1 Prologue - The Master Thief

There had been so many mysteries in this world that had yet to be known, one of them is the identity of the Master Thief.

Decades ago, the world of the elite had been struck by the sudden emergence of an intriguing thief who drove everyone frustratedly mad, including the police forces, detectives and national investigation units of different big countries.

People say he came to make a balance between the rich and the poor, stealing only from those who belong to the upper echelon of the society because of their natural tendency to be superfluous.

To add more to the intrigue, when the man had stolen enough or when his popularity went to its peak, his taste of things went extra delicate and soon he started stealing things, if not of high value, was deemed of national importance.

One of his great steals was the DML diamond shoes made by Dannah Margarette Lagdameo, a very rich shoe maker; The rainbow brooch, an ancient jewelry made for a queen; The crown of Sylvester, a highly valued crown in the east and The White Pearl, one of the expensive painting ever sold.

For the elites, he was a curse, a nightmare.

For ordinary men, he was their hero, their pride.

For years this thief went from country to country, making distractions for the police forces with his well planned and bloodlessly executed crimes. Unfortunately for those who seek the glory of finding such a difficult culprit, the man was one hell of a genius for making sure he never leaves any incriminating evidence, not even a thing to prove his identity.

The only thing people knew was that he must be a male and that he must be in his early twenties at the time he appeared.

Due to his sparingly great reputation and rattling good thievery stories, people started calling him the Master Thief and just as intriguing his appearance was, so was his departure. Just one day, people realized the Master was no more and he apparently evaporated from the face of the earth leaving no trace about him and all the things he stole.

Yet his story did not end there. Decades after his last thieving operation, he came back again, this time with an obsession. Right then he was only stealing one class of things, all of which were the works of Huzey Montari, a similarly intriguing personality in Seatiel Country. He was an art prodigy whose works unfortunately had all been seized by the government because of their estate bankruptcy.

Immediately, the Master Thief's classify scoundrel had been resurrected but not less than without intrigue and mystery. To add up to everyone's marvel, the master thief had been out of business for decades already, that when calculated by time, he should by then was already in his eighties or nineties. So how could a man that old, steal and still be as good as he was when he was young?

Could he be an immortal? Or there was just something to his story that is yet to be revealed.

So again, who is the Master Thief and what's his story?