Making a trip to the underground earned one thousand two hundred million gold coins, which was unimaginable for other guilds. However, for the Bull Tribe, it wasn’t particularly surprising. Nie Yan estimated that this was likely the final revenue from cross-faction trading. With the opening of the End Times Canyon, players would definitely find various ways to conduct transactions, enabling goods to circulate between the two factions. They would no longer be able to earn significant profits through cross-faction trading models.
However, the cooperation between the Bull Tribe and the Angel’s Fall had just begun!
The Angel Empire and Century Financial Group would now face attacks from two fronts.
Nie Yan made a few calls to Duo Duo, arranging some details of the collaboration. The Bull Tribe dispatched hundreds of thousands of members, totaling nearly three hundred thousand, entering the territory of the Sather Empire to launch large-scale harassment campaigns against the Angel Empire and Century Financial Group, ensuring that the Angel Empire couldn’t develop in peace.
After handling all these matters, Nie Yan said to Guo Huai, “Let Sun, Xie Yao, and everyone else come to Bater City.”
Nie Yan still needed to deal with the mutated wandering soul princess, Aina. With his current strength alone, it was far from sufficient.
“Shadow Kill has just completed the top-tier class transformation; he became a Hunter Shadow Dancer,” Guo Huai said.
This was indeed an uplifting piece of news. From now on, the Bull Tribe would have six Shadow Dancers: Nie Yan, Sun, King of the World, Smile Not for Me, One Hit One Kill, and Shadow Kill. Among them, Nie Yan, Smile Not for Me, and Shadow Kill had obtained special titles. The top thieves were all concentrated in the Bull Tribe. However, Nie Yan felt a bit conflicted because his presence had altered many things. Titles like Holy Shadow Dancer, War Shadow Dancer, and Hunter Shadow Dancer were supposed to be unique. Due to the butterfly effect caused by his appearance, Nie Yan had taken Smile Not for Me’s Holy Shadow Dancer title, so Smile Not for Me received the War Shadow Dancer title instead. Now, Shadow Kill obtained the Hunter Shadow Dancer title first.
Whether Sun or Shadow Kill obtained the Hunter Shadow Dancer title was no longer important since they were all members of the Bull Tribe anyway.
The Bull Tribe had consecutively produced six Shadow Dancers, which shocked players from both the Glinlan Empire and the Sather Empire, especially among the rogue players. They became convinced that any high-level rogue who didn’t join the Bull Tribe had no future. Looking at other guilds, besides Butcher Shak, had they produced any significant thieves?
“Let him come along too.”
Soon, Sun, Xie Yao, King of the World, and others rushed toward Bater City from various locations.
As Nie Yan passed along a street, a guild named Chasing the Moon’s Arrow, with about 300 members, was advancing in the same direction. Most of the players were around levels 120 to 130. They gradually approached the base of a square spire. Several shield warriors were at the front, drawing aggro from several Sand Giants and slowly leading them over.
Boom, boom, boom! The Sand Giants marched forward with heavy steps. Each attacked the nearby shield warriors, swinging their thick arms and slamming fists down. With a loud crash, the shield warriors retreated a few steps but immediately charged back in.
“Pull the shield warriors aside; mages, unleash full damage!” shouted a rogue player named Yan Si De Yu, likely their leader.
Streams of magical energy shot forward toward the Sand Giants, as the mages in the rear unleashed their firepower. This group’s coordination was quite impressive.
Teams daring to explore Bater City were all formidable.
Nie Yan bypassed them, continuing to stealthily advance forward. After moving about five or six hundred yards, Nie Yan looked ahead and saw that he had reached the inner city. He wondered where the NPC named Mephistopheles was located. The Sand Giants around were increasing in numbers, visible everywhere. With such a high monster density, this place was also a good spot for leveling up.
He chanted a spell, a golden light flashed, and the tall form of the Golden Earth Dragon appeared beside Nie Yan.
The Golden Earth Dragon’s appearance immediately drew the attention of nearby Sand Giants. They gathered around it, swinging their arms in attack.
Boom, boom, boom! The Sand Giants’ concentrated attacks immediately triggered the Golden Earth Dragon’s Counterattack Storm. Gusts of whirlwinds surged up, knocking down a group of Sand Giants.
Nie Yan activated Sacred Hire, summoning the paladin Livers as well.
The two humans and one dragon began clearing the area. Nie Yan, remaining in stealth, collected the dropped items from the ground while advancing further inward.
A white glow radiated from the Golden Earth Dragon’s body, indicating it had leveled up. Nie Yan checked its level—it had reached level 130, with a staggering 170,000 hit points, making it extremely powerful among pets.
The Golden Earth Dragon had just learned a Flame Armor skill, which dealt fire damage to all nearby hostile units.
