Eternal Thief

'Lunatic!' The audience thought.

They all knew these demons from the association were all eccentrics, but this guy was simply on another level to spend his money like water, while he didn't give the VVIPs any face!

Inside the VVIP room no.34,

A crimson demon sat with a hint of a frown on his long face. He wore the robes of the life demon association's rune crafter. He was the life grandmaster of the Beast Tamer Province, Haydn.

"So, it's Ville, huh? It seemed the rumor about him doing unethical deals was true, after all. Well, he can keep this talisman, save for me now." He sneered as a distant glint flashed past his red eyes.

Almost everyone gave up on the talisman because the price was too high and this was still the second day of the auction. There was still the grand finale, so everyone was saving as much as they can.

On the stage, Lilly announced, "Room.19-3 won this Limit Talisman for 5 million low-grade-3 Qi stones!

"So, this was the end of the second day. I'll see you all in two hours!"

Ace smiled in satisfaction when he saw another golden ticket generate.

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While the Life Demon Auction was still proceeding at the Forbidden Plains, the Black River City was still lively.

At this moment,

Three capped figures slowly crept inside the city gates and successfully infiltrate the city, escaping the guards or any formation.

There was a dark barrier around them which made them invincible in everyone's eyes as they moved without any hindrance.

These three were none other than Noa, Freya, and Winter, who had just started their house mission!

After successfully infiltrating the Black River City, they first sneak inside the Treasure Cloud Firm's secret room.

Freya wore a black mask, which also hid her unique eyes. She spoke, "There are over a thousand shops in the outer market while over five hundred in the inner market.

"The firms of rich families and Magistrate Clans are also there, so we should raid the inner market. If we still fell short in the end, we can go with our original plan and raid the Magistrate Clan of Black River City.

"The question is how we are going to keep this under wrap until we're done?"

Noa wore her usual mask and coldly uttered, "We can steal their storage rings and then kill them. This way, there won't be any Qi marks on the storage rings or any witnesses left. It would be perfect thievery."

Winter's eyes were also cold. "Assassin is right. We can't mess this up. We don't have all the skills in our shops, neither we are professional like a certain liar. So, we should do it in our own way. As long as we kill any witnesses, we can complete our mission while also escaping."

Freya chuckled coldly. "Fine by me. Assassin can handle the east wing, while Faceless can clean up the west wing, and I'll be in charge of the north wing. We'll meet in the south wing before heading toward Main Street, where the Puppeteer Demon Firm is with other big firms.

"The Ghost Lurking Formation and Demonic Sword Killing Formation will be useful there. We can handle other shops and their security with these grade-4 killing formations. The Leader also left three hundred talismans for an emergency. We'll get a hundred each."

Freya quickly started to distribute the things Ace left to make their mission as easy as he could.

Winter looked at the coin talismans and couldn't help but praise them. "I have never seen such a talisman before. It seemed our great leader isn't just proficient in lying and stealing."

Freya nodded in agreement. Even she couldn't fathom these coin talismans fully, despite being a fourth-grade rune crafter herself. She even asked Ace to teach her these runes and talisman crafting.

He quickly agreed to her request. He can teach her the knowledge of ordinary runes since the heavenly runes were useless to her.

"He's the most talented person in this world." Noa declared as matter-of-factly in reverence.

She was the only one who knew Ace can cultivate both Soul Qi and Martial Qi simultaneously, and these two newcomers were still ignorant about this.

After staying with them and working together, she knew these two ambitions and couldn't help but scoffed inwardly. She could tell Ace didn't put them in their place because he didn't want to hurt their pride and break their resolve.

But she was looking forward to the day when they both knew just how laughable their ambition was to dethrone Ace as the house leader.

"Not for long." Winter retorted softly, but she still agreed with Noa.

However, both she and Freya think it was because Ace had a time advantage over them, and he might've already improved his bloodline to the ninth grade already and bought everything from his shop. That's why he was so talented.

Noa didn't rebut, she just picked her things.

