The Great Thief

As for the people who were mentioned, that was when Lu Li had gone with Sorrowless to fight the Scholomancer. Lu Li judged that it wouldn’t negatively impact them if they sold this information, so he and Square Root agreed to sell a part of the strategy to Glory Capital.

Lu Li and his party were now distributing equipment.

Dawn had implemented a new looting system, so that there was a specific order of items that were looted. First were the Enhancing Stones, then the normal materials. After the normal materials came the skill books, then the rare materials. The last items were equipment.

The first item that dropped was an enhancing stone, so Remnant Dream gave it to Lu Li to distribute it later.

The second item was a skill book for Shamans, so this was given to Sakura Memories. Although she wasn’t an Elemental Shaman, she could trade this skill book for ones that she needed.

The interactions in the game were extremely important. To make friends and work together just made things more enjoyable.

It was simply unimaginable for people to join parties, fight together, then leave without trying to build connections and relationships. How could that be enjoyable?

The third item was a Gold grade plate armour. Remnant Dream was clearly disappointed, as she tossed it to Azure Sea Breeze immediately.

The properties of this equipment were still alright and there were even two additional special effects. Furthermore, it was also a level 55 equip. For an ordinary player, this would be quite an exquisite item.

In Lu Li’s previous life, he only had one piece of Gold grade equip, and it was rubbish. The rest were even more garbage. For Gold items, this was an excellent one already. After all, it was from a Nightmare difficulty dungeon in Blackrock. Only picky players like Remnant Dream would not even consider an item like that.

The fourth item was a Dark Gold grade equip – a pair of gloves for Hunters. It was worse than the pair that she had, but she still put it into her storage regardless.

As a 16 or 17-year-old girl, she had now learnt that money does not come easily. Being from a big family, their living expenses were much higher than most people.

The fifth item was also a Dark Gold grade that wasn’t too special. The Lower Blackrock Spires and Blackrock Abyss’ equipment levels were similar, but the equipment was usually worse than what was dropped from the Upper Blackrock Spires. These looked nice, Attribute and property-wise, but they did not have much of power-raising effect.

This item was for Spell-based Warlocks. According to the arrangements, this was given to Sesame Rice Ball, since his DPS was higher than Kitty Likes Meat. However, the next Warlock item would be given to Kitty Likes Meat.

It was disappointing to have four pieces of equipment that were of no use. The gains from an Instance Dungeon were much less than what could be earned from a Wild Boss.

The only positive was that there was no one to steal the Boss, and not that many people were required.

“Not sure if there are more,” Remnant Dream said with a gloomy tone. She hated the change of looting systems. Previously, the most exquisite item would drop first, then the rest would follow suit.

“Should be nearly done. At most, there would be two more. Good luck,” Lu Li encouraged.

Normally, Bosses like Shadow Hunter Vosh’gajin would drop four equips at Nightmare difficulty. Five equips was a possibility, but this was rare. However, this time, there was no rare material, so the chances of five equips was quite high.

“Yay! There’s finally a Legendary item. Sigh…Why does it have to be a Shaman equip again?” Remnant Dream suddenly became quite excited, but the excitement died down just as quickly.

“Let me have a look,” Lu Li said, then walked over and continued, “The Shadow Hunter Boss is a Shaman after all, so it’s normal for it to drop Shaman equipment. It’s unfortunate that it’s for Revive Shamans though, but the properties are quite good. Healing Wave skill +1…”

In the end, it was a bittersweet feeling. After all, this item didn’t suit Sakura Memories.

However, the problem was how they would distribute it. In normal situations, a Legendary item like this would never leave the guild because it was extremely likely that it would end up in the hands of competing guilds. However, if they left it within the guild, there wouldn’t be much use for it.

“I think we should exchange it with someone else,” Moonlight suggested.

“Hm…Yeah. I think that would be the best. Let Square Root Three go and exchange this item for a good one. Memories, we’ll try and get you what suits you, but if we can’t, then we’ll have to find some other class’ item,” Lu Li said after mulling over Moonlight’s proposal.

