Chapter 714: Chapter 358: Thief, Golden Ring, Encounter
Ronan quickly picked up the item Dudor the Third had spat out.
He discovered it was a black metal slab with jagged edges, extraordinarily heavy, emanating an intense rune fluctuation, with some glowing fragment-like material floating on one side.
Ronan attempted to touch it with his hand and found he could move it slightly.
Flipping to the other side, it was completely bare.
Just as Ronan was frowning in study, Jason came walking briskly towards him, holding several items.
"Damien, I think we need to discuss properly, about how to handle so many items..."
Ronan noticed Jason’s cheerful demeanor, but halfway, as he approached the center of the platform, Jason’s smile suddenly halted, replaced by an expression that was neither solemn nor odd, his eyes fixed straight behind Ronan. He slowly spoke, "Damien, behind you..."
"Whoosh—"
A gust of warm wind with a hint of rot blew from behind.
Someone was gently blowing air at Ronan’s back!
Ronan’s hair stood on end, and his mighty spiritual field burst out of his body. In a fierce distortion of the air, he swiftly turned to look.
"Hee hee hee—"
A giggling sound echoed in his ears, like the triumphant laughter after a prank.
Ronan saw, just five or six meters behind him, a small, sly, golden goblin with pointed ears and nose, hunched back, covered with pearls and gems but lacking any noble air, stepping on the void, making faces at him.
Damn it!
Ronan’s face was grim, and he instinctively looked down at the space ring on his hand.
Only to find a long spatial rift had somehow appeared inside the ring, and the golden goblin statue he had stored inside, along with some common tools and items, were all gone without a trace.
"Treasure Stealing Goblin!"
Ronan inhaled lightly, exhaled slowly, his gaze quickly turning cold.
Fortunately, the treasures harvested from the previous platforms and the slightly more valuable items he habitually stored in the Void Mirror.
When he stored the golden goblin statue, he had also been cautious, using a separate ring, otherwise he would have ended up losing everything.
Who could have thought that a cold, golden statue was actually the living legendary Treasure Stealing Goblin in disguise? It must have used this method to empty countless people’s personal storage spaces!
"Whoosh—"
Ronan suddenly raised his hand, and from beneath the sleeve of his magic robe, golden titanium shot out like a giant python, twisting into the fierce and thick Spiritual Maya’s Touch, reaching for the mischievous looking Treasure Stealing Goblin.
The goblin saw Ronan enraged, and its smile grew even brighter, facing Ronan’s spell attack with ease, its small, weak body twisting.
"Snap—"
Like teleportation, its entire body suddenly emerged above the platform.
It then swiftly maneuvered the golden pouch on its back with two thin, dry arms, gently scooping beneath it.
In an instant, the golden pouch unfolded into a dirty golden wrap.
The wrap expanded rapidly above the platform, rolling like waves, releasing a bizarre absorbing force.
Before Ronan and Jason could react, the magic tools and treasures that were quietly stacked on the platform ground disappeared without a trace.
"Shit!"
Jason, holding onto two glowing magic tools tightly, shouted belatedly as if realizing they might sprout wings and fly off at any moment.
Ronan’s face was calm as water, and a deep silver mysterious light flashed briefly in his eyes.
"Stasis."
He uttered a syllable, and the method of spatial stasis rapidly surged out.
In an instant, the entire platform space transformed into a smooth, flat mirror, and everything froze in place.
"Crack crack—"
However, this mystery was utterly ineffective against the Treasure Stealing Goblin, a master of mysterious space, whose actions were unaffected in the slightest. The next second, the Invisible Mirror was shattered.
The goblin swiftly packed the pouch filled with treasures, tossed it skillfully over its back, then lifted a foot and kicked open a "rift" in the void before it, swiftly slipping through with a "swoosh" sound.
"Chase!"
Ronan didn’t hesitate for a moment, instinctively grabbing Dudor the Third and stuffing him into the Mist Space, then dashed toward the "rift."
Jason said nothing more, gritting his teeth as he followed closely.
Passing through the rift, everything blurred into view again as they returned to the gray and white plains, though not the sand dunes where they had entered but another location.
When the two had entered the treasure, they had slightly worried about how to leave, but now they had exited effortlessly, though no one was pleased.
Ronan squinted, and at the instant they returned, his gaze and spiritual power simultaneously locked onto a distant, sneaky, golden figure.
The golden Treasure Stealing Goblin ran incredibly fast, and Ronan, though exiting the spatial rift almost immediately after it, discovered it was almost out of sight by the time he pinpointed it.
"No wonder it’s known as the Treasure Stealing Goblin..."
In the Ancient Times, this infamous top thief of the Wizard World became a source of headache and hatred for countless people.
Its thieving skills were top-notch, and its escaping abilities were even rarer.
Ronan watched as the golden goblin with two stick-like, slightly bandy legs ran swiftly forward, looking from afar as if two rapidly spinning golden wheels were beneath it, its form creating an afterimage in the void, leaving behind a long, brilliant golden trail.