Eternal Thief

Outside George’s courtyard, a tall, middle-aged man with long crimson hair and a stern face stood in black robes with a golden flame symbol on his chest. The black robes were the symbol of Sect Law Enforcer Hall.

Furthermore, crimson hair was a trait of flame disciples because the AIG sect’s flame

cultivation technique changed the hair color to match pure flames.

This middle-aged man was one of the nine Chief Enforcer Elders of the Chief Hall Court’s Law Enforcer Hall, Flynn Norberg, and above them was the Hall Master of the Law Enforcer Hall.

Nonetheless, these Enforcer Elders’ status was special since they held power above the normal elders of the Sect and could punish even elders if they broke any sect laws. However, they can’t interfere with the sect openly or use their power for tranny.

Behind Flynn stood five chief forger disciples. They were none other than the group of Harper-Rose, who got robbed by Ace over a day ago before they gathered together to complain about him in the Law Enforcer Hall.

Although they wanted to hide the fact that they were robbed by an Ascension Soldier and only reveal a part of the truth to throw dirt at Ace, things didn’t go as they planned when a crook- looking guy named Hudson, among them, directly revealed everything.

They all knew he belonged to the Norberg Clan’s faction, so they guessed it was most likely their leader or the Norberg Clan’s scheme to suppress George’s momentum. The others could only grit their teeth and suffer this humiliation together.

Nevertheless, when this matter escalated, Flynn personally took charge instead of letting the enforcer hall’s disciples handle it. This made the others happy since it meant they would regain their treasures, and that wicked guy would suffer terribly.

Moreover, they all wanted to remove those owl tattoos on their fingers, which were even more humiliating and a constant reminder of their shame.

But even someone like Flynn was helpless to do anything to the thief symbol, no matter what he did. No spell worked, no law was enough, and even peeling the skin or cutting that limb was insufficient. The owl symbol always came back like a nightmare.

This secretly alarmed many people who were paying attention to this matter, and they even thought that George might not be behind this since it was too strange.

But George was the only suspect, and once they confirmed it, they would suspect that George might’ve had a fortuitous encounter before. He has a very powerful heritage of some powerful cultivator.

Although every sect’s policy was not to probe their members’ secrets and harm them, words were words; no one could change or comprehend one’s heart. Snatching treasures and killing others for their secrets was the most prolonged practice in the cultivation world.

At this moment, the courtyard door opened. George walked out with an impassive expression. He looked at Flynn and the five victims behind him, and he knew what they were here for. He even sensed hidden gazing on him, but he didn’t care. The truth was Ace was angry right now because his cultivation was disrupted.

If he had taken the epiphany pill, and they had disturbed him at that time, or while he was cultivating a few moments ago, it would’ve been an opportunity lost for him.

Still, hiding his true feelings was a norm for him when the fight wasn’t in his favor. Flynn gave him a bad feeling, and he could tell he was way out of his league. He knew this coming.

“Greetings, everyone. How may I help you?” His tone was neither overbearing nor servile. Flynn’s eyes flashed coldly as he looked at George. He was aware of his identity and how his clan viewed this new rising star. But he didn’t speak and merely glanced at Hudson.

Hudson instantly knew it was a signal and quickly reacted angrily, “Cut the crap, you thief! We know you stole our storage rings! Thievery is a heinous crime! Admit your wrongdoing, hand over our storage rings, and plead guilty to Elder Flynn!”

“He’s right. Hand over my storage ring and remove this curse mark!” Harper-Rose also roared with indignation.

Although he knew he was a puppet of the Norberg clan, he didn’t care as long as he got his wealth back. The other three were the same as they started to vilify and admonish George.

Flynn was secretly pleased as he looked at George and wanted to see him panic and despair, but to his surprise, George was impassive and looking at those disciples as if they were clowns.

‘Where did his confidence come from?’ He felt something was wrong, but he quickly brushed it off since they had a method to verify it, and George was bound to suffer today.