It wasn’t that there weren’t a lot of Healing Shamans, but Glory Capital didn’t have any.

Therefore, this item would be out of Glory Capital’s hands, who was their number one competitor. As for the other guilds’ Healing Shamans, they were no longer threats to Ruling Sword. In the future, there would be even better items, so a level 55 equip would definitely be useless when that time came around.

After reaching level 60, there was an effect that would diminish the special effects and properties on equips when a player’s level rose.

For example, a level 60 player wearing level 55 equipment would have their equipment effects decreased, compared to a level 55 wearing level 55 equipment.

Of course, Sakura Memories did not have any objections to this. The number of Buff Shamans were definitely much lower than Elemental or Healer Shamans, so the chances of her receiving a Buff Shaman item in return were quite high.

Remnant Dream then stood up and showed her hands, which meant that there were no more items to loot.

Four items with one Legendary – this was not bad at all. It was just unfortunate that the items that dropped were all useless to them. The drop rate of rare materials was also decreased. According to Lu Li, this Boss had a chance of dropping an extremely rare material.

Although obtaining this Legendary item was not bad regardless, they had just been unfortunate.

It was the same case with the T0.5 Shadowcraft set equipment for Thieves. Lu Li couldn’t use it, but it was in high demand for the elite squads in the guild.

After gathering all the items needed for the quests, everyone left Vosh’gajin’s room and descended using the stairwell on the left side. There were two stairwells – one on the left and the other on the right. The one on the right led to another room, where War Master Voone was. Lu Li commanded the party to clear all the monsters outside the exits, which prompted the appearance of the Troll Stalkers.

At this time, his message system rang.

“Aren’t you at Arathi? What’s up?” Lu Li asked.

Lu Li had asked Her Tears to come with him to fight this dungeon, but he wanted to go to this new battlefield in Arathi, which could reward a mount. Lu Li let him go, since there was a lot to gain from that place as well.

“Those people came and looked for me. From what I can tell, they said that I sold the strategy the last time I went to the Scholomancer. They said that Night Streaker was one of my people. This Streaker guy is a traitor! I’m innocent! I haven’t even talked to him that much!” Her Tears cried. He was full of desperation, not knowing what to do.

“That’s right, Streaker is one of us. It was I who let him sell the strategy to them,” Lu Li said, understanding his meaning immediately.

“But why do they suspect me?” Her Tears asked in a calmer tone, but he still felt wronged nonetheless.

“Well, this…I’m not sure about. Try listening to them and see what’s going on,” Lu Li said.

“I hung up on them straight away since it freaked me out. Wait a minute…Someone’s contacting me. It’s that guy called Chopsticks or whatever. What do I do now?”

Her Tears took a deep breath and relaxed a little. He was extremely content with his lifestyle right now. He had a group of brothers who he could rely on and nothing offered from Glory Capital could tempt him, since he had so much money at the moment.

“Have a listen to what he has to say,” Lu Li suggested in curiosity.

“He’s looking to buy information about our progress with this Instance Dungeon. How should I reply him?”

Dawn’s message system was extremely well designed. As long as they were careful, Chopsticks would not hear what Her Tears and Lu Li was talking about.

“Let him offer a price first.”

Lu Li began to salivate and licked his lips.

“One million. Just to buy one piece of information? What the…how rich is this guy?”

Her Tears was extremely surprised. This sort of money-dumping was simply unfathomable.

It wasn’t that Her Tears was poor, but to buy a piece of information that could potentially be false and useless? That was too reckless.

“Raise the price to 1.5 million and see if they’ll buy.”

Lu Li had to admit that greed was extremely bad, but the guild was fairly poor and earning money was quite easy since people were desperate. Therefore, he could not just let this gold mine flow without him gaining anything from it. He just needed to control himself when doing so.

