"How is that possible? Aren't you already dead?!"
"How did you find this place?"
Under the surprised gazes of the three members of the Dark Gold Society, the thief who had just landed steadily stood up slowly. He faced the three members of the Dark Gold Society in front of him and Frederico who was still sitting on the main seat, pressed his hat down, and spoke with a smile.
"It is my fault as a performer that I have disappointed three guests, but there is nothing I can do about it. As a magician, I need to perform for more audiences and I cannot just die somewhere at random."
The thief spoke politely. Listening to his words, Frederico, who was sitting in his seat, narrowed his eyes slightly, and then spoke in an emotionless tone.
"You are... the so-called Thief K?"
"That's right, Mr. Frederico. As a junior, I would like to express my sincere greetings to you." The thief said to Frederico and bowed slightly between his words. After hearing the thief's words, Frederico sneered and spoke.
"Oh, junior? What kind of junior are you to me?"
"Of course I am a younger generation in the stealing business. In a sense, aren't we both thieves? It's just that I usually steal from museums and collectors, while you can steal from entire countries. You are much higher than me in level, don't you think? The last Prime Minister of Bourbon..."
The thief continued to talk to Frederico with a smile, and after hearing what the thief said, Frederico's expression flashed with a trace of seriousness, and then he said coldly.
"Glib... take him down."
As soon as Frederico finished speaking, the three members of the Dark Gold Society, who had been unable to hold back any longer, immediately covered themselves with gray-black hard shells, spread their wings, drew their weapons, and rushed towards the thief K at high speed. Just like that, after a period of truce, the four of them engaged in a melee again.
The melee this time was almost the same as the last time. The three people used various methods to directly attack the thief, but they were all easily resolved and dodged by her. The thief was still able to move freely among countless dangers without being hurt at all.
Knowing that normal offensives would not work, the three members of the Dark Gold Society began to cooperate in combat after the melee had begun for a while. Seeing the opportunity when the thief leaped and dodged, Clay took out a talisman and slapped it on the ground. Suddenly, the ground in front of them began to soften and became like a swamp. The thief fell down and stepped on the ground, and then his whole body sank into the ground, with nearly half of his body sunk into the ground.
Seeing the opportunity, the other two gargoyles flying in the air immediately launched an attack. They sprayed a stream of fire at the thief trapped on the ground, causing him to be completely swallowed by the scorching fire snake.
Looking at the battle situation in front of him, Frederico felt that the outcome was already decided. Just when he had just begun to think that the so-called thief K was just a thief who was fast and skilled enough, he suddenly felt something strange coming from behind him.
An afterimage that was almost invisible to the naked eye rushed out from behind Frederico and quickly grabbed the object in his hand. Seeing this, Frederico's pupils widened slightly, and then he launched an impact storm again to drive away the strong winds that were rushing around. This storm was stronger than before, and while blowing away the things around Frederico, it also directly destroyed the throne he was sitting on.
Under this powerful impact, a figure was knocked away from Frederico's back, and the thief's light figure turned several times in the air and then fell back to the ground. Seeing the thief was about to fall, Frederico, who had already stood up from his chair, threw a fireball at the thief. The thief magician, who had just stood firm, saw the fireball approaching in front of him, and directly waved his cloak, turning it into a ball of flowers that exploded, and suddenly countless flame-colored petals slowly fell from the air in the hall and landed on the ground.
Looking at the petals falling all over the sky, the thief magician in the rain of flowers, and Frederico who stood up with a serious expression, he now understood why his men said that the person in front of him had strange abilities. It was incredible that he was suddenly approached from behind without any awareness and he did not notice it at first.
However, although this thief's ability was strange and fast, she still failed to steal things from him, so her power should still be relatively limited. As long as he was careful, it shouldn't be too difficult to deal with her... This was Frederico's current thought, and when this thought just flashed through his mind, the thief in the distance spoke again.
"Oh my... you reacted pretty quickly. You are indeed a senior. You have strong adaptability. If it were someone else, I think I would have succeeded completely."
In the rain of flowers, the thief magician murmured as she slowly spread out one of her hands. On her white glove, a huge, crystal clear crystal was lying quietly.
After seeing the crystal, Frederico's eyes widened slightly, and then he looked at his own hand. Finally, he found that there was indeed a crystal missing from the golden base of the fake object in his hand. Only three of the original four crystals were left.
She still succeeded!
Seeing this scene, Frederico felt heavy-hearted. Although he did not let the other party steal all his things, it proved that if he just kept this state, not only would he not be able to catch the other party, but he might not even be able to keep his things. The performance of Thief K just now made Frederico realize that he might not be able to deal with the thief in front of him by relying on his men alone.
"You despicable little thief...don't even think about stealing anything from me again..."
Frederico murmured this, and then he removed the remaining three crystals from the fake gold base, while also turning his skin black and gray.
Synchronous with this change, Frederico's body began to expand rapidly. As his body grew taller, his face began to become gradually hideous, and his claws, horns and wings broke through the thick skin and grew out.
"Here...everything belongs to me! Look at these...these are all my wealth. Don't even think about taking a penny away tonight!"
As Frederico Wan'er loudly declared, the treasury under the floor of the hall began to move strangely. Countless gold and silver coins and jewels floated up with a continuous swish sound as if pulled by some invisible force, and then flew rapidly with Frederico who was still expanding, and all of them poured into Frederico's mouth. The other three remaining crystals in Frederico's hand also flew into his open mouth together with the other jewels and were sucked into his body.
As Frederico gradually swallowed these countless treasures, his body began to undergo various changes. His originally gray-black, thick skin, like a stone sculpture, began to show a golden or silver metallic luster. On his wings and other places where large areas of skin were exposed, more types of gems "grew" out of this solid stone skin.
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