The Great Thief - Chapter 1023

Chapter 1023: 1023
After searching for a while, Lu Li accidentally stumbled upon a book in the cracks of the fireplace – Ras Frostwhisper's Keepsake . The System then notified them that they had completed the quest .


"Ras Frostwhisper's Keepsake: It holds young master Ras' real and simple side . "
The description was simple, but it was a usable item .
This was the key to defeating Ras Frostwhisper . With this item, they have a much higher chance of succeeding . However, even with this advantage, the Lich was still incredibly powerful .
Frostwhisper was a very beautiful name, but the skill that it referred to was extremely terrifying .
Frost Whisper was the advanced version of Frost Mage's Frost Nova .
Frost Whisper: Freeze all enemies in a 30-metre radius . Frozen enemies can explode under absolute coldness . Surrounding units are damaged; movement speed and attack speed are slowed .
Attack speed referred to both auto attacks and skill casting time, as well as skill cooldown time .
Now, they stood before Ras Frostwhisper again . Apparently, Sorrowless had finally sent out another team to do the quest after being wiped twice . There were tens of thousands of players in Glory Capital, yet not a single one of them thought of doing the quest until after they had been wiped twice .
Lu Li wanted to see how they were progressing with finding the Keepsake at Stromgarde .
At first, the group of players that was sent to find the keepsake was ranting at the gaming designers on the forums .


Lu Li approached Ras Frostwhisper carefully and tested his aggro range; the others were standing as far away as possible .
Fortunately, he had done this before in his past life and was skilled at it .
"What is that book," Ras Frostwhisper murmured .
As he said this, he walked over towards Lu Li, who immediately ran very far away . He turned around as Ras Frostwhisper picked up the small book .
The book returned to its original owner and he began reading it over again .
It wasn't very thick, so Ras Frostwhisper quickly finished the story .
"It was a tragedy; I feel bad for the people . Maybe death was the best ending to the book . But where do I end?" the Lich pondered .
He must have come to the realization of who he used to be – otherwise, he would be hopeless .
Ras Frostwhisper had become a lot weaker than before . Lu Li patted Azure Sea Breeze on the shoulders and prompted, "What are you looking at? Go . "
Azure Sea Breeze hesitated and wondered if he had wronged Lu Li in any way recently, but but charged towards the boss with his shield anyway .

Lu Li wasn't messing with him this time because Ras was dealing around a quarter less damage than before and Mu Qiu could keep him at a comfortable HP by himself .
-164!
This was Lu Li's damage and it was from an auto attack . He was doing almost twice as much damage as before .
-230!
Lonesome Flower sighed . He still wasn't the No . 1 DPS in the party like usual, but at least he was doing more damage than two digits now .

Frostbolt was the most basic Mage skill with a casting time, meaning that it should deal a lot more damage than a Thief skill . However, Ras Frostwhisper still had very strong frost-resistance in spite of his mid-life crisis .
-677!

This was Lu Li's Enhanced Sinister Strike, which dealt a ridiculous amount of damage . If this was used on a player, it would take out almost a third of their HP .
Since Lu Li had already learned enhanced Sinister Strike, he could learn two more enhanced skills .
While he did not have the most Enhanced skills, he definitely had the most useful skill set for a Thief .
Now that the Tank would survive and the DPS classes were doing enough damage, they just needed a strategy .
Ras Frostwhisper's main skill was Frostbolt, but this was not like the normal kind . It was a multi-target skill called Frostbolt Volley . Each Frostbolt dealt an insane amount of damage to the squishier classes and each volley sent the team into chaos .
This put a lot of pressure on the healers .
There was nothing Lu Li could do either because Ras Frostwhisper was a challenging Boss for the party . There weren't any other shortcuts or strategies that would make the fight any easier .
March Rain had many more AOE healing skills, but the most that they covered was five players . As such, there was a lot of pressure on Hachi Chan to cover March Rain . Normally, March Rain was able to cover the entire party while Hachi Chan had an easy job of healing whoever was left out . However, when the Boss fights were difficult, Hachi Chan had to step up her game .
Fortunately, she had been practicing and was no longer an inexperienced newbie .
They were most afraid of a chain attack, which unfortunately hit Sesame Rice Ball Even with his defensive buffs up, he still wasn't able to stay alive .
"Keep going – don't stop . Stay alive for as long as you can . "
Lu Li did not order them to stop this time . He knew that Ras Frostwhisper would be a difficult Boss to defeat and he wanted everyone to experience this so that they would have a better chance at the next attempt if they were to fail this time .
"Dodge!" Lu Li yelled as Ras threw a few more Frostbolts towards them .
As everyone was running away, he added, "Eight yards! Make sure to be at least eight yards away from the Frostbolts!"
It was a bit too late as the Frostbolts exploded on the ground where they landed . Unfortunately, two more players were killed – Sakura Memories and Hachi Chan .
The ones who weren't killed immediately were frozen in place for three seconds .
This was the hardest stage of the Boss fight and around 60% of teams would get stuck on it for a few days . This was only the first stage and only the strongest teams would make it to the second .
Lu Li had attempted Scholomance with other strangers in his past life because he didn't belong to a guild . There were very few teams that could make it past the first stage and they would call it quits after being wiped multiple times .
It was also because of Scholomance that he began studying and learning how to be a good shot caller in the hopes that he could lead a powerful team one day .