The Great Thief Chapter 1867 - Divided Up

Chapter 1867: Divided Up

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Every piece of equipnt that Wings of Dawn had was painstakingly acquired, and each one was better than what Lu Li owned.

Since they weren’t able to easily acquire Skill Points or Enhanced Skills, they invested heavily into the equipnt of their players. They had done so by fighting Bosses or buying it for exorbitant prices. Lu Li didn’t dare to imagine the lengths to which they had gone.

After all, Ruling Sword was just too poor for sothing like that.

Although they had an inco from each Stronghold war, there were also great costs involved with a ti like this.

The Elite Group, particularly the core one, required a lot of money to maintain. These professional gars took their work seriously, like it was a job. Not only were they paid salaries, but insurance policies had been taken out for them.

As an official guild, they also had a pay a portion of their profits in taxes.

When considering that the current equipnt was rely transitory and that the real ga wouldn’t start until they were all at level 70, Lu Li didn’t pay too much attention to acquiring exquisite items.

There were no strong professions, only strong players.

However, among strong players, if there was a difference in equipnt, then there would be a difference in strength.

Moonlight had died and Elevenless seed like he was basically invulnerable. Although the Alfred’s Ingot-Handler Set had its flaws, it was one of the best level 65 equipnt.

Ruling Sword had only scored one point in this round, which was considered a complete defeat.

“Don’t worry about it. We made it through regardless,” Square Root 3 comforted everyone after the match finished. He continued to explain, “Wings of Dawn paid a huge price to prepare for this ga. The Transmog Set was prepared by grinding a private Instance Dungeon. They bought the Instance Dungeon scrolls from the market for tens of millions of dollars.”

“That’s a lot of money to spend on a single match,” Lu Li comnted. He couldn’t understand the thought process behind these guilds.

“It’s not just that. They demanded equipnt from their entire guild. Anyone who had equipnt that was useful for competitions had to give it up. It obviously made the players unhappy, but Dream 13 paid out a large sum of money to placate them.”

Square Root 3 almost sounded like he was gloating.

“But they beat us in the end,” Lu Li said, feeling unsatisfied.

“I don’t think there is anything wrong with how we’re going. We are developing in a stable way,” Square Root 3 said. He didn’t seem to mind that they had lost a ga.

Lu Li patted Square Root 3 on the shoulder but didn’t say anything.

With this kind of encouragent, anymore and it would have started to seem like arrogance.

Of course, he couldn’t just throw money at the problem like Wings of Dawn. At most, he could use the knowledge he had from his previous life to complete so quests and defeat so Bosses that would drop equipnt. Everyone also had to get as strong as they could so they could at least fight back against Wings of Dawn.

Once Ruling Sword was defeated, discussion imdiately exploded on the World Channel.

It was especially liberating for the teams that had been previously defeated by Ruling Sword in this competition. It was quite rare to see Ruling Sword defeated. From the creation of Ruling Sword until now, they had not even lost three gas yet.

How did this happen?

Glory Capital was a century-old guild, so there was a chance that they would lose every now and again. When they were in a slump, they even lost multiple gas in a row and would even lose to dium sized guilds.

Even when Sorrowless was in charge of Glory Capital, they were a long way from being considered invincible.

Wings of Dawn had defeated the undefeatable and had beco heroes in many players’ eyes. Everyone in the guild instantly felt that all the money they had spent was worth it. In fact, they had spent more money that everyone thought.

The amount invested was more than 100 million. If they still didn’t win, their funding was going to be taken away.

Dream 13 had almost peed himself in fear during the match.

Wings of Dawn’s expenses were so high that they were barely able to make any money. They had already accepted capital injections from seven or eight large corporations many years ago. In exchange, Wings of Dawn used their popularity to advertise their investors’ products.

A few weeks ago, Wings of Dawn’s Stronghold in the Thousand Needles was stolen away by Unforgettable Maple. The dissatisfaction of the board had reached an extre at that point.

As such, Wings of Dawn had to do sothing.

It turned out that the results this ti were excellent. Their guild had defeated the almost-invincible Ruling Sword. This inevitably made the board even happier, so they threw even more money at them.

The next Stronghold War was about to begin.

This was the 16th Stronghold war, which seed to have been inspired by Wings of Dawn. Many small and dium guilds were spending more on level 60 equipnt to gain an advantage in the Stronghold War.

Most players thought that this was a crazy movent that would soon be over.

In addition to throwing money at equipnt, there were other business tactics being employed. After acquiring the Stronghold, the guild that got it would imdiately invest a large sum of moneyh into it.

At the beginning of the year, there were so changes to the stock exchange rules that relaxed the auditing of entertainnt and sports companies. This also ant that it was a golden opportunity for the gaming industry to explode, and there were many companies watching very closely.

Several of Ruling Sword’s strongholds ca under attack, but Lu Li wasn’t afraid.

A few days ago, another Fel Reaver blueprint was dropped, so another six Fel Reavers had joined Ruling Sword’s army. This ant that each Stronghold could be protected by at least one Fel Reaver.

The only thing that Lu Li was unsatisfied about was that the thod by which these blueprints were acquired had been leaked.

On a day when Ruling Sword was farming Mo’arg Engineers, a blueprint appeared in front of an ordinary team without warning. This team couldn’t contain themselves and were crying out in excitent.

Naturally, there were other people that heard them.

Now, the location where Mo’arg Engineers were fard was very popular, and Lu Li had instructed the Ruling Sword players to temporarily vacate the area.

As long as there were Ruling Sword players farming sothing on a large scale, the masses would rush towards the sa thing. However, they never stopped to think about how Ruling Sword had only managed to find two Blueprints, so the chances of them getting one was very low.

Ruling Sword, who had just lost a match, seed to have been plunged back into the mortal world.

It turned out that Ruling Sword’s equipnt level was low, which was the reason they lost. Unforgettable Maple’s comntary had such an influence on the population that they started to overrate the value of equipnt. Many players now thought that the player with the best equipnt would be the best.

A further conclusion was that Ruling Sword was coming to an end, and their Strongholds were destined to be divided up among the survivors.

Those who acted first would have the advantage, and might even be the ones to wrestle control of Ruling Sword’s Strongholds. So, when the bidding phase ca, many guilds attempted to acquire the chance to attack Ruling Sword’s Strongholds.