The old thief burst out laughing, ignoring the existence of Rope One and stepping into its 10-meter range: "Hahaha! The more you think, the less you see what's under your feet. That's why I say young people like you are unrealistic."

  Lei Wen stopped the attack of Sheng Yi, still with a smile on his face: "Old man, as people get older, they become more timid, I don't blame you. Considering how pleased you look, I'll remind you of two things."

  "Huh?" The old thief narrowed his eyes, and the murky yet sparkling pupils had an inexplicable flavor. It was unclear whether he was indignant, jealous, or arrogant. But the wrinkles on his face became even more compact, like a tightly strung bow.

  "Firstly, if you think you can take down a Shirek priest with external means, then you're too naive. Without exhausting a priest's divine magic first, don't even think about killing a genuine god's pastor with just high-tier strength."

  The old man's complexion began to turn a bit worse. The black hole monster was powerful, but could it really kill Elric? The old man suddenly became a bit uncertain.

  Leiwen raised his second finger, forming a victorious V shape: "Secondly, what makes you say that you are more adaptable to the sudden surge of power than I am?"

  "Of course it's because of..." The old thief blurted out, but immediately shut his mouth.

  Yes! The only thing he's not adapting to is his imagination. Upon closer inspection, strength-enhancing potions are far easier to obtain than agility-enhancing ones. With enough money, even brute force potions or Dragon's Strength potions can be obtained. If one has experienced the state of sudden power surge, then Raven's current adaptability to his temporary body shouldn't be too bad.

  I've miscalculated!

  The old thief's momentum weakened by half in an imperceptible way. He still had confidence, firmly believing that the medicine couldn't bring about such exaggerated growth.

  The old thief's changes all fell into Raven's eyes. If he could laugh out loud, Raven would definitely laugh so hard that his belly would cramp and roll on the ground.

  Right! All of Old Master Thief's budgeting was based on Raven being a true newbie.

  The old man would never know that Raven had already fully experienced the power and physique in the game. In the original game, as long as you passed the physical trial every 20 levels, your various attributes would increase greatly.

  Even if a mage is known as the weakest, unable to withstand the wind, as long as he perfectly completes the Bronze Body, Silver Body, Golden Body, Legendary Body, and Half-God Dominant Body series of tasks, the power of a mage who reaches the Holy Domain stage will not be less than 60 points.

  What is 60 points of strength? Six times the strength of an adult male!

  One slap sent a 400-jin man-eating demon flying with ease!

  As a close-range god-level assassin back then, Raven had experienced power that was far beyond 60 points.

  Now adding up the value is only 36 points of strength, it's simply a drop in the bucket.

  Lei Wen's mysterious smile stretched to the maximum: "Have you ever tried cutting off a flying fly with a dinner knife? I find that you are very similar to that fly!"

  "You're looking for trouble!"

  The old man pretended to be angry, and with a fierce kick, his figure suddenly disappeared on the spot. Unlike the usual hiding methods used by thieves, this was pure speed, and the old man's body flew like a lightning-fast mouse, constantly darting in and out of the shadows around Levin.

  Both sides are clear about each other being professionals, so using hiding techniques to deal with amateurs is meaningless.

  The old man only prepared to use his explosively increased agility to raise his speed to the highest level, and solve Raven with speed.

  It's hard not to acknowledge that the agility of the Silver-tier thief, Minsu, is already high enough. With the temporary agility boost from Katerick's Shadow Dancer, if it weren't for the fact that the Absolute Plains couldn't support strength above Gold-tier, perhaps Old Thief's agility would have already broken through Silver-tier and entered the realm of Gold-tier.

  The rope made a tentative attack once, which was the highest speed of 20 ropes firing simultaneously.

  The result was disastrous, and it was expected that the shot would not hit. The ropes that were shot out were all cut off to a length of half a meter to one meter.

  The shortcomings of the Strangler are now fully exposed. Without a hard body, it can't be a good meat shield. Its agility is much lower than its strength, making it destined to only deal with low-speed targets. If its target is a warrior or barbarian who lacks speed and counterattack ability, it can absolutely abuse them mercilessly.

  But for a high-speed target with nearly 60 agility and super-high reflexes, Jianyi is almost a decoration, even if its agility has 50 points.

  "Rope one, back against me, then double rope formation rope cage!"

  Levin gave his first command.

  In the Shadowfell, even leaning against a wall isn't entirely safe, because you don't know what the wall is made of. Many shadow creatures can pass through solid objects like they were water.

  Levin needs a rope as a shield behind his back.

  The volume of the rope was rapidly shrinking, and its two-meter-high body became roughly the size of Raven's. The excess parts of its body formed a giant cage that not even a child could pass through, with two ropes forming each side in the surrounding space.

