Rebirth of the thief who roamed around the world (BOOK 3)

Chapter 485 - Scarlet Blaze Ruby!

After categorizing the skill books, Nie Yan glanced at the pile with Thief skills. He had learned many skills in his past life, so he wasn't nearly as gung-ho as Tang Yao. But three skill books in particular still caught his eye. All three were Freedom Skills. The first was Counter. It allowed the player to evade an opponent's attack and retaliate with an incapacitating elbow strike. The second was Flicker Strike, a dash attack that stunned the target. The third and final skill was Backbreaker, an attack that struck the target's back and inflicted the cripple status effect.

Two cripples and one stun, these were pretty decent crowd control skills. Nie Yan just so happened to be in need of some crowd control skills!

Thieves didn't have absolute strengths, unlike Warriors and Mages. Warriors and Mages relied on equipment. A high level Warrior or Mage with high quality equipment could easily crush a lower level opponent with worse equipment. Only a small minority who were skilled or had good luck could reverse the tide. Meanwhile, Thieves relied on awareness, technique, and skills. Awareness and technique complimented skills. A skilled Thief could easily beat an opponent several times stronger than them. Thieves who lacked awareness or technique, and couldn't use their skills properly, no matter how good their equipment was, would be useless.

With these skills, as long as Nie Yan mastered them, even if he were butt naked, he could still crush any other equal level Thief.

After learning these three skills, Nie Yan contacted Guo Huai and had him send some people over to distribute the remaining skill books.

When the top ranked members of Asskickers United had taken their pick, the more common skill books would be thrown into the guild treasury.

All that remained were the scrolls, recipes, gems, and other miscellaneous items. Nie Yan looked over the recipes. There were more than 150 in total, most of which were Advanced, Master, or Grandmaster-rank. There were also recipes for Enchanters and Tinkerers.

"There's 15 Advanced Health Potion Recipes, and seven Advanced Mana Potion Recipes," Tang Yao reported. Advanced Health and Mana Potions were extremely rare at this stage of the game. As the health and mana pools of players grew larger, so too would the demand for higher rank potions.

When levelling normally by grinding monsters out in the wilderness, most players couldn't bare to use such expensive potions. The only exception was while running dungeons. Advanced Health and Mana Potions would allow them to continue fighting for longer and thus boost the survival rate of the team. For that reason, Advanced Health and Mana Potions were in high demand, regardless of their cost.

Apart from the Advanced Health and Mana Potion Recipes, Nie Yan also saw many other good recipes, such as a Master Antidote Recipe, Master Fire Resistance Potion Recipe, Master Ice Resistance Potion Recipe, and so on.

Nie Yan called Bird over.

When Bird walked into the workshop, he was taken aback by the glittering piles of loot. Nie Yan couldn't have robbed an NPC shop, right? Just where did all of this stuff come from?

"Boss, what do you need?" Bird asked. His gaze happened to fall on Nie Yan's hand. He was an Advanced Alchemist, and was only a step away from reaching the Master rank. He naturally recognized what Nie Yan was holding. His heart trembled. With how high the stack was, there had to be at least 100 recipes!

"Take these recipes and distribute them," Nie Yan said.

Bird cautiously accepted the recipes. Seeing their names, Advanced Health Potion Recipe, Advanced Mana Potion Recipe, Advanced Fire Resistance Potion Recipe, Advanced Ice Resistance Potion Recipe, Master Antidote Recipe... he felt his head spinning. My god, so many recipes! Where did they all come from?