Eternal Thief

Chapter 1578: Hunter’s Hunt! (2)

”Welcome to the Evernight Trial: Hunter’s Hunt!

”Congratulations, you have been granted an Evernight Invitation; thus, the Ring of Full-Moon Hunter is given to you, making you the ’Full-Moon Hunter’ in the Hunter’s Hunt!

”If you lose the Ring of Full-Moon Hunter or fail to complete the conditions of Hunter’s Hunt in due time, you will be eliminated.

”Elimination means Certain Death!”

”Hunter’s Hunt details and rules:

”1. Every participant has been divided into two categories, either the Hunter or the Hunt!

”2. The Hunters have been issued the Ring of Hunter, while the Hunts have been given the Ring of Hunt!

”3. The Rings of Hunter and the Rings of Hunt must be worn at all times. If they are stowed in a spatial treasure or removed from your person, the Rings will become invalid within 10 seconds, and such a participant will be considered eliminated after the duration of the trial!

”4. The Hunter’s Hunt will last for a fortnight after the timer in your respective Ring of Hunter or Hunt starts.

”5. To pass the Hunter’s Hunt Trial, every Hunter must hunt and collect 20 Rings of Hunt (Invalid Rings included) using any method necessary!

”Rewards for Full-Moon Hunters:

”Successfully hunting 20 Rings of Hunt: 400 Night Stay Pass in the Evernight Sanctuary and 100 Evernight Coins!

”Extra rewards if these certain conditions are met:

”Submit 50 Rings of Hunt: Add 150 Extra Nights in Evernight Sanctuary Stay Pass and 50 Evernight Coins!

”Submit 100 Rings of Hunt: Add 250 Extra Nights in Evernight Sanctuary Stay Pass and 100 Evernight Coins!

”Submit 150 Rings of Hunt: Add 350 Extra Nights in Evernight Sanctuary Stay Pass and 200 Evernight Coins!

”...so forth...

”NOTE: Hunter won’t get any rewards for hunting the Rings of Hunter!

”Special Task (optional) for the Hunters:

”1. In the Hunter’s Hunt, there is a special existence of the ’Lone Hunter’ who has been given the Ring of Lone Hunter!

”2. The Lone Hunter can hunt both Rings of Hunter and Rings of Hunt without any discrimination; be aware!

”3. The Ring of Lone Hunter is unique; whoever can obtain it during the Hunter’s Hunt will directly pass the Hunter’s Hunt trial promptly and be rewarded with 10,000 Night Stay Passes of the Evernight Sanctuary and 10,000 Evernight Coins!

”4. Every 12 hours, the location of the Ring of Lone Hunter will be shown to every Hunter and Hunt for 120 seconds, even if the Ring of Lone Hunter has been claimed by the Lone Hunter!

”LOCKED SECTION!

”NOTE: This section is locked and will be functional once the Hunter’s Hunt begins!”

On the violet ring with the council’s hallmark, Eva looked at the projection in front of her, a hint of a smile on her face, as she couldn’t help but compare it to the system’s interfaces and snickered when she found it thoroughly lacking.

Nonetheless, she was still looking forward to the Hunter’s Hunt because this entire trial was about robbing the Hunts of their Rings of Hunt with any method necessary.

She knew everyone present in this trial would use violent methods as the council had already predicted, since no one would hand over their chance of entering the Evernight Sanctuary so easily.

Although she had been separated from Ace, it wasn’t her concern since she could reunite with him using methods that the Council couldn’t even imagine.

At that moment, her focus was on the information she had received as she mused, ’This ’Full-Moon’ with the title of the Hunter is given to me because I’ve been given an Evernight Invitation, and the rewards seem to be also connected with it. So, this is the advantage the Evernight Council would give to the Evernight Invitation holder; just extra rewards?’

Eva scoffed as she thought the Council was stingy, while they were also ruthless, as they even dared to give death penalties to the Evernight Duke’s disciple.

’But who could be this Lone Hunter?’

Eva couldn’t help but narrow her eyes as she could only think about one ’special’ existence mentioned by the Evernight Envoys.

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At this moment, Ace was still mulling over the fact about the lax and lavish conditions set for the Lone Hunter because this was too good to be true, and he knew something was up, but he couldn’t put his finger on it.

Furthermore, he was slightly curious about what the difference was between these ’Half-Moon’ and ’Full-Moon’ Hunters, especially the latter, since they provide the highest rewards!

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[Incoming House Call!]

-Caller: Eva A. White (Abyssal Architect Thief)

-Accept/Ignore/Reject

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Ace snapped out of his thoughts, and his eyes lit up as he knew Eva would be able to answer some of these questions since she would be given the title of either the Hunter or Hunt.

The moment he accepted Eva’s call, without waiting for him to speak, she inquired in a confident tone, ”Are you the Lone Hunter?”

’She knew about the Lone Hunter! There’s really something up!’ Ace’s eyes narrowed as a cold light flashed past them, ”I was just thinking about everything related to this title; it smells fishy, and I guess my intuition was on the mark like always. Just tell me straight, what kind of trouble is coming my way?”

”Hehe, aren’t you always in the center of trouble? Don’t act surprised now...” Eva couldn’t help but giggle with a hint of icy touch, ”But someone in the Evernight Council really doesn’t like ’Nomad,’ and you and I both know that ’someone’ is probably an Evernight King. As for the ’interesting thing’ the council has prepared for you...”

Without hiding anything, Eva revealed the entire details of the ’Full-Moon Hunter’ as well as the ’special task’ given to everyone participating in this trial.

When Ace heard that the ’Ring of Lone Hunter’ was the biggest ’prize item’ of the Hunter’s Hunt, even its position would be revealed every 12 hours; his expression turned icy.

”...so, that’s the gist of it. Are you feeling the pressure now?” Eva couldn’t help but playfully tease as if she wasn’t worried about this situation at all, and even enjoyed it.

Suddenly, a thievish smile appeared on Ace’s lips as he curtly stated, ”Yeah, I’m feeling pressure about how I’m going to handle the aftermath after I’m done with all those ’treasure vaults’!”