Chapter 1 White Light

The white light emitted by the crystal ore illuminated the entire cave. In the depths of the dark cave, shadows flickered from time to time, likely the Crystal Cavern Dwellers that spawned there!

Creatures that drop crystal ore when killed!

Nie Yan and the others gradually retreated into the crystal cave, with the group of thieves relentlessly pursuing them.

There was a large open space inside the cave. If they let them in, it would be troublesome. With the Crystal Cavern Dwellers in front and the thieves harassing from behind, Nie Yan and his team would be caught in a pincer attack.

"They still won't leave, what should we do?" Shui Se Yan Tou and the others looked at Nie Yan and asked. They couldn't possibly divide their attention to guard the rear while dealing with the monsters in front.

Nie Yan thought for a moment and said, "I'll lure the Crystal Cavern Dwellers over to block the entrance."

"That might work, but there's one thing, the Crystal Cavern Dwellers won't listen to us. If we lure them over and they don't block the entrance, it'll be troublesome if they attack us," Shui Se Yan Tou said.

Shui Se Yan Tou's concerns were valid. If the thieves attacked a Crystal Cavern Dweller, the aggro of the other Crystal Cavern Dwellers would be scattered. If they lured them over, they would definitely scatter their attacks on all the teammates. Coupled with the Blood Battle Spear thieves biting at their heels from behind, it could very likely lead to a wipe.

"The key is to focus their aggro. Does anyone have Ice Age?" Nie Yan asked. It would be great if someone had the Ice Age skill.

Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan said from the side, "I do." The Ice Age skill was the most basic area-of-effect spell for elemental mages. How could he not have it?

"Then do you have any Beginner Ethereal Potions?" Nie Yan asked. If they had Beginner Ethereal Potions, then his plan could be implemented. If not, he would have to think of another way.

The Beginner Ethereal Potion could temporarily put a player in a Beginner Ethereal state. In the Beginner Ethereal state, a person would turn into a mist, immune to physical attacks, but the damage from magical attacks would be tripled, and movement speed would be greatly reduced. This potion was relatively rare, and only some top-tier players would occasionally equip it.

"I have one," Cui Can Dao Guang said, his gaze landing on a bottle of azure potion in his backpack.

"I have one too, it was given to me when I did the Shield Warrior quest," Leng Ao Ying said. He happened to have a bottle of Ethereal Potion in his backpack, which he kept for emergencies.

"You two trade the Beginner Ethereal Potions to Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan. Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan, come with me. The rest of you, wait here," Nie Yan said. Luring monsters was a job for the two of them.

Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan received the Beginner Ethereal Potions traded over by Cui Can Dao Guang and Leng Ao Ying, and then followed Nie Yan's footsteps. Nie Yan walked towards the depths of the cave, took a look, and saw that this area was a very large open space.

"You stay here first, I'll lure the monsters," Nie Yan said, explaining the work he was about to do to Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan.

Nie Yan activated Shadow Dance and dashed wildly towards the depths of the cave, passing by piles and piles of Crystal Cavern Dwellers.

The Crystal Cavern Dwellers were all emerald green, their bodies constructed of crystals, with particularly large heads and atrophied limbs, wielding spears. They wandered around in groups of fifty or sixty.

Crystal Cavern Dweller: Level 50, HP 8000/8000.

In Nie Yan's memory, these Crystal Cavern Dwellers had a certain physical damage reduction talent. The physical attacks of warriors could only deal very little damage to them, but the attacks of mages would have a certain bonus effect. Conversely, the aggro of the Crystal Cavern Dwellers would easily be transferred to the mages. Therefore, when encountering elites or lords, once the aggro was transferred, it would be a wipe for the players. This was the reason why the Crystal Cavern had not been cleared until now.

Nie Yan continued to dash into the depths of the cave, looked at a pile of Crystal Cavern Dwellers in the distance, raised the Headless Horseman Doro's Riding Crossbow in his hand, aimed at them, and shot out arrows.

The arrows hit one of the Crystal Cavern Dwellers.

A group of Crystal Cavern Dwellers chased after Nie Yan. Nie Yan ran towards the cave entrance. Soon, groups of Crystal Cavern Dwellers gathered towards Nie Yan, like a train, with a large group following behind, a total of two or three hundred Crystal Cavern Dwellers. The scene was quite spectacular.

Seeing this group of Crystal Cavern Dwellers, Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan was also taken aback.

"Start casting Ice Age!" Nie Yan sent a message to Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan.

Receiving Nie Yan's message, Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan immediately began chanting Ice Age. A gloomy magical element quickly gathered, and the surrounding cold mist condensed, and the temperature suddenly dropped by several degrees.

Immediately afterwards, snowflakes fell, turning a large area nearby into a world of ice and snow.

The group of Crystal Cavern Dwellers entered the area of Ice Age, and a large number of damage numbers floated up, all only a dozen points of damage. The Ice Age skill did not deal much damage, but it was this low damage that instantly focused the aggro of all the Crystal Cavern Dwellers on Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan.

After casting Ice Age, Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan ran madly towards the cave entrance.

"The aggro is all focused on Huai Dan, don't attack!" Nie Yan said in the team chat. He wedged his body in front of the fastest Crystal Cavern Dweller and moved his position from left to right.

