Chapter 26: LEGENDARY KING OF THIEVES

    Thievery was an art aside of ownership for Claude. He was just an ordinary human, not a mage nor even powerful. But he was so skilled that he mastered the art of stealing. He had done so many stealing of rare relicts and treasures in his greatest quests. Together with his assistant Dexter his little monkey has helped him in so many ways most about escaping death. The news about the twilight orb excites him that he considers it as his greatest adventure and victory if he would outsmart everyone once he had it. So, he traveled to the Land of Dawn. And since luck always resides him, upon one of his greatest steal so far was the lost map of Minoan Maze. Claude entered the gate a little late than most would not do. He was so clever to only decide to take the trail once somebody had already snapped, released or destroyed the traps. He knew that for every treasure lays so many traps and obstacles. Claude simply knew the methods since he had always survived those for a long time. He took the trail after the ninjas, Hanabi, Hayabusa, and Kagura. It was almost dawn, when he departed trailing the ninjas and started to set out his own trail. He memorized few sections of the maze earlier and now applies his photographic memories. Remembering every secret clues and passages carefully that until he succeeded becoming unknown even to Aldous. On the other hand, Minotaur was obviously lost after returning to the maze with a little readjustment. Unless he had the map because secret passages remained well preserved. Instead, Helcurt found him wondering. In all of the heroes, travelers and dark army, only Claude was the only one among them, that the spirits guided by the twilight orb was pleased with his surprising neutrality. Even if he wanted it for his selfish desires to outsmart everyone but his heart was not set to choose a side. The great spirits Kaja and Uranus, the guardians of the twilight orb, thought his equal amount of valiant and mischief match perfectly with Lunox's balance of order and chaos. Thus, the spirits guided him so. And the luckiest of them all as morning came, though still murky, Claude had finally reached the last stage by taking what was seemingly the express lane. Apparently, he seemed so tired after surviving the secret passages which was not so easy to survive as well. So, Claude decided to take a short nap while the surrounding was still peaceful.