Eternal Thief

Ace couldn’t help but be even more alarmed at this terrifying possibility. But what choice does he have?

‘I didn’t think that a trial design for a river or river core realm cultivator would be this strange and terrifying. That’s why I thought it would be a walk in the park to acquire the first part of the inheritance, even becoming the Chosen One, so I could have more advantage in the Secret Realms.

‘Yet here I am, lost all my powers, treasures, even the system. I should’ve just gone for the second option instead of being greedy. Sigh… I can now only hope that the Union Leader’s words about not being able to die for the first three times were true….’ Ace smiled bitterly. This was the first time his plan had gone side hills like this.

After coming to terms with his current situation, he took a deep breath and carefully looked at himself and was shocked when he discovered something he had missed before.

He found his hands were small, meaning his hands were only the size of a ten-year-old boy, not his original mature big hands, and his skin was now of bronze color and looked extremely skinny and haggard.

Then he finally noticed his eye level was quite small, and when he saw his small legs and even the clothes over his body had changed into plain old clothes, and he was wearing barely intact tattered shoes.

“What the hell is going on?!” Ace exclaimed out loud with an appalled voice, ‘Could it be I’m in someone else body, not mine?’

The moment Ace thought about it, things started to make sense since this was the only possibility of not being able to use his cultivation or the system. However, this was also absurd since he had no way of knowing how this had happened.

‘Since it’s not my body…’ Ace couldn’t help but feel this trial was not just as simple as survival, but there was a deeper meaning behind it.

This also helped him greatly calm down as he thought, ‘The trial name was Sun Seeker? So, does it mean I need to seek the Sun or something else?’ 𝚍ｎ𝚘ｖ𝚕.𝚝

Ace couldn’t help but look at the sky, which was spitting fire as it was the time of high noon, and the sun was right in the middle of it.

This also made him realize something else; he was thirsty and hungry, even fatigued; these feelings had almost become foreign to him.

‘Just surviving this heat and thirst is a challenge on its own, much less the real trial. I need to find a water source…’ Just as Ace’s thought about it and then looked around, he couldn’t help but shake his head in frustration. As far as he could see, there was nothing but sand dunes.

The feeling of hunger, fatigue, and thirst started to intensify as he slowly started to accumulate the true feelings of the body, and he even started to feel the heat which was nothing but hellish.

The mere irony of dying because of this normal sun heat was something that made Ace depressed as well as bitter. It was like he had returned to his lonely days. The only difference was things were much worse.

Right at this moment, when Ace was about to move toward the north direction since standing there was akin to dying anyway, a deep voice rang, which made him shocked because the language of this voice was something he wasn’t familiar with.

“Mortal from the City of Sun, you have committed blasphemy by throwing the rock at the sacred Statue of the Sun God and calling the God with profane words!

“This has greatly displeased the Sun God. But the Sun God loved its children and couldn’t see them walk on the wrong path when they could still be salvaged.

“You were once the true believer of the Sun God. Even when your clan was executed unjustly, your belief in the will of the Sun God never wavered.

“Yet, you were swayed by the word of a mere blasphemous girl and then exiled in the Sun Desert to die under the wrath of Sun God.

“But you still believed the words of the heretical girl despite the fact it is nearly time for you to embrace death and return to the cradle of the Sun God.

“The benevolent Sun God didn’t want its once devoted child to turn into a sinner. Rejoice, O’ Sinner, because considering your previous devotion and your sacrifices, the Sun God has decided to send a revolution.

“Kill the Sun Seeker, and you shall be reborn as the True Heir of Sun!”

Ace was flabbergasted as that voice was coming directly from the sky, and just as fast as it came, it vanished just like that.

‘Is this the background story of this body? This is definitely crazy. Just because he threw a rock at a god’s status, he was exiled to the desert, and now this so-called benevolent god wants this beat-up child to kill something, and only then will he become the Heir of the Sun?’ Ace thought with deep disdain, ‘So, this is what the Sun Seeker Trial is…’

Right at this moment, Ace suddenly felt tremors under his feet before all the sand started to shake, and Ace started to sink into the dune like a quicksand. But he quickly reacted, and with his nibbled feet, he escaped being sunk alive.

However, there was no hard surface, so the entire sand was the same, no matter how much he struggled.

Suddenly, right behind him, he heard s bang, and the tremor also stopped. The moment he twisted his head to see what was that small explosion about, his eyes widened.

He saw two large yellowish pincers stabbing out of the sand a few meters away from his position, and the next moment those pincers started to crawl up, and soon the owner of those sharp pincers crept up from the sand.

Just its thick pincer arms were two-meter-long while its body was four-meter-long and with eighteen spider-like legs while at the back was a long five-meter-long tail which had three feet long razor-sharp black needle, it was a massive scorpion!

But the most eyes catching thing about this scorpion was a golden shining symbol of a blazing Sun right in the middle of its carapace.

Ace’s heart sank as he easily guessed why this thing appeared out of nowhere and that sun symbol was something he was too familiar with; it was the symbol of the Sun Domain, which made the massive scorpion…

‘The Sun Seeker, I need to kill!’