Eternal Thief

Eva seemed as if she couldn’t wait to hear about how Ace came in contact with the Corpse Puppets.

Still, she focused on the matter at hand and said, “With what I have in my memories, the art of using the dead as puppets is known as Undead Puppetry. Even in Devil Race, there aren’t many who practice the art of Undead Puppetry because it’s simply too nasty, and in any race, this art is highly condemned.

“Because to practice Undead Puppetry, an ample supply of dead bodies is required, and no one will want their loved ones to turn into someone else’s puppets.

“But this didn’t mean Undead Puppetry is prohibited completely. On the contrary, Undead Puppetry has a very strong and profound heritage. That old bastard who wanted to possess you seemed to belong to this heritage and was most likely an Undead Puppeteer.”

Killing intent surfaced in Eva’s eyes when she uttered, ‘Old Bastard.’

Ace was quite fascinated by this Undead Puppetry, but only as someone who likes to learn different kinds of knowledge.

As for practicing it, willingly, he won’t, but if he ever decided to go after these Undead Puppeteers’ wealth… who knows.

Eva continues as she remembers some more details, “In nature, the Corpse Puppets and Blood Puppets are essentially the same since they were both created from the dead.

“But unlike Corpse Puppet, the Blood Puppet can’t be upgraded, and they will remain the same as they were made, or they can’t be repaired once they were damaged.

“However, a Blood Puppet also has some advantages over the Corpse Puppet. Like they can be preserved without worrying about them getting rot. The cultivation of a Blood Puppet is quite closer to their alive self, and they had also preserved their entire battle experience from the get-go.

“While a corpse puppet needed resources to nurture for a long time but they are equally terrifying. There are also some races directly related to the Undead, and they have a natural talent for Undead Puppetry.

“This is all the general knowledge I have for now, and I might get more after I unlock the Second Lock on my Blood Heritage,” Eva stated.

Ace couldn’t help but widen his eyes at the end and looked at her speechlessly, “By lock, do you mean there’s still more memories in your blood heritage?”

Eva snickered beautifully as she replied, “Why, of course. You can’t even imagine just how much memory collection a Blood Heritage of someone with an Abyssal-level bloodline could have.

“So, for the descendants’ safety, there are Blood Locks placed within our Blood Heritage, and after crossing a certain threshold, these locks will break one after another until the entire inheritance is completely conjugate in Knowledge Sea.

“This was also done because if someone with malicious intention tries to probe those memories of Blood Heritage, those locks will self-destruct and kill the one who tries to peer into the blood heritage!”

Ace was really baffled by this revelation since it was too good to be true. This was simply a huge blow for even someone like him because if she was really telling the truth, then all this profound knowledge she had was probably just a fragment of what her entire blood heritage was worth.

For the first time, he felt somewhat jealous of this blood heritage. But he was also happy for Eva since she was his woman.

Ace suddenly thought of something and asked her with a somewhat forlorn tone, “Then tell me, now that you have all this knowledge and you can easily reach unimaginable heights with it, do you still want to be a thief like in the past?”

Ace couldn’t help but deeply look at her as he also wanted to hear the answer to this question.

He knew with power; people would change as well as their goals. Will someone with boundless potential and future want to walk on the path of a thief?

With Eva’s current talent, she could easily rule the entire world once she started to cultivate. Will she still want to be a thief like her mother? Or did her goals change with that profound knowledge, and she no longer cared about being some petty thief?

Despite being afraid of getting a disappointing answer, Ace has to know it. Because if Eva didn’t want to, then he won’t force her and respect her choice. Nevertheless, he will always support her as a friend and husband.

Eva looked at Ace’s dead serious face and burst into peals of laughter before she stated, “Do you really need to ask the obvious? So, what if I have all this knowledge and talent? I will never forget who gave me this opportunity and what my goals were before I got all this.

“Besides, being a thief and always adventuring is far more interesting than boringly living in a single place and being bound by the laws of the community. Lastly, I know for a fact that a certain someone will always be a thief, either with me or without me, right?”

Ace was stunned for a moment by this answer. He knew she was telling the absolute truth without any falsehood in her words. His lips curled up in a thievish smile, “That’s more like a wife of a thief.”

“Hmph, silver tongue.” Eva berated with a hint of happiness.

Ace was really happy with Eva’s answer, and all his worries and doubt vanished.

He then looked at those thousands of blood puppets with thievish eyes, “Let me clean this place before moving toward the next location.”

Ace won’t leave these already refined blood puppets here to rot. They were like an army of powerful cultivators who knew no fear. So, they might come in handy in some dangerous situations as long as he found the method to operate them.

Within a minute, the entire hall was emptied by Ace as he stowed away those blood puppets in a single storage ring. Storage space was never a problem for him.

“You’re quite the expert in this.” Even Eva was speechless by how fast Ace was at ‘cleaning’ the place.

“Just come with the profession, I guess.” Ace shrugged with a smile.

After the hall was completely emptied, Eva opened another secret door on the left wall as they walked into it. ．

This time they had opened the weapon storage facility as they were all kinds of weapons, and the most inferior of them all was a Grade-3 whip while the highest one was a Grade-8 halberd.

There were simply too many to count, and Ace didn’t care less about the number as he stowed them all without leaving a single one. He already needed high-grade treasure swords, and this was just a godsend to him.

“He probably accumulated all these weapons from all those elves who were killed within the tower.” Eva disdainfully stated.

“And now we’re collecting after he’s dead. What goes around comes around…” Ace couldn’t help but comment.

“You sound like a scavenger now.” Eva snorted in disgust, “We are avenging the poor.”

‘At least I admitted that I’m stealing it all.’ Ace gave her a side eye but kept his thought to himself.

Then Eva opened another secret pathway with stairs going upward. She was getting the hang of this treasure as she also started to remember the details about the treasures with a spirit.

The more she remembered, the more she admired Ace for getting out of a such situation without even a scratch.

This time, they entered the storage facility where raw materials like herbs, ores, metals, and many more were stored.

This storage facility was as big as the two combined facilities they saw below

“Can you give them to me? They all will be enough for me to break into the law awareness realm or beyond in two years if I devour them all!” Eva asked with great anticipation.

Up until now, she didn’t even speak as Ace was taking all those treasures, which could only mean they were not useful to her at all. But now that she saw all those materials, she asked for them without hesitation.

Ace naturally wasn’t stingy with Eva. On the contrary, he was happy since this would only mean she would not have to live in the thief’s space for long. He was even willing to provide her with more materials as long as she accepted his arrangements.

“And here I thought you won’t ask.” He merely chuckled before he started to store away all those materials for herbs. There were many grade-8 materials that caught his eye, especially the precious space crystals.

Too embarrassed to go back on his words, he sneakily put some aside for himself and put more high-level materials for Eva from his personal stash. He makes sure she won’t notice anything, though.

After filling 39 high-grade-5 storage rings, he gave them to Eva, and she happily accepted them.

“You might go broke if you support my devouring cultivation method.” Eva meaningfully smiled at him.

Ace replied without hesitation as he looked at the graceful devil in front, “It’s worth it.”

“Remember those words. You said them.” Eva pulled a devil’s smile, which made Ace somewhat uneasy.

But he really didn’t care less about resources since he could always steal more there are simply too many rich people in this world.

Besides, it’s not like Eva will just remain idle while putting him in a dangerous situation for her own benefit. He knew for a fact she wasn’t that kind of person!