Eternal Thief

On the western bay of the Azure Wind Continent,

In the dark night, a ghastly scene was being played as ten large ships were brightly lit on flames like torches while the sounds of sea waves with the mixture of deadly shrills rang in the vicinity.

“Boomm…”

A ship suddenly exploded into smithereens, which created a chain reaction, and other nine ships started to explode one after another, creating massive fireworks.

Watching this magnificent scene from the beach not far away was a tall silhouette clad in black robes with dark blue patterns, and the face was hidden behind a long hood.

After the explosions were over, the once large ships were now turned to debris as well as some corpses and limbs were afloat on the flaming water surface. They would soon draw many sea demonic beasts.

At this moment, the hooded figure flipped its hand, and a communication cube appeared before it started to shimmer brightly.

Thereby, it was connected to the other side, and before the other party could speak, an appalling voice rang, “A-admiral, I’m Captain Hazel. We are under attack! There are enemies attacking my fleet from all sides! Please send us help…

“You bastard… y-you do you even know you’re attacking the fleet of Imperial Demon Army?! I have already contacted Demon Admiral!”

“Who is it?!” A deep husky voice rang at this moment from the cube. There was a clear surprise and rage contained in it.

The woman’s voice suddenly changed as a raspy voice rang in derision, “Hahaha, so what if you’re some demon, I, the Blood Thirstily Disillusion, will kill all the lowly demons and then feast upon them, Die demon bitch!”

“NOOOO….” The woman’s blood-curdling screams rang again before she clenched her hand, and the cube was crushed! The demon admiral didn’t even have a chance to speak another word.

After the communication cube was destroyed, silence returned to the vicinity, and the sounds of waves remained.

“Sigh… finally, I’m able to escape from the sea and come clean with this status. Now, this won’t come to bite me. The situation is too sensitive in this place. I can’t be more careful.” Winter muttered in exasperation before her voice became spirited again when she looked at the interface in front of her, “Well, I got a big harvest out of this entire chore.”

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[Theft Successful!]

[Theft: 1,000]

[Open to look at further the details]

[Reward: 210,800 House Points]

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-Mission Introduction: Infiltration!

– Condition (1): Infiltrate the Azure Wind Continent!

-Status: Complete

-Reward: 25,000 House Points (Claimed)

– Condition (2): Infiltrate Dream Shatter’s Organization!

-Status: Incomplete

-Reward: 50,000 House Points (Unclaimed)

– Condition (3): Find Alina’s whereabouts!

-Status: Incomplete

-Reward: 100,000 House Points (Unclaimed)

– Condition (4): Map the target area and the threats!

-Status: Incomplete

-Reward: 250,000 House Points (Unclaimed)

– Condition (5): Infiltrate the place where Alina’s being held hostage!

-Status: Incomplete

-Reward: 500,000 House Points (Unclaimed)

– Condition (6): Escape with Alina!

-Status: Incomplete

-Reward: 5,000,000 House Points (Unclaimed)

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-Time: 3Y: 5M: 29D

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-Punishment (If not able to complete the first two conditions minimum): Call House Leader Ace: My King for 100 Years!

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‘Humph! I earned more house points by stealing from those 1,000 soldiers than that stingy leader’s mission first three conditions combined.’ Winter scoffed in her heart before she opened her status.

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[House Member: Winter Fox (Female)]

[Race: Magic Beast]

[Bloodline: Ice Illusion Fox (Grade-6 Bloodline) (Upgradeable)]

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[Thief Genre: Faceless Thief (Trainee)]

[House Rank: Excellent Member (Upgradeable)]

[Next Rank [Expert Member]: 1,044/100,000 Thieveries]

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[Marital Cultivation: Platinum Qi Soul Realm (Advance: Stage-9)]

-Innate Martial Ability(s): 4

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[Talent: Average (Upgradeable)]

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[Technique & Skills: 9]

-Cultivation Technique(s):

1. Faceless Thief Secrets (1st Vol): Fifth Realm

-Body Refinement Technique(s):

1. Myriad Beast Body Transformation Technique: Hundred Transformations

-Cultivation Art(s):

