Nie Yan never wanted to use Sacrificial Strike. This skill had a long cooldown, requiring two days to complete. He had a quest coming up that needed it. But a man's got to have pride. If Nie Yan let someone steal his monster and retreated without a word, he'd be a coward!

Seeing Nie Yan charge over, Night Shadow backed away and met him with his dagger.

Battle Stance!

Night Shadow activated Battle Stance. After a combat thief activated Battle Stance, attack speed increased by 30% and attack power by 20%. Their attack power could even exceed that of some Berserkers. Their only weakness was that they still only had leather armor defense.

With a crisp clang, the two daggers collided.

Nie Yan's dagger suddenly switched from a backhand grip to a forehand grip. The direction changed abruptly, like a nimble snake, bypassing Night Shadow's dagger and striking him. It all happened in a flash. Night Shadow didn't even see what happened before he was hit and stunned.

Nie Yan's movements were extremely deceptive. This was a technique demonstrated by many Shadow Dancer Thieves in official videos in his previous life. By switching the direction of the dagger, they could confuse their opponents and still successfully bypass their defenses and stun them when facing them head-on.

Nie Yan had practiced this technique tens of thousands of times to master it. If he encountered a Shadow Dancer Thief, this move might not work, but it was more than enough to deal with the players in front of him.

Juice and Hidden Knife both thought that even if Night Shadow couldn't kill Nie Yan, he could definitely hold out for a while. They didn't expect him to be stunned by Nie Yan in one exchange, which caught them off guard and surprised them greatly.

A magic spell arced through the sky, shooting towards Nie Yan.

Juice's magic arrived just in time. If Nie Yan dodged, Night Shadow would have a chance to breathe again, just like the first time they met.

But this time was different. The first time they met, the Ghoul King's aggro was focused on Nie Yan, so he didn't dare to act rashly and could only temporarily avoid it. But now, the Ghoul King's aggro was focused on Hidden Knife. It wouldn't be so easy for Juice to drive Nie Yan away and save Night Shadow with just one magic spell!

Nie Yan took Juice's magic head-on. With a bang, an Arcane Fireball exploded on Nie Yan, dealing 130 damage.

Terrifying attack! Nie Yan's equipment was already very good, but he still lost so much health.

Nie Yan used Assassinate plus Eviscerate, dealing over 180 damage to Night Shadow. Bleed damage of -10 floated from Night Shadow's head.

Combat Thieves have so much health! Night Shadow had a full 520 health.

But compared to Nie Yan's attack, it still wasn't enough!

Nie Yan went behind Night Shadow and used Sap, shaking off a Polymorph Scroll. But his Polymorph Scroll wasn't for Night Shadow, but for Hidden Knife.

Hidden Knife was just about to use Flame Slash on the Ghoul King when a white light landed on Hidden Knife's head, interrupting his Flame Slash skill and turning him into a little sheep.

The Ghoul King's health was only 8% left. When its health was below 20%, it would activate the Bloodlust Frenzy effect, which granted it lifesteal on its attacks, so its health was dropping slowly. If Hidden Knife and the others stopped dealing damage, the Ghoul King's health would slowly recover.

To save Night Shadow, Juice focused all her firepower on Nie Yan. Hidden Knife was polymorphed, so the Ghoul King's health stopped dropping at 3%. The Ghoul King attacked Hidden Knife, and its health recovered to 5%.

Hidden Knife's Polymorph disappeared.

Nie Yan drank a bottle of Instant Health Potion and applied an Intermediate Combat Bandage to himself. With a bang, Juice dealt another 130 damage to Nie Yan.

Nie Yan used Backstab plus Rupture, dealing 253 damage to Night Shadow.

Night Shadow woke up from being sapped, but didn't have time to drink a health potion.

Die! Nie Yan used Vital Strike. The dagger in his hand was like a shooting star, slashing across Night Shadow's neck.

Night Shadow's last bit of health was taken away, and he fell to the ground with a thud.

Juice was stunned. She obviously didn't expect Nie Yan's attack to be so fierce. In just a short exchange, he had taken away Night Shadow. She didn't even have time to cast her third attack spell!

Hidden Knife recovered from his polymorph state and was stunned when he saw the system message about Night Shadow's death. Seeing the Ghoul King pounce on him, he quickly parried. His health also dropped to just over two hundred under the Ghoul King's attacks.

Flame Slash!

Hidden Knife finally unleashed Flame Slash. The greatsword burning with flames slashed onto the Ghoul King. The Ghoul King finally let out a miserable scream, and a soul floated out of its body, dissipating in the sky.

Nie Yan had just killed Night Shadow and turned around when Hidden Knife had already killed the Ghoul King. He was one step too late. The Ghoul King's experience was stolen!

Seeing that the experience from the Ghoul King, which he had worked so hard to reduce to half health, was stolen, Nie Yan was furious.

