Eternal Thief

In the outer area of the Elven City on the Fifth Floor, heart-wrenching screams were reverberating while cries of mercy rang after another before they died down with a roar filled with anguish…

Those who tried to run met with failure and only ended up cutting into pieces. Soon, the entire area was filled with dismembered bodies and streams of gore and blood.

A hooded figure stood without any bloodstains in the middle of this gruesome carnage. Ace looked at all the dead bodies with emotionless eyes as he felt nothing but coldness in his heart.

'A weak life is worth nothing in the world of strong…' Ace thought all of a sudden before a tremor ran down his body. He felt he was close to understanding something, but it was only fleeting before he regained his demeanor with a complicated look deep within his eyes.

At this moment, Ace felt a strong fluctuation from his true soul, and when he observed, he was stunned because the crimson true soul was shimmering in a dark sheen.

The dark pattern on the crimson true soul became apparent at terrifying speed, and it was finally comprehensible after it absorbed all soul segments from the dead.

Ace was astonished because the dark pattern actually resembled a face, and he felt his blood run cold because the face looked fiendish and gave a ghostly aura.

'Is this the reason for the tower spirit to make me kill? I can vaguely feel my mind getting effective with bloodlust just by observing this thing. Just what kind of vile entity is this?' Ace felt fear.

He knew he would be the puppet of this thing without the system, just like those elves. Still, he became even more vigilant and was determined to play his part as a puppet and didn't dare to underestimate the enemy just by its broken state.

At this moment, the system's voice rang,

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-Successful Pick Pocket(s): 194

-Reward: 109,500 Thief Points

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[Thief Point(s): 34,010,500]

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[Thievery Rank(s)]

-Low-Level Thievery(s): 88

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-Thievery Required for next Rank:

[Low-Level Thievery(s): 92/10,000]

[Middle-level Thievery(s): 2/1,000]

[High-level Thievery(s): 0/100]

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Although Ace had killed those elves, he didn't forget about stealing their storage rings. Since he was going to kill them, he might as well get something out of it. This way, the thief symbol won't even have the time to appear, and no one will be able to guess his true identity, or the tower spirit will suspect anything.

His control over soul threads and pick-pocket was godly at this juncture. In panic and fear of death, those elves didn't even realize their storage rings had gone missing.

Ace then took the scatter weapons, array plates, and formation plates as well before he moved walked toward the inner area of the city without activating his stealth. Since he had decided to cause a massacre, he will go through with it unless it won't endanger his life.

These elves were most at the peak of platinum river core or diamond soul realm cultivators, so he naturally wasn't afraid. As for those treasures, only a grade-7 or above treasure could pose a threat to him.

He also acquired memories about the most powerful contenders on this floor. They were around the advance platinum soul realm, which he could easily handle.

Lastly, there was no leading royal elf family member on this floor; only they had grade-7 treasures, and they could be counted on one hand.

So, those treasures were quite precious, and they won't take them out unless it was an impending crisis on their very existence.

In a sense, Ace was invincible on the fifth floor, and even the sixth floor won't pose any threat!

As Ace moved toward the inner area of the city, more and more elves started to ambush him, but they all met with only one end, death!

Their cloaking treasures or abilities were utterly useless, and even if they were hidden hundreds of meters away, they still got killed. Ace was stealing and killing everyone and anyone who was appearing on the fate map range!

The most powerful members of the ultimate alliance wore grave expressions as they were all encircling a building with a doom-like structure. It was the entrance gate toward the sixth floor.

There were hundreds of elves, and all of them were in the soul realm at least, and the leaders from the branch royal families were guarding the entrance gate.

"What's the situation?" Ernest asked while holding a communication cube as he wore a grave expression. However, no answer came from the other side as it was utter silence.

"The 12th ambush party is not answering! Why the situation on your side?" Caylee couldn't help but look at Louie, who was fuming.

"That trash won't answer either! Just what the fuck is going on!" He cursed.

Vaughn also had an ugly expression as he looked at the elves encircling the building and said grimly, "Before I lost contact with my scouts, they report about hundreds of ambushers being killed mysteriously, and they're probably dead as well."

"How is this possible? Did that Monster so terrifying? I heard his cultivation is only bronze river core realm, and he wasn't attacking before. Just what is going on?" Another female elf questioned sternly.

"We are as clueless as your Green Elder. We were caught off guard by the Monster breaking into the city despite our precautions. Now we are losing contact with everyone assigned in the outer and inner areas.

"I'm afraid that Monster had deliberately tricked us into things that he can't attack, and his cultivation is most probably also a cunning trick. He most likely is at the peak of platinum soul realm cultivation!" Ernest grimly sighed.

"Even if he's at the peak of the platinum soul realm, he'll still not match for us nine combined." Louie disdainfully stated.

Caylee nodded before her beautiful eyes turned cold, "I agreed. But just in case, we should better be prepared for the worse. I have borrowed the Last Stand Formation from Lord Randall just in case we had no other choice."

Ernest's eyes shimmered with a hint of shock as he exclaimed, "Lady Caylee, is this Last Stand Formation the same treasured High-Grade-6 formation of the Main Royal Family that can grant someone the power of Early Stage Soul Manifestation Realm for a short period of time?"

Everyone looked at Caylee with a hint of astonishment when they heard this.

Caylee smiled aloofly as she nodded, "Elder Ernest is indeed knowledgeable. It is indeed the same Last Stand Formation you just described."

"Then this Lord Randall should be…?" Louie's arrogant expression broke into a fearful one as he thought of someone terrifying.

Caylee chuckled as she nodded, "It seemed you have guessed it. Lord Randall is the Second Son of the Elf Queen and also one of the three youths who had a chance to enter the seventh floor and become the fourth Holy Elf!"

"So, it is Second Elf Prince!"

Everyone exclaimed since they all were members of the branch royal families, and they knew the difference between the branch and main family was a world apart.

There were only Five Branch Royal Families, which consisted of hundreds of clans together, if not thousands.

Polygamy was quite normal for elves with high status, and a law awareness expert could have as many wives or husbands as they wished.

The Elf Queen was such an example as she had two husbands who were both Law Awareness Realm Experts. Lastly, they were none other than the two other persons who had managed to enter the seventh floor beside the elven queen.

Whoever managed to appear on the seventh floor was called the Holy Elf by the elven race.

So, it was only natural that they were astonished when they heard Caylee had such a terrifying connection with someone who had the potential to become a Holy Elf!

Caylee's Grandfather was the Law Awareness Realm Expert of their Branch Family, but it didn't mean she could have contact with the Second Elf Prince because of it.

"Why…" Ernest suddenly guessed something as he looked at Caylee's aloof and gorgeous face.

Caylee then revealed with a hint of blush, "I'm already betrothal to the Second Prince as his second concubine!"

Everyone was flabbergasted, while the other two women in the group felt jealous since they knew this woman was going to soar.

They finally understand how she got her hands on such a precious formation from the royal family.

"Congratulation, Consort!"

They all changed the way they called Caylee, but deep down, they cursed her for being a wily tramp because they knew Caylee only revealed this fact now because she wanted to get the last hit on the Monster at the expense of using that formation.

If it was before, they might've tried fighting, but they knew the Monster was going to be a massive threat if they didn't work together, and they weren't willing to take the risk of testing the waters either!