The Great Thief

Lu Li got ten or so different healing potions from Major Solomon. There were all sorts of weird ones, some were not of much use and others were quite amazing.

He gave Azure Sea Breeze a really amazing healing potion. According to the label of this bottle, 5000 Health and Magic Points will recover every 3 seconds over a ten-minute period once consumed.

Even in his past life, Lu Li had never heard or seen of such a strong healing potion.

It was not much use to restore MP for Azure Sea Breeze. However, Lu Li always adhered to the principle to resolve the problem in front of him first. If the team was destroyed due to Lu Li saving the potion for MP recovery as well, then all the investments for this dungeon run would have all been for nothing. Not to mention, they’d also have to use more time to try again if they were killed this time; trying to clear the dungeon again would also cost a lot more money for the guild.

This potion was invaluable, but if it was just lying around in storage it would just be any other potion. After consuming the potion, Azure Sea Breeze felt a bit off. The skin on this body started to contort, then his skin and then it started to shed off bit by bit.

“Don’t panic, keep fighting the monsters. It’s the potion’s side effects,” Lu Li announced, which calmed Azure Sea Breeze and the team. Breezy even laughed to show how calm he was. Lu Li actually didn’t know if this was normal or not.

He remembered in hindsight that this was Professor Putricide’s work. The professor had a habit of wanting to “Kill all Azeroth creatures”. The stuff that he created probably isn’t Coca-Cola.

Lu Li watched Azure Sea Breeze become a near-skeletal human, he thought that this was perhaps an Undead Transformation potion.

With regard to recovering Health and Magic Points, perhaps this was just to prevent the drinker from dying in the process. Professor Putricide would be dissatisfied if the target become an Undead only after death. He wanted a living person to experience what being a living skeleton was like.

Lu Li had no idea as to why he went out of his way to do this; you could say that this scientist was truly mad.

Lu Li wasn’t really worried if Azure Sea Breeze would change race. It was completely impossible, especially a change to an opposition’s race. He was probably going to change back after a certain amount of time. Worst comes to worst, he could get killed and be respawn again. After all, Azure Sea Breeze was a player, not an NPC of Azeroth.

He had also already turned off pain experience. So even if he was cramped or skinned, he wouldn’t feel a thing. Other people had also turned off part of the realistic effects to make it look less scary than the real thing.

5000 HP in 3 seconds seemed like a lot, but it was not enough to confidently kill a boss like Nefarian. Healing was still needed occasionally, just not as often as before.

With the unnerving but powerful potion as support, the third stage was much simpler.

As long as no one made a big mistake, then failure was unlikely. Azure Sea Breeze’s body effects were still continuing, and he had reached the last crazy stage of his transformation.

Healers had recuperated and built up MP and had only just reached full strength.

“The battle is about to end! Guys don’t fail now! Hang on! Everyone hang on! The First Clear is ours!” Lu Li declared encouragingly.

“This is not possible! This is my domain! You mortals are nothing to me. You hear me?! Nothing!” Nefarian roared defiantly as his HP finally reached zero. His arrogance dying with him. His massive body seemed as if it had lost the energy that sustained it. But his body remained in his nest, as if unwilling to die.

The Battle against Nefarian finally ended.

System: “Congratulations players of Ruling Sword, Drizzle Court, Peerless City, Azure Sea Breeze, March Rain, Lonesome Flower, Hachi Chan, Innocent Child… Water Fairy, Star Baby… Deadly Gold Underpants… under Commander Lu Li’s lead completed First Clear of Black Wing’s Nest Nightmare Difficulty.”

Familiar system notification, familiar people, unfamiliar Instance Dungeon.

While everyone was busy fighting the Little Red Dragon desperately, how was it that Ruling Sword cleared another Instance Dungeon? Surely the Dragon Slayer’s Scream couldn’t help them get ahead by that much?

“Isn’t everyone surprised? Hahaha,” Azure Sea Breeze boasted.

Lucky Southern Persian muttered, “Really want to kill this person. If you have the guts let’s 1v1.”

Elevenless commented, “Innocent Bro transferred over already? And he made it into the First Clear team too. Jinse Sauce, what do you think?”

“Our Elevenless is usually so calm. I wonder what President Jinse Sauce did to anger him?” Gentle East Wind wandered.

Leaf Bro added sarcastically, “Elevenless has found someone who feels worse than him. I feel for Elevenless. How about you go and join the enemy too?”

“I just want to know how they passed Little Red Dragon. I was hoping that no one could kill Little Red Dragon so that the officials will reduce the difficulty of this boss. Now with Ruling Sword and their antics, everyone is stuck here,” Mosquito Killing Lamp grumbled.

Third Day New Year agreed, “Exactly, our group has been stuck here for nearly two weeks now. We haven’t even made it into the third stage. At first we had three teams first clearing together, now only one team can enter at a time. Now that we’re all stuck here, probably not a single team can progress. Looks like it’s time to dissolve some guilds.”

Tiny River Boat Crossing commented, “So pitiful. Looks like a lot of guilds are going to get killed off by the Little Red Dragon.”

No matter the roasts or slander, it ultimately doesn’t change the reality that the First Clear of Black Wing’s Nest had been taken by Lu Li. This Instance Dungeon clear was made easier from the buff he got from Dragon Slayer’s Scream, the help he had gotten from Peerless City and Drizzle Court and the large volume of gold coins and healing potions that had been consumed. Otherwise, they would have definitely been stuck at the Little Red Dragon.

In fact, players were wrong about one thing.

They thought that because Ruling Sword had made the First Clear, that the game company and system will think this Instance Dungeon clearable through strategy. And thus, cancel any nerfs to the boss’s abilities.

However, it was only because Ruling Sword had obtained First Clear, that the gaming company had decided to weaken Little Red Dragon.

They didn’t want one guild to get ahead too far. This would hurt other guilds and their enthusiasm for the game. However, they also wouldn’t limit Ruling Sword. Afterall, Ruling Sword was a dark horse, and had already pulled ahead.

Everyone knew that Dawn could give any ordinary person the opportunity to rise in power in the gaming circle.

After strategizing through various First Clears, commanding numerous Elites, and hooking up with the gaming circle’s currently most beautiful player, there is no other profession that can allow this level of success in such a short period of time.

Everyone knew that Dawn could give everything to a club with nothing. In less than a year, Lu Li’s first clear was talked about throughout the land of Shenzhou.

Those who were ambitious and financially capable all watched carefully. At this time, level 60 was capped and those who could catch up could still do so. There was no perfect time than now to push ahead in Dawn!

Under the deliberate push of the game company, the gaming industry felt the dominant power of Dawn yet again.