Chapter 680: Magic
Under the night cover, in Farajo, there were several figures soaring in the sky. The solid, heavy, and wide stone wings were riding the cold night breeze, carrying their extremely heavy bodies and flying forward. The sky was shining with the bright moon and stars, and the earth was shrouded in darkness.
Among these flying figures, the leader was Henry, one of the stewards of the Dark Gold Society. At this moment, he was stretching his stone wings, using the power of wind stored in them to fly in the air. Not far from Henry, there were two gargoyles with stone wings flying. One of them was Rock, and the other was a middle-aged man with a slightly shaggy beard and hair. He was wearing standard gentleman's attire.
"How far is it, Henry?"
During the flight, the older man who was very outspoken spoke, and after hearing the question, Rock, the team leader in front, answered directly without looking back.
"Hurry up, Craven. That guy has stopped. It seems he has finally reached the base. Humph, he actually ran such a long distance. It seems he is quite cautious." Henry responded. Compared with not long ago, there was an extra monocular lens on his face at this moment. There seemed to be a streak of light flowing on the lens. It seemed that Henry was locating the existence in the distance through the information presented in the mirror and guiding the team there.
"After such a long time, the thief didn't find anything unusual. Humph... It seems that his ability is just to deceive mortals. As an extraordinary person, he is really not that good." The one who spoke at this time was Rock who was flying on the other side. At this moment, there was a trace of anger and disdain in his eyes. Now he seemed to be anxious to find the thief who stole his collection in name, and then use his real power to teach him a lesson.
"You are overestimating the thief by saying this. The fake he stole was made by carefully polishing the fragments of Grand Butler Frederico's body. The hidden 'shadow' contained in it is subtle and profound. It is not something that ordinary people can easily discover.
"That thief should have had the ability to perform extraordinary tests on the stolen items to remove traces of artifacts. However, the extraordinary abnormality concealed by the necklace in his hand cannot be seen using ordinary means. Only a powerful enough 'lamp' that exceeds the level of ordinary chalk can have a chance to reveal it, but that thief is a 'shadow' and he does not have that ability."
After listening to Rock's speech, the middle-aged man named Craven on the other side responded bluntly. Not long after, Henry, who was navigating in front, also added to his speech.
"What Craven said is right. The fake was thought to be made by Mr. Frederico and Mr. Darius so that the thief would not notice it. Although this thief likes to show off in front of mortals and behaves like a clown, it is undeniable that he has some strength. Otherwise, he would not have been able to use the church to fool Cleaver like Adria. His strength may exceed that of ordinary people. We cannot take it lightly."
After hearing what Henry said, Rock nodded slightly and fell silent, then continued to fly away quietly following Henry.
The Maria's Light exhibition was a trap set by the Dark Gold Society for Thief K. Several members of the Dark Gold Society anticipated that Thief K would come, but they did not think that he would bring the golden pedestal, a trophy that had nothing to do with theft, with him for no reason. Therefore, they had no plan to capture Thief K at the exhibition from the beginning. They were waiting for him to steal the Maria's Light and then track Thief K to his base through the mark on it. They all believed that Thief K would only hide the golden pedestal in his base.
In this way, the three continued to fly for a distance, until a few minutes later, the leader Henry began to slowly descend.
"We're almost there, let's go down first."
Henry said this to his teammates behind him, and then the three of them quickly and slowly descended towards the dark earth below. After a while, they landed on the solid ground. Looking around in the darkness, they found that they were in a relatively undulating hilly area, and they were standing on a slope.
After taking a look around in the darkness, Henry turned his gaze to another small hill not far away. Under the moonlight, he could see a dilapidated ancient fortress standing there, which seemed to be very old.
"That abandoned fortress is the location where the coordinates finally stopped. He...or their base is there." Looking at the fortress in the distance, Henry said bluntly. After the man finished listening to his words, Rock on the side continued to speak.
"It looks like a relic from the Frost Moon Civil War... He thinks this old-fashioned defense can protect him? Heh..."
"Let's get started without further delay."
Rock said this with a slight chuckle, and then Craven spoke solemnly. After they said this, the bodies of the three of them began to gradually sink and merged into the ground as if sinking into water.
The three gargoyles who dived underground used their abilities to quickly approach the abandoned fortress in the distance. After a while, they approached the fortress from the underground soil and rocks. During this process, they used their abilities to sense the architectural structure of the fortress. Sure enough, they found an obvious space underground with fine vibration transmission, indicating that there were people moving there.
Through the vibration, the three people who sneaked into the underground realized that the seemingly uninhabited abandoned fortress actually had an underground space with many active people. Then they immediately accelerated their diving action and sneaked into the underground space of the fortress.
During this process, they felt some antimatter passing through the extraordinary detection, but they quickly resolved it and continued to move forward. Not long after, they sneaked behind the wall of the underground space of the fortress. Even with only a thin stone wall between them, they were able to see through the wall and see the situation inside the underground space.
As expected by the three, unlike the dark abandoned fortress outside, this underground space was a bright scene. In this underground space, many places were lit, and several basements and corridors were connected to each other. The interior was cleaned very cleanly, and various reusable objects and utensils were neatly placed. It did not look like a deserted scene at all. It was obvious that someone had been working here for a long time.
Through the thin wall, the three saw people in different costumes walking between the passage and the basement. There were guards at each key pass, and there were usually a dozen people living there. The three began to wander among the rocks, observing the scenes in the underground space from behind different walls and ceilings, looking for their target.
Not long after, their search finally paid off. In a basement with a closed door and a large space filled with various exquisite furniture, they found their target, Thief K.
At this time, Thief K seemed to have just arrived at his base. He was still wearing his masquerade-like clothes, and he hadn't even had time to take off the half mask on his face. He was sitting behind a large desk, playing with the trophy he had just obtained not long ago, the Light of Maria. Above the desk, there was an object that made Henry and the other two very excited, a golden irregular body, which seemed to be the golden base that contained the crystal of the Light of Maria!
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