The Great Thief - Chapter 230

Chapter 230
“Jump down? You’re kidding, right? It’s so high up!” Azure Sea Breeze felt his legs turn into jelly . Even Sakura Memories could not believe him .


“Let’s go back, let’s go back . ” Wandering decided against Lu Li’s suggestion .
Lu Li knew what he was doing . There will be an old and broken-down shrine at the dead end, which was a couple of meters up ahead .
If they jumped from there, there would be a body of water to break their fall .
This was discovered by a group of players who had wanted to break the Instance Dungeon record time in Lu Li’s past life . As such, they thoroughly studied the Instance Dungeon and found this shortcut .
Retracing their steps back to the beginning could lead them to the right path as well . However, doing this would waste more time .
After becoming confused and lost their direction several times, the group finally reached the fourth boss .
“Apparently, this boss drops shields . Someone from the Blood Red War Flag looted a LV20 Silver Grade shield last night . ” Azure Sea Breeze was tempted to give the boss a kiss after hearing about this .
The turtle Boss Kresh was a passive monster . As long as it was not attacked, it would not aggro onto anyone . Even if Azure Sea Breeze gave him a kiss, nothing would happen .
This giant turtle was the most ancient inhabitant of the Howling Caves . Nobody knew how many years it had survived down here . The calm and docile Kresh was not affected by Navalex’s nightmares .
However, Kresh was hunted by almost every party because it dropped a very rare defensive shield .
“Why did you attack Kresh? Kresh has done nothing wrong,” the turtle Boss whined depressingly .
Rare treasures naturally attract hunters . It was human nature to hunt for things that they desire .


Kresh wasn’t difficult to defeat . Apart from its high defence, it had very little offensive powers . It only had a skilled called Crushing Bite, which had an Armor Pierce effect . However, the effects didn’t stack, unlike Piercing Heart Wolf General .
After about 20 minutes or so, Kresh was defeated without putting up much of a fight .
“I’ll do it myself, . ” Azure Sea Breeze said as he stopped Remnant Dream .
Remnant Dreams wasn’t against this because apparently, the only valuable thing that this boss dropped was the shield .
Azure Sea Breeze rubbed his hands together and stretched his legs, preparing to take the loot . He even prayed to some unknown gods and deities .
“Goddamn, why is it this?!”
Lu Li went over to have a look and saw that it was a “Worn Turtle Shell Shield” . He could only consolingly pat Azure Sea Breeze on the back .
Worn Turtle Shell Shield was a LV20 Steel Grade shield, however, it was nothing but trash compared to Azure Sea Breeze’s current shield .
This was nothing out of the ordinary . Kresh’s Back was considered the best LV20 Silver Grade Shield . However, its drop rates were terribly low, at 5% in Elite mode and 20% in Nightmare mode .
They weren’t taking the First Clear, so the drop rates were even lower .
“Lu Li, can we try doing Nightmare mode later?” Azure Sea Breeze was triggered by this and had become ambitious .
“Yeah, we can do nightmare later,” Lu Li agreed .


The first five bosses were possible on nightmare mode, however, the last three bosses would be quite difficult to defeat . Not only were they high-level, but they also had extremely annoying crowd control abilities .
It would be hard to clear the entire dungeon, but they were doing it for the loot anyway .

The party picked up some useless equipment and materials that dropped from Kresh and continued onwards .
They walked along the river ditch as they cleared out Deviate Crocolisks along the way and eventually reached Skum .
Skum was a Kodo beast from the North Barrens and had come to the Howling Caves to seek refuge from the harsh environment .
Much like the other inhabitants of the cave, it had also become corrupted .
Now, dark energy flowed through his body, turning it into a massive and cruel beast . It would attack anything that came too close with its sharp tail and lightning .
Glory Capital, Bloor Red War Flag and the other major guilds were all stuck on this boss .
The reason was simple – Chain Lightning .
This was a Shaman’s most commonly-used mobbing skill . The damage wasn’t very high, nor did it have any bonus effects .
However, when Chain Lightning was casted by a boss, it became unimaginably powerful .
Chain Lightning: Skum strikes an enemy with a lightning bolt that arcs to other nearby enemies . Deals high nature damage, targets are paralysed .
It hit multiple targets and caused paralysis .
Skum was essentially the first Boss in Dawn that could deal damage to multiple targets .
Chain Lightning had no cooldown and could be spammed multiple times .
Lord Pythas could make melee classes less powerful . Skum, on the other hand, completely rendered them useless, because of its continuous release of Chain Lightning .
Ranged classes alone could not deal enough damage to take out the 80,000HP beast .
The Blood Red War Flag and other big guilds had tried an all-ranged lineup . However, they found that if Chain Lightning didn’t spread among the other players, it would instantly kill the main tank .
There was information about the boss on the forums, and it was known to everyone how difficult Skum was to deal with .
Wandering and the others knew they had an impossible task before them .
“How about we try this? Melee classes try to spread out as much as possible and stay away from Azure Sea Breeze . I’ll share the Chain Lightning damage with him,” Wandering ordered .
Azure Sea Breeze raised his shield and bashed the boss on the head, immediately grabbing aggro .
Skum howled angrily and a lightning bolt immediately hit Azure Sea Breeze .
The lightning did not disappear after hitting him but instead, forked-off to hit Wandering, leaving both of them paralysed .
Normally, Chain Lightning from a Shaman dealt very little damage .
After a few Chain Lightnings, the damage began to stack up, by three or four times . March Rain could not heal enough, so Hachi Chan also began healing .
The Boss’s HP had dropped by about 3 % .
“I can’t hold the boss anymore!” Azure Sea Breeze watched as his HP became critically low and realized that his death was imminent .
Even if he held on, the two healers didn’t have enough mana to last the whole fight at this current state .
“Someone else take the aggro . Moonlight, it’s up to you now . ” Wandering’s HP was also dangerously low and he had to switch aggro .
Moonlight tanked the damage for a little while, but eventually gave out as well .
As a Berserker, his defence was much lower than Wandering’s .
“Let’s give up; I don’t think we can do this,” Azure Sea Breeze sighed .
Wandering could switch aggro with Moonlight . However, as the main tank, Azure Sea Breeze had no one to switch with .
The moment he said this, Chain Lightning was casted, dealing 500-600 points of damage and instantly killing him .
Lu Li quickly reacted and ran .
After he reached a safe spot, he used Stealth to leave the battle . The whole party was basically defeated after two more Chain Lightnings .