Eternal Thief

Ace was bewildered by this particular notification and suddenly delight surfaces on his face, ”System doesn’t this mean I don’t need this space ring anymore and you can store my items for me! Are you also a storage space treasure?”

Ace thought that he finally figures out what kind of treasure system was, but not after hearing the system’s hostile answer.

”[No! The system is not a mere storage space treasure! Do you want to open Thief’s Space function or not?]” System rebuke in an emotionless voice.

Ace guesses that he has angered the system by calling it a space treasure. Hence, he quickly changes the topic, ”How can I open this Thief’s Space?” He asked in full of excitement and expectation.

Just a mere thought about getting his own storage space make his blood boil.

”[A storage space treasure of any rank and 500 Thief Points are required to unlock the Thief’s Space.]” 

”So Expensive!” Ace growls out loud as his voice was filled will grievance.

He was finally feeling like a rich man, seeing all these spoils and especially 700+ TP. But now this black-hearted system wanted his 500 TP all at once!

Even that Heaven stealer pill that was the most expensive thing in the system shop only cost 150 TP. How could he not be grieved by it?

”DO IT!” Ace’s said in a mosquito voice. He felt his heart was bleeding after seeing his TP turned from 703 to 203. He quickly cheers himself up after thinking about this thief’s space function.

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”[Congratulation! Your ’Thief Storage Space’ of 10 cubic meters has been unlocked!]

[For next upgrade: You need 1000 TP and two storage space treasures of any ranked, to further increase the thief’s space by 40 cubic meters]

[Thief’s Space can only store Non-Living Beings]

[If the host wants to store Living-Beings inside: You need to upgrade it with 10 Low-Grade storage space treasures and 5000 TP]”

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System cold voice transmitted inside Ace head.

The Blue space ring on his finger suddenly turns to dust and all of sudden, his soul began to feel agitated.

After a moment pass, he suddenly felt; something new that was now part of his soul, and it was a baffling feeling.

A piece of new information appeared in his brain at this moment and with a thought, a yellow old book appeared in his hand.

This was the skill book that was stored in the blue ring before and now all the other things that were in the storage ring were inside his Thief’s Space! With just a thought that book vanished from his hand and reappeared inside his ten cubic meters dark thief’s space. 

’All those TP were worth it! But to upgrade this space I have to spend quite some TP it’s simply too expensive; well this space is big enough for now.’ 

After getting the hang of the system’s new function, Ace quickly focuses on the current task at hand and quickly starts to do his ’job’.

Ace didn’t know what he was taking but he was storing anything that comes to contact with his hand.

Since he has all those treasures from Kingdom, he didn’t expect much from this treasury of the mere Kelby family.

After running around tirelessly, he finally cleans the entire room that was glittering with treasure five minutes ago.

After watching this ’clean’ empty room, he nodded in satisfaction, ’Mission Complete! Time to escape.’ He quickly closed the silver door and run towards the exit.

After coming out of the white pillar’s hidden door, he closed it, and that array was active again and it becomes a white pillar again.

No one will be able to tell without going inside; the treasury was already emptied!

Ace exits from the hidden door. After successfully escaping from the mansion he heads straight towards Eva’s cottage to pick her up and leave this city.

He didn’t want to leave his birthplace but without doing it he couldn’t become strong and meet with his little sister.

Ace quickly approach Eva’s cottage and she was already waiting for him outside the door anxiously.

”Did you succeed?” Eve asked him hastily with concerned eyes.

Ace grinned broadly and answer ”Just who do you think I am? I’ll tell you about the details later first we have to leave the city. It is going to be a huge commotion tomorrow. Hmm? Your bag seems quite heavy it will slow you down let me take care of it.”

Finished saying he touched the big bag in Eva’s hand and store it inside his Thief’s Space.

Eva was about to decline his offer when she saw her bag was disappeared in thin air. It was the same scene that she saw Rylan doing all those years ago and it left a deep impression on her mind that’s why she still remembers it.

But now Ace was doing the same kind of thing. She was startled and ask in bewilderment, ”YOU! HOW?!”

Before she could inquire any further Ace quickly said ”I’ll tell you everything after we leave this city now let’s go, we didn’t have much time.”

He used silent steps again and runs towards the main gate of the Kelby family. He didn’t use stealth fully because Eva could not follow him with the stealth at its peak.

Eva has too many questions, but Ace was in a hurry so she could only follow him and ask later.

They left Kelby’s family with ease and head towards the inner region gate.

That night two silhouettes disappeared into the forest outside of River-Flower City. Before disappearing one of those two figures stopped moving and turns around to see the Beautiful City one last time. It smiled and said, ”I’ll be back.” And disappeared inside the vast forest.