After finalizing the plan more time, they separated into three different directions.

No one in the Black River City knows three ruthless thieves were going to make their rememberable debut this night, which will be going to shake the entire Demon Tamer Province!

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Inside the auction arena,

Ace, who was waiting for the next round of auctions to start, was suddenly startled when a notification appeared in front of him.

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<strong>[House Mission: A Grand Entrance]  </strong>

<strong>[The House Mission has been triggered!]</strong>

<strong>[The Progress Interface has been activated. The host can access the Progress Interface through House Mission.]</strong>

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<strong>[House Mission: Progress Interface]</strong>

<strong>[Mission Conditions and Requirements have been applied!]</strong>

<strong>[Time: 23:25:43]</strong>

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<strong>[Thief Assassin (Noa Night)]</strong>

<strong>-Current Progress Status: 183 House Point(s)</strong>

<strong>-Required Progress Status to Pass: 1,500,000 House Point(s)</strong>

<strong>--</strong>

<strong>[Evil Thief (Freya Witch)]</strong>

<strong>-Current Progress Status: 247 House Point(s)</strong>

<strong>-Required Progress Status to Pass: 1,500,000 House Point(s)</strong>

<strong>--</strong>

<strong>[Faceless Thief (Winter Fox)]</strong>

<strong>-Current Progress Status: 140 House Point(s)</strong>

<strong>-Required Progress Status to Pass: 1,500,000 House Point(s)</strong>

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<strong>-Total Progress Status: 570 HP</strong>

<strong>-Required Progress Status to Complete the House Mission: 5,000,000 HP</strong>

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<strong>[Note (1): The House Leader will get the total of TP when the Progress Interface is deactivated or in case of Mission Failure or Completion.]</strong>

<strong>[Note (2): The Progress Interface will refresh every five minutes.]</strong>

<strong>[Note (3): The House Leader cannot break any house mission conditions and requirements, or the progress interface will automatically be canceled and can't activate for another 24 hours.]</strong>

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"Are you for real?" Ace's eyes narrowed when he saw this Progress Interface.

Although he now knows those three have already started moving and he can monitor their progress with this. But the system also rendered him useless with this progress panel as well.

As long as he broke any conditions of the house mission, it would completely ruin the entire mission, no matter if they complete it or not.

The system would never acknowledge the mission's success as long as this interface wasn't activated.

It mostly affected the house members, since they would suffer the most if the mission stopped in the middle, and all their planning and hard work would go to waste.

Furthermore, this thing has a time limit, which he can't tell them now or it would ruin their mission since they had already started it. He can only hope they were quick on their feet.

Nevertheless, Ace wasn't worried much since he had already given them everything they needed to complete this mission or they escape unharmed, even if they failed somehow.

'Now, it's on you guys. Don't fail me.' Ace thought with great anticipation as he didn't close this panel and kept it open in front of him.

At this moment, Lilly had returned, wearing a tight white dress that showcased her buxom figure.

Everyone held their breath since they knew the first item and the last item of every day were of an incredibly high value.

Lilly smiled brightly and expressed, "Welcome to the third day of the Life Demon Auction, everyone. Let's move to the first item of the day!"

Just as her voice trailed off, the platform in the middle of the stage rose, and a glass display was on top of this platform.

Everyone looked at the exquisite white full-body armor, giving off a shiver sheen.

Lilly introduced, "This is a high-grade-4 runic fully body armor, White Brilliance. It has a reshaping function, so there's no need to worry about body size or gender. The starting bid for White Brilliance is 100,000 peak-Grade-2 Qi stones. The minimum raise limit is 200 peak-grade-2 Qi stones. The bid is open!"

"How generous of the life demon association to put a high-grade-4 runic armor on the auction. It's worth the peak-grade-2 Qi stones tag." The Ghost Demon King's empty eyes were glued on the White Brilliance as he placed his bid.

However, he wasn't the only demon king who was interested in this armor. Soon, almost all the demon kings were bidding for this runic armor.

Even those high elders got involved for the first time in bidding!