Eternal Thief

Chapter 1155: Lock Masters and Master Locks!

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The house members and Ace were shocked by fiendish face's declaration.

The next moment, the fiendish face suddenly turned into a dark, eerie streak and directly shot toward Noa.

Noa's eyes narrowed as she sensed the nefarious aura contained in the dark streak, but it didn't have any attack power. Nonetheless, she knew if she were touched by it, it would be nothing but bad news.

A dark, ethereal barrier suddenly appeared in front of Noa to block the streak. However, she was startled when the dark streak landed on the Qi barrier in front of her, and the next moment, it started to spread around the barrier.

Everyone's expression changed because they could sense the dark streak's aura was corroding Noa's Qi.

"Quickly cut off your Qi!" Winter loudly yelled at Noa, who seemed to be in a stupor.

"I...I can't!" Noa replied in trepidation. She was shocked beyond words and was already trying to cut off her Qi, but for some reason, she couldn't!

At this moment, Ace decides to intervene. He directly appears in front of Noa and uses his own Qi to contain the corroding fog.

When Ace's heavenly Qi enveloped the corroding fog, it finally reacted. The sizzling sound of something burning rang, and Ace Qi seemed to be the bane of whatever this Killing Fiend Curse was. Dark smoke started to rise, clearing Noa's Qi barrier.

It was as if some kind of shackle had been lifted from Noa, and she could finally stop her uncontrollable Qi, and the barrier finally vanished the moment she cut off her Qi.

Ace's expression was grim as he saw the dark smoke vanishing. "It seemed we just dodged a bullet. This Fiend Assassin Guild isn't as simple as we're making it be. This curse could've been some kind of tracking mark or, worse, some kind of poison. Only my primordial spirit Qi was able to counter it!"

"Thank you, leader!" Noa quickly thanked Ace as she knew he just saved her from an unknown danger before killing intent flashed past her eyes as she looked towards the eight puppets lying there dead.

She wouldn't forget this grudge that humiliated her in front of Ace, and this Fiend Assassin Guild was already at the top of her kill list.

"No need. I told you to kill them. Besides, I'm sure you would be able to encounter this curse in no time once your spirit Qi and law become more powerful than this curse's origin. Not to mention, once you upgrade your robes, they should have defense against curses." Ace shook his head. But we should be more cautious from now on. We are still new to this place and don't know much about the ascension realms."

Everyone nodded in agreement since they were all from the lower heaven and were still learning about the ascension realms.

This would also serve as a lesson for them not to underestimate their opponents. After all, towards the end, before Ace's ascension, they were all almost undefeatable in the Mortal Sky Heaven, so they weren't as vigilant as they used to be.

"Now, can you explain what this Undead Puppetry is about?" Freya suddenly asked, still somewhat fearful of what happened. After all, she knew Noa was the strongest, yet she was almost cursed without Ace's intervention.

Ace nodded and created star slips for everyone. "All the information about what I know about Undead Puppetry from Eva and Winter is in them. I also included information about the Spirit Inferno Domain that I got from the old guy before he blew himself up."

Everyone quickly used those star slips as they were now extremely curious about this Undead Puppetry.

At this moment, Eva suddenly sent Ace a mind transmission, "Do you still have that storage ring that you couldn't open?"

Ace gravely nodded, "I almost forgot about it. If not for the emergence of these corpse puppets, I mightn't have remembered it. That ring was something that Moon Fiend King kept under extremely tight security, so whatever was inside it, it should be quite precious. "

Ace then quickly searched for the storage ring in his thief's space that Eva had gotten for him in the Regal Fiend Tower that day, using one of her divine traits. But he couldn't open it since the system required an upgrade, so he stowed it away and completely forgot about it.

But now that he encountered the corpse puppetry again, he finally remembered it, and it wouldn't be a lie to say he wasn't excited to check what was inside. After all, the Moon Fiend King was from the Mortal Ascension Heaven, and he seemed to be a big shot from some sect, so this also means treasures of the Mortal Ascension Heaven grade!

At that moment, Ace finally found what he was looking for; a black ring with a crimson ruby embedded in its top. It was the exact same ring that he had gotten from the secret compartment of the Regal Fiend Tower.

Furthermore, now that he was far stronger than before, he could clearly sense a profound aura from the ruby embedded on top of the ring.

At this moment, before he could order the system to open, the system interface suddenly appeared in front of him, startling him.

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[Universal Key has detected Ascension Grade-7 Spiritual Law Master Lock on Lower Ascension Grade-7 Storage Space Ring!]

-Unlocking Cost: 10,000,000 TP

-Continue/Later

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Ace was astounded when he saw the universal key suddenly trigger on its own and was even more shocked when he found that this storage ring was an Ascension grade-7 treasure!

But he furrowed his brows slightly and asked the system before he continued, "System, why would I need the Universal Key to open this storage ring? Shouldn't you be opening it like you have been doing in the past?"

"[The Universal Key Function only triggered for 'Locks,' and this storage ring didn't just have a 'Spiritual Mark,' which is an evolved version of Qi Mark. The Spiritual Mark contained the owner's prime law in it, and it lasted for a long time, even after its owner's death.]

"[Normally, a Spiritual Mark can be simply destroyed as long as it is attacked by a stronger Spiritual Mark. However, this ring also has a special lock imbued in it, a Spiritual Lock, that can only be created by a unique branch of Rune Crafters, Lock Masters, and that's why these locks are called Master Locks!]

"[A master lock is a proper lock, far more complex than formation locks, and it is made with different mechanisms and complex arrays of formations. Just like you are used to opening the formation locks by breaking the formations, but unlike them, you need to break each formation in a special sequence for a master lock while making sure that a single wrong formation doesn't trigger the self-destruction sequence of a Master Lock!]

"[That's why Master Locks are the most protective forms of locks. Each master lock requires a special Key to unlock it, and without it, if anyone tries to open it after a set of failed attempts, the master lock would self-destruct while sending everything in it into the void,

forever lost!]

"[In this case, this ring's master lock key is the Soul Signature of its previous owner. If you try to forcibly open it, after three failed attempts, everything inside will be gone, along with

the ring.]

"[Of course, if host have deep knowledge of Lock Masters, you could try breaking it which also required special Lock Master Tools for Lock Masters!]"