Eternal Thief

The area of the three forbidden countries was peaceful as many patrolling ships were garrisoned around the vortex, which was the entrance to the Trinity Alliance Mountain Realm. 

Furthermore, the security around this place had become quite steep in the past months, and geniuses from the Devil, Demon, and Hunter races come here every month to enter the secret realm. 

However, today, out of nowhere, jet black clouds started to gather in the misty sky and spread in over 200 hundred miles radius within a few moments, and a dreadful pressure started to spread.

The entire vortex and almost the three forbidden countries were covered with these clouds, and the pressure alarmed everyone in that place. Especially the overseers of the three forbidden counties! 

But before anyone could figure out what was happening, multicolor thunder began to churn in the jet-black clouds, and powerful thunderclaps began reverberating that could be heard all the way back to the royal lands! 

The next moment, a vortex eye was formed within the clouds, and it was right above the entrance of the secret realm, and four-color thunder started to gather within, illuminating the dark surroundings in blue, red, green, and yellow color.

"Boommm…" 

A mighty thunderclap rang, breaking the sound barrier, and a massively thick four-color thunder beam descended on the vortex below, piercing through the very fabric of space!

At this moment, the secret realm was calm except for the All Devil city because of a particular thief they couldn't find no matter what they did. 

In the hidden underground area of the Blood Devil Clan, the strongest clan in the city. A figure of a burly blood devil stood in front of a giant orange door as he looked at it with shining eyes. 

"Those fools won't even suspect me just because I'm the son of their lord." The devil couldn't help but sneer. 

The devil has an esteemed identity as the first son of the Blood Devil Lord and the next successor to the seat, so no one obstructs his path when he wants to claim some treasuries from the clan's treasury. 

But what no has imagined that their young devil lord was in control of the same thief they were searching for like bloody hounds, Myriad Thieving Fox!

Winter was far away from the city, completely safe as she was grinning evilly while she controlled the young devil lord to open the treasury and started to store everything away!

"How easy. I wonder where that hateful leader of mine ran off to. Hmph, he better repay me for attracting the attention of everyone." She muttered with a scoff, "With this, I'll clear this mission and get new items in the shop… What is this?" 

She suddenly felt alarmed when she sensed a horrendous aura suddenly enveloped the entire realm, and she instantly vanished from her spot and appeared in the open. 

At this moment, she witnessed a harrowing scene of the calm sky splitting apart, and a four-color beam descended towards the central area between three mountains, shaking the entire realm!

"What the hell is that!" She felt a primitive fear enveloping her heart as she gawked at the beam despite being far away from it. It was her first time witnessing something like this. 

However, something even more unimaginable happened next. The entire realm started to experience cracks in space as an image of the blue ocean started to overlap with it. 

At this moment, a panel flashed in front of Winter.

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[Congratulations, Winter Fox, for clearing the House Mission!]

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-House Mission: Qualification of Intermediate Rank Thief

-Mission: Please perform a thievery worth 10,000,000 House Points!

-Status: Complete

-Final Evaluation: Satisfactory

-Reward(s): 

1. 1-Star Intermediate Thief Rank has been granted!

2. House Shop has been Upgraded!

3. Veteran House Member Medallion has been granted!

-Veteran House Member Medallion: A proof of your qualification and achievement as a veteran thief of the house! 

-Effect: You will get 2% more House Points on every thievery!

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[NOTE: Next House Rank is currently Locked. Please wait plenty for the House Leader to upgrade the Thief House!]

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If it was any other time, she would've been thrilled to see this notification and already have jumped to check the shop. But right now, seeing the apocalyptic scene in front of her, she wanted to get as far away from here as possible. 

But that aura releasing from that beam and the pressure that suddenly started to envelop her as the realm was being destroyed made her feel terribly helpless. 

So, she quickly made a call as it was now open again, and she had a feeling that this person was also most likely behind this and wanted to criticize him for not warning her prior to this. 

At this moment, Ace stood on the top of the demon mountain as he watched the bottomless pit left behind by the four-color beam, and he was the closest when it all happened. 

His eyes shimmered with astonishment as he never expected the realm to be destroyed so quickly after he activated the heavenly punishment. Now, it was going to merge back to the mortal sky heaven. 

'So, that's what's happened when you activate the heavenly punishment in this confined space. It simply can't be stopped, huh?' Ace thought without any panic or pity for those people present in this place because after finding everything, he knew they deserved this. 

They had enjoyed all those benefits that they plundered from others for too long, and this was retribution, for he was doing the same to them. As the realm was getting merged back, the system's voice rang. 

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[The Sixth Heavenly Punishment [Calamity Despair Thunder] has been detected!]

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[Warning: The Heavenly Punishment sensed Host's Qi Sea Core and Heavenly Dark Soul!]

[Warning: The Heaven is seething with rage!]

[Warning: The Heavenly Punishment has been strengthened!] 

[Warning: The Heavenly Punishment has been strengthened!] 

[Warning: The Heavenly Punishment has been strengthened!] 

[Strengthened Heavenly Punishment: There is a 100% chance of a Heaven's Terminate Manifestation to descend on Heaven's Stealer!] 

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[System recommends fighting without holding back; use any means necessary you have, or your life will be forfeited today. Please find an isolated place, or the Heavenly Punishment will annihilate all the living in a 250-mile radius around the host!]

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Ace merely scoffed at it as he was filled with boundless determination and confidence like never before. 

At this moment, another notification rang, which was actually a house call from Winter. 

His eyes widened briefly before he smiled, 'She must've cleared the mission already. Well, that's good.' 

Ace picked it up, and before he could congratulate her, Winter's rageful voice with a hint of fear buzzed in his mind, "Out with it! What the hell did you do this time?"