Chapter 127 Rescue

Nie Yan flew forward, running swiftly. His method of combat was another form of kiting, but he used bleed and poison damage.

If he were to fight head-on, he definitely wouldn't be able to deal with these Shadow Thieves. However, using this method, it was much easier, just a little more time-consuming.

The Shadow Thieves pounced, visibly forcing Nie Yan into a corner, leaving him with nowhere to retreat. He suddenly leaped up, sticking to the nearby wall and climbing towards the top, flipping over and jumping behind the Shadow Thieves, another Assassinate, followed by an Eviscerate.

The energy from the dagger's Eviscerate directly blasted the Shadow Thieves away.

The Shadow Thieves staggered and fell to the ground, struggling to get up. When they tried to continue chasing Nie Yan, he had already run far away.

Nie Yan continued kiting, grinding down the Shadow Thieves' health bit by bit, until they finally collapsed on the ground.

A silver-gray piece of armor burst out on the ground. Nie Yan picked it up and took a look; it was actually a Dark Gold-grade Gloomrender Armor. The Gloomrender series of equipment, if a complete set could be collected, would reduce the level requirement by 10 levels, allowing it to be worn at Level 60. However, the Gloomrender series of sets only dropped during exploration of certain maps.

The Gloomrender Armor of Sanction added 120 points of shadow damage, as well as a large amount of Strength. It was suitable for Berserkers who followed a reckless offensive route.

These elite-level Shadow Thieves wouldn't respawn if they were killed. He wondered if he could get a set of Gloomrender here.

If he had a set of Gloomrender, it would be quite suitable for Shui Se Yan Tou, Wu Feng, Hei Bai, and the others.

Nie Yan searched under the Shadow Thieves' corpses, but found nothing else. He walked towards the room he had opened earlier. It was a narrow room, empty and bare. He retreated and continued forward.

Opening these rooms often resulted in one or two Shadow Thieves appearing. Nie Yan used the same method to grind them down and then check the rooms. He could often find one or two boxes or something in the rooms. Silver-grade and Gold-grade were more common, while Dark Gold-grade were rarer. During this time, he did manage to get three pieces of Gloomrender, namely the armor, gauntlets, and leggings. He was still missing the pauldrons, helmet, and boots.

Nie Yan opened a door, preparing for defense. Unexpectedly, he was not attacked by Shadow Thieves. No Shadow Thieves came out. The furnishings inside were the same as in other places, but a fat man in a gray cloth robe was sitting by the bed, with a fat head and big ears. His messy golden hair looked a little disheveled.

Nie Yan cast a Detect on him.

Noble Fielbrazer: Level 0, Health 200/200.

"Respected Demon Hunter, Great Scholar, please save me from here, I beg you." This Fielbrazer immediately showed a sad expression when he saw Nie Yan.

"This is an Instant Teleport Scroll. You can use it to leave here," Nie Yan said, trading one of the Instant Teleport Scrolls to Fielbrazer.

"Thank you, respected Demon Hunter, Great Scholar," Fielbrazer said gratefully.

Nie Yan was a little annoyed by this somewhat awkward-sounding title, but the language of NPCs was strictly limited, especially titles, and could not be arbitrarily changed.

After Fielbrazer used the Instant Teleport Scroll, he disappeared on the spot and went back.

Looking at the task progress, Rescue Hostages 1/100.

Nie Yan scanned the room. There was nothing in this room. Only the rooms guarded by Shadow Thieves would have treasure chests and such.

He checked the rooms one by one and rescued eight hostages. After checking these rooms, Nie Yan entered a large hall. Pillars stood tall, and a red carpet stretched forward, leading to a throne at the front. The arrangement was extremely luxurious. The hall looked very empty, but Nie Yan felt a sense of crisis in his heart.

Eye of Truth!

A bizarre red light bloomed in Nie Yan's eyes. Gradually, faint figures appeared in his vision.

There were at least fifty or sixty Shadow Thieves moving around in this hall, shocking Nie Yan.

If he rushed over rashly, he wouldn't know how he died. Fortunately, he used the Eye of Truth, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to detect that this empty hall was actually full of dangers.

A Master-level job change quest was already very difficult. The difficulty of an Expert-level job change quest could be imagined. Nie Yan's choice to take a step back was correct. In his previous life, most players who advanced to Grand Thief did the Simple-level difficulty job change quest. There was statistical data from his previous life showing that at most a few hundred players completed the Normal-level job change quest, only a few dozen completed the Difficult-level job change quest, and only one seemed to have completed the Master-level job change quest. He had forgotten that person's name, but it was said that he was just lucky. Sun, Wang Zhe Tian Xia, and the others only completed the Difficult-level job change quest.

Nie Yan had already challenged the limits by accepting the Master-level job change quest. As for the Expert-level, he didn't even dare to think about it. Accepting it was tantamount to courting death.

