“Passed,” Dusk nodded.

“That Nie Yan’s technique is pretty good... amazing!” Seeing Nie Yan use the repeating crossbow to lure the monster, Half-Asleep Fox finally exclaimed. Those three arrows couldn’t have been executed without exceptional skill.

The players were just entering the game, and their techniques were far inferior to Nie Yan’s. Those three arrows were merely a common trick among experts in Nie Yan’s past life. But when he executed them, they seemed like divine skills to Half-Asleep Fox, Dusk, and the others.

Thieves had never been highly valued when running dungeons, because many teams could clear them without a Thief. So Half-Asleep Fox hadn’t been particularly concerned about inviting Nie Yan. But now he suddenly realized how important a good Thief was to a dungeon team.

Half-Asleep Fox had always felt that something was missing from the team. Now it dawned on him—they lacked an expert-level Thief like Nie Yan!

“Stone was right. He is indeed a master,” Dusk said. Stone’s judgment had never been very good, but this time, he wondered if he’d stumbled upon something by sheer luck, inviting such a great expert.

“We should be able to clear Ogrema’s Murky Marsh,” Half-Asleep Fox said after watching the video. He understood a common saying: a successful Thief could increase a team’s survival rate by more than 30%. This applied not only to three-man and five-man teams, but also to twenty-man and thirty-man teams.

Nie Yan's commanding and organizational abilities were truly commendable. Without Nie Yan, the Yu Lan team, with their terrible equipment, would have had virtually no chance of clearing the Treant Forest.

Nie Yan knew that the results of running the Treant Forest with Dusk would surely reach Half-Asleep Fox, which would at least dispel some of the doubts in Half-Asleep Fox's mind.

Having obtained the Featherfall Gem, Nie Yan thought of the famous elite monster, Lion King Kardo. To kill that big guy, he still had a lot of preparations to make.

Nie Yan went to the auction house. Because the Black Phenol Potions were selling well, the apothecaries had turned all their remaining raw materials into Black Phenol Potions and put them up for auction. There were about a hundred bottles, plus dozens of Black Phenol Potion recipes. These items would be worth a fortune in a few days, so Nie Yan bought them all without hesitation, also purchasing all the materials for making Black Phenol Potions in the auction house.

After buying up all the Black Phenol Potion recipes, Black Phenol Potions, and their ingredients on the market, Nie Yan purchased nine bolts of repeating crossbow arrows at nearly exorbitant prices in the auction house: two bolts of Black Gold Arrows, three bolts of Nightmare Arrows, and four bolts of Poisoned Arrows.

Black Gold Arrows: Inflicts 12 points of armor penetration damage, 1,000 arrows per bolt. Purchase price: 2 silver coins.

Nightmare Arrows: Inflicts 10 points of confusion damage, 1,000 arrows per bolt. Purchase price: 1 silver coin 50 copper coins.

Poisoned Arrows: Inflicts 9 points of poison damage, 1,000 arrows per bolt. Purchase price: 1 silver coin 10 copper coins.

These arrows cost Nie Yan a lot of money. Aside from Thieves or Warriors in large teams responsible for kiting monsters, no one could afford such expensive items. In fact, for those wealthy large teams, using these arrows to kite monsters was too wasteful. So the trading of these arrows in the auction house wasn't very active, but because they were relatively rare, the price remained high. Only players like Nie Yan, who had money to burn, would buy them.

After buying the arrows, Nie Yan teleported to Modo Town and headed towards the Crimson Dream Hills.

Leaving the town and heading north for more than ten kilometers, he came to a continuous stretch of mountains. Following the mountain road towards the summit, he arrived at the edge of a cliff. Looking into the distance, there was a plain. Everything on the plain looked tiny. The cliff was very high. Looking down, he could vaguely see the scenery below, a desolate expanse.

The wind howled on the cliff, and the distant mountains and forests rose and fell like ocean waves.

This was a two-hundred-yard-high cliff. If ordinary players jumped down, they would surely be smashed to pieces.

Nie Yan walked along the top of the cliff, looking down and walking along the edge of the cliff, and found a Night Cypress tree.

Nie Yan stood under the Night Cypress tree, facing east along the edge of the cliff, one step, two steps, three steps—this was about the right spot.

“This is it. I shouldn’t be mistaken.” Nie Yan leapt forward, jumping off the cliff.

He hadn’t come here to commit suicide. At the bottom of this cliff, there was an elite creature, Lion King Kardo, a Level 7 monster. It was the king of this plain. Players who leveled up on this plain had often been killed by Lion King Kardo.

If Lion King Kardo was killed, it would respawn once a day. It had a high probability of dropping the Thief’s Blackblood Set. The Blackblood Set consisted of three pieces: the cape, gauntlets, and shoulder pads. It was a top-tier Silver-grade set for Level 5 Thieves, only slightly inferior to the Covenant Set dropped in Soth Mountain Stronghold. If he could get a set of Blackblood, then Nie Yan's equipment would be considered top-notch. Besides the Blackblood Set, Lion King Kardo also dropped some Thief skill books.

In his past life, many people had fought to kill Lion King Kardo. There were many chaotic battles over the equipment dropped by Lion King Kardo. Often, many people had to die. It wasn’t easy to obtain the Blackblood Set, and it was even harder to complete the set. Every time Lion King Kardo spawned, several hundred ordinary lions would spawn around it. At least the outer lions had to be cleared before one could safely kill the Lion King. The large number of Level 7 lions was also very troublesome.

Currently, the players weren’t high enough level. At least twenty Level 5 or higher players were needed to dare to kill the Lion King. Level 5 players were still very rare and were all expert-level. It wasn’t easy to gather so many people.

No one dared to kill Lion King Kardo yet. This area was a Level 7 monster zone, rarely visited by anyone. Even if they came, no one could reach Lion King Kardo, so Nie Yan could safely implement his plan.

The sound of wind whistled past his ears, and his altitude decreased rapidly. Nie Yan activated the skill on the Featherfall Gem, and his descent speed immediately slowed down. His feet felt light, and his speed was slow and steady.

Under the effect of Featherfall, Nie Yan’s descent speed was only slightly faster than a feather falling.

He was getting closer and closer to the ground. Estimating the distance, it was about twenty yards. Nie Yan fired a strand of spider silk, which stuck to the cliff, holding Nie Yan in mid-air. Looking down, he saw a sturdy male lion not far away, with brown fur and the majesty of a king.

The male lion was right within his range.

That male lion was Lion King Kardo. In his memory, Lion King Kardo was exactly in this location.

“Got it.” Nie Yan’s left hand firmly held the spider silk attached to some shrubs growing on the rock wall. His right hand took out the repeating crossbow from his bag, aimed the crosshairs at the Lion King, and with three swishing sounds, the crossbow arrows shot towards Lion King Kardo in a straight line.

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