The Moon Thief

When Heinald took the necklace and sent Magical Energy to it,in some part of his mind, control of the entire room was given to him. The large, platinum door closed at his only thought, and the protective barrier was reactivated.

When the whole room was illuminated, everything in the room was visible.

The first thing that caught his attention was a type of plant that had been planted in a regular row, just as he had seen in Sundown Gardens before. When he examined this plant closely, he was sure that he had never seen it before.

The color of the soil where the plant grew was the second thing that caught his attention. This soil was purplish in color and had a foul odor.

"There's something special about this plant species..." Heinald murmured.

He carefully uprooted all the plants there and sent them into the dimensional pocket of his robe. He took out all the jars he had from the dimensional pocket of his robe and filled them with purplish soil.

He understood that the environment in which these plants grow does not require any special conditions, the important thing was the soil. However, he did not understand what made this soil and plant special. He knew he had to experiment on this soil and plant to figure it out.

After Heinald had finished caring for the plants and soil, his eyes focused on a stone circle mechanism standing in the middle of the large room. Because he was in control of this room, he knew that this stone circle was some kind of mechanism, but he did not know what it was for.

"Activate!" With Heinald's thought, the stone circle began to spin. As the stone circle rotated, a pitch black crystal rose from the center of the circle.

"W-Wait...This..." Heinald realized what it was after examining this crystal.

This crystal was known as 'Eka Alugen'. Eka Alujen means Spirit Harvester in ancient language. This crystal could be counted as a much more advanced version of the Sin Stone and could easily trap hundreds of thousands of souls within it.

With some excitement and some fear, Heinald approached Eka Alugen and when he took it in his hands, he felt tens of thousands of souls trapped inside. These souls included the souls of ordinary people, as well as the souls of magic users.

He thought of the cursed technique he had obtained from the remnants of the Melrungan Sect. He couldn't help but shudder when he thought about that technique.

"I'd better not linger any longer." Heinald scowled at his surroundings. A cold and cunning look could be seen in his eyes. It was because he thought of a way out. This way out was still very risky, but he knew that he would be in greater danger if he did not try this way.

He hadn't had a chance to examine the other parts of the large room yet, but he wouldn't dare linger any longer. It would be a complete disaster for him to be found by Eneel or any Level 2 Ainsar.

Heinald had not been able to successfully complete the trap formation he had been working on recently, but instead created an extermination formation. Normally, in order to activate this extermination formation, he needed to create a very strong mind seal, but he could not complete it either. Therefore, he could not activate this extermination formation on his own thought.

But the room he was in was a security formation!

This meant that it had a self-extermination feature so it could destroy everything in case of extreme danger.

Heinald would also use the self-extermination feature to activate the destruction formation he created. The security formation protecting this room must already have a very powerful self-extermination system, the explosion that would occur during this self-extermination combined with the destruction wrought by his extermination formation could even injure a Level 3 Ainsar.

Heinald immediately took out the red crystal containing intense Fire Element Energy that he had previously obtained and identified it as the energy source of the formation he was going to create. He visualized all the runes in his mind and began to put them together to create seals. At this time, yellow light beams emerged from his body and began to with the red crystal.

The red crystal began to glow and radiated an intense Fire Elemental Energy around it.

The beams of light emanating from Heinald's body began to circle around him, and they all took the form of a Magic Pentagram.

Anyone who looked closely at Heinald could see him gritting his teeth. This was because he was using all his mind power. When he had the Moon Thief's eyes, he also had a very powerful mind, but he was still only a Level 1 Ainsar. The formation he created was far above his level.

According to his calculations, even a Level 2 Ainsar could not create this formation.

*Buzz* All the surrounding magic pentagrams interacted with the red crystal with a blue bond.

Encircling the red crystal, Magic Pentagrams began to move towards it. All the Magic Pentagrams turned into a beam of light, merging with the red crystal, forming a palm-sized red ball in the middle. This ball was surrounded by a dark red layer.

"If this layer is broken, the compressed power will be released and there will be a terrible explosion." Heinald looked at the red ball and made an assessment.

He again sprinkled Shadow Powder on him and concealed his energy. Then he left the room and started walking down the long corridor again. His sole purpose now was to leave the mansion without being caught by any Level 2 Ainsar. As far as he realized, most of the conflicts had already ended; various explosions and energy waves were no longer rising from each side of the headquarters building.

Although Heinald encountered dozens of Pavants, none of them noticed him. He was lucky because he had never encountered anyone with -a strong enough spirit to notice him.

When he got out of the headquarters, he run away at full speed.

As he move away at full speed, he was also observing his surroundings. There were fires and large craters in many places.

The conflict between Eneel and Pavant Olfern seemed to be over, neither of them in sight.

A sudden pressure rose in Heinald's mind. The barrier protecting the platinum gate had been completely destroyed.

"The barrier was crossed in one go..." Heinald frowned, "Only one person can do this!"

Heinald took the jade necklace hanging around his neck and gave the order. Self-extermination would occur in five seconds. With a single thought, the formation received the order and the countdown to self-extermination began.

***

At that moment, Eneel was staring at the platinum door in front of him with cold eyes.

If Heinald could see it, he would have noticed that the energy emanating from him had dropped a little. The reason for this was naturally his tough fight with Pavant Olfern. Although he failed to kill Pavant Olfern, he had succeeded in injuring him badly and forcing him to leave the headquarters area.

Now it was time to seize his most precious resources!

Eneel was able to easily destroy the barrier protecting the platinum door. Likewise, he managed to melt the platinum door with a single spell. However, at that time, he encountered an unexpected sight.

"Self-extermination!" Eneel cried out in shock inside his mind. He predicted that some form of self-extermination would begin when he entered, but he did not anticipate that the self-extermination would begin before he entered. Under normal circumstances, a security formation would only be activated on forced entry and a countdown would take place for a while.

Eneel thought he could stop the countdown during this time, but the situation he faced was very different from his thoughts.

How did this happen?

Lightning bolts were rising from everywhere in the room, in the middle of the room there was a red ball that was radiating a large amount of energy. When lightning bolts interacted with this ball, they were repelled by a layer around it.

"Situation is bad!" Eneel roared and sent all of his Magical Energy to the emerald ring on his right hand. The emerald stone ring emitted a blue light, and this light wrapped his entire body.

"No!" Janeroth watched in horror as the event unfolded with a few Pavants beside him. He wanted to act when he knew exactly what was going to happen, but it was too late.

At that moment, there was a violent lightning explosion inside the room. As a result of this lightning blast, the layer around the red ball in the middle of the room was shattered, resulting in an energy blast with a very high destructive power.

This explosion was strong enough to engulf the entire headquarters building and its surroundings. The shock wave that emerged as a result of the explosion hurled tons of soil and rock fragments into the air, destroying everything in its path. A huge mushroom cloud began to rise at the center of the explosion. Fierce flames and lightning bolts emanating from this cloud were rising into the sky.