Eternal Thief

On this day, large groups of five races stood in front of the shrine with the sun symbol tablet in it.

Everyone wore cold and solemn expressions on their faces as they looked toward the shrine with scrutiny. They were naturally the five races who were going to participate in the Ancient Allied Gathering, which was about to start.

Today will be marked the full 100th year since the Fiery Hell Secret Realm has been opened, and according to the three original races of the gathering tradition, the secret realm will be open on exactly this day.

Right at this moment, the sun symbol within the tablet suddenly starts to glow, and an invisible aura suddenly starts to ooze from the shrine.

The glowing sun continued to glow brighter and brighter until it was blinding, and the aura was extremely hot in nature as everyone present could feel the heat, and they all had solemn expressions.

Thereby, the shrine suddenly trembled, and the next moment, the blinding golden light started to grow as it enveloped the shrine and continued to rise above until it took the shape of a ten-meter light door.

“The gate of the Fiery Hell Secret Realm has been fully manifested! According to the realm entry slots, the Devil Race will go first, then the Hunter Race, Demons, Humans, and Beasts. If anyone tries to send even one more participant than allocated, you can forget about ever leaving this place alive!

“I will also like to warn everyone again, as you should be countless times by your elders. The Fiery Hell Secret Realm also has aborigines, and they are not to trifle with easily, so don’t overestimate yourself if you encounter them. They are always been a hindrance to us all, and each one of them is merciless!” The devil at the very front coldly announced.

No one raised any objections or questions as they were all well aware of these facts and were trained to deal with all sorts of troubles.

Thereafter, one by one, the youths from the Devil Race started to walk into the light door.

This marked the start of the Ancient Allied Gathering, which will be going to end out of everyone’s wildest expectations!

— 𝒷𝓭ℴ𝓋𝓵.𝒸ℴ𝓶

Within the Sun Secret Realm, Upper Layer, 2nd level (8th layer), Ace was flying on top of his sword. But down below him was the scene like hell because the surface was filled with red flames like a sea of flames and not just an empty sea of flames either.

Within this sea of flames were creatures made with fire, and they were roaming in those flames in hordes.

The temperature was enough to melt even Qi Soul Cultivators, but Ace was completely fine, which might have something to do with the glowing gray armor on his body.

Over these past months, Ace hadn’t wasted even a moment as he continued with his advancement toward the depth of the Sun Secret Realm, especially after knowing Cyrus’s usefulness in this place.

Not only he managed to pass the entire middle layers and the first upper layer with the little guy’s help. He even managed to capture the second Spirit Fire on the sixth layer and killed another dog shape guardian, and acquired its unquiet core.

This also led Ace to another discovery, which was Cyrus’s own Spirit Fire seemed to have a fight effect on other spirit fire as that Spirit Fire didn’t dare even to release its heat when the little guy was present.

Furthermore, if Ace hadn’t stopped the little fellow, he would’ve eaten that spirit fire with how eager he was after finding it. Nevertheless, Ace has already earned so much with his help, so he gave him some other snacks, and he was finally able to coax him into stopping pestering about that spirit fire.

As for those four trials, like the third layer trial, Cyrus always ended up destroying them while eating whatever those trials were built upon.

Furthermore, Cyrus had seemed to have gone into a small but clear chance after eating five Sun God gifts, his dark feathers were more lustrous, and the tiny crown over his forehead made with dark blue hair also had grown.

The biggest change was in Cyrus’s connate Nether Spirit Fire, which was no longer sky blue in color but pure blue, and the aura it emitted even gave Ace the chills because it was not hot at all, something entirely different.

As for the armor, it was actually an Intermediate Grade-8 armor with terrifying heat resistance capability, and he naturally earned it in the seventh layer trial. It was the most precious of all defensive-type items.

Ace didn’t even need this armor because Cyrus could also block all sorts of heat around him without much effort, but this armor was much better and far stronger than anything he had right now.

At this moment, Moira’s voice suddenly rang in Ace’s ears, “Sir Ace, 10,000 newcomers just entered the first layer of the secret realm!”

“Hmm?” Ace was astonished and quickly changed the fate map to the first layer and saw too many fate points suddenly starting to cover the lands of the first layer. Some were moving alone while some were in a group, and he even saw some of them suddenly vanishing, which could only mean they were killed!

“It’s quite strange, sir, Ace. The 9,000 people entered from the northern side while the 1,000 people entered from the east side of the first layer.” Moira uttered with uncertainty.

She was tasked by Ace to keep an eye on any kind of disturbance and alert him post hastily the moment she noticed it.

Ace’s eyes shimmered as he replied, “I think the 1,000 came from the ten continent side while the 9,000 came from the Union side. This means the gathering has been started, and I need to be even more careful.”

Ace’s focus then suddenly drew on a peculiar fate point which was a Light Golden Fate Point, and the name was also familiar, ‘Alora Wild Yisrael! She’s the demon I saved from the Demon Prince Santos, and her fate color changed into Light Golden that day!’

Alora was from the Wild Demon Tribes who participated in the Blade Demon King’s training and was destined to die under the Mist Demon King’s son’s hands, but Ace changed her fate by killing Santos.

However, he didn’t get the chance to follow her around to exploit that golden fate point since it was simply not worth it because he didn’t have time. He never expected she would be here and still was a golden fate point.

But Ace’s eyes widened when he saw another fate point which was green, and this meant it was a friend, and its name was evidence of it, ‘Thomas Wild Cheveyo!’