Rebirth of the Thief Who Roamed The World Chapter 210-211

Chapter 210 – Slaughter Fiend Medallion (Thief)

Nie Yan was absolutely confident in his ability to kill a Scaled Frog. After leveling up, his speed had increased a lot, and he could completely disregard even a Lord-class Scaled Frog. Now that there was only a one-level gap between them, he could do massive damage to it on his own.

Under the cover of stealth, Nie Yan crept up to a Lord-class Scaled Frog until he was only ten meters away. The monster still hadn’t noticed Nie Yan, who then scanned it with Transcendent Insight.

Scaled Frog (Lord): Level 30

Health: 50,000/50,000

Nie Yan estimated that it would only take twenty minutes for him to whittle down this Scaled Frog’s health with his current damage output. Back when Tang Yao had first taken down one of these, it had taken him a full ten hours. Although his lower level and damage output at the time was part of this disparity, no Mage’s cast speed could compare to the rapid-fire offense of a Thief like Nie Yan. Additionally, Nie Yan could now induce high amounts of continuous damage using the Splitting Edge to cause bleed and the Scarlet Poison Ring to inflict poison. With these items, just a casual attack could cause an enemy to lose 50 hitpoints per second, which would increase to more than 70 or even 80 health per second when stacked with a bleed skill like Eviscerate. Just the continuous damage alone would take a huge chunk of the boss’s health. Unlike attack damage, continuous damage ignored defense. This made it especially effective on high-level monsters with tough defenses.

“You be careful then,” Yao Yao fretted. She was worried about his safety.

“Don’t worry.” With a faint curve of his mouth, Nie Yan snuck up behind the Lord-class Scaled Frog. The monster had just felt something and was about to turn around to investigate when Nie Yan suddenly rushed at him with a burst of speed and struck out with a Concussive Blow.

The Scaled Frog froze, having been stunned for a couple of seconds.

Nie Yan’s dagger stabbed into the monster’s back with an Eviscerate, cutting it open and causing blood to spurt out.

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A stream of damage values floated up from the Scaled Frog’s head. First came the damage from his attack, followed by bleed from Splitting Edge, then poison damage, and finally Eviscerate bleed damage. This frighteningly high damage output was even greater than that of a mage wearing a high-damage set. Continuous damage was extremely terrifying, especially against monsters like the Scaled Frog with strong defense.

With Nie Yan’s current damage output, he could rightfully look down upon anything equal to his level. Even fighting creatures above his level wouldn’t be much of a problem.

The Lord-class Scaled Frog turned its head and, looking almost like a massive tank, charged towards Nie Yan. Accurately predicting where its attack would land, Nie Yan’s figure flashed as he circled behind the giant frog once more. The dagger in his hand once more easily pierced its hard scales as he quickly used Backstab.

His dagger stabbed into the Scaled Frog’s back repeatedly despite its attempt to turn around and face its foe. Damage values continued to stream into the air above its head one by one.

Nie Yan’s movements were as moving clouds and flowing water1. He was so fast that each time his adversary tried to attack him, he could immediately predict the trajectory of its attack from its starting movements and dodge just enough to avoid the attack.

These flexible maneuvers weren’t much worse than what a true Shadow Dancer could do.

This was what shadow dancing was all about. This level of skill allowed a thief to look down upon all magic users. Even Fighters without impact skills that did area-of-effect knockback would only die before a Shadow Dancer.

His dagger released a dazzling light, as blood gushed out into air like flowers blooming.

The Lord-class Scaled Frog’s health quickly fell, chunk by chunk. Nie Yan’s damaging capabilities were simply too fierce. Even though the boss was recovering 20 hit points per second, that measly healing was no use in the face of massive bleed and poison damage.

As Sun watched Nie Yan’s actions closely, his eyes took on a wolfish glint. This level of skill was exactly what he needed to achieve! Such accurate judgement, and such gorgeous dodges! His mind suddenly had a flash of inspiration as he saw what a true Thief was supposed to be!

The master opened the door, but the step was his to take2. Nie Yan had already shown Sun what shadow dancing looked like. It was now up to him to comprehend it for himself.

Nie Yan’s damage output alone was enough to kill this Lord-class Scaled Frog. There was no need for others to intervene.

