Eternal Thief

… Don’t tell me you want me?!”

Ace wasn’t swayed by Aliya’s captivating act at all. On the contrary, he felt something was not right about her behavior. But he can’t put his finger on it, so he decided to focus on his aim.

He coolly said, “I’m not here to joke around. I want fifty grade-3 storage space treasures, or if you can provide me with a hundred grade-5 space treasures instead, it will be even better.”

panda (nov)el​ Aliya’s eyes shone with ambiguity as she finally dropped the seductive act and asked, “We can arrange fifty low-grade-3 storage space treasures as for any higher, those storage space treasures are quite precious and limited here, so I can’t help you with that.”

Ace had already expected this, so he wasn’t too startled by this, and he was satisfied with the 50 grade-3 storage space treasures.

“No problem. I can go on with that. Here, take a look at the contents of these storage rings and tell me if they’re sufficient for our trade.” Ace nodded and place twenty storage rings on the table.

Aliya smile charmingly before she branded the rings with her soul mark, and her eyelids trembled slightly when she was all those materials and treasures within the rings.

Ace has taken out just the portion of his wealth and these things were completely useless for him, but they were extremely alluring for any power to nurture their younger generation.

Especially, the star rank arrays and formations which no one wanted to sell even if they were useless, but Ace was different he had many of such arrays and formations, and he even had the ocean demon tribe’s legacy formations, so he didn’t need the lower one.

But this didn’t mean he had taken out everything. This could be said only 5% of his accumulated wealth from his thieveries.

“Hehe, these are more than enough for our trade. Do you need anything else or do you want to use our channel to sell some things? We only charge a 20% dealing fee.” Aliya said as she took those storage rings.

‘What a rip-off,’ Ace scoffed inwardly.

He impassively said, “No, thanks, this is it for now. When will I get my goods?”

Aliya pulled a regretful face hearing this and said dejectedly as if Ace’s answer hurt her feelings, “It’ll take two hours to prepare all the things. In the meantime, ….”

Before she could spout anything, non-ethical Ace stood up and said, “I’ll be back in two hours then. I still have things to do. Please send my regards to boss All-Knowing Parrot and tell him I’m eager to meet him.”

Without waiting for Aliya’s reply, he left.

Aliya mumbled, “Hmph… you’re no fun!” before her demeanor completely changed as a bewitched look appeared on her face before she blushed heavily as she remembered her unethical conduct.

She couldn’t help but murmur with a resentful expression on her beautiful blushed face, “She used that technique to do shameful things through me… again!”

On the top floor,

All-Knowing Parrot’s eyes opened and filled with a dark mist before it faded away. She coldly snorted. “Hmph, that guy was purposely infuriating Aliya after sensing her hostility. If I haven’t taken over, she might’ve given something up.

“But, I have to admit, that guy is too astute. The moment he sensed things going awry, he only talked about business and left quickly, without showing anything. He even remained calm in front of my honey act and Aliya’s beauty.

“However, the more special you are, the more I want to control you… Hehe, I’m also looking forward to meeting you. But that day will be the last day of your freedom!” Her eyes turned icy in the end and nefarious.

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Ace left the lionheart shop and his next destination was Life Demon Treasure Pagoda.

First, he wanted to buy soul materials and pills according to his quota as a demon earl, and secondly; it was obvious to scout the place to plan for his chain mission.

Before he wanted to buy information from the lionheart shop about life demon association, but after getting the wind that All-Knowing Parrot might be there in person, he decided otherwise.

Because that person knows about his real identity as Sky Stealer, he might suspect something if bought up this information topic. He didn’t want someone like the All-Knowing Parrot to know about his plans, or just like the fate point indicated he might screw him over for his own benefits.

After walking for fifteen minutes, he finally reached his destination, which was a towering brown Pagoda with twenty floors, and ‘Life Demon’ was engraved on the front.

He also noticed another towering building beside it because they were the only architect in this area. Nothing was around 500 meters from them. This second building was the Life Demon Guild, where any life professional can register with the association and get unimaginable benefits.

However, Ace wasn’t interested in getting such an identity right now because he didn’t want to reveal his unique heavenly rune crafting to the world, or things might get troublesome if he caught someone’s attention with vile intentions.

The identity of a fighter was still better for his missions.

Ace moved toward the imposing pagoda. He was already in Feng’s disguise because he can’t reveal this ability, and Feng’s appearance suited his needs right now.

There were two guards at the front gate, and they were astonishingly fourth intermediate stage soul realm demons!

One of them coldly looked at Ace and said, “Please show any proof of identity!”

Ace had already seen the others entering after showing a special identity token, so he didn’t flatter and showed his demon earl token, which was also proof of his identity.

Those guards were startled for a moment before they respectfully bowed. “Esteemed Rising Sword Earl, welcome to Life Demon Treasure Pagoda!”

Ace merely nodded before entering the building with a nonchalant expression on his face. He had to maintain his image as Feng, after all.

However, the moment he saw the interior of the first floor he was astonished because it was too damn exaggerating. After all, there were many beautiful displays, and all of them were filled with pills, herbs, weapons, arrays, formations, and even soul pills and herbs weren’t an exception.

He had to admit, that this association was deserving the title of the richest organization of eight provinces, and he felt even more motivated to theft this place. It was just the first floor and there were already enough treasures to make him drool. He didn’t dare to imagine their upper floors and reserves!

‘If I pull this off, I might get tens of millions of thief points!’ Ace thought with a burning passion.

However, the system’s voice snapped him out of his stupor at this moment,

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[Target related to the chain mission is in scouting range!]

[Did the host want to scan the target and create a Treasure Blueprint?] 

-Requirements: 

1. Live Fate Map

2. Thief Point: 100,000

3. Time: 10 Minutes

[Proceed/ Cancel]

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Ace’s mind was jolted the moment he saw this familiar yet unfamiliar scouting request.

He asked with uncertainty, “What is this Treasure Blueprint, and why do you need Live Fate Mapping in a scouting scan this time?”

System’s answer came as a surprise to him.

”[A treasure blueprint is like the entire drawn structure of the thievery target. It includes trap details at 100% detail level, as well as the treasury structure and all the locks and restrictions in the target area. It’s helped plan the thievery far more precisely and with the minimum risk of failure.] 

”[As for the host’s second question, after the system was upgraded, the scouting feature was naturally upgraded. But it still wasn’t enough to create a Treasure Blueprint.] 

”[However, with Eternal Thief Fate Compass ability of Live Mapping, it becomes possible to create a degraded version of Treasure Blueprint.]” 

Ace was naturally elated to hear the first part, but he became doubtful at the ending and asked, “What’s the difference between the degraded version and the real?”

”[In this version of Treasure Blueprint, the host will only get Building Structure, Traps Locations, and Treasure Locations. The information such as trap levels, array levels, formation levels, and lock levels will depend on the Live Fate Mapping.]

”[As the host already knew, the Eternal Thief Fate Compass can only map the area according to its grade, which is directly related to the host’s cultivation. Like right now, the host will only get information about grade-3 or lower level restrictions, not higher in the treasure blueprint.]

”[Those details will be included in verbal scouting report like before. Unless the host could upgrade the system and unlock the real Treasure Blueprint function, the host has to do with this version right now.]” 

Ace was startled hearing this but, in the end, he also accepted it since this ability wasn’t supposed to be unlocked right now and this happened only because he got the eternal fate live compass.

Besides, the system was kind enough to give this option to him as well, so he had nothing to complain about.

He commanded without even considering it anymore, “Start it!”