Chapter 112: The Mysterious Thief

"Jeff, it's your turn." Without minding Duke Milton's solemn look, Julia took a step back and said to the brown-haired man.

In the meantime, the brown-haired man named Jeff took out few artifacts from his space ring and started to unlock the door using different methods.

"You are right. The thief indeed placed a metal rod on the other side to make the door stuck." After a minute of long silence, Jeff said with a nod.

Then, he used different methods and finally unlocked the door after fifteen minutes of a long battle.

The door soon made a clicking sound, causing others to curl their lips subconsciously.

Simultaneously, they heard another metal clanging sound from the other side and soon breathed out a sigh of relief.

Before others could say another word, Duke Milton took out a silver lamp from his void pouch and lit it with a match stick. Then, he pushed Jeff away, kicked the door with a bang, and bargained into the secret room like a mad man.

Although Jeff got angry at the Duke's rude action, he didn't show it on his face at all. He had long known that this Duke Milton was a greedy old man and understood his current emotions.

Patting the dust off from the black robe, Jeff straightened his back and heaved a heavy sigh.

"Darned thief, where are you?" Soon, they heard a raging voice echoed from inside.

"The thief is not inside?" Julia said in a shocked tone, and soon the Mystic trio entered the gloomy passage.

In a few seconds, they reached the other end of the stair and soon widened their eyes in shock.

Because what they saw was not some treasure chests, but a small mountain of gold coins!

"I have never seen this much gold in my life," Jeff muttered loudly and soon frowned.

"There really is no thief here... Could it be that the door stuck on its own?"

"No. Why would Lord Duke place an iron rod on the other side of the door?" The blonde-haired man refuted in a cold tone.

At that moment, Duke Milton searched if there was an artifact missing and soon sharpened his gaze towards the top of the mountain of gold coins.

There, he saw an empty space instead of a crown!

"The Crown is missing." His voice turned rough and solemn.

"Crown? You mean the Rainbow Crow?" Julia's expression also turned dead serious as she heard his words and asked.

Although it was just a gem-embedded costly crown, she knew that a unique crown had a long history with the third King of the Moon Kingdom, and it later became an important treasure to the Duke's Household!

Not only that, this crown was the symbol of Milton Household!

"Mr. Brooks, I need your help." Duke Milton turned his gaze towards the blonde-haired man and turned his tone into a polite one.

The blonde-haired man named Brooks furrowed his brows a bit as he heard those words and soon shook his head.

"I'm just a Rank-3 Mystic, Lord Milton. Although I can see the glimpse of the past, I can't pinpoint the exact time."

"I'm paying 10,000 gold coins." Duke Milton raised his hands and spoke.

In a second, the corner of Brooks' lips curled upward and soon formed into a grin.

"Deal."

Julia and Jeff weren't surprised at all. They knew that their team leader was a Rank-3 [Seeker] Class Mystic and was always confident about finding the thief's true identity.

'This Duke really knows how to tempt our team leader.' Julia chuckled inwardly.

In the meantime, Brooks let out a deep sigh and squatted down.

He first took out a small chalk piece from his space ring and started to draw a unique ritual circle. After that, he took out some materials like ghost weeds, Dream plant seeds, and unique purple gems and then placed them in different corners of the small ritual circle.

Then, he took a small silver knife from his space ring, made a small wound on his finger, and let the blood droplets fall on the corners of the ritual circle.

Following that, he took twelve candles from his space ring, placed them on the twelve corners, and started lighting them one by one.

Once he finished arranging everything for the ritual ceremony, he took a deep breath and started to chant an incantation in a foreign language.

In the meantime, Jeff, Julia, and Duke Milton took few steps away from the small ritual circle and patiently waited for him to finish the recitation.

His voice echoed in the gloomy treasure room and caused the candle fires to turn into human-shaped ones. They danced under the rhythm of his beautiful voice and soon started to shine even brighter!

In few seconds, Brook ended the chanting and then clapped his hand together.

A sudden window clattering noise came from the upstairs!

Then, an invisible force appeared in the secret treasure room, causing the lamplight to dim a little!

At that moment, Duke's footsteps turned abnormal, and soon he fell on the mountain of gold coins with a thud.

A second later, others in the secret treasure room suddenly noticed that the whole surrounding started to freeze and soon broke into multiple glass pieces!

Then, only blackness remained everywhere!

"What happened?" Jeff asked in an anxious tone and soon squinted his eyes as he saw the light from the underground secret room's passage entrance.

In a second, the trio saw a humanoid figure in a black hooded jacket open the secret treasure room's door!

The figure then casually waved its hand, conjured two fireballs, made it hover in mid-air, and started walking inside.

But what made Jeff and others stiffen up was that its face was covered entirely in strange crimson fire and appeared eerier!

"What is this creature?" Jeff took a step back subconsciously and asked in anxiety.

Although he heard of the Fire Mages, who could manipulate flames to some extent, he had never seen anyone like this!

Meanwhile, the fire-masked figure appeared in front of the mountain of gold coins, scanned the area for a second, and soon raised its hand.

A second later, they saw that the rainbow-gem embedded crown, which was placed at the top of the mountain, suddenly rose in the air and soon moved towards the crimson fire-masked figure!

Then, it stopped in front of the mysterious figure and changed into a gold coin!

"This is absurd! How can he turn this large crown into a freaking small gold coin?" Jeff couldn't even comprehend what the hell was happening and asked in a baffled tone.

"It must be a Mimic skill." In the meantime, Julia said in a solemn tone and focused her attention on the mysterious figure.

"Who is this guy?" She stared at him for a moment and asked in interest.

At that moment, the mysterious guy suddenly caught the gold coin, stored it in his space ring, and turned his gaze towards them.

No, they saw his gaze was zeroed on Julia!

Upon seeing the strange scene, everyone's heart began to thump harder!

Then, they heard an eerie monotonic voice.

"The name is Ghost, Good Luck."

For a moment, everyone felt eerie chills appeared in their hearts!

Meanwhile, the mysterious figure turned around and soon disappeared into the gloomy passage!