Chapter 1 You Can Level Up Here

"You guys continue to grind scale frogs here to clear your red names. Once you're done, I'll take you to level up to thirty," Nie Yan said. He had to wait until these team members cleared their red names before they could use the teleport to Everlasting City to level up.

There weren't enough elite scale frogs here to grind, so many people could only grind the normal ones.

"Boss, why can you enter the city with a red name?" Xia Chong Yu Bing asked, voicing his doubts.

"Once your respect value in Carol City reaches 30 points," Nie Yan said. Accumulating 30 points of respect value in Carol City would probably require doing many difficult quests, which was a bit too hard for the current players.

"…That's so difficult. My respect value in Carol City is only 2 points, and that was obtained by helping NPCs with quests. That quest almost drove me crazy," Undying Scoundrel rolled his eyes.

The others deeply agreed. Thirty points of respect value was still a distant dream for now, unless they encountered some quests with generous rewards.

"You guys continue grinding. Hurry up and clear your red names," Nie Yan said. He had bought a whole thousand area-of-effect magic bombs, enough for them to level up to their heart's content.

The team members went to grind monsters, leaving behind Nie Yan, Yao Yao, Yu Lan, and Bai Kaishui.

Nie Yan chatted with Yao Yao and the others for a while. Yu Lan had lost several levels and all her equipment the last time she got a red name. Nirvana Guild had assigned her a set of equipment, and her level had also been raised to 23. Their team's strength was slowly recovering.

"Thank you for what happened last time," Nie Yan said to Yu Lan and Bai Kaishui.

"Nirvana Leader, you're too kind. What happened last time was caused by the betrayal of a team member. The responsibility lies with us," Bai Kaishui said solemnly.

Yu Lan also nodded. What happened in the team saddened her for a long time, but fortunately, their team's strength had recovered. With the support of Nirvana Guild, they were even stronger than before. Being integrated into Nirvana Guild could be considered a blessing in disguise.

"Alright, let's not talk about unpleasant things," Nie Yan said with a smile, looking around and asking Yao Yao, "Why haven't I seen Sun?"

"He went to find elite monsters. I'll message him," Yao Yao said. It was only then that she realized Sun hadn't been around for a long time.

"Let's grind monsters first," Nie Yan said, wondering if he could grind out the Maniacal Killer Medal.

The group scattered to grind monsters. With their strength, they could easily solo normal level 30 scale frogs. After all, their equipment was top-notch.

Nie Yan found a corner and nestled there to grind scale frogs. After comprehending the mysteries of Shadow Dance, he began to apply the skills he had learned to grinding monsters.

Under Nie Yan's terrifying attacks, scale frogs fell one after another. These scale frogs didn't even touch him, their speed was far behind Nie Yan's. When Nie Yan attacked, only a blur of his figure remained, so they couldn't hit him at all.

After killing the sixteenth scale frog, Nie Yan walked forward and found five scale frogs gathered together in an open space in the forest. After a moment of contemplation, he switched his dagger to a forehand grip and crept towards the scale frogs.

Nie Yan suddenly appeared behind one of the scale frogs, striking the back of its head with a Muffle, then an Assassinate and a Cut. The scale frog screamed, blood gushing out, and turned to pounce on Nie Yan.

The surrounding four scale frogs noticed Nie Yan and also pounced.

Nie Yan's figure was like a ghost, slipping through the gaps between the five scale frogs. A Vital Strike, plus a few normal attacks, killed the scale frog.

"First one!" Nie Yan suddenly turned around, dodging the attacks of the remaining four scale frogs, and hit one of the scale frogs on the forehead with a Stun. His figure shifted, circling behind the scale frog, and landed a Backstab and a Gouge, retreating three or four steps, quickly dodging the attacks of the other scale frogs.

Under the attacks of several scale frogs, Nie Yan's pace remained undisturbed, as if he were strolling in a courtyard.

Their attacks didn't even harm Nie Yan. Nie Yan was as slippery as an eel, perfectly capturing every gap in the attacks, and quickly avoiding them.

The difference between Shadow Dance and a Grand Thief was that a Grand Thief could bring out 100% of their strength, while Shadow Dance could bring out 200%, 300%, maximizing the effect of every stat point.

With the same 100 speed, the same level, stats, and equipment, a Grand Thief was trash in front of a Shadow Dancer!

The scale frog that Nie Yan had attacked had a series of continuous damage numbers floating above its head. Its health had been reduced to only a small amount. After Nie Yan added a few more attacks, it also fell to the ground.

"Second one!" Nie Yan's skills were exhausted, so he used simple footwork to dodge the attacks of the remaining three scale frogs, making several cuts on each scale frog, then quickly dodging.

