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Chapter 48: Light Fingers

"Get off me right now, you pervert!" The cloaked player yelled at Ye Yan with a female voice.

Ye Yan never imagined that one day he would be called a pervert by someone. He had always been serious and keep a distance from the opposite sex. Maybe because his mother traumatized him too much, he never could keep calm near females but he does want to get a girlfriend one day. Only one. He never could understand why some guys wished to have a harem or play around with more than one girl at the same time. Ye Yan always thought that one woman gives too much work, more than one is suicide. Only a masochist would stand it.

Ye Yan got up and stayed one meter (3.28 feet) away from her, with his face burning from embarrassment. But his face showed nothing of what he was feeling. Only if people look at his ears, they can see that its tips are bright red.

"Sorry." Ye Yan said with his poker face that never shows emotion easily, even more, when he meets strange people or girls.

When Ye Yan spoke, he didn't saw that behind the hood that covers the other player's entire face, the female player gave a wicked smile.

She got up suddenly and was prepared to run away when two city guards appeared and hold her by her shoulder, one on each side, making it impossible for her to escape.

"Shit!" The female player started to curse.

"Shut up!" One of the guards frowned when he heard her curse and yelled at her, exerting more pressure on her shoulder.

At this time, Ashardalon and the others arrived. My Girl felt divided between yelled at the thief that stole her space bag or asking Ye Yan where he got the bicycle. But he thought that he could ask Ye Yan later, the most important thing now is to get his space bag back.

The skill [Steal] enables players to only steal money at the beginning. Starting from level 5, the thief can steal the players' bags, but the chance is very low. The chance can increase at level intermediate of skill proficiency and above.

For the female thief to have snatched My Girl's space bag, the level of her steal skill must be high and the skill needs to be, at least, at a level intermediate in proficiency. She must have focused her skill points on the Steall to get to this level.

But, even if she got the space bag, she got caught by the city guards at the end, to My Girl lucky.

Because of the skills of the thieves in the game, players need to keep their awareness high all the time or they might be robbed sooner or later. That's why players shouldn't keep many things stored in their space bags.

There are magical anti-theft scrolls that players can use but they are expensive and few players can buy them at this stage of the game. And the higher the quality of the bag and the items inside, the higher the quality of the anti-theft scroll is needed.

The unlucky players that have their bags stolen, need to go to their respective guilds to get a new communication stone, city map, etc. After paying a fee, of course.

"Do you want to press charges?" One of the city guards asked My Girl.

"No..." My Girl did want to see this thief in jail but after seeing the glare of his wife, he decided to forget about it. It's only a thief doing what thieves do after all.

"As the victim didn't press charges, we will let you go this time, but you might not have the same luck the next time." The guard that was pressing heavily on her shoulder said and let her go, leaving afterward.

"I'm not saying thanks. I was only doing a thief's honest work here to make a living and you got in my way." Light Fingers glared at Ye Yan with anger.

Light Fingers is using the game to make money and the fastest way she thought to do it is robbing people. Unlike in real life, robbing people in the game is not a real bad thing, except if you get caught or for the person who was robbed.

Light Fingers discovered that she is really good at this, then she started to train and invent new creative ways to steal. The money she got in the game until now enable her to pay her apartment rent, pay her bills and she didn't even spend half of the money from the game to do that. Light Fingers is a very successful thief. If Tang Yunfan knew about it, he would roll on the ground while crying in regret for not choosing the thief class.

When Ye Yan and the others heard what Light Fingers said, their faces became full of black lines. Thief's honest work? Thief and honesty are two opposite things that can't be connected. To someone say such a thing without feeling shame but pride instead, required skill.

"Just forget about it." Light Fingers said, taking off her hood and showing her face.

Light Fingers is a beauty. Even if she had changed her appearance, becoming more beautiful, her original looks shouldn't be bad. She is a human thief, a race she chose to not attract too much attention. She is 165 cm tall (~5.41 feet) with a thin body and no breast. Her body is very inconspicuous and doesn't attract attention even if she tried to disguise herself as a male player.

"As we meet, just consider it fate. I am Light Fingers. Here, take this," she said giving them a card with her name and ID for others to contact her.

Like a phone number, the player's ID is necessary for others to contact through the communication stone. There are many people with the same name in the game, so the system-generated ID is a must to know which player they want to speak to.

When Ye Yan and the others looked at the card that Light Fingers gave them, their jaw dropped.

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[Light Fingers - "The best thief in Yan Empire"

ID #8618415318649

"I am accepting commissions"]

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"If you guys need a thief someday, call me. My price is the better in the region. You just need to say who and where. The rest is on me." She said winking at them.

After she gave them her card, she left, looking for her next target.

Ye Yan looked at the card and thought about throwing it away. He is not the type of person that does this kind of thing and if he needs to do something similar in the game, he can just do it himself.

After thinking for a while, Ye Yan resolved to keep the card and give it to Hu Ling. He is the one that likes to pay others to bully those he thinks are not pleasing to his eyes. At least, he only does this to bad people, so Ye Yan thinks it's ok.

After the unexpecting meeting, they went to the shop to buy a new bag for each of them.

The shop sells miscellaneous things, from potions to equipment, but everything in the shop is of a low quality. If players want high-quality items, they need to go to specialized shops.

As Ye Yan doesn't have money to buy a higher quality bag, he just purchased two more standard bags. Now he has three space bags, which are the maximum that a player can hold.

Ye Yan tied the three bags in his belt. This is a place that he can access easily but is ore risk in case someone wants to rob him.

My Girl purchased one bag and he put it inside the upper part of his undergarment, making his breasts fuller and making it difficult for thieves to rob him. He got this idea from his mother. She used to put money inside her bra when going out. Not only money but cards, her document of identity, and her keys. He always wondered how his mother could put so many things inside her bra without it look deformed.

After they left the shop after everyone makes their purchases. When they were shopping, Ye Yan knew that no one got the first clear of the Hell Mode of the level 5 dungeon in Tientsin City. He thought a little and called some of his friends to do the dungeon. Their party has five members, then they only need five more people.

Ye Yan chose to call over Demon Fox, Conan, Snow White, Mage of the Cold Nights and I Love Skooma.

The ten-man dungeon, like the mini-dungeon they had challenged, is underwater. Arches and mages do the most damage underwater, but fire spells are ineffective and lighting spells can kill the cast when used underwater. Spell Bound and Dovakin have basically only this kind of spells, so they aren't a choice.

Every ten-man dungeon or above has traps, then a thief is necessary. They only need one more doctor and Snow White is the best choice because she has more skills than Thumbelina.

Ye Yan called his friends and told them about the need to learn the skill swim before entering the dungeon.

Everyone agreed to meet at 6 p.m. in real-life's time to start challenging the ten-man dungeon.

After resolving everything, Ye Yan said bye to his new friends and log out of the game.