The Great Thief Chapter 1253 – Sneaking Around

Translator: Halcyon Translations Editor: Halcyon Translations

Wendelian died in an unfortunate fashion. When she died, she had no idea that her allies were so close by. It was because of Lu Li’s diversion that she was completely helpless as she fell to the ground. She was bound to find out soon anyway, as this competition was broadcasted to the world. Furthermore, the analysis of this match would also reveal this fact to her.

After killing Wendelian, Moonlight did not rush after Lu Li right away. He stayed where he was and decided to recover his lost HP.

Furthermore, both of them agreed that Lu Li would attract the opponents to Moonlight’s position.

Lu Li was currently doing so, but he lost a lot more HP than expected.

As he began to lose more and more HP, he transformed into a leopard and ran. In the meantime, Gaze and Cloudy Leaf found out the news of Wendelian being eliminated. In the end, they couldn’t stop Lu Li from running away.

After all, the map was extremely complex and all classes were disadvantaged.

Lu Li’s movement speed was cut down by half when he was in human form. However, they neglected his ability to transform into a leopard, so the slow effect was nullified.

It could be said that Lu Li had the highest mobility, even surpassing Angry City Dweller, who could transform into a wolf.

After Lu Li escaped, he didn’t recover his HP straight away, but summoned Silly Husky from his Book of Ur. Lu Li, in a state of absolute insanity, decided to give this summoned creature a ridiculous name.

The Book of Ur had been maxed recently. Lu Li would alternate using Searing Words and the Book of Ur. Although Searing Words’ effects were slightly better, the Book of Ur allowed Lu Li to summon a creature, as well as transform into a wolf.

Silly Husky was not as offensively capable before. However, after maxing the Book of Ur, it now had a few skills – Stealth, Concealed and Burrow Away.

After summoning Silly Husky, Lu Li commanded it to follow Gaze and Cloudy Leaf. Pets weren’t able to stray too far from their owner, but Lu Li knew the position of Silly Husky at all times.

Once his HP was recovered, Lu Li found Moonlight and decided to create some distance between them and Gale Legion.

Lu Li was easily undetected as a Thief. Moonlight just needed to follow from afar, since they weren’t planning on fighting.

Obviously, the spectators didn’t want to see Lu Li and Moonlight circle around Gaze and Cloudy Leaf. They wanted to see the pretty girl March Rain fight some monsters.

March Rain didn’t have many offensive skills, but her HP and MP regeneration were extremely fast. It was almost impossible for monsters to kill her. In the end, she managed to kill them by slowly shaving off their HP. After this, she went in the direction that she believed was the right choice. She couldn’t climb trees, which was forgivable since she was a fair maiden after all.

This match had gone on for 30 minutes and didn’t seem to be ending soon. It wasn’t that the players could just avoid combat, but this particular map had a time limit of 2 hours.

Gaze and Cloudy Leaf finally encoutered March Rain.

March Rain’s originally white clothes were now grey and dyed brown.

Her mental state was not the best either, after running into so many monsters.

This map had too much randomness to it. If the Healer was sent into the middle of a group of monsters, it was likely that they would die.

Upon seeing Gaze and Cloudy Leaf, March Rain knelt in despair.

It was tough, walking out of the monster area. Now that she was finally out, she ended up in front of Gale Legion without meeting up with her teammates.

It was impossible for her to beat either one of them.

A greater offensive power would overcome any defence. Therefore, March Rain, even with her crazy regenerative skills, could not tank the damage of these two combined.

“Clap…clap…clap…”

As March Rain wallowed in despair, Gaze and Cloudy Leaf were rejoicing. However, Lu Li and Moonlight suddenly emerged from the shadows. Gaze and Cloudy Leaf didn’t even need to discuss strategies anymore. It was over – the power gap was far too wide.

“You guys were following us!” Gaze exclaimed with a frown.

They had already been eliminated from the competition. However, they decided to fight their hardest in the group battle to recover their reputation.

It was completely unexpected that they would lead Lu Li and Moonlight straight to March Rain.

Was this a joke?

“Do you dare to fight one-on-one to decide the victor?” Cloudy Leaf asked.

This meant that Gaze would fight Moonlight, while Lu Li would fight Cloudy Leaf. March Rain would spectate. Both sides would keep to their own battles without interfering in the other.

Of course, this was an unfair proposition for Ruling Sword, since they had a Healer on their side.

Under normal conditions, Gale Legion would certainly lose. Furthermore, it would be difficult to ambush either Lu Li or March Rain. If Ruling Sword didn’t accept this proposition, then the score would definitely be 6 to 3.

In a competitive match, this score would be an absolute demolition.

However, if Ruling Sword didn’t accept this proposition, then it wouldn’t look too good on their part. After all, they already had this match in the bag.

Although Lu Li always prioritised winning the match as number one, he was extremely keen at the prospect of facing them one on one.

Moonlight was also extremely keen. However, he didn’t make the decision since Lu Li was ultimately still the team leader.

“Alright. Let’s do it.”

Lu Li and Moonlight shared a look, then they nodded in agreement.

“No matter the outcome, both of us will concede defeat,” Gaze added. He wasn’t like Cloudy Leaf.

“Alright, let’s go. March Rain, you can rest on the side.”

Now, the original team battle had turned into a duel. As they had spent so much time tracking each other down, both sides’ ultimate skills were already off cooldown. Apart from their mental state, everyone was currently at their strongest.