Eternal Thief

While Noa was looking to abduct a demon, Ace was also thinking of different ways to enter the iron demon city if his mask didn't work or if it works, how can he take Noa inside with him? 

Because he could see the security was no joke around the city gate and those demons were scanning everyone and everything with different powerful treasures and weren't sure if his mask could fool them or not. 

Ace had to admit one thing: those demons really know how to be eye-catching. They had big carriages pulled by vicious and powerful demonic beasts. He could tell those beasts were all tamed, and it seemed the beast taming wasn't as novel as in lower lands, or it was something completely different. 

He couldn't help but think of those beast eggs in his thief's space and techniques of Beast Calling Organization that he theft and all those storage rings of treasures mountain inside he got from Gordon's after fooling him. 

Ace still didn't have a chance to skim through them, but he wasn't in a hurry and those rings were also with no Qi mark since Gordon gave them unlocked to Ace, so he could see his 'goodwill'. 

'I should see if I can hatch those beast eggs when I have the chance and rearranged those treasures in all those storage rings,' Ace mused. 

Ace snapped out of his thoughts when he felt Noa's soul signature moving toward him with another unfamiliar soul signature. After his soul core expanded, his senses become sharper, and now he could easily see through a Silver River Core cultivator with just his innate soul sense. 

His lip curled into a faint smile as he mumbled, "So, she actually found one." 

It was already deep at night, so it was a piece of cake for Noa to abduct an alone demon with her prowess. She quickly reached where Ace was hiding and was astonished when she saw he was already waiting for her with a knowing smile on his face. 

With uncertainty shining in her dark eyes, she threw an unconscious demon on the dirt ground like a rag doll. 

Ace carefully scan the unconscious demon, who was only at the empty river stage, and his figure was not much different from him. He was 2.1-meter tall with a toned build and dark silver skin, a pair of small white horns on his forehead, and two sharped long fangs were visible through his purple lips. It looks like an average human male. 

"What kind of demon is he?" Ace curiously asked. 

"An adult Silver Iron Demon! I found him not too far away, living from here. He was probably out hunting. It was common for weak demons to hunt to earn a living. Only talented demons can enter some colossal force, and this one seemed nothing like a talent." Noa explain with a hint of disdain as she looked at that unconscious Silver Iron Demon. 

Ace frowned a little. He had heard about this kind of treatment from Noa, and he knew this was common practice on the mighty demon continent. Not just here, even in humans. This practice was normal. But here it was a level above because these kinds of untalented demons were despised by their own parents and expelled from their homes. 

Although some humans can do this kind of cruel thing to their children, it was quite rare, since even a tiger doesn't eat its own cubs. But here it was nothing new or uncommon, and these untalented demons also accept their fates as it is. They die in wildness or of old age somewhere. 

This was the same story for tribes with low-level potential, those that can only reach foundation building realm in their lifetime were left in the wildness for death, while those that can reach the peak of the river realm become servants of these big tribes. 

Only a river core realm demon can possess a respectful status here, and only a tribe with river core realm level potential was qualified enough to get a noble status or fight for it! 

Ace also found it quite disturbing, but he knew every race had their own beliefs and customs and this was the race named 'Demon', so what he can expect from them? 

Nevertheless, it was probably because of these customs and beliefs that they were so strong and united against other races. 

Ace looked at the unconscious Silver Iron Demon and squatted on one knee while placing his hand on the demon's forehead. 

'Soul probing.' He instantly cast soul probing on the iron demon. 

Ace wanted to probe memories of these demons from the moment he had come here, but he didn't have the chance and Noa was out of the question. 

Now that he got the chance, he naturally won't miss it. 

A large stream of memories fragments entered his mind and all of them were this demon's life experiences. 

Noa's eyes instantly constricted when she felt strange Qi fluctuation from Ace's hand placed on the silver-iron demon's forehead. 

'What kind of Qi is this and why I'm feeling dread about it?' Noa mulled with a grave look in her eyes.

She was founding Ace unfathomable the more she knew him and she was feeling quite glad that she joined his side or if she was the enemy with him, she won't even know how he would have dealt with her! 

Noa now had wholeheartedly accepted Ace as her leader, and he had earned it on his own, unbeknownst to him! 

Within minutes, Ace had already gotten all the memories of over a hundred years' worth of this iron demon in his head and even processed them while keeping important ones and discarding unimportant ones. 

Even he was shocked by his own speed, and he finally felt it was worth it to create the Qi sea and enter the Qi sea realm! 

Ace found out this Iron Demon's name was Pablo Silver Iron, and he was a citizen and tribesman of the Dark Iron Demon race. But his potential was low because he can only reach the empty river stage after a hundred and twenty years and was deemed trash by his own family and kicked out from his own household a few years ago. 

From shame and anger, he left the iron demon city and lived in the forest not far away from the iron demon city and only come back in a few years once in a while to sell herbs or demon beast materials he found in the wildness and bought some necessary things before leaving the city again. 

Furthermore, he wasn't the only vagabond around here, and there were hundreds of more living like him in the same way. 

Ace even felt sad for this poor demon. He was living like a vagabond even though his family was one of the founding families of iron demon city, but they still didn't want to keep him around. Even his own parents and siblings despise him because of his lowly talent.   

'Sigh…' Ace sighed as he lamented, 'What a cruel race.'

Ace didn't dwell on it since it wasn't his problem and took out the hundred-face deception mask. 

"This is?" Noa's eyes twinkled with curiosity as she looked at the faceless back mask with a gem on top of it in Ace's hand. 

This was her first-time seeing Ace taking out something from his 'storage ring' beside the thief house recruitment token, and she couldn't see through this mask at all.

"Heh, it's a toy. Just watch." Ace chuckled mysteriously. 

He faced the white memory gem toward Pablo's face and commanded, "System, save face six."   

The white memory gem shimmered as it slowly scanned Pablo's face and figure.

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[Face 6, has been successfully recorded in memory gem.]

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Ace's eyes suddenly shone with elation because before he thought this might not work on a demon, but it did in the end and this was nothing but great news for him. 

Noa was also astonished after seeing the mysterious white light slowly skimming all over Pablo's body and then vanishing the next moment.

Ace, without waiting for another moment, put on the hundred-face deception mask and said, "System, activates the face 6 with the same cultivation of the face owner!" 

In Noa's gobsmacked yet astonished eyes, Ace's entire figure changed as his 1.9-meter height started to increase until it reached 2.1 meters same as Pablo and his pale white skin become dark silver as it was forged with silver iron! 

Ace's long silky back hair also become silver white while his human eyes completely turned into silver eyeballs and the most shocking thing was he grew a pair of small sharp white horns on his forehead and two sharp canine teeth surfaced from both corners of his lips. 

Ace's aura also changed, and he emitted the aura of an empty Qi river realm of a 'large size river'. (Form with 7-foundation slates)

"YOU!" Noa's eyes were filled with horror when she looked at two silver iron demons! 

"Hehe, don't be alarmed, it's me. This is the effect of my toy." Ace's voice was also a little hoarse as he smiled while showing rows of sharp teeth.