Volume 8 Guild Chapter 7 International Thief
"Level 40? How is that possible?" Chang Sanjiao screamed in disbelief. This fat half-orc shadow thief had developed a good habit of looking through his opponent's wallet before stabbing him a long time ago, and then developed to the point of being a paranoid person who would rather be hacked to death than kill someone before looking through his wallet. I dare say that he is definitely the most diligent practitioner of theft skills I have ever seen, and even so, his theft skills have just reached level 25.
"For you, this is of course impossible. But I have reminded you not to compare me with an amateur thief like you..." Red Wolf said sarcastically with a smug look on his face.
According to the dark elf's own explanation, the reason why he could master the theft skill to the pinnacle at a speed far beyond that of an ordinary person was because he happened to create a special skill. When he had just learned the theft technique, he accidentally discovered that he could "use his hands to move objects" and perform this difficult item transfer technique with both hands at the same time. In this way, he would get two pieces of loot at the same time after each successful theft, and the skill experience he gained would be doubled.
However, even so, the level 40 stealing skill was too shocking. You know, every time a skill is upgraded, the soul power required for the next upgrade is often at least one third higher than the previous level. The higher the level, the more soul power is required. The soul power required for a level 40 skill is several times that of a level 20 skill. This is definitely not something that can be simply added up with "double experience".
Noticing that we were staring at him with distrust, Red Wolf seemed to feel slighted. He puffed out his chest and shouted angrily, "What? You don't believe me? It seems that if I don't let you open your eyes, you don't know that the Horse King has three hands!"
"It should have three eyes, right..." Hearing Red Wolf's boastful words, Yangtze River Delta couldn't help but frowned and questioned.
"Hmph, three eyes are of no use. Three hands are more practical." Red Wolf curled his lips in contempt and said disapprovingly.
Soon, we were "fortunate" to witness the amazing performance of the 40th level theft skill:
At first, we just stared at Red Wolf's hands intently, trying to see when he would perform this amazing unique move. Inadvertently, I turned my head and glanced at the dwarf priest's warehouse. For some reason, I suddenly felt something strange and awkward.
Finally, I found the problem: "Hey, why is your hat gone?" The dwarf lady had always worn a "monk's hat" on her head, which made her short and stocky figure look a little taller. But I don't know when the hat disappeared, making her look even more bloated and clumsy. No wonder I felt something was wrong when I saw her.
I was not the only one who discovered the strange phenomenon. As soon as I finished speaking, the dwarf lady suddenly asked in surprise: "Yangtze River Delta, where are your gloves? How come there is only one arm guard left?"
"Jeff, why is your shield gone?" Finally, Chang Sanjiao looked at me in confusion, "Weren't you holding it in your hand just now?"
Swordsman Foxiao looked at us with an embarrassed expression, then turned to look at Red Wolf.
"This..." The dark elf assassin touched his long ears shyly, turned around and took out some familiar items from his backpack, "...I suddenly realized that I seem to have some extra things here..."
"Ah, my gloves..." Chang Sanjiao shouted in surprise, "...and these poisons, when did you steal them?"
"You have my hat too..." Warehouse also said frantically, pointing at one of the dull-colored novice hats.
My shield was in there, of course, but I had just discovered that the pile of sulfur powder and shale in there matched the amount I had lost from my pack.
Facing Chang Sanjiao's question, the dark elf became increasingly embarrassed. He spread his hands and said to us apologetically, "Actually... I just found out that they came to me..."
Unfortunately, we only thought that Chang Sanjiao's answer came from his professional sense of humor, and did not discover the deeper meaning behind it...
As a live performance of top-level theft skills, this result was indeed successful enough. You know, no matter how skilled the Orc Shadow Thief is in his skills, his arms and fingers will still leave corresponding movements when he steals. But I didn't even notice any abnormal movements of the hands of the international thief in front of us, and I couldn't guess when he made the move. This kind of ethereal and traceless skills have almost left the scope of theft and have been promoted to the field of some kind of performance art, which really makes us amazed.
What really made us see the superb skill was when Red Wolf tried to return these things to us:
"This shield is mine, and these shales..." I was looking through my package as he handed the things back to me, "...three bottles of life potion, a pair of falcon leather pants, two bundles of white sprout grass, three pieces of butter cheese..." Damn it, these things were handed over from Red Wolf's hands in an endless stream, as if they would never be finished.
