Brewing Storm

Following Ace and Eva's departure, in the City Herbs and Weapons shop, there was a huge uproar.

Someone stole a storage bag from Shila Casen, the sister of the city lord, and the individuals under suspicion were two teenagers. She made a huge fuss about this because there were millions of ruby coins and a peak 1-Star weapon in her storage bag.

That day, only two teenagers had gone to Shila's floor; therefore, she only suspected them.

Everyone sneered at this claim, and some laughed at her secretly because Shila was a peak Qi Gates expert, and according to her, she didn't feel any Qi from either of them. But no matter how much they disagreed with her or made fun of her, they didn't say it out loud.

This incident became quite popular because no one dared to mess with the Casen Family inside the Red Mountain City.

Shila was quite an arrogant person and had never suffered this kind of loss on her own turf, and the most disgraceful thing about this was she suffered at the hands of some brats. That's why she didn't want to tell anyone about it first, but she just can't take this sitting and watch those two damn scoundrels roam freely.

She knows everyone would laugh at her in secret, but she can do nothing to them; it was all her fault. That's why she even used her brother's power in her rage and made a wanted poster. She was going to issue an arrest warrant with Ace and Eva's portraits on the poster.

She didn't even know what they looked like because she didn't pay much attention to them like all other unimportant personnel, and those two portraits were made according to the description of that attendant.

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This incident not only got attention from normal people but also attracted the attention of a Qi Foundation Building-level expert. Albeit, it was not the city lord because he was running an errand.

That other Qi Foundation expert was none other than that beautiful blonde girl that Ace saw this morning!

Inside a luxurious courtyard within the Casen family territory, a blonde-haired girl was holding sheets of paper in her jade-like white hands.

On her left hand were the portraits of both Ace and Eva, which was a wanted poster that would be issued by the City Lord's mansion very soon. But in her right hand, there were also two more wanted posters.

Shockingly, one of them was also Ace's portrait, but Eva's face was not on the other; instead, there was a Black Fox Masked Girl portrait in this wanted poster!

That blonde girl's eyes twinkled like stars when she confirmed Ace's face matched the other portrait. "Are you sure this boy appeared right after we left that shop?" Ask the girl to a maid who was currently kneeling there.

"Yes! Princess Dulce, according to the information provided by the Casen Family, the timing matched." Answer the maid politely.

"Heh, heh. I can't believe that the famous 'Thousand Hands Ghost' of River Flower City is here, and he's so arrogant that he didn't even change his appearance. He even robbed the sister of City Lord Quentin in their own shop in broad daylight. And here I was searching for him in that little barren city." Dulce laughed joyously, but her laugh was very sinister, and now her beautiful face didn't appear beautiful at all.

Even that maid trembled seeing Dulce's evil smile.

"Go bring those slaves here and order that old bag not to post these wanted posters without my permission. Now, we don't want our prey to become alert, right?" She ordered her maid while giggling.

That maid didn't dare to delay even for a second and quickly ran to complete her order.

"I really wanted to see how you would react after seeing the big gift I prepared for you, 'Thousand Hand Ghost.' This ought to teach you a lesson not to be too arrogant in the future. Hehehe, it's not like you'll live to see the future, though." The dark laughter of a witch sounded from the courtyard of the Casen family that night.

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Ace and Eva were still oblivious that Dulce had found out about their true identities. It was not their fault to be carefree because, in their mind, they only robbed a worker of a shop, and it's not a big deal.

Even if things go south, they can always escape using their skills.

Ace was, after all, still a twelve-and-a-half-year-old boy and didn't know that with continued successes and victories came a lethal poison called Arrogance! One has to be very careful not to be bedazzled by it, or it can blind even a wise king. 

Ace thought no one would be coming here from the River Flower city this quick, and by the time the news of him reached the Red Mountain city, he'd be long gone.

However, a variable occurred differently from his prediction. A girl he had seen the first time this morning had already found his true identity, and he didn't even know about it.

Dulce had already stopped Shila from posting the wanted posters of Ace and Eva.

Now, only the news was spreading around the city, and no one knew what those two teenagers looked like. Even if Ace knows of this, he will not be cautioned by words alone. Now, the enemy was in the dark, and he was in the light.

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After Ace returned to the inn, it was already dinner time; the black clouds were forming in the sky, and winds were howling outside.

"It seems it's going to be a stormy night." Said Ace while he was eating dinner with Eva.

"Yes, my mother used to say whenever a storm comes, something bad would occur somewhere," Eva said frowningly; she was also looking outside the window towards the dark sky. There was also deep sorrow in her eyes when she mentioned her late mother.

"Well, it would be bad for all those shops for sure that you emptied today." Ace didn't want to see her sad, so he made a joke about the shopping spree that she had done. Even he was afraid of going out with her now.

"Humph! It was their fault for only having so little stuff for sale. Well, I still wanted to buy some things, but my two storage bags were full. Sigh." Eva sighed regretfully.

"We should've bought two or three more bags, but now that we robbed that old hag, we can't go there again. But she would be going crazy about her storage bag right about now, right?" Eva giggled delightfully, "Hehe...hehe, I wish I could see her face."

Bullets of sweat started to form on Ace's forehead when Eva said she still wanted to 'buy more.' She bought more than two storage bags worth of clothes and other girly stuff, and he had to give her another storage bag. She even shopped for him, and all those things were inside his storage bag, and it was almost full.

One has to know that the space inside the bags was 5 Cubic meters, and she had filled them in half a day. According to the system, these storage bags were trash grade, and they can only maintain space inside them for 10 Years.

'I should pretend to be ill tomorrow.' He made an important 'decision' in his heart. He didn't want to be her 'shopping partner' anymore.

After eating dinner, they both left for their room. Ace sighed with relief after he was finally free from Eva's evil clutches.

Ace sat on the bedding, took out some new and old books from this thief's space, and began to read those books.

Starting from those books, he got free from that aunt today. He smiled after thinking about her, 'I wonder if her anxiety was because of the money. I hope, with all those ruby coins, she'll be able to solve her problem. I'll visit her again before leaving the city.'

Ace had felt that lady's anxiety with his soul sense, and that's why he left all those ruby coins.

After clearing his mind, he read those books about the Lands of Cities and other common knowledge about the Azure-Wind Continent.

"So, where we humans live is called the Azure-Wind Continent, and it's divided into four levels {Royal, Empire, Kingdom, and City/Wasteland}!"

Ace had some idea about level-4 lands and a little information on kingdoms he got from Eva, but he didn't know about the entire continent's name and classification.

Still, he had heard about the All Devil and Blood Continents from the restaurant owner where he used to work as a dishwasher because that owner liked collecting stories about those top three races of the world!