The Great Thief

This transaction meant that Ruling Sword did not have to worry about having materials in the meantime. The bonus gems and rare materials were a fortunate add-on.

Of course, Lu Li was still going to find ways to build Ruling Sword’s own Gold Collection Unit and Raw Materials Collectors. After all, from the perspective of cost and stability, this external Mercenary Group was not as reliable.

Thousand Feathers drafted the system contract and signed it before directing Lu Li, “If there are no further issues, please sign here.”

The terms of the contract did not need to be too complicated, and a consensus was quickly reached.

Simply put, Party B’s material production was to be preferentially supplied to Party A, while Party A had to pay 10% above the market price. Party A could not reject the materials on the grounds that there were too many of them and Party B had to guarantee production of various materials at a specified ratio…

Lu Li took the pen and signed himself into the position of Party A.

This was a System contract, which was protected both by the System and by law. This wasn’t just a contract within a game. If either party breached it, the network police could be contacted to force the parties to perform the compensation clauses according to the contract.

“Lu… Lu Li…”

When he saw Lu Li sign his name, Thousand Feathers’ voice shook. He blinked and read carefully, but it still read the same words.

Perhaps it was just a duplicate; Dawn allowed for the existence of duplicate names.

“If there are no problems, then let’s start trading on Monday. You can set a location and my people will find you,” Lu Li said as he sent a friend request.

Lu Li, level 52!

There might have been other Lu Li’s in the game, but there was only probably only one who was at Level 52.

Thousand Feathers was finally convinced that he had just dealt with the game’s number one player. The group that he was now working with was none other than the emerging major guild Ruling Sword.

In short, they had hit it big!

Regardless, the agreement had been signed and Lu Li didn’t mention much else. He was already in a good mood now that they had five Level Reducing Gems and a long-term supply of materials backed by an agreement.

He planned to go back to see if March Rain had completed his gear.

In order to make this deal, he had lost four pieces of equipment. There was a competition tomorrow, so he couldn’t just go in naked.

“It’s done, but unfortunately, it’s not Perfect,” March Rain said in embarrassment.

“Is it a Superior grade?” Lu Li’s asked as his heart sank slightly. He had hoped that the Mold’s equipment quality would be as high as possible. There was Superior, Fine, Exquisite and Perfect. If it could reach Perfect level, then it would be not much different from an Epic equip.

“It’s actually an Exquisite and a Fine. Have a look,” March Rain said as she traded two pieces of equipment to Lu Li.

Lu Li hastily took them from her in excitement.

Nightslayer Leather Pants (Exquisite Dark Gold): Armor 65, Agility +60, Constitution +35, Evasion +20%. 2 slots. Special Effect 1: Shadow Step Skill +1. Special Effect 2: After a successful block, there is a certain chance of blocking the damage that will be dealt to the attacker. Special Effect 3: Demon Transformation. Gain the power of the Demons. Decrease damage taken by 20% while ignoring all crowd control skills and gain a floating effect which prevents all fall damage. 120 minute cooldown. Equipment Requirement: Level 55. Durability 280/280.

If you inserted a 5% Level Reduction Gem into a level 55 equipment, then you would be able to equip the item at level 53.

Although Lu Li was still at level 52, he only needed a bit more EXP to level up. He was going to find a team of senior Mages from the guild to farm EXP with so he could level up before the end of the day.

This item was already much better than the previous pants that he had.

Raider’s Leather Pants (Gold): Amour 32, Agility +16, Constitution +12 Special Effect 1: Critical Hit +10%. Special Effect 2: Capturing the Son of Arugal. There is a certain chance of stunning a target when attacking. The stun can last up to 1 second. Special Effect 3: Gift of Arugal’s son. Curse the target so that the target loses 100 HP every 5 seconds. Lasts 300 seconds. 30 minute cooldown. Equipment Requirement: Level 35. Durability 64/64.

In fact, these Raider’s Leather Pants were still quite powerful. If he sold them, they wouldn’t necessarily be much cheaper than a level 50 Gold or Dark Gold item.

The two Son of Arugal effects were exquisite, and they could double the value of any equipment they were placed in. Unfortunately, the equipment level and its Attributes were just too low now.

Raider’s Leather Pants gave 32 Armor while Nightslayer Leather Pants gave 65.

The difference between the other bonus Attributes were like night and day. No matter how good the effects were, Lu Li had no choice but to give up the Raider’s Leather Pants.

The Nightslayer Leather Pants provide Evasion. There was no concept of absolute Evasion in Dawn, but if a player had high Evasion, it would limit their damage and critical hits taken. When most players started to gain high critical damage, Evasion would become an important attribute.

There was no Evasion provided by Armor, so there would often be cases where a player was killed after a number of continuous critical hits.

The two slots perfectly solved Lu Li’s problem of one slot not being enough. A player could insert a Level Reducing gem into one slot and insert another gem into the other. For a T1 Dark Gold set item like the Nightslayer, Lu Li couldn’t just insert any piece of rubbish.

The first special effect was Shadowstep +1. Lu Li hadn’t learned this skill yet, but his Epic shoes also had the same special effect.

However, the special effects on the shoes would no longer take effect because of special effect 1. Lu Li had to find a way to obtain the Shadow Step skill book so that this effect could be put to use. Although the drop rate was relatively low, it wasn’t impossible.

The second special effect was generally considered to be quite weak. For an ordinary player, there was no difference between blocking and gambling. Most players didn’t even know why some blocks were successful. Moreover, this special effect would only rebound the damage if the block was successful. As such, in most cases, this special effect would never trigger.

However, this wasn’t an absolute matter. Players like Lu Li who were skilled had a very impressive blocking rate.