1. Faceless Art (Vol 1):

Total Tiers: 12

Current Tier Mastery: Tier-5 Mastery

2. Foxy Illusionary Charm:

-Four Stages with three levels (Early, Intermediate, Advance)

-Current Stage: Second Stage (Advance)

3. One with World:

-Five Stages with three levels (Early, Intermediate, Advance)

-Current Stage: Third Stage (Advance)

-Skill(s):

1. Cold Steps: Perfection

2. Thief’s Charity (Inverse & Reverse): Perfection

3. Soul Threads: Perfection

Secret Skill & Arts(s):

1. Flawless Aura Disguise (Skill): High

-Treasure(s):

1. Faceless Thief Mask: Grade-9 (Upgradeable)

2. Soul Shattering Gauntlets: Grade-6

3. Faceless Thief Robes: Grade-8

4. Life Escape Coin: 3

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[House Point(s): 789,300]

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[House Mission(s): 0]

[House Leader Mission(s): 1]

[House Punishment(s): 0]

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[House Shop: Faceless Thief]

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She nodded in satisfaction seeing her tally of House Points and closing the status. She then turned around and looked at the dense forest behind her, and her lips curled up.

‘I should complete my breakthrough before I go forward. The west is the territory of the Beast Tamer Sect, while I need to go to the Azure Wind Mountain Sect. Since that Dream Shatter is the Grand Elder of that place, I can’t think of any other place where he’s keeping Alina now.

‘Besides, the devil and demon armies are still lying waiting in the endless sea, and they only sent a small fragment of these forces into the human continent. They are planning something big. It’s just a pity I wasn’t able to collect more information from the demon admiral since I can’t wait any longer.

‘While I’m working my ass off, that guy is still who knows where. I should contact him to have an update after my breakthrough.’ She thought in annoyance before her figure started to blur before it completely vanished into nothingness.

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After entering his cave residence, Ace placed all kinds of concealing formations in the small room. Only then did he feel somewhat satisfied and then sat down on the stone bed and mused.

‘Now, how should I proceed? My dismantler principals are only around grade-3 at the moment. I needed to get to grade-5, which would take two or three months if I put all my focus on them. I still have the pending reward from completing Condition 1 from my last chain mission (+1 Grade in Heaven’s Stealer Dismantler Principles).

‘But it’s not worth it to use it on just grade-4 or grade-5. I should keep it until I reach a bottleneck or grade-8. In the meanwhile, I need to get the other reaming manuals of the cultivation technique from the Union.

‘I can’t ‘breakthrough’ into higher realms without their cultivation techniques, or it would look nothing but suspicious. I’ll buy any cheap manual up to the fourth realm and enter the inner domain in three months.

‘This will cause even more commotion. At the same time, I will maintain the image of a hard-working human who doesn’t want to affiliate with anyone and just wants to cultivate. This will keep me in everyone’s good graces. But in reality, all I want is…’ Ace’s thought process was disrupted when the system’s abrupt notifications rang.

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[House Member Winter Fox Killed 127 Demons]

-Reward: 1,300 EXP & 1,000 SP

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[Thief House Member Winter Fox theft successfully!]

[Theft: 1000]

[Open here to check the detail]

[Reward: 2,108,000 Thief Points]

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[Thief Point(s): 53,918,950]

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[House Leader Mission: Infiltration]

[Condition 1: Infiltrate the Azure Wind Continent has been completed by Winter Fox. The rewards have been released!]

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Ace was bewildered by this notification, “When did this happen? And why I’m only hearing about it now?”

“[Host always wants only a full report of thief house members, not about every single thing. So, the system always sent the host the final report five minutes later after the action ended.]”

“What, this is just five minutes ago, meaning she only took action today? Didn’t she say she was only three days away from the continent a few months ago?” Ace was even more confused.

The system didn’t reply to this irrelevant question.

Ace frowned as he finally decided to contact her in an hour since she might be n the middle of something right now.

Ace grimly thought, ‘No, this is going too slow. I need to start moving, but before that, I should check my shop!’