"Damn it, where's my helmet? And the two lizard skins, the cooked sheepskin, the pickled beef leg...ah...why is my shale gone again..."
"Um..." Red Wolf stood aside, looking at me frantically, and said hesitantly, "...I found that I seem to have two more portions of sulfur here. Are they yours?"
I finally discovered a serious problem: while returning the stolen items to me, Red Wolf was still stealing from me. And judging by his superb stealing skills, I'm afraid he was stealing faster than returning them to me. If I let things continue like this, I'm afraid I would be completely naked before I could get back all my things.
"Enough, stop it!" I yelled in frustration. As soon as I finished speaking, my boots disappeared into thin air.
"I don't want this either..." Red Wolf shrugged innocently. I clearly saw that both of his hands were exposed, but I still found that twenty silver coins were missing from my purse.
I immediately held up my pants with my left hand, held my chest tightly with my right hand, clamped the long sword tightly under my armpits, and retreated five steps away as if running for my life...
"I'm telling you not to use your fucking stealing skills anymore. I've seen enough!" I threatened viciously - if he hadn't stolen my belt, I would have been more confident.
"I really didn't mean to do that. I couldn't stop even if I wanted to..." Red Wolf looked at me with a sidelong look of grievance and said, "...This is a passive skill..."
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Before, I always believed that the highest level of theft is to be able to steal without anyone noticing, and to complete the theft without anyone noticing.
The emergence of the red wolf completely overturned this superficial understanding.
It's just that gods and ghosts don't know, it still has to come from the heart, no matter how skilled and proficient, there are always traces to follow. And Red Wolf's realm is even more extraordinary and far-reaching, unprecedented -
He was pickpocketing without even knowing it, he was completely silent and invisible.
To put it simply, this shifty dark elf is simply a kleptomaniac who can't control his hands.
Since it is a passive skill, for Red Wolf, "stealing" is no longer just a behavior, but a state. This state is like the magic shield of a magician or the animal transformation of a druid. You don't need to activate it again and again . As long as you use it once, you can stay in this state for a long time.
In the "Empty Hands" state, Red Wolf will indiscriminately steal items from everyone around him, but will also lose all combat capabilities until the skill cools down after three minutes.
Fortunately, like ordinary theft skills, the effect of this skill is more obvious for ordinary natives, and because of the natural resistance of the skywalkers, most of the time only some worthless copper and rotten iron will be stolen. Otherwise, Red Wolf would have surpassed the last king Darendil and become the most terrifying existence in the Falvi continent.
Now we know how he developed his astonishing thieving skills - he simply threw himself into a crowd with his skills turned on, and after stealing a lot of things along the way, he was contentedly beaten into a meat patty - he did this over and over again, and he never got tired of it.
Well, let's completely forget about those comments about "the realm of theft" and look at this fugitive from the enemy country correctly. Strictly speaking, he is not completely a kleptomaniac...
He is simply a kleptomaniac with severe masochistic tendencies!
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"Give us back our things!" The three victims of this blatant theft shouted with red eyes - the only thing that stopped us from rushing in and chopping him into pieces again was that we didn't want to have our knife stolen by this black-skinned pickpocket at the last moment before we pulled out the knife to kill him.
"Wait until my skills cool down!" Red Wolf looked aggrieved.
"Don't come near..." Finally, Foxiao, who was standing aside, spoke. He was obviously used to this kind of thing, and had not approached Red Wolf from the beginning. Now, he waved his hands frantically at the Yangtze River Delta and the warehouse to stop them from taking any further action.
He didn't need to say more. Even if you put a steel knife to my neck now, don't let me get close to this seemingly harmless dark elf!
"Now, Red Wolf, put everything that doesn't belong to you on the ground." Seeing that we were all standing in a place where the theft skills could not reach, Fo Xiao continued to say to Red Wolf.
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that in such a short period of time, so many of our things had been transferred to the Red Wolf.
When the dark elf put down all the stolen goods and retreated far to the side, the three of us gathered around him cautiously, put our own items into the bags one by one, and at the same time classified Red Wolf as one of the "extremely dangerous characters" in our hearts.
