling.

Dumpling (Food): Instantly regenerate 500HP. 2-minute cooldown. Usage Requirement: Level 50.

This was a good item, and the one Lu Li wanted the most. Other than the fact that it couldn’t be used in competitions, it could play an important role in many other situations.

The spider refresh-rate was high and they were easy to kill, so Lu Li went through them quickly. He wasn’t that much slower than a Mage using an area of effect attack. Naturally, he started to acquire quite a few Dumplings.

Dumpling (Food): After use, Prestige +300. 2 minute cooldown. Usage Requirement: level 45.

Lu Li almost whistled out loud. He thought it was going to be impossible for him to find the Dumplings with good effects.

There were a number of Prestige Scrolls circulating the market which gave 20-50 Prestige. No matter how much Prestige they gave, the conversion rate worked out to be about one gold coin per Prestige point. This dumpling gave 300 Prestige, which meant it was almost equivalent to 300 gold coins.

He had made more than 20,000 dollars in ten minutes; this was just like a dream.

Of course, the value in those Prestige Scrolls was that they were transferable. The non-transferrable nature of these Dumplings made them worth a little less.

After acquiring a good item, it was natural that Lu Li would speed up the farming process. Even if he found the regular Dumplings, Lu Li didn’t mind because they also had a role to play.

Dumpling (Food): Increases EXP by 2% when used. 2 minute cooldown. Usage Time Remaining: 5 minutes.

After half an hour, Lu Li acquired his second exquisite Dumpling.

This one gave the user an EXP bonus which was particularly good because it was a percentage increase. The bonus was better the higher-level the player, so a timer was added to restrict players from holding onto it for later.

Lu Li decisively used the Dumpling and watched as his EXP bar visibly moved. This 2% EXP was equivalent to a few hours of farming.

It was said that there existed an exquisite Dumpling that would give a bonus of half a level, but Lu Li had only ever heard of something like this. However, upon thinking about it, this was impossible – otherwise, the game balance would be lost.

There were a few different types of exquisite Dumplings.

The first added Prestige and the second added percentage EXP, but the last added to the user’s Attributes.

There were other less common types, but Lu Li didn’t care for those. He only hoped to find more of the common exquisite Dumplings.