The Grand Thief job change quest could be accepted at Level 50. It was very rare to complete the job change quest at Level 50. One or two out of several thousand would be good. Generally, it had to wait until a very high level to be completed. As for the higher-level Shadow Dancer, it could only be accepted at Level 100, but not many people could complete the job change and obtain the Shadow Dancer title. In the eyes of ordinary players, Shadow Dancer was a title almost like a god.

During the time before Nie Yan's rebirth, his level was considered very high, a Level 180 Grand Thief. At that time, there were only twenty or thirty people above Level 200, and those people were basically all decked out in divine equipment, the kind that stirred up storms. Nie Yan steadily resided in the second tier.

It was unknown whether there were other titles above Shadow Dancer, but it was said that it was very difficult to train above Level 200. The experience from killing any monster was very low. Killing monsters for a few weeks might only increase the experience value by single digits. The experience in Faith was never capped, but the leveling speed above Level 200 was too slow, almost like being capped.

Leveling in the later stages was too difficult, which was why he spent so much effort to bring up the level of the Gold Dragon. Generally, in the later stages, the leveling speed of melee units was too slow when soloing. They mainly relied on battle pets to kill monsters and level up. Any battle pet with good area-of-effect magic growth was hyped up to astronomical prices. The level of the Gold Dragon had to keep up, otherwise, he would have to go to low-level maps specifically to level up pets in the future, which would be too troublesome.

Planning his development, once the Warblade Soaring Flames incident was over, he would come and go in the underground world every ten days, dedicating all his time to leveling!

Nie Yan needed to handle too many things, which distracted him. Otherwise, if he leveled up at full speed, he would be at least Level 90 by now.

Looking at the group of Shadow Thieves in front of him, Nie Yan thought for a moment and cast a Disguise skill. He put on a black cloak, and his appearance was exactly the same as an ordinary Shadow Thief.

He entered Stealth and moved towards the throne in the distance.

While in Stealth, he felt more than a dozen gazes scanning him, but after lingering on him for a long time, those gazes moved away one after another.

Nie Yan breathed a sigh of relief, looked around with the Eye of Truth, and dodged the Shadow Thieves.

He passed by the Shadow Thieves one after another, and after a while, he gradually approached the throne at the front of the hall. The seat was completely carved from dark gold metal, and a Thief in dark gold leather armor was walking back and forth near the throne.

The Thief was holding two short swords in his hand, looking like a Combat Thief.

Nie Yan found a suitable position, hid behind a pillar, and cast Detect on the Thief.

Bloodthirsty Thief: Level 70 Lord, Health 150,000/150,000.

Generally, when teams formed groups to kill Lords, they would avoid humanoid Thief Lords. There was no other reason than that they were too difficult to deal with, moved too fast, and had skills like ranged dash and stun.

Generally, the wipe rate was highest when teams encountered humanoid Thief Lords.

As for trying to solo a Level 70 Lord, that was courting death.

Although there were tall pillars here, Nie Yan couldn't hang on them to kill the Bloodthirsty Thief. Bows and crossbows were necessary props for Thieves, even Thief monsters. If you were hanging above them shooting at these Thieves, the Bloodthirsty Thief and Shadow Thieves might shoot back at you with bows and crossbows.

This plan was basically ruled out.

Nie Yan had been to this hall in his previous life, but at that time, the Shadow Thieves and Bloodthirsty Thief here had been cleared. He remembered that there was an entrance to an underground prison behind the throne, which should be where the hostages were imprisoned.

This place was very hidden. Fortunately, Nie Yan was familiar with the map here. If it were another Thief, he might search this coliseum for two or three days and still not find the entrance.

Nie Yan's eyes searched the hall and found a huge box placed not far from the Bloodthirsty Thief. This box was not a treasure chest, but an ordinary decoration. The box was very large and placed in a corner.

It was different from treasure chests. Treasure chests could not be moved or destroyed, and would disappear after being opened, while this kind of decoration would always be there as long as it was not moved, just like real objects.

This box was woven from bamboo strips and had a logo of three daggers carved on it.

When Nie Yan came here in his previous life, there was indeed a box placed in that position, but it was already empty, with nothing inside.

This box was not locked and could be easily opened. He wondered what was inside.

It would be difficult to open this box without being discovered by the Bloodthirsty Thief.

Nie Yan cast Detect on this box.

Thieves' Stash: Thieves place all the money and items they have robbed and stolen here.

Nie Yan's heart skipped a beat. When he came here in his previous life, the contents of the storage box had already been emptied. In this life, he was the first person to come here. No one had touched this box before him!

~~I crashed today. I slept too late last night, and I didn't get up until after 1 p.m. today. I'm also coding particularly slowly. This is only the first chapter so far.