Eternal Thief

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[The Second Heavenly Thunder Punishment of Body and Soul; 'Silver Despair Thunder' will descend in two seconds!]

[System recommends finding an isolated place, or the Heavenly Thunder Punishment will annihilate all the living in a one-kilometer radius around the host!]

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'Deactivate the Hundred-Face Deception Mask.' Ace commanded impassively.

The system immediately obliged, and Ryan's face twisted into a faceless mask. 

Ace put the mask inside the thief's space and so does his Thief Trainee's Hood because he didn't want his treasures to be destroyed by the Heavenly Punishment. Despite his doubts about; they might be impossible to destroy because they were from the system, he still didn't want to take any chances. 

After a long time, Ace's real handsome face appeared when he put the thief trainee's hood inside the thief's space. His long black hair fluttered as the volcano was trembling. His dark-blue eyes like starry night were exempt from any emotions as he was coldly looking toward the sky. 

He didn't put all those incoming golems and enraged orb guardian in his eyes anymore because he knew now that the heavenly punishment was about to start, anyone and anything that came between him and high-heaven will instantly obliterate. 

Suddenly, Ace noticed mysterious energy starting to enter his dark void, 'So, this is the Earthen Element Essential.' He easily guessed the system has started the process of absorption after his last experience. 

However, something peculiarly new happen the very next moment thereafter, a huge amount of foreign energy started to penetrate his body from the earthen altar where he was standing at an astonishing speed!

This new development flabbergasted Ace as he looked at the earthen altar with befuddlement and deemed, 'So, this altar was needed for this exact reason. I'm absorbing that deeply hidden strange Qi emitting from this emerald liquid and the emerald mist!' 

The foreign energy was directly pulled inside the dark void, and it absorbed this energy with no sign of stopping like a bottomless chasm.

'Brrrrrrggggg…' 

Ace quickly snapped out his stupor when an ear-piercing shrieking roar rang inside the volcano. His pupils contracted when he saw a ten-meter hand rising from the emerald fluid, and without stopping, it was going to squelch Ace like a bug. 

However, Ace didn't take any action because he didn't feel the slightest danger at this moment at all and remained static while coldly staring at the incoming large hand.

Just as the hand was a few inches away from squelching Ace, the vague supreme pressure instantly escalated, and the hand made of emerald liquid burst apart in small raindrops! 

Ace's lip curled into a mocking smile when he saw this and mumbled, "It's pointless now." 

Whatever just attack wasn't convinced and oblivious to what just happened. The emerald liquid started to rise again, but this time it takes a humanoid shape. 

A three-meter-tall green figure came into Ace's view, it was exactly like a giant slender human being. It has one large emerald-eyes-ball which covered half of its face, and with a knife-like nose, and two large canines coming out of its mouth, it looked completely hideous with no ears! 

  This was the Earth Orb Guardian! 

The guardian didn't just keep hovering in its place and dash toward Ace, so it could retrieve the earth orb. It has lost its connection with it, and just a moment ago a strange feeling of being drained weighed down on it. 

The guardian knew this thief was doing something to the elemental orb that will indefinitely end up in his death. And this wasn't the end of it; this despicable thief was somehow absorbing the accommodated Earth Orb's Essence that created the entire emerald mist and golems!

Without this earth essence, the golem and mist production will be stopped permanently. If the guardian knows Ace wasn't just absorbing the earth essence here but from all over the earthen mist forest, no one knows what it'll do.

Because the earthen altar was like a medium that can easily control the earth essence that was inside this volcano. However, this limit only applied to the earth orb, not on the system! 

The system was using the same earthen altar at much higher standards than earth orb. It was drawing the earth essence from the entire earthen mist forest and absorbing it inside Ace's body, or more accurately inside the dark void.

The creation of Martial Qi Sea can't be achieved with just heavenly Qi, the elemental essence was a must!

This means if this essence wasn't available right now, Ace had to find another elemental orb if he wanted to form a Qi Sea. As for the elemental altar, every elemental orb had one because without it an elemental orb cannot be born. The elemental altar will always be formed before the elemental orb!

It was another story if someone else had taken the elemental orb and left the elemental altar behind, though. 

Ace still didn't move or more accurately he cannot move any longer, a part of it being because of the supreme pressure, while the system's process of absorption also had a hand in it. 

But he wasn't worried because the orb guardian was also struggling to move, and its movement was extremely slow until it was completely halted when it was ten meters away from Ace. 

"I told you it's meaningless now." Ace sneered as he looked at the orb guardian, which was emitting a thick killing aura. 

Ace felt the cultivation of this orb guardian was too scary, Peak of the Qi River Core Realm! 

The only relief was it wasn't a soul path being like the light orb guardian, or it wasn't in the Qi soul realm because he would be in big trouble at that time! 

The guardian coldly stared at this thief with its big eyeball. It didn't know just where this dreadful pressure was coming from, it felt threatened from it. However, it didn't care as he was using its full power to move forward because he was feeling his life slowly slipping away! 

The guardian will do anything and everything to take the elemental orb back even if it was feeling danger to its life because it knew it was dead either way! 

Ace completely ignore the orb guard while was shaking while trying to move, and he looked upward. 

The roof of the dome right about the volcano started to crack like eggshells! 

Thereafter, the entire roof was torn apart like thin paper and this wasn't the end, the spacious dome entirely crumbled as a terrifying heavy force descend in a nine-mile radius. 

Even the slowly shrinking emerald mist press down to the group because of this supreme pressure. One could finally see the sky at this moment! 

However, the sky wasn't golden at this moment because huge pitch-black thunderclouds were gathering while covering the entire mysterious circle. 

Nine people saw this scene while also being the victims of this supreme pressure, they were all locked in their places like statues. Their eyes were filled with deep horror and befuddlement. They never saw anything like this before, nor had they heard any legends about it. 

"W-w-what is…happening? I can't… move!" Rina's stuttering voice filled with deep terror rang. 

"Tell me about it!" Marc gloomily scoffed as he looked at the pitch-black sky with trepidation. He was also jammed in his place no matter what he does his legs refused to move.

"I-isn't that looked like a…volcano? OH MY GOD…that…that…!" Leana suddenly shouted in panic while her voice stuck in her throat as if she saw something terrified! 

Old man Black, Marc, and Lean shifted their eyeball toward the direction and their pupils also contracted, they saw a towering volcano. However, what send chills down to their spines was not the volcano, but the swarming golem army which was covering the entire volcano, like ants. But they were also seemed to jam in their place. 

However, those thousands of golems were enough to scare the shit out of everyone who just saw them. 

Beads of sweat were all over Marc's forehead as he gruffly said, "I-it…an…army. Take us away from here this instant, I don't care what method you used, I want out of here. You'll be rewarded with anything you desire, just take me out of this damn place!" 

Marc face twisted as he commanded old man Black while looking at the golem army with aghast

Old Man Black's face was also ashen as he replied with a hoarse voice, "I-I'm…I'm afraid even…even with my cultivation of second-level bronze stage…I-I'm also…helpless!" 

'thhh…ccrrrr….'

Just as everyone was trying to leave this aghast place, a huge rumbling of thunder sounded from above. Everyone looked upward with ashen faces and was dumbfounded by what they saw. 

The inky clouds were condescending into a huge vortex which was still expanding at a fast pace, right above the towering volcano, as silver lightning flashed all over the condensing vortex. 

"Bang…!"

Abruptly, a thick silver-lighting bolt descend from the condescending vortex at this moment and its destination was none other than the towering volcano!