The Great Thief Chapter 1963
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Chapter 1963: Goodbye, Sorrowless
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
“Failure is the mother of success!”
Wandering tapped his nails lightly on the saying, then continued with a cold laugh, “First, turn the respect and admiration everyone has for Sorrowless into hatred. Then, Wendelian will come out and appease the forces, leading to a massive change on the arena. This way, Wendelian will be like a savior to Glory Capital. She can take over Glory Capital, and who else would oppose it? Who else would compare her with Sorrowless?”
This person rarely spoke so much, and after speaking, everyone was really quite shocked, not knowing what to say.
“Meeting’s over.”
Wandering stood up as he clutched the table, staggering away as he walked outside.
“I’ve leaving now; you guys can just keep discussing. Such a bunch of idiots.”
After a moment of silence, Cat Dad rubbed his gums, saying, “After hearing him speak, I feel like it does make sense.”
White Bread intentionally lowered her voice and responded, “If it’s really like that, I feel like Wandering is frightening. How could he see all that?”
“…” Lu Li opened his mouth but didn’t have anything to say.
It really did sound quite reasonable listening to it. If it truly was the case, then Glory Capital really might make an earthshattering turnaround.
Of course, it could just be Wandering just spouting rubbish, and in that case, Drizzle Court would safely advance to the next stage.
Lots of things happened in the next two days after this, which thoroughly destroyed the image of Sorrowless. It was like an incapacitated ruler with a dysfunctional kingdom. Things had really become too weird. Glory Capital still hadn’t take any measures against people making Sorrowless look bad.
This wasn’t quite right; even Lu Li could see something fishy here.
Sorrowless was only announcing his retirement – he still hadn’t retired yet. Like before, he was still the big boss with full authority over Glory Capital.
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Even if he had really retired, he was also the biggest shareholder of Glory Capital. In reality, he could be considered to have all the authority in the club.
Wendelian had the next position, along with the authority to run things, but she couldn’t just snatch all the power couldn’t away without cause.
No normal person at all would criticize him lightly, especially not anyone rich.
Glory Capital’s PR team wasn’t just for show.
But this only made one thing clear: everything was controlled by Sorrowless behind the scenes in order to build up a chance for Wendelian to take over, to have her endorsed as the leader by everyone in Glory Capital, top to bottom.
There was a problem – could Glory Capital without Sorrowless defeat Drizzle Court?
Could they flip the score of 5:8?
As Ruling Sword’s First Clear team were tangled up with killing Archimonde, they had quickly come to the third round competition between Glory Capital and Drizzle Court.
Lu Li already discussed the issue of Sorrowless with Water Fairy. If what Wandering said was right, then Drizzle Court really might underestimate the enemy and fall into the trap of being passive. After all, they had already won two group battles.
It turned out that Sorrowless did not enter the Arena.
This was the second time that Blood Dagger faced Water Fairy, but his performance was worlds apart. Although Water Fairy had fought very hard, in the end, she was defeated like before.
The second player from Drizzle Court had to give up more than half of their HP to defeat Blood Dagger.
Next was the berserker Dragon Flame. He successively defeated Drizzle Court’s players, setting the arena points at 3:1, with Glory Capital taking victory.
The most important group stage had come.
If Drizzle Court could claim victory in the group stage, then they could enter into the semifinals. If they took a loss in the group battle, then Glory Capital, who had lost in the two previous battles, would go in instead.
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“Wandering’s not wrong. Before going out, Wendelian organized a mass Glory Capital rally and made an impassioned speech. It was a classic moment; our spy broadcast it on the stream. Sorrowless wasn’t there…”
Lu Li saw the report that Square Root 3 issued out, showing a complex smile.
Sorrowless, even though he was going to retire, was still up to new tricks.
Like before, Sorrowless didn’t show up in the group stage.
Lu Li thought that perhaps he would never see Sorrowless on the arena ever again. He left the audience somewhat despondently, not even continuing to watch the final group battle.
Deep down, he was dazed.
It was like he had lost his purpose all of a sudden.
He sat on the long steps at the front of the stadium, with pedestrians rushing past him. No one payed attention to him, and he didn’t remember them either.
In his last life, Sorrowless and him were in two different worlds.
In this life, ever since he was successful in assassinating Sorrowless, they had been in a two-year struggle to see who was on top.
Because of Lu Li, Sorrowless changed to gradually do more planning behind the scenes. He was still active on the arena, but Lu Li had always seen Glory Capital and Sorrowless as his target to keep pursuing.
And suddenly, one day, the target was gone.
He heard the far-away cheers from inside. They were crying for Glory Capital, with some occasional shouts for Wendelian. In past times, they would have been calling to Sorrowless.
Lu Li stood up, and slowly walked down the steps.
The third match was between Peerless City and Seventh Heaven.
Seventh Heaven was the club with the most points in the top eight, but they were still defeated by Peerless City
Green Flag Wine was draped with the Black Dragonflight Cloak that was borrowed from Lu Li and Water Fairy. He accomplished two separate 1 vs. 3 victories, becoming this competition’s most dominant individual player.
It was also at this time that the World Announcement came out with the broadcast that Azure Sea Breeze had led Ruling Sword’s First Clear team to the Mount Hyjal First Clear.
They had fought this Instance Dungeon for quite a few weeks, and after defeating it, Lu Li already had two pieces of T6 Transmog Set equipment, as well as a lot of scattered pieces of the same level.
He also received a Skill Point. After all, a lot of Bosses were killed again and again on Nightmare level, and the System overlord would eventually doze off.
Archimonde came with drops, as well as the rewards for the First Clear.
Bristleblitz Striker was a Legendary bow. Remnant Dream looted one, and she was given one as a First Clear reward.
Cataclysm’s Edge – this reward was given to Wandering, but he didn’t want it, so he gave it to Mu Qiu.
Apostle of Argus – this weapon was given to Kitty Likes Meat. It looked cool, and the attributes were just as worthy.
Tempest of Chaos – this single-handed sword was given to Fat Monkey and matched with the Black Book, which simply overwhelmed him.
There were also quite a few Transmog Set pieces. Ruling Sword had come one step further in their power.
Now, the ones who had entered into the semifinals were Ruling Sword, Peerless City and Glory Capital. The remaining two teams hadn’t started their battle yet, but under normal circumstances, Wings of Dawn couldn’t defeat Blood Red War Flag. They had fought many times before, and Wings of Dawn had never prevailed.
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