However, Yao Yao still waved her staff and cast Holy Smite. The spell struck the Scaled Frog’s body, dealing 15 points of damage to its health. Although this bit of peanut damage wasn’t much, any bit helped. With Nie Yan doing so much damage to it, she had no fear of accidentally shifting the enemy’s aggro onto herself.

Yu Lan, Sun, and Bai Kaishui also took out their weapons and began attacking the boss. Even though they could only do 1 or 2 damage per hit, it was still better than doing nothing.

After about ten minutes, the Lord-class Scaled Frog still had not landed a single hit on Nie Yan. Suddenly, its mouth opened and spat out a scarlet cloud of toxins, which quickly billowed through the air.

When Nie Yan saw this poisonous cloud, he quickly retreated. Because of his excellent timing, the toxin didn’t affect him in the slightest.

Despite the Lord-class Scaled Frog being obscured by the toxic red fog, continuous damage values could still be seen floating up nonstop from its head. Its recovery speed had increased somewhat, but that still couldn’t keep up with the incredible continuous damage inflicted by Nie Yan.

Backing up ten meters, Nie Yan put his dagger away. He replaced it with his Crossbow of Blood and began to shoot a flurry of bolts. With a succession of sounds, three bolts found their mark. However, their damage was minimal. Each bolt only did 5 or 6 damage to the monster, which now had only 23% of its health left. This had gone even faster than Nie Yan had expected.

The cloud of poison quickly spread to cover a fifty-foot radius around the boss, albeit somewhat diluted. During the time, the continuous damage effects wore off and the boss’s natural regeneration began to slowly restore its health. If this was allowed to continue, their efforts for the last ten minutes would have gone to waste.

With a bottle of Junior Antidote in his hand, he stepped forward to test the venomous cloud. Five points per second… It seems that it has truly diluted after spreading this far. However, even though the effect was greatly weakened, 5 points per second was still alarming. At that rate, Nie Yan would lose 300 points in a minute and die in two if he didn’t drink a health potion. Seeing this, Nie Yan chugged the bottle in his hand. Because it had a cooldown of five minutes but only lasted for thirty seconds, the Junior Antidote was not particularly effective against sustained poisons like this one.

Luckily, they hadn’t called over Resplendent Bladelight and the others. Otherwise, they would have had trouble dealing with this powerful poison released by the Lord-class Scaled Frog. After all, Resplendent Bladelight wasn’t high enough level yet. It wouldn’t be until he was around Level 30 that he could safely tank this boss.

Nie Yan did a roll to evade the attack of the Lord-class Scaled Frog, then darted through the cloud of poison to continue his assault.

The Lord-class Scaled Frog rushed fiercely at Nie Yan, but his body flashed to the side. His movements were like the wind as he once more got behind the boss and attacked it with a Backstab followed by Eviscerate.

The giant frog’s leap once more missed. It’s bulky body just couldn’t keep up with Nie Yan’s agility.

Nie Yan instantly unleashed his strongest attacks, bursting the Lord-class Scaled Frog down to five percent in two minutes. The boss became enraged, increasing its speed greatly. Now the that monster’s speed was higher than Nie Yan’s, he could definitely feel the difficulty spike. He couldn’t just casually run circles around the boss anymore.

When the Lord-class Scaled frog tried to ram sideways into Nie Yan, who could only hastily dodge. He retreated backwards at full speed with Swift Retreat.

The Scaled Frog angrily chased after Nie Yan. Although his flight through the woods seemed dangerous, he had careful over the distance between them. Even at its closest the frog never had a chance to land a hit on Nie Yan.

Yao Yao and the others began to step up their attacks. Although their damage didn’t actually increase, the previously insignificant damage now began to take chunks out of its remaining health. After all, the boss only had less than five percent of its health left now.

Nie Yan’s continuous damage effects also continued to chip away at the monster’s health.

It was almost dead!

The Lord-class Scaled Frog suddenly leapt high into the air and descended towards Nie Yan. Just as it was about to crush him, Nie Yan used Shadow Dance and suddenly disappeared.

With a massive thud, the gigantic frog slammed heavily into the ground. Nie Yan suddenly reappeared behind it with a blur, striking out with Assassinate. Immediately, he added yet another Eviscerate to its back and watched the monster’s health rapidly fall from 4% to 3%.

