Chapter 1782: The Fire-Stealer

Hearing this, Chitong immediately fell silent.

Although his resentment as a worker was written all over his face, he was quite respectful toward the King... Under his red baseball cap, he looked down with resentment at the skeletal rhinoceros, which had lost its limbs and was like a lamb to the slaughter, as if he wanted to vent all his frustration on it, and slowly raised his palm...

Veins bulged on the back of his hand, and as he gripped the air with his five fingers, [Infinite Theft] was suddenly activated!

The God of Theft Path at the peak of Tier 7 was pushed to the limit. The bones on the rhinoceros began to flicker crazily, each bone appearing as if it had been instantly stolen and then reappearing 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 bones were chaotically intertwined like a hideous flower. Hard bone collided with hard bone, crushing each other, emitting thunderous explosions, and shrill cries echoed through the sky!

Under the gaze of countless terrified students, this savage and violent Tier 6 Calamity was turned directly into a pile of twisted skeletal garbage, pinned to the ground, and breathed its last.

Only then did the resentment in Chitong’s heart finally vent. He let out a refreshing breath and withdrew his palm.

THUD—!!

The earth rumbled, and violent tremors came from afar. Standing on top of the school and looking into the distance, there were four or five other massive skeletal beasts rampaging in the nearby blocks.

"Why are there so many?"

Lan Yu frowned and stood up, ready to rush toward the direction of those giant beasts.

"Wait!" Chitong grabbed her. "We should go. The people from the Chengtian Prefecture are coming!"

Lan Yu turned to look and saw streams of light rushing toward them, extremely orderly, splitting into small teams in the air to surround the rampaging Calamities.

"Ruoshui Prison's response is decent... they arrived so fast?" Lan Yu raised an eyebrow in surprise.

From the Calamity invasion until now, it had actually been less than thirty seconds. Normally, even the transmission of the news would take at least two minutes, let alone sending people to support in time.

If Chitong and Lan Yu hadn't happened to be passing by and run into this rhinoceros Calamity attacking the school, they wouldn't have come to support either.

"Don't forget which Divine Path Ancient Treasury is located within the scope of Ruoshui Prison." Chitong said unhurriedly. "With the [Prophets] sitting in command, it wouldn't be strange if they were already guarding near the intersection point in advance."

"That's true..."

"Alright, the meddling is done, we should go meet up with the King."

"There are two guys over there who seem to have seen us. Should we deal with them?"

"Hmph, look at how sneaky they are. They’re obviously Twilight Society members, and they don't look like big shots... Let's just go around them to avoid being punished by the King."

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

Li Shangfeng stared blankly at this scene, and it was a long time before he came back to his senses:

"What a powerful God of Theft Path..."

"They should be from the Fire-Stealers," Lin Xi said thoughtfully.

"Fire-Stealers?"

"You haven't heard of them?" Lin Xi shrugged.

"It's just an organization composed entirely of the God of Theft Path... You know the God of Theft Path; it’s not well-regarded anywhere. I heard that a very powerful thief emerged a while ago and gathered most of the God of Theft Path practitioners together... They call themselves the Fire-Stealers."

"But there is very little intelligence about them. We only know that they have stolen from almost all the powerful families of the Chengtian Dynasty, and the Chengtian Realm hates them to the bone. It is said that they occasionally sneak into the Divine Path Ancient Treasuries, though no one knows what they are doing..."

"The two who attacked just now were both Tier 7. If I'm not mistaken... they should be the Saint Thieves of the Fire-Stealers."

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

"After drifting outside for a long time, you naturally hear a few things."

Lin Xi glanced at the many figures flying toward them in the sky. "The people from the Chengtian Prefecture are here. Let's go quickly."

Li Shangfeng and Lin Xi’s figures also slipped away into the night.

Several figures landed in front of the school, looking at the massive and miserable Calamity skeleton, their eyes revealing a trace of astonishment...

"A Tier 6 Calamity?"

"Who did this? We should have only taken about ten seconds to get here... To kill a Tier 6 Calamity in such a short time, it must have been a Tier 7 who acted, right?"

"It definitely wasn't our people. Go back and report this to Lord Wei immediately."

"Yes."

……

Ruoshui Prison.

Church.

Perhaps because this block had just experienced a Calamity attack, the nearby residents had already followed years of evacuation education and hidden in nearby underground shelters. The once bustling block was now empty.

Chitong walked down the street leisurely with his hands in his pockets, finally stopping at the church entrance.

"The King is still the same... likes to arrange meeting spots in churches."

"Tsk..." Lan Yu scanned the simple church, looking somewhat disgusted. "Not as big as the ones in the Chengtian Realm, nor as exquisite as the ones in Tianchu Prison... It’s so tacky."

"The Ruoshui base didn't take in many foreigners in the early years, so they didn't have that kind of demand, right?"

Chitong pressed his hands against the church doors and pushed hard.

CREAK—

The low sound of the door opening echoed through the empty church.

Dim yellow light shone from within the church, dispelling the night outside the door and enveloping both Chitong and Lan Yu... They stepped inside together.

Rows of pews sat in the church, and two figures were the first to catch Chitong and Lan Yu’s eyes;

One was a young man wearing a black bowler hat, leaning on an exquisite cane with both hands, sitting quietly in the middle of the back row. If one looked closely, they would notice that the little finger of his left hand was missing a tip.

The other was a sloppy-looking college student who, despite the cold weather, was still wearing a white and green T-shirt and cheap plastic flip-flops. He had a crumpled cyan baseball cap hanging from his waist, and he was currently leaning against the wall, squinting at the two who had just walked in.

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

"We ran into a Calamity attacking a school on the way, so we were delayed for a bit."

"Oh? You don't look like the type to act heroically." The college student narrowed his eyes and said snidely, "Honestly, you two... what were you actually doing?"

Chitong suppressed the urge to punch the guy, his gaze shifting to the front row of the church. There, a figure wearing a gentleman's hat was sitting quietly... Chitong paused for a moment and deliberately added,

"Qinghuo, it doesn't matter if you believe me or not... but two Twilight Society members saw it, and they can testify for us."

On the front row of seats, the figure’s eyebrows twitched slightly, and his deep blue eyes slanted toward this direction.