The Crystal Cavern Dweller stopped for a moment when it encountered Nie Yan blocking it in front. It took a few steps, and then encountered Nie Yan again, and stopped again.

In this way, the movement speed of the Crystal Cavern Dwellers was greatly slowed down. When it raised its spear to stab Nie Yan, Nie Yan had already dodged.

Nie Yan greatly reduced the speed of each of the fastest Crystal Cavern Dwellers, and the overall movement speed of the Crystal Cavern Dwellers dropped by about 10%.

A large group of Crystal Cavern Dwellers moved to the entrance of the Crystal Cavern.

The Blood Battle Spear thieves were wandering near the entrance. Seeing such a large group of Crystal Cavern Dwellers, they were all dumbfounded.

"Holy shit, so many Crystal Cavern Dwellers!"

Shui Se Yan Tou, Cui Can Dao Guang, and the others quickly moved aside, sticking close to the Crystal Cavern Dwellers and passing by them, running far away with the team members. The aggro of the Crystal Cavern Dwellers was all focused on Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan, and they ignored Shui Se Yan Tou, Cui Can Dao Guang, and the others.

This group of Crystal Cavern Dwellers blocked the entrance. Several Crystal Cavern Dwellers were about to pounce on Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan, when they saw Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan drink a bottle of Beginner Ethereal Potion, his body turning into a mist. The aggro of these Crystal Cavern Dwellers immediately returned to zero.

Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan moved slowly, 'running' outside. Although it was said to be running, he used all his strength, but his movement speed was so slow that it was almost like walking, like a slow-motion scene in a movie.

After a while, the first bottle of Beginner Ethereal Potion ran out, and he quickly drank another bottle of Beginner Ethereal Potion. Fortunately, this thing had a short cooldown time.

With the effect of two bottles of Beginner Ethereal Potion, Sha Bu Si De Huai Dan finally ran out.

Looking towards the cave entrance, the entrance was blocked by two or three hundred Crystal Cavern Dwellers. The people from Blood Battle Spear would not be able to enter unless they cleared away these Crystal Cavern Dwellers! By the time they cleared them away, Nie Yan and the others would have already gone deep into the interior of the Crystal Cavern, and the Crystal Cavern Dwellers along the way would have almost respawned.

If the higher-ups of Blood Battle Spear knew about this news, it was unknown if they would be depressed enough to want to kill someone. Nie Yan and his party stirred up trouble in the City of Light, and in the end, they still managed to run away, leaving them with no way to deal with them. Blood Battle Spear was definitely going to be furious!

Nie Yan smiled easily and said, "Alright, the entrance is blocked. Let's go inside and grind monsters to clear our red names." This way, they would have no worries.

Shui Se Yan Tou and the others couldn't help but be impressed by Nie Yan's whimsical ideas. If he hadn't come up with this method to block the entrance of the Crystal Cavern, they might have been stuck at the entrance of the Crystal Cavern, unable to advance or retreat.

They began to advance towards the depths of the cave. They had to go as deep as possible into the Crystal Cavern before Blood Battle Spear cleared all two or three hundred Crystal Cavern Dwellers blocking the entrance, so that the people from Blood Battle Spear would not be able to catch them.

Cui Can Dao Guang, Leng Ao Ying, and Yi Yan began to go up and pull monsters. The three super shield warriors stood in front, and the mages constantly attacked from behind, sweeping away the Crystal Cavern Dwellers one by one. The group followed the winding cave deeper and deeper.

While clearing monsters, Ban Xing De Hu Li sent Nie Yan a message: "Check out the Assassin Alliance, you'll have an amazing discovery!"

What happened in the Assassin Alliance? Nie Yan was stunned for a moment, looked at the Assassin Alliance, and searched for the amazing discovery that Ban Xing De Hu Li was talking about. The Assassin Alliance's page was clear at a glance. Among the professional players, there was actually a Marquis and three Count positions. This was very unbelievable, because to become a Marquis, one had to complete at least three tasks worth more than 1,000 gold coins. Looking at the guy with the Marquis title, the name was actually a familiar person, Ying Sha!

The three tasks he completed had all just been submitted. The first one, assassinating Ban Xing De Hu Li, the president of the Holy Roman Empire, reward 1,200 gold coins, completed. The second, assassinating Lie Yang, the president of the Mage Alliance, reward 2,200 gold coins, completed. The third, assassinating Fa Lan, the president of the Caran Holy Temple, reward 1,800 gold coins, completed. In addition, the fourth, assassinating Nie Yan, the president of the Niu Ren Tribe, reward 3,900 gold coins, not completed.

Damn, Ying Sha had actually joined the Assassin Alliance, which startled Nie Yan. The Assassin Alliance had actually posted a task to assassinate him, what a huge blunder!

However, he had told Ban Xing De Hu Li and the others before that the Assassin Alliance's customers would not cancel any tasks they posted, even tasks to assassinate them. He didn't expect his words to come true.

Ying Sha was also awesome enough. In addition to these three thousand-gold tasks, the number of people he had assassinated was countless, regardless of which camp they were in. As long as he was paid, he would kill them, but of course, they had to be skilled enough to qualify for him to personally take action! However, his assassination of Nie Yan had failed.