  This means that in order to attack Raven, you must either cut a rope twice as thick as the one used for grappling or use Wanderer's skill to swing over.

  The old thief tried to attack a rope, which made him frown. Cutting off one rope was easy, but the tightly twisted double-stranded rope could not be cut off with one knife. The broken ends of the half-cut ropes had fine fibers protruding from their cross-sections, and they began to self-repair in front of the old thief.

  "Cut..." Vanderfa said with a gulp, and began using Shadow Jump.

  This Shadow Dancer's main job skill in the shadow realm was played to perfection. Suddenly left, suddenly right, suddenly up, suddenly down, Levin's eyes couldn't keep up with the old man's movements at all.

  If Raven wasn't incredibly experienced, he would have been a dead man within two exchanges.

  Just a moment ago, the old thief was still playing with his curved knife in front of Raven's left side, and in the next instant, he had already thrust to Raven's right rear waist, stabbing down with a dagger.

  If it weren't for Raven's intuition dodging at the last moment, this dagger would have been stabbed, and Raven's right kidney would have been finished.

  But on the other hand, as long as he didn't mess it up, the old man couldn't cause any harm to Raven either.

  Just like that, the old man's sharp bronze dagger stabbed in, Raven's leather armor was pierced, but unfortunately, after gaining the Dark Guardian's strong fortification buff, Raven's skin was as hard as granite. The fierce stab only left a blue mark on Raven's skin.

  And sparks splashing everywhere.

  At this moment, the old man almost thought he was stupid for using a dagger to stab an iron statue!

  Not to mention the curved knives they looted themselves. The thief is a typical high agility low strength. The old man got Cartic's agility bonus, but did not get Shadow Dancer's strength. This greatly reduced the lethality of that pair of curved knives.

  The old man suddenly understood where Raven's confidence came from.

  Although Raven can't catch him now, high-defense Raven has countless chances to make mistakes.

  The old man himself is now on the surface, looking at Raven's suppression, but as long as he makes a mistake once, whether it's caught by Raven or that killer, it's a dead end for the old thief.

  The old man suddenly regretted it. If he had known earlier, he should have taken care of that Dark Guardian first. According to the characteristics of the White Silver Tier thief, at least he wouldn't suddenly become a muscle man like Raven.

  The old thief decided to get rid of the strangulation demon statue first, moving at high speed while taking out the last few Alchemy Fires from his pocket. The strangulation demon statue was afraid of fire, and even if these Alchemy Fires didn't damage the statue, they could at least force that little guy to leave the back-to-back state.

  Suddenly, the old thief felt a chill run down his spine.

  The thief's intuition was very sharp, and with his superior reaction speed, he barely avoided an attack from behind. In shock, the old thief's pupils almost instantly shrunk to pinhole size, and the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of a black metal claw that resembled a skull palm.

  Van der Fa immediately recognized the owner of the claw: Oh no! How did I offend Shadow Steel?!

  No time was given for him to scream, the Shadow Steel Beast began its charge.

  That's the astonishing agility that doesn't lose to the old thief god. This dark skeleton similar to a skull is made entirely of non-reflective black metal that seems to absorb light.

  Furthermore, the hollow parts between the skull's framework are all filled with mist, and on a shaded plane it looks like a ghost.

  Ghosts aren't physical entities and wouldn't have such a violent charge.

  That almost animalistic ferocity of the claw strike left the old thief completely without room to dodge.

  One claw!

  Two claws!

  Claws!

  As swift as lightning, as rapid as a phantom.

  What's even more terrifying is that power, an absolute power over 100 points easily crushed the old thief. If it were someone else, this round of attacks might have instantly killed him.

  As a Phantom Thief with the highest evasion and most survival skills among the Wanderer-type classes, they naturally have an ace up their sleeve for survival.

  In the shadow plane, the most practical running skill is of course 【Shadow Form】.

  Taking a deep breath, the old thief decisively allowed a large amount of shadow energy to enter his body. Within just one second, he had completely entered the shadow state. His silhouette became blurry, his skin turned gray, and all his clothes and equipment transformed into dark, murky colors.

  Even more exaggerated are those eyes, directly losing their pupils and becoming a blank white.

  As a cost, before Old God's thief returns to its original form, it cannot harm any enemy and can only move.

  The Shadow Steel is a simple construct body. Without its master's command, there are only the simplest commands in its mind.

  If he didn't infer wrongly, his order should be to kill any living thing that approaches here, with the highest priority being the creature that emits strong light.

  Until now, the old thief still doesn't know he's moving rocks to hit his own foot?

  No, it should be Raven getting screwed again!

  Just as Lao Tou was getting more and more indignant, a clear male voice sounded in his ear.

  "Gotcha! Old man!"