622 Last Stand Formation (2)
Ace walked into a large square filled with powerful elves as they surrounded the entrance toward the sixth floor.
However, his expression remained nonchalant as he looked at the notification panel.
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-Successful Pick Pocket(s): 1,570
-Reward: 11,810,450 Thief Points
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[Thief Point(s): 45,820,950]
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[Thievery Rank(s)]
-Low-Level Thievery(s): 989
-Middle-Level Thievery(s): 10
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-Thievery Required for next Rank:
[Low-Level Thievery(s): 1,081/10,000]
[Middle-level Thievery(s): 12/1,000]
[High-level Thievery(s): 0/100]
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Despite not wanting to, Ace had to admit that he profited from this massacre big time, and the elves on the fifth floor were also quite wealthy.
This number could be much higher if he had gone after those fleeing elves, but he decided to go against it. He only killed those who were in his way and spared those who escaped his fate map detection.
Nevertheless, he was still not completely at ease because the fiendish face on the crimson true soul was now vivid, and a terrifying nefarious aura was emitting from it.
Despite the System’s suppression, Ace could still feel a terrible bloodlust that compelled him to kill everything and anything that stood in his path.
Ace mused that it was most likely the true purpose of killing others with the soul segments. Ace even increased his cultivation to the Golden Soul River Core Stage to not draw any suspicion.
Because even after killing all those elves, if he still remained at the bronze river core stage, then the tower spirit would definitely be suspicious of him and might do something even more excessive.
Ace then turned his focus on the elves in front of him with a rueful expression, he didn’t want to take this kind of action, but he knew they were a lost cause because of the soul segment influence.
Those elves were holding weapons and were positioned in army formation. The arches were at the front while warriors with shields covered them. It was like they were facing an army, not just one person.
No one could blame them either since they all had heard about the infamous ‘Monster’ who was virtually unstoppable.
More than half of their men were still returning since no one had expected Ace to enter the city so easily, and now they had no choice but to hold him back until the reinforcement arrived.
Still, they were all high-ranking members of their alliances and had the support of members of the Royal Family branches, so they were not entirely afraid.
But some elves with clear minds were quite fearful because they noticed Ace had come alone and no elf was following him. This could only mean that those elves instated in outer and inner areas were either dead or deserted.
In both cases, it meant the ‘Monster’ in front of them was not easy to deal with and was a terrifying being.
Yet, they can do nothing about their discomfort since those high-ranking elves in the back are also equally terrifying.
“You beast, obediently surrender, and I will give you a painless death. Or you will die in the most painful way!” Caylee’s cold voice rang reverberated in the vicinity at this moment.
Ace couldn’t help but looked toward the entrance building and saw nine elves right in front of the locked door. He also noticed that eight of them were sitting cross-legged in a trigram format.
Furthermore, eight yellow formation plates were hovering above their heads, while the elf woman standing in front of this group had a black formation plate above her head.
‘A formation?’ Ace squinted his eyes since he didn’t feel any threat from that formation and mused that it was still inactive.
Still, he didn’t think much of it since that women were only at the peak of the Platinum Soul Realm cultivation stage, and so did those eight sitting elves.
Ace replied with an equally cold tone, “Why don’t you all get off my way, and I’ll spare your insignificant lives? You should learn from your dead comrades. Unfortunately, your fates won’t be any better if you remain stubborn.”
‘So, he killed everyone?’ Caylee’s eyes narrowed, ‘There were over thousands of warriors. I don’t believe this guy wasn’t exhausted after killing them all. I won’t lose this chance to enter the sixth floor and then increase my status and worth in Prince’s eyes. Even if I had to sacrifice everyone here!’
Killing intent flashed past her eyes as she coldly uttered, “Then I shall send you on your way personally. You should be honored to die by my hand!”
The other elves were all astonished when they heard Caylee’s arrogant declaration. They were thinking that she would be going to use them as cannon folds to exhaust the enemy.
But she unexpectedly volunteered to fight, and a possibility surfaced in their minds.
Could it be the Monster was bluffing and already on the verge of death, and Caylee was afraid that they would accidentally kill him and calm the rewards?
Greed surfaced in some of the elves’ eyes, but they didn’t charge forward and decided to see what would happen first.
But some of them thought that Caylee’s confidence came from the strange formation plate hovering above her and other members of the royal family’s heads.
As for those eight sitting there, they could only smile bitterly as they knew they had no fate with the Monster anymore. So, they chose to curry favor with Caylee instead of offending her by fighting for the Monster.
It was far more beneficial to them since this would give them some influence in the main royal family.
They were not confident in killing the Monster on their own. As for robbing Caylee of her formation, they would only be helping the Monster by fighting among themselves, and Caylee might have other trump cards. Or she won’t dare to reveal the existence of the Last Stand Formation so easily.
They might have other thoughts if there was any other time or if she had revealed the formation before the Monster infiltrated the city and caught them unprecedentedly.
Ace looked at Caylee, who was walking toward him as those elves were making way for her.
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“Active the formation!” She gently commanded at this moment.
“Hmph, paltry tricks!” He sneered.
They would be fools to think that he would give them time to activate the formation by just standing there.
While those elves were wasting time standing there, Ace had already spread hundreds of soul threads, all of which were attached to those elves’ storage rings.
Even arrogant Caylee nor those eight elves detect the presence of the soul threads. They were simply not matched for Ace’s soul power.
At this moment, Ace sent soul threads toward the formation plates hovering above their heads. However, Ace was stunned when the soul thread got destroyed when they were an inch away from touching the formation plates.
Ace squinted his eyes because this meant the formation plates were already active.
At this moment, the eight sitting in a trigram pattern suddenly clapped their hands together, and all of a sudden, Qi gushed out like smoke from their bodies before it rose and started to sink into the formation plates above their heads.
What happened next made everyone flabbergasted, including Ace.
Black rune symbols started to manifest below those eight, and all of a sudden, those symbols suddenly started to expand in a trigram formation as they covered all the other elves around them, including Caylee.
Ace was smart enough not to be caught within that strange formation. But he felt amiss and instantly used pick-pocket before the soul threads got destroyed by this peculiar formation.
Although he wanted to use pick-pocket to catch them off guard, he knew if he missed this chance, he might not get any later.
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-Successful Pick Pocket(s): 1,003
-Reward: 15,000,000 Thief Points
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[Thief Point(s): 60,820,950]
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[Thievery Rank(s)]
-Low-Level Thievery(s): 720
-Middle-Level Thievery(s): 282
-High-Level Thievery(s): 1
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-Thievery Required for next Rank:
[Low-Level Thievery(s): 1,801/10,000]
[Middle-level Thievery(s): 294/1,000]
[High-level Thievery(s): 1/100]
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No one noticed their storage rings got stolen at this moment, including Caylee, as her entire focus was on Ace, and she had this deadly cold smile on her alluring face.
Ace felt at ease when their storage rings entered his thief’s space. Now they only had their weapons and armor while all their trump cards were gone.
At this moment, the black formation plate over Caylee’s head started to spin as it shimmered in a dark sheen, and all of sudden black hazy Qi suddenly released from and directly shot down over Caylee’s head.
Under Ace’s surprised expression, Caylee’s aura started to spike.
“Ahhh…. What is this….” A cry of territory suddenly rang from one of the elves enveloped in the formation.
“My cultivation… no… my life force is being sucked by this formation… ahhh.”
“Stop it. You can’t do this…. Why can’t I move, damn it….”
“You bastard… shhahhhh…”
Everyone started to curse and scream when they comprehended what was happening!