Soon after Lu Li said this, Her Tears indicated that the deal had gone through for 1.5 million.

s1.5 million dollars in real life could buy a decent house in Jiangnan’s CBD area. For a normal person, if they had 1.5 million and had no accidents and unfortunate events, then they would be able to live comfortably with this money. Normal working-class people might not even have this much in their life time.

“Let them know that we’re already facing the third Boss.”

Lu Li was extremely excited at finding out Glory Capital’s reaction to their progress with the dungeon.

They would be completely outraged!

Lu Li was correct. Glory capital was completely stunned in disbelief.

“This can’t be!” White Westhill did not want to believe this. He himself had gone and fought in the Lower Blackrock Spires Instance Dungeon. After three hours, they gave up. Highlord Omokk was an undefeatable being.

“What if they lied since we can’t verify it ourselves?” Bloody Dagger asked. He also did not believe the information.

“I don’t know why, but this feels like it’s true,” Glory Capital’s Information Leader said. He couldn’t confirm this, but his intuition told him that it was indeed real. Being someone who worked in the information-retrieval department, his intuition was usually quite sharp.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s real or fake. The important thing is, how do we receive this news and move forward? If it’s fake, then we’ve only lost money at the most. If it’s true, then we’ll have to tackle this dungeon from the beginning again,” Sorrowless said calmly.

“Let me make the arrangements for this new attempt. If Ruling Sword really are fighting against the third Boss now, then we must have missed something while fighting against Highlord Omokk.”

White Westhill didn’t know what else he could do. Being from Glory Capital, they could not fall behind too much. They could attempt it at a later time, but not much later.

“Ask that Paladin from before. If it’s possible, then buy the strategy from them,” Sorrowless said, before leaving.

White Westhill was a little reluctant. The feeling of buying strategies from others left a bad taste in his mouth. However, it had to be done. Following the losses that they had accumulated after the clash with Blood Red War Flag, they needed to restore themselves to their original status.

Using a few million dollars to buy strategies to Instance Dungeons seemed to be a bad investment, but the aftereffects of this knowledge had to be considered.

Glory Capital had an obscene number of elite squads. If they all went and grinded this Instance Dungeon, the drop rate of Legendary items would not matter.

“They want to buy the strategy from me…Are they crazy?” Her Tears had a different perspective now.

“Well, it’s not the first time anyway. How much do they offer?”

Lu Li was a little torn whether to sell or not. He knew that the opportunities to sell strategies were gradually diminishing and extremely rare now.

“The buying price isn’t low. They only want Omokk’s strategy for 5 million. I only just realised that this game has so many obscenely rich players. Do you want to sell? It’s only for the first Boss anyway, so it shouldn’t matter too much, right?”

In the beginning, Her Tears was extremely against the idea of selling strategies, but now that the price was 5 million, his perspective had definitely changed. Although he was not part of the management of the guild, he was closer to the higher authorities, so he knew that the guild severely lacked funds.

“Nope, not selling. After knowing how to defeat Omokk, the rest would be easy,” Lu Li sighed.

“Then I’ll go and let them know.”

After hearing what Lu Li said, Her Tears understood the importance of knowing how to defeat Omokk.

“Hmm…don’t do that either. Just leave them hanging. Tell them that you didn’t go inside with the party, but you can give them some ideas. That’s right – raise the price even higher so that you can gain their trust with your sincerity.”

The strategy would eventually be found out anyway, since they would need to release the information to their own elite squads to grind for equipment after the main squad cleared it.

“Hehe…you’re too evil! Don’t worry, I’ll play around with them,” Her Tears chuckled, then added: “Oh, that’s right. Boss, when will you take us to Arathi and fight there? I nearly got the Weekly prize.”

“Arathi…huh?” Lu Li thought about it for a little while. He felt that there was something not quite right there.

“Originally, I was first, but then, someone overtook me. Their squad was extremely strong. There was a pro in there.”

Her Tears seemed to be quite sad and wronged. There was an eSport competition in the semi-finals, so many guilds trained hard during this time. Professional players wouldn’t go for prizes like the Weekly Number One rank, but normal players would use this time to train their own techniques and mechanics.