At this moment, Ace finally spoke with an innocent expression, “Seniors, please don’t slander me. Wasn’t you guys who gifted me all those treasures? Now, you’re saying I’ve stolen them? Don’t you think it’s too absurd for me to steal from powerful seniors like yourselves? Am I right, elder? Please seek justice for me.”

Everyone looked at George dumbfoundedly, and they were speechless by his words. Does he want Flynn to punish them? THEM?! But his words made too much sense, and those disciples instantly started to blush in shame.

“Hmph!” Flynn suddenly sneered coldly as a powerful spiritual pressure suddenly released from him and locked on Ace. He wanted to intimidate him into submission.

Yet, he was shocked when he saw George didn’t even twitch under 1/10th of his spiritual pressure. But he quickly hid his expression and coldly said, “What proof do you have they are denigrating you?”

However, George didn’t answer and asked, “What proof do they have that I stole from them?”

“This brat is really something…’ Flynn’s expression was solemn as he didn’t expect this outsider who was from a first-grade sect to be so fearless in front of him.

The four clans had already thoroughly checked George’s background, habits, love interests, and even his enemies. However, according to their investigation, George was a coward who feared the strong and bullied the weak. Yet, now, this didn’t seem to be the case. He seemed more like a sly fox.

“Since you didn’t want to admit your wrongs, don’t blame me for taking action!” Flynn no longer wastes his time on words. He takes out a formation plate and activates it: “This is a special formation plate that can detect disciple badges from thousands of miles away. These disciples’ storage rings contain their disciple badges!”

Flynn clearly implied that ‘you’ve made a huge mistake, and you’re done!’ but George’s expression remained unchanged, making Flynn irk even more.

‘According to these five fools, they didn’t sense their spiritual marks being removed from their rings, which means he shouldn’t be able to throw them unless he throws them all together. As long as those rings are on him, or he has hidden them in his courtyard, he won’t be able to escape punishment!

‘It could’ve been easier if the monitoring formation had captured how he stole those rings. But we found nothing; we aren’t even sure if he stole them. But this kind of thing had never happened before, and only after he appeared did this happen, so he’s most likely behind it!’ Flynn assured himself as The regained his confidence.

But at this moment, his expression changed when the formation sent him information about the disciple badges. He looked towards the five disciples, who were grinning malevolently and even looked hopeful and excited as if they were waiting for their treasures to return. However, when they found Flynn looking at them and his expression turning ugly, as if he had swallowed a fly or something, they were confused.

But then their confused expression turned into horror because Flynn’s spiritual pressure suddenly appeared on them. They instantly started to tremble before their knees caved in, and they kneeled in front of Flynn. This was the normal reaction.

Flynn didn’t even bother to explain as he flicked his finger on the formation plate. The next moment, something unimaginable happened: Five storage rings flew out from the various hidden spots of the five disciples’ robes!

The next moment, the storage rings, which were now actually opened and without any spiritual mark, flicked, and five disciple badges appeared before the rings fell in front of the

five disciples’ disbelief faces.

Their eyes were opened wide as if they saw a ghost as they gawked at the five disciple badges. Bulging nerves were popping out on Flynn’s temple as his eyes emitted killing intent; this

was simply too humiliating.

“See, see!” George exclaimed at this moment, breaking the suffocating atmosphere. I’ve told the Lord Elder that they were slandering me. Look, they were hiding their storage rings in their robes and even daring to take advantage of Lord Elder’s austere nature. How brave, how daring! Y-you, you really didn’t put the enforcer hall into your eyes, huh?”

Ace fanned the flame with a righteous expression and appeared angry in Flynn’s stead as he

glanced at horrified Hudson and said, “What are you waiting for? Quickly plead guilty of your crimes to kind Elder into ‘tricking him so daringly,’ as if he was a simpleton like you lot, and

he might spare you!”

At this moment, not only were the people present in the courtyard dumbfounded, but observers as well, including the Sect Master. They all thought this shrewd guy was simply too shameless and audacious!