Eternal Thief

The very next day,

Inside the Blade Demon King's castle, the throne room.

Blade Demon King's eyes were filled with wrath and worry as he looked at the kneeling White Fire, who was still in his tatter appearance and broken armor.

"Y-you dare to escape while my son got taken away by some mindless shits?!" He bellowed in a fury.

He was extremely fond of his children, especially Peter, who was the youngest, and he inherited his personality the most.

Now he was hearing some mindless demons take him hostage and even force White Fire to escape for his life. How could he remain calm?

White Fire knew this would happen, so he was ready to receive any punishment, but it wasn't his fault entirely, and he knew his king wasn't an unreasonable person.

He said, "My King, I'm ready to receive any punishment. But I'm afraid there's someone behind those demons, and they took Prince and the other hostages for some other reason. If I haven't escaped, I would've been the same."

Blade Demon King's eyes shone with vexation. He knew White Fire was telling the truth, and he was loyal without question. But he still felt this was just too absurd, that those mindless demons could overpower White Fire.

Nevertheless, he had to deal with his son's matter first before White Fire.

He was about to stand up to go alone to that place to rescue his son when the throne hall door slammed open and Aura appeared with an ashen expression on his face.

"What now?!" Blade Demon King's expression sank further because he knew Aura would never barge into the throne hall like this if there wasn't something extremely important.

White Fire also sense something amiss when he saw Aura almost panting as if he was running at full speed.

Aura said nothing, and a scroll appeared in his hand and he handed it over to Blade Demon King, "Please look at this, my king."

Blade Demon King open the scroll with uncertainty, while White Fire looked curiously at Aura and the scroll in the demon king's hand, but he remained kneeling.

Blade Demon King's expression suddenly started to turn ashen as he read the context. In the end, his breath was rough as a sharp aura filled the entire throne hall.

He abruptly stood up and howled with abhorrence, "Ancient Beast Race, good, very good!"

---

Two days later,

Inside the cultivation chamber of Mist Demon King,

She also had a scroll and a map in her hands as they were trembling while the surrounding mist was becoming darker and darker.

"So, my son was killed by the ancient beast race member because he stumbled upon a Soul Crystal Source extracted by those animals!? If I go to this place marked on this map, I'll find the place where the Soul Crystal Source was extracted from.

"If it's true, I'll kill every last one of those animals!"

She quickly left her cultivation chamber and hurried toward the shadow mountain range to confirm that scroll's context.

---

Eight Days later.

The Eighth Province, which was the closest province to the royal zone, was known as the Mighty Demon Tamer Province, ruled by the Demon Tamer Tribe.

The Demon Tamer Tribe has a powerful demon tribe that can control demonic beasts, and all the exquisite and powerful demonic beasts present in the eight provinces were under their control.

Inside a bright, spacious hall,

A tall demon sat cross-legged as he looked at the scroll in his hand.

"So, an ancient beast with a royal bloodline is hiding and scheming against our race? Hmph, I was just thinking of going to those animals' land and taming one or two royal beasts to add to my collection.

"But they're counting death themselves. No one can blame me now. Little Fang, let's go to the blade domain in the council meeting. It's been a while since I saw Blade and others."

Just as his voice trailed off, a giant head beneath him opened its beastly snake eyes!

---

The first two outer provinces, 'Mighty Ghost Province, and Might Blood Province' the other two inner provinces, 'Might Earth Province, and Might Moon Province, and the seventh core province, 'Might Spear Province, Demon Kings and their strong aids were also summoned by the royal council in blade domain, shortly after they received the same scroll as every other domain.

All in all, because of this one scroll, the eight provinces were shaken because this scroll was from the All-Knowing Parrot, who was infamous nevertheless, a reliable information source.

If the contents on that scroll were true, then it was a huge conspiracy of the beast continent and if other races got the wind of it somehow, they would turn into the laughingstock of the world.

The content of these scrolls was further confirmed by two demon kings mentioned in them, and they were connected to this mysterious royal beast somehow.

It turned this way so quickly because Blade Demon King confirmed the appearance of that ruin where his son was abducted, and then Mist Demon King came forward to confirm the startling information, which made many cursed with anger.

It turned out there was a grade-4 soul crystal source in the shadow mountain, which was now entirely extracted by these beasts. She also confirmed the murder of her son when he discovered this soul crystal source by those beasts.

That was why the royal council quickly took notice of this and decided to act first and kill that beast to make a statement.

But a question remained unanswered: how did the All-Knowing Parrot get its hand on this startling information, and it was so precise they started to suspect this person was from the enemy camp?

Nevertheless, the All-Knowing Parrot was the least problem for the demons right now.

Because their entire focus was on this mysterious royal beast.

It was all because of a simple phase in that scroll, 'That Beast is in the possession of an Ancient Demon Emperor Inheritance he found in that ruin!'

This stirred every demon king-level existence, and that was why they quickly agreed to this meeting in the blade domain. Because if this was true, then they had to capture that beast and get the inheritance.

However, nothing was confirmed until they see it for themselves, but just the chance was enough for them to move.

---

The masked demon and Killer have naturally seen these scrolls as well since they were contacted by the All-Knowing Parrot puppet as well.

Killer couldn't help but said with uncertainty, "Your Highness, are we going to that meeting in two days?"

The masked demon replied, "Of course, if an iota of that scroll is the truth, then we have to move. Forget about the inheritance. The presence of this royal beast is enough to declare war on those animals. It seemed they had forgotten about how we show mercy and let them live." His voice was filled with abhorrence for the ancient beast race.

Killer nodded, "Indeed, your highness, we can't let this offense slide by. But what if it really had the emperor-level inheritance?"

"If it's true, then we don't need that thief anymore. Heh, and who would dare to fight for it against me? Do you think those kings would be foolish enough to go against me?" He sneered without any hint of worry.

Killer's eyes shone coldly as he nodded, "Yes, but we have to be careful of this All-Knowing Parrot. We were searching for him for a while but haven't had any luck, but it knows where to find us instead. This person might be more dangerous than we think he is."

"Hmph, just a minor character who wanted to reap benefits in chaos by releasing this information. It's quite clear he can't deal with that barrier or the royal beast within, so he allows the information spread to others to do the job.

"But if his information turned out to be incorrect, then the entire continent bigwigs would turn on him, and at that time, he might come begging me for protection. Let me see if he remained arrogant at that time." He sneered coldly.

Killer bow in reverence, "Your Highness wisdom is indeed above us lowly servants."

"Go, tell the council I'll be attending this meeting personally and leading this charge in that ruin."

Killer received his order and left.

The masked demon was left alone, and suddenly he seemed to sense something as a golden cube appeared in his hand and he trembled slightly.

He mumbled with worry, "This is bad!"

---

The meeting place for this council meeting was none other than the outskirts of the White Hill Plains!

This place was chosen because Blade Demon King and Mist Demon King insist on going on doing this as soon as possible since their kin was involved.

They were also the first ones to arrive in this place before anyone else.

Following Blade Demon King were five blade envoys, including White Fire and five hundred powerful knights.

While the Mist Demon King was escorted by Six Misty Killers and a thousand train soldiers.

They all know about the army under this royal beast, so every demon king was bringing their powerful men!