The Great Thief

Chapter 1013: Comparison

Translator: Halcyon Translations Editor: Halcyon Translations

Lonesome Flower, Fat Monkey, Kitty Likes Meat and Sesame Rice Ball were all area of effect Magic professions. After their area of effect skills were cast, the entire room was almost covered.

The illusions that had appeared vanished one at a time.

These illusions were all about to case an area of effect skill themselves, but they weren’t able to take much damage and were quickly destroyed.

The players of Ruling Sword were quite powerful and the speed in which they could destroy these illusions was faster than the rate of their appearance.

The death of an illusion also dealt some damage, and it wasn’t an insignificant amount. As such the players had to keep moving to avoid taking damage from the illusions.

However, this wasn’t like when they had attempted the Death Mines. During that time, Hachi Chan and Remnant Dream had required Lu Li’s direct instructions.

Now, they were like two agile mice, constantly weaving between illusions and avoiding almost every death. The four area of effect Mages required the most attention from the Healers. After all, most area of effect skills required a channeling time to cast.

As such, March Rain played a huge role here to ensure that everyone maintained an adequate amount of HP.

Everyone’s HP was always kept above half, so that there was no way that they would get one-shot by the Boss. Azure Sea Breeze was also easily kept alive in this way.

In this stage, Blackwater appeared.

Wandering was responsible for observing Blackwater, but he still needed to avoid the damage from the illusions. It was hard to not notice the strenuous look on his face.

This guy, who was usually quite lazy, only showed his strength when he was under pressure.

Lu Li couldn’t do much to help him.

After about a minute and a half, the illusions ceased to appear. The Boss was now below 60% HP and the skill’s duration had expired.

“Monkey died. I will Revive him first,” Lu Li said as he turned into a leopard and used Resurrect on Fat Monkey.

Fat Monkey was always eager to deal as much damage as possible, so he hadn’t added any points to his Constitution. Even his equipment was completely focused on damage output. Although March Rain also focused on Intelligence, she still chose at least a few pieces of equipment that made her tankier. This had saved her life on more than one occasion.

The price of high damage output was that he died more often.

He was the only person who had died in that stage. If it weren’t for the fact that he was still useful, Lu Li wouldn’t have Revived him as he probably wouldn’t survive the next ultimate skill either.

The Boss’ second ultimate skill was cast when it reached 33% HP.

This was not too different from the first one, but since only Fat Monkey had died previously, there wasn’t much suspense as it played out.

Fat Monkey managed to survive, but Hachi Chan had cast Enhanced Tranquility at the last second to save his life. He was one step away from death.

When Jandis Barov reached 20% HP, she cast another illusion spell.

This time, she only split into two illusions, which meant that they had to fight three Bosses. Unlike the previous illusions, these two looked exactly like Jandis Barov and had the same strength as her.

Under normal circumstances, Scholomance would require three Main Tanks just because of this stage.

However, Azure Sea Breeze’s equipment allowed him to take on two of the Bosses at once.

Having more Main Tanks made the fight safer, but it would take up the DPS player slots. Without damage output, they couldn’t beat the Boss anyway.

The previous illusions could be easily defeated, so they didn’t need to worry about which one was the True Boss. As for these three bodies, they had to separate the real one from the fake ones.

Some players had tried fighting all three together since the Boss didn’t have much HP left at this stage. However, this resulted in all three going Berserk at the same time, spilling much blood and tears. This was sadly dubbed the Scholomance Limit.

The only correct way to fight this Boss was to find the two illusions and get rid of them quickly.

During this period, the HP of the real body could not be reduced to less than 5%. Otherwise, the real body would definitely go Berserk, which would be shared with the other two illusions.

If one Boss went Berserk, Azure Sea Breeze could probably still survive, but if two of them went Berserk, he would have no chance.

“Slow down – we need to find out which is the fake one among these three,” Lu Li said, deciding to get everyone to do it together. Perhaps they would be able to discover the fake bodies if everyone was involved.

“I think the one on the left is a bit darker. The other two are a bit paler...” Sakura Memories said.

Lu Li glanced at the pale lamp hanging on the right side and unceremoniously rejected her guess.

“That’s just because of the lighting.”

“Nails on the one in the middle is a bit longer. Can you guys see?” Remnant Dream cried out.

“Yeah, yeah I see it,” Hachi Chan agreed.

“Both of you shut up.”

Lu Li didn’t think that these two girls had any observational ability and didn’t expect that they would notice something as trivial as the nail length.

After that, everyone eventually expressed their opinions on which ones might be the illusion.

Not all of them were wrong. Wandering noticed that the one on the right had a different pattern on its cloak, which was different from the illusions. However, if you didn’t look carefully, you wouldn’t have seen it.

“Actually, you should pay attention the aura under their feet,” Lu Li finally said.

This was the most effective method that was officially recognized in the Instance Dungeon strategy. Only the true body had a ring of light around it with an effect. The others just received a ring of light from

that effect.

As such, the real ring of light was more obvious, while the other two were a little bit smaller.

After Lu Li told them, everyone could easily see the difference.

It was only Wandering who snorted at it coldly, because he still felt like his reason was the best.

Regardless of whether Wandering or Lu Li was correct, both methods pointed to the same body. As such, the group of players pounced onto the two illusions and fought with vigor.

The illusions quickly dissipated after being attacked.

The players then attacked the remaining body, which soon fell to critical HP. It then went into Berserk without any further incidents.

During this time, Lu Li didn’t have time to read the information sent by Square Root 3. After the end of this experience, he needed to see how Glory Capital was progressing.

Poor Glory Capital had already been wiped twice by Jandis Barov.

The first time was because of Blackwater and the second time was because they had been caught off guard by the sheer number of illusions. They were preparing for the third attempt, but their tactic was to find the real body among the large number of illusions.