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Chapter 468 - 284 Phantom Thief Mask_1

Chapter 468: Chapter 284 Phantom Thief Mask_1

"Phantom Thief? Wasn’t that bloke locked up on the fifth level?" Mu You was puzzled.

The previous day, amongst the intelligence he had eavesdropped on at North Foot Island, there was a piece about the Phantom Thief, Valen Justin.

The report was that the man had just been trapped, seemingly captured by some bounty hunters and thrown into the deepest level of the Underwater Prison.

How could a person imprisoned forever come out to steal things?

Or did he also manage to escape like me, and now roam freely within the prison...

"Appointment letter..."

Mu You’s brows furrowed as he looked at the prompt in the text. He clicked on the ’Hunger Gem’ text and tried to extract the gem from the game.

As a result, a prompt popped: [The item is locked and cannot be transferred to another plane.]

He then tried storing it in his backpack, his spatial ring, and binding the gem.

All the results showed: [The item is locked and cannot be operated.]

"Quite impressive!"

Mu You couldn’t help but exclaim.

This guy’s abilities were interesting. The items that caught his eye would have numerous restrictions, unable to be hidden or transferred, and their location could be known at any moment by the enemy. Even attempting to use a Teleportation Array to bring it to another place was not possible.

In other words, the items targeted by the appointment letter would have their difficulty of being stolen greatly reduced! Of course, since he had issued an appointment letter, the thief wouldn’t appear until the designated stealing time, so this gem is safe for now.

Regardless, Mu You did not currently know the level or strength of this Phantom Thief. It’s better to prepare some defenses.

Mu You commanded his character to leave the cell and found a rather secluded corridor on the fourth level to set up traps.

The prison time should be around five twenty now. When it reached seven o’clock, the comfort period on the fourth level would end.

The thief had specifically set the thieving time for an hour later. Adding on the half-hour he needed to steal, it would be six fifty, leaving ten minutes for escape. He could complete the entire thieving operation within the comfort period.

This also meant that the Phantom Thief couldn’t ignore the severe cold and heat in the fourth level. He only dared to move during the comfort period.

This was Mu You’s advantage. His vampire skin could survive on the fourth level. If he confirmed he couldn’t defeat the opponent, he would try to delay until after seven o’clock. Then the fourth level would turn into his home ground.

In fact, Mu You had an easier solution: going directly to the third level.

The poison gas on the third level was the deadliest, covering the area for 24 hours. It was his home ground all day.

However, Mu You, after much thought, did not go to the third level. He was primarily worried that once the Phantom Thief found out that he could survive on the third level, he wouldn’t dare to show up.

While the opponent wanted his gem, Mu You had some thoughts about the latter’s skin.

’Phantom Thief’ should be a high-rank skin. And such lower-rank skins of the thieving type should all belong to thieves, right?

He had a ’Thief Saint Glove’ on hand and needed a thief skin as a prerequisite.

Since the thief had come to him, he might as well try to get a skin off him.

[You have set up a considerable amount of traps around Room No. 4879 and hid the Hunger Gem within the trap array.]

Having completed the setting of the traps and ensuring that whoever took the gem would trigger the traps first, Mu You checked the time and let his character hide nearby, ready to wait the thief out.

Text messages reminded him that Octopus Soldiers patrolled the area now and then. However, Mu You’s traps were placed discreetly and would not be triggered by these Octopus Soldiers.

After waiting for a while, exactly one hour after receiving the appointment letter in-game, several new text messages indeed appeared.

[You see the trigger of the trap in front of you trigger consecutively, revealing five cloaked figures. These five figures looked identical with no visible differences. Despite being halted by the traps, they continued to move towards the center of the traps...]

Five men – that was definitely a clone!

Mu You reacted immediately.

[You throw the Chain Claws towards the first figure.]

[The Chain Claws hit the target and were quickly retracted. Your attack caused abnormal massive damage, the figure disappeared instantly, clearly, this was just a summoned clone!]

The first attempt was mistaken, but it didn’t matter. With the Pocket Watch, he had enough margin of error.

[Time lapses, you return to five seconds ago.]

[You throw the Chain Claws towards the second figure.]

[The Chain Claws hit the target, returning swiftly. Your attack caused some damage. Blood oozes out, apparently, this one is the main body!]

The second attempt was successful, and he hooked the real body.

The moment he confirmed the main body, the profile of the opponent also appeared in the Omniscient Crystal.

[Valen Justin (Level 19): Strength 35, Agility 87, Intelligence 45, Constitution 24, HP 5400, Magic 9500. The new master thief who inherited the will of the maritime bandit Petty Light, came to prominence among pirates recently. He always sent out an ’appointment letter’ before committing a theft, waiting for the opponent to prepare before stealing. Due to his bizarre style, he gradually earned the title of ’Phantom Thief’.]

Level 19, the attributes were higher than an average level 19 but fortunately not over level 20. The opponent was just one level higher than Mu You, still within acceptable limits.

As Mu You was about to take advantage of the initiative to seriously injure his opponent, a new prompt appeared in the text.