Eternal Thief

"I have to say, it's quite the sight." One of the devil envoys said jeeringly, while closely looking at the thief symbol.

His name was Raul and beside him was his elder brother, Ralph, who was much calmer and more reserved than Raul.

Accompany, these two were none other than the Sixth Demon Elder and Fourth Demon Elder of the Imperial Demon Council.

After these two Elder Demons divulged the information they received to the Imperial Demon Council, the council agreed to Devil's demands since it was the most sensible thing to do.

Afterward, these two devil envoys demand to take them to the site of thievery, where the thief last appeared. So, this site was naturally the Life Demon Auction Arena.

After the auction items were stolen and Princess Leona's plot surfaces in front of everyone, the auction naturally doesn't end well as it was supposed to.

Not only were many demons who already paid for the auction item tickets furious, but they couldn't point their fingers at the Imperial Princess because no matter what, they won't be able to handle the consequences.

On top of that, the Life Demon Association, which became the target of the public afterward, also shun all responsibility and gave back only half of the Qi stones in refunds that they took.

This naturally turned into public outrage, but because of the association's status, those tribes also couldn't do a thing. Even some demon king-level tribes could only keep the resentment to their heart. Especially those who handed over their items for auction.

However, this didn't end there because afterward those demons who come here to take part in the Demon Gate Trails started to hesitate since they all thought that even the royal zone wasn't enough to take care of the elusive thief.

So why they were risking their lives if the royal zone was amount only for this much?

As a result, many small and medium size tribes left without even registering for the entrance test.

One could even say this last thievery had affected the royal zone's plan as a whole, and if not for their quick action, the demon gate trial would be a complete disaster.

That was why the elusive Sky Stealer reached at top of the royal zone's extermination list, and they poured almost all resources to search for clues about him.

But to this day, they still hadn't managed to get anything out of it, even the Fiery Grand Demon Duke who suffered the direct backlash because the thief performed this thievery right under his nose wasn't able to find him.

To this day, the Fiery Grand Demon Duke and the most proficient trackers of the demon race were still on the hunt for the thief, but over two years had passed, and their search still did not bore any result.

Many think that the thief had fled the continent to escape the demon race's wrath since it was the most logical thing for him to do after he accumulated so much wealth.

After all, the demons have scanned through every neck of the woods of the continent as well as scanned each demon or any living being they could find with a massive search formation but found nothing.

Furthermore, Demons were also using Devils to just confirmed their conjecture about the thief fleeing the continent so they would stop their search.

Still, the demons were on complete guard if any mishap ever happened, and before the confirmation, they won't stop searching. Their entire race's reputation depends on it now.

One good thing that happened out of all this was that no one dared to commit a crime anymore because everyone was on high alert.

Hearing Raul's jeering remarked Sixth Demon Elder grunted coldly, "Is that so? Let's see if you could still say this after you try deciphering this freaking owl hex!"

Sixth Demon Elder was stating the fact because almost every high-grade rune crafter had tried to break this 'owl hex' but failed.

They were even more shocked when even a seventh realm expert like Fiery Grand Demon Duke couldn't destroy this symbol, which was completely out of everyone's comprehension.

The strangest thing was they could destroy the unaffected area around it, but not the symbol itself.

That was why the demons were so alert about this thief and worried about his whereabouts because if he had this kind of power, then why was he stealing or even bothering to run, for fun?

Definitely not!

They all thought that the thief had some deeper purpose since his 'race' was killed by them and many more such conclusions were made, but none of them made any sense.

So, they were all hoping for these devils to make some breakthroughs.

Raul was arrogant and always looked down on every other race because of the devil race's prowess and abilities, so he was easily provoked by Sixth Demon Elder's comment.

"Heh, I also wanted to see if this little bird hex is as unbreakable as you guys making it to be." Raul sneered coldly before he placed his hand on the owl symbol.

Ralph didn't stop him either, nor the Fourth Demon Elder said anything and observed.

Raul's claw-like hand suddenly shimmered in crimson hue as his crimson eyes also emitted a sinister aura.

A crimson mist suddenly started to expand from his hand and started to cover the owl symbol. Soon, the entire owl symbol was covered in crimson.

"Blood Aura Trace!" the crimson mist suddenly shimmered in ghastly light as its color become deeper and deeper.

The Blood Aura Trace was one of the few astonishing bloodline abilities of the Blood Devil Clan. With this skill, they could find traces of the beings as long as they left something behind, even footprints.

The more traces the target left, the more success rate this skill would have, and as long as the target didn't have higher cultivation than the Skill Caster, then it was almost impossible to fail.

Raul was a Quasi-Soul-Law-Awareness Realm expert, so if that thief wasn't in a higher realm or in the same realm as him, then this skill shouldn't fail.

But they all didn't know the Thief Symbol was made by the system, not Ace so…

'Creck…'

Suddenly, cracks suddenly started to appear in the crimson mist like a mirror before it shattered with a small boom spreading red mist into the area!

'Cough…'

Raul instantly caught violently as his eyes widened in disbelief. It was the backlash of failing!

Ralph's eyes narrowed. "What do you see?"

He clearly knows just how pernicious this innate skill of their clan was, and even if it failed, the user could still find a few clues about the target.

Fourth and Sixth Demon Elders were also solemnly looking without passing any comments as if they had already expected this much.

Their side had also tested many things with this symbol, but it never succeeded, and they all guess this owl symbol was some kind of deadly hex.

Raul stopped coughing but his eyes still had a hint of fear in them as he answered, "I-I saw… nothing."

Ralph's eyes shone with uncertainty since he could tell his younger brother wasn't lying, and with his arrogant nature, he won't admit something like this in front of another race.

"Alright, let me try." Ralph move forward as he also placed his hand on the owl symbol, and just like before, the crimson mist with an even darker shade started to spread.

Ralph was a de facto Soul Law Awareness Realm Blood Devil and held a very high position in the devil race, so his using the Blood Aura Trace differed completely from Raul's.

He was sent here because of this exact reason as well because Ralph was the devil's race number tracking expert. He also had experience hunting down another thief, so he was perfect for this job, and the thief shouldn't have any chance against him.

However, when the cracks started to appear in his crimson mist as well, and when an enormous explosion sounded, which made the space close to everyone tremble, blood trickled down from Ralph's mask as his eyes widened in horror.

Everyone present knew that the thief was far, far more difficult to deal with than they had thought!

"This shouldn't be right, how could even Elder Brother's tracking skill face?!" Raul was the most shocked before the three because he knew just how scary Ralph was with his cultivation but even he failed and suffered even greater backlash than him.

He looked at the still find imposing owl symbol with trepidation and disbelief. There was also a hint of fear in his eyes.

Ralph quickly suppressed the injury he got from the backlash as his eyes also shone with fear as he looked at the symbol.

He then inhaled deeply, "T-this… symbol, you said there… there were more of such symbols… on other sites as well as they could also appear on the body as well, right?"

Fourth Demon Elder grimly replied, "Indeed, there are some victims in our custody." He almost lost hope after seeing them fail.

Ralph solemnly stated, "Please take us to those victims. If I don't get a trace of this thief's blood aura, I'm afraid performing Blood Ritual won't be possible!"