Many players had attempted to acquire pets stronger than the Golden Earth Dragon, but they had all failed. Some players indeed obtained pets at the same level as the Golden Earth Dragon, but after nurturing them, the results were far from as effective as Nie Yan’s Golden Earth Dragon. As for the Mutated Energy Crystals, some players had indeed acquired them, but such items were extremely rare, with very limited numbers available. Players with Mutated Energy Crystals often couldn’t acquire good pets, and those with good pets might not be able to obtain Mutated Energy Crystals. Moreover, the effects of a pet consuming a Mutated Energy Crystal at level 0 versus at a high level were completely different.
Therefore, Nie Yan’s Golden Earth Dragon still held the title of the strongest pet. Clearing groups of monsters like this wasn’t a strenuous task for it.
After learning Flame Armor, any Sand Giant approaching the Golden Earth Dragon would immediately suffer fire damage of five to six thousand points per hit, which was quite significant.
Whenever the Golden Earth Dragon’s health decreased, the paladin Livers, a top-tier healer, was right behind to replenish its health, so there was no need to worry about health consumption.
They continued clearing the area, leaving a battlefield littered with corpses.
About ten minutes later, a white glow emanated from Nie Yan’s body. Checking his level, he had reached level 127. His leveling speed was quite decent.
“Have you arrived yet?” Nie Yan asked in the party chat.
“We’ve already entered Bater City, boss. Where are you?” asked the guild member known as Invincible Bad Guy in the party chat.
“Coordinates 289.800.880,” Nie Yan replied after checking his coordinates.
“We’ll come immediately.”
Nie Yan surveyed his surroundings. The outline of the inner city was clearly visible before him. The inner city of Bater City was square-shaped, with densely packed buildings inside.
The 300 players from Chasing the Moon’s Arrow advanced along the street, gradually reaching the area where Nie Yan had started clearing monsters. The sight before them left them stunned. As far as the eye could see, the ground was littered with the corpses of Sand Giants, a vast number stretching all the way to the end of the street.
“Boss, who did this? A thousand-man team? Impossible! We’ve been around here the whole time. If a thousand-man team had passed by, we surely wouldn’t have missed it,” a player muttered in confusion. The Sand Giants’ corpses hadn’t been respawned yet, proving that whoever was responsible hadn’t left far.
Yan Si De Yu shook his head in bewilderment. He couldn’t figure it out either. With the street being so narrow, how could a thousand-man team even pass through?
“You all stay here and hold position. I’ll take some people to check it out. Xiao Qi, you come with me,” Yan Si De Yu said in the guild chat.
“Okay.”
Six rogues stealthily moved forward to scout. As they advanced, the sight along the way made them even more astonished. Endless Sand Giant corpses lay scattered everywhere.
“Boss, I picked up two gold coins.”
“Boss, I found a level 150 Silver Armor piece.”
The rogues discovered that many of the Sand Giants’ dropped items hadn’t been collected. Nie Yan alone couldn’t possibly gather everything, and many items weren’t even worth his effort to bend down and pick up, hence the leftovers.
Yan Si De Yu furrowed his brow. The number of people involved must have been small. If it was a large team, the battlefield would have been thoroughly looted, leaving no such abundance behind.
After advancing about five or six hundred yards, Yan Si De Yu and others looked toward the street’s end and spotted a huge Golden Earth Dragon in the distance.
“Golden Earth Dragon! Goodness gracious, it’s Crazy Thief Nie Yan!” someone in the team exclaimed in awe.
Yan Si De Yu’s heart was shaken. Was it really all done by Nie Yan alone? This guy was terrifying!
“Of course it’s Crazy Thief Nie Yan. No wonder!”
Everyone found it perfectly reasonable.
Yan Si De Yu gazed toward Nie Yan’s location. The Golden Earth Dragon stood still, seemingly waiting for something. He wondered what Crazy Thief Nie Yan was doing over there.
“Everyone stay quiet; let’s go take a look,” Yan Si De Yu said. He suspected Nie Yan had triggered a special event in Bater City, possibly undertaking a unique quest, and curiosity drove him to follow and observe.
The six enhanced their stealth and cautiously moved toward Nie Yan’s location.
After advancing about ten seconds forward, they finally approached within about 100 yards of Nie Yan. The massive Golden Earth Dragon stood like a small hill, exuding a heavy pressure. Nie Yan, clad in a black robe, stood beside the dragon, his face obscured. Beside Nie Yan was another tall NPC wearing silver armor.
“That paladin must be Livers, the one widely rumored about.”
“What is Crazy Thief Nie Yan doing here?”
“Hard to say.”
They felt puzzled. Seeing Crazy Thief Nie Yan in person in the wild gave them a completely new sensation. They felt their hearts involuntarily accelerate. At this moment, they were only a hundred yards away from Crazy Thief Nie Yan. Although they felt safe, they still experienced a heavy sense of pressure.
Nie Yan was standing in place, waiting for Sun and others to arrive, when suddenly he sensed something. His gaze turned toward the edge of the distant street.
There were a few rogues, but Nie Yan didn’t pay much attention. Rogues detectable from a hundred yards away posed no threat to him.
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