Now I understand why there are so many wanderers, assassins and shadow thieves in the world, but only Red Wolf has mastered the theft skill of "empty hands". We must believe that in some special fields, there are indeed some "geniuses" who are far beyond our common sense.
Having witnessed Red Wolf's extraordinary abilities, I really couldn't imagine how shocking it would be when his level 40 theft skill was fully unleashed - perhaps even if he stole the high priest's underwear, he wouldn't be discovered.
I suddenly felt that his shocking and crazy theft plan might actually succeed.
"Why didn't you join the union?" Warehouse also stood five steps away from Red Wolf, full of doubts, and asked, "A high-level theft skill like yours should be of great help when you go to the dungeon."
After hearing the dwarf's question, Red Wolf asked back, "Do you think any guild leader who has a little bit of common sense and is not completely crazy would be willing to accept a guy who has lower lethality than a priest, worse defense than a mage, more fragile health than a bard, dies faster than a warrior, can neither topple monsters nor heal, has no auxiliary skills, rarely deals damage, only cares about stealing money during battle, disarms teammates, is the first to run away when in danger, always inexplicably attracts a lot of monsters, and then hides and watches the whole group being wiped out?"
Everyone shook their heads...
"Unfortunately, the guild leaders in the Empire agree with you..." The dark elf nodded with a look of shame on his face, "...So, every time I changed a guild, I realized sadly that there was one less guild that didn't know my background and might take me in."
Perhaps this black-skinned guy has countless shortcomings, but he at least has one noble virtue, which is enough to be a role model for most intelligent creatures in the world and make people look up to him:
He is really very self-aware!
"...Finally one day, I realized that I had tried all the guilds in the Doomsday Empire, and the final result was that I was ruthlessly kicked out. If I want to join a guild again, I'm afraid I can only try my luck in the Alliance..." Red Wolf said dejectedly, "...Maybe I can meet a confused president who will keep me."
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. The dark elf's words immediately aroused the great enthusiasm of the two human traffickers around him:
"If that's the case, you might as well try your luck in our guild!" I immediately said, wanting to pat him on the shoulder. But when I thought of his elusive stealing skills, I immediately retracted my hand as soon as it was suspended in the air.
"You mean to say that your president happens to be a psychopath?" Red Wolf asked in confusion, "It can't be such a coincidence, right?"
Although it may be difficult to find another mentally sound guy besides me in the guild we are about to establish, and there is a high possibility that the future president is a mentally ill person, it is still difficult for me to make a conclusion on this issue at the moment.
"In fact, we are forming a new guild, but we are having some trouble..." I smiled awkwardly and told my two travel companions about the dilemma we are currently facing.
"…If we can't gather signatures from twenty people, we won't be able to build our guild. We're having a headache over this issue." Although I was mainly telling the dark elf about our experiences, I was looking expectantly at the swordsman Buddha Smile beside him as I spoke - the chances of getting a dark elf to join the Continental Alliance's guild were slim, but if we could successfully persuade this human swordsman to join, it would be a big gain for us.
Surprisingly, the dark elf Red Wolf was very interested in this matter:
"You mean, I can join this guild without submitting any application, just by signing my name on the notice board?" The dark elf asked carefully, "You know, the enemy camp doesn't have the option of submitting an application."
Chang Sanjiao carefully reviewed the procedures required to establish a guild, and then gave him a positive answer.
"Then I really want to give it a try..." Red Wolf said excitedly, "... maybe I can find a system loophole."
System loophole? What is that? Oh, forget it, I don't think I can understand it.
"That's great. Whether you can join the guild or not, we will definitely help you steal the equipment of the high priest." Chang Sanjiao promised solemnly. In Chang Sanjiao's eyes, compared with Miss Feiyin's iron-clad recruitment indicators, the top-grade equipment of the high priest Evelina was not worth considering at all, and he sold it without hesitation.
Since the dark elf was willing to try to join the guild, his human swordsman partner would naturally not stand aside. Under our coercion and inducement - no, it should be said that under our emotional and rational persuasion - Foxiao also agreed to join our new guild, and our work of recruiting guild members finally made a major breakthrough.
At this time, we had already arrived near the holy city of Frescht. In front of us, the city gate was wide open. There were not many pedestrians coming in and out, and the faces of the gate guards were vaguely visible.