If the damage of the skill itself was 300, a successful block from Lu Li could reduce it down to 180. With this special effect, it was possible to return the 120 damage back to the attacker.

Lu Li was quite satisfied with this special effect.

The third special effect was completely unexpected. The ordinary Nightslayer leather pants that Lu Li had seen generally didn’t have this effect. Demon transformations were generally a Warlock’s signature skill and someone like Kitty Likes Meat could use this skill to great effect. However, her transformation skill was different from Lu Li’s and was much more powerful.

Lu Li’s demon form gave him 20% damage reduction without any attack buffs, but the fall damage protection and immunity from crowd control was the same.

Lu Li didn’t care much about fall damage protection, as he could already transform into a leopard. However, he liked that it gave him immunity from crowd control, which was the real value of this inferior demon form. With this special effect, you could ignore more crowd control spells like Fear and Charm.

Overall, these Level 55 pants were more than sufficient to completely replace the Raider’s Leather Pants.

The other item was the Nightslayer Ghostface.

Nightslayer Ghostface: (Exquisite Dark Gold): Armor 60, Agility 55, Strength +30, Dark Field of View +30%, 2 Slots. Special Effect 1: Wild Roar. The caster roars, increasing base attack power of everyone within 30 yards by 10%. Lasts 30 seconds. 20 minute cooldown. Special Effect 2: Shadow Plunder. Randomly obtains a buff from the target. Lasts 20 minutes. 30 minute cooldown. Special Effect 3: Void Gaze, Increases the probability of finding Stealth units for 60 seconds. 20 minute cooldown. Equipment Requirement: Level 55. Durability 280/280.

If he had already decided to replace the Raider’s Leather Pants with the Nightslayer Leather Pants, then Lu Li could replace the Voodoo Facemask without hesitation.

This Mask was just too strong.

The increase in dark vision allowed him to better explore dark environments. The value of the first special effect was immediately apparent; it was an inferior Bloodlust. Its most valuable aspect was that it could affect an area around him.

Special effect 2 was also an active skill. To put it simply, it could steal a buff from another player, but if you were unlucky, you could steal something worthless. If he stole an Intelligence buff, it would be completely wasted, but if you could steal a powerful buff that gave all Attributes +20, it would be immensely useful. There were many exquisite effects on monsters that could be stolen.

The third skill was useful for catching Thieves, which meant it could be used in a mirror matchup.

Lu Li was very satisfied with these two pieces of equipment. He didn’t mind at all that they were Perfect, as even he couldn’t forge a Perfect level equipment. These two Fine and Exquisite items had greatly exceeded his expectations.

After receiving the equipment, he found someone from the guild to Enchant them.

Enchantment was a very important Trade skill for Dawn. Players could attach Attributes to their equipment with certain recipes and materials. However, this Trade Skill was currently practiced by many players and there were a number of experts. Even so, there were not many players who wanted to Enchant their gear.

The reason for this was simple – the materials required to Enchant were too expensive.

When Lu Li received Aegwynn’s book of Enchanting, he didn’t hesitate to give it to Medivh in order to learn the Crow Transformation because he already knew more than anyone else about how to learn Enchanting.

In addition to the conventional sources, Enchanting materials were mainly derived from decomposing various equipment. Worthless equipment could only be decomposed for a small number of worthless materials. The more exquisite the decomposed equipment was, the more exquisite the materials would be. However, ordinary players often didn’t even have enough exquisite equipment to use, let alone decompose them for materials.

In the same way, Lu Li wasn’t willing to decompose exquisite equipment to perform Enchantments either. The attached properties were often something like Agility +8, which was barely serviceable.

It could be said that the Enchanting Trade Skill was the most pitiful Trade Skill in Dawn.

After the Enchanting was ready, he placed the Level Reducing Gems into the level 55 equipment and Fortified them. He didn’t dare to strengthen them too much, and only used Fortify twice. This process had used up almost half of his inventory. In fact, Strengthening Stones were hard to come by, especially since the demand for them were continually increasing. The few he had were quickly used up by the fortification.

After preparing his equipment, Lu Li began to look around for parties that were level 50 and above to level with. Lonesome Flower had taken March Rain offline and Fat Monkey told him he was playing PVP. In desperation, he could only ask the guild for help.

“Boss, we’re killing spiders in the Searing Gorge,” Nuo Yu replied quickly.

“I’m coming to sap some EXP,” Lu Li said bluntly.

In fact, many professional players levelled in this way. If there were a group of Mages fighting monsters, they could cast area of effect skills together and farm very efficiently. Lu Li was personally strong enough to farm very efficiently as well since he had the Killing Star effect. However, he was trying to reach level 53 to use his new equipment and his Voodoo set had been traded to the Spire Mercenary Group. As such, he was currently farming half naked which meant that he had no choice but to join a Mage party.

The Searing Gorge was an infertile land that suffered from heatwave after heatwave. Cracked cliffs and rifts were the only geographic features and there were very few road signs guiding lost travelers. Various scorpions, Iron Dwarves and spider monsters patrolled the gorge.

Greater Lava Spiders, Searing Lava Spiders and Glassweb Spiders were the three types of spiders that were found in the Searing Gorge. They ranged between level 50 to 55, which was perfect for current high-level players to farm in. However, the most important thing was that there was so many of them. Their respawn rate was much faster than other level 50 monsters. After several battles, Ruling Sword had taken over the gorge and its several respawning points, prohibiting non-Ruling Sword players from setting foot in the area.

The players in the area were very excited to see Lu Li’s arrival. It was rare that they would have to chance to see the big boss in person, let alone fight by his side.

Lu Li didn’t just take up EXP without doing any work. After joining the party, he would run around and lead the monsters into specific areas so that the mages in his team only needed to cast Blizzard in their positions.