Chapter 145 The Art of Shadow Dance

The three characters emerged from their hiding place, looking around to confirm that Shadowless Thief was nowhere to be seen.

"Let's go take a look," Ye Xiu said, and Lord Grim stepped forward. Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion followed on either side.

"Maybe he went to the bathroom?" Steamed Bun guessed. Although he was as off-the-rails as ever, it had to be said that it was a possibility.

"No matter what, he logged off here, right? Should we just wait here?" Tang Rou asked.

Steamed Bun himself had game experience. Tang Rou could no longer be called a newbie. She officially started playing Glory last December, and it had been a full six months since then. Most online games are easy to pick up but difficult to master, and Glory was no different, which was why there was such a vast difference in skill between professional players and ordinary players.

Tang Rou had been playing for half a year now, and she spent a lot of time on it every day. It would be a joke to call her a newbie. It was just that Glory's leveling cycle was relatively long. After half a year, many people had not yet stepped into the Realm of Gods. From this point of view, or from the perspective of people in the Realm of Gods, these players were still noobs. But Tang Rou clearly didn't have this problem. Her skills were superior to ordinary players from the start. The key was her knowledge of Glory. After half a year, she was no longer as clueless as she had been at the beginning.

"Waiting isn't going to solve anything..." Ye Xiu said. There were only three of them, so they couldn't be the ones waiting. Should they continue to ask the major guilds to keep an eye out?

Just as Ye Xiu was thinking this, he suddenly felt something flash in the corner of his eye. He quickly turned his head to look and saw Shadowless Thief jumping out of nowhere. He quickly formed a seal. Ye Xiu knew from the hand seals that it was Shadow Dance, but what he was confused about was: why did this guy suddenly take the initiative to attack? Had he lost his mind?

More than a dozen shadow clones had already pounced over. Ye Xiu judged very clearly that this was an attack, a real, proactive attack. Did Shadowless Thief get some kind of trump card? He dared to take the initiative to attack the three of them?

Ye Xiu couldn't figure it out for a moment, but the opponent had already rushed over. There was no need to be polite. He flicked his mouse, and the cursor accurately pointed to one of the shadow clones rushing towards him. With a gorgeous operation, Lord Grim's Myriad Manifestations Umbrella had already been transformed into a battle lance, directly sending the shadow clone flying. He then retracted the lance with a shake, turning it back into a gun. While jumping back, he fired a shot. A shadow clone was hit, and Lord Grim quickly used Gun Fu to retreat, flashing out of the encirclement of shadow clones.

"Retreat first," Ye Xiu said to Tang Rou and Steamed Bun. Shadowless Thief's boldness made Ye Xiu a little confused. He didn't know if this guy had any strange tricks up his sleeve. It was always better to be careful.

Tang Rou and Steamed Bun also wanted to retreat, but they couldn't be as unrestrained as Ye Xiu. It seemed like Ye Xiu was just having Lord Grim flick his battle lance to sweep away an approaching shadow clone, and then jumping back and using Gun Fu to retreat. But in fact, this involved turning the camera to see the distribution of the shadow clones and focusing on Shadowless Thief's key maneuvers to determine the final direction of the breakthrough. Ordinary players wouldn't notice these things even if they stared at them.

Tang Rou and Steamed Bun were trying to retreat using a ruthless method of attacking. However, the two weren't completely mindless. Their characters were in opposite directions, running in opposite directions. In this way, unless Shadowless Thief could repel them and keep them in place, he couldn't take care of both sides if he let them charge. The control range of Shadow Dance's Shadow Heart was limited!

Ye Xiu, who had retreated out of range and was watching, knew that it was impossible for Shadowless Thief to keep the two of them using Shadow Dance.

How fierce was Tang Rou?

At this moment, the battle lance danced, carrying five types of magic: light, darkness, ice, fire, and the attribute-less magic. Shadowless Thief sent so many shadow clones to try to keep them here, which gave the magic a chance to fly everywhere. Magic could be said to be the greatest characteristic of the Battle Mage. Although its damage was magic damage governed by intelligence, because of the existence of the Magic Enhancement state, even a strength-type Battle Mage like Soft Mist would not ignore the use of magic.

Tang Rou had been playing Glory for so long that she had already mastered the characteristics of the Battle Mage. At this time, she used all kinds of small moves that could produce magic to break through. Every time she hit a target, a magic would fly out. At the same time as the attack, a new magic would rise. This cycle continued, and in the Battle Mage faction, it was called the "Chaotic Magic Stream" playstyle. Some people specialized in this playstyle and would even give up the Battle Mage's specialty weapons, the battle staff or battle lance, and choose a magic wand instead. Magic wands had a higher attack speed, stronger spell damage, and had intelligence as an attached attribute. A Battle Mage who specialized in the "Chaotic Magic Stream" would definitely stack intelligence to strengthen the magic's damage. This kind of extreme and unconventional playstyle no longer existed in the professional circle. Because the magic attack had many restrictions. First, a specific attack had to hit the target to produce a specific magic. Second, the target had to be hit again to launch the magic. And the damage of this magic attack, even if intelligence was stacked to the sky, was ultimately not comparable to a random ultimate move, so it was quite lacking in explosiveness.

