A week has passed. The death of one S rank and the matter about the theft quickly spread to the East like wildfire. The news that involved the royal family of the Revenant Great Country became a hot topic.
Not to mention, the death of an S rank is a huge loss for the Revenant Country. Every S-rank degu user contributes greatly to the overall power and rating of countries.
The king was furious as half of the things in his castle were swept clean. Due to this, the security in Central City became stricter than before. The people from different cities couldn't enter, and the people inside could go out.
For the matter of the culprit, the king issued three A-rank items and one thousand gold coins as a bounty for the one who could capture. Since the king doesn't have an idea about the appearance of the culprit, the bounty was nothing but useless.
The people hate the culprit. Because they couldn't go in and out as the king didn't want the culprit to escape and thought that he was still in Central City.
The frequency of the guards patrolling the road doubled along with their numbers. Lionel and Derke turned a deaf ear and pretended that they didn't encounter Fein.
"Hey, did you know Asahi has died? Not only that... It was said that it was the mysterious thief that did it."
"The king is a fool. Such a thief with strong strength. Obviously, the thief should have escaped by now. I wonder which S rank made a move. To dare to provoke the royal family, I think a strong hidden organization backed the thief."
Fein and Sofia heard the discussion on the road. Sofia looked at Fein for a moment, as she knew that the culprit in the incident was beside her.
Seeing this, Fein just shrugged innocently. Fein didn't leave Central City at all. He first sorted out all the stolen things in his storage space orderly. He must say, he has to obtain a huge harvest this time!
The objects he stole are as follows: five carpets with six diamonds, a red carpet made of monster materials inlaid with pure gold, thirty kinds of different medicinal materials, twenty-six spiritual herbs, a mountain of books, three thousand gold coins, creative arts, and expensive furniture.
Fein already estimated how much gold coins he would gain if he sells them... Eight thousand seven hundred eighty-three gold coins! Of course, it already included the three thousand gold coins in it. Though he didn't want to sell the materials and spiritual herbs. It was for his own use. As for the books, he would read them all and reserve them for the library of his Eyes of the Dark Knights. He didn't want his members to be just strong, but stupid. He prefers if they have some degree of literacy. Fein doesn't want to get surrounded by poor blokes and muscle-heads. Of course, he couldn't force them. But at least, they could read something if they need knowledge.
Fein knew the importance of knowledge. That's why a library has a place in his organization.
The problem now is, he couldn't sell the thing he stole to the Revenant Country, right? That was equivalent to screaming at people and telling them that he was the culprit. He has to sell the things he stole to other regions with another identity.
Fein knew that once he really sells the things he stole to the country itself. The buyer would immediately report it to the king. Then the king would surely let his force search for him vigorously.
It's not that he was scared or something. He just didn't want trouble before he could even attack the stronghold of the witches. Once he finished his goal, then even if the king send S ranks to his train, he would gladly greet them with welcome arms. After all, S-rank degu users were equivalent to experience points in his eyes.
The more experience points, the faster his promotion would be and the higher the chances of his survival chances he would have. Fein wasn't overconfident, as there was still Niki that he have to kill who he speculates was far stronger than him.
If doesn't solve Niki, he would always feel that there's a sword of Damocles hanging in his head.
'It's time to finish our business.' Fein walked towards a dark alley with Sofia and Voli behind him.
Voli maintained his height at three meters. If he was at his original height, he would scare the people on the road. Right beside Fein where he stopped, was a garbage bin that release a stinky odor.
"It's time..." Fein spread his perception to the three cities.
"We're ready," Sofia answered in response. Voli and Aoi also nodded.
Fein controlled the degu energy in his body. Then looked at his companions and says. "The three of you... Come and touch me."
? This is the condition to use his teleportation technique and transport others with him. He has to let them touch him first. If he could improve his space techniques in the future, maybe this limitation would disappear.
Just like that, they stretched their hands and put their palms on Fein. Sofia to Fein's shoulder, Aoi to his arms, and Voli to his body.
Blue light covered the four of them, then they vanished in their place and silence resumed in the dark alley.
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The adventure of Fein continued. He used his teleportation technique to travel from city to city until they finally reached their destination.
It was the position where the bases of witches were located. In the middle of the two borders of the great countries, Hilfiger and Balberd.
"Is this it?" Sofia stared at his boyfriend's exhausted face.
Fein sat on the ground to rest. "Using teleportation continuously is really tiring. Let me rest first, then I'll inspect the underground. I hope those two didn't lie to me or else I would visit them again."
"Master, I think this is really the place. I feel weird and somewhat suffocated when we landed on the ground." Voli looked uncomfortable.
Aoi also has the same appearance. She looked uneasy.
'It seems it's really the place.' Fein thought inwardly.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from f(r)eeweb(n)ovel.𝒄𝒐𝙢