Chapter 16 (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The 15 Thieves were taught a new lesson that day.
After he made sure that the bandit leader was going after their equipment, ShadowWolf wanted his party members to scatter.
There were black jackals further away. If they could get close to one and allow the black jackal to kill them, they could return to the city with their equipment intact.
To their surprise, the bandits equipped their weapons and killed all the Thieves without any equipment on them. All that remained were Square, ShadowWolf, and two more Thieves to open the treasure boxes.
ShadowWolf and the two other Thieves escaped rather swiftly.
Square had it the worst. After everyone else was killed, a dozen bandit goons ambushed him for a good five minutes. All the equipment he carried was snatched before he was eventually killed by a bandit goon.
He felt like a little sheep whose wool was completely shaven before being ravaged by a dozen hunks over and over again and ultimately killed after it had served its purpose of satisfying their desire.
Square was physically and mentally traumatized.
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Under a towering old tree back in Guggenheim, ShadowWolf met a middle-aged man.
ShadowWolf seemed respectful beside the man whilst he narrated about the incident earlier.
He looked up to the middle-aged man before him because the latter was one of the persons in charge of The Richest in Guggenheim and one of the experts of the guild.
He was DemonMarshal, a name that everyone in every single game in the past knew.
After ShadowWolf’s explanation, DemonMarshal thought for a while before coming up with new orders for the entire party.
“Losing a bit of equipment isn’t a big deal. Tell the members to calm down. The guild won’t hold them responsible. You guys can stop opening treasure boxes from now on. Bring the members to get some equipment and level up at the Second Brigade. I’ll tell the person-in-charge there to reserve a spot for you and the members. I’ll take over this matter, so you don’t need to worry about it anymore, and remember, keep this a secret.”
“Understood. I’ll proceed as you say.” ShadowWolf nodded. He had a feeling that DemonMarshal wanted to use this incident as a catalyst for something, but since the man did not mention anything, he would not ask either.
“EnlightenMoon, I have something to discuss with you.”
After ShadowWolf left, DemonMarshal contacted another person in charge of the guild in Guggenheim—BrightMoonOfYesteryear.
Outside Guggenheim, a female Sorcerer in black robes stopped fighting a monster to answer the call, “Hello?”
“Something important has come up. I need a hidden mission player from you, but if this goes well, we might be able to get that weapon.”
“Are you talking about that growth-type staff of Dark Gold grade from GrayFox?” BrightMoonOfYesteryear was moved and asked with excitement.
GrayFox was a Sorcerer expert from the Fortune Alliance. An hour ago, the two of them had received news from their spy in the Fortune Alliance about GrayFox clearing an S-rank difficulty occupation test in advance and acquiring a growth type staff of Dark Gold grade, which could be equipped at Level 5.
It was only the first day in the game and a top expert had already acquired a growth type equipment of Dark Gold grade, which could grow into a piece of Legendary equipment in the future. It was anything but good news to The Richest.
The Fortune Alliance and The Richest shared great similarities as a large guild, and the rivalry between them was always fierce, especially in Origin which held a different meaning, allowing their rival to acquire too much of an advantage was not great to their future development.
They had thoughts about that Dark Gold weapon but had no plans to get it.
GrayFox was heavily protected, so killing him by outnumbering him was impossible. Moreover, if they had a spy in the Fortune Alliance, the converse was possible. Any commotion would startle the opposite party.
At the current stage of the game, the odds of a player dropping equipment upon his or her death was extremely low, so spending a lot of effort killing GrayFox might not reward them with the Dark Gold weapon as well, but if GrayFox leveled up too fast, he would be a lot harder to kill.
As a top expert from a super guild, he would be fully geared with high-end items and killing him would be harder than flying to the moon.
On top of that, they were still troubled by that same question. Currently, without any ways to remove suspicion, carrying out a single kill might not mean that much.
“Yes. I remember that there’s a mission player on your contact list who has acquired the title ‘the Heart Of Nature’.”
“The Heart Of Nature? Hmmm, there is someone, but the Heart Of Nature effect only works on low-level monsters…”
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The number of spoils surpassed Mohai’s expectation. He never thought that Square would have carried that many pieces of equipment on him.
Mohai managed to snatch a total of 24 pieces of equipment, a potion recipe, and some rare material from the Thieves.