Therefore, in the professional circle, the "Chaotic Magic Stream" was only an auxiliary method and was rarely used as the main offensive method. Ye Xiu had of course instructed Tang Rou on this, but at this time, being entangled by Shadow Dance, Tang Rou's judgment to use the "Chaotic Magic Stream" to break the situation was quite good. At this time, small moves were constantly used, and magic flew around in a mess. The five colors of light, darkness, ice, and fire were also different, blasting Shadowless Thief's shadow clones with various colors. What was even more terrifying was that the magic attack counted towards the combo judgment, and the accumulation of combo numbers would activate the Battle Mage's awakening skill: Battle Spirit.

Sure enough, a faint golden light quickly appeared on Soft Mist's body. As the number of combos continued to rise, the gold became brighter and brighter. These shadow clones of Shadow Dance had all become Soft Mist's kills for stacking combos.

What was going on? Ye Xiu was even more confused. He was waiting for Shadowless Thief to use a big move, but this guy was still playing his Shadow Dance until now. As a result, he had fed Soft Mist's Battle Spirit. At this rate, what was there to retreat from? He was being too polite to even call it breaking the Shadow Dance. It had completely become Soft Mist's stimulant!

Tang Rou had obviously also judged this point and felt that this Shadow Dance didn't seem to have anything to dodge. In the end, the so-called breaking through the encirclement was just a show. She just stood in the circle and fought with the various shadow clones that jumped up and down.

Finally...

The shadow clone disappeared. It wasn't beaten to light, nor was it that the skill time had expired. It was that Shadowless Thief had canceled the skill himself. Obviously, he also realized that his Shadow Dance had backfired. But how could this happen? Ye Xiu really wanted to interview this guy now.

As a result, Steamed Bun, seeing that the annoying things were gone, was even more valiant than Tang Rou, and smashed a brick over.

There was no way Shadowless Thief could fall for such a simple and crude attack. He dodged to the side, followed by a Shadow Clone Technique. The character floated away a distance, looking like he was going to run?

What was this guy up to? Ye Xiu chased after Lord Grim, and he really couldn't understand.

As a result, Steamed Bun chased up very energetically and shouted, "Hey kid, don't run! You actually dared to hide and sneak attack us!"

Hide and sneak attack us!?

After hearing Steamed Bun say this, Ye Xiu suddenly had a realization.

Lord Grim decisively chased after him, and Tang Rou and Steamed Bun's characters also followed quickly. After updating their equipment again, they were no longer surprised by Shadowless Thief's movement speed. Lord Grim kept using ranged attacks to harass him, and Steamed Bun Invasion also threw a brick over from time to time. Shadowless Thief was greatly affected and couldn't run smoothly. He twisted s's and z's for a while, and finally the three characters caught up. Lord Grim shook his battle lance and used Circle Swing to pick him up, but before the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella could stab him, Shadowless Thief had already been lifted into the air by Soft Mist's Circle Swing, which had arrived one step earlier.

"Don't steal the kill!" Ye Xiu quickly dissuaded them. He wasn't thinking of quickly killing Shadowless Thief, fearing that Tang Rou would kill him too enthusiastically and stab this guy to death in a few hits.

Circle Swing slammed down, and Shadowless Thief landed heavily on the ground. Soft Mist pulled back her battle lance, and the guy immediately prepared to get up. As a result, Steamed Bun Invasion smashed a brick directly on his head.

"You guys are really ruthless! You even took the initiative to come to my door," Ye Xiu said, also having Lord Grim casually fire two shots at Shadowless Thief while speaking. He had guessed what Shadowless Thief was up to.

This guy really came to steal from them.

Shadowless Thief hadn't been online for the past few days, but could this pickpocketing expert be idle during such a great time for picking up scraps? Obviously, this guy didn't just have this one account. He had been using other accounts to pick up scraps these past few days. Everyone was a pickpocketing expert, specializing in picking up things in the places with the most good stuff. And today, Shadowless Thief's alternate account saw Ye Xiu and his three characters in this area being swept by the Blue Brook Guild elite team.

The three of them carried back full loads of stuff each time. Under such an overload, the character's movement speed, attack speed, jumping, and other attributes would be greatly affected. Shadowless Thief noticed this, so he decisively switched accounts and prepared to take the opportunity to attack the three of them.

He wasn't coming to pick up scraps on his way here. This guy had the same idea as Ye Xiu: he was preparing to wait on the road for a sneak attack. Didn't he just hide in a spot and kill them as soon as he saw Ye Xiu's three characters coming over? But after fighting for a while, Shadowless Thief quickly realized that something was wrong. How could the three characters weighed down by the load be so agile? Realizing this, Shadowless Thief immediately ran away.

Ye Xiu was really dumbfounded. He was planning to let this guy know how strong they were, but he didn't expect this guy to be so bold. Seeing that there was an opportunity on their side, he actually wanted to sneak attack them alone.

But unfortunately, if he wasn't alone, if he had more friends and more information like Ye Xiu, he might have known that Ye Xiu and the others had cleared their burdens very quickly after he came online.
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