The Great Thief
chapter-1823

Chapter 1823: Shifting Blame

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

In fact, the Warrior had no choice. Originally, he was quite confident in this attack, but their opponent was simply not on the same level.

He couldn’t believe that he hadn’t even dealt a fifth of their opponent’s HP. Choosing to stay and fight wouldn’t guarantee victory or his Paladin friend’s life.

Lu Li had successfully killed the Paladin. He took one look at the Warrior disappearing over the horizon, but chose not to chase.

He had no grudge with him – why would he bother?

It wasn’t that he was unable to pursue him. If he turned into a crow, he would gain a better view from the sky and would be able to hunt the Warrior down.

“Level 60 Dark Gold! Should I say you’re lucky or that you’re just a poor idiot?” Lu Li laughed as he picked up the equipment and threw it into his backpack indifferently.

He then bumped into a few more Horde players. Some were in teams of two, some moved individually, but were all killed off by him.

This was until he bumped into a large army with approximately 100 or so players. Lu Li was immediately cautious. Even if he wanted to commit suicide, he had no need to run towards them heroically.

However, he did not run away immediately. Instead, he contacted the players on his side and told them to deploy an ambush quickly.

There were mounds everywhere on the Hellfire Peninsula. There were also ground worms that drilled odd-shaped ditches, which made it easy to hide people. Over a hundred or so Ruling Sword players squatted in the ditch and planned to all rush forward when the Horde’s players had passed.

Her Tears was rather impressed with Lu Li.

He felt that his own play was nothing in comparison with Lu Li, who had planned an ambush of over a hundred people. Not to mention, they were all Elite players that were qualified to enter into the Outlands.

“We only have a maximum of 5 minutes to finish the battle, and we need to retreat completely within 2. Otherwise, a large quantity of players will get wind of us here and surround this area. This place is not easy to escape from,” Sky Moon analysed.

It was precisely because it wasn’t easy to escape from that this place had become the ambush area. It was also because of this that it would not be easy to retreat if they were surrounded.

“5 minutes is plenty. Give it all you got guys,” Lu Li said.

Adrenaline was surging through their veins. This was a man’s fight.

“They have Thieves at the front to carve out a way. Our Thieves will move first, while the Warriors control the situation and the Mages cast area of effect attacks. Don’t let down your guards. The players opposite us are not a motley crowd,” Lu Li instructed as he observed from the air. In the dusk sky, no one was going to take notice of a flying bird.

“Understood!”

Lu Li as a sky radar meant that the Horde Thieves completely missed what they were supposed to encounter until the battle erupted. In the end, they realized that they had been ambushed.

“Go back and support!” The majority of people were all the type to actually fight to the death than escape.

There were also people who were slightly smarter and requested players nearby to come support via the faction channel. Now that this had escalated into a massive faction battle, many players were just joining in when they had the opportunity. As long as they held on for a little bit longer, many players would run over and help them. Then, this whole area would become a messy warzone with a sea of people.

Yet, the number of people in the ambush were far higher than they predicted. This evidently was a premeditated ambush.

“Which club’s people?”

The leader was rather furious.

An ambush attack of this scale and abilities was clearly not of an ordinary guild. It was definitely one of the Alliance’s clubs that had designed this trap.

“Elevenless – we caught a big fish this time!” Fat Monkey shouted as he patted Moonlight’s shoulder. It seemed as if he was trying to lower his voice as he yelled, but in fact, everyone could hear him.

“Elevenless…” Moonlight hesitated for a moment then angrily roared as if he had been transported back, “Elevenless you idiot! I said to stop shouting my name! Now what’s the point of us covering our faces? To hide our stupidity?”

“Eleven… Elevenless!”

The people who were being ambushed reacted immediately.

“So it’s you, Wings of Dawn!”

“Oops, I… I had a slip of the tongue. Boss, what should we do?”

Fat Monkey ran over to the side of a Mage, and looked so guilty with a tone that nearly sounded like he wanted to die in repentance, but his posture was clearly asking for forgiveness.

This Mage was Lonesome Flower – the Lonesome Flower who was known for always being elevated and cold.

Fat Monkey’s original intentions weren’t to pass the blame to Wings of Dawn; he just wanted to play a prank on Moonlight and Lonesome Flower. It just so happened that one was a Warrior and the other was a Mage. They both seemed to be of a high level in terms of their abilities, and could completely be misjudged as Elevenless and Dream 13.

Usually, Moonlight was an unsociable and silent person, so he had forcibly used his acting skills for the sake of coordinating with Fat Monkey.

He was filled with shame.

“Eh, ahem, didn’t we discuss this before? I get you to call Elevenless, then we shift the blame onto Wings of Dawn. You got way too into the acting,” Lonesome Flower said indifferently. His style of talking was very different from that of Dream 13.

He really couldn’t handle the task of imitating Dream 13’s playfulness, so he changed the script at the last moment.

Fat Monkey smiled awkwardly, and didn’t dare to mess with Lonesome Flower again.

However, this didn’t stop the Horde’s players from thinking that they were the people of Wings of Dawn. They had already beating them up as they swore.

Her Tears didn’t want to stay silent and decided to join in on the fun

“What’s the point in swearing huh? I would never change my name or profession – I belong to the Wings of Dawn. We belong to two different factions so it’s natural for us to ambush you guys. Are you saying that’s wrong? Don’t come out here if you can’t stand to lose! Go home and feed on your bottle.”

This was just twisting the knife. Now, even if the people of Ruling Sword admitted that they were in fact Ruling Sword and not from Wings of Dawn, then these players probably wouldn’t even believe them.

“Why shift the blame onto Wings of Dawn? Elevenless is actually not a bad person,” Lu Li questioned, appearing innocent.

In fact, he had also been contemplating regarding the issue of shifting blame. Ruling Sword was still not yet at a point of being invincible, but it was unfortunate that when they still hadn’t chosen the suitable target, Fat Monkey had already chosen Wings of Dawn.

He even chose two people that were the least capable in acting to coordinate with him and was so close to giving it all away.

“There was one time when I saw Elevenless in the wild. Originally, I was going to have a chat with him and make friends, but he was not appreciative and turned around to run away as soon as he saw me. So, I have personal beef with him,” Fat Monkey said boldly and assuredly.

“You brought a group of people who whipped out their weapons as soon as they saw him. Any normal person would run away too. Fat Monkey bro, you’re too shameless.”