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After five minutes Eva and Ace left the Kelby family, Rylan’s figure appeared outside the Gate of the Kelby family.

Rylan didn’t look like his normal calm and aloof self. He was disheveled and panting heavily.

He has searched the entire Grant Family and couldn’t even find Ace’s shadow. Then he has no choice but to come here to seek help from his son in law the current family head of the Kelby family. It was disgraceful but he could not think of any other way.

He didn’t want others to find out about that storage ring. If this secret were exposed, he will be dead with his entire family or maybe with the entire city.

Kelby family has a special treasure that can find a person by their unique smell. He has that big bag in his hand that Ace holds this morning, this was his last chance and he has to succeed no matter the cost.

Rylan directly enters the gate and head straight towards the main mansion of the Kelby family.

Those gate guards become startled by this sudden intruder and are about to raise the alarm when they saw Rylan’s face, they quickly recognize him and let him pass.

Rylan quickly appeared outside of the big mansion and was about to charge into it when he felt two Qi were locked on him. 

”Hmph!” He snorts coldly and released the pressure of his cultivation base.

Those two elders were immediately come from hiding and bow to Rylan, ”We greet Master Grant please forgive our previous offense.”

Rylan didn’t have time for a chat and shout, ”Lyla! Sumyan! Come out and see me right now!”

Rylan directly called the family head by his name and those two elders smile wryly on the side. Only he has the guts to call him like that if it was anyone else, they would’ve died by now.

Rylan used his cultivation base to amplify his voice and the entire area was rang with his sound. The gate of the mansion opens and a man in his late thirties walks out with a beautiful woman beside him.

She resembled Rylan a little but she was more charming. She was Rylan’s daughter Lyla Grant and Asher’s mother. The man beside her was the current family head of the Kelby family and Asher father Sumyan Kelby.

Sumyan could see Rylan was not looking so good by his pale complex and his hair was a tangled mess. He immediately asked, ”What happened to you?”

Beside him, Lyla also saw her father’s condition and asked anxiously, ”Father why are you looking like this? Did something happen?”

Rylan saw his daughter worried expression and couldn’t help but felt little warmth in his heart. But he quickly remembered that if he didn’t find that brat he and his entire family would be exterminated!

”It is like this….” He quickly explained the events that unfold today, ”He stole our clan mortal grade skill, and I need to find him before he escapes somewhere else. Sumyan lends me your clan ’All direction Compass’ and after I find that brat, I can lend my family mortal skill to Kelby family for 6 months.” He quickly changed his space ring with mortal grade skill, since it was really in it, he wasn’t telling any lie.

Sumyan eyes glow when he heard Rylan promised. Even those elders who were standing on the side grasps.

Sumyan always wanted to learn that skill but Rylan never let him. But now he was offering it for 6 whole months how could he not be agreed with him?

”Hahaha, father in law we are family since that bastard dares to steal from you it means he steals from me. Let’s go inside and I fetch that Compass for you from the treasury.” He didn’t wait for Rylan’s agreement and quickly proceed towards the treasury. He was afraid Rylan would change his mind and go back on his words.

Lyla snorted after hearing her husband’s shameless words. She knew him more than anyone else. He would not do anything until he saw benefits in it.

She ignored him and said to Rylan in a gentle tone, ”Father come inside and rest for a while that little slave can’t run far, we will find him with the all-direction compass. He can’t escape.”

Lyla said confidently because that ’all direction compass’ can even find someone from miles away not to mention that it was night impossible in their eyes to imagine that the thief can escape the city in due time.

Rylan relaxes a bit after hearing her guarantee and accepts her offer and head inside.

Since those two elders were already here Lyla invites them for some tea politely and they accept the offer. Anyway, they also wanted to find that brat or more accurately that mortal-grade skill.

Rylan and those two elders have just entered the mansion when they heard Sumyan shrill screams like a dog who was about to die,

”NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”

Everyone was alarmed and quickly followed his voice and enter the white pillar. They quickly advanced towards the silver door and enters the treasury.

Inside they saw Sumyan was lying on the ground while his face was twitching continuously and he keeps muttering like some madman, ”All gone! all gone! all! gone! all gone!”

Lyla saw her husband first and anxiety fills her face, she was about to ask him what happened when she noticed that the treasury was empty.

Yes, it was EMPTY!

She didn’t even make a sound and her eyes roll upwards and she fainted on the spot from this huge trauma.

Those two elders and Rylan also saw all this and were stunned silly.

”I-Is this really a treasury?” Rylan shutter for the first time in his life.

That night a piece of big news that shatters the entire River Flower city peace spread. Someone has robbed the Grant family of their mortal-grade skill and it was most likely that the same person has plundered the entire Kelby family Treasury!

Even City Lord Mathies comes out from his seclusion cultivation after hearing this unexpected news!