Eternal Thief

On the 99th floor of Soul Assassin Royal Tower,

Today was the fifth and last day of Archie's learning lesson with Londyn.

In these past four days, Ace had done nothing but try to imitate the shadow walk as best as he could, but he had no result.

This skill was just too complex to imitate in five days.

Although after seeing Londyn using it five times, he had some advancement but creating a new skin that was equivalent to an Upper-Sky-Grade rank was not a joke.

One needed an extremely high understanding of that field to create something out of it, and Ace never paid much attention to the movement department because he didn't need to.

With a movement art like Misperception Sky Step, which covers every aspect of movement skill, he didn't need to worry about his movement skills.

However, now that he tried, he found out that he shouldn't just always rely on the system skills and should also increase his knowledge about all the aspects instead of focusing on one.

He had tons of knowledge about skills, techniques, arts, and even secret skills, but he never tried to utilize it for anything except his sword path, which was essential or he might not pay attention to it as well.

Yet, Ace also understands that it wasn't his fault because his cultivation years were too short in comparison to a normal cultivator, and most of the time he was on either missions or busing hiding so he didn't get much chance to mull over his flaws.

Nevertheless, he was still happy about what he had achieved until now and if one saw his progress as just a river realm cultivator, then Ace was probably without any match out there and he was at that point where he was probably bonded by his realm.

He could feel that no matter what he does, the Misperception Sky Steps were stuck like in the past when he reached a bottleneck for a skill. But as long as he could enter the higher realm, he would break into a higher level much easier and quicker.

That makes him, even more, determined to acquire that Elemental Orb.

On the other hand, Londyn who was overseeing Archie's progress was shocked inwardly because unlike Ace she knew just how difficult it was to even understand the fundamental of shadow walk.

But Archie had done it in three days and was very close to performing the lowest-level shadow walk.

She never intended to have him learn the shadow walk in five days because it was night impossible, and just wanted to give him some motivation to understand the skill structure and how it works.

But Archie moved at a tremendous pace, and he had already completed his assigned mission and gone beyond that, but she didn't tell him and just watch without telling him.

She wanted to see if he could really perform a shadow walk before the end of five days because if he did, even her master might change his decision to give Archie as a student to Clouse, despite giving his words and losing face.

However, when the fifth day ended, she had a massive sigh of relief because Archie still didn't perform the shadow walk.

She looked at the dejected Archie, who was still thinking he had failed with a hint of annoyance. She said coldly, "Alright, you can go now, returned the next day to start the training again." She then disappeared without saying anything, and the illusion also vanished.

Ace was baffled by the demoness because he didn't achieve the aim he was given but didn't get scrolled and was even told to come back instead of being thrown out.

Nevertheless, he had already gained so much, and if he wasn't holding back on his shadow law, he might've performed a superficial shadow walk but it would be much different, so he didn't dare to try it even though he wanted to.

Furthermore, he didn't want to come back here, but it seemed he had to now. But it wasn't too bad since he learned something, and this might not be as bad as he thought.

So, he left from the opening inside the white training space.

He was astonished when he appeared right outside where the lifting platform was and the same fiery demon seemed to be waiting for him with an impassive look on his face.

He then turned back and saw he was outside the Special Instructor Quarters No.03, 'This formation might with a high sixth-grade formation,' He mused.

"Senior, how are you?" He then greeted the deacon, who was still expressionless.

"Fine, let's go. We shouldn't linger." He impassively uttered just like last time. He had no interest in chit-chat.

Ace didn't mind and stood on the triangular platform, and it started to descend at high speed like the last time.

'Now that I have to find that, Jefferson, he said he'll pick me up. I have to go back or he might think I had changed my mind when he got no response.' Ace thought.

Thereupon, Archie's figure soon left the gates of the royal tower and headed back toward his mansion.

However, Ace made a stop on his way back to the Treasure Trove of Special District, which was a grand golden building.

When he entered, he was greeted by a masked demon on the counter. There wasn't anything else in the interior except it was spacious. He wondered if he was in the right place.

"What do you need from the Treasure Trove of Special District? Show your student badge, and I'll give you a list of items you could buy with your Royal Points. Or if you're here to claim some reward, it's the same process." The masked demon coldly uttered.

When Ace heard this, he knew he was in the right place, so he handed over his student badge to the demon, and he scanned it into an array formation.

He nodded. "You can select a grade-4 attacking array and a grade-4 soul treasure for free, and you have 5,000 Royal Points. This is the list of everything you could buy, and select any grade-4 attacking array and a grade-4 soul treasure from this list as well."

Ace saw a projection of the list appear on the glass counter.

But he wasn't interested in any treasures and asked, "Senior, do you have Grade-5 Storage Space Treasures, and what is their price?"

The masked demon impassively replied, "A Low-Grade-5 Storage Right will cost 100 Royal Points, an intermediate one 500 RP, and a high one 1000 RP."

Ace's eyes shimmered with ecstasy when he heard they have Grade-5 storage rings.

He ordered, "Senior, I want 41 low-grade-5 storage rings."

The masked demon was somewhat startled by this unusual demand for so many storage rings. "Are you sure? It will cost you 4100 RP?"

Although he knew how precious these grade-5 rings were, even the Life Demon Association only sold a limited amount of them every year since they were too difficult to make, and their material was also quite precious.

But for the Royal Demon Institute, they weren't difficult to acquire.

Yet he was still baffled by Archie's demand of 41 rings together because each ring will have 2500 cubic meters of space. It was a lot.

Ace nodded, "I'm sure senior, and I would like to exchange those two rewards for RP. I heard it was possible?"

Ace naturally had his reason to buy so many storage rings as for those two rewards he didn't need them.

This time, the masked demon didn't look shocked and nodded, "You can exchange them for 1000 RP each."

"Alright, convert them into RP, and then convert all my reaming RP into Peak-Grade-4 Soul Crystal." Ace said without hesitation.

"41 Low-Grade-5 Storage Rings, which will cost 4100. It will leave you with 900 RP. But you convert your reward for 2000 RP, so you'll get 5800 Peak Grade-4 Soul Crystal for 2900 RP. The exchange rate is 1 RP for 2 peak Grade-4 soul crystals. Do you confirm this purchase?" He asked coldly.

"Yes." Ace nodded without hesitation.

Then the masked demon put Archie's student badge in the array formation again and confirmed his purchase.

He then left toward the back door to fetch Archie's purchases and have him wait.

Ace deeply looked at the wall behind the counter, which was clearly an illusion door.

'The main treasury might be behind that door, but the system's blueprint notification didn't ring, which could only mean the treasury was far away from this place. If this demon's cultivation were apparent and weaker than me, I could've easily stolen the entire treasury.' Ace thought thievishly but didn't dare to react.

He knew if he even showed a hint of suspicion here, then all he could do was run. So, he remained standing while secretly examining the place.

After ten minutes, the demon came back and handed over a storage ring. "You can check your items."

Ace checked, and after confirming everything was there, he thanked the man and left the building.

A hint of excitement flashed in Ace's eyes. 'It's time to upgrade the thief's space again!'