Chapter 1782: Fire-Stealers

Hearing this sentence, Chi Tong instantly stopped talking.

Although the resentment of a wage earner was fully shown in his expression, he was still quite respectful towards the King... Under the crimson baseball cap, his gaze looked down resentfully at that Bone Rhino that had lost its four limbs and was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. Seeming to want to vent all his resentment on it, he slowly raised his palm...

Veins burst forth from the back of his hand. As his five fingers grasped across the air, [Infinite Theft] was suddenly activated!

The peak seventh-tier Path of the Thief was pushed to its limits. The skeleton on that rhino's body began to flash frantically. Every single bone seemed to be instantly stolen, and then appeared out of thin air in the middle of another bone...

It was like a building block toy messed up by a violent child. In an instant, the skeleton intertwined chaotically like a hideous flower. Hard bones and hard bones collided and crushed against each other, letting out thunderous explosive sounds, and its mournful wails resounded to the clouds!

Under the gazes of countless terrified students, this savage and berserk Level 6 Calamity Entity directly turned into a pile of twisted skeletal garbage, nailed to the earth, no longer having any breath.

Only until this time did the resentment in Chi Tong's heart finally finish venting. He exhaled a refreshing breath and retracted his palm.

Thud——!!

The earth rumbled, and intense tremors came from afar. Standing at the top of the school and looking into the distance, there were still four or five massive skeletal giant beasts charging and crashing about in the nearby blocks.

Lan Yu frowned, getting up and preparing to rush in the direction of those giant beasts.

"Wait!" Chi Tong grabbed her. "We should go, the people from the Chengtian Prefecture are here!"

Lan Yu turned her head to look, only seeing streaks of flowing light rapidly rushing towards here, dividing into small squads extremely orderly in the air, completely surrounding those few Calamities that were charging madly.

"The Ruoshui Bastion's response is quite alright... People came this fast?" Lan Yu raised her eyebrows in some surprise.

From the Calamity Invasion until now, actually less than thirty seconds had passed. Normally speaking, even the transmission of information would take at least two minutes to start, let alone dispatching people over to support in time.

If Chi Tong and Lan Yu hadn't coincidentally passed by and bumped into this rhino Calamity attacking the school, they wouldn't have specially come over to support either.

"Don't forget which Ancient Vault of the Divine Path is located within the Ruoshui Bastion's boundaries." Chi Tong spoke unhurriedly. "With the Prophets holding down the fort, even if they guarded near the Convergence Point in advance, it wouldn't be strange."

"True..."

"Alright, we're done meddling in other people's business, we should go rendezvous with the King."

"There are two guys over there who seem to have seen us, should we go deal with them?"

"Hmph, look at their sneaky appearance, one look and you can tell they're people from the Dusk Society. I reckon their Card Faces aren't big either... It's better to detour around them, to save the King from punishing us."

The two figures, one red and one blue, glanced in a certain direction. In the next second, they vanished into thin air from the top of the school.

Li Shangfeng watched this scene blankly. Only after a long time did he recover his senses:

"Such a formidable Path of the Thief..."

"They should be people from the Fire-Stealers." Lin Xi was thoughtful.

"Fire-Stealers?"

"Haven't you heard of them?" Lin Xi shrugged.

"It's an organization composed entirely of Path of the Thief practitioners... You know the Path of the Thief, no matter where they are they aren't very welcomed. I heard a quite formidable thief popped out previously, gathering the vast majority of Path of the Thief practitioners together... They call themselves the Fire-Stealers."

"However, there is very little intelligence regarding them. It's only known that they have practically stolen from all those powerful and noble families of the Chengtian Dynasty once over. The Chengtian Domain can be said to hate them to the bone. It's said they also occasionally infiltrate the Ancient Vaults of the Divine Paths, not knowing what they are doing..."

"The two who took action just now were both seventh-tier. If nothing unexpected happens... they should be Thief Saints of the Fire-Stealers."

Li Shangfeng looked at him in surprise. "You're so young, how do you know so much?"

"Drifting outside for a long time, naturally one would hear a bit of everything."

Lin Xi glanced at the numerous figures flying towards here in the sky. "The people from the Chengtian Prefecture are here, let's hurry and leave."

Li Shangfeng and Lin Xi's figures also escaped into the night.

Several figures landed in front of the school gate. Looking at that massive and miserable Calamity skeleton, a trace of consternation was revealed in their eyes...

"Level 6 Calamity Entity?"

"Who did this? The time it took us to rush over should only be a dozen seconds or so... To instant kill a Level 6 Calamity Entity in such a short time, it would have to be a seventh-tier taking action no matter what, right?"

"It's definitely not our people, hurry back and report this matter to Marquis Wei."

"Yes."

...

Ruoshui Bastion.

The Church.

Perhaps because this block had just experienced a Calamity attack, the nearby residents had already hidden in the nearby underground Shelters according to the emergency shelter popularization knowledge of many years. The originally lively block was completely empty at this time.

Chi Tong had both hands in his pockets, leisurely walking across the street like this, finally stopping his footsteps at the Church entrance.

"The King is still the same as always... likes to arrange the meeting location in a Church."

"Tch..." Lan Yu swept a glance at this simple and unadorned Church, seeming somewhat disdainful. "It's not as big as the Chengtian Domain's, nor as exquisite as the Tianshu Bastion's... It's deadly rustic."

"In the early years, the Ruoshui Base absorbed the fewest foreigners, so there wouldn't be this kind of demand either, right?"

Chi Tong pressed both hands on the main door of the Church and pushed forcefully.

Creak——

The low sound of the door opening echoed within the empty Church.

Dim yellow light shone through from the Church, dispersing the night color in front of the door, enveloping both Chi Tong and Lan Yu within it... They simultaneously took steps and walked inside.

Rows of long benches sat within the Church. Two figures first entered Chi Tong and Lan Yu's sight;

One was a youth wearing a domed black bowler hat. Both of his hands leaned on an exquisite Cane, sitting quietly in the middle of the last row of seats. If one observed carefully, one would find that his left pinky finger was missing a corner.

The other was a seemingly sloppy and casual university student. Even though the weather was already cold, he still wore a white and green T-shirt, with a pair of cheap plastic slippers on his feet. A crumpled green baseball cap hung at his waist. At this moment, he was leaning against the wall, looking sideways at Chi Tong and Lan Yu walking in.

"Hey, you guys are late." He opened his mouth lazily while scratching his butt.

"We coincidentally encountered a Calamity attacking a school on the way, so we were delayed for a while."

"Oh? You guys don't look like guys who would bravely stand up for justice." The university student's eyes narrowed slightly, speaking mischievously. "Tell the truth, what the hell... did you two actually go do?"

Chi Tong suppressed the urge to punch this guy, his gaze looking towards the seat in the very front row of the Church. Over there, a figure wearing a gentleman's Fedora was sitting quietly... Chi Tong paused for a moment, deliberately adding a sentence,

"Qing Huo, it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not... However, two members of the Dusk Society saw it, they can testify for us."

On the seat in the first row, that figure's eyebrows arched up slightly, his deep blue pupils looking sideways at this direction.