Eternal Thief

1119  Incoming Crisis (2)

Ace's expression was terrifyingly solemn when he felt the familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar Heavenly Qi and Heavenly Punishment aura appearing out of nowhere. It was unfair because this aura and Qi were far more formidable and potent.

'Just what in the world is happening?!' Ace started to feel uneasy and felt a sense of urgency as if he had to leave the range of this aura or he would be in deep trouble.

Furthermore, it wasn't just him who was feeling this; he was the only one who was fine because Pascal, who was talking with him, suddenly lost consciousness the moment he was exposed to this aura.

"Big Bro, I feel uncomfortable!" Cyrus whimpered, trembling slightly and sticking close to Ace's neck to find some solace. Ace's expression darkened even more because it was the first time that the fearless Cyrus had said something like this.

"Go back, you've done well. I'll bring you out soon." Ace gently stroked Cyrus's head with his finger to calm him down before sending him away.

'I can't stay here any longer!' Ace quickly decided and threw caution to the wind. He used the formation to scan the unconscious Pascal's appearance and disguised himself as him before leaving the carriage.

Outside, the carriage stood around fifty meters away from the colossal bronze gates built between towering walls, and the city guards who were about to open the door after seeing the carriage were kneeling on the ground, trembling with fear with paled expressions.

The carriage driver and the beasts drawing the carriage were in a similar situation. In fact, almost all the people in the city were in the same situation; the bustling marketplace suddenly fell silent, and birds started to drop from the sky!

When Ace, in Pascal's disguise, stepped outside the carriage, the guards and the driver were shocked. He seemed completely unaffected by this strange aura.

However, Ace didn't have time to pay them any heed as he directly looked towards the location where the aura was the strongest and his eyes widened with shock.

Ace saw on the far horizon above the mountain peaks a majestic phantom of a golden hominoid figure with a white blindfold around its eyes. It was holding a golden justice scale in the right hand and a white justice scale in the left hand.

Even from this distance, it was extremely vivid, and he could feel that the heavenly punishment aura and heavenly Qi originated from that strange phantom.

Furthermore, the moment, Ace laid his eyes on that phantom, he didn't feel fear or anything, instead he found himself loathing that phantom and wanted to cut it into pieces as if it was his mortal enemy or something.

Ace found this strange hatred seeping into his bones very alarming. He had no idea why he was feeling this way, but it didn't take him long to guess since the clues were quite obvious.

'It has to be my internal enemy!' Ace's eyes were deadly cold as he almost took a step towards that phantom. He quickly snapped out of his strange state when a cold sensation suddenly spread throughout his entire body, suppressing the chaotic emotions he was feeling and calming his mind.

'I was about to do something stupid!' Ace quickly realized, looking appalled. He averted his eyes from the phantom that seemed to be compelling him and stirring strange emotions within.

Ace quickly stopped looking. Whatever Heaven was up to was something he had never seen, and it was not good. If Heaven was no longer passive, then he couldn't afford to make any more mistakes.

"Open the gates!" Ace quickly approached the guards and coldly commanded using Pascal's face.

The guards instantly felt indignant, and they wanted to retort by saying, 'Are you blind?', but they knew who this boy was, yet they were helpless at the same time because, for obvious reasons, they couldn't even breathe properly, much less move under this terrible pressure.

"Useless idiots! I'll do it myself!" Ace gave up and quickly approached the guard, who was wearing an eye-catching golden robe and gripping a formation plate in his hand. Ace knew this was the key to opening these gates.

The golden robe man, who was actually the gate manager, wanted to stop Pascal from grabbing the formation plate. It wasn't like he wanted to stop him from opening the gates; it's just that he knew Pascal didn't have the necessary Qi to activate the formation plate, and he might even suffer a terrible backlash.

If that happens, his entire family's heads would play a role, including his own. But alas, his Qi wasn't listening to him at all, and he felt as if his Qi had completely submitted to this unknown pressure.

But then, why could Pascal move? That was something everything present here wanted to know.

Ace quickly grabbed the formation plate and, without caring about anything, quickly activated it; he wanted to leave this damn city quickly. Even if others found out about him, he couldn't care less since no one knew what he looked like except for Kai, and he was pretty sure Kai wouldn't sell him out if he didn't want to offend his 'master.'

Under everyone's startled expression, the sealed gates suddenly started to open!

Ace was anxiously looking towards the opening gates as he found them extremely slow and quickly glanced towards the golden phantom and was startled at this moment when he saw its size had grown even more, or it was just his mind playing tricks on him, which he knew was impossible.

All of a sudden, a man's ethereal voice rang in everyone's ears as if he were whispering right beside them.

"I, Heaven's Advocate, am here to pass the Heavenly Judgement to sinners and bring justice to pitiful!

"If you have committed some atrocious and wronged anyone of their rights, then admit while you can and repent for your sins! If you are a victim of someone else's atrocities or suffer injustice, let Heaven hear it!

"Trial of Justice shall commence now!"

The moment the voice trailed off, the golden phantom's stoic expression suddenly started to radiate a sorrowful expression, and the scales in its hands started to release powerful undulations before golden and white lights started to spread all over the sky and form a dome of golden and white colors!

'I knew something was off about him!' Ace's heart palpitated as he suddenly felt dread from those two lights quickly approaching the city gates. Without hesitation, he dashed towards the opening in the gates without waiting any longer. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

He had a feeling that if he was caught under that barrier, things might turn extremely hectic for him!