Eternal Thief

A week passed after that day,

More and more young demons started to enter the ocean demon duke estate, and the guest quarters became livelier.

Those young demons were free to roam around the Ocean Demon City and some parts of the duke’s estate during the day, while in the nighttime they could only move in guest quarters.

There were only four weeks left until the ocean demon entourage will embark on the journey toward King Domain. One month was already passed, and now only twenty-three months were left before the demon gate trial starts.

Three weeks from now, there was going to be a big gathering in Ocean Duke Mansion, and every young demon was invited to attend it.

Although this gathering was prepared for all those young demons to get along with each other and introduce to the youths of the ocean demon tribe.

But it was more like a power show, ocean demon tribe was putting to make a statement that their youths were the main characters of this entourage, and they’ll be leading all these demons.

Many demons were unhappy inwardly, but they didn’t dare to show it on their faces. They were afraid of getting ‘eliminated’ unknowingly.

But there were still fractions in all those young demons. Some of them had a very close relationship and some of them just form mutual understanding, helping each other for their benefit.

Nevertheless, there wasn’t any strife between those factions for now, and everyone was minding their own business. But everyone knows this was the calm before the storm, and the strife would occur at the gathering.

While all of this was happening, one demon was cooped up in his room for an entire week.

It was none other than the Demon Sword Tribe’s Feng. No one had seen him for the entire week, and some of the demons who were familiar with him knew Feng wasn’t someone who remained low-key.

But they also knew the hidden enmity between Feng’s tribe and the ocean demon tribe for generations. That’s why they also find it understandable that he didn’t want to draw unwanted attention to himself in case he meet with an ‘accident’.

He didn’t even see his two maids and only said he was cultivating, and no one could disturb him if it wasn’t anything important.

No one wanted to get close to Feng for his sensitive status as well and since he never appeared in small gatherings, everyone completely forgot about Feng like this and Ace also wanted the same result!

Feng’s disappearance naturally doesn’t have anything to do with him being afraid of making trouble, but it was all because of Ace, who was perfecting his soul probe on him.

After Ace found the accurate way to use the soul probe with a hundred percent accuracy rate, he was over the moon, and with Feng’s ‘help’, he quickly got the hang of it.

It was just as he thought, in the end, it was a game of words. As long as the other person was thinking about something Ace wanted, there was a ninety percent chance he’ll get that memory fragment.

The other ten percent failure rate was because sometimes the person can also think of something else if Ace’s question was too vague.

Like if he said, ‘You know about the strongest person of the demon race?’ then Feng would have thought of the Demon Emperor without even thinking twice. While if he said, ‘You know about the weakest person of the demon race?’ then Feng something thought of some juniors of his tribe or some demons he defeated before the answer was always different.

All in all, Ace concluded that as long as he made the other party think exactly what he wanted to know, he can easily get that memory fragment and if the question was ambiguous, he’ll get random memories related to the same answer.

However, it was the easiest part of his job mission, and the most troublesome part was to steal a memory while making Feng forget about it completely.

But Ace soon found out that it was almost impossible to make someone forget something completely.

Because even if he stole a memory of Feng knowing his name for the first time, then this doesn’t mean that he will forget his name because Feng would have many memories where his name was called millions or billions of times by others. This was almost impossible unless he stole Feng’s entirety of the memories about his name, which were probably more than half of his life memories.

That’s why he asked for the system to make it clear if he needed to make the other forget about only one memory or the entire thing, and he felt massive relief when the system said as long as he got the memory important to him and steal that memory it will count.

So, Ace’s biggest doubts were evident, but it was still a massive headache. How will he steal the memory of the other party?

Pick-pocket will not work since the memories were not tangible, and he didn’t have any clue where to start, and the system also won’t even give him a clue, so he was at the dead end in his research.

On the other hand, Feng has become quite obedient when he guessed who this demon was, and he even felt a deep respect for the legend-like thief and fully cooperate with him.

Ace found it quite amusing, though, since he didn’t think he would be liked for what he had done. But after asking Feng about it, he found out that he respects his boldness and fearlessness!

Going after those authorities, especially since he was going after the ocean demon tribe, Feng’s hated enemy.

But Ace only sneered when he saw the memories when Feng wanted to capture him for his secrets and all that respect was only for his possessions, not for the person.

Moreover, Ace also found the core cultivation sword art of Demon Sword Clan, Demon Sword Dance, this sword art was more like a physical art with no need of Qi, and it was powerful as long as you have a strong physique and Ace found this sword art very much to his liking.

He also found a very rare dual sword drawing art, which goes very well with the Demon Sword Dance. It was called ‘Twin Demon Emergence’ and Ace needed sword scabbards to practice this sword drawing skill.

Ace quickly decided to practice these two sword arts with no hesitation since they didn’t need Qi, and he has Feng memories to practice it at a quick speed.

Since he didn’t have sword scabbards for his own swords, he decided to find a smith-crafter to make sword scabbards for his own swords later.

For now, he decided to practice with Feng swords, which were both long swords with 1.5-meter-long and 5 inches wide, and they were low-grade-one.

“It seemed our journey come to an end, Mr. Feng.” Ace was currently sitting in front of Feng, who looked exhausted.

Feng thought Ace was going to release him since he was done doing whatever he was doing and thought, ‘Once I become free, I’ll fucking tell everyone about your face, and let’s see how you’ll escape my revenge!’

But he didn’t dare to show on his face and quickly thanked him with a respectful expression, “I’m quite honored to help Sir Sky Stealer, please rest assured my mouth is sealed and if you need anything, just give the command, and I’ll try my best to help!”

Ace smiled with a hint of mockery and nodded, “Mr. Feng is true indeed a loyal friend, and I know your mouth will remain sealed for eternity.”

Feng suddenly felt something was not right with Ace’s words, and before he could say anything, an electric shock rumbled in his brain before his eyes turned listless, and he lost strength before falling backward.

Ace heard a notification.

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[Killed a Compete Qi River Stage, Demon]

[Reward: 250 EXP]

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[Martial Cultivation: Heavenly Dark Sea [Stage-3]]

[EXP: 32,270/50,000]

[Soul Cultivation: Orange Wind Soul Core [Stage-3]]

[SP: 20,000/50,000]

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Ace merely glance at the notification before closing it and looked at Feng’s corpse and snort coldly.

How could he not know just what kind of guy Feng truly was after watching his entire life? He was someone who held a grudge very deeply, and he was even planning to sacrifice his entire tribe after killing the ocean demon tribe’s youths.

Ace would never allow someone who didn’t even care about his family to roam freely after seeing him.

After incinerating Feng’s corpse, he finally activated Feng’s face and turned into Feng. He put those sword scabbards around his wrist and adjust the trainee’s hood color and patron. He nodded in satisfaction when he saw his flawless disguise. Likewise, he even activated the earth element Qi, which he never used before, just in case.

‘Let’s see if I meet some important persons…’ Ace smile faintly before he moved toward the exit of Feng’s room.

Ace was now ready to start his plan!