The Great Thief

When they finally saw the Glory Capital players, Lu Li saw that they were actually fighting the snow monsters.

He suddenly remembered a very important thing. It was the answer to the question of whether the snow monsters should be fought. From his perspective, he had ruled out the option for the sake of the competition. In this life, they had practiced this map for the sole reason of becoming more familiar with it, so he never considered the option of fighting the snow monsters.

However, since they were now engaged, this had its advantages and disadvantages.

If you fought the snow monsters, they would drop some status buffs. Consuming these buffs would increase the strength of the players for a certain period of time. These monsters obviously didn’t drop any equipment, as this was a map specifically made for competitions.

However, the drawbacks of fighting the snow monsters were also very serious. The snow monsters had amazing combat power and were very difficult to kill.

But what was even more problematic was that the snow monsters could summon reinforcements. Attempting to kill and take the snow monster’s buff was equivalent to becoming their enemy.

If there were two players fighting each other on the snowfield map, and a snow monster suddenly jumped out, it would either attack the player that accidentally hit it first or the player who was closer. However, this assumed that neither player had consumed a snow monster’s status buff.

If one of them had consumed a snow monster’s status buff, then the snow monster would target that player first.

It seemed that Glory Capital had chosen to kill the snow monster and acquire the status buff.

“Should we take advantage of this and charge in?” Moonlight asked as he clenched his axe. Although it wouldn’t be a problem for him to fight, this wasn’t the best decision.

“Let’s pull back a little. There is only one snow monster and its almost dead,” Lu Li said as he shook his head.

If there were three to five snow monsters fighting Glory Capital, he wouldn’t have hesitated to lead the charge. He would have been more than happy to take a fight where they had five players and three snow monsters against Glory Capital, even if they did have the status buff.

However, his current tactical intention was clear, and that was to avoid taking an unfavourable fight.

Glory Capital obviously saw the Ruling Sword players as well. The Snowfield gave them a long view, but the snow monster they were fighting wasn’t dead yet and there was quite a distance between them, so they didn’t bother to pursue.

“It seems like we have become the prey,” Fat Monkey commented.

Fat Monkey’s style was always to attack. Even when he was fighting Sorrowless, he was always looking for ways to take initiative in a fight. Now that he was forced to fall back, it made him really uncomfortable.

“Relax!” Lu Li urged, “You won’t have to avoid them for too long. They already have three status buffs on them, so the snow monsters will definitely be more interested in them. If necessary, I will lure some snow monsters into them. But right now, they are still lurking around, so there need to be a few more fights before they will mobilise.”

“So what’s the plan?” Moonlight asked.

“You guys just stay safe. You have to leave this to me, but don’t move too far away. Otherwise, things might go wrong,” Lu Li said.

His plan was simple. After ensuring that there was enough distance between them and Glory Capital, he began to step onto the snowy hills.

In general, the map had two kinds of terrain – flat or sloping. Sloped terrain was very important as it was likely to contain snow pits and triggers for landslides. Hence, it was very dangerous. Here, the slope was deep enough that he could hide himself in the snow.

If Lu Li squatted into the snow for an ambush, he would form a small snowy hill.

Of course, most of the small snowy hills around were just made up of snow.

There generally weren’t any snow monsters hidden in these snowy hills, but this was still a possibility. Lu Li could also step through the snow and stun the snow monsters.

When the snow monsters were under the snowy hills, they had a very small aggro range. Even if you walked past the snowy hill, there was a very small probability that it would prompt the snow monster into jumping out and attacking. However, once the snow monster had come out of the snowy hill, they would run towards anything they saw or any movement they detected.

In the world of snow monsters, anything other than a snow monster was an enemy and was attacked.

When he felt some movement underfoot, Lu Li knew that he had stepped on one. He continued running without turning back. When the snow monster climbed out and scratched its head, it saw Lu Li and immediately roared before giving chase.

The snow monsters were were only about 1.5m tall and looked like white gorillas. Their lower limbs were short and powerful while their upper limbs were very long.

Perhaps it was because their lower limbs were too short, but even if they jumped forwards, they actually ran very slowly. Lu Li ran farther away and eventually left its aggro range. The snow monster was then left squatting on the spot. It would return to sleep under the snow after half an hour.

After waking the first one, Lu Li then woke another, and another.

“Lu Li, they’re coming. They will probably catch up to us soon; come back quickly!” Moonlight shouted into the chat. There were some maps that allowed chat and some that didn’t. This was one that allowed for it. It was only the previous tropical rainforest map where their coordinates were constantly being updated that was particularly harsh.

“You guys have to stall them; I’ll be back soon,” Lu Li said as he paused and began to turn around.

In fact, he had been circling around his team in preparation for this moment. Since Glory Capital had already seen them, their most urgent task was to find their opponents.

After all, they had three snow monster buffs and Ruling Sword had none.

This advantage was enough to determine the direction of the match. After all, the overall strength of the five players in Glory Capital was not worse than Ruling Sword. If they were feeling confident, they might even be stronger.

Without Lu Li there, Moonlight took control over the situation. He led March Rain, Fat Monkey and Kitty Likes Meat urgently. Everyone moved at inconsistent speeds, so there was a bit of gap between them.

If Lu Li wasn’t back in time, Ruling Sword would eventually be overwhelmed.

It was a five on four, and three of the Glory Capital players had the snow monster buff.

In the land of white snow, they had a bright, eye-catching ring around their feet that would be difficult to ignore.

Moonlight wasn’t worried that their opponents would defeat them before Lu Li returned. After all, Lu Li wasn’t far away.

Sure enough, when the distance between the two sides closed and the battle erupted, Lu Li’s shadow appeared in the distance. He was a little later than Moonlight had thought. Moonlight had initially thought that Lu Li was going to arrive before the battle broke out.

However, when he finally saw him, he started to admire the sinister plan that Lu Li had carried out.