Eternal Thief

Henrik's expression become uglier when he heard New Moon saying the hateful thief symbol was still on his face as he quickly us his element Qi, which was water, to attack his own face!

This water conjured by the element Qi wasn't like normal water. It was filled with dreadful power, but Henrik didn't care. All he wanted was to erase this thief symbol.

This time, even New Moon's stoic face changed into one of astonishment when he saw it, even after Henrik splashed his face with his soul realm element Qi. The dark owl was still there, with every world intact.

"It's still there!" New Moon again warned.

"Just what in the world?!" Henrik finally couldn't take it anymore and, with a lunacy expression, this time, he slashed his face with a sharp water blade!

Everyone couldn't help but felt chills when they saw Henrik's crazy action as if madness possessed him.

Henrik's entire face skin was cut clean with that water blade and just like a bloody mask, his face skin fell on the ground and blue blood dyed the dirt ground!

However, the thief symbol wasn't on his face skin anymore, it was still on Henrik's bloody skinless face, which look extremely ghastly with his ocean blue blood flowing all over his body while his round eyeballs were filled with madness and beastly teeth with tightly clinched.

But the dark owl was still on his face even without the skin, and it was dyed with ocean blue blood, but one could still clearly see its dark outline clearly!

Henrik looked like a mad demon straight from hell with that skinless face of his at this moment!

"Marquis Henrik! Control yourself, this thief symbol is probably the result of a 'Hex Magic' which means it won't go away just by pealing your skin, I have very little information about hexes but self-harming isn't a way to solve it!" New Moon gravely warned.

Truth be told, even he was shocked by this thief-symbol function, he never heard of this kind of hex before, and even he felt dread from it.

New Moon suddenly felt a nervousness rising in his heart from this mysterious thief who was also his target.

'Could he be a 'Hex Master' from one of those tribes that practice 'Hex Magic', but how is this possible? Those tribes were long eradicated by the royal family and all their inheritances were destroyed. Or did he stumble upon on their reaming inheritance?' New Moon couldn't help but think about all those records he read in Mist Demon King Castle's library.

Henrik's mind trembled when he heard New Moon's words. He also learned about legends of Hex Masters from Ocean Demon Tribe's library, but those records were only superficial.

But he knows just how dreadful can Hex Magic be because thousands of years ago, these tribes who specialized in Hex Magic nearly brought down the royal zone to their knees, and it was the darkest period of demon race history.

There wasn't accurate information about this period since it was tens of thousands of years ago, and now almost everyone has forgotten about Hex Masters.

However, if this thief was really a hex master, then this will be going to shake the entire demon race and the royal zone will get involved!

New Moon flip his hand and a bright blue pill appeared, "Here, eat this healing, we have to capture that thief, and then have him remove this 'hex' from your face!"

He threw the pill toward Henrik. He felt Henrik would be a great help to capture that thief because if that thief was really a hex master, then even he felt dread by taking him on alone.

In his mind, even Henrik was robbed by that thief and even hexed by him without even his knowledge. That's why his confidence wavered a little.

But he still thought that the thief was still weak, or he doesn't need to steal or fear Henrik, or he might be afraid of facing both him and Henrik together.

Henrik caught the pill and eat it. He knew he acted too rashly just now in his moment of humiliation, without even thinking.

The ocean blue blood stopped quickly, and new skin started to form on his face after eating that low-grade-1 healing pill. However, the thief symbol remained just like before.

Henrik tore two large pieces of his white bloody robe, and he covered half of his face with one piece and his forehead with another. Now, only his cold eyes were visible.

New Moon wait until Henrik was done hiding that 'owl hex' and finally turned his attention to the large army.

Everyone felt a cold sensation grabbing their hearts when they saw New Moon's cold white eyes focus on them.

"As everyone heard my and Marquis Henrik's conversation, a thief is hiding among your ranks, and it seemed he's also a hex master, an enemy of the entire demon race!

"That thief just robbed a Demon Marquis and interfere in an active noble title war challenge by robbing the challenger army's experts!

"Both of these crimes are punished by thousands-deaths and entire tribes' eradication by public execution.

"As a Demon Duke and with the highest authority here, I hereby, declared this Noble Title War Challenge, Void! Both armies will remain on standby until the Royal Demon Council's next notice!"

The New Moon declaration shocked everyone, especially the Dark Gibbon Army!

They were confident of winning this noble title tribe war since they still have many tricks up their sleeves.

However, Dustin felt relief because the appearance of this mysterious thief completely caught him off guard and their upper echelon was reduced in half.

If they continue this war, even if they won, their entire tribe would only remain half or even less. That's why this decision was akin to a grace period for Dustin.

In contrast, Elian felt they had lost a great opportunity to win this war and felt his hate for the sky stealer reaching a new height and couldn't help but cursed him inwardly for being so careless by doing such a sloppy work and even daring to rob a Demon Marquis and humiliate him.

Nevertheless, he didn't dare to voice his opinion because for some reason, both New Moon and Henrik's eyes were fixed on his Tribe's army and this was rubbing him in a very wrong way.

'Could it be they're both thinking that thief is related to my tribe since he only targeted our enemy?!' This suddenly thought surfaced in Elian's mind and made him shuddered, 'That bastard is really a nemesis of our tribe!'

Elian felt huge resentment in his heart when he thought he was in his position all because of this bastard and even felt like crying over these circumstances.

As for Hex Master, or Hex Magic, no one seemed to know what these words represent since both tribes didn't have such a long history, or access to old information, like the Demon Dukes' level existences.

"Now that this is out of the way, I want everyone to put their weapons away and those with this same owl symbol gather in the east of the city wall!" New Moon instructed.

He didn't go straight to searching for the thief; he wanted to first separate these victims with this thief symbol because he had read about a high-level Hex Master can activate a hex through any medium as long as it had it hex on it, and he didn't want to experience such scenario himself.

He hasn't become a demon duke just by his strength alone, he had wits to back it up as well!

Henrik didn't speak or stopped New Moon's actions. He knew New Moon was on his side, and all his focus was on the Iron Demon Tribe. He was almost sure that the thief was hiding within their ranks.

If he had escaped from outside, those victims wouldn't have appeared inside the city wall suddenly.

This has raised their chance of capturing the thief, and Henrik couldn't wait to get his hand on that sly bastard!

At this moment, 1821 victims were gathered together, including all those river core cultivators, and they were still unsure about 102 dead river cores and thousands of foot soldiers who died by cannons.

Ironically, all of these victims were from the Dark Gibbon Tribe, which made Elian even more uneasy, and Dustin and the dark gibbon tribesmen infuriated!

But these numbers of victims greatly alarmed everyone, including Henrik and New Moon, because this was virtually impossible to steal from this many people without being noticed.

New Moon even felt his formation wasn't working at all since all this happened under his nose and the surveillance formation didn't even pick it.

However, it wasn't the formation's fault though because it wasn't strong enough to discriminate between Ace's heavenly sense and his sou-threads in that chaos!

"All of you will be proof of this noble title war rules violation since there is a Hex Master present in the 'enemy's' ranks!" New Moon declared.

However, Elian and everyone on the side of the Iron Demon Tribe's faces changed when New Moon said, Enemy's Ranks, which literally signified their tribe!