Eternal Thief

Chapter 1733: Aftermath & Result of Evernight Trial (9)

Inside the Realmbreaker Conquest Ark, the atmosphere was completely different from what it had been moments ago.

Just a moment ago, the enormous vessel had remained perfectly stable inside the Evernight Realm Conquest Division, but then without any spatial turbulence, even the slightest warning from its defensive formations it had transported into a separate space.

The Evernight Dukes gathered in the Ark’s central section also noticed the abnormality.

The Midnight Duke’s eyes narrowed behind his mask as he stared toward the surrounding spatial formations.

"Spatial displacement?" His voice was low.

The Yin Duchess slowly raised her head, while the Dread Duchess’s eyes flickered with surprise. Even the Corpse Duke, who normally appeared half-dead and indifferent to everything, lifted his gaze. The Enchantress Demon Duchess’s eyes also flickered with surprise.

For several breaths, nobody spoke, but they could all feel the Ark wasn’t where it had been before, and the surrounding spatial coordinates had completely changed.

Yet strangely, there had been no warning, no defensive mechanism had activated, no formation had detected an external spatial intrusion, and no spatial barrier had been damaged.

It was as if the Realmbreaker Conquest Ark had simply been moved.

The Midnight Duke’s expression gradually became solemn.

"Who...?" The question had barely left his mouth when realization suddenly dawned on him.

They were already inside the Evernight Sanctuary, and there were only three existences who could forcibly move the Realmbreaker Conquest Ark without triggering its automatic defensive mechanisms.

’Only the Evernight Kings possessed the authority and ability to casually accomplish such a thing!’

Not only the Midnight Duke, but the other also reached the same conclusion, and that realization immediately eased the tension within the Ark.

Instead of panic, curiosity slowly replaced it as the Evernight Dukes exchanged glances.

The Yin Duchess narrowed her eyes. "Why would a High Majesty move the Ark?"

No one answered.

The Enchantress Demon Duchess tilted her head slightly. "Perhaps we’re somewhere we’re not supposed to be."

Her words subtly shifted the others’ expressions.

The Dread Duchess remained silent as she could already feel that the surrounding Laws were unusually concentrated. More importantly, a faint oppressive feeling came from outside the Ark.

It wasn’t hostility but simply the natural pressure of a place that ordinary existences had no business approaching.

The Midnight Duke’s eyes flickered beneath his mask as he had already realized something.

’Could it be... the Evernight Regal Void?’

The instant he thought about it, his heart tightened, for that was one of the most forbidden regions within the entire Evernight Sanctuary. Even Evernight Dukes weren’t permitted to enter without authorization.

But before anyone could speculate further, a voice suddenly resounded directly within everyone’s minds.

"Everyone, please remain where you are!"

It was the voice of the Evernight Demon King, and every Evernight Duke instantly became solemn.

Her voice continued, "We are going to examine the Ark and then all of you to make sure nothing followed us here."

A brief pause, and then her tone became slightly more serious. "Also, restrain your Law Senses here."

Silence followed, but the expressions of the Evernight Dukes changed. Even though the order itself wasn’t complicated, its meaning was clear.

The restriction on their law senses alone told them they had been brought somewhere extraordinary.

The Dread Duchess’s eyes narrowed. The Yin Duchess silently withdrew her Law Sense instantly. The Enchantress Demon Duchess sighed inwardly before doing the same. Even the Corpse Duke obediently restrained his perception.

Nobody objected; the person who gave the order was an Evernight King, and more importantly, if even an Evernight King warned them not to casually probe their surroundings, this place was undoubtedly beyond their authority.

The Midnight Duke quietly lowered his head. "Understood."

The others followed, and soon, the powerful Law fluctuations that had filled the Ark gradually disappeared.

The entire vessel became strangely quiet while everyone waited. Moreover, nobody noticed that, among everyone inside the Ark, one person had reacted very differently.

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Amid the crowd of Evernight Trial participants, Ace stood calmly in his disguise as Kharon, his expression indifferent, but a faint shock flashed deep in his eyes.

Because Ace had also felt the sudden change, but unlike everyone else, he didn’t merely sense that the Ark had moved; instead, he sensed how it had moved.

’Space moved!?’ He thought with uncertainty.

Ever since his breakthrough into the Abyssal Grandmaster Realm and the assimilation of the Space Law into his Primordial Inner World, Ace’s sensitivity toward Space had undergone a qualitative transformation.

Before, he could sense spatial fluctuations, but now, he could distinguish their structure. So, the instant the Ark was relocated, he felt countless spatial layers fold around the vessel.

He instantly realized that there had been no conventional teleportation; instead, an enormous spatial authority had simply folded the distance between two locations, which meant it was the work of a terrifying cultivator!

’Did an Abyssal King move it? But why?’ Ace’s heart tightened.

There was no doubt, since only an existence at that level could move the Realmbreaker Conquest Ark so effortlessly, but his concern was more about "why" than "how".

But then Ace suddenly remembered something, and his eyes became slightly deeper.

’If the Ark had truly been moved by an Evernight King, then where had they been taken? It’s probably about the anomaly of the Undead Cradle, and they are probably doing something to examine everyone. This could be bad for me, depending on what method they used and its power...’ His curiosity quickly turned into vigilance.

But Ace didn’t dare use his Law Sense wantonly because those Evernight Kings were too sensitive towards it. Instead, he quietly opened the Live Fate Map.

The moment the map appeared within his mind, Ace’s pupils contracted, and for the first time in a long while, genuine shock flashed across his face!

The entire projection of the Live Fate Map had turned pitch black, and not a single ordinary fate point could be seen outside the Realmbreaker Ark.

Only three points remained visible, three natural fate points, and each one was surrounded by a pitch-black ring.

Ace was shocked, ’All three Evernight Kings!?’

His expression became solemn as the meaning was obvious; even if those three were natural at this moment, these three existences represented an extreme danger to him,

Apparently, after his breakthrough, even Abyssal Grand Lords no longer appeared as black fate points, and they had become deep crimson.

Therefore, anything that remained completely black could only represent existences far beyond them, either Half-Abyssal Kings or Abyssal Kings.

Since there were already Evernight Dukes present in the Realmbreaker Ark, then the three greatest existences within this region had to be the Evernight Kings.

Ace’s eyes became increasingly cautious, but then he noticed something else, and his gaze froze!