Eternal Thief

"Alright, you did good work. Let them go now. They're not intruders and my friends." Ace transmitted his thoughts to Cyrus.

It was his fault since he didn't give the little guy a heads-up and forgot about him completely.

Nevertheless, Cyrus's capability still astounded him greatly, and it appeared he didn't need Noa or Winter's help to subdue Ronan.

Cyrus's chirps abruptly stopped when he heard it and asked confusedly, "Not Intruders? And what are friends?"

For a Nether Paradise Bird, the concept of friendship and relationships were too vague because, in their entire life, they lived in chaos. Even their own kind of was nothing but another prey from them.

Ace felt a light headache since he didn't have time to educate Cyrus right now.

"Friends are people we couldn't attack or kill no matter what. I'll tell you more about friends soon since I have to deal with that person in that strange box." Ace suddenly thought of something and quickly said, "Go and suppress him!"

Since Cyrus could suppress Winter and Noa without much difficulty, he should also be able to suppress Ronan.

"OH? Alright, I'll burn that intruder then." Cyrus's bird eyes instantly lit up as he quickly let Noa and Freya go before flashing toward the prison where Ronan was struggling with all his might.

"No. Don't burn him. Just make sure he won't cause trouble." Ace quickly corrected Cyrus since he needed Ronan alive for now.

Because if Ronan died, it would be an absolute upheave outside.

On the other hand, Noa and Freya felt like they could finally breathe when that strange oppression vanished, and the tiny chick again vanished from their eyes.

"Who was it?" Freya couldn't help but question out loud in curiosity and lingering fear in her eyes.

Noa also wanted to know the answer to this same question since she had never seen this chick when she came here previously, so it had clearly recently appeared here when she was in seclusion.

"He's my pet, Cyrus. Keep other questions to yourself; for now, time is precious." Ace's stern voice rang and focused on the Ronan.

Ronan was utterly aghast by this strange dark space because his Qi was suppressed, and he could hear a strange commotion.

"Where did you send this Prince?! Slave, release me, or I'll skin you alive when I get out of here…ehhh." Ronan's threatening roar suddenly stopped when a ghastly pressure suddenly descended on him, and a strange bird chirp rang from outside.

'B-bloodline suppression?! But how could it be… no… I must be dreaming. How could someone have an even stronger bloodline than me and know how to use Bloodline suppression, or was it a conspiracy by that wily bitch Leona?!' Ronan's mind trembled because he knew far more than others, and fear surfaced in his eyes.

He wanted to take out a lifesaving treasure from his storage ring when he finally noticed that his storage ring wasn't even there!

And when he looked behind his palm, his heart nearly stopped when he saw the owl symbol with 'Sky Stealer' on its wings!

"Oh, it seemed your highness found out who I am." Ace's jeering voice rang at this moment, startling Ronan.

"Y-you… no… how could it be you thief?! How did you appear here?!" Ronan was completely appalled just by thinking who had abducted him. He felt like he was in a nightmare.

"I'll define it later, Your Highness, but I would like to borrow your identity right now. As long as you corporate, I promise you'll live or hehe just like Archie you'll be…." Ace coldly hinted.

Ronan's heart trembled as realization dawned upon him, and he started to get the picture of how the infamous thief appeared this deep within their scared territory.

The next moment, Ronan felt a suction force on his face, but alas, he couldn't resist because of Cyrus's suppression, and the fully dark mask on his face vanished, revealing a handsome face that startled Ace.

Because Ronan's face was pale white with a pitch-black eyeball, but he had both white irises and black pupils that were completely strange for a demon to possess because a demon only had a single-color eyeball. Well, it was written in books, at least.

His actual long hair color wasn't black either, it was also white, and there were long pitch-black antelope horns. All of this was hidden because of that mask he was wearing.

"You bastard, you won't get away with this!" Ronan knew he had unknowingly fallen into a terrible trap, and this thief was even more terrifying than the rumors told him to be.

"It's yet to be seen, your highness, but I think this mask of yours will protect me for a while, right?" Ace questioned with a hint of happiness and mockery.

At this time, a light suddenly flashed over Ronan, which completely startled him, but nothing happened.

It was Ace who just scanned Ronan's face in his thousand-face mask and quickly took his appearance while he took off his Demonic Eater Mask, which had Archie's appearance.

Since he had that black mask of Ronan, he didn't need this one anymore, and who would dare to use their sense on an Imperial Prince to scan his face?

Furthermore, the mask he got from Ronan was quite strange since it was made solely for concealment. The moment Ace wore it, just like Ronan, the horns, hair color, and every racial trait of Ronan changed, and no one would ever know it was Ronan even if Ace didn't wear Ronan's appearance underneath.

Winter was also astonished when she saw Ace look just like that Prince and didn't have any aura.

Nevertheless, she could now turn into Ronan since she had already seen his appearance when Ace changed it. Moreover, this was what she was most proficient in.

Afterward, Ace's robes start to change, and now he looks just like Ronan and has a sigh of relief since everything goes smoothly.

Only five minutes passed in reality, but who could imagine that the Fifth Imperial Prince had been changed in this small window?

"Alright, you need to keep your House Call active all the time whenever you're with someone else. You don't have Archie's memories, so don't get exposed on me." Ace calmly sat down in Ronan's position and uttered in his voice.

"What do you take me for? If it was the real boy, then I could've easily annexed his memories with my fourth ability, humph. Now, it couldn't be helped." Winter lamented in a resigned manner as if she was getting the short end of the stick.

An ability name flashed past Ace's mind when Winter said those words, 'I forget about that thing. Well, she'll be fine.' He thought but didn't reveal that he knew about her ability.

Then he moved on to the last part, annexing Ronan's memories.

However, when he tried to perform a soul probe on Ronan, a strange force stopped his probing like a thick wall!

'Another soul protection treasure?' Ace mused, and the next moment he stripped Ronan naked, making the arrogant Prince almost cough the blood in humiliation and curse even more.

He was also getting infuriated by that strange bird chirp which rang every now and then as if it was mocking him.

As long as Ronan was in his thief's space and could be suppressed by his thief's space, he was part of his thief's space, and he could take off anything with a thought.

From Ronan's body, Ace found skin-tight white armor that looked just like a piece of silk, a white triangular pendant, and two black arm guards hidden underneath his soft body armor.

When Ace sensed the Qi fluctuations on those treasures, except that body armor, everything was a soul treasure, and they were probably high grade-6 if not grade-7, and then there was still his storage ring which Ace didn't get the chance to see its content yet!

Ace then tried again with his soul probe, but he was again blocked by some invisible wall which made him frown.

"Your Highness, it seemed you guys had more secrets than I thought. So tell me, will soul search work on you?" Ace probed ambiguously.

"Soul Search? Hahahahahah… now I understand." Ronan suddenly laughs like a maniac at this moment, "Try it, you lowly thief. I dare you to try using soul search on me!"

'Could it be some kind of skill of blocking my soul probing? But he's just a Minor Stage Platinum Soul Embryo Realm. How could he block my soul probe? He clearly didn't have any idea that I had already tried it.' Ace grimaced since it would make it difficult for him.

"Since that's the case, I'll let someone else try." Ace's cold voice rang before a capped figure appeared in the dark space, startling Ronan, who was still naked. He thought it was Ace, but…

"There's some kind of barrier in his soul stopping me from entering his knowledge sea. Can you make it disappear… Evil?"