Chapter 1 Thief Reborn
Nie Yan picked up the robe. It was pure black, with a delicate golden thorn bird woven on the collar. The robe was very wide, like a cloak, and could completely cover Nie Yan's body when worn.

Seeing the thorn bird pattern, Nie Yan raised his eyebrows. The thorn bird pattern was very unique. It was inherited from the Dark Ages and had a long history. At that time, the thorn bird pattern was used by eight thieves, who were the most famous Thorn Bird Organization. Their purpose was to assassinate the Dragon nobles and rescue the enslaved humans. They assassinated hundreds of Dragon nobles. The last assassination saw them successfully assassinate the Dragon Grand Duke Courtney, but they were all wiped out. That incident became their swan song.

The thorn bird is an ugly little bird, despised by people. It sings only once in its life. From the moment it leaves the nest, it keeps searching for a thorn tree. When it finally gets its wish, it plunges its delicate body into the longest and sharpest thorn, singing loudly with blood and tears. Its poignant and moving song, as melodious as the rosy clouds, makes all the sounds in the world pale in comparison! When the song ends, the thorn bird finally dies of exhaustion, sacrificing itself for the song.

Its meaning is to shape beautiful eternity with a tragic and heroic sacrifice.

The eight thieves, like thorn birds, created eternal legends with their brilliant lives, making countless people remember them.

"Legend has it that there is a thorn bird that sings only once in its life.

That song is more beautiful and moving than the songs of all living beings in the world.

From the moment she leaves the nest, she searches for a thorn tree until she gets her wish.

Then, she plunges her body into the longest and sharpest thorn, opening her throat among the wild branches.

In the dying moment, she transcends her own pain, and her song pales the lark and the nightingale.

This is an incomparably beautiful song, ending with her life.

However, the whole world is listening quietly, and God is smiling in the sky

Because the most beautiful things can only be exchanged for deep pain and great trauma." (Taken from *The Thorn Birds*)

The eight thieves became a deep pain and sorrow in the hearts of countless people. After them, no one used the thorn bird pattern, but the story related to this pattern has been passed down, and bards have composed their stories into songs and sang them everywhere.

‘System: You have discovered the Dust-Covered Shadow Walker Robe. You gently wipe off the dust on it and sigh with emotion. May the departed heroic spirits rest in peace. The painful memories of the past are lost in the wilderness of time. Let us wait for the dawn after the dark night. Following in the footsteps of heroes, let the thorn bird sing melodiously...'

Nie Yan read the last sentence. This system prompt felt a bit unfinished. Since it didn't trigger a quest, he let it go and looked at the attributes of this robe.

Shadow Walker Robe (Bronze Grade): Special Item.

Item Description: Darkness is submerged in history, it is the inheritance of glory.

Attribute Description: Wearing this item can hide all the user's information, cannot be detected, and can hide the name when attacking other players. Attached skill, Dark Dancer. After using this skill, stealth +300%, cannot be detected, but can be sensed. The skill is interrupted when colliding with or attacking enemies while casting this skill. Duration is ten minutes, skill cooldown is three hours.

The attributes of this Shadow Walker Robe are not very strong, but they are very practical. For example, hiding information and names allows Nie Yan to better avoid some unnecessary troubles. Also, the Dark Dancer skill is very useful when doing quests or exploring.

Nie Yan put on the Shadow Walker Robe. The shape of this Shadow Walker Robe is similar to a cloak, and it can be worn outside the leather armor without affecting movement.

This may be Nie Yan's outfit for future travels. He will use this Shadow Walker Robe to completely avoid anyone tracking him.

Nie Yan began to scout the hall, searching behind the many statues to see how those people triggered the mechanism. He searched behind a demon beast statue, inch by inch. After five or six minutes, he found a peculiar groove in a hidden corner. He curiously reached out and touched the groove. The hall trembled violently, and the stone powder on the demon beast statue kept peeling off and fluttering down.

This is it!

This groove was very hidden. If you didn't look carefully, it would be difficult to find it. If someone hadn't accidentally triggered the mechanism here, Nie Yan would never have known that these standing statues were actually monsters.

The demon beast revived. Nie Yan immediately directed the four Demon Furnace Blacksmiths to surround it, and the Golden Earth Dragon also began to attack. After a few minutes, the demon beast was knocked down to the ground by Nie Yan, and Nie Yan picked up a gem.

