Eternal Thief

"Are you sure the slave contract mediums were destroyed?" A wrinkled face, burly demon with blackish skin questioned while knitting his brows tightly.

Another blackish demon who somewhat resembled the old demon answered grimly, "Yes father, when those two maids met with the target, it happened around that time. It seemed someone has intervened, and I'm afraid they're from the king clan."

The old demon's eyes narrowed with a hint of trepidation. He said, "It doesn't matter. Your face was hidden, so those girls didn't know who it was who enslave them. But we have already instructed them to bring that rascal into our territory.

"So, we still have to remain causation and if someone from the king clan appeared, tell them we have nothing to do with this and have your men withdraw from that brat surveillance.

"With this, it would appear we have already acknowledged the king's decree and give up on that brat. Let other clans take the blame if another happened. Also, kill everyone who knows about this plan as well, leave none alive."

The other demon seemed hesitant before he said with killing intent, "But father, then what about Bren sacrifice? We still didn't know who killed him! If we miss this…"

"Stop!" The old demon sternly looked at his son and said, "I'm also heartbroken because of my grandson's death as well. Do you think I want to give up on this once-in-a-lifetime chance to become a king clan? But if our clan gets destroyed before we achieve anything, what's the point of all this, then?"

The other demon lowered his head while clenching his teeth in frustration and helplessness.

The old demon sighed as his old brown eyes turn melancholic, "Sigh… don't worry if this door gets shut, this didn't mean others were close as well. Have Miya approach the boy at the upcoming banquet. Since the hard approach didn't work, let's use the soft approach.

"I'm pretty sure the second phase will be unique for the top ten thousand, and the King will make his move to make sure his clan passed the demon gate trial. No matter what, we have to kill the boy before the third phase and get his heart and blood!"

The other demon's eyes suddenly brighten with understanding as he quickly nodded. "I'll quickly arrange this. I don't believe that Feng brat can resist our clan's number one beauty charm!"

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Today, the area vicinity of Blade Demon Castle was bustling with activities.

Many luxurious carriages with different emblems were entering the blade demon castle's huge opened gates, which weren't closed today.

The demons donned in silver armors with a blade emblem on their chest were inspecting the invitations and scanning the guests with a powerful formation on the gates before letting the carriages enter.

These silver armor demons were the blade knights of the blade domain.

After the checkpoint, these carriages head straight toward a beautiful white pavilion, that was a few kilometers away from the blade castle.

All those carriages stopped at the main entrance before the guests entered the white pavilion.

Furthermore, all these guests were young demons with extraordinary bearing.

They were naturally the ten thousand top contestants of the first phase, and they were all here to attend this banquet where Blade Demon King will appear soon.

As for the others who didn't make it to the top ten thousand, they were all currently receiving the assessment for the second phase in another place.

At this moment, a carriage with a bronze sword emblem stopped at the entrance, and everyone looked at the newcomer with a curious gaze.

The door opened, and a bronze skin demon disembark the carriage. He wore full black attire with a silver lining. Although he looked extremely plain, his demeanor was extraordinary, as his golden eyes were like the sun.

Many exclaimed when they saw the unique features of this demon.

"That Feng Demon Sword, the number genius of blade domain!"

"Rising Sword Earl!"

"He's the biggest dark horse in this competition!"

This kind of whispering was sounded from all directions.

Feng ignored those busybodies and walk arrogantly inside the venue. His eyes were icy, and he ignored anyone who approached him, nor did he greet anyone or return the greeting.

Many demons' expressions became unkind seeing Feng's haughty attitude, but they knew this guy wasn't someone they could offend.

Right now, there was hardly anyone who didn't know who Feng was or didn't see his portrait.

Not only did he receive the full protection of Blade Demon King after the first phase, but he was also a noble demon of the royal demon council and for days rumors were flying around that someone from the council with a very high status also wanted to take him as his disciple.

Although no one knows where these rumors were coming from, many become even more afraid of offending Feng because of this.

Ace naturally liked this kind of treatment, although he deliberately took the first position. He didn't like those flies buzzing around him. That was why he kept Feng's arrogant face all the time, so no one approach him.

When he entered the white pavilion, he was startled for a moment, when he saw how grand this place was, there were many chairs neatly arranged in rows.

Right behind these chairs were numbers written, starting from 10,000.

'It seemed they already disclosed the numbers to them in the invitation like me and according to my number…' Ace's eyes wander around the very front where he could see large golden chairs completely different from the rest and smile wryly.

Helpless, he approached the throne-like golden chair, which had '1' engraved on the back of it. This chair was far more imposing than the others and right in the center and ahead of the others.

Just a few meters away from his position was a towering platform, and he could guess who was going to appear on it shortly.

Right at this moment, a warm, optimistic voice sounded from the number '2' chair, "Haha, look who has decided to grace us with his presence."

Ace couldn't help but smirked, "I'm also surprised of all the people you took the number two."

He reached the front of his seat and saw Thomas beaming at him from his chair a few feet away from his.

"Heh, if someone hasn't found some kind of beast den, I would've taken the first phase." Thomas snorted jokingly before he bear-hug Feng.

"My friend, luck is also part of one's strength." Feng smiled and returned Thomas's warm greeting.

They sat down and started to chat happily with each other, since there were still many participants missing, especially from the top 10.

Besides Feng and Thomas, there were only two others here and Ace knew both of them while they were only sneakily looking at him.

One of them was rank nine Anton, who he helped kill Bren, while the other was his 'golden star' Alora, rank 10.

She was still shining in golden color, and he could tell she had grown much stronger than the last time he saw her, but she didn't approach him since she did not know it was Ace who save her that day and even left the beast core for her to achieve the final breakthrough in her secret skill.

Thereupon, Peter also appeared in golden attire suitable for a prince accompany by gorgeous finance Brenna who snorted seeing Feng sitting on the first seat while Peter has to sit beside him on the Third Seat.

Peter smiled wryly, seeing Brenna's attitude, and could only apologize on her behalf, which Feng didn't take seriously at all.

The atmosphere became somewhat heavy when Jaxx appeared. He has been shunned to the fourth place because of Thomas's rampage last time, and each of them stared at each other with murderous intent.

Jaxx even threw some vicious gaze at Feng, but he could only gnash his teeth when he saw Feng completely take him like a wind.

Ace also notice one thing: that the demons from wild tribes didn't get along with the mainland tribes and some even argued with each other about who was better and worse and fights nearly break out.

But one thing was evident, the wild tribes have the most numbers of participants in the top ten thousand and those mainland demons can't retort about this fact, which made them sulk to no end.

When all the participants were present in the white pavilion, shortly after, they saw blade knights marching inside, followed by nine knight commanders donned in golden armors and a demon donned in black armor.

He was the first blade envoy White Flame who was leading this small knight parade toward the main stage.

Those blade knights surrounded the stage while the knight commanders, including White Fire, took the stage, but they only stay static in a line as if they were waiting for someone.

Everyone held their breath because they knew only one person can make White Fire stand like this.

Which also means… the Demon King was coming!