The three scale frogs kept attacking Nie Yan, with a series of damage numbers floating above their heads, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't even touch Nie Yan's clothes. It was like a player with only 10 hit attacking a player with over 100 dodge. No matter how hard they tried, the final result would only be a miss.

Nie Yan finally understood why the mages who despised Grand Thieves in his previous life were so afraid of Shadow Dancers. Because Grand Thieves and Shadow Dancers were on completely different levels. In the battlefields of his previous life, it wasn't uncommon for mages to be assassinated by Shadow Dancers even under the protection of hundreds of people. But he had never heard of a Grand Thief accomplishing such a feat.

The difference between the two was like night and day.

When the continuous damage on the three scale frogs ended, Nie Yan gave each scale frog another attack, and they continued to lose health.

After a while, the three scale frogs couldn't stand the torment and fell to the ground.

Yao Yao, Yu Lan, and the others rushed over. They stopped outside the clearing, all of them stunned. They happened to see three scale frogs fall to the ground, having been worn down to death by bleed damage! It was already amazing for a warrior to be able to tank and kill five monsters of the same level. It was basically impossible for a Thief, unless their equipment was very good.

Yet Nie Yan killed five scale frogs and was still at full health! This was unbelievable. Could it be that Nie Yan had dodged the attacks of the five scale frogs simply by using simple dodging movements?

Yu Lan, Bai Kaishui, and the others couldn't hide the shock in their hearts. Although the name of Crazy Thief was well-known, they hadn't seen it with their own eyes. This time, however, they had witnessed it firsthand, and the feeling was completely different.

Using Shadow Dance-level skills to grind level 30 monsters was like an adult fighting a five- or six-year-old child. It was completely without difficulty.

Nie Yan killed five scale frogs and bent down to pick up the things that the scale frogs had dropped, seeing Yao Yao and the others. "Is something the matter?"

"Sun said that he accidentally encountered a scale frog lord while searching for elite scale frogs. He was chased for a long time and almost died. He barely managed to escape," Yao Yao said. She was also very surprised at how Nie Yan had done it, but she was already used to it. Nie Yan was a person who created myths.

Nie Yan's heart skipped a beat. After so long, he had finally found another scale frog lord. He wondered what good things would drop this time, asking, "Where is it?"

"The coordinates are 238.282.287. He's watching it over there, telling us to go over quickly," Yao Yao asked with some concern, "Can we kill the scale frog lord?"

"We killed one before. Let's go together," Nie Yan said.

The group headed over there.

As for how Nie Yan had killed the five scale frog lords without taking any damage, no one asked. In their eyes, it was like an untouchable myth, probably Nie Yan's secret.

After a while, Nie Yan and the others arrived where Sun was and met up with him. Sun looked very disheveled, with only a sliver of health remaining. He was sitting in the shade of a tree, eating bread to recover health.

Seeing Nie Yan and the others arrive, Sun quickly stood up and greeted them. "Nirvana Bro, you guys are here."

Nie Yan patted Sun on the shoulder. "Not bad." At this level, accidentally encountering a scale frog lord, being chased by it, and still surviving, could only be done by a handful of people in the entire Carol City.

"Where's the scale frog lord?" Bai Kaishui asked, looking around.

"Over there." Sun pointed into the distance. Among the dense trees, a huge scale frog was lying prone, its whole body as red as blood. It was slightly different from the scale frog lord Nie Yan and the others had encountered before, but it was definitely a lord monster. Different forms of lord monsters would have different skills.

It was a slightly mutated scale frog lord, but as long as it wasn't super-mutated or demonized, its strength wouldn't be much different from a normal scale frog lord.

"Can we use Mist Dust to deal with the scale frog lord?" Sun asked, thinking that they could kill the scale frog lord with Mist Dust, like they did with the elite scale frogs.

Nie Yan shook his head. "The scale frog lord's field of vision is different from that of ordinary scale frogs." According to the method he and Tang Yao had used to kill the scale frog lord before, they could definitely kill the scale frog in front of them, but he had some other ideas. With Shadow Dance skills, he could solo the scale frog lord! The scale frog lord's speed couldn't compare to Nie Yan's, so Nie Yan's Shadow Dance skills would be effective against it, as long as he was careful to dodge its magic skills.

"Then what do we do? Should we ask Brilliant Knife to come over?" Sun asked. Among everyone, only Brilliant Knife could withstand the scale frog lord's attacks. Anyway, they were all nearby. With a dozen people together, they could definitely kill the scale frog lord.

"No need, I'll do it," Nie Yan said. After comprehending the skills of Shadow Dance, he was fully confident that he could kill this scale frog lord.

"You alone?" Everyone was stunned.

"One person is enough." Nie Yan said to Sun beside him, "Pay more attention to my movements. It will definitely be helpful to you."

Nie Yan was thinking that if he demonstrated the skills of Shadow Dance to Sun, Sun might gain some insights with his comprehension.

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