Nie Yan triggered these statues one by one and then cleared them out.

Time passed bit by bit. After more than two hours, there were very few statues left standing in the hall, and it became extremely open. Only a series of lines covered the ground, forming a huge geometric pattern. This thing seemed to be a magic array or something.

While Nie Yan was killing monsters, he studied this pattern, but he knew very little about magic arrays and didn't know what this magic array contained. He copied the entire array map onto a piece of paper and made a voice call to Guo Huai.

"Help me check what this magic array map is used for," Nie Yan said, sending the copied drawing to Guo Huai.

"I'll go find the enchanter in the guild immediately." After receiving Nie Yan's magic array map, Guo Huai immediately began to contact the enchanter in the guild. Nie Yan was currently on a quest, and being able to solve the array map would help Nie Yan.

After the enchanters of the Bullsh*t Tribe received the array map sent by Guo Huai, they immediately began to study it. They found that this magic array contained very profound mathematics and physics, and it would take at least six advanced enchanters twenty minutes to complete the calculation.

Where did Nie Yan get such an array map!

The mathematics and physics on the array map gave these enchanters a headache, but they didn't dare to neglect the orders from above and quickly began to calculate.

Nie Yan continued to clear the remaining statue creatures. After a few minutes, the monsters here were cleared, leaving only the tall Mine Slave Iglin in front of the hall. He didn't dare to touch that statue easily.

If Mine Slave Iglin revived, Nie Yan would be miserable. He was no match for it at all.

After waiting in the hall for nearly twenty minutes, Guo Huai connected to Nie Yan's voice call.

"How is it, did you figure it out?" Nie Yan asked. He was very strange. Why did a simple magic array need to be calculated? But he was a layman when it came to magic arrays, and he had very little contact with them in his previous life. At most, he knew a few directions. In his impression, when he took his equipment to be enchanted, the enchanter only needed to engrave an array map on his equipment. It seemed that magic arrays were much more complicated than he thought.

"Those enchanters said: Draw a straight line with the Star Domain as the starting point and the Star Separation position as the ending point, and then draw a semicircle with the Moon Feather position as the center..." Guo Huai conveyed all the messages sent to him by the enchanters to Nie Yan without missing a word.

"Didn't the enchanters say anything else?" Nie Yan asked suspiciously. What did these words mean?

"The enchanters said that this is an array lock, and it can be unlocked according to their method," Guo Huai said.

Hearing Guo Huai's words, Nie Yan pondered for a moment, deciding to follow what the enchanters said to see if he could unlock this magic array.

"Take the Star Domain as the starting point and the Star Separation position as the ending point, a straight line..." Nie Yan walked along the path described by the enchanters, leaving a gray-white line on the ground where he passed.

This line continued, forming a closed geometric figure in the empty hall. It looked a little strange. Then, these white lines emitted dazzling light, and the entire hall was filled with white light.

At this time, a thick book floated in the center of the magic array. Next to this book, a palm-sized golden key, made very exquisitely and covered with patterns, floated quietly.

Seeing this key, Nie Yan immediately thought of the Gold Treasury in the Golden City!

The key to open the gold treasury, that's it!

Nie Yan walked towards the two items in front and reached out to touch them. The light on these two things disappeared, and they fell down.

Nie Yan reached out and caught them, looking at the key.

Gold Treasury Key: Quest Item.

A system prompt rang, and Nie Yan looked at the prompt.

Quest Progress: Use this Gold Treasury Key to open Iglin's Vault and find the Abak Destruction Cloak.

Nie Yan had previously obtained the Abak Seal Hand and the Abak Bloody Dagger. This Destruction Cloak would be the third piece. The entrance to Iglin's Vault was behind the Iglin statue. As long as he had the key, he could open it!

As for the other book, this book was dark gray, with a picture of a thorn bird on the cover. The name of this book was written in Ancient Common Language and was called: *The Song of the Thorn Bird*.

‘System: You have discovered an ancient book, its pages are somewhat damaged. Opening the first page, there is a sentence on it: The most beautiful things can only be exchanged for deep pain and great trauma. Seeing their story, you let out a long sigh and slowly close the book.’

This book tells the story of eight thieves. It is estimated to be a quest item, and he needs to find quest clues from the content of the book. There is no time now. Nie Yan put the book away and put it in his backpack.