Chapter 1686: 1686

Chapter 1686: Soulhun

The situation at Scarlet Monastery was extremely messy .

There were many scumbags in the society . In real life, the rule of law was absolute, so they had to be

cautious when doing such things . However, in the game, they didn’t need to worry about the law .

These people took joy in bullying, killing or harassing other players .

Scumbags like this usually weren’t strong players in the game, so there was a very obvious problem here . They might not be able to bully around the people that they normally bully in real life .

The disadvantaged and the powerless could only endure these hardships in real life .

However, it was different in games . Perhaps it was because of their difficult circumstances in real life that they were extremely driven to succeed in the game . This type of people were usually quite strong and had potential .

After hitting many walls, these scumbags finally found a new direction .

Newbies!

Dawn had already been released for a year, so there were many changes throughout the life of the game so far . The most obvious change was that the game helmet’s price gradually decreased . Now, a mere thousand dollars could buy a game helmet . With the ability to earn money in Dawn, many people would take this route to earn their living .

The price drop of the helmet allowed many of the poorer people in the society to enter the game .

The real-life status of the newly-entered players didn’t matter in the game . In the beginning, they all had the title ‘Newbie’ . These new players became the targets of these scumbags .

The Scarlet Monastery was an area that was full of newbies, so naturally, it attracted these scumbags .

These Mages were all the same type of people . All of them were scumbags . They were used to killing and harassing other people, especially newbies . However, they would leave the newbies who helped out with their business alone .

However, these Mages’ power-levelling skills were not worthwhile at all .

The prices were extravagant with average results . They would often miss a couple of monsters which would chase after the newbies in the party during the run .

Even if there were no one to take the newbies on free runs, the newbies wouldn’t pay these scumbags to take them . Furthermore, there was a Mage called Soulhun who was just bringing these newbies in for free runs . There was an instance where a newbie that was partied up with these scumbags ended up leaving them for the free runs that Soulhun was leading .

These scumbags were furious .

Free power-levelling would disrupt their business, and this was directly stealing their customers . That was why they decided to kill this Mage .

The process was simple . After all, he was outnumbered .

The first time they killed Soulhun, he had dropped a decent Dark Gold item . This motivated them to crush him into the ground completely .

However, they didn’t expect for a new target to appear .

Lu Li was always the one doing the bullying, whether real life or in game . He wasn’t going to let this slide . He thought that they were just trying to get by with this small business of theirs . He didn’t think that they were a bunch of bullies and scum of the earth .

The new prey decided to thoroughly teach them a lesson .

With one slash, Lu Li immediately killed one of the Mages with around 50% HP .

Everyone in the battle were dumbfounded . The group of Mages wanted to find Lu Li, then kill him and loot his items . However, they didn’t expect him to appear in such a fashion .

Everyone paused .

“Why’d everyone stop?”

Lu Li spun his dagger on his hand, then stabbed a person next to him on the head .

Gouge!

This was a crowd-control skill that usually didn’t deal much damage, but it ended up dealing a little more than 300 HP . This immediately dropped the Mage’s HP bar by a small chunk, but not even the Mage had noticed .

Only professional players would consider everything when battling .

From the first skill, a professional would be able to form a plan regarding offence and defence .

If the Mage didn’t notice the first strike, it was still okay . The second and third normal hits were still manageable . However, it was the fourth skill, Sinister Strike, that dealt a whopping 1800 damage and also inflicted 2 seconds of Stun .

Lu Li followed up with a normal hit and immediately killed the second Mage .

What happened?

No one could follow what had just happened . Why were there suddenly two bodies on the ground?

“My friend…”

The lead Mage was the first to react . He didn’t order his henchmen to immediately attack Lu Li . After all, even the stupidest people would realise that Lu Li was not an easy target . Lu Li had just instantly killed two of his men . This was almost an inhuman feat .

“Eh? When did we become friends?” Lu Li asked .

His acting was actually quite good, but unfortunately, he had a mask on . Other people could only see the two cold and ruthless eyes behind the mask .

“It’s all just a misunderstanding! We were just targeting this person, so it doesn’t involve you . You’ve already killed two of our men, so any misunderstanding between us is gone, right? Let’s leave it at that . How about it?” the lead Mage said, suppressing his anger .

This was a lawless group of people who had oppressed players at Scarlet Monastery for a long time, purely through their numbers . They weren’t used to swallowing their pride .

“Why are you guys targeting him?” Lu Li asked .

“This doesn’t concern you . It’s between us and him,” the lead Mage warmly replied .

“Why doesn’t it concern me? He’s my friend! You’ve already killed him…How many times?” Lu Li turned his head and asked the blue-robed Mage who would dangerously close to dying again, if it wasn’t for him .

“Tw-twice…”

The blue-robed Mage was dumbfounded because this weird guy just claimed that they were friends . Unless, if they were actually friends, but he just didn’t know because the person was masked .

“Don’t joke around . You don’t know him . ”

“I do know him! His name is Soulhun,” Lu Li said seriously .

“Pft! You just found out, didn’t you? Friend, are you trying to look for trouble?”

The lead Mage couldn’t stand it any longer .

“I’m not joking around . You’ve already killed my friend twice . It’s you guys who are looking for trouble, not me . Ask them! Who’s looking for trouble here?” Lu Li asked as he pointed to the newbies who had just revived .

A leader could bring four players . Now, there were only three .

Perhaps there weren’t four players to begin with, or one of them had already escaped .

Lu Li didn’t want to stir up trouble, since he preferred to spend this time on collecting souls . Now that he finally had something new to do and strive for, his passion for the game was reignited .

However, he couldn’t just ignore this .

The blue-robed Mage was willing to power-level for free and didn’t seem like the pretentious type . Furthermore, upon seeing that other people were brought into his conflict, he didn’t hesitate to try and save them .

The newbies who were partied up with the blue-robed Mage knew that they were destined to die if they entered the battle, but they didn’t hesitate to join in .