By the time the Lord-class Scaled Frog turned around to attack Nie Yan, he had already retreated over five meters away. His plan was exactly to chip away at the boss’ health with continuous damage until it died!

With only 1% health remaining, the creature continued to furiously storm after Nie Yan. Yao Yao’s spells and the others’ arrows continued to land on the massive frog.

The Lord-class Scaled Frog chased after Nie Yan, catching up bit by bit until he was almost able to attack him.

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Suddenly, its final sliver of health was drained away. Its plump body, having lost support, hit the ground with an immense hud.

“It’s dead,” Sun said.

During the entire fight, the others hadn’t done much at all. The fight was basically carried entirely by Nie Yan. A Level 29 player soloing a Level 30 Lord was truly hard to believe, but Nie Yan had done it right in front of them.

Nie Yan looked at his experience bar, which had risen by 12%. While this was still a significant sum, the gains were clearly incomparable to the ridiculous levelling speed brought about by killing monsters many levels above him.

「Look at what it dropped.」Bai Kaishui curiously sent over through team chat.

What would a Lord-class monster drop?

Nie Yan bent down to pick the items up. There was a skill book, two gems, and a blood-red medallion. The metal medallion was unadorned, with only a Fiend Totem engraved on it. It looked extremely eerie and exuded a bloody stench.

Nie Yan’s heart leapt. He got a Slaughter Fiend Medallion?!

In the previous timeline, he had seen pictures of the medallion as well as its properties, so he had a vague recollection of it. Once he picked it up, a crisp system tone rung out. He opened the message.

System: Are you sure you would like to bind the Slaughter Fiend Medallion?

There were two options below it. He could either hit confirm or destroy. Only he could use this particular Slaughter Fiend Medallion. Nie Yan naturally picked confirm without any hesitation.

Chapter 211 – Invincible

After so long, I’ve finally gotten my hands on a Slaughter Fiend Medallion! Nie Yan’t couldn’t help but feel a little excited, as the two supplementary skills for the Thief version of the medallion were both really good.

Slaughter Fiend Medallion (Thief)Rank: Junior (Owner must kill 1,000 players at least 2 levels above them to upgrade to Intermediate.)

Description: Can be upgraded through slaughter. However, the owner will grow more vulnerable with each subsequent upgrade.

Properties: Attack +20%, Defense -20%, Dexterity +20, Ignore Level +3, Armour Pierce

Junior Berserk Transformation: Enter a berserk state when health drops below 50%. Increases Attack and Movement Speed by 30%. Gain 10 Attack for every enemy slain.

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Junior Mind Immune: Defends against all Mind Magic for 3 seconds.

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Restrictions: Can only be used by the original owner. Bound after being picked up. Cannot be traded or dropped. Can be destroyed.

Description: Can be upgraded through slaughter. However, the owner will grow more vulnerable with each subsequent upgrade.

Properties: Attack +20%, Defense -20%, Dexterity +20, Ignore Level +3, Armour Pierce

Junior Berserk Transformation: Enter a berserk state when health drops below 50%. Increases Attack and Movement Speed by 30%. Gain 10 Attack for every enemy slain.

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Junior Mind Immune: Defends against all Mind Magic for 3 seconds.

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Restrictions: Can only be used by the original owner. Bound after being picked up. Cannot be traded or dropped. Can be destroyed.

The Thief version of the medallion was a bit different from the Mage version. Its properties weren’t bad, but it was the two supplementary skills that really made the item so great. Berserk Transformation would give a substantial boost to the player’s offensive power when health fell below 50%. However, the most important was Mind Immune. Any Thief who frequently engaged in PvP was very clear on what type of skills posed the greatest threat to them—crowd control skills! In the previous timeline, the official website once did a study of what Thieves died the most to during PvP: 52% Warrior’s Tendon Break, 35% Mage’s Control Magic, 9% high burst damage….

The Tendon Break skill of a Warrior ranked at number one. Warriors restrained Thieves, this was without a doubt. Whenever a Thief suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of a Mage, it was almost always because of Control Magic which posed a far greater threat to them than frightening burst damage.