Hidden Knife was also furious when he saw Night Shadow being killed. He charged towards Nie Yan.

Once Hidden Knife got close and held him down with Hamstring, Nie Yan would be finished.

Furthermore, Juice's Arcane Fireball was also flying over. Pincer attack from both sides, Nie Yan would definitely die!

It's either you die or I die. Unless he killed Hidden Knife, Nie Yan would have no chance to survive!

Sacrificial Strike!

Nie Yan's health instantly dropped by 30%, reaching the edge of depletion, leaving only 11%. The dagger in his hand transformed into a sharp bolt of lightning, with streaks of electrical snakes dancing and shooting in all directions. With a whoosh, it pierced into Hidden Knife's chest. The rampaging energy instantly pierced through his body.

-193.

A damage number floated from Hidden Knife's body. His eyes were filled with disbelief. He thought that his 193 health was enough to kill Nie Yan, because the attacks of ordinary thieves would definitely not exceed 30 damage. His hard plate armor could easily block short weapons like daggers. As long as he charged forward, Hamstring would cripple Nie Yan, and then a Wild Blade would kill him!

He died because of his absolute confidence in the defensive capabilities of warriors and the equipment on his body.

Nie Yan's Sacrificial Strike was an anomaly!

He never expected that Nie Yan could unleash such high damage.

Almost instantly, Night Shadow fell, Hidden Knife fell, leaving only Juice. Although she had experienced countless battles, she didn't expect the ending to be like this. Even her usually calm mind, which could remain composed in life-or-death situations, was now difficult to calm down.

At the moment of killing Hidden Knife, Nie Yan rolled away, dodging Juice's Arcane Inferno.

With a bang, the Arcane Inferno exploded, but it was an empty explosion.

Nie Yan picked up the equipment dropped by Hidden Knife, Night Shadow, and the Ghoul King, stood up, and looked directly at the woman called Juice.

Juice finally showed a panicked expression. Losing one level was a small matter, but if she died, her set equipment would no longer be complete.

Three people were reduced to just her in the blink of an eye. This had a huge impact on her mentally.

"I thought you were so powerful, what's wrong, are you scared now?" Nie Yan still remembered the arrogant and disdainful expression Juice had shown, completely ignoring his existence. He walked towards Juice step by step.

"It's not over yet, don't get too cocky!" Juice was still stubborn, raising her staff, but the sense of superiority in her heart had vanished.

Skills like Banishment were indeed effective against thieves, but they only drove the thief away and couldn't threaten them.

Juice overestimated her strength. If it was really a 1v1, Nie Yan could easily play her to death!

If she regarded Nie Yan as those thieves she could easily kill with her high magic damage, then she was wrong.

Juice raised her staff and chanted a spell. Streaks of magical light gathered on the staff, then emitted a deep blue color, dazzling and beautiful.

This woman actually has Arcane Rapid Casting!

Arcane magic, like Elemental magic and Holy magic, also had terrifying power. The Arcane Rapid Casting skill had a short casting time and a cooldown of two days. It could instantly reset the cooldown of all skills for an Arcane Mage for three minutes. In other words, in such a short time, an Arcane Mage could release as many skills as they had mana for, without having to worry about the skill cooldown. This skill was quite terrifying when attacking a single target. As long as she had enough mana, she could release dozens of spells in a few dozen seconds.

He absolutely couldn't let her fully unleash the power of Arcane Rapid Casting. Even a tank-class Shield Warrior wouldn't dare to face this terrifying skill easily. Nie Yan used a Flash Bomb. With a bang, the intense light stimulated Juice's pupils, and her pupils instantly turned dark.

"Go to hell!" Juice's expression instantly became ferocious, and streaks of Arcane Fireballs shot out.

Dud, dud, dud, dud, countless Arcane Fireballs flew through the sky, like tongues of fire, hitting the open ground in the distance, a series of crackling explosions.

"Stupid woman, where are you aiming?" Nie Yan laughed. The place where he was standing was still intact, but the open ground not far from him was a mess after being bombarded by Arcane Fireballs.

After a while, Juice's eyes finally recovered.

"Out of mana, aren't you?" Nie Yan smiled coldly. This arrogant woman should taste the bitter fruit. Although Arcane Rapid Casting was fierce, it was equivalent to bursting out all the damage in an instant. But after the burst, her mana would be completely exhausted.

Juice, like a defeated rooster, stared at Nie Yan venomously and said fiercely, "I'll get my revenge."

"I'll be waiting for you at any time. Forget it, I'll send you back." To avoid being ambushed, Nie Yan was still very cautious. He rushed to Juice and stunned her, then used Assassinate plus Eviscerate, and a Vital Strike sent her back. Her health was much weaker than Night Shadow's.

After killing Juice, Nie Yan picked up the things that fell on the ground, which was a Level 10 Arcane Mage staff.