Whether in large-scale wars or group battles, Priests were a favourite target of Thieves. As a cloth-armour support class, they were the most vulnerable. Not to mention they possessed annoying skills like Glimmer Mark and Illuminate. It was no surprise the vast majority of Thieves chose to take them out right off the bat.

And the type of Control Magic that Priests were most proficient with was precisely Mind Magic! So having something like Mind Immune would give an immense advantage when dealing with them.

Another reason Nie Yan wanted the Slaughter Fiend Medallion was that between Black Heaven and Black Hell, one was a Holy Priest and the other was most likely a Shadow Priest. He couldn’t discount the possibility of them having Mind Control Magic. With Mind Immune from the Slaughter Fiend Medallion and Holy Descent from the Medal of the Ten Holy Paladins, he didn’t believe the two of them could pose any sort of threat to him.

Nie Yan had already made preparations for his encounter with Black Heaven and Black Hell. Since Black Heaven was one of the Seven Archbishops in the previous timeline, he still hadn’t abandoned his goal of recruiting them into Asskickers United. Although they were currently members of Dark Hero, it was in a state of decline, so that would probably change soon. However, if he mobilized a force to snatch the Chapter of Harmony away from them, it was the same as gifting an Archbishop to another guild. He assigned some subordinates to track Black Heaven and Black Hell down, but those two were exceedingly cautious, changing location every hour or so. His subordinates had no way of finding them at all.

Since Black Heaven and Black Hell couldn’t be found, Nie Yan could only wait for them to come knocking at his doorstep. He had already prepared a response for them, and the Slaughter Fiend Medallion emerged at an exceedingly opportune time.

The two gems that dropped were both Fortune Gems. Nie Yan examined the skill book—Poison Mist Cloud. It was an area-of-effect spell for Arcane Mages. All creature caught within the spell would take 10 damage every second. With a range of 3,030 meters, its effects were very potent.

This skill book would definitely be given to a guild member who signed a contract.

“Aside from the Thief version of the Slaughter Fiend Medallion, a skill book dropped,” Nie Yan announced before sharing the properties of the medallion for everyone to see.

Sun’s eyes sparkled. “If I kill over a hundred players, will I be able to get a Slaughter Fiend Medallion too?”

“You’ll have to spend a long time getting your kill count up to 100, then coming back here to farm a Slaughter Fiend Medallion. Even then, it’s not a guaranteed drop, and if you don’t get it, you’ll have to start all over again. Can you imagine how much time you’d be wasting? You’re better off levelling up some more and collecting better equipment during that time.” Nie Yan poured cold water on any ideas Sun might have gotten in his head.

“Oh, I guess that’s true. Forget it, then…” Sun said in disappointment.

“The guild has many sets of Level 30 Gold equipment for Thieves. You’ll get to wear them when you get to Level 30, so you should hurry and level up!” Nie Yan said. Although Sun was a bit childish, his talents were absolutely unmatched. Even so, he still needed careful guidance.

When Sun watched how Nie Yan killed the Lord-class Scaled Frog alone, he had a profound realization. Deep in his heart, Nie Yan became even more of a goal he secretly strived towards. He wanted to be a godly Thief just like Nie Yan!

“Alright, everyone, let’s get in a bit of extra levelling before the servers shut down for the day,” Nie Yan said. They still had about half-an-hour of game time remaining.

Nie Yan and the others continued hunting the Scaled Frogs.

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Calore Transfer Area, two figures stepped out of the transfer point.

Both of them wore black cloaks to conceal their appearances. They were precisely the owners of the Chapter of Harmony, Black Heaven and Black Hell.

Black Hell checked the system notification and said, “Nirvana Flame’s last location just updated. He’s south of Calore, probably clearing his red name. I don’t think he’ll be moving too far for now.”

“Big Brother, do you think we can that guy?” Black Heaven said with a hint of nervousness. He recalled the video of Nie Yan killing Hei Zhuo. It had really left a deep impression on him. He previously had absolute confidence in Black Hell. Out of everyone he had met so far, none of them were stronger than his big brother. However, after watching the video, his heart started to waver ever so slightly. Mad Rogue Nirvana Flame… he really did seem awesome. Now, if people heard someone was preparing to find Nirvana Flame to look for trouble, they would definitely think that person was overestimating themselves.

If you asked what type of a person Black Hell was, not many people could give you an answer. However, if you brought up the name Invincible1, then plenty of people would know. Invincible was a very famous figure in the popular virtual reality games of the past. When Dark Hero was considered one of the best guilds, it was under his leadership. He once ranked number one on the professional player leaderboards for three years in a row. Later on, however, the Dark Hero gaming organization disbanded and Invincible disappeared. From then on, the guild went on a continuous decline. The top experts of Dark Hero all left one after the other, scattering to other guilds. With so many people gone, only a few old members chose to remain. None of them knew that Invincible, the former leader who had brought them to glory, was actually Black Hell. Unfortunately, he was already an entirely different person from the Invincible of long ago. What’s more, he had chosen to renounce the Warrior class to play a Shadow Priest.

However, no one forgot the heyday of the Dark Hero guild. Quite a few experts among the major guilds were former members of Dark Hero. Many of them would still frequently reminisce about the former glory of the guild, only to start endlessly sighing. Whenever they chatted about with someone new, a certain question would still occasionally be asked. “I used to be part of Dark Hero. Do you know what ever happened to our guild leader, Invincible?” However, no one would know the answer, causing them to feel deep regret.

Black Hell’s eyes glowed with determination. “I want to test out just how strong that guy is.” The current him no longer pursued money and fame. All he wanted to do was use his own unique method of playing to enjoy the game. From his perspective, Mad Rogue Nirvana Flame was an interesting opponent, nothing more.

Black Heaven knew Black Hell’s competitive spirit was reignited. His Big Brother’s nature was always like so.

Although Invincible had changed his name, in some respect, he was still walking alone under the heavens. One can only imagine just how brash, just how amazing he considered himself, when he first picked the name.

Black Hell knew just what kind of opponent he was going to face. He wasn’t suicidal. His goal was to defeat Nie Yan, then seize all the chapters from the Book of Order in his possession.

“Let’s go to the Starry Night Potion Shop to buy some potions,” Black Hell said. Before he faced off against Nirvana Flame, he had to make ample preparations, and good potions were absolutely necessary. As for buying potions from other places, he could think of a few other shops, but none of them surpassed the Starry Night Potion Shop.

“When are we going to find him?” Black Heaven asked. Since his big brother had made his decision, he wouldn’t say any more superfluous words.

Black Hell thought for a moment before replying, “Early tomorrow morning, we’ll go find that guy together.”

Mad Rogue Nirvana Flame, let’s see if your skills really match that name…

The two chatted as they walked into the Starry Night Potion Shop together.

After Nie Yan and the others levelled for a while, they checked the server clock. It was almost time to log off.

“Nirvana Flame, I’m logging off now.” Yao Yao bid farewell to Nie Yan, waving her hands.

“Let’s meet tomorrow.”

“Boss, we’re leaving.”

“Big Brother, I’m getting off.”

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Listening to these simple, ordinary farewells, Nie Yan’t couldn’t help but give rise to a melancholic sigh, recalling how he spent almost all of his time alone in his past life. His daily routine had consisted of hunting monsters for most of the day, returning to the city just before the servers shut down to put all the unneeded drops in the auction house or maybe convert some of his in-game gold to credits, then silently logging off. Only very occasionally would a few people go out of their way to say goodbye to him, like Yao Yao, Tang Yao, or strangers he levelled with on that day.

This life was a far different from his past one. Nevertheless, he rather liked the feeling of his present circumstances.

Nie Yan logged out of the game. He could hear a few relatives, who were on fairly good terms with his parents, helping pack stuff downstairs. From what he could gather from the conversation downstairs, since they were about to move away to the capital, his parents had invited these relatives for dinner at a restaurant tonight. Then, the Nie family would be living in their new villa by tomorrow.

“Little Yan, we’re going to be moving to the capital. Go say goodbye to your classmates,” Mother Nie stroked Nie Yan’s head and said in an affection tone.

Nie Yan didn’t have many friends in his hometown highschool. Although he got along fine with many people, he wasn’t very particularly close to anyone. “They’re probably busy with their own things. I’ll give them a phone call to let them know.”

“That’s fine too.” Mother Nie nodded.

I’m finally moving to the capital… Nie Yan was looking